The Carnegie Mellon CHEMISTRY ALUMNI NEWSLETTER ••••

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY January 1999

Chemistry Undergrads John A. Pople Awarded Richard M. Cyert Nobel Chemistry Prize

1998 Graduating Class We are The word that re- Richard M. Cyert made seminal pleased to report that twenty five ceived the 1998 Nobel Prize in contributions to the development of students received undergraduate Chemistry will surely have reached Carnegie Mellon as we know it today. degrees in Chemistry in the May most of our Alumni by now. As they These were remembered in a Memo- 1998 commencement. Eight of will know, the work cited by the Nobel rial Service on the campus on Nov. 9 these graduated with University Prize Committee was done while in McConomy Auditorium. Cyert Honors, and four received MCS John was a member of the CMU De- succumbed to a long illness on Oct. Honors. Seven were inducted into partment of Chemistry from 1964 7, at the age of 77. Speakers at the the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society through 1993. The Prize was shared service included President Jared L. and six into Phi Kappa Phi.The com- with Walter Kohn, who did part of the Cohon, daughter Martha Cyert, and mencement was the first for Presi- work cited while in the Department of current and past members of the fac- dent Cohon, and also the first in the Physics of CMU, before he joined ulty and administration who had setting of Gesling Stadium. Con- the University of California at Santa worked with Cyert. President Cohon struction of Purnell Center, the new Barbara in 1960. The Nobel Prize ci- remarked that "It is fair to say that no Fine Arts building on the 'Cut' next to tation states that "John Pople is re- single person had more to do with Warner Hall, and across from the Uni- warded for developing computational the development and rise of Carne- versity Center, made it impossible to methods making possible the theo- gie Mellon than Dr. Cyert" and that erect the tent used in recent com- retical study of molecules, their "the university's growth under Cyert mencements. Fortunately, the properties and how they act together was at a pace and at a level that's un- weather was good, and the event in chemical reactions." These meth- precedented in higher education." went off very well. The Departmental ods are based on the fundamental Cyert began his 50-year career at Diploma Presentation Exercise was laws of quantum mechanics as de- Carnegie Mellon in 1948 as an eco- held in the University Club in Oak- fined by, among others, the physicist nomics instructor. He eventually be- land, for the first time. This provided E. Schrödinger. A computer is fed came Professor of Economics and an elegant venue for the Exercise, with the particulars of a molecule or a Industrial Administration, Dean of and a great buffet luncheon for stu- chemical reaction and the output is a GSIA, and then, in 1972, the sixth dents and their guests following the description of the properties of that President of CMU, a position he held presentation of the diplomas. molecule or how a chemical reaction for 18 years until his "retirement" to Ten of the students plan to enter may take place. The result is often President Emeritus in 1990. As graduate school, including: UC Ber- used to illustrate or explain the might have been expected, Dick re- keley, UC Davis, USC, UCLA, Continued on p. 4 ☞ mained very active in consulting, Continued on p. 3 ☞ etc., after retirement, heading the Carnegie Bosch Institute. Carnegie Mellon Page 2 Department of Chemistry

The Department Head's Column Faculty Profiles

It is a great pleasure to address the Alumni on behalf of the faculty of This issue features profiles of two of the Department, and to inform you of some of the activities in the De- our long-time members: partment over the last year. First, I am pleased to say that in announc- ing my appointment last July, President Cohon and Dean Henry made Paul J. Karol it clear that the Department has the backing of the University to con- has been a member of the Chemistry tinue to build the Department along the directions in its Strategic Plan, Department faculty for nearly thirty and that the future of the Department is truly exciting, with a unique years. A former winner of the col- opportunity to continue to build on the tradition of excellence set forth lege's science teaching award, he cur- by our faculty, students, and alumni. The Department's Strategic Plan rently is committed to developing a provides for faculty recruiting to continue our areas of excellence, and multimedia approach to the first se- to expand into additional directions. It is strongly influenced by the mester introductory chemistry course. Strategic Plan for the University, and includes plans to develop addi- He also chaired a university task force tional interactions with other units of the University, both in MCS and on the broad issue of technology en- CIT, in ways to benefit both undergraduate and graduate programs. hanced learning for consideration in It has been an unbelievable year for the Department. John Pople, the university's strategic planning. who was here for 30 years, won the Nobel Prize (you will find more in- After returning from a year at the formation on John Pople in this edition), Krzysztof Matyjaszewski was Laboratory for Nuclear Physics of the installed as the Warner Professor of Chemistry, Terry Collins was rec- in Legnaro, Italy, ognized for his work in Green Chemistry, the Graduate Program in he served as chair of the ACS Division Polymer Science received top-10 ranking from US News and World of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology Report, David Yaron's educational web site, Iridium, received a top10 and also served as chair of the Com- citation, and the R. K. Mellon Foundation made a $11 million grant to mission on Nuclear and Radiochemi- support the undergraduate laboratory project. Additional grants in- cal Techniques of IUPAC (Interna- clude $1.6 million for education programs in Chemistry and Biological tional Union of Pure and Applied Sciences from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, for a total of $4.3 Chemistry). Prof. Karol, a long- million since 1989, a five-year award for $650,000 for an undergraduate standing member of the ACS Commit- program in Computational Chemistry and Biology from Merck and Co. tee on Nomenclature, has been Inc., and a grant for outreach programs for K-12 students and teachers Continued on p. 6 ☞ given by a local anonymous foundation. The Center for Macromolecu- lar Engineering was founded by Kris Matyjaszewski has close to $2 mil- Robert F. Stewart lion of external funding and 11 corporate sponsors. The Department joined the Department in 1967 as As- hopes to secure funding for an Institute for Green Oxidation Chemistry sistant Professor of Chemistry after a centered around the work of Terry Collins. previous position as a Junior Fellow in Some of the other awards received by our faculty recently are sum- the Mellon Institute. His research has marized elsewhere in this edition. Also, many of our faculty are invited explored theoretical models of x-ray speakers at international conferences, organize international confer- and neutron scattering for the eluci- ences, and are on the editorial boards of prestigious chemistry journals; dation of electrostatic properties almost 1/3 of our faculty serve on editorial boards. based on accurate, relative cross- As you have read in the past editions, the Department has strength- section data from diffraction experi- ened its infrastructure through grants and help from the University. ments. Applications of these theories The Department expects to add up to 10 new faculty members. We can be carried out by a suite of com- currently have an offer to a senior theoretical chemist and have puter codes, most of which were de- searches for a polymer physical chemist at the senior level and a junior veloped here. The latest version, bioinorganic chemist. Next year we will search for an organic chemist. VALRAY98, has been distributed to The Department has the full support of the administration for such a several x-ray diffraction laboratories in vigorous hiring program. The Department's hiring is well-integrated into Europe on a trial basis. The properties the University Strategic Plan. The planning activity last fall was highly include electrical field gradients, elec- successful at bringing various Departments and Colleges together to trical force fields, electrostatic poten- learn about the broader CMU community, and promote research and tials, and mean thermal self-energies educational initiatives through cross-university connections. in a crystal. Both molecular and crys- talline features of the charge density Richard D. McCullough and Laplacian of the electron density Chemistry Faculty: G. D. Patterson Resident Emeriti can be extracted with these programs. B. A. Armitage P. J. Karol L. A. Peteanu A. A. Bothner-By In addition, all properties can be ap- G. C. Berry H. J. Kim S. W. Staley E. F. Casassa T. J. Collins M. Llinás R. F. Stewart A. A. Caretto Jr. praised with attendant standard devia- S. T. Graul K. Matyjaszewski K. H. Stump J. Dadok tions. Recently, inelastic, coherent M. P. Hendrich R. D. McCullough C. H. Van Dyke R. L. Kay M. Kaplan E. Münck D. Yaron T. P. Kohman neutron scattering data have been Continued on p. 6 ☞ Carnegie Mellon Page 3 Department of Chemistry

Chemistry Undergrads large lecture classes. The Chemistry order to rectify this state of affairs, Continued from page 1 courses being offered are: G.C. Berry, working in collabora- Issues in Environmental Chemistry tion with Mellon Institute Librarian Cornell, Columbia, CMU Heinz (S. W. Staley) Lynn Labun, has compiled a list of School, Harvard Dental School, Polymers and the Modern World Ph.D. advisors as it could be Purdue, and Stanford Medical (G. C. Berry and G. D. Patterson) gleaned from various records. Un- School. Organizations hiring last Water Quality Analysis happily, this did not include the the- year's graduates included Pfizer, (K. H. Stump and R. J. Bauer) ses themselves, as these are liter- IBM, PPG, Anderson Consulting, ally in cold-storage, awaiting a and the U.S. Patent Office. Four of the Department's Alumna freeze-dry process to restore them addressed the Women in Science from a mold outbreak (the Library The Richard King Mellon Founda- Group during its 1998 series, would be pleased to receive copies tion has given $11 million to the speaking on their career paths: from anyone who might be able to university to construct new state-of- Linda F. (Hood) Jansen, BS make a gift of such). The list is in a the-art science laboratories in the 70, Director, International Marketing data-base that may be sorted, etc., Mellon College of Science. The labs and Sales for Lockhart Chemical by various criteria. One version, in will provide facilities for students of Company; two parts, sorted by Advisor and all academic disciplines to master Jane S. (Potter) Cookson, BS Advisee, has been placed at the url: the fundamentals of science 61, President of Cookson, Pierce & www.chem.cmu.edu/Berry/theses. through experimentation. We hope Co, an investment marketing firm; pdf as a pdf file. Please address to enter into the final design stages, Irene J. Dinning, BS 59, Man- additions or corrections to the atten- after approval from President ager of Environmental Affairs, Mine tion of G.C. Berry, either via mail to Cohen and Provost Christiano, and Safety Appliances Co; the Department, or e-mail to expect to begin phased reconstruc- Diane L. (Laurizio) Smith, BS [email protected]. tion of the Doherty Hall laboratories 74, Manufacturing Manager of •• in 2000. The gift builds on the uni- Pharmaceuticals and Sterile Prod- versity's strengths in basic science, ucts for Merck & Co., Inc. A Special Profile engineering and computer science, •• Karen H. Stump is certainly well- and supports Carnegie Mellon's known to the many Carnegie Mellon strategic plan to lead interdiscipli- Graduate Program undergraduates who have taken nary scholarship and research in Our graduate program enrolled 14 laboratory courses in the Chemistry science and technology. The Rich- curriculum. She is Principal Lec- ard King Mellon Foundation has new students this academic year, while graduating 5 with Ph.D. de- turer and Director of Laboratories in long been one of Carnegie Mellon's the Chemistry Department. At our most important benefactors. "Their grees. The later took positions at Scripps Research Inst., Univ. of Ab- request, Karen has written the fol- pledge is one of the largest com- lowing to tell you something of her mitments received in the Centennial erdeen, St. Andrews Presbyterian Coll., Research Triangle, and Car- past and present activities in the Campaign, and is a tremendous Department. boost to a top priority project," said negie Mellon. The dedication to excellence in teaching bore fruit in I would first like to say hello to all Eric Johnson, vice president for de- the chemistry majors I have had the velopment. awards to several graduate stu- dents: Greg Martin (University great delight in working with over Graduate Student Teaching Award), the years, and thank those of you Beginning in the spring '99 semes- who somehow manage to find the ter, the departments of Biological Len Vuocolo (MCS Graduate Stu- dent Teaching Award), Kelly Davis, time to stay in touch once in a while. Sciences, Chemistry, Mathematical It is the highlight of a day to receive Sciences, and Physics will be of- Richard Pilston and Rick Edgington (Departmental TA Award); Joanne an e-mail, card, or most especially, a fering 3-unit minicourses to a group visit! The people I have met through of Mellon College of Science stu- Kehlbeck, Nadine Fattaleh-Diggs and Dan Savin (Teaching Fellows my position here are among the joys dents as part of a new program of my life and easily carry me called the "MCS Freshman Seminar for the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence) through the not-so-fun stuff! Series". The mini courses are in- I have been at Carnegie Mellon tended to expose freshmen to The Department recently learned that other than the dissertations since 1976 when I came to Pitts- modern scientific concepts and to burgh as a graduate student. I develop an understanding and ap- themselves, there is no complete record of the Advisors of thesis guess I can now say that one of the preciation for a current area of re- highlights from that time was taking search. Enrollment in each mini- prepared by its Ph.D. graduates. This came to the fore when quantum from a future Nobel Prize course is limited (10 students or winner, Dr. John Pople. Though less), permitting students to partici- Truman Kohman asked the De- partment for a list of Ph.D. advisees he was an excellent lecturer, quan- pate in an inquiry-based, collabora- tum was certainly not a highlight at tive mode of learning not available in of J. C. Warner, in connection with an article he has in preparation. In the time. After three years at Carnegie Mellon Page 4 Department of Chemistry

Washington and Jefferson College 1970. The program has since been from 1980-83, I returned to Carne- developed and is used world-wide gie Mellon in 1983 to work with Dr. by thousands of in univer- Debra Aromatorio on the fledgling sities and commercial companies. freshman chemistry lab for CIT. Links to that Nobel Prize Citation When Debbie left in '85, I stayed as and to articles on the award may be Senior Lecturer, teaching in the found on the Department's web freshman lab and Tech I. page (www.chem.cmu.edu). Arti- Today I teach Laboratory I: Intro- cles in C&ENews (Oct. 98) and duction to Chemical Analysis, in the Physics Today (Dec. 98) discuss fall to chemistry and biology majors the contributions of Pople and and in the spring to chemical engi- Kohn, with the Physics Today article neers. This semester Bob Bauer, a providing detailed insight into the John Pople with Provost Paul special faculty member, and I have developments and their place in Christiano and Rick McCullough proposed offering one of two current science and technologies. at the Pople Reception freshman seminar mini courses. The first is a lab-based experience •• in water analysis and the second a program working on the develop- Faculty Affairs ment and implementation of hands- on science outreach programs for Richard "Rick" D. McCullough elementary school students. became Head of the Department of Over the past 6 years I have also Chemistry in July, 1998. In an- been learning a lot about laboratory nouncing Rick's appointment, Dean design as the departmental liaison Henry and President Cohon dem- for the undergraduate lab renova- onstrated the support enjoyed by tion project. It is a complicated and John Pople receives a commemora- the Department when they wrote: expensive endeavor to develop a tive Galilean Thermometer from Guy "We have appointed a Department plan with enough space to meet our Berry following John's Lecture Head, Dr. Richard McCullough, who program while impacting the other has the full support of the Depart- occupants of the building in the The Department was pleased to ment and the Administration. Dr. most positive way. We hope we recognize John's accomplishments McCullough has come up through have finally hit on a plan that in- during his visit to CMU in October, the ranks at Carnegie Mellon and is volves a building addition that will during which he delivered a lecture considered on every level to be an renovate and expand the chemistry on the current status of his re- outstanding scholar and leader. He and physics labs and provide a search, and also was interviewed by was identified after a two-year ex- multidisciplinary space for science a team from the Nobel Committee, haustive national and international lab experiences for freshmen. to produce a video to be used in search led by Dean Susan Henry. I have also spearheaded efforts to conjunction with the award cere- Last year, Rick McCullough continue to develop and improve mony. Additional photographs emerged as the leading candidate our TA training program. Fortu- taken during the reception after his over external candidates and re- nately I have always been able to lecture may be found on the web: ceived the unanimous endorsement work with some of the most dedi- http://beach.res.cmu.edu/chemhan of the Department and the Search cated and talented TAs in the uni- dbook/popleweb/pople.html. A Committee. Dr. McCullough has versity and working closely with university-wide celebration in 1999 been given every resource to build them is always a pleasure. Three of is in the planning stage. the Chemistry Department that our graduate students hold teach- would have been extended to any ing fellowships with the Eberly Cen- external candidate." ter for Teaching Excellence this Rick joined the Department in year, and were instrumental in giv- 1990 as an Assistant Professor, ing sessions last August. coming from graduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University, and a •• postdoctoral stint at Columbia with Nobel Prize Professor Ronald Breslow. His re- search interests are in materials (continued from page 1) chemistry, with particular emphasis experiments. Pople made his com- on the synthesis of self-assembling putational techniques easily acces- Noble Laureates John Pople and polymers that will exhibit useful elec- sible to researchers by designing Herb Simon at the Reception tronic properties, e.g., conduction, the GAUSSIAN computer program. color change in response to an ex- The first version was published in ternal stimulus, etc. His research Carnegie Mellon Page 5 Department of Chemistry group uses the "McCullough syn- June at a Reception hosted by Faculty Awards: On the subject thesis" to prepare regio-regular poly- MCS. It was the first occasion for of awards, several of our faculty thiophenes with a variety of side- many to meet Tom and Bill Warner, have received research awards in group substituents. The regio- sons of J. C. Warner. As you will the last several years. Kris Maty- regularity promotes efficient packing know, "Jake" Warner held many jaszewski won the American of the substituents, and the resul- positions in the University, includ- Chemical Society Creativity in tant planar organization of the thio- ing Professor and Head of the De- Polymer Chemistry Award and the phene repeating units that pro- partment of Chemistry and Presi- Humbolt Research Award for Sen- duces the desired electronic proper- dent of the University. In addition ior U.S. Scientists. Terry Collins ties. For a glimpse of his work, visit to the Professorship, Kris received won an Inorganic Chemistry award his web site, via the Departmental a "real chair", one with the Univer- in Japan for outstanding achieve- Home Page (www.chem.cmu.edu). sity logo emblazoned on it for all to ments in inorganic chemistry. Su- see. san Graul was awarded a Dreyfus Krzysztof Matyjaszewski has Young Faculty Award. Guy Berry been named the John Christian David Yaron's Web site (ir.chem won the Bingham Award given by Warner Professor in Natural Sci- .cmu.edu) has been selected as an the Society of Rheology of the ences, becoming the second per- outstanding science Web site by American Institute of Physics for son to hold that Chair, following The Alchemist, a weekly "webzine" achievements in polymer rheology John Pople, who occupied the of ChemWeb, a worldwide club for and characterization (Professor Chair from its inception until his re- the chemical community. The site Emeritus Hershel Markovitz was tirement. Kris, who also received a distributes Java applets and other a previous winner) and the Pitts- Humbolt Research Award for Sen- educational materials for use in in- burgh Award of the American ior U.S. Scientists this year, is cur- troductory chemistry courses. The Chemical Society Pittsburgh Sec- rently on sabbatical leave in France applets include "Why things have tion. Others of our faculty who as the holder of the ELF Chair of color" and "Acclimatizing on Ever- have received the Pittsburgh the French Academy of Sciences. est", a game in which students use Award are Professors Emeriti John The year also brought him the their knowledge of chemical equilib- A. Pople (75), Robert B. Car- Reed Lectureship Award (RPI) and rium to climb Mt. Everest without lin (81) and Aksel A. Both- the Milkovitch Lectureship Award passing out from lack of oxygen. erner-By (88), along with the late (Univ. Akron). A nice summary of They are currently developing a John C. Warner (45) and Fred- the work of his Group on Atom flexible networked laboratory simu- erck D. Rossini(59). The Award Transfer Radical Polymerization lation, that allows students to select was also received by several per- appeared in the Pittsburgh Post- from hundreds of chemical reagents sons affiliated with the former Mel- Gazette; as of this writing, the arti- and combine them in any way they lon Institute, starting with Andrew cle is still posted on the PG's web see fit. In lecture courses, this web W. and Richard B. Mellon page (www.post-gazette.com/ software allows faculty to supple- (36). healthscience/19980831polyme ment current paper-and-pencil ex- rs5.asp), but if that is missing, a ver- ercises with open-ended activities Promotions/Reappointments sion is posted on www.chem.cmu involving actual chemical manipula- .edu/polymer/atrp.PG.html. For tions. In laboratory courses, it en- Hyung Kim to Associate Profes- more information on his work, visit ables students to design and test sor with indefinite tenure; his web site or that for Polymer Sci- procedures in a safe environment, R. D. McCullough to Professor; ence at CMU via the Departmental before entering the chemical labora- Colin Horwitz and Mark Bier Home Page (www.chem.cmu.edu). tory. And all without a spill on the reappointed to the research fac- The appointment to the Warner computer! ulty. Professorship was announced in ••

Japanese Award for Green Chemistry consist of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms around a reactive metal core of iron. They Terry Collins received the 1997 Japan Society of work at extremely low concentrations, and are very Pure and Applied Coordination Chemistry Award for stable; being held together by chemical bonds his work in green chemistry. Collins has developed which resist breakdown by the highly reactive oxy- a new class of oxidation catalysts that activate hy- gen species formed as active intermediates from drogen peroxide in aqueous solution over a range the hydrogen peroxide. Four patents have been of temperature and pH, so that nanomolar quanti- granted, including applications in laundry and pulp ties of the catalyst are able to activate hydrogen and paper. Because its bleaching action is very peroxide to a level competitive with chlorine-based selective, the catalyst could allow hydrogen perox- oxidants. The advance was made possible after the ide to be used in the first stages of pulp bleaching. Collins research group found a way to protect their The new bleaching technique could work with ex- catalyst from the very reactive form of hydrogen isting equipment, thereby saving manufacturers the peroxide it was used to create. The new catalysts Continued on next page ☞ Carnegie Mellon Page 6 Department of Chemistry expense of retooling their facilities. The catalyst ALUMNI NEWS may find use as a bleach in laundry detergents since the activated hydrogen peroxide is a good bleaching agent, Your generous responses to the questionnaire in the but less likely than chlorine bleaches to affect textile Newsletter and requests for continued issues are much dyes. Collins, who teaches a course in Green Chemis- appreciated--we now have heard from 240 of you (many try in the Department's curriculum, joined Paul Anastas, more than once as you update us on your whereabouts Chief of the Industrial Chemistry Branch of the US Envi- and career)--keep it coming! ronmental Protection Agency, and director of the EPA's Elizabeth P. Hartner (Pearsall), BS MMCC 31 MS Green Chemistry Program, as a speaker on Green 37, writes that though retired, she keeps busy, and can Chemistry at the 7th Annual Professors and Heads of be found as a volunteer at the Carnegie Museum of Departments of Chemistry Conference in Australia, as a Natural History and the Discovery Room. guest of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. In an article in Chemistry in Australia (Oct. 1998), Collins Alvin Edward Bicht, BS 40, has kept current with points out that though it has a new identity, there is modern word processing since retiring from the Air nothing new about green chemistry: over the past 150 Force Corrosion Engineering Laboratory, with several years, the refrigeration industry has progressed from pieces of prose and poetry in progress, despite the di- the decidedly toxic chemicals used in early refrigerators, versions offered by seven grandchildren--being retired to the nonflammable, nontoxic refrigerants developed may help?! in the 1920s, and used until recently, when their role in Joanne O. Luther (Tishlarich), BS 42, remembers ozone decomposition in the stratosphere has pro- that she and Norma Squitieri Rocchini (BS 42) were the moted the development of more environmentally be- first women to work at Gulf Research Lab in Harmarville. nign refrigerants. Visit Terry's web site via She subsequently worked at the Mellon Institute for a www.chem.cmu.edu. period before joining the Union Oil Laboratory in Cali- fornia; she now lives in San Diego. Faculty Profile (Continued from p. 2) Karol Howard B. Palmer, BS 48, sent a news clip from the asked to chair a joint working group of IUPAC and Penn State Intercom with a brief synopsis of his career IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Phys- on the occasion of his receipt of the 1998 Alfred C. ics) on establishing the priority of discovery of elements Egerton Gold Medal from the Combustion Institute in 110, 111 and 112. Current research interests involve recognition of "distinguished, continuing, and encour- such esoteric phenomena as modeling interactions of aging contributions to the field of combustion". He is ultrarelativistic cosmic-rays detected at energies (> 1020 now Professor Emeritus of Energy Science, and Asso- eV), where models predict they should be much rarer ciate Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School of Penn than observed, and the diffusion of positronium (the State Univ., and has served as President and Vice ephemeral hydrogen-like "atom" formed by the union of President of the Combustion Institute, in addition to an electron with its antiparticle, the positron) in liquid editing the Institute's journal for a dozen years. media. For the 1998-99 academic year, Paul has been James R. Patterson, BS 50, retired from GE Sili- elected chair of the Faculty Senate, and serves as an ex cone Products, Waterford, NY, but is still living in New officio member of the university's Board of Trustees in York, after a career there from 1966 to 1990, following that capacity. Visit Paul's web site via the Departmental his first post-BS position with Neville Chemical Co. in Home Page (www.chem.cmu.edu). Pittsburgh, from 1950 to 1966. Stewart John A. Bornmann, BS 52, writes that though he is used to determine the density of phonon states in now legally blind, he has managed to stay active diamond-type crystals; the mean square amplitude of through the help of Sandy, his wife of 44 years, and vibration for Si at 293 K has been determined to a pre- modern technology. He contributes a monthly column cision of 0.35% with a Born–Kármán force-constant Letters, Words and More to the newsletter of the St. model up to sixth nearest neighbors. Bob has had an Louis Section of ACS, and was honored to receive the active collaboration with a chemical physics laboratory 1998 Distinguished Service Award Section. at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark for the Susan H. Craig (Hart), BS 62, loves living in four- last seven years. Over the years Bob has taught a season Vermont, where she enjoys golf and skiing, number of graduate and undergraduate courses in when not traveling to Boston, NYC, Washington & San physical chemistry at Carnegie Mellon. A graduate Francisco to visit five children and two grandchildren. course in group theory on a biyearly basis has been She still works part-time and does volunteer work. offered since '92 . In '90, he developed a course for second-year chemistry majors entitled Physical Alfred G. Zielske, BS 62, is a group leader in organic Principles of Analytical Chemistry in connec- chemistry at the Clorox Technical Center in Pleasanton, tion with a redesigned physical chemistry sequence CA. that reduced the number of required p-chem courses, to help open the curriculum for our undergraduates. Carnegie Mellon Page 7 Department of Chemistry

Eric H. Erenrich, BS 65, is a Technical Manager with graduates. He writes that he remembers that he and Allied Signal Corp. He and his wife Evelyn are reaching fellow student Mike Dulick took the initiative to maintain the age of emancipation (well, almost anyway) as their the "Student Affiliate Coke machine", thereby increas- children are now 22 (Amy) and 18 (Jordan). ing its revenues to the point where the Department could initiate a new prize for a graduating senior. Michael M. Cook, BS 67, earned a Ph.D. and has been with Morton International, Inc., for 23 years. He Tom Yogan, BS 80, is the sales and marketing man- writes that Morton is the world-wide leading manufac- ager for Chris-Craft Industrial Products, a specialty plas- turer of sodium borohydride. Over the past three years, tic film manufacturer in Indiana. He and his wife Lissa he has had the responsibility of organizing multi-client have two sons. seminars on boron hydride chemistries at locations around the world, including Milan, Lyon, Seoul, Tokyo, Kimberly A. Ames, BS 81, has moved to Pusan, and Hyderabad, India. He gives talks on technical and South Korea, to become a lab manager with Nike, safety issues at these seminars, to complement lec- working with factories to improve product quality and tures by local experts. He organized symposia at two performance--sounds like a culture-gap of the first mag- meetings in the US, including one at the ACS Meeting nitude! Kim has developed several rubber compounds in Boston in Aug '98. He notes that though he and his that have been used on millions of shoes and currently wife have no children, they do have 16 sled dogs, has several patent applications pending. Hope you'll let which he has used in middle distance (50-150 km) us know how your experience works out! races. Leanne J. Henry, BS 82, became an Assistant Pro- Joseph Pialet, BS 73; MS 74, is working on specialty fessor of Physics at US Military Academy, West Point, additives for lubricants and functional fluids with Lubri- NY, in July 1998 (she writes that there is one Air Force zol, Corp. He writes that he has just received his 19th position in each department at West Point). As Captain US patent. in the US Air Force, she has held positions at several Air Force facilities since earning a Ph.D. in 1989 at the James J. Huttner, BS 74, earned a Ph.D. from Ohio Univ. of Pittsburgh, most recently with the Air Force Re- State and an MD from Medical College of Ohio, both in search Laboratory at Hanscom AFB, MA, doing re- 1981. He is currently practicing pediatrics in Maumee, search on Si/Ge epitaxial growth. OH, where he is also VP/co-owner of a medical device manufacturing company. He and his wife, also a physi- Neil A. Shapiro, BS 84, is working with Wilson cian, have four children. Sporting Goods as a materials engineer, in the design and manufacture of golf balls. Eric G. Hawk, BS 74, earned an MS in marine sci- ences from the Univ. of Puerto Rico. He retired from Gilbert N. Belofsky, BS 85, is starting as Assistant NOAA Corps in June 1997, and now lives and works in Professor of Organic Chemistry at the , when not surfing in Puerto Rico. Tulsa in January 1999, following a two year postdoctoral stay at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He ex- Diane L. Smith (Laurizio), BS 74, paid a visit to CMU pects to focus on natural products chemistry and his this Fall to give a talk to Women in Science. She is new wife (as of June 1998) Rachel DiLorenzo--not nec- Manufacturing Manager of Pharmaceutical & Sterile essarily in that order! Production of the Manufacturing Division of Merck & Co., Inc., in Elkton, VA. She has progressed through Daryl Thomas, BS 90, is working on novel pathogen various positions of increasing responsibility at Merck discovery and diagnostics at Sentinel Biosciences, since joining the firm in 1974. Prior to her current posi- Menlo Park, CA, and is another of our recently married tion, which she assumed in Sept. 1997, she had direct alumni, to Marcy Kawadler during the Memorial Day responsibility for the Quality Operations Groups at sev- Weekend. eral Merck locations, as well as Quality Management of Cindy Lou Chepanoske, BS 95, writes that she is Merck pharmaceutical products released to the market- pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Utah in biological place from sites in North America. She has been rec- chemistry; her advisor is Sheila David, an Assistant Pro- ognized by the 1996 National Hammer Award from the fessor in Biological Chemistry. Office of Vice President Gore, and the 1997 Tribute to Women and Industry Award. In her obviously volumi- GRADUATE STUDENTS nous spare time, she was a member of the 1994 and Arnold E. Reif, MS 49 PhD 50, writes simply "It is 1997 Women's North American Flying Scot Champion- good to hear from the Chemistry Dept.", to which we ship teams in one design sailing. say thanks; he was one of the investigators who dis- John V. Nelson, BS 76, who earned a Ph.D. from Cal covered relevant antigens in the diagnosis and treat- Tech after leaving CMU, was promoted to Laboratory ment of human leukemias and lymphomas. Head of the Color Systems Engineering Lab in the Im- James A. Forstner, MS 61 PhD 62, received an 'of- aging Science Division at the Kodak Research Labs in fer too good to pass up', and has retired from DuPont October 1997. John has been active in the NY Clan, Co. after 36 years, full, he says of "many interesting and and has visited the Department to speak to the under- Carnegie Mellon Page 8 Department of Chemistry

ALUMNI NEWS (Continued from prior page) along with many other items. Take a look, and send us your suggestions to make it more useful to you and exciting opportunities" the legal field. He has joined the others. 400-lawyer firm Alston and Bird as a Senior Counsel in its Washington, DC, office, where his experience in in- ternational patent law at DuPont will help the firm in a THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT! new initiative in this area. We want to thank the many Alumni who have made gifts to the University and/or Department. These are John J. Krajewski, PhD 59, has remained active by extremely important to our efforts to provide a quality consulting in polymers and teaching Polymer Chemistry educational experience to our students. Tax- at DePaul University following his retirement from Allied- deductible gifts may be made directly to the Chemis- Signal in '94. try Department by explicit request to that effect, or by Erich C. Blossey, PhD 63, was an ACS tour instructions that your gift be directed to account speaker in 1998 for the Lake Erie Circuit (Ashland, number 1-31296. The Department has many activi- Toledo & Cleveland in OH; Sharon & Erie), speaking ties in both undergraduate and graduate education on "Application of Polymer Support Reactions and that benefit from your generosity, including: Reagents" and "Application of Capillary Electropho- • Grants for undergraduate and graduate students resis to Proteins". for travel to scientific meetings • Support for Departmental Colloquia Ralph H. Obernauf, PhD 72, is President of SPEX • Support for undergraduate research projects CertiPrep, a manufacturer and supplier of chemical ref- • The Annual Chemistry Department Retreat erence materials and laboratory equipment located in This year we have established an Alumni Fund for Metuchen, NJ; the services of the company, many di- student travel to scientific meetings. It is very difficult rected toward the inorganic spectroscopist, are de- to get funds to send our students to meetings; al- scribed on its web site: http://www.spexcsp.com. most no money is available in normal grants. This robs Mohan Srinivasarao, PhD 90, let us know from our students of participation in national and interna- North Carolina State Univ. that he has received a Career tional meetings--a critical part of their education. Development Grant from the NSF. Congratulations on Please donate to this fund by mailing your contribu- winning one of these very competitive awards! tions directly to the Chemistry Department Some of you may be able to take advantage of gift-matching •• programs at your place of employment. In any case, Chemistry Newsletter on the Web thanks again for thinking of us! •• Recent issues of the Chemistry Newsletter may be Chemistry Alumni Directory found on the Chemistry Department Web site: http://www.chem.cmu.edu Many of you responded affirmatively to our offer to oblige your classmates in locating you from our files. If The Home Page includes you have not responded, and wish to do so, please • Graduate Studies check the "Yes" box in the Questionnaire • Undergraduate Studies • Faculty Research Interests

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