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Chemistry News Fall 2015 Chemistry News Filling the Chemical Sciences Pipeline Future chemists are being recruited by the Department of Chemistry at every age from grade school children to postdoctoral scholars. Hands-on activities encourage girls to learn and explore their potential in science, technology, math and engineering. FEMMES, a UM student organization, organizes events for 4th-6th grade girls on campus and in afterschool programs. Chemistry faculty organized lab tours for students students newly admitted to the University of Michigan in the Summer Bridge program. afety glasses and gloves in place, Johana and a dozen other fourth grade Sgirls used pipettes to drip a creamy mixture into cups of liquid nitrogen, watching the drops freeze instantly into an ice cream treat. After the graduate students strained the tasty dots out of the cup, the girls were able to eat the Cass Technical High School students spent the summer doing result of their experiment. research as part of the UM Detroit Research Internship These girls were attending an all-day event at the UM Chemistry build- Summer Experience, D-RISE. They participated alongside the ing organized by FEMMES, Females Excelling More in Math, Engineering, UM graduate students in the Karle Symposium. and the Sciences. FEMMES aims to inspire young girls, encouraging them to consider their potential in science and math. Each event features hands-on activities led by volunteers. Chemistry’s undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty are very active in the Michigan chapter of FEMMES. On a recent Saturday, FEMMES brought 300 girls to campus from Detroit and area schools to participate in twenty different activities. The liquid nitrogen activity was supervised by Assistant Professor Corinna Schindler’s students. The FEMMES group also does afterschool activities, and over four years has reached more than 1000 girls and 40 schools. Continued on page 5 Inside Chair’s Letter ........................................... 2 Alumni News ......................... 10 New Faculty ............................................ 3 In Remembrance ................... 12 Faculty News........................................... 4 Gifts ....................................... 13 Thirteen postdoctoral fellows were hosted by the Department Undergraduate Program News ............... 6 Alumni Reply Form ................ 15 of Chemistry for NextProf Science, a UM workshop aimed at Graduate Program News ........................ 7 encouraging talented scientists to consider academic careers. 1 Welcome from the Chair of Michigan faculty in 2002, after a decade • Exciting new faculty members Charles at the University of Florida. My research fo- McCrory and Alison Narayan cuses on analytical chemistry and its appli- • Faculty activities including publications cation to neuroscience, endocrinology, and in leading journals and awards and biotechnology. honors After a decade of outstanding leadership • New support for students, established from Carol Fierke, who is now the Dean of with generous gifts from alums and the University of Michigan’s Rackham School friends and creating lasting legacies for of Graduate Studies, the Department of their families Chemistry is thriving. • New infrastructure plans—our Catalysis My aim as Chair is to help the Department Center, a priority in current capital sustain its upward trajectory through the campaign, and a Mass Spectrometry ranks of world leaders in the chemical scienc- Center for complex mixture analysis. Robert T. Kennedy is the 15th Chair es. Achieving this aim requires us to recruit • Alumni activities, including a graduate of the department since 1870. and retain the top research-scholars, innovate who has figured out how to prevent his year, we have some firsts to report as in delivering high value experiences for our those headaches from sulfites in red Twell as some updates on our continuing students, and build an infrastructure to sup- wine. efforts to improve student learning, excel- port these activities. If anything you read about in this news- lent preparation of our graduate students, In these pages you can read about some of letter particularly intrigues you, I urge you and continued progress in our research our activities and achievements: to contact us. We welcome the involve- mission. Our faculty is dedicated to provid- • First ever commencement ceremony for ment of our alumni. ing outstanding education for our students our undergraduates You can provide mentoring for our cur- and performing exciting research which ad- • Third time as winner of the College of LSA’s rent students through CALC|UM and dresses some of the greatest challenges fac- Award for Outstanding Contributions to CSIE|UM(programs designed to support ing our planet. Undergraduate Education professional development of graduate I would like to take a moment to intro- • Efforts to inspire a new generation of students for careers in industry and aca- duce myself as the new chair of the De- chemists of diverse backgrounds from demics, respectively), and we are deeply partment of Chemistry. I began a five-year elementary school, to high school, to new grateful for your generous financial sup- term in July, 2015. I joined the University faculty port for the Department. Share with us what you are doing by sending in an alumni update. The Fierke Legacy If you find yourself in the Ann Arbor After two terms as Chemistry’s chair, A member of ADVANCE’s advisory area, I hope you will take the opportunity Carol Fierke is now using her talents as board, Fierke upholds its foremost goal— to stop by the Department. an administrator to head the University foster the most outstanding academic Robert Kennedy of Michigan Rackham School of Graduate institution possible, and that includes find- Chair, Chemistry Department Studies. ing talent that is being overlooked. Hobart Willard Distinguished At a dinner celebrating her tenure as When Fierke arrived at UM in 1999, University Professor chair, colleagues recognized her contribu- only two other female professors ran re- Professor of Chemistry tions to the Department. They remarked search labs in the Chemistry Department Professor of Pharmacology on her mentorship, her unflappable lead- and one of them retired a year later. Her ership, personal kindnesses, and in par- legacy is the changing face of the depart- ticular, her efforts to bring diversity to the ment. In the past 15 years, the Department Department of Chemistry Newsletter faculty. has gone from about 8 percent to about 25 Chair: Robert Kennedy Chair Bob Kennedy remarked that Carol percent female, and 4 percent faculty of Editors: Arthur J. Ashe, III Suzanne Tainter assumed leadership of the Department at color to about 12 percent. Alumni News: Arthur J. Ashe, III a time of uncertainty. Retirements opened Carol Fierke is Dean of the Rackham up opportunities for considerable hiring Graduate School and the Jerome and Isabella over her years, and her experience with the Karle Distinguished University Professor of Web Address: UM ADVANCE program brought strate- Chemistry. She also has appointments in www.lsa.umich.edu/chem gies for increasing the diversity of the hires. Biophysics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Biological Chemistry in Email: [email protected] the Medical School. 2 Meet the New Faculty Charles McCrory, Assistant Professor Alison Narayan, Assistant Professor Charles McCory joined the faculty at the University of Michigan For Alison Narayan, joining the the Chemistry faculty at the Uni- in 2015. His research program uses a combination of surface sci- versity of Michigan in 2015 was a homecoming of sorts. She earned ence and electrochemistry to study the mechanisms and kinetics her B.S. from the University of Michigan, doing undergraduate re- of electrocatalytic transforma- search with John Wolfe. tions for energy storage and Now she is establishing her environmental remediation. research program in bioca- McCrory came to Michigan talysis, leveraging the power- from the Joint Center for Arti- ful reactivity and selectivity of ficial Photosynthesis (JCAP), enzymes from natural prod- a Department of Energy Inno- uct pathways in concise ap- vation Hub located at the Cali- proaches to natural products fornia Institute of Technology, and their analogs. Her labo- for the development of inte- ratory is in the Life Sciences grated solar-fuels technology. Institute. Projects will be initi- As Lead Benchmarking Scien- ated with the identification of tist at JCAP, he supervised a research team in the development an enzyme with synthetic potential unmatched by chemocatalytic and implementation of protocols for evaluating the activity and methods, then continue by demonstrating the substrate scope and stability of (photo)electrocatalytic materials for the hydrogen evo- potential applications of the biocatalyst including the synthesis of lution reaction (HER), the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), and biologically active molecules. Synthetic efforts will feed biological the carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR). studies on activity, which will inform the subsequent selection of McCrory earned B.S. degrees in Chemistry and Mathematics synthetic targets. from Indiana University, Bloomington. There, he conducted un- Before her faculty appointment, she was a Life Sciences Research dergraduate research with Professor George E. Ewing studying Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the UM of Life Sciences Insti- the structure and composition of thin films of water on single- tute, investigating
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