Chemistry News

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES · DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY · 2004

7 Chemistry Demonstrations INSIDE Randy Sullivan makes the SPECIAL EDITION General and Introductory concepts come alive in the Chemistry—Gateways to classroom Innovations in First-Year the Sciences 8 The Teaching Effective- ness Program Where 3 Message from the faculty learn new skills Chemistry Education Department Head for teaching general and 4 Charles J. and M. Monte- Introductory Chemistry Editor’s Preface ith Jacobs Instructional 8 Chemistry Department emember your days in General Chemistry? You would Endowment Breaks New Reaches Out to Com- Rstill recognize the classrooms, but much else has Ground in Support of munity Promoting the Undergraduate Educa- changed. Our lead article describes General Chemistry discipline of chemistry, lecture and laboratory, and the SUPeR Chemistry tutoring tion Charles J. Jacobs, the department, and the ’34, Establishes the First university through con- available for students needing individual help. Following are Undergraduate peer tutor tacts with elementary and short descriptions of some of the other resources available endowment in chemistry middle school students to entering students: Introductory Chemistry, Pathways, the 4 Honors General Chem- 9 Student Affiliates of ACS istry—The Gateway for Chemistry Resource Center, and the Teaching Effective- Sweep National Awards ness Program. Space limitations preclude coverage of many Advanced Students Undergraduates win four 5 Honors General Chemistry awards and grants additional resources provided by the university, such as Laboratory—Something counseling and special services for students with disabilities, Regular Features and News Special for the Advanced all of which contribute to making the freshman experience a Student Small groups 10 Donor’s Honor Roll positive one. General Chemistry has been described as the learn in the Richard Noy- 11 Faculty News es and Donald Swinehart gateway to the sciences. For students with no high school Instructional Laboratory 12 Festschrift Honors John chemistry background, our one-term course Introduction to Schellman 5 The Chemistry Resource Chemical Principles is the gateway. Many departments in the 14 In Memoriam Virgil Center A place where College of Arts and Sciences require or recommend their undergraduates can drop Boekelheide, LeRoy in for help on the lectures Klemm, Frank Reithel, students take chemistry. These courses are not “gatekeep- or lab Dick Wielesek, and ers” or hurdles. The emphasis now is on student retention Truman Teeter 5 A Quiz on General and providing personal help and counseling to assist each Chemistry Classes The 16 Remembering Leroy student to reach his or her goals. Thanks to Deborah Exton, Klemm Personal glimpses answers may surprise Julie Haack, Cathy Page, Randy Sullivan, and Greg Williams you! by friends and former students for contributing text and ideas for this special section de- 6 Introduction to Chemi- cal Principles—Gateway 18 Endowment Honors LeRoy scribing the entry-level chemistry courses. Elsewhere in this for Students without Klemm The endowment newsletter you will find the usual features of the newsletter, High School Chemistry A supports undergraduate and even a new one: a look at an unusual career opportunity research and seminars holistic one-term course for chemistry students in patent law. —Ed. with some organic and 19 Reflections1960s biochemistry which serves Revisited a wide range of majors 20 Call for Remembrances What’s New in General Chemistry 6 What’s a FIG? Freshman and Stories about Virgil Interest Groups create an Boekelheide Lecture and Laboratory? atmosphere like that of a 20 Staff News small liberal arts college t has been said that the the same, there have also but use the many resourc- 21 Alumni News es of a major research 25 Alumni Achievement Imore things change, the been plenty of changes. Just university Award Pamela J. Bjork- more they remain the same. read on . . . 7 Pathways: Extra Help man—Solving Puzzles of Students still doze in lecture The last ten years have for Elementary Educa- the Immune System halls, Avogadro’s number seen huge advances on tion Students Supports 26 Career Opportunities for is still 6.022 x 1023, and PV the UO campus in terms of future teachers with Chemistry Graduates hands-on activities that Chemistry and a Career in still equals nRT. So, what access to technology and complement the material Law could possibly be new in students’ familiarity with its presented in Introduction 27 Graduating Class of 2003 General Chemistry? It turns use. Gone are the days of to Chemical Principles out that while much remains CONTINUED ON 2  General Chemistry instructor at 2:00 atmosphere and the intellectual chal- am and have an lenge presented by the greater depth  CONTINUED FROM 1 answer waiting and breadth of material presented. On trudging through the rain to check the for them when the other hand, students who haven’t hallway bulletin boards for announce- they awake in the had high school chemistry, or return- ments, answer keys, and grade post- morning. ing students whose chemistry is a ings. Students can now gain access With the ability little rusty, can enroll in Introduction to to course information from home via to do so much Chemical Principles (see accompany- Blackboard, a web-based course from home, one ing article) to either fulfill their require- information delivery system. Some might wonder ments or get up to speed before taking

instructors prefer to use Blackboard for what motiva- Deborah Exton General Chemistry. But for the majority posting all class information, including tion there is for of students, General Chemistry pro- class notes, announcements, and up- students to attend class. The answer to vides the right fit and a solid foundation to-date grades. Other instructors use that remains the same as ever. Despite for their future science courses. the anonymous grade posting feature the many out-of-class resources that General Chemistry classes still meet of Blackboard but create their own per- are available, it still takes an instructor in large lecture halls, but what goes sonalized web pages to deliver other to help put the pieces together. As in on in those classrooms may be a bit course information. David Herrick’s previous years, today’s students are different than one would have encoun- site for his recent CH 223 class (http: fortunate that the General Chemistry tered twenty years ago. For example, //eechem.home.att.net) illustrates some courses continue to be taught by a Julie Haack has developed PowerPoint of the features he has developed to dedicated group of outstanding instruc- presentations to accompany all of her engage students in nontraditional ways. tors such as Deborah Exton, recently lectures. Following class, students “It used to be cutting-edge to use color named a Williams Fellow in recognition are able to download the slides to pens for lecture transparencies,” said of her commitment and contribution to augment their lecture notes. Other Herrick, “but students now respond undergraduate education at the Uni- instructors are still fond of colored to a more visual experience includ- versity of Oregon. Students these days pens and overhead transparencies ing course websites and animated will also tell you that they attend due but scan their lecture overheads after graphics, in addition to e-mail ques- to the added incentive of not wanting class and place them on the web in tions and online grades. It’s rewarding to miss one of Randy Sullivan’s popu- PDF format. Classrooms have been to hear from so many students and lar demonstrations. Randy joined the equipped with state-of-the-art digital parents who say it’s made a differ- department as a lecture demonstrator in projection systems, allowing instructors ence.” Deborah Exton uses her course September 2001 and quickly became to use the latest technology to bring site to provide information to students one of the most popular members of in current topics from the web, ani- who are motivated to dig deeper into the General Chemistry team (perhaps mate reactions, demonstrate molecular the subject matter, with links to sites because he doesn’t write the tests!). modeling calculations, and perform ranging from periodic tables to orbital Randy has developed innovative new spreadsheet data analysis. Of course, models. When websites are used or demonstrations and found methods to it isn’t all about technology. Students in referenced in the classroom, links to make the older ones more visible and some sections routinely break up into those sites are included with her daily safer to perform. His latest addition to lively discussions for group problem lecture notes. the lecture demonstration department solving sessions. These small group The advent of the Internet has pro- is a video projection camera that is sessions within a large class of 100 to vided students with a wealth of learning used to project demonstrations onto 300 students are one example of the resources, with many sites available the overhead screens to make even the efforts being made to make the large for online drills and tutorials. General smallest demonstrations visible to all impersonal classes feel a little smaller Chemistry textbooks now come with students, even those in the back rows and welcoming. Many entering fresh- access to textbook websites where of the lecture hall. While aiding in visu- men choose to join a Freshman Interest students can take practice quizzes, alization, use of this camera also allows Group (FIG), a cadre of twenty-five link to current material, and ask ques- demonstrations requiring hazardous students with a common interest who tions of experts. Students this year will materials to be performed on a small take one or more classes together and have the option of using GradeSum- scale, thus minimizing the production of have weekly meetings with a professor. mit™, an online diagnostic quizzing tool toxic waste. Because FIG students begin meet- that allows students to identify and As in the past, incoming students ing together before classes start, they focus their studies on subject areas have a menu to select from when already have acquaintances and study where they are weakest. All of these choosing which chemistry course is partners in class on the first day. Two Internet-based features offer students appropriate for them. The Honors Gen- of the FIGs that will be taking General the benefit of being able to study on eral Chemistry course and advanced Chemistry this year will be allied around the schedule they prefer, rather than laboratory have been designed for stu- the themes of Forensic Science and a schedule dictated by an instructor’s dents with a strong background in high The Chemistry of Skiing. office hours. Through the use of e-mail, school chemistry and math. Students students can send a question to their in these classes enjoy the smaller class CONTINUED ON 3 

2 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON3  CONTINUED FROM 2 While students still build molecular sive safety information, nomenclature models out of ball and stick model- tutorials, and tips on using calculators Modern General Chemistry text- ing kits, they also use the molecular for statistical analysis. Another advan- books typically contain more than modeling program Spartan™ to perform tage provided by the Internet is that 1,000 pages of text, incorporating all of structural modeling and strain minimiza- for certain experiments, students are the familiar General Chemistry topics tion calculations. This is not to say that able to enter their data into a class data along with many new, cutting edge ap- students aren’t still performing classic bank and also access data from the plications. A quick look through these General Chemistry wet labs. However, entire class. With this feature, students books uncovers sections on modern the chemicals that they are using today have the benefit of studying a large instrumentation, polymers and plas- have changed somewhat since 1970. data set, rather than being limited by tics, nanotechnology, liquid crystals, The curriculum has been developed their minimal amount of personal data. ceramics, environmental chemistry, with an emphasis on green chemistry Today’s General Chemistry students biochemistry, and more. Today’s Gen- or, in other words, experiments that are are still required to master much of eral Chemistry students are challenged benign by design. As a result, most of the same material as previous genera- to master more material than ever, and the laboratory waste is now safe to go tions of students, but the tools and instructors face the daunting task of down the drain or requires a minimal techniques available to them and their finding ways to teach the old as well as amount of treatment before disposal. instructors have changed dramatically incorporating the new. To help with this As in the lecture courses, the In- to reflect the era they are living in. So process, many students attend SUPeR ternet is used in the laboratory course yes, when it comes to General Chemis- (Success Utilizing Peer Resources) to aid students after they have left the try, one could say that the more things Chemistry study sessions. This pro- laboratory. Course websites have been change, the more they stay the same, gram was developed to supplement the developed that feature help from the but at the University of Oregon, fac- existing General Chemistry curriculum Virtual TA and responses to FAQs, or ulty and staff are combining chemical in a manner that would promote con- “frequently asked questions,” for many knowledge with modern applications tent mastery, enhance critical thinking of the laboratory exercises. Students and new technology, and are keeping a and problem solving skills, and gener- can also find resources such as exten- keen eye on the future. ate enthusiasm for the subject. SUPeR Chemistry operates as a voluntary, proactive program to provide assis- Message from the Department Head tance for students before academic t is exciting is to train scientists and produce new difficulties occur. The key personnel in to view the knowledge through creative teaching the program are undergraduate peer I Department of and research. The process starts with learning assistants (PLAs). These stu- Chemistry in a General Chemistry, which is the vital dent leaders are trained in learning and time of transition pipeline of students into our depart- study strategies and operate as “model and progress. In ment. As you will read in the special fo- students,” attending all course lectures, the past three cus articles within, this is also a time of taking notes, and reading all assigned years we have transition and wonderful new programs materials. Each PLA conducts two added four new woven into these introductory courses. or more out-of-class SUPeR study faculty members I am pleased to note two new en- sessions per week during which he or who bring fresh dowments this year that will assist us she integrates the concepts of “how to Tom Dyke viewpoints and in developing our new programs: The learn” with “what to learn.” new research ventures. These add to Charles J. and M. Monteith Jacobs In- Some of the most noticeable chang- the wonderful new instructional pro- structional Endowment, which provides es in the General Chemistry program grams and research efforts ongoing in peer tutoring for entering students, and have occurred in the laboratory. Lab in- our department. At the same time, we the LeRoy Klemm Endowment, which structor Deborah Exton recalls that the celebrate the contributions of four col- establishes a new seminar and under- laboratory space looks about the same leagues who have recently retired and graduate award. We have also received as when she was a General Chemistry consider their impact on the programs a number of contributions, which, re- student in 1970. Of course, in 1970, you will read about in our newsletters. gardless of size, are invaluable in sup- one didn’t see computers on the bench And we also must mourn the passing porting special activities and programs top and digital data acquisition systems of Professors Virgil Boekelheide, LeRoy in the department: We are grateful for being used by students. Working from Klemm, and Frank Reithel. They were your continued support! a manual written by Exton, students use each major forces in helping to shape As you consider your experiences this equipment to gain an understand- and build the department starting in the at Oregon, I hope that you will see the ing of modern data acquisition and 1960s and afterwards. creative energy that comes out of tran- analysis techniques. Using Vernier™ The teaching and research pro- sitional periods in the life of a depart- data probes and software, students are grams of a great university are always ment and that you feel that you are part able to quickly collect large amounts two sides of the same coin. Our goal of it. Let’s stay in touch! —Tom Dyke of data and perform numerical and sta- tistical analyses with Microsoft Excel™.

2 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON3UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 3 Charles J. and M. Monteith Jacobs Instructional Endowment Breaks New Ground in Support of Undergraduate Education in Chemistry harles J. Jacobs, Class of chemistry major, and his brother, C1934, has made a major Monty, attended the UO in the gift to support an advanced 1930s. Charles Jacobs participated undergraduate student to serve in UO Chemistry Commencement as a peer tutor in chemistry exercises in June of 1999, 2001, courses. The Jacobs endowment and 2003, and he contributed an of $100,000 established in 2003 article to the Special Historical will fund a peer tutor all year, every Edition of UO Chemistry News in year, in perpetuity. The Jacobs 2003. Charles Jacobs knows about endowment is the first of its kind in the value of tutoring first hand: He chemistry. It is also the first of its earned his way through the UO type in the entire College of Arts and Stanford, where he earned and Sciences. Being the first, it his B.A. and M.A. degrees, in part blazes a new trail. This is a win-win by tutoring students in chemistry. situation. Entering students from Following Charles Jacobs’ diverse programs throughout the example, already another donor has college receive the individual help established a second endowment Charles Jacobs and Deborah Exton shaking hands. they need, and the advanced chemistry Jacobs has provided the first source of permanent that will start funding a peer tutor in majors earn money for textbooks funding for peer tutors (peer learning assistants) 2007. The department is seeking four and supplies. Graduate students to help students struggling in General Chemistry more endowments of this size, or a and other courses. Deborah Exton pioneered and are available to provide free tutoring tested the concept of peer learning assistants in combination of smaller endowments, in some departments. In chemistry, General Chemistry. Photo taken at the June 2003 to fund the remaining four peer tutors Chemistry Commencement. Klamath Hall is in essentially all of the graduate TAs are the background. in General Chemistry (e.g., $25,000 needed in the laboratory courses for will fund a named endowment for a safety reasons, so the department Valley and founded the city of Albany peer tutor for one term per year, in relies on undergraduate peer tutors for in the 1840s. Charles Jacobs attended perpetuity). the introductory courses. the UO in 1931 and 1932 as a Following Charles Jacobs’ Honors General Chemistry—The example, already another donor has established a second Gateway for Advanced Students endowment that will start onors General Chemistry is an accelerated General Chemistry course for students who have taken high school chemistry and have strong funding a peer tutor in 2007. H math skills (i.e., have had or are concurrently enrolled in calculus). It is geared toward students who anticipate majoring in one of the natural sciences and This is Charles Jacobs’ second is also the designated course for students in the honors college. The honors major gift to the department. He sequence covers the same basic material covered in General Chemistry, but established the Charles J. and M. at an accelerated rate, allowing for a more in-depth study of difficult concepts Monteith Jacobs Endowment Faculty and inclusion of additional topics pertaining to the application of chemistry in Fellowship Fund in 1999 to support related fields. For example, chemistry related to environmental issues is em- faculty recruitment and retention. Both phasized in the fall term, and chemistry related to biological processes is cov- endowments are named for Charles ered in the winter term. Everyday applications of chemistry are brought into and his brother Malcolm Monteith the classroom in a variety of ways. For example, in recent years Cathy Page “Monty” Jacobs and preserve their has encouraged students to submit extra credit “Stump the Prof” questions. mother’s maiden name, Monteith. Examples of good “STP” questions include: How does sunless tanning lotion Charles Jacobs has connections work? Why does an egg turn hard when you boil it? Why do fallen leaves with both the history of Oregon and stain the sidewalk? How do epoxies and other adhesives work? The idea is to the department: The Monteiths are encourage students to think about how chemistry is involved in all the facets descendants of an Oregon pioneer of our daily lives. Judging from the fact that students have written Cathy Page family who settled in the Willamette with “STP” questions years after they have taken the class, it works!

4 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON5 Honors General Chemistry Laboratory— Something Special for the Advanced Student The plaque on this lab reads “Richard Noyes and Donald Swinehart Instructional Laboratory for Honors Chemistry. Dedicated November 10, 2000. Renovation made possible by John J. Natt (Class of 1964) and Cathy M. Natt.” The renovation has inspired changes in the laboratory offerings, as described below. In the university catalog this is the Advanced General View of the Chemistry Resource Center. Shown is room 126 Klamath Hall. The picture was taken from the adjoining room, 127 Klamath, which is also part of the Chemistry Resource Center. These rooms are Chemistry Laboratory, but around designed to present a friendly, informal atmosphere with tables, chairs, and blackboards. Room 126 has the department we call it the Honors two networked computers that are used for such diverse activities as creating molecular graphics, running General Chemistry Lab because it spreadsheet analysis, and checking email. Both rooms are filled with students during peak hours. accompanies the Honors General Chemistry lecture course and many The Chemistry Resource Center of the students are also in the honors college. —Ed. he new Chemistry Resource Cen- The doors are open and the lights are Tter was dedicated in 2003. This on all day, and helpful staff are present he Honors General Chemistry is the place where chemistry students many hours every day. The Chemistry TLaboratory program is undergo- can drop in for help on the lectures Resource Center replaces the former ing a major renovation this year. Greg or lab. It is available to all students, “Chemistry 911.” The rooms were Williams is working with Jim Long, John but the General Chemistry and Or- changed as part of a space shuffle Hardwick, and Mary Dricken to design ganic Chemistry students are the most on the first floor of Klamath Hall. The a new curriculum that expands the frequent users. The center is staffed Chemistry Resource Center, together range of topics and changes the focus by teaching assistants (TAs or GTFs) with faculty office hours, gives UO of the program. at times, and by undergraduate peer tu- students many options for seeking indi- The traditional introductory labo- tors (SUPeR Chemistry) at other times. vidual help outside the classroom. ratory is often based on individual, three-hour, weekly activities designed to reinforce concepts from the lec- Can You Pass This Quiz on General Chemistry? ture section of the General Chemistry 1. How many students typically enroll in General Chemistry (including course. The new honors lab curriculum honors) every fall? will maintain a strong link to the honors a. 200–299 b. 300–399 c. 400–599 d. 600–800 lecture, but the objective of the lab se- 2. What is the most common major represented in the General Chemistry quence will be to prepare students for class? research. There are five sections, with a. psychology b. biology c. physics d. undeclared fourteen students in each section, so 3. How many different majors are represented in a typical UO General the maximum number of student who Chemistry class? can enroll is currently seventy. There a. 1–19 b. 20–29 c. 30–39 d. more than 40 are about sixty students enrolled this 4. What percent of the students enrolled in General Chemistry class are Fall Term 2003. chemistry majors? The revised curriculum will balance a. 1–10% b. 11–20% c. 21–30% d. more than 30% laboratory work in biochemistry and 5. What percent of the General Chemistry class are women? in inorganic, physical, and analytical a. 5–24% b. 25–49% c. 50–74% d. 75–100% chemistry. The group is developing 6. What fraction of the General Chemistry class intends to become doctors experiments on sol gels and semicon- (MD, DO, ND, DC)? ductors, protein folding and enzyme a. 1/5 b. 1/4 c. 1/3 d. 1/2 or more kinetics, environmental chemistry, and 7. What percent of students who enroll in fall term General Chemistry inorganic synthesis and catalysis. In complete the full-year sequence? many cases, these new projects will ex- a. 1/4 b. 1/3 c. 1/2 d. 2/3 tend over several laboratory periods and Answers are based on data taken from fall terms 2001, 2002, and 2003. Answers are given will involve collaboration among groups below. If you missed a few, you are not alone. There were some surprises even for faculty of students. The goal is to develop an members teaching these courses. Thanks to Deborah Exton, Julie Haack, and Diane Lachen- honors lab program that emulates the meier for providing information used in this survey. environment of a research lab. Answers: 1. d, 2. d, 3. d, 4. a, 5. c, 6. d, 7. d 4 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON5 Introduction to Chemical Principles—Gateway for Students Without High School Chemistry ntroduction to Chemical Principles I(CH 111), a one-term course, is offered twice a year to meet multiple needs. This is not just a watered-down general chemistry course – it is a holis- tic approach that provides an overview of general, organic and biochemistry with special topics (e.g. drug and alco- hol abuse, green chemistry) depend- ing on the instructor. It serves a wide range of majors. Students who have not had any high school chemistry use it as preparation for General Chemistry. It is required for biology majors taking BI 211 and BI 212 and gives environ- mental studies and liberal arts majors the background to better understand the chemistry involved in their fields of interest, as well as science issues fac- ing society. Here are some excerpts from what students wrote recently in the course evaluations: “It gave a comprehensive and highly Chemistry as a wilderness adventure, as presented by Hayes Griffith in his “Indiana Jones” lecture. What conceptual view of chemistry and does it take to survive and enjoy the adventure? An experienced guide, paying attention, and making the effort to keep together on the trail from the start to the finish—don’t fall behind. Each name on the related fields. I never took a chemistry map was chosen for a purpose. For example “Redox Falls” alludes to the flow of electrons in the electron class before this one in my life; now transport chain of oxidative phosphorylation—only briefly discussed in this class, but of importance in I’m thinking about pursuing it as a ma- the biology sequence to which introductory chemistry is linked. jor.” “I really like how the course was applied to real life. It made everything What’s a FIG? Freshman Interest Groups more interesting in that respect.” “The FIG consists of twenty-five first-year students who take two general educa- demonstrations were great. They really A tion courses together during fall term. FIGs create an atmosphere like that of kept me awake and interested in class a small liberal arts college but use the many resources of a major research univer- and made me want to learn more about sity. This small group setting offers mentoring and further exploration of the course chemistry.” “Connecting chemistry materials. These are regular university courses that satisfy group requirements and with the real world is very valuable. I’m are also open to non-FIG participants at all class levels. The FIG students within glad that was incorporated.” “The notes these larger classes are linked through College Connections, a one-credit course were on the Internet everyday.” “Hav- typically taught by the professor responsible for one of the regular FIG classes. In ing a peer TA was great. She was very addition to the faculty leader, each FIG has a teaching assistant, an undergraduate helpful.” “Class was also always excit- student who helps FIG members navigate the university. A recent innovation in the ing to attend. Many fun and interactive FIG program, Residential FIGs, offers students the advantages of a true collegiate lectures and experiments. The course community as they live in the same dormitory with their FIG TA. Some of the FIGs really applied everyday situations and are designated Challenge FIGs. The group-satisfying classes included in Challenge other outside, real-life applications to FIGs are generally smaller than those in other FIGs, and, although the courses what we were learning.” “I feel that I begin at an introductory level, students are encouraged to look into the subjects have had exceptional preparation for deeply. The teachers in the Challenge FIGs get to know their students early through courses that follow this one.” “CH 111 shared summer reading on a topic related to the FIG. is a great introductory course: concise, This fall some first-year chemistry students are participating in one of four FIGs, thorough, and challenging.” In the inter- three of which are lead by chemistry faculty members. The Chemistry of Skiing FIG est of full disclosure, the instructors do leader is Julie Haack, the Forensic Science FIG leader is Deborah Exton, and the not win them all. Some comments in Challenge FIG, Stories of the Invisible, leader is Greg Williams. The students in the course evaluations indicated little these FIGs are all enrolled in General Chemistry. Carl Stiefbold, a member of the interest in chemistry before or after tak- biology faculty, is leading a Residential Challenge FIG, Honors Science. Students in ing CH 111. this FIG are taking Honors General Chemistry, Advanced (Honors) General Chem- istry Lab, and Calculus. —Article by Carl Stiefbold 6 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON7 Pathways: Extra Help for Elementary Education Students he Pathway for Elementary Educa- Ttion class (EDST 199) is leading the way for future teachers. The Path- way seminar offered by the chemistry department each fall term supports students with hands-on activities that complement the material presented in CH 111 Introduction to Chemical Principles. The seminar is led by Randy Sullivan and Cathy Page, and CH 111 is taught by O. Hayes Griffith. Freshman Andrea Kari comments, “The class was helpful because it was a more personal lecture, and it was easier to ask questions.” While sophomore Bryan Gamble adds, “This class gave me an in-depth look at how I could use the chemistry that I was learning in my elementary school class- room in the future.” The idea for Pathways originated These smiling faces belong to future elementary school teachers enrolled in the 2002 Pathway for with some of the University of Oregon’s Elementary Education chemistry seminar. First row (l to r): Shaunna Wild, Bryan Gamble, Randy Sullivan (instructor), and Cathy Page (instructor). Second row: Christina Healy, Cristal Howard, Emily most outstanding teachers and re- Perkins, Emily Campbell, Andrea Kari, Ashley Osborne, Amy Goeken, and Meghan McClellan. Third searchers. Working together, they row: Heather Flori, Nicole Hunt, Katie Bryant, and Ashley Gilchrist. created Pathways with the needs of were offered in the 2002-2003 aca- The Pathway for Elementary Educa- beginning students in mind. They know demic year. In each Pathway, a different tion is a two-year program for fresh- it can be difficult to enter a large re- theme ties the courses together. These men and sophomores that creates a search university without familiar faces themes are Order and Law, Human supportive environment for learning the to help students make connections. Nature, Elementary Education, Monet’s mathematics and science that are re- Pathways are meant to make sense of Garden, and America in Context. quired of all elementary teachers. Want undergraduate general education while The variety of core courses in each to find out more about the Pathways establishing relationships with fellow Pathway and the opportunity to indi- Program? You can visit the website at students and faculty mentors. vidualize the schedule by adding other http://learning.uoregon.edu/pathways/, The program has been a popular courses make Pathways a good choice send e-mail to [email protected] option for students at the University for both declared and undeclared regon.edu, or call (541) 346-1330 or of Oregon since 1999. Five Pathways majors. (541) 346-1241.

Chemistry Demonstrations he Chemistry Lecture Demonstra- Ttions home page is shown at left. From this website, chemistry faculty may choose a topic, or a list of dem- onstrations, and schedule the dates and times. Instructors may either per- form the demonstrations themselves or ask Randy Sullivan to perform them. The website, maintained by Randy, contains useful sugges- tions on how to perform some of the demonstrations, and both general and introductory chemistry classes make extensive use of the website. If you want to take a look at this website, the URL is http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/ ~smrandy/

6 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON7 The Teaching Effectiveness Program— Where Faculty Improve Their Skills for Teaching General and Introductory Chemistry here do new instructors and include “Beginnings: Insights, Tools WGTFs (teaching assistants) go and Strategies for New Teachers,” “Ten to learn how to teach large classes important things to do on the first day such as General Chemistry? The UO of class,” “Classroom management, supports the teaching endeavors of its presenting material effectively, facilitat- faculty and graduate students through ing discussions, and lesson planning,” the Teaching Effectiveness Program “Promoting critical thinking,” “Handling (TEP), a division of Academic Learning difficult situations with students,” “I Services located in 65 Prince Lucian made it through the first week! Now Campbell Hall. Georgeanne Cooper, what?” and “Overwhelmed? Transition- the director of TEP, and her staff offer ing to a new job in a new place.” Check a variety of activities and services to out the TEP website for the latest offer- engage the academic community in ings: http://tep.uoregon.edu viewing, assessing, and improving un- TEP is able to give instructors dergraduate instruction. TEP services feedback on their teaching through are free to faculty members, graduate observations, videotaping, and midterm teaching fellows (GTFs), and university student feedback services. In addition departments. Georgeanne Cooper, director of the Teaching TEP staff are available by appointment Each term TEP focuses on com- Effectiveness Program. “It is important to me that to consult on any teaching topic. As mon issues and concerns in teaching faculty and graduate students feel supported a veteran chemistry instructor who is and valued in their teaching efforts. I want the through workshops, seminars, online Teaching Effectiveness Program to be a place always looking for ways to improve classes, and newsletter articles. For where instructors receive confidential, constructive teaching skills for large classes, I feedback on their teaching, suggestions for new example the 2003 Fall Term teacher teaching approaches and strategies, helpful can vouch for the usefulness of TEP. training offerings for faculty and GTFs resources, and encouragement to take risks and —Hayes Griffith to explore news ways of thinking about teaching and learning.” Department of Chemistry Reaches Out to Community assistant department head, and the UO learning lab and watched a demo show chapter of the Student Affiliates of the featuring the Ethanol Cannon and American Chemical Society (SAACS) Elephant’s Toothpaste. to develop and implement outreach Thirty-five college freshmen who programs. These programs are reach- had recently enrolled in the Pathway for ing out to our community to promote Elementary Education were wowed by the discipline of chemistry, the depart- one of Randy’s demo shows on March ment, and the university. 6. The show started with a bang as On February 17, 2003, twenty-sev- hydrogen-filled balloons were ignited! en talented and gifted students from On Saturday, April 19, SAACS area middle schools worked with volun- volunteers performed two demo shows teers from SAACS on hands-on green for forty-five minority middle school chemistry activities. They worked in the students. These shows were part of the lab to generate hydrogen gas by two Reach For Success! program of the different methods and evaluated which Office of Multicultural Affairs. The Can method was greener. The program was Crush and the Liquid Nitrogen Balloon Minority middle school students peering part of a campus-wide outreach effort were on the menu of demos. Fourteen through diffraction gratings during an outreach demonstration. by UO Youth Enrichment and TAG home-schooled high school students Programs. were amazed at a demo show present- ost of you know Randy Sullivan The chemistry department hosted ed by SAACS on Friday, May 2. Among Mas “the Demo Guy” who provides seven children of UO Human Re- other marvels, these students from lecture demonstrations for undergradu- sources Department employees on Bethel School District’s HomeSource ate chemistry courses. But Randy also Bring Your Child to Work Day. The has been working with Julie Haack, the kids toured our new green chemistry CONTINUED ON 9 

8 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON9 Student Affiliates of ACS Sweep National Awards he UO chapter of the Student TAffiliates of the American Chemi- cal Society (SAACS) swept the ACS National Student Affiliates Chapter Awards for the last academic year. Even though 2002-03 was the first full year since the chapter has been reactivated, it won the following awards and grants: • One of eight chapters awarded a Community Interaction—Student Affiliates Grant. This grant of $200, to be matched by the department, is for “New Waves in Chemistry,” an alterna- tive energy demonstration program. This grant proposal was written by Margaret Roller. • One of nine chapters awarded an Innovative Activities Grant. This grant The first annual “spring mixer,” a pizza party for faculty and GTFs to meet the ACS Student Affiliates is also for $200, to be matched by the held April 3, 2003. From left to right: Graduate students Mike Frencl and Eric Tweeten, and undergraduate department, for “Cracking the Pyrex members of the ACS Student Affiliates: Bethany Ford, Emily May, Christoph Otto, Stacy Standridge, Ceiling,” a forum investigating equity Margret Roller, unidentified student in the back, and Julie King. issues for women in the chemistry Congratulations to all involved in profession. This grant proposal was this outstanding effort, especially the Share Your University written by Stacey Standrige. officers of the chapter, Emily May Experiences with Your • One of ten chapters recognized (SAACS President), Margaret Roller as a Green Student Affiliate Chapter (SAACS Vice President), Julie King, Classmates for their activities to promote green and Christoph Otto, who invested so Send us your reflections for the chemistry. much of their free time last year to Chemistry News. Call Lynde at make SAACS’s first full year such a (800) 782-4713, send e-mail to • One of fifty-two programs pre- fruitful one. Special thanks go to Randy [email protected], or send a letter sented with a Commendable Chapter Sullivan, faculty advisor to the SAACS. to the Department of Chemistry,1253 Award for their programs and activities Thanks also to Julie Haack, assistant University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1253. as described in their annual reports. department head, for her enthusiastic support of the program.

Department of Chemistry Reaches Out is now completed. We are happy to an- nounce that the ChemDemos outreach  CONTINUED FROM 8 program is ready to roll! The program’s premiere performance was at South On February 17, 2003, twenty- Resource Center witnessed the Amaz- Eugene High School on May 16. ing Frankenpickle. seven talented and gifted stu- In another outreach activity, on For the last year and a half, Randy Friday, July 25, Randy journeyed to dents from area middle schools and Maeve Sowles of Environmental Elijah Bristow State Park to help more Health and Safety have been develop- worked with volunteers from than eighty Cub Scout Webelos earn ing an outreach program that would their achievement badges in science. SAACS on hands-on green bring entertaining and educational Working with Kathy Byars, program off-campus chemical demonstrations chemistry activities. They director of the Boy Scouts of America to local schools and other appropriate Cascade District Day Camp, Randy worked in the lab to generate organizations that might not otherwise provided a hands-on chemistry learn- have access to them. They have named hydrogen gas by two different ing experience for the scouts at an the program ChemDemos. Because of all-day workshop on the last day of the methods and evaluated which the safety and liability issues involved in four-day camp. The Scouts performed such a program, the planning and ap- method was greener. actual experiments to determine the proval process has been lengthy, but it relative activity of three metals.

8 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON9 Chemistry Gifts, July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2003 Chemistry Honor Roll of Donors: Your Gifts, Our Thanks The Department of Linda and Gary Young ’75 Jean Levitt Birnberg and Stephanie Delich Rasco and Chemistry faculty and Associate Neal Birnberg ’81 Peter Rasco ’86 students are grateful for Carol and Lawrence Cohn ’72 Leona and Curtis Borchers ’56 Gary Riddle ’65 your contributions. Private Edwin Dalton Grace and Irving Borowitz James Riddle ’95 donations, because of their Harold Davidson ’49 Morrison Brinker Mordecai Rubin flexibility, are often worth Sara Irias Debono ’63 and Joseph Brooks ’02 Steven Sabillon ’99 much more than their dollar Manuel Debono ’64 Rita and David Campbell Elizabeth Saltonstall ’00 amount in terms of helping Susan and David Edlund ’87 Catherine ’77 and Anthony Joyce Schiro ’54 our students and programs. 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He received his pejana) and investigating how it has B.S. from the University of Texas at adapted to the extreme environment Austin in 1996 and his Ph.D. from the of deep-sea thermal vents. He is using University of California, Berkeley, with the Pompeii worm as a system to study Kenneth N. Raymond in 2000. John- basic cellular processes in eukaryotes. son was a postdoctoral fellow at the Jeffrey A. Cina won a 2003 John Scripps Research Institute from 2001 Simon Guggenheim Fellowship Award. to 2003 with Julius Rebek, Jr. He will Cina, a professor of chemistry and will explore problems in coordination member of the Oregon Center for chemistry and organic synthesis using Optics, was singled out for his stud- the relatively new field of supramolecu- Darren W. Johnson ies in the area of ultrafast electronic lar chemistry as a tool. energy transfer. One place where in 1983. Svanevik is now completing Ken Prehoda has received a ultrafast transfer occurs is during the his twenty-first year in this position. In Damon Runyon Scholar Award in initial process in photosynthesis where 1983, there were about twenty-five recognition of his outstanding potential light energy is transformed into chemi- students enrolled in the summer class; as a beginning investigator. Prehoda cal energy. He will use the cash award now the enrollment exceeds seventy. was one of five new faculty members of $35,000 to travel to universities in in the country to be recognized by the Four UO faculty members well California and Mexico to collaborate Damon Runyon Scholar Review Panel known in the classroom retired with fellow researchers. The 2003 and selected for the award nationwide. in 2003: Frederick (Rick) W. Fellowship winners include 184 artists, The award provides $100,000 per year Dahlquist, John F. W. Keana, O. scholars, and scientists selected from for three years in support of Prehoda’s Hayes Griffith, and James W. Long. more than 3,200 applicants. research program. Dahlquist retired early to move to the Kenneth M. Doxsee and James Department of Chemistry, University Geraldine Richmond was the E. Hutchison received the 2003 of California, Santa Barbara. Keana, June 2003 commencement speaker at Outstanding University Educator Award Griffith, and Long are remaining in Eu- the Oregon Institute of Technology in from the Oregon Academy of Science gene and will be teaching part time at Klamath Falls. Richmond is a member for their achievements in developing the UO. If you have amusing or inter- of the Oregon State Board of Higher the new Green Organic Chemistry esting photos or anecdotes about their Education. Laboratory curriculum and for their teaching or other activities on campus, leadership in bringing this innovation A Festschrift was published in honor please mail them to us in the envelope to chemical educators around the of John A. Schellman. See separate provided or send them to us by e-mail. globe. Hutchison delivered the keynote article for details. Selected contributions will be pub- address on “Green Chemistry” during lished in future newsletters. Photos will the 61st annual meeting of the Oregon Peter von Hippel was presented be returned. Academy of Science on February 22 at the 2003 Wayne Westling Award for Professor Emeritus Ray Wolfe, Linfield College in McMinnville. University Service and Leadership. eighty-three years old, continues to be Thomas R. Dyke became depart- The 2003 summer session faculty a leader in bringing public affairs cable ment head in October 2003. Read members included Leif Brown (now programs to the Eugene-Springfield his comments in the “Message from in New Mexico), Randy Sullivan, area. Wolfe produces a one-hour pro- the Department Head” section of this and Jim Long, all of the UO; Doug gram and a thirty-minute program each newsletter. Dyke was department head Chapman and Owen McDougal, week. In collaboration with others, he from 1993-1995. Southern Oregon University; and has given free air time to local can- Lars Svanevik, Oregon Institute of didates for elected office. Wolfe has Michael Haley was symposium Technology. A few more words about been doing this for more than six years. chairman, and David Tyler was award Svanevik: He received his Ph.D. from He also took time out to write a memo- chair for the Linus Pauling Award event the UO College of Education in 1980 rial to Frank Reithel for this newsletter. on November 1. The 2003 Medal- and started teaching the university’s ist is Robert H. Grubbs, Victor and summer General Chemistry sequence UNIVERSITYOFOREGON11 Festschrift Honors John A. Schellman Festschrift: Pronounced “fes(t)- shrift”; Etymology: German, from The Festschrift contains a Fest celebration + Schrift writ- summary of John’s scientific ing—Merriam-Webster Dictionary. A special issue of Biophysical work by Buzz Baldwin and a Chemistry (2002) 101-102, 1-637 has recollection by Heini Eisenberg been published as a tribute to Profes- sor Emeritus John Schellman (born placing John’s work and the 1924, at Oregon since 1958). This Institute of Molecular Biology in impressive volume was edited by Hong Qian, James Hofrichter, and Robert L. a bigger historical context. Baldwin. Hong Qian was kind enough to write the following article exclusively for this chemistry newsletter, reflecting rell Hill’s role.) While Terrell is a power- on the contents of the Festschrift and ful theoretical scientist, he brought to some personal experiences with John Eugene several young experimentalists and Charlotte Schellman. —Ed. including John Schellman. In the bigger historical context of the development John Schellman and of molecular biology, the physicists and Biophysical Chemistry: The physical chemists have been the avant- Story Behind the Festschrift garde. These two groups brought John Schellman, mid-1980s. By Hong Qian distinct styles and methodologies to he European journal, Biophysical modern biochemistry: The physicists, TChemistry, which has just marked John Schellman from 1990 to 1992 and notably the British crystallographers thirty years of existence, published worked on thermodynamics of small in the 1950s, have made biomacro- three Festschrifts (unique collections peptides, hydrophobic interactions in molecular structures the center piece of scientific papers and personal ac- proteins, and electrostatics in DNA. Dr. of the field. The physical chemists, on counts) for three giants in the field: Edsall was the undergraduate tutor of the other hand, brought in a host of John Tileston Edsall (100, 2002), our my Ph.D. advisor Elliot Elson. They pub- spectroscopies including fluorescence, John Anthony Schellman (101-102, lished a paper together in Biochemistry CD, and NMR. Since the studies and 2002), and Walter Kauzmann (105, (1, page 1) on the ionization constant of dynamics are in aqueous solution, 2003). Indeed, these three individu- cysteine. So you could say that we all the kinetics and thermodynamics are als are part of the group of modern belong to an extended family. indispensable. A significant number biochemists who established and since John’s career has paralleled the of researchers doing thermodynamics have defined this highly interdisciplinary development of Biophysical Chemistry, can trace their intellectual heritage to field at the boundary between physical both the field and the journal. Hence Carlsberg Laboratory in Denmark under chemistry and biochemistry, now an it is natural for the journal to publish the direction of Linderstrøm-Lang in integral part of molecular and cellular this 630-page volume containing fifty the 1950s. It was then and there that biology. To many readers of this news- papers to celebrate his career. (A pa- John, as a postdoctoral fellow, met Dr. letter, Dr. Edsall is probably best known per by Professor James C. Lee should Charlotte Green, our Charlotte. for his monumental treatises written have been included in this volume but, The volume also contains several with E. J. Cohn, “Proteins, Amino Acids due to an error in the journal produc- contributions from the people at the and Peptides—as Ions and Dipolar tion, appears in Biophysical Chemistry Institute and from the “T4” group. The Ions” (1943) and with J. Wyman “Bio- (2002) 103, 1-11.) The Festschrift T4 lysozyme project represented one physical Chemistry—thermodynam- contains a summary of John’s scientific of the shining examples of integration ics, electrostatics, and the biological work by Buzz Baldwin and a recollec- of the two major scientific approaches significance of the properties of matter” tion by Heini Eisenberg placing John’s in biophysical chemistry—atomic (1958). John Schellman is widely work and the Institute of Molecular Bi- structure characterization by crystal- known for his work on the thermody- ology in a bigger historical context. As lography and solution measurements namics and optical spectroscopies of some of our readers know, the Institute by spectroscopies integrated in terms biological macromolecules and Walter was established through the instiga- of kinetics and thermodynamic model- Kauzmann for his seminal contributions tion of Terrell Hill, who is considered, at ing. I was fortunate to be with John and to the physical chemistry of water and least by some including myself, as one at the Institute at the time of one of the hydrophobic interaction. Incidentally, of the most visionary and pioneering exciting periods. John was Kauzmann’s Ph.D. student at figures in theoretical biophysical chem- In addition to being a leader in the Princeton and wrote his dissertation on istry. (See the 2003 Special Historical dielectric polarization of ice. I was with Edition of UO Chemistry News for Ter- CONTINUED ON 13 

12 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON13 John and Charlotte (at right) with postdoctoral fellows Howard Reese (far left) and Hong Qian standing between Howard Reese and John Schellman, circa 1992. Howard Reese is now a senior research scientist at Nanogen in San Diego, and Hong Qian is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and associate director of the National Simulation Resource in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington, Seattle.

 CONTINUED FROM 12 cal chemistry to daily life. Now think- John has also been a wonderful ing back, I have learned so much from field of biophysical chemistry, John has talking to him, not only about research also been a wonderful role-model for role-model for young scientists. but also about being a scholar, about young scientists. He is supportive to He is supportive to and nurturing academic institutes, and about life. My and nurturing of their careers and warm fondest memory of John and Charlotte and caring toward them as individuals. of their careers and warm was a trip to an Oregon mountain with I feel fortunate to have spent two solid and caring toward them as Howie Reese, Nadine Gassner, Andy years with him, and our friendship has Morton, and several others. Andy ar- further deepened since I left Oregon. individuals. ranged to rent a large house in a resort. When John and Charlotte made one On a chilly morning, when we woke of their frequent visits to their daughter the world—our own Pete von Hippel up and walked to the kitchen following and grandson in Seattle, they would as well as Buzz Baldwin at Stanford, the aroma of brewing coffee, we found call me and my wife, and we would get to name a couple. You can find many John and Charlotte were busy making together. of them as authors in this special scrambled eggs for all of us. Suddenly I John and his generation of scientists Festschrift. Having opportunities to felt like a kid in his grandpa’s cottage. have a very broad outlook on sci- join them hiking on trails and discuss Back to our research. Biophysical ence. To them the driving force behind various issues with them were uplifting chemistry is now a mature field and scientific research is as intellectual as experiences, and they always treated an essential component of modern it is technological. This of course does us young people as equals. biochemistry. Its central role in modern not fit very well with the current trend When I first came to the UO, John cellular biology, which is dominated by in biomedical research that emphasizes made sure not only that I was accepted molecular genetics, however, has been singularly medical advances. John was into the working laboratory but also so- challenged. What will be the next major often very distressed by the fact that cially into university life. He took me to contribution of our discipline to biol- current research involves so much a basketball game and was pleasantly ogy? I would like to surmise that single- self-promotion. To him, these prac- surprised that I, being a foreigner, was molecule biophysics and nonequilib- tices hinder true understanding and not completely ignorant of American rium thermodynamics are two possible fundamental discovery in biology. John pop culture. I remember vividly all those directions, and the movement toward has maintained a life-long friendship early afternoons when John would buy systems biology will not be possible with a group of colleagues who share me a cup of coffee from the Atrium without the foundation in biophysical not only his scientific outlook but also and we would sit there and discuss all chemistry. similar political and personal views of kinds of things ranging from biophysi- 12 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON13 in 1988. Boekelheide was honored at Ohio State University in 1946 and In Memoriam with the Charles E. Johnson Memorial taught at Harvard and Indiana univer- Award from the University of Oregon in sities before beginning his career at Virgil Boekelheide 1991. the University of Oregon in 1952. He Virgil Boekelheide, age eighty-four, Teaching, consulting, and lecturing celebrated his fiftieth anniversary with died quietly in his sleep on Wednes- took him to many countries including the UO on September 26, 2002. In day, September 24, 2003. This is the Japan, China, Canada, Poland, Switzer- addition to teaching, Klemm supervised obituary submitted by his family to the land, Yugoslavia, Great Britain, Brazil, and trained students and published Register-Guard. See also the call for and Germany. 175 scholarly papers. Following his memories and stories from friends and Boekelheide was a charter member semi-retirement in 1985 and his of- former students for the next edition of of the Eugene Swim and Tennis Club ficial retirement in 1990, he published this newsletter. —Ed. and enjoyed playing go, chess, and thirty-five papers and continued an poker with his family and friends. Other active research program in heterocyclic irgil C. interests included classical music, op- organic chemistry. Boekelheide V era, and ballet. He served as president Klemm was instrumental in estab- was born July 28, of the board of the Eugene Ballet from lishing the UO undergraduate research 1919, in Chelsea, 1988 to 1991. program in organic chemistry and made South Dakota, to He is survived by his wife Caroline, significant research contributions. He Charles and Elea- sons Erich and Karl, daughter Anne, was assistant dean of the UO College nor Boekelheide. brother Irving, sister Dorothy Anderson, of Arts and Sciences in 1960-1962 He was married to and grandchildren Amanda and David. and 1968-1969, and associate dean of Caroline Ambler No service is planned. Memorial the graduate school in 1960-1962. He Barrett on Sep- Virgil Boekelheide, late 1990s. contributions may be made to the Virgil was a Guggenheim Research Fellow in tember 1, 1945, and Caroline Boekelheide Endowment 1958, a NATO and Fulbright-Hayes re- in Urbana, Illinois. Fund of the University of Oregon Foun- search grantee in 1972, and a recipient Boekelheide was educated in dation or the Eugene Symphony. of an Australian government grant in a small school in Northville, South 1979 and 1986. From 1964 to 2003, Dakota, from which he graduated at LeRoy H. Klemm Klemm was a Fellow of the American age fifteen. He then attended Dakota LeRoy H. Klemm of Eugene died Academy of Sciences. He also was a Wesleyan University, receiving his A.B., January 21, 2003, of cancer. He member of the editorial advisory board magna cum laude, and Ph.D. from the was eighty-three. The following was of the Journal of Heterocyclic Chem- University of Minnesota. adapted from The Register-Guard istry from 1971 to 2003. He received Boekelheide had a long and distin- obituary and from an article by Aimee the Outstanding Scientist of the Year guished career in chemistry. He taught Rudin in the March 7, 2003, Oregon Award from the Oregon Academy at the University of Illinois, the Uni- Daily Emerald. See also articles in of Sciences in 1999. His interests versity of Rochester (New York), and this newsletter titled “Celebration of included singing, hiking, and working the University of Oregon, from which the Life of LeRoy Klemm” and “New on the family cabin along the McKenzie he retired in 1984. One of his great- Endowment Established in Honor of River. He belonged to the Obsidians, est joys was seeing his graduate and LeRoy Klemm”. —Ed. the Nature Conservancy, and the Sierra postdoctoral students achieve success Club. in their own right. He kept in contact eRoy H. Klemm dedicated his life and his with them over the years, following and Klemm was love to two things—his family and his encouraging them. L born July 31, work, said chemistry Professor Mike He was the recipient of numerous 1919, in Maple Haley. “He had a true love for chem- recognitions and awards. In 1962, he Park, Illinois, to istry,” Haley said. “He loved being in became the first Oregonian elected Henry and Anna the lab, working on a project. After his to the National Academy of Sciences. Reines Klemm. In retirement and the death of his wife, Among the awards he received were a 1941, he received he was even willing to spend his own John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in a bachelor’s de- money to fund his research.” Within 1953, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in gree in chemistry LeRoy Klemm with his the broader field of chemistry, Klemm’s 1958, a Fulbright Distinguished Profes- at the University daughter, Rebecca, at specialty was carbocyclic and hetero- sorship in 1972, and Alexander von the Oregon coast, June of Illinois, gradu- 2002. cyclic compounds. According to Haley, Humboldt Awards in 1974 and 1982. ating summa cum laude. He earned a Klemm was fascinated with finding new He was a Plenary Lecturer, Japanese master’s degree in chemistry in 1943 methods and steps in the production Chemical Society, in 1979 and a and a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1945, of the compounds. Klemm’s work on Distinguished Scholar Designate with both at the University of Michigan. He heterocyclic compounds was espe- the U.S.–China National Academies married Christine Jones in Texas City, cially well known in the pharmaceutical of Science Exchange in 1981. He was Texas, on December 27, 1945. She field. Klemm’s passion for his work was elected to honorary membership in died October 10, 1999. the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Klemm was a postdoctoral fellow CONTINUED ON 15 

14 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON15  CONTINUED FROM 14 studies in biochemistry at the University gram in the National Science Founda- of Oregon Medical School, obtaining tion. He also carried out research in infectious, and he managed to pass a master of arts degree in 1938 and a physical biochemistry at the National his enthusiasm on to his students and doctorate in 1942. Heart Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, colleagues throughout his career as a Dr. Reithel was awarded a Laloir during the 1960-1961 academic year. professor at the university. “Even after Foundation fellowship, which facilitated Frank Reithel was a quintessential his retirement, he was a fixture at the postdoctoral research at the Saint academic, reading much non-scien- annual regional American Chemical Louis University School of Medicine tific literature. He particularly enjoyed Society meetings. I always said that from 1942 to 1944. He subsequently the Oregon outdoor and wilderness when I got to his age I wanted to have served one year as an instructor at the environment, describing his forest as much enthusiasm and energy for my Washington University School of Medi- jaunts half seriously as “...a means of work as he did for his,” Haley said. cine. And in the 1945-1946 academic regaining his sanity.” After retirement Survivors include a daughter, Re- year, he was a research fellow at the near Port Townsend, Washington, he becca Klemm of Washington, D.C.; a California Institute of Technology. participated in the Northwest School of son, Richard of Naperville, Ill.; and two Dr. Reithel joined the University Wooden Boat Building. His first post- grandchildren. A daughter, Ann Klemm, of Oregon Department of Chemistry retirement opus was the construction died in 2002. A memorial service (Cel- in 1946 and progressed through the of a sailboat with a wooden hull, which ebration of Life) was held on March 8, academic ranks to appointment as attracted much admiration, particu- 2003, at 2:00 p.m. in the Knight Library professor in 1956. He served on many larly appreciated when displayed on a Browsing Room. Memorial contribu- college and university faculty commit- picture calendar. He was a contributing tions may be made to the LeRoy H. tees. Perhaps most notable was the senior citizen in the Port Townsend, Klemm Seminar and Undergradu- honors college advisory committee, Washington, community as a member ate Research Fund in Chemistry, the which facilitated establishment of one of the board of trustees of the Jefferson Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club, of the first such innovative institutions County Library; as a folk dancer, hiker, the Obsidians, or the Oregon Health in the United States. and small boat rower; and through his Sciences University. According to Emeritus University participation with the Victorian Cham- President Robert Clark, then dean of ber Singers. Francis J. Reithel the College of Liberal Arts, Dr. Reithel Paraphrasing U.S. Attorney General A memorial to Francis J. Reithel with was one of the prominent visionary Robert Kennedy, the quality of life is photos was published in the 2003 faculty leaders who advocated hiring more important than is longevity. Dr. edition of the chemistry newsletter. outstanding scientists to strengthen Reithel was twice graced, first with The following memorial was written by University of Oregon graduate pro- quality, and second by surpassing Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Ray grams. A number of these prominent biblical three score and ten productive Wolfe, a contemporary of Frank Rei- scholars became members of the Na- years. His legacy to the university and thel. It contains sufficient new insights tional Academy of Science. Dr. Reithel his family is a significant accolade to into the life and contributions of Frank served enthusiastically and diligently as his creative and meaningful life. that we are publishing it here. —Ed. chemistry department chairman from 1956 to 1963 while teaching biochem- Dick Wielesek rancis (Frank) istry and directing his research. He Dick Wielesek died May 3, 2003, of FJ. Reithel was was particularly attracted to physical cancer at age sixty-one. Dick will be born in Portland, biochemistry in his studies of various remembered by colleagues both as a Oregon, on April enzymes. His many graduate students graduate student of Tom Koenig and 6, 1914. He and postdoctoral colleagues now for his many years of service in running passed away amplify his academic influence country the mass spectroscopy and analytical on December wide. Among his publications is a bio- laboratory facilities in the chemistry 2, 2001, in Port chemistry textbook, the first to portray department, as well as for his chemi- Townsend, Wash- all of the atoms in three dimensional cal demonstrations. This memorial ington, and his The wooden sailboat structural models of complex biochemi- was adapted from the Register-Guard “Bryony” that Frank cal molecules. obituary. —Ed. ashes were scat- Reithel built, along with tered on nearby other students, at the He surprised chemistry department Marrelstone Is- Wooden Boat School colleagues when he circulated a chem- ick in Port Townsend, land, Washington. Washington, after his istry department memo advocating DWielesek He is survived by retirement from the UO. the importance of regular exercise to is survived by Photo taken in the late health. He was a skilled court handball his mother his wife Shirley 1990s. Although difficult and daughter to see in this photo, Frank player who defeated opponents half his Anna Wiele- Nancy Elferts of is standing toward the age when he was in his early 80s. sek; his wife back and Shirley is sitting Vancouver, B.C. in front of the cabin. His respected administrative com- Sue Wiele- petence led to his appointment in the sek; his sister After obtaining Dick Wielesek with his wife his bachelor of arts degree from Reed 1959-1960 academic year as program Sue, 2002. College in 1936, he pursued graduate director of the Molecular Biology Pro- CONTINUED ON 16  14 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON15 papers with my name on them. Instead, Remembering LeRoy Klemm Dr. Klemm put my name on ten of his papers and actually apologized to me Music; words read by LeRoy’s daughter, Rebecca years after my graduation for no longer from former stu- Klemm. Some will make you think and including me on subsequent thienopyri- dents, friends, and some will make you laugh. —Ed. dine publications. In my own career with colleagues; and • “As a research supervisor, Dr. Texaco Chemical Co. and Huntsman family members Klemm was always there to give advice Corp. as a research supervisor and then warmly filled the but gave me the freedom to go my manager, I have tried to emulate his ex- afternoon on own way. He was enthusiastic when ample since I can think of none better…I March 8, 2003, at results took us in new directions and must admit, in closing, of one trait of Dr. the celebration of understanding when Mother Nature Klemm that I did not exactly appreciate the life of LeRoy LeRoy Klemm in did not cooperate. He was extremely his laboratory after at the time—his strict sense of fairness. H. Klemm (July retirement, 378 Onyx generous in all ways—not only in using During my dreaded preliminary orals, I 31, 1919–January Bridge. grant money to benefit his students, but was disconcerted to find that my own 21, 2003). The following are excerpts, also in sharing authorial credit. Rightly adviser was the one who led the charge with minor editing, of what some of his speaking, my graduate work should in grilling me. Afterwards, I asked him former students had to say in letters have resulted in, at most, two scientific why he was rough on me. He replied that he thought the other committee mem- bers were being too lenient with me, and In Memoriam he knew that I could handle it. His faith in  CONTINUED FROM 16 time with his four step-grandchildren me may have been a little misplaced, but Destin, Jordan, Sam, and Isabell, and his heart was always in the right place. and brother-in-law Anita and John extended family members Lohring The university will be a poorer place Milosovic of Tinley Park, Illinois; neph- Miller, Yayoe Kuramitsu, and Hannijetta without him and his wonderful example.” ews Mike and John and their wives, Cortez. —David McCoy, Ph.D. 1967 Deborah and Donna; and their children An unassuming man, he was vain • “Dr. Klemm was an excellent Derek, Krysta, and Kenny. only about his cooking. He received teacher. I attended his Advanced Or- Dick was raised in an Eastern Eu- the Mollie J. Award for Best Dutch ganic Chemistry course for two quarters ropean neighborhood in Chicago, to Oven Entrée and the Best After-School and was impressed by his logic and which his grandfather came from Rus- Leftovers award (both Roosevelt and patience. I still keep lecture notes he sia in 1908. His grandfather planned to South Eugene Divisions). He tied a fine gave me fifteen years ago. Without so- send money to bring his wife of three Caddis Fly and was a good fisherman, phisticated computer programs to draw years and their son to America. The but a poor dog trainer. His black lab chemical structures at that time, one Russian Revolution and its after-math Sobaka was generally reputed to be can imagine how much effort he put into kept them separated for twenty-two the worst dog in Eugene. preparing these notes and how devoted years, at which time Dick’s grand- A memorial service was held at 3:00 he was to the course he loved.” —Jun mother also came to Chicago. Like p.m. on May 10, 2003, at Musgroves, Wang, Gaithersburg, Maryland many immigrants, they thought educa- and a traditional Panahida service • “It is with the fondest and most tion was important, and both Dick and was held Memorial Day weekend respectful memories that I join with you his sister attended college and did post at the Archangel Michael Orthodox in remembering the life of my Ph.D. graduate work. Dick received his Ph.D. Church in Burbank, Illinois. For more adviser and mentor, LeRoy Klemm. Not in chemistry from the UO in 1968. details, please visit the family website only did he have a direct impact on He was a Fulbright Scholar, teach- at www.adamandjamie.com. In lieu of my life at the University of Oregon, but ing in Poland from 1970 to 1972 dur- flowers, the family requests donations also in the years that followed. My wife ing the Cold War. The KGB suspected to the charity of choice. Diane and I always looked forward to his him of being a spy, and he learned the Christmas letter and to an update on his trick of keeping the radio on at all times Truman Teeter work and the lives of his and Christine’s to frustrate the bugs in his rooms. He ruman Teeter died September 29, family. They regularly included graduate returned to the University of Oregon, T2001, at age eighty-two. He grad- students, postdocs, and their spouses where he was a chemist from 1973 uated from Oregon State College with in their family events. They cherished through his retirement in 2000. a B.S. in 1942. He earned M.S. (1949) not only their own family, but also He married Sue Miller in 1992. He and Ph.D. (1954) degrees in chemistry understood the importance of family in was devoted to his four stepchildren from the University of Oregon. After the lives of their graduate students as and their families, which include Adam one year of teaching at Lewis and Clark well…A true story that I will not forget: Miller and his wife, Jamie Mellor; Jen- College, he joined the Pacific University It was passed down to me by fellow nifer Miller; Seraph and Robbie Cortez; faculty in 1964 where he taught until graduate students that LeRoy expected and Sadie Miller, all of the Eugene- retiring in 1982. His wife, Wilberta his understudies to spend at least eight Springfield area, as well as their fami- (Willi) continues to live in Forest Grove. lies and friends. He enjoyed spending —Bill Jordan. CONTINUED ON 17  16 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON17  CONTINUED FROM 16 and kindness in a friendly, collab- hours on weekdays plus Saturday morn- orative way. He ings in the lab and that if you did that he shared without would let you do your work without fur- restraint, shoulder- ther ado. One Saturday morning I was ing research work sitting at my desk studying French. I had loads, leading enrolled in a summer class to try to learn by example and enough French to pass the required demonstration, written exam. Wouldn’t you know it that and with ideas LeRoy just happened to walk in and of and imagination course he asked me what I was doing for interpreting and said that he expected me to be experiments. I think working at the bench on his time. I had many of us needed five reactions going at the time, includ- his idea of toler- ing one in the Hydrogenation Lab, and I able work loads to am not sure I had any more equipment succeed.” —Bill LeRoy Klemm enjoying a swing in Australia. to work with or ideas to work on at the Hodes, Bridgewa- moment. Well, for once, I counted to ten ter, New Jersey deneaminoöxy) propionic acid,” Tetra- and listened as I was reprimanded. After • “His lectures in organic chemistry hedron (1964) 20, 1667-1673….He is stewing for a half hour or so, I walked had superb presentation, never equaled the one faculty member at the University gingerly to his office and began to in the following years I attended the of Oregon who took the time to direct explain my hurt and the work in progress university. I enjoyed his course so much me, and I cannot express with words the and offered to show him where the work that I decided to change my major from gratitude I have for the way he instilled was set up around the labs. He said that premed to chemistry.” —Gary Miller, the confidence in me to become the wasn’t necessary, that he was sorry that 1959-60 person that I am today. As I teach, I find he had said what he said and that all • “It’s very hard for me to eulogize myself emulating him in many ways. I was well—carry on! I knew he was truly about a person who was so important hope I can be as important to some of sorry when later he brought me lunch in my life because it is hard to express my students as he was to me.” —Wayne from McDonalds and said it was on him. in words what his guidance meant to M. Stalick What could have been a better gift for me as a lowly undergraduate student • “LeRoy was to me a prime example a starving graduate student. P.S. These in 1963. It was a time when I had been of a truly great university professor. He were the only strained words we had in skipping from one major to the next, was a great researcher, but above all the nearly three years that I spent under when I took organic chemistry and he was a teacher. When I left Oregon his tutelage. That is pretty amazing, but found a subject that held some interest to work in the research labs of a large it says who LeRoy was as a person.” for me. During the school year I was oil company alongside men and women With fondest memories, —Wayne made aware of Oregon’s NSF-URP from other great universities of the Johnson, 1969 program. I first talked with LeRoy at that country, I was gratified to find that my • “We former students know him to time trying to decide if I should apply preparation by your father was equal be a research leader who shared his and also trying to decide whom I could and in most cases far superior to my qualities of knowledge, techniques, do research with. Of course, Dr. Klemm contemporaries. Finally, your father began talking always encouraged his students to of the research reach their potential. I’ll always remem- projects he ber a story he told me about finishing had available university and going to work in Texas in and I became an assignment he did not particularly hooked on his enjoy—but he told me in great sincerity research ideas. that he came to enjoy the challenge. In I became one of fact he told me on several occasions his NSF-URPers that he had never had a job that, after as I remember getting into, he had not come to enjoy. him calling us. Truly, LeRoy was a wonderful example It led to many for me.” —Dave Reed interesting times • “LeRoy was a friend of very long in the lab, lots of standing; we were graduate students library searches, together. He was steady, cheerful, and to my first never frivolous or boisterous, but a publication, warm friend. The mention of his love “Transformations LeRoy Klemm, Joyce Fry, and Christine Klemm (right) at the Klemm’s cabin on of 2-(isopropyli-  the McKenzie River, 1997. Joyce Fry was a neighbor. CONTINUED ON 18 16 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON17 Rembering LeRoy Klemm prostitute. We are still married.” —Joan Karaboyas  CONTINUED FROM 17 • “You were mentioning stories—one of singing (in the I have enjoyed over the years was Le- obituary) brought Roy’s ability to sleep anywhere, anytime back memories he felt the need. I had a good view of of sixty years ago, your backyard when we lived across the when he would alley. I looked out my kitchen window sing quietly while one time, and LeRoy was stretched out doing laboratory on the picnic table oblivious of the yard Rebecca and LeRoy Klemm, cheery after a filling work—his favorite full of children and the white rabbit run- Thanksgiving dinner, November 2002. began, “I was born ning around his sleeping spot.” —Pau- LeRoy Henry Klemm, on a farm down line and Kenny 1957. in Tara.” —Peter • “I took organic chemistry in my New Endowment Smith, Ann Arbor, Michigan junior year from Dr. Klemm. I was so Honors LeRoy Klemm • “I have heard LeRoy described impressed by Dr. Klemm’s excellence hanks to the generosity of as the kind of professor that everyone of presentation in lectures and manage- TRebecca Klemm, LeRoy Klemm’s wants. Someone whose door is always ment of the teaching laboratory that I daughter, the department now has a open and who is willing to spend time decided to change my major to chem- new endowment to support undergrad- listening to students. I remember LeRoy istry. Dr. Klemm had become the pivotal uate research and seminars in organic as a quiet and pensive man—a man mentor in my school career, and I have and inorganic chemistry: The LeRoy H. who listened. In addition to listening to been very thankful for the privilege of at- Klemm Seminar and Undergraduate family, students, and friends, he also tending his class. We have kept in touch Research Fund in Chemistry. It was liked listening to nature. He enjoyed the over the years, especially so in the last established on December 20, 2002, outdoors, hiking, and working in the gar- five years. Last summer my wife Mar- and LeRoy learned about this endow- den. He was very proud of his garden garet and I were in the Eugene area, so ment before his death. The endowment and enjoyed giving tours, showing off I called to see if we may come by and reads: “The Fund celebrates the life different plants, the vegetable garden pay a visit. Dr. Klemm warmly invited us and achievements of LeRoy H. Klemm, plot, and the compost bin. I hope all of to do so, and we had a delightful visit, who made pioneering discoveries his spring bulbs have emerged and are my wife commenting afterwards how in chromatography and heterocycle blooming for this celebration of his life. I she could understand how I held this synthesis during his 50+ year career know that all of us have bloomed a little man in such high esteem. I had met his as an organic chemist at the Univer- for knowing him.” —Jennifer McNeil wife approximately two years previously sity of Oregon. The purpose of the • “I would like to share an incident while working in the Eugene area and fund is to provide an annual source of with you: George grew up in Greece found her to also be a very gracious and income 1) to bring individuals to the and had only recently moved to the Unit- pleasant person. Sadly, she had passed Department who are recognized for ed States. We were married in Duluth, away and my wife and I expressed our their outstanding accomplishments in Minnesota, before moving to Eugene, condolences to Dr. Klemm, who then organic chemistry or in its applications Oregon, in 1959. George had been ac- told us they had been married fifty-four to related fields. Uses of the funds cepted in the graduate student Organic years and that still was not long enough. shall include honoraria, a reception Chemistry Department. Your mom and My wife and I felt this was a wonderful and travel and lodging expenses of dad welcomed us so warmly. George tribute to her. Dr. Klemm went on to tell the seminar speaker. 2) to acknowl- started classes and I worked as a nurse us that he was then eighty-two years old edge student achievement through the at the Eugene Clinic. We lived in the and retired, but still had an office and LeRoy H. Klemm Award for Excellence student housing complex at Skinner’s a small laboratory facility. Dr. Klemm, I in Undergraduate Chemical Research, Butte. George wanted to invite your thank you for giving me both encourage- given annually to an undergraduate parents for dinner. (Umm, sure. We had ment and motivation in the work I have conducting research with a faculty a two-burner hot plate, a card table with done over the years. When I retire, my member in the Organic/Inorganic Divi- four chairs…you get the picture.) Your wife and I plan to move to LaGrande, sion of the Chemistry Department. parents were so gracious. Our portable Oregon. Eastern Oregon University is For this, 10% of the Fund income will record player enhanced the atmosphere located there, and like you, I will proba- be used to make an award.” The first as we were eating when the Greek bly continue to study and learn still more LeRoy H. Klemm Award for Excellence song “Never on Sunday” burst forth. in the field of my delight—CHEMISTRY. in Undergraduate Chemical Research Dr. Klemm inquired, “What is that?” I Like you, I will seek to encourage young was made to Micah Jeffery Bodner at answered, “Oh, it’s the Greek national people to pursue careers in the many the June 14, 2003, Chemistry Depart- anthem!” Dr. and Mrs. Klemm set down paths open to them and be eager to ap- ment Commencement Ceremony. The their forks and stood up in attention. plaud their success. You have done so first Klemm Lecturer is Professor E. C. We followed suit. George almost had a for me. How could I not wish to do the Taylor of Princeton University. heart attack…the song is about a Greek same?” —Gary R. Miller 18 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON19 1960s Reflections Revisited Andy Fedoruk’s “60s Reflec- global perspective, which we need now tions” in the 1998 UO Chemistry more than ever. News regarding the organic chem- Tadashi Miyasaka was a very polite istry group between 1962 and person. My wife Margie and I invited him 1966 brought back many treasured for dinner at our apartment at West- memories. Here are some that have moreland one evening. After dinner, stayed with me since I graduated from he held our rapt attention by display- the University of Oregon in 1965. Bill ing his origami skills, producing two Nolan, M.A. 1965. Bill Nolan lives in beautiful swans from paper by making Detroit, Michigan, and can be reached a series of precise folds. As a final step, at [email protected] —Ed. he blew a puff of air into each swan to make it three-dimensional. After almost remember most of the individuals who forty years, we still have the two paper I were doing organic research at the swans and hang them on our tree each time. Clay Smith, Gordon Gribble, Bob Christmas. Iwamoto, Fred Lee, and I worked in the Sometime later, Tadashi invited us end lab on the third floor of the science to come to his apartment for a dinner building, now called Onyx Bridge. Two that he had prepared. We were puzzled postdoctoral students, Russell Molyneux when he served us a clear soup that from England and Shin-ichiro Sakai had an insect at the bottom of each from Japan, also worked in that lab. Vic bowl. As I recall, they had antennae Bill Nolan proudly displaying the beautiful University of Oregon seal, “Mens Agitat Molem” Sniekus, Ralph Barnhard, Gary Riddle, and resembled silverfish. Margie and I (Minds Move Matter) on his new shirt, 1999. Frank Meneghini, Jim Nottke, and Joe looked at each other anxiously, wonder- Type this Latin phrase into your favorite web Philips, a postdoctoral student from ing whether we should eat everything browser, and you will see several variations of the translation including “Minds Move Mass,” “Mind Australia, worked in adjacent labs. Other in the soup. We definitely did not want over Matter,” “Minds Move Mountains,” and “The members of the organic group worked to offend Tadashi. So, when he went to Spirit Dominates.” Jokesters have added “Men Grind Their Teeth” and “Men Molest Moles.” downstairs in the older, attached sci- the kitchen to get the main course, we ence building. As I recall, Tadashi Miya- both worked up our courage, quickly ate watched the kids, Shin-ichiro and I went saka, a postdoctoral student from Japan, them, and had a new culinary experi- downtown to inspect a popular watering worked there along with Charlie Klop- ence. I can still remember the taste, like hole called The Silver Dollar Bar. Over fenstein, Dennis Taylor, David McCoy, cod liver oil. two thousand inlaid silver dollars were Maury Schwartz, and Chet Ramey. Dave A once-in-a-lifetime experience with visible along the serpentine-like bar top. Booth and Andy Fedoruk also worked Shin-ichiro Sakai stands out in my mem- Shin-ichiro was absolutely spellbound there and would periodically come ory. Shin-ichiro wanted badly to get his as he studied intensely the display of upstairs to make sure that we were all Oregon driver’s license. One afternoon, silver dollars. As we came out of the bar behaving ourselves. I agreed to accompany him while he he immediately said, “I have an idea. We Interacting with and learning from practiced—perhaps “experimented” is a go back to the motel and get your wife postdoctoral students from different better word—on the streets of Eugene. while my wife stays and watches the countries were especially enriching for That was one of my first white knuckle kids; then we go back to the bar. After me when I was a student at the Univer- experiences. My pulse and skin color a while we go back to the motel and sity of Oregon. There was great excite- returned to normal that evening after get my wife while your wife stays and ment in the lab when Joe Philips suc- having one or two beers. watches the kids; then we go back to ceeded in the final step in the synthesis By the next summer Shin-ichiro’s the bar.” He quickly emphasized, “Each of the unusual aromatic compound driving had improved considerably. He time I go!” trans-15, 16-Dimethyldihydropyrene. wanted to see more of the West, so our Another vivid memory is the devas- I remember clearly Dr. Boekelheide’s two families, driving in separate cars, tating Columbus Day storm in 1962, elation the morning he learned the good traveled to Grand Teton and Yellow- tearing through Eugene and doing great news that the final step in the synthesis stone National Parks. Driving over Teton damage to the campus as it toppled had been successful. Pass, Wyoming, elevation 8,400 feet, many huge Douglas firs. At our apart- One day I lent Joe a new world atlas we came upon thousands of wildflow- ment at Westmoreland, we watched that, at the time, I thought was quite ers. The magnificent array of colors as gale force winds ripped assorted good. Joe took it home and reviewed it. fascinated Shin-ichiro, and we stopped undergarments from clotheslines. They The next day he pointed out to me that to take close-up pictures of flowers that sailed over rooftops into the dark, omi- it seemed to focus mostly on the United contained natural products related to nous clouds. I can still see the large bay States and not all that much on the rest his research interests. When we got to window in our apartment flexing in and of the world. His critical remarks opened Jackson, Wyoming, we got our families my eyes to the importance of having a settled in at the motel. While our wives CONTINUED ON 20 

18 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON19 Reflections Revisited Staff News  CONTINUED FROM 19 You may have engaged in surface analysis for bio- noticed a familiar medical researchers. CAMCOR stands new face welcom- for Center for Advanced Material ing visitors to the Characterization in Oregon. As direc- front office of the tor, Golledge will coordinate the usage Department of of our specialized instrumentation for Chemistry. That any researchers who could benefit smiling, friendly from surface analysis but might not new person is know what techniques we have avail- Carol Gard, who able at the university. The overriding was recently hired on as the depart- vision is to centralize facilities so that ment’s new receptionist. She comes to instrumentation can be used effectively us from Page Elementary in Springfield, by all researchers. Further, the UO is Oregon, where she was the assistant set to receive a Time of Flight SIMS, administrative secretary. Says she, “I which will be online and available by The new science building (now called Onyx did a little bit of everything there, and March of 2004. This shortcut of a name Bridge) as it looked to a chemistry graduate it sounds like I’ll be doing a little bit of means Secondary Ion Mass Spectrom- student in the early 1960s. The sky was overcast so the background is a uniform gray. Note the everything here.” Welcome Carol! eter, and the instrument will provide a parked cars on the right (east side). The parking detailed analysis of the molecular or lot is where Klamath hall is today. Klamath hall was built in 1966. Stephen atomic species present at a surface. It out like a pulsing heart but somehow Golledge is the will have state-of-the-art depth profiling remaining in place. new director of capability. With Golledge at the helm, It is impossible to forget Oregon’s our CAMCOR our instrumentation center is set to take natural beauty and recreational oppor- Surface Analytical our research to new heights. tunities. The Three Sisters were vis- Facility. He comes ible seventy miles away on clear days. to Eugene by way Deborah McMillen, a familiar Beautiful springs, summers, and falls of the University face in the department and Institute of made the many months of winter rain all of Washington’s Molecular Biology, left the UO in 2003. worth it. Of course, salmon fishing at the NESAC/BIO coast was an experience that I will never instrumentation center, where he was CONTINUED ON 21  forget. One day Frank, Gordon, Bob, and I went there on such an expedition. I can still see Bob’s face lighting up as he described the excitement of having a Call for Remembrances and Stories “big one” on his line. During my teaching career I became about Virgil Boekelheide aware of how important some of my s this newsletter was going to professors were as role models. Dr. press, word came that Virgil Boekelheide, my research mentor at the A Boekelheide died quietly on Sep- University of Oregon, was one of those tember 24, 2003. Virgil was a leader important people in my life. He loved in the Department of Chemistry and organic chemistry and was enthusiastic had a positive impact on many lives. about teaching it. As one of his stu- We hope to publish a collection dents, I remember him being approach- of remembrances from his former able, helpful, patient, and understanding. students, colleagues, and friends in He truly enjoyed interacting and having the next newsletter. It is up to you fun with students. Realizing that the per- to make this happen. If you have an sonal traits he exemplified were crucial interesting, amusing, or insightful to success in teaching, I cultivated a story about him, please e-mail it to similar teaching style. Carol Gard at [email protected] The 1960s was a great time to be a or mail it to the Department of graduate student in organic chemistry Chemistry. Thank you. Together we at the University of Oregon. I will always can share memories and learn more be thankful for the many unforgettable about Virgil. —Ed. experiences I had there and for having had the opportunity to meet so many Virgil Boekelheide, 1991 special people.

20 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON21  CONTINUED FROM 20 Alumni News from All Over McMillen was a research assistant in Hayes Griffith’s group from 1975 to 1930s leader, Agricultural Research Service, 1985. She returned to the Institute of Charles Jacobs, Class of 1934, USDA, Western Regional Research Molecular Biology in 1987 and became has established the first endowed peer Center, Albany, California. His projects lab manager of the Biotechnology tutor (peer learning assistant) in the de- include the chemistry of poisonous Laboratory and, most recently, acting partment to assist students in the large plants, fungal toxins, grapevine disease, director of the Genomics and Pro- introductory general and introductory and fungal metabolites. He is also as- teomics Facility. McMillen is enjoying chemistry classes (see separate story). sociate editor of the ACS Journal of visiting family and friends in places like He also participated in the June 2003 Agricultural Food Chemistry. Wyoming, Illinois, Michigan, and Cali- UO Chemistry Commencement. Tim Thomas, Ph.D. 1964, is a professor of chemistry at the University fornia, as well as close friends in Italy. 1940s She is studying mass spectrometry and of Missouri at Kansas City. He’s been Keith Claycomb, B.S. 1947, M.S. there since 1966 with the exception its application to proteomics as she 1948, Ph.D. 1951, was named profes- considers her next career move. of two research leaves to work at the sor emeritus in 1985 after thirty-four Air Force Geophysics Lab in Bed- years at the OHSU Dental School in Tim Weakly ford, Massachusetts. Thomas teaches Portland, Oregon. Claycomb enrolled general chemistry and undergradu- retires in 2003. at the UO in the fall of 1940 to get Weakly initially ate physical chemistry lab every year the two years required to enter the plus graduate level physical chemistry came to us on a Air Corps pilot training program. He year’s leave from including chemical kinetics, photo- was also in ROTC and was called to chemistry, and mass spectroscopy. Dundee Univer- active duty in August 1943 to enter sity in Scotland Thomas’s research areas involve pho- officer training. At the end of WWII, he tochemistry, kinetics, and materials in 1987. With returned to the campus and completed his trademark science, including ion photodisso- work for his degrees. ciation spectroscopy. laconic humor, he says, “Naturally, the Marion Hill, B.A. 1948, M.A. 1950, rain reminded me of Scotland, so I had Bill Nolan, M.A. 1965 with Virgil was inducted into the SRI International Boekelheide, retired in 2001 from to stay.” Originally, Weakly signed on Alumni Association’s Hall of Fame. The to do crystal structure analysis using Oakland Community College, Water- award is in recognition of his contri- ford, Michigan, after thirty-four years of an x-ray defractometer. He is currently butions to SRI’s success in organic doing service work for organic research teaching general, organic, environmen- chemistry research and for found- tal, and biochemistry. Nolan wrote the groups at the University of Oregon as ing the Physical Sciences Chemistry well as contract work for several clients “Reflections” section of this newsletter. Laboratory. The Laboratory grew from a Many experiences described in it were outside of the UO and overseas. While small group to more than 100 chem- Weakly is sorry to leave his friends and recalled while drinking coffee from a ists, widely respected in the scientific cup with the Mens Agitat Molem seal colleagues stateside, he has much to community, doing research in most of look forward to on the other side of the on it. He believes that the decision of the sub-disciplines of chemistry. He the university to replace the elegant pond. Reveals Weakly, “It’s been a very served as its director for more than good sixteen years, but we have ties seal with a simple, empty “O” is a big seventeen years before retiring and mistake. However, he is confident that on the other side. We have a house in leaving a legacy represented by several Dundee. We have a granddaughter in the blunder will increase the value of laboratories in operation today. Prior to his cup and that one day it will become Ireland, so there’s good reason to go his time at SRI, formerly known as the back.” Weakly will be missed, but we a priceless antique. Stanford Research Institute, Hill had a Victor Snieckus, Ph.D. 1965 with wish him the best as he begins this distinguished career at the U.S. Navy’s new adventure. Virgil Boekelheide, inaugural appointee Naval Ordnance Laboratory in research to the Bader Chair of Organic Chemis- on energetic fluorine and nitro com- And . . . Larry Scatena has been try, Queen University, has been award- pounds for explosives and propellants. ed the Order of Grand Duke Gedi- hired as director of our Laser Lab. Lab He received many Navy awards and Preparator Mary Dricken has taken minas by Lithuanian President Valdas honors that included an unusual cash Adamkus. Snieckus has been active a maternity leave following the birth of award for his contribution to improving her daughter Kate Alice Siegfried, born in bringing appreciation for chemical the performance of the Polaris missile. research to the Baltic States, includ- July 18, 2003. Dave Anderson (UO In 1996 Hill received the University of Ph.D. 1980) has been hired as the new ing organizing a conference, Balticum Oregon Chemistry Department’s Alum- Organicum Syntheticum. (Reprinted proteomics director by the Institute of ni Achievement Award. Molecular Biology from the Spring 2003 issue, Oregon —Vanessa Salvia 1960s Quarterly) Russell J. Molyneux, a postdoc- Dennis Clark, B.A. 1966, received toral fellow with Virgil Boekelheide from his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1963 to 1965, is currently a project CONTINUED ON 22 

20 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON21 and instruction sections of general and Alumni News organic chemistry at Loyola Univer- sity of Chicago and the University of  CONTINUED FROM 21 Exchange by RecA Protein Suggests a Delaware. Thermodynamic Basis of Homologous Pamela Bjorkman, B.A. 1978 who 1971. Clark did his undergraduate Recombination.” Johnson is a research did her undergraduate research with work with John Keana, who encour- scientist at the Institute de Pharma- Hayes Griffith, is a professor in the Di- aged him to apply to Stanford. After cologie et de Biologie Structurale, vision of Biology, California Institute of completing his Ph.D., Clark worked at Toulouse Cedex, France. Technology. Bjorkman is the recipient Stanford Medical Center and Stanford Ronald Stenkamp, B.A. 1970, is of the 2003 UO Alumni Achievement Hospital until 1991. In 1986 he helped presently a professor with the Depart- Award in Chemistry. start the company Analytical Solu- ment of Biological Structure, University tions and went to work there full time of Washington, Seattle, having been 1980s in 1991. Analytical Solutions was an there since 2002. Previously, Sten- Dave Johnson, Ph.D. 1980 with analytical chemistry lab doing contract kamp held positions as associate and Rick Dahlquist, recently returned to work for the pharmaceutical indus- adjunct professor in the Departments the university to accept the position of try. In 1998 they sold the business of Biochemistry, Chemistry and Bio- director of the Genomics/Proteomics to MDS Pharma Services. Clark later logical Structure. He has been at the Facility in the Institute of Molecular retired from MDS in 2002. He now University of Washington since 1987. Biology. enjoys spending time with his three James Hofrichter, Ph.D. 1972 Lars Svanevik, Ph.D. 1980 (Col- granddaughters and restoring a 1965 with John Schellman, is section chief, lege of Education), graduated from the Sunbeam Tiger. Laser Biophysics & Spectroscopy Sec- University of San Francisco in 1962 Bruce J. Chasen, M.A. 1969 and tion, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, with a B.A. and in 1964 with an M.S. J.D. from Boston College Law School, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, He is retired from full-time teaching has written an article for this newsletter Bethesda, Maryland. He recently col- at Oregon Institute of Technology in on career opportunities for chemists in laborated with Hong Qian and Robert Klamath Falls, Oregon, a faculty ap- patent law. He is a member of the law L. Baldwin in editing a Festschrift in pointment he held for thirty-one years. firm of Casesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Co- honor of John Schellman. (See article Svanevik continues to teach on a hen & Pokotilow. The firm specializes describing the Festschrift in this news- part-time basis at Oregon Institute of in all aspects of intellectual property letter.) Technology and during the summer in law and has expertise in a variety of Stephen C. Erfurth, Ph.D. 1974 the UO Department of Chemistry. His technical areas. Chasen is willing to with Warner Peticolas, is the director particular teaching interests are instru- answer questions of UO chemistry stu- for science and technology, Oregon mental analysis and fuel cell chemistry. dents considering this field. His e-mail Medical Laboratories, Eugene, Oregon. (See also Faculty News.) address is on the company website: His major responsibilities include the Rama Viswanathan, Ph.D. 1980, www.crbcp.com research and development of molecular has been at Beloit College since 1983 Susan Stepenske Magic, B.S. diagnostic tests used for the detection and became professor of chemistry and 1969, M.A. 1970, who did her re- of genetic and infectious diseases and computer education at Beloit College search projects with Hayes Griffith other chemical and toxicological tests in 1996. He teaches thermodynam- and Peter von Hippel, has retired as used for the diagnosis and treatment ics and kinetics, quantum chemistry, a biochemist from Abbott Laborato- of human disease. Erfurth is also a introduction to computing, connecting ries, Diagnostics Division. She now is Diplomate, American Board of Clinical instruments to computers, computer a clinical research consultant, having Chemistry in both clinical chemistry organization, and computer networks. assignments with Gen-Probe and Pro- and toxicological chemistry. He has Neal C. Birnberg, Ph.D. 1981, is metheus Labs in San Diego, California, been married to Elizabeth for thirty-one the president and CEO of Mercury Ther- sponsored by former UO graduate Dr. years, and they have four children, ages apeutics in Woburn, Massachusetts. Katie Smith. Magic and her husband fourteen to twenty-seven years. Peter Flynn, B.S. 1983, has been Mike have two sons. Doug, 30, lives in Jerry Andrews, Ph.D. 1975 with an assistant professor at the University Denver, and Scott, 24, graduated from John Baldwin, is now a senior research of Utah since August 2002. the UO with a B.A. in architecture in associate, DuPont Experimental Sta- John Kauffman, B.S. 1983, con- December 2002 and is working in San tion, Wilmington, Delaware. Andrews ducted his postdoctoral research at Diego. worked with Phil Eaton at the University the University of Oregon in the areas of Chicago as a postdoctoral fellow of analytical and physical chemistry, 1970s before joining DuPont in 1978. chemistry of supercritical fluids, chemi- Neil Johnson, B.A.1970, did his Ursula Andrews, Ph.D. 1976 with cal dynamics, and picosecond laser undergraduate research with Hayes Robert S. Cooke and John Baldwin, is fluorescence. He is currently a research Griffith and has been a visiting scientist a chemistry instructor at Ursuline Acad- professor at the University of Missouri- with Peter von Hippel. Johnson gave emy in Wilmington, Delaware. While Columbia. a seminar at the UO this past Janu- the Andrews’ children were very young, ary titled “Free Energy of DNA Strand Andrews taught a few lab, recitation, CONTINUED ON 23 

22 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON23  CONTINUED FROM 22 Stacey Fiddler, M.S. 1992, is an Weintraub was an international leader instructor in chemistry and a chemistry in the field of molecular biology. David C. O’Kelley, B.S. 1983, lab director at Lewis and Clark College, Greg Baxley, Ph.D. 1997 with Da- did research with Hayes Griffith and Portland, Oregon. vid Tyler, and Lara Baxley, Ph.D. 1999 currently is the manager of Applica- Tun Liu, a postdoctoral fellow with with Diane Hawley, live in Bakersfield, tions Program Sabre in Scottsdale, Hayes Griffith from 1994 to 1997, is California, with their children Aleta and Arizona. O’Kelley says that although he now a senior scientist at Centocor, Sander. Five-year-old Aleta just started hasn’t done anything directly with his a Johnson and Johnson Company in kindergarten and amazes her teachers biochemistry degree, he finds that the Raritan, New Jersey. with facts about animals. Two-year-old way he learned to address problems Lynnette C. Garner, M.S. 1994, Sander loves mud. The entire family and solve them in the sciences made Ph.D. 1997, worked with Ken Doxsee enjoys trips to zoos and aquariums. The computer science very easy and has while at the UO, followed by a one-year Baxleys are both professors of chem- continued to benefit him in his profes- postdoc with Dr. G. R. Pettit at the istry at Bakersfield College, where they sional career of software development. Cancer Research Institute at Arizona teach general physical science and Craig P. Hunter, B.S. 1984, Ph.D. State University. Garner has been back first-year chemistry. They are involved 1990 from the University of Colorado, in Oregon since 1998 and in Portland in K-12 science outreach and improved is a professor of Molecular and Cellu- working at Schrodinger as a customer classroom assessment. lar Biology, Harvard University, Cam- support scientist since 2000. Perry E. Francis, Jr., M.S. 1997, is bridge, Massachusetts. Hunter worked Heather Blanchette, M.S. 1994, the senior QA scientist for Schrodinger with Tom Stevens for two years, begin- Ph.D. 1999 with Mike Haley and Bruce in Portland, Oregon. He has been with ning the year Stevens arrived at the Branchaud, did her postdoc at Organix Schrodinger for three and a half years University of Oregon. Hunter presented in Woburn, Massachusetts, and has and is responsible for quality assurance a seminar at the IMB in Eugene in April since worked at Shionogi BioResearch for Glide as well as other products. 2003, reporting his current work inves- (now Synta Pharmaceuticals) in Lex- Francis also works with UO alumni tigating intercellular transport of RNA. ington, Massachusetts. For more than Lynnette (Garner) Sander and Dale Dan Sykes, B.S. 1985, Ph.D. a year, Blanchette has been employed Braden at Schrodinger. 1990 from the University of Alberta, is at Praecis Pharmaceuticals in Waltham, Dewaine Jackson, Ph.D. 1997 currently a lecturer and the director of Massachusetts, as a pharmacokineti- with Tom Stevens, is an assistant pro- Analytical and Physical Instructional cist, specializing in pharmacokinetics, fessor of chemistry at Stetson Univer- Laboratories at Penn State University, pharmacodynamics, and drug metabo- sity in Deland, Florida. University Park, Pennsylvania. lism. Bridgette Barron, B.A. 1998, Peter C. Rasco, B.S. 1986, M.B.A. Wai L. Lau, B.S. 1995, who did spent two years as a graduate student 1993 from Northwestern University, is undergraduate research with Hayes with Jim Hutchison building multi-amide the general manager, Northern Cali- Griffith, received his Ph.D. in biochem- containing self-assembled monolayers fornia, ENSR International, Alameda, istry and molecular biophysics in the in gold substrates. She is beginning California. ENSR International is a spring of 2003 from the University of her fifth year as a science teacher at worldwide environmental engineer- Pennsylvania. The title of his thesis Sandy High School in Sandy, Oregon. ing and consulting firm that provides is “Folding dynamics and membrane Barron teaches college preparatory technical services to the refining, fusion mediated by model coiled-coil chemistry, ChemCom, and Advanced chemical, and manufacturing industries. peptides.” Lau is joining Dr. Dane Placement chemistry. Rasco is the father of three boys, ages Wittrup’s laboratory at the Department Cory Bystrom, Ph.D. 1998 with six, four, and two, and the husband of of Chemical Engineering, MIT. Bruce Branchaud and Jim Reming- Stephanie Rasco. He lives in Alam- Sally Horne-Badovinac, B.S. ton, has returned to Oregon from his eda, California. Rasco is willing to talk 1996, and Matthew G. Miller, B.A. former position as a senior research with anyone interested in working in 1997, were awarded the Harold M. scientist, Fonterra Research Center, the environmental industry. You may Weintraub Graduate Student Award New Zealand. He is heading up the contact him at (510) 748-6700 or at from the Fred Hutchinson Research new proteomics facility at Oregon [email protected]. Center in Seattle. Horne-Badovinac Health Sciences University in Portland. and Miller were two of sixteen stu- Bystrom’s new title is Proteomics Core 1990s dents from North America and Europe Facility Director, Research Develop- Hong Qian, postdoctoral fellow to receive the award. Both are Ph.D. ment & Administration. with John A. Schellman in the early students at the University of California, Nadine Gassner, Ph.D. 1998, is a 1990s, is now an associate professor, San Francisco. Winners were selected postdoctoral fellow at Stanford Univer- Department of Applied Mathematics, on the basis of the quality, original- sity in the Department of Molecular and University of Washington, and as- ity, and significance of their work. The Cellular Physiology. sociate director, National Simulation award, established in 2000, honors the Keith J. Keana, M.S. 1998, was Resource, University of Washington. late Harold M. Weintraub, a founding recently promoted to the rank of Major Qian just finished editing a Festschrift member of Fred Hutchinson’s Basic in the United States Air Force and (special journal issue) in honor of John Sciences Division, who died in 1995 Schellman: Biophysical Chemistry of brain cancer at the age of forty-nine. CONTINUED ON 24  (2002) 101-102. 22 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON23 group of three lab technicians work- Alumni News ing on process development and new business development. The company  CONTINUED FROM 21 makes products used in paints, coat- ings, textiles, plastics, and adhesives. currently holds the position of 30th the Uniformed Services University of Balzarek is living in the Inner Harbor Operations Group Chief of Training the Health Sciences (and promotion to Area in Duisburg, a recently revamped where he overseas operations training Captain in the U.S. Air Force) on May area on a canal next to the river Rhine. for West Coast spacelift and ballistic 17, 2003. She is presently doing an He still follows Duck football and was launches. Maj. Keana, his wife Christy, internship at Andrews AFB, just outside happy when they beat Michigan. Bal- and daughter Madelyn are stationed at Washington, D.C. zarek completed a postdoc at Caltech Vandenberg AFB, California. Bruce Howard, Ph.D. 1999 with before beginning his job in Germany. Dale Braden, Ph.D. 1999 with Jim Remington, is currently an assistant Bethany Jenkins, Ph.D. 2000 Dave Tyler, is working for Schrodinger professor of chemistry at Southern with Alice Barkan, completed a brief in Portland, Oregon. Braden is now the Utah University in Cedar City. After postdoc with Bea Darimont at the UO product manager for the company’s completing three years of postdoctoral before leaving for a postdoc at the Jaguar and Qsite molecular modeling research with Chris Hill at the Univer- University of California, Santa Cruz. software programs. In his spare time, sity of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Jenkins is working in the Ocean Sci- he makes beer, sausage, and cheese. Lake City, he accepted his current po- ences Department in the field of marine Braden has plans to add wine to his sition in fall 2002. Howard is respon- microbiology with advisers Jonathan P. repertoire. sible for teaching general chemistry, Zehr and Raphael Kudela where she Bob Clegg, Ph.D. 1999 with Jim organic chemistry, and biochemistry for has two projects. The first involves Hutchison, is working for Meso Scale nursing students as well as a senior- looking at the ecology of bacteria in the Diagnostics in Gaithersburg, Maryland, level biochemistry course. Howard and open ocean in terms of genes involved where he’s been working in research his wife enjoy a wide variety of outdoor in nitrogen assimilation pathways. The and development since 2001. The activities such as skiing, mountain second project focuses on trying to find company develops and markets analyti- biking, hiking, and camping in red rock the genetic basis of toxin production in cal systems with biological, environ- country. algae that produce harmful blooms off mental, and medical applications. He Bob Schneidmiller, Ph.D. 1999 the California coast. Jenkins says she joined the company after finishing a with David Johnson, recently began a really likes her new field and the fact that postdoc at Caltech in surface science job as assistant professor at South- she gets to do field work in Hawaii and and electrochemistry. Clegg lives with eastern Louisiana University in Ham- go out to sea on large vessels. his wife, Connie, and their three crazy mond. In between alligator wrasslin’ Heike (Sellinschegg) McNeil, cats, in nearby Frederick, Maryland, and gumbo eatin’, Schneidmiller Ph.D. 2000 with Dave Johnson, re- where they’ve been bonding with their teaches inorganic chemistry. On the cently joined the faculty at Northwest bicycles all summer. Clegg reports side, he’s slowly developing a research Christian College, right next door to the that the most exciting thing to happen lab for undergraduates that will focus UO. McNeil will be teaching chemistry, recently is the extension of the local on solid-state reactions in thin films physics, and nutrition. The science commuter line, allowing him to ride the and sol-gel chemistry. He hopes to get program at NCC is brand new, so she twenty-five miles to work. back to Eugene over winter break. will be helping to develop the new Sonja Gerrard, Ph.D. 1999 with Rachel K. Smith, B.A. 1999, curriculum. After a part-time position at Tom Stevens, is currently completing a studied with Jim Hutchison research- Willamette University, McNeil is enjoy- postdoc with the Centers for Disease ing the order and stability of self-as- ing the small class size of ten to fifteen Control in Atlanta, where she’s been for sembled monolayers (SAMs) of alkane students. In addition to science, McNeil the past four years. She’s been work- thiols with internally substituted amide is also teaching fitness, so you might ing in the special pathogens branch, groups. Currently she is a graduate catch her running by the UO science researching the Rift Valley fever virus, a student at State College in Pennsylva- complex with her students in tow as human and livestock pathogen endemic nia synthesizing and measuring the ki- they head to Hayward Field for a stair to sub-Saharan Africa. In January, Ger- netics of assembly using a quartz crys- workout. rard will join the faculty at the University tal microbalance. Since 2003 she has Will Deutschman, Ph.D. 2001 with of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as an assistant been a graduate student representative Rick Dahlquist, recently completed his professor in the School of Public Health. to the Selection Committee for Chem- second year as an assistant profes- Blake Gillespie, Ph.D. 1999 with istry Department Colloquium speakers sor at Plattsburgh State University in Rick Dahlquist, is currently completing and Priestly & Marker lectures. Plattsburgh, New York. His current a postdoc with Kevin Plaxco at the Uni- 2000s research focuses on thermophilic versity of California, Santa Barbara. The organisms, protein stability, and the Plaxco lab focuses on protein folding. Christoph Balzarek, Ph.D. 2000 with David Tyler, has been working as a thermodynamics of protein folding. Tracy Hardwick, B.S. in biochem- George Hanson, Ph.D. 2001 with istry 1999, did research with Rick research chemist at Celanese Chemi- Dahlquist and received her M.D. from cals Europe in Oberhausen, Germany, since last September. He is leading a CONTINUED ON 25  24 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON25  CONTINUED FROM 22 ing work center as a silicon dry etch Cindy (Mayr) Warner, M.S. 2002, process engineer. He works on deep is currently working at Pacific North- Jim Remington (physics), is a research silicon trench processing. west National Laboratory in Richland, scientist at Panvera Corporation in Scott Reed, Ph.D. 2001 with Jim Washington. She is working on the Madison, Wisconsin. Panvera develops Hutchison, completed a postdoctoral Genomes to Life project, funded by the drug discovery screening products and research appointment at Los Alamos Department of Energy. services. Invitrogen recently bought the National Laboratory in September Josh Williams, Ph.D. 2002 with company. 2003. His research in the LANL Biosci- Dave Johnson, is working as a postdoc Brandi Langsdorf, Ph.D. 2001 ence Division centered on developing with Scott Chambers at Pacific North- with Mark Lonergan, and Ben (Straw) fluorescent receptors for biothreat west National Laboratory in Richland, Langsdorf, M.S. 1998, are the proud agents and coupling these molecules Washington. parents of Kate Maren Langsdorf, born to optical waveguides for use in a Jake Jensen, Ph.D. 2003 with July 31, 2003. Kate was six pounds hand-held sensor. Currently he is an Dave Johnson, has recently joined Intel and 0.2 ounces and nineteen inches assistant professor of chemistry at Corporation in Hillsboro, Oregon, as a at birth. The happy parents recently Portland State University engaged in senior process engineer. His current brought her by the department to show research on the interactions between assignment involves developing pro- her off. Mrs. Langsdorf just finished a fluorophores and metal nanoparticles. cesses for device isolation in next-gen- one-year replacement position as as- Aimee Eldridge, Ph.D. 2002 with eration microprocessor technologies. sistant professor at Pacific University in Rick Dahlquist, is currently working as Jensen and his wife Rebecca have Forest Grove, Oregon. She is currently a postdoc for Debbie Wuttke at the three children: Mary, Eric, and F. Scott. taking time off with the new baby and University of Colorado at Boulder. The Marvin Warner, Ph.D. 2003 with looking for teaching positions for fall Wuttke lab investigates interesting Jim Hutchison, is currently doing a 2004. Mr. Langsdorf has been working biological systems from structural, bio- postdoc at Pacific Northwest National at Hewlett-Packard in Corvallis since physical, and biochemical perspectives. Laboratory in Richland, Washington. He October 2002. He started as a wet David Kimball, Ph.D. 2002 with Mike is working on the development of new etch process engineer and recently Haley, is working as a postdoc at Los biological and chemical sensors for the transferred to the silicon micromachin- Alamos National Lab with Pete Silks. detection of common warfare agents.

The 2003 Department of Chemistry Alumni Achievement Award in Pure Science Pamela J. Bjorkman—Solving Puzzles of the Immune System t is rare in the of Biology at the California Institute of fundamental studies with a series of Ihistory of the UO Technology in 1989. She advanced to structure-function studies of MHC- that one individual professor at Caltech in 1998 and cur- homologs that perform other functions has won two differ- rently holds the title of Professor and in the immune system and elsewhere. ent alumni awards. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical She continues to use a combination of Pamela Bjorkman Institute, at Caltech. x-ray crystallography to determine three has achieved that During her years at Harvard, Bjork- dimensional structures, together with distinction. In 1995 man solved the first structure of the molecular biology and biochemical ap- Pamela won the major histocompatibility complex proaches. Her contributions and inter- UO Alumni Association’s Young Alum- (MHC) protein. MHC molecules are ests have expanded to include aspects nus Award for attaining “extraordinary glycoproteins expressed at the surface of iron metabolism, cancer, and virology. distinction in his or her chosen profes- of most cells of vertebrates. The name In recognition of her discoveries, sional field.” In 2003 she was selected comes from “histo” meaning tissue and Bjorkman has won more than twenty for the Department of Chemistry Alumni “compatible.” The importance goes far distinguished awards, including Pew Achievement Award for her continu- beyond the issues of organ transplants Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, ing achievements as a pioneer in the and tissue compatibility. Our body’s William B. Coley Award for Distin- structural biology of immunology. immune system is a collection of cells guished Research in Fundamental Pamela, a native Oregonian, did her and proteins that protect us from harm- Immunology from the Cancer Research undergraduate research in chemistry ful microorganisms, such as bacteria, Institute, James R. Klinenberg Science with O. Hayes Griffith and received her viruses, and fungi. A key step involves Award from the Arthritis Foundation, B.A. from the UO in 1978. She com- the binding of fragments of the foreign Gairdner Foundation International pleted her Ph.D. at Harvard University material (antigens) to MHC molecules Award for achievements in medical sci- in the Department of Biochemistry and so that cells infected by viruses or bac- ence, and Investigator of the Howard Molecular Biology with Don C. Wiley. teria can be recognized and attacked Hughes Medical Institute, as well as Pamela continued her studies as a by lymphocytes. Bjorkman’s work is of election to memberships in the Ameri- postdoctoral fellow at Harvard and then such importance that it is now covered can Academy of Arts and Sciences, the at Stanford, before accepting a position in biochemistry textbooks. National Academy of Sciences, and the as assistant professor in the Division Bjorkman has followed up on these American Philosophical Society.

24 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITYOFOREGON25 Career Opportunities for Chemistry Graduates A few years ago I returned to Philadelphia to join my current law firm, which specializes in intellectual Chemistry and a Career in Law property, i.e., patents, trademarks, and Bruce Chasan earned an A.B. in a law firm in Philadelphia. Immediately copyrights. A large percent of my time chemistry from Dartmouth College, I found myself defending a gasoline is taken up with patent infringement an M.A. in biochemistry from the UO, pipeline company in a class action law- litigation over generic drugs. The phar- and a J.D. from Boston College Law suit brought by homeowners impacted maceutical company is usually alleging School. Bruce is a registered pat- by groundwater contamination after a that the generic manufacturer infringes ent attorney and a member of the Bar pipeline accident. For several years I its patent, and the generic company of the U.S. Supreme and numerous litigated the “toxic tort” claims of the is usually denying infringement or federal courts. Bruce served as an as- homeowners who blamed benzene contesting the validity of the patent. sociate solicitor in the U.S. Patent and for everything that went wrong in their “Invalidity” contests involve allegations Trademark Office before joining the lives. The toxicity of hydrocarbons, or that the USPTO issued the patent in Philadelphia law firm of Caesar, Rivise, lack thereof, was my professional inter- error, as it should have been rejected Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd. He est for a considerable time. for failing to meet one or more statutory is the inaugural author of this new fea- Then I had a patent infringement criteria of patentability (such as lack ture of the newsletter designed to bring case referred to me. The case involved of novelty, obviousness, and so forth). career opportunities to the attention of a patent on a polymer that was a thick- Patent infringement cases often have chemistry students and alumni. —Ed. ener additive in latex paint. Two indus- millions of dollars at stake. trial behemoths squared off. The paten- Another aspect of my practice tee wanted to protect its market share, involves the preparation of patent By Bruce J. Chasan and the alleged infringer wanted a applications on a variety of inven- hen I left piece of the lucrative latex paint market. tions including mechanical devices Wthe Uni- Every witness had a Ph.D. in organic and compounds and processes in the versity of Oregon chemistry. Depositions of the witnesses chemical and biochemical arts. I also in 1969 with a were highly technical, and I enjoyed ev- advise clients on how to avoid infring- master’s degree ery minute of the battle. I found myself ing competitors’ patents. in biochemistry to more interested in patent law than the I often advise undergraduate majors head back East to casualty cases I had typically defended in the sciences to consider working as attend law school, for insurance companies. a patent examiner in the USPTO. It is I had no idea I decided to switch my interest, and extremely valuable experience. Pat- how valuable that I took the patent bar exam. The patent ent examiners learn the intricacies of master’s degree bar is a highly specialized exam admin- patent law; the rules, regulations and would be! At the time, I simply had a istered by the U.S. Patent and Trade- procedures for obtaining a patent; belief that being a research chemist or mark Office (USPTO). A prerequisite and a lot about the particular “art” in working in academia was not for me. is that the candidate must have either which they toil. While some examiners My first job out of law school was an undergraduate or graduate degree make a career at the USPTO, others with a bureaucratic government agency in one of several sciences. I studied in- elect to attend law school and switch in Washington, D.C. After a year, I tensely for the exam, and I was pleased to private industry or law firms. The thought I would like to get some litiga- to pass it on my first attempt. experience these former examiners tion experience, so I applied to the Civil Eventually I left private practice to have is extremely valuable. These men Division and the Lands and Natural work for a year as an assistant solici- and women know how to draft and Resources Division of the U.S. Depart- tor in the USPTO. The attorneys in the prosecute patent applications for all the ment of Justice (DOJ). At my interview Solicitor’s Office are often tasked with innovative research that is occurring in with the assistant attorney general defending the decisions of the USPTO private industry and academia. While for the Lands Division, my interviewer Board of Patent Appeals and Interfer- the USPTO hates to lose talented reviewed my resume and asked: “Do ences (BPAI) in the federal courts. people, a certain amount of turnover is you suppose that master’s degree in The BPAI will often sustain rejections expected, and “graduates” of the exam- chemistry would be useful in the Pol- of patent claims made by the patent ining corps serve a very important soci- lution Control Section?” Didn’t need a examiners on a variety of grounds, etal purpose. The patent system in the Ph.D. to know the right answer to that such as lack of novelty, obviousness, United States is second to none, and question! Soon I was an environmen- or failure to adequately describe the in- innovation in the United States should tal lawyer for the DOJ in Washington vention in accordance with the require- be second to none for a long time. and later the U.S. Attorney’s Office in ments of the Patent Act. The Solicitor’s Anyone wanting more information Philadelphia. And yes, my knowledge Office also works onamicus briefs for on chemistry and a career in law is of chemistry was useful in numerous cases in the U.S. Supreme Court when welcome to contact me by e-mail or cases! the Court wants to know the position of telephone (number available on my law After approximately a decade with the United States on issues of patent firm website: www.crbcp.com. DOJ, I went into private practice with law. 26 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY their names during the course (just to make my life easier), Haralambos Commencement 2003 with his sunny personality, David discussing science in the hallway, and of course all the others. How is Graduating Class of 2003 it possible to ever forget you guys? I will bring the memory of you with me, in my heart and in my mind Baccalaureate Master of Science forever.” —Excerpts from Guenza’s Biochemistry Sarah Bowen Antonelli address to the Class of 2003. Terri Patricia Altmiller Esther Caballero-Manrique Kristen Lenore Aramthanapon Jonah Cannoy Brian Richard Bell William Scott Dunlap Micah Jeffery Bodner Melody Ann Elrod Han-Ju Chuang Damon Justin Hamel Charles Jacobs: “It is an honor to be Amy Melissa Cooke-Thill Melanie Rachel Hauser given the opportunity to present an Mark Barnett Johnson award and to address you. I am not Aaron Christopher Denbo up on all the new thinking and ideas; Haralambos Antonis Hadjivas- Andrew Michael Jost however, one of the old ones is still siliou Jennie Lynn Looney valid: Pay-back. Approximately fifty Buck Timothy Hanson Lallie Cobb McKenzie percent of the cost of your education Georgette Erin Moyle was underwritten by contributions of Rachel Lauren Jacks former students and friends of the Benjamin John Kuhlman Robert Charles Muller university. For future students to be M. Christine Sherzer Yi Qian able to get the quality of education that you have received, it is most Brynne Christine Stanton Jeffrey Daniel Rask John Keana: “The filmHarry Potter Jacob Luff Reichman desirable that you plan to “pay- provides some helpful analogies Joshua David Thompson back.” Please plan to make annual in appreciating your chemistry Anthony Trung Tran Jonathan David Sowins contributions to the university degree. Chemistry Muggles, i.e., Li-Chun Lisa Tsai Shaun Patrick Swartz or specifically to the chemistry non-chemistry folk, probably department. I have always counseled Benjamin Lloyd Wiggins Julia Renee Walls don’t know what you’ve been Erica Alexander Wescott “spend less than you earn,” but that through to get here. Let’s help Chemisty shouldn’t stop you from an annual them out. General Chemistry: contribution, no matter how small. You are escorted into the formerly Shannon Wachter Boettcher Doctorate And now really why I’m here: Upon forbidden forest of chemistry. You Jenelle Kiara Bray Andrew Barry Carmel recommendation of the faculty eventually make friends with a Eric Anders Hoidal April Stephanie Goehring of the Department of Chemistry, I spectrum of creatures, including the am pleased to announce Shannon Matthew Montgomery Nye Gerard Joseph Ostheimer formidable stoichiometry troll and Boettcher as the recipient of the the oxidation-reduction troll. Your David Louis Proctor Eric Eugene Sheagley 2003 American Institute of Chemists new Nimbus 2000 calculator proves H. Jeffery Rayburn Marvin Glen Warner Foundation Award.” Charles Jacobs to be indispensable. How well did Ramon Orlando Sanchez is approaching the age of ninety- you do grade wise? The sorting hat one, a record for a speaker at the lets you know. Organic Chemistry: Michael D. Swanson Chemistry Commencement. We A course full of animals—cows and Joshua John Wyman hope to have him back again. —Ed. chickens, gremlins, unicorns, and dragons (resonance structures), etc., and let’s not forget the many mirrors of stereochemistry. Passing O-Chem Awards and Honors was like getting past Fluffy—one head for each quarter. There were University Honors Organic Chemistry the poems relating Thanksgiving to Organic Chemistry: Made it Summa Cum Laude Achievement Award to Thanksgiving hanging by a Shannon Wachter Boettcher Kristen Lenore Aramthanapon thread—How the heck can anybody Jennelle Kiara Bray keep it all in his head?—little did you know then what was to come! Cum Laude Inorganic Chemistry P-Chem: Passing P-Chem is like Amy Melissa Cooke-Thill Achievement Award getting past the chessboard to reach Matthew Montgomery Nye the goal. There were wounded, of Haralambos Antonis Hadjivas- course, but you made it! You take siliou a rare Saturday afternoon break for Eric Anders Hoidal Richard M. Noyes Marina Guenza: “When I read the Quidditch between the Gryffendor Ducks and the Slytherin Huskeys. Physical Chemistry list of the students graduating I was Phi Beta Kappa so pleased to recognize most of the But today you are the Seeker, and Achievement Award names. Really, how is it possible you caught the Golden Snitch—a Shannon Wachter Boettcher Jenelle Kiara Bray to ever forget you guys? Kristen, degree in chemistry. Instead of “Off Jenelle Kiara Bray (Oregon 6) to see the wizard,” you are now David Louis Proctor Rachel, and Brynne, the three girls Rachel Lauren Jacks always at the top. By the way, since “Off to be the wizard!” You are a member of an elite group. The total Brynne Christine Stanton I am an Italian professor teaching a LeRoy H. Klemm course in English, Brynne wrote me population of twenty-four-year-olds a teaching evaluation in French (I in the U.S. (as of 1998) was 3.4 American Chemical Award for Excellence wonder if my department head had million. Those with their bachelor s Society in Undergraduate trouble with it?). How can I forget in chemistry: 10,120 or 0.8 percent. Micah who was so interested in the Your chemistry degree is an open Analytical Award Chemical Research course that he wrote me five e-mails door to a feast of opportunities...” Eric Anders Hoidal Micah Jeffery Bodner before the course was even started, “Having just retired, may I finish Jenelle and Aaron who shared with with a suggestion looking toward Biochemistry me the joy (or pain) of studying your eventual retirement: Indiana Achievement Award American Institute of protein dynamics, Amy with her editor John Soule and then Horace Amy Melissa Cooke-Thill Chemists Foundation smart questions and her incredible Greeley once said: “Go west, young will-power, Ramon and his man, go west.” I want to paraphrase Benjamin Lloyd Wiggins Award unforgettable uncle Pepe, Josh and that to “Invest, young people, Shannon Wachter Boettcher Antony that decided to exchange invest.” 26 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 27 Nonprofit Organization College of Arts and Sciences U.S. Postage DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY PAID 1253 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1253 Eugene OR Permit No. 63 Chemistry News An annual publication of the University of Oregon Department of Chemistry distributed to alumni, faculty, staff, postdoctoral fellows, students, and friends of the department. 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