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BLUE HEN CHEMIST / 1 Cover Munson Departs! on the Table of Contents T Seems As If Some Folks Go on Forever DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY & BIOCHEMISTRY ALUMNI NEWSLETTER #44, FALL 2017 Editor: John Burmeister Munson Departs! FALL 2017 / BLUE HEN CHEMIST / 1 cover Munson Departs! on the Table of Contents t seems as if some folks go on forever. They North”. His doctoral dissertation, overseen by Robbin seem to have always been and will always be. Anderson, was on flame spectroscopy. On the Cover: Munson Departs! 2017 Summer Science Research But there comes a time for every departure. Cecil Dybowski ................................. 1 Scholars ...........................................26 IBurnaby Munson, the C. Eugene Bennett Professor of With the Ph.D. in hand, he headed off to Humble Chemistry and Biochemistry, has decided that, after Research in Houston (later to be a part of Exxon From the Chair 22nd CHEM/BIOC fifty years of educating thousands of students, he will Research), where he first encountered what was to become Murray V. Johnston ........................... 3 Graduation Convocation ..............27 retire. He taught his last class in the Spring of 2017. his life-long area of expertise, mass spectrometry. From the Associate Chair for 2017 Graduates ...............................29 Burnaby leaves behind a legacy During his time there, he and Undergraduate Studies Graduate or Professional of educational excellence Frank Field made the discovery Sandeep A. Patel ................................ 7 and a cadre of students, both for which they have been School Bound .................................30 undergraduate and graduate, justifiably famous, chemical From the Associate Chair 30 who have, through coaxing, ionization mass spectrometry. for Graduate Studies and Research Headed for Industry, Etc. ............. cajoling, threatening, and Donald Watson .................................. 9 Graduate School Placements patience, developed an Without any doubt, chemical 31 appreciation for chemistry ionization mass spectrometry From the Chair-Elect 1994-2017 ........................................ and its place in the world. has had a major impact Brian Bahnson ................................. 12 2017 M.A./M.S. Graduates ...........32 Were it that he just educated on analyses because of the students about chemistry, ease with which it allows Adieu, Adieu: Mark Baillie 2017 Ph.D. Graduates ....................33 his contribution would have measurement of molar mass, and Kimberly Graves been exceptional, but he did thereby providing a basis Jacqueline H. Fajardo ...................... 13 Alumni News .................................35 much more than that in fifty for interpreting structure of years at Delaware. In so many molecules large and small. Continuing Legacies ..................... 15 Honor Roll of Gifts to ways, he has taught us how In the advanced description the Department to laugh, how to think, how of the 2002 Nobel Prize in DuPont Kevlar: An Innovative Murray Johnston ..............................40 to appreciate life around us, Chemistry given to John Aramid from the Labs of and how to do the things that Fenn and Koichi Tanaka Stephanie Kwolek Giving to the Department ............45 make humans human. His for applications of mass Allen A. Denio ................................. 16 mark on the Department and spectrometry to analysis From the Editor .............................46 the University is indelible. of biomolecules, the very Additional Faculty/Staff first reference is to the Activities ......................................... 18 Munson was actually a child at one time, although he foundational importance of Munson’s contribution will tell you that he was “born old”. Indeed, the sign of chemical ionization mass spectrometry that made Postdoctoral Researchers and on his office door warns students, faculty, and visitors future applications of mass spectrometry to a whole Fellows 2016-17 .............................. 21 alike that “Old Age and Treachery Will Overcome host of interesting problems possible. To quote Youth and Skill”. That’s Burnaby at his finest sarcasm. from the Nobel Prize document: “One early major Visiting Faculty ..............................22 (Or is he serious? One can never be sure.) breakthrough, described by M. S. B. Munson and F. H. Field in 1966, was the use of chemical ionization Chapter Officers 2017-18 ...............22 From Wharton, Texas, near Houston, Burnaby made (Cl), which for the first time made it possible to ionize his way first to Tartleton State University, and then to thermolabile biomolecules.” That utility of Cl-MS is Colloquia & Symposia 2016-17 ....23 the University of Texas at Austin, to study chemistry. seen in thousands of uses over the last 50 years. 24 After graduation, he went off to the University of Undergraduate Awards 2016-17... Wisconsin for graduate studies, but quickly returned to UT, as he has said “because of the cold winters up CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 1 / BLUE HEN CHEMIST / FALL 2017 FALL 2017 / BLUE HEN CHEMIST / 2 chair Hello to our Alumni and Friends! Davis, and most recently has served as a senior lecturer at changeover in laboratory Widener University. services. The tradition of am happy to report that our Department is healthy outstanding laboratory and continues to progress in all respects. With each Burnaby Munson, a driving force for instruction and service continues with the year, it seems that we set a new record in the number research in our Department for over five decades, is arrival of Kimberly Vogt in Iof degree majors at the graduate and undergraduate retiring effective the end of the 2016-2017 academic year. May and Margaret levels, enrollments in our courses, and/or research I encourage you to read the full article on Burnaby in (Peggy) Nagorski in June. funding. If you haven’t visited in a while, please come so this issue. It is with huge gratitude that we congratulate Kimberly grew up in the from the that you can experience this beehive of activity first Burnaby on an impeccable career that has touched so Elkton area and received her Kimberly Vogt hand. It has been said that the one “constant” in a many people all across campus. B.S. in Chemistry from university is “change”. That is certainly the case this past Towson University. Peggy year as we have the excitement of saying hello and the This past year also saw many changes among our staff. received her B.A. in sadness of saying goodbye to many of our faculty and Federico Cruz was promoted to the role of laboratory Biological Sciences from the staff. manger with direct oversight of our advanced teaching University of Delaware, and laboratories in analytical, inorganic and physical most recently worked as an First and foremost among our chemistry. In this position, Fred oversees ~25 graduate Associate Scientist at QPS, faculty, Lars Gundlach was Murray V. Johnston teaching assistants and a combined enrollment of over LLC in Newark. promoted to Associate 500 students per year in what can be regarded as our Margaret (Peggy) Nagorski Professor with tenure. Over the direction of Thomas Woolf, followed by a most demanding instructional laboratories. I am also Zhihua Yang joined our the past several years, Lars postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois at excited to report that Fred obtained his Ph.D. in Organic Department in spring 2017 as has developed an outstanding Urbana-Champaign with Klaus Schulten. Chemistry from our Department this past year under the a second staff member in the John Koh research program in direction of . Mass Spectrometry Facility. femtosecond time-resolved Zhihua received his Ph.D. Lars Gundlach Kimberly Graves and Mark Baillie left our spectroscopy and microscopy. Department at the end of the 2016-2017 academic year degree in Biochemistry at the Along with other to pursue other endeavors, Kimberly in Vermont and Chinese Academy of Sciences Departmental faculty at a Mark in Arkansas. Both have been stalwarts of our in Shanghai, and most similar stage of career, the general chemistry program, imparting great enthusiasm recently served in the mass Zhihua Yang quality of Lars’ research and in the classroom with a strong dedication to student spectrometry facility at the instructional efforts are major success. Mark, along with Jackie Fajardo, has played a Morehouse School of reasons why the future of our leading role in development of the integrated chemistry- Medicine. Under the Department is so bright. I am biology curriculum, while Kimberly, along with Sue watchful eyes of facility also happy to report that Groh, has significantly enhanced our honors general manager PapaNii Asare- Edward Lyman Juan Perilla , who has a chemistry curriculum. Both will be greatly missed. With Okai and Zhihua, the joint appointment in our that said, we enthusiastically capabilities of this facility Department and a primary look forward to the arrival of have greatly expanded appointment in the Physics two new faculty in August especially in the area of Brandon Calitree Department, was promoted 2017, Trevor Daly and proteomics. to Associate Professor, with Shara Compton, who will tenure. Ed’s research is in the take over the mantel for Three other staff members area of computational much of our general left our Department for Juan Perilla biophysics. chemistry program. Trevor promotion to new positions joined our faculty in July Kimberly Graves received his Ph.D. in Organic Trevor Daly on campus. Brandon 2017 as a tenure-track Chemistry from Lehigh Calitree moved to Assistant Professor with University, and comes to our Linda Bostwick Environmental Health and research
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