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DED 8-199 UN 18 189 8 O 98 F yyyy N N yyyy Y Y O O T T R R E E I I T T C H C H E O E O yyyyN N A E S A E S S S S L S L T T A A E A E A C C R C I R C I yyyyN S M N S M S E S E E H E H C C C C T N T N IO A March 2007IO A Vol. LXXXV, No. 7 yyyyC C N • AMERI N • AMERI Monthly Meeting 2006 Winner of the James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry, Michael Wasielewski, Speaks at UMASS Boston NEBHE Science Network at MIT By Michael Filosa Book Review A Trio of Books and Their Social Impact Reviewed by Dennis Sardella Book Review Hitler’s Scientists: Science, War and the Devil's Pact Reviewed by Vivian Walworth 2 The Nucleus March 2007 The Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society, Inc. Contents Office: Marilou Cashman, 23 Cottage St., Natick, MA 01360. 1-800-872-2054 (Voice or FAX) or 508-653-6329. NEBHE Science Network at MIT 4 e-mail: mcash0953(at)aol.com ___________________________ Any Section business may be conducted By Michael Filosa via the business office above. NESACS Homepage: http://www.NESACS.org Monthly Meeting _______________________________________5 Sathish Rangarajan, Webmaster Michael Wasielewski speaks at UMASS Boston on ACS Hotline, Washington, D.C.: "Charge and Spin Transport Dynamics in Bio-inspired Molecules: 1-800-227-5558 From Photosynthesis to Organic Electronics" Officers 2007 Chair: Mukund Chorghade Announcements________________________________________6 14 Carlson Circle, Natick, MA 01360 3rd Annual NESACS Golf Tournament, James Flack Norris 508-651-7809 and 308-3891 Chorghade(at)comcast.net and Theodore William Richards Undergraduate Summer Chair-Elect: Research Scholarships Marietta Swartz Chemistry Department, Umass-Boston Boston, MA 02125 Book Review __________________________________________7 617-287-6146; marietta.swartz(at)umb.edu A Trio of Books on Molecules and Their Social Impact Immediate Past Chair: Reviewed by Dennis Sardella Patricia Mabrouk Chemistry Department, Northeastern University Boston, MA 02115 Call for Nominations____________________________________9 613-373-2845; p.mabrouk(at)neu.edu Northeast Regional Award Nominations for Excellence in High Secretary: Michael Singer School Teaching and Excellence in Volunteer Services Sigma-Aldrich 3 Strathmore Rd., Natick, MA 01360 Book Review 11 508-651-8151X291; msinger(at)sial.com _________________________________________ Treasurer: Hitler's Scientists: Science, War and the Devil's Pact James Piper Reviewed by Vivian Walworth 19 Mill Rd., Harvard, MA 01451 978-456-3155, piper28(at)attglobal.net Cover: Auditor: March Speaker, Professor Michael Wasielewski, Anthony Rosner Northwestern University Archivist: Myron S. Simon Deadlines: 20 Somerset Rd. May 2007 Issue: March 12, 2007 Newton, MA 02465; 617-332-5273 Summer 2007 Issue: June 15, 2007 Romysimon(at)mindspring.com Trustees: Joseph A. Lima, Esther A. H. Hopkins, Michael E. Strem Councilors Alternate Councilors Term Ends 12/31/2007 Thomas R. Gilbert Arlene W. Light Michael J. Hearn Timothy B. Frigo The Nucleus is distributed to the members of the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Michael Singer Mary Mahaney Society, to the secretaries of the Local Sections, and to editors of all local A.C.S. Section publications. Pamela Nagafuji Mark Froimowitz Forms close for advertising on the 1st of the month of the preceding issue. Text must be received by the Term Ends 12/31/2008 editor six weeks before the date of issue. Doris I. Lewis Patrick M. Gordon Morton Z. Hoffman Michael P. Filosa Editor: Michael P. 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The Nucleus March 2007 3 NEBHE Science Network Corporate Patrons and Golf Iridium Astra Zeneca R&D Boston at MIT Genzyme Drug Discovery & Dev Hovione By Michael P. Filosa IBM As a result of a request for volunteers Prime Organics, Howard Mayne of IRIX Pharmaceuticals by NESACS Speaker’s Bureau Head, UNH, Mary Jo Ondrechen of North- Johnson-Matthey Pharma Solutions Jin Ji, Speakers Bureau members eastern University, Dagmar Ringe of Lyophilization Service of New England attended the fourteenth annual New Brandeis University and Lawrence T. Merck England Board of Higher Education Scott of Boston College. The NEBHE Phasex Corporation (NEBHE) Science Network at the Science Network at MIT is one of the Sepracor Massachusetts Institute of Technology components of NEBHE’s Excellence Strem Chemicals, Inc. Zone Enterprises held on Saturday, November 18, 2006. Through Diversity (ETD) program, Corporate Sponsors and Golf Present from the Speaker’s Bureau and was started in 1990. Rhodium were Michael Filosa of ZINK Imaging, The NEBEHE Science Network Aerodyne Research, Inc. Robert Litman, Independent Consul- has grown into a substantial enterprise. Cambridge Isotope Laboratories tant and Jin Ji of Harvard Medical Over six hundred students and mentors Cambridge Major Laboratories School. NESACS members Dorothy from all over New England converged New England BioLabs, Inc. and James Phillips of Waters Corpora- on the Stratton Student Center at MIT. Pfizer tion were also present along with a Registration and a continental break- Sigma-RBI past NESACS chair, Jean Fuller-Stan- fast were scheduled from 8-9 AM. As Shasun Pharma Solutions ley, formerly of Wellesley College and an early arriver I found myself sitting Donors and Golf Tungsten now Associate Dean at William Patter- at a table with several of the key lead - Consulting Resources Corp. son University in New Jersey. A num- ers of the conference. I was sitting Dishman Pharmaceuticals ber of other active NESACS members with Harold Bibb, Professor of Biolog- and Chemicals Limited are involved in the Science Network ical Sciences and Associate Dean of Houghton Chemical Company and are listed in the Directory of Advi- the Graduate School, University of Organix, Inc. sors published by NEBHE. A partial Rhode Island; José Lemos, Professor Vertex listing includes Perry Catchings of of Physiology, University of Massa- chusetts Medical School, and James Henkel, Professor of Chemistry, Uni- versity of Connecticut. These men were just a small subset of the dedi- cated group of academic and business leaders who have been committed long term to this endeavor and its’ objective of facilitating the educational develop- ment of underrepresented minorities in technical fields. It was uplifting and illuminating to meet these dedicated and inspiring leaders and to hear their personal stories. Later Professor Lemos led an introductory session for mentors in which he gave an example of his own persistence in the face of rejection. He recounted how as a student he had his heart set on a research position at Woods Hole because he thought it would be very important to his future career. Twice he was turned down. He responded with some frustration, but also with more determination. The third time he applied was the charm, Continued on page 10 4 The Nucleus March 2007 Abstract Monthly Meeting “Charge and Spin Transport The 877h Meeting of the Northeastern Section of the American Dynamics in Bio-inspired Chemical Society Molecules: From Thursday – March 8, 2007 Photosynthesis to Organic University of Massachusetts, Boston Electronics” Campus Center – 3rd Floor Ballroom, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA The principal goal of our research is to 2:30 pm Career Services Presentations and Resume Reviews, Mukund explore the fundamental structural and Chorghade, Chair, NESACS; Megan Driscoll and Jennifer Sass of electronic requirements for efficient PharmaLogics Recruiting. energy and electron transfer in 4:30 pm Board Meeting extended arrays of donor-acceptor molecules. In this presentation we will 5:30 pm Social Hour describe several new molecules and 6:30 pm Dinner materials produced by a combination 8:00 pm Evening Seminar, NESACS Chair, Mukund Chorghade Presiding of chemical synthesis and self-assem- Speaker: Prof. Michael R. Wasielewski, Department of Chemistry and bly that use energy and charge trans- Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly, Northwest- port strategies inspired by natural ern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3113 photosynthesis. These new molecules “Charge and Spin Transport Dynamics in Bio-inspired Molecules: may find applications in the fields of From Photosynthesis to Organic Electronics” solar energy conversion, photonics, Dinner reservations should be made no later than noon, Thursday, March 1, and spintronics.
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