UO CHEMISTRY NEWS UNIVERSITY OF OREGON • COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES • DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY • 1997 FROM THE DEPARTMENT HEAD The Department of Chemistry to thank you for your continuing had another fine year last year, and generous response to the fund. One we’re off to a great start this year. of the exciting ways the fund is be- Since I last wrote, our faculty re- ing used is to facilitate the introduc- ceived several prestigious awards, tion of new “green” chemistry we had large enrollment increases in courses. For example, we are devel- our undergraduate courses, and we oping a new organic lab course that brought in a record number of grant emphasizes an environmentally con- dollars for research. Further details scious approach to organic chemis- are found inside these pages. try. Likewise, plans are underway to The faculty is committed to main- develop an “environmental” track of taining excellence in the department. general chemistry. The idea behind That is why we created the Chemis- the new course is to teach general try Achievement Endowment Fund chemistry using lectures and prob- as an additional source of revenue lem sets that have an environmental for the department. As described in emphasis. It takes money to develop last year’s newsletter, the fund is new courses and refurbish old ones used for the support and enhance- and the endowment fund is helping ment of teaching and research. I to make it possible. would like to take this opportunity continued on page 2 NMR Facility Received Million Dollar Upgrade The magnetic resonance facilities and Instrumentation Services at the University of Oregon have (CRIS), located in the heart of the been updated with the addition of organic-inorganic laboratories on the two state-of-the-art Varian NMR third floor of Klamath Hall, has ac- spectrometers that cost a total of one quired a new Varian INOVA-300 million dollars. Funding was pro- NMR spectrometer for open-access vided by grants from the National analytical and research use. This Science Foundation, the National NMR replaces the GE QE-300 that Myungok Yoon works in the third-floor Institutes of Health, and the Markey was installed in 1984. The new sys- instrumentation facility with Varian Foundation. Chemistry Research tem, equipped with two broadband- INOVA-300 NMR spectrometer. continued on page 2
PAGE 3 PAGE 4 PAGE 2 Richard M. Noyes Acheivement Award Winners Geri Richmond goes Physical Chemistry Harry Noller and PAGE 7 to the White House Achievement Award Donald McQuarrie Septemberfest ’97 continued from the top of page 1 This four-channel system is ca- Finally, let me remind you that pable of the most advanced triple- ChemStores we like to hear from you. One of the resonance experiments required for most widely read parts of the news- elucidating the secondary and ter- letter is the “News From All Over” tiary structure of proteins by NMR. Is Now section, which has news about you. This instrumentation is facilitating a Let us know what you are doing, number of collaborations between even if it is just your current posi- groups in the Department of Chem- ScienceStores tion, and we will include the infor- istry and the Institute of Molecular Biology. Mike Strain is in charge of An extensive review by depart- mation in our next edition of the ments who used ChemStores has newsletter. both the CRIS NMR and molecular biology NMR facility. resulted in a reorganization and a name change to ScienceStores. Stu- dents and faculty members who ob- tain supplies will still be greeted with a friendly smile from Clarisse Heinhorst, ScienceStores operator. Clarisse, who has been with the Uni- continued from the bottom of page 1 versity of Oregon since 1978, says there has been little change in day- RF channels, can be adapted for use to-day operations other than the in virtually any two-nucleus experi- markup has been reduced and stan- ment. At the same time, it provides dardized. Items in ScienceStores are convenient walk-up service for now sold for a flat 10 percent mark- quick, routine 1-D spectra. up and Clarisse is experimenting The other instrument is a new with stocking some new items in Varian INOVA-600 NMR spectrom- order to meet the needs of faculty eter acquired for the study of pro- and students. tein molecular structure and The administrative structure has function, and the primary user is the also changed. Formerly a part of the Dahlquist laboratory, Department of Department of Chemistry, Chemistry and Institute of Molecu- ScienceStores is now a distinct unit. lar Biology. It is installed in a new Bruce Wilson, laboratory manager facility on the ground floor of Kla- for the Institute of Molecular Biol- math Hall next to ScienceStores in ogy, has taken on the additional the former Department of Biology Mike Strain in the new facility with duty of stores manager. This change “fly lab”. Varian INOVA-600 NMR spectrometer. reflects the broader customer base of the stockroom and the changing needs of the departments. Geri Richmond Goes to the White House Geraldine L. Richmond was presented a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring at the White House on Thursday, September 11, 1997. She was one of nine individuals and ten organi- zations honored with this award. The award, which carries a $10,000 grant, is designed to encourage participation in the field by minorities and members of other underrepresented groups. Geri says she is honored to have been given this award, particularly since so many former students played a central role in the nomination process. Pamela Fischer, an engineer at Intel Corp. in Hillsboro, Oregon, and a former Ph.D. student with Richmond, says, “She’s a fantastic role model of someone who can do it all—a successful woman scien- tist, a professor, and a mother. She goes out and actively recruits women into science even in the face of people who say they can’t do it.” Richmond intends to use the award for local programs designed to get girls in K–12 interested in mathematics and science and to launch a nationwide mentoring program for women interested in pursuing careers in chemistry in higher education. Congratulations and keep up the good work, Geri!
2 The Richard M. Noyes Physical Chemistry Achievement Award The first recipient of the Richard who study and build on this work. M. Noyes Physical Chemistry Professor Noyes received a Achievement Award was Mathew Guggenheim Fellowship in 1955, a Miller, an undergraduate researcher Fulbright Fellowship in 1964, Na- in the Diane Hawley lab. Miller tional Science Foundation Senior graduated summa cum laude, re- Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1965, ceived the Biochemistry Achieve- and an Alexander von Humboldt ment Award, and is Phi Beta Kappa. Senior American Scientist Award in The award, previously the Physi- 1978–79. His most notable honors cal Chemistry Achievement Award, are his election into the National was renamed in honor of Professor Academy of Sciences in 1977 and Richard “Dick” Noyes who came to election to the American Academy the university in 1959. Noyes, who of Arts and Sciences in 1989. served as department head for four During his career, Professor terms, was a major player in the Noyes has published 190 scientific development of the Department of articles in professional scientific Chemistry until his retirement in journals and he was associate editor 1984. He is an internationally of the Journal of Physical Chemistry in acclaimed chemist, known most 1980–82. On April 6, 1989, marking widely for his work in chemical ki- the occasion of his seventieth birth- Richard M. Noyes netics and the Oregonator model of day, Professor Noyes was honored oscillating chemical reactions. His with a special Festschrift edition of individual is a rare event—a signifi- work on oscillating chemical reac- the Journal of Physical Chemistry, cant tribute by the scientific commu- tions brought worldwide recogni- which included articles by many nity to his contributions, service, tion to Eugene and the University of former students and colleagues. and spirit in advancing chemistry Oregon from scientists in chemistry, Dedication of a full issue of a major teaching and research in Oregon, in physics, biology, and mathematics international research journal to one the nation, and around the world. Chemistry Endowment Fund Three years ago the Department have just passed the $50,000 mark in been very gratifying. We express of Chemistry embarked on a fund- gifts received that qualify for the our deep appreciation to all of you raising challenge to raise $60,000 in state match. We hope to meet our who have contributed. The names five years, which would be matched $60,000 goal of matched gifts in the of those who contributed during with funds from the State Board of fourth year of our campaign. The the past academic year, 1996–97 Higher Education. At present we contributions made by you have are listed below.
CONTRIBUTORS 1996–97 Abbott Labs Manuel Debono Meagan Hessel Mohammad David Paxton (S. and M. Magic) Christopher de Groot Hewlett Packard Malekzadeh Robert Pinschmidt Air Products Dow Chemical Co. (C. Houk) Lisa Markov Lucius Rivers (R. Pinschmidt) (G. V. Bettoney) Marion Hill Kent Marshall James Roberts Andrew D. Barofsky David Draper James Hofrichter Mitchel Martin Rohm & Haas George V. Bettoney Tom Dyke Meyer Horowitz Mark McClure (J. M. Owens) Curtis E. Borchers Eddie Bauer Carol Houk Mark Meier Douglas Runckel Boise Cascade (S. Hadley) Tricia Igawa Yoon Merrill Maurice Schwarz (R. M. Vaughn) Patrick Ellison Paul W. Jagodzinski David Messenger Claibourne Smith Michael Bozarth Thomas R. Farnham David E. Jensen Chup Yew Mok Linda Smith John F. Brown Richard Feinman Robert D. Johnson Russell Molyneux Wayne Soloman Ernie Bush John Fitzgerald George H. Kennedy Keith Moring Wayne M. Stalick Catherine Chanin Glen Frerichs Herbert Kopperman Bruno Morosin Tom Stevens Therese Clauss James Garbe Lefford Lowdon Bruce Morrison Timothy Thomas Lawrence Cohn Steven Hadley Vicky Lyon Richard Moulton Mike Uhler Stephen Cross Carol Hahn Lockheed (B. Morosin) Ernst Niemi Ralph Vaughn Harold Davidson Thomas Harris Susan Magic William T. Nolan Adam Whiting Johnny Deblock William Herzog Michael Magic Joseph M. Owens Pancras Wong
3 Alumni Achievement Award in Chemistry
Harry Noller Donald McQuarrie
Winners of the Alumni Achievement the ribosome and its structure and chemistry theory, particularly statis- Award in Chemistry are a select group function in catalyzing the translation tical mechanics where he has made chosen for this honor for professional and synthesis of proteins. His ap- significant contributions to the and personal achievements and service proach to this problem has been theory of dense fluids, electrolytes, that exemplify the Oregon spirit and broad, involving considerations of and the theory of the electrical traditions of leadership and excellence. evolution, biochemistry, and bioor- double layer. McQuarrie is the au- Presentation of the Alumni Achieve- ganic mechanisms. Much of our un- thor of three successful textbooks on ment Award in the College of Arts and derstanding of ribosome structure is general chemistry, statistical me- Sciences was established in 1989 by based on the models he developed chanics, and quantum mechanics, all Dean Donald R. Van Houten. This using incisive chemical probing of which have been widely used, in- year’s awards were presented in ceremo- techniques combined with evolu- cluding here at the University of nies held February 25, 1997. tionary and phylogenetic reasoning. Oregon. He has also written a more Harry Noller, Ph.D. ’65 with His work has been recognized with specialized monograph on stochastic Sidney Bernhard, is Robert L. many honors, including election to aspects of chemical kinetics. He re- Sinsheimer Professor of Molecular the National Academy of Sciences. ceived a University of California, Biology at the University of Califor- Donald McQuarrie, Ph.D. ’62 Davis award for distinguished nia, Santa Cruz (UCSC). After re- with Terrill Hill, is professor emeri- teaching. Donald McQuarrie’s career ceiving his degree in chemistry from tus of chemistry at the University of has been marked by insight, accom- the University of Oregon and California, Davis. After teaching at plishment, and the ability to share postdoctoral research at the MRC, Michigan State University and Indi- his insight with students and Cambridge, and at the University of ana University, and working in in- colleagues. Geneva, Noller joined the faculty at dustry, he joined the faculty at Davis UCSC. He has had a remarkable in 1978. He remained there until he research career, and is widely con- retired in 1995. His research interests sidered to be the leading expert on have been in the area of physical
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Send his or her name, address, and a brief explanation of why you feel your nominee deserves this award to Alumni Awards Committee, Department of Chemistry, 1253 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1253.
4 NEW YEAR’S DAY , 1945— Reflections SURPRISE ATTACK BY THE UFTWAFFE This is final excerpt from the mem- L . oirs of Marion Hill ’48, M.S. ‘49. The December 31, 1944, was a miser- first two installments, published in the able day of slogging through snow 1995 and 1996 UO Chemistry News, and ice on the ground, but flight op- described the Department of Chemistry erations continued. Generally, in the 1940s and living accommodations December was a month of reversals of married students. In this excerpt for the Allied armies and no one felt Aftermath of Messerschmidts’ attack, Marion Hill provides a glimpse of his like celebrating on New Year’s Eve. New Year’s Day, 1945. experiences before he came to the Uni- An 8:00 P.M. curfew discouraged any versity of Oregon in 1946, as one of the social life in town, and there was to fall. It crashed a hundred yards many returning veterans of World War little to do but sleep. Most people away. The planes were hellishly II. It serves to remind us of the debt we retired to their bunks for the night. close, and we could hear the swish- owe to those who were wounded or The weather on New Year’s Day swish of their shells. As I turned my killed while serving in the armed forces, was clear and cold and everyone head to remark about it to the man and the diversity of our students and was looking forward to a full day of lying in front of me, I heard a their backgrounds. Marion Hill received successful missions. By 0930 two whoosh! A shell had ricocheted and a UO Chemistry Alumni Achievement squadrons had taken off for their hit me in the face. I was not aware of Award in 1996 for his outstanding missions, and a third, was preparing being hit. I looked down and saw career in chemistry. to leave. The Combat Intelligence that my gloves and lower arms were Section had completed its duties of covered with blood. The fellow in briefing the squadrons. New Year’s front turned around and said, Day was the first opportunity on our “You’re hit in the face—blood is new base to scrounge for anything gushing out all over!” For the first we could use in our tents, barracks, time in my life, I thought I was go- or keep as souvenirs. Several group ing to die. A medic came over the headquarters men and I strolled foundation wall and after slapping among the burned-out buildings on a gauze bandage, he and others looking for anything we could use. placed me on a stretcher and carted As we were doing so, I looked up at me to the evacuation hospital in the ring of hills about 500 feet high Metz. The airfield was still under that surrounded Metz and our base fire from the strafing aircraft. in the form of a “U”. At the same time we heard ack-ack firing in Metz RECOVERY. and then saw flashes from the wings of a large number of planes. Every- In the field hospital, x-rays one yelled, “Messerschmidts!” and showed that half of an exploding dove for any cover that could be bullet was lodged near my wind- found. There were no foxholes be- pipe, with small foreign objects, pos- cause the frozen ground prevented sibly concrete, elsewhere. None of Susan Jones and Marion Hill, digging. The Luftwaffe attack con- the major arteries in my throat was May 19, 1945. sisted of sixteen Messerschmidt damaged by the shell that shattered 109s. One other fellow and I dived my left jaw and knocked out two PARTICIPATION IN THE for the foundation wall of a burned- molars. The doctor, a plastic surgeon out barracks. This barrier protected in civilian life, who removed the BATTLE OF NORMANDY. us in one direction only, but was bet- bullet from my throat told me that In June 1944, I was a technical ter than nothing. As we were lying he would sew me up correctly so sergeant and head noncommis- there, the first pass of the that I should not have too many sioned officer in S-2, Combat Intelli- Messerschmidts was right overhead; problems from the wound. (He was gence, of the 365th Fighter-Bomber they missed us. Then I looked to- right; the scar is hardly noticeable Group Headquarters, Ninth Air ward the east end of the field where today.) I still have the bullet that he Force. Our section received and dis- the planes were flying back and removed. tributed intelligence information to forth parallel to the way we were the fighter squadrons, especially as lying. They worked their way across it pertained to air operations. the field firing all the time until they were overhead. As I looked up, I saw one plane catch fire and begin
5 FACULTY NEWS separate story). Consultants is a research organiza- tion owned by Lloyd Dolby. Michael Kellman, outgoing president of the Telluride Summer VISITING FACULTY ETIRED ACULTY Research Center, has achieved an- The Department of Chemistry R F other successful series of work- has had a record number of faculty The July 1997 issue of Senior shops at the Telluride Academy in visitors this year. Douglas News featured an article by George Telluride, Colorado, this year. The Chapman, associate professor of Beres on Raymond Wolfe, chemis- workshops, which bring together chemistry at Southern Oregon State try professor emeritus, age seventy- scientists from around the world, College, taught the general chemis- seven, and his new career in the cover areas of science ranging from try laboratories during summer ses- communication field. After becom- biology to engineering. Carlos sion. Soek Burm Choe, professor of ing a regular at the station, Ray has Bustamante’s research group, in chemistry at Keimyung University earned his own slot on Channel 11, collaboration with researchers at in Taegu, Korea, is conducting re- a local Public Access TV channel. the University of California, Santa search in collaboration with David Each Friday evening at 9:00 P.M., his Barbara, have discovered a way to Tyler. Richard Feinman, Ph.D. ’65 weekly show, In the Public Interest, track the workings of DNA. They with Sidney Bernhard, is visiting is aired. have been able to show for the first from State University of New York The show features segments of time that it is possible to record Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn. community life for people to ex- moving pictures of cellular machin- Feinman, now professor of bio- press their views. Mayor Jim Torrey ery transcribing genes along chemistry, is writing a textbook for and former City Councilman, strands of DNA using a scanning medical students, He will teach In- Kevin Hornbuckle, two long-time force microscope. Ken Doxsee has troduction to Organic Chemistry protagonists in city government, returned to campus after spending (CH 332) during winter term. have been his guests. Other seg- a year at the National Science Foun- Kenichi Izawa, a visiting scholar ments will feature botanist Mary dation as a program officer in or- from Fuji-Sylesia who worked with O’Brien and environmentalist ganic and macromolecular Jim Hutchison from 1995–97, has Ethan Newman. chemistry. Seth Rasmussen has returned to Japan. Hitoshi Naruse, Wolfe and his wife, Barbara, been hired as an organic chemistry a visiting scholar, also from Fuji- were among the volunteers who Instructor beginning fall term 1997. Sylesia in Japan has arrived to do used the public media to help save He received his Ph.D. from collaborative research with Mike EWEB (Eugene Water and Electric Clemson University in South Caro- Haley. Mordecai Rubin, who has Board) from operating under lina with John D. Petersen, and has been a visiting professor several nuclear power in the early 1970s. In been working as a research associ- times during the past years with the Beres article, Wolfe says that he ate for James E. Hutchison. He re- Richard Noyes, visited the chemis- has “always believed dialogue to places T. K. Vinod who left the try department this summer and be basic to democracy, and one of University of Oregon to assume the conducted research in collaboration the great merits of Public Access position of assistant professor at with David Tyler. Rubin is from the TV in Eugene is that it expands on Western Illinois University in Israel Institute of Technology in open dialogue.” Warner Peticolas Macomb. In an E-mail message, Haifa, Israel. Yang-Heon Song, a will be awarded an honorary doc- Vinod wrote that he and his family professor in the Department of toral degree from the University of have settled into their new home. Chemistry at Mokwon University Lille in France on Friday, December He is also very pleased with his in Taejon, Korea, is conducting re- 5, 1997. In keeping with French cus- new position. His E-mail address is search with LeRoy Klemm. Lars tom, the award ceremony will be
6 the Good Samaritan Center, 3500 describe her as “a high-energy, in February 1998, after ten years in Hilyard Street, Eugene OR 97405. people person.” Brian Fuller, ac- the department, nineteen years at His health is deteriorating. LeRoy counting assistant, has left the De- the university, and a total of twenty- Klemm and wife, Christine, toured partment of Chemistry. He and his nine years working for the state. Ireland and England for three wife, Tami, who is a recent graduate Marilyn is usually a student’s first weeks and former iron curtain of the University of Oregon archi- contact with our department when countries (Poland, Slovakia, Hun- tecture department, have both ac- inquiring about graduate school. To gary, Czech Republic and East Ger- cepted jobs in the Portland area. her credit, she has become “mom” many) for two additional weeks. He They are expecting their first to many students who are far from is completing a three-year period as daughter in October. J. D. Stiehl home, helping them find housing, chairman of the Oregon Chapter of has been hired to replace Brian roommates, and anything else they ACS. Robert M. Mazo recently Fuller. J. D. previously worked in might need. Her caring spirit and gave the opening remarks at a Sta- the teaching labs with Lynn Woolfe giving nature has made her a won- tistical Physics Conference in Po- as a science laboratory preparator. derful ambassador for the depart- land. Mazo also presented a paper Welcome to the department, J. D. ment. Other notable on his research and gave the closing Gary Nolan, chemistry stores man- accomplishments include her role remarks at the conference. He and ager, has left the University of Or- as coordinating editor of this news- wife, Joan, have also spent time egon and has accepted a position as letter and editing and publishing touring France and visiting their chemist at a manufacturer of herbal the graduate brochure. We wish her grandchildren in Philadelphia. extracts located in Eugene, Oregon. well in her future travels and Marilyn Howard, graduate secre- adventures! STAFF NEWS tary for the department, will retire Marcella “Marcie” Wood, who has been an important part of the chemistry department since her ar- rival October 8, 1981, was honored Septemberfest ‘97 on June 27 with a farewell open The thirty-seventh annual Chem- house hosted by the third floor fac- istry Picnic was held on Thursday, ulty. Marcie provided essential ad- September 18, 1997, at Armitage ministrative support services to Park. What makes this annual picnic organic-inorganic floor faculty, staff special? Tradition, participation, and and students. Her ability to meet fun! One cherished tradition is the tight deadlines made the difference do-it-yourself barbecue. Lynn between getting funded and not Woolfe sees to it that the 100 pounds getting funded for many proposals. of prime roast beef is ordered and With the advent of the personal delivered the day before the barbe- computer, Marcie enthusiastically cue. It is prepared like no where else learned about new hardware and on campus. Lynn shows a group of The Three Musketeers serve barbecued software and became an authorita- graduate students a video tape of beef. From left to right: Eric Sheagley, tive resource for others in the de- the “roasting of the beef” from an Ian Griswold, and Andy Carmel, partment who needed help with the earlier picnic. Then, down in the second-year chemistry students are part new technology. These professional teaching lab, the seven students, a of Lynn Woolfe’s barbecue team. and technical attributes, along with mix of graduating and entering her unparalleled interpersonal students, keep the tradition alive. skills, made her the best office spe- They spear the beef on a stainless cialist for which any group of iras- steel shaft and tie it up with string. cible chemists could ever hope. Early the next morning the students Marcie and her cheerful demeanor haul the beef and about 100 pounds will surely be missed. Kristi of charcoal to Armitage Park, on the Mikkelsen, has come to the chemis- bank of the McKenzie River. There try department from the Materials they set up David Senkovich’s cus- Science Institute, where she has tom-built rotisserie, start the fire, worked in a part-time capacity and tend the roast all day. Amidst since November 1996. She will fill genuine excitement the students get the position vacated by Marcie to know each other, and the torch is Wood. Kristi has a degree in jour- passed from one generation to the nalism from the University of Or- next. Clarisse Heinhorst and Lynn Woolfe egon and will help with the Preparation for Septemberfest celebrate solidarity as the picnic gets chemistry department web page. begins weeks before the event. Those who have worked with Kristi underway.
7 Cathy Page, Carolyn Bahrman, Julie Haack, and Diane Hawley wait in line to sample the refreshments.
Clarisse Heinhorst circulates a list of things that need to be done (e.g., cooking the corn, bringing potluck items, cleaning up). What makes the event special is the broad participa- Ralph Barnhard, as master of ceremonies, gives away prizes won in the drawing. This tion of the faculty, staff and gradu- prize is a Dairy Queen treat won by John Schellman. ate students. The community comes together and has a great party. On the day of the picnic, people start A highlight is the final event, a are held, one for kids (every kid is a arriving in the afternoon to play drawing for prizes with Ralph winner) and one for adults. As part volleyball, horse shoes, or other Barnhard as the emcee. Ralph of the tradition, the names of the games. Children and dogs are wel- warms up by announcing the names merchants who contributed prizes come. Some of us can remember the of people who contributed time and are posted at the picnic. However, years that the faculty and graduate food for the event, signalling “one this year we are listing them below. students played football, with Tom clap” for each. Then two drawings When you are in Eugene, please Koenig, former All-American, lead- patronize these folks. ing the faculty to an occasional vic- tory. By 4:00 P.M. most people have arrived and many gather around the beer kegs. Then everyone goes LIST OF MERCHANTS, GIFTS, AND RECIPIENTS: through the food line and sits down at the long tables for the meal, fol- $20 gift certificate from Bubba’s Place received by Bob Foster; $40 gift certifi- lowed by frequent visits to the cate from The Treehouse Restaurant received by George Hanson; $25 gift cer- dessert table. tificate from Rennie’s Landing received by Bridgett Barron and Ben Straw; three gifts certificates from Pietro’s Pizza presented to Erin Edmunds, Robert Mellon, and Tana Feinman; two tickets to A Midsummer Night’s Dream from the Eugene Ballet Company, given to Myung Yoon; eight gift certificates from Dairy Queen received by John Strehl, Trevor Conteras, John Schellman, Jim Blanchett, and Julie Haack; two tickets to any fall concert in any section won by Pat Engelking; $10 gift certificate from Napoli Restaurant and Bakery given to Ryan Henke; a gift certificate for one large pizza donated by Mazzi’s Pizza was given to Hayes Griffith; a $20 gift certificate donated by the UO Bookstore was given to Jesse Keiker; two $15 gift certificates were received from Track Town Pizza and were given to Wendy Breyer and Jim Hutchison; Warner Peticolas (left), Charlotte and John Schellman, and David Herrick (in Marker Gene Technologies, Inc. donated three $25 gift certificates— Mazzi’s back) enjoying Septemberfest ‘97. Pizza went to Leland Mason, Mekala’s to Mark Watry, and Macheesmo Mouse Restaurants to Korin Becraft; Sunday brunch for two ($31.50) was do- nated by Valley River Inn and was given to Ben Paxton; ten $2.50 gift certifi- cates were donated by Sweet Treats and were given to the children at the picnic. Thanks to all of the merchants for their generosity.
8 American Chemical Society Student Affiliates Initiate Community Outreach Program Last year, the membership of the UO chapter of the Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society grew to more than thirty under- graduates. In addition to their usual activities (student affiliates T-shirt design contest, guest professor semi- nar series, and tours of local chemis- try-related businesses), the chapter published a quarterly newsletter, The Alchemist and established new community outreach programs at elementary and middle schools. The outreach programs involved per- forming chemical demonstrations with the goal of the getting students interested in chemistry at a young age. This year the affiliates aim to increase their involvement in the community and plan to sponsor a student affiliate meeting-in-minia- ture. Poster presentations during the meeting will provide an opportunity for students to share their under- graduate research experiences with each other and the faculty. Undergraduates Publish in Scientific Journal Alex Pico A paper showing how to make Bell will be attending Oregon polyacetylenic molecules using a Health Sciences University this fall new method, written by three un- and Johnson, who will be commis- Awarded Arts dergraduate students, was pub- sioned a second lieutenant after lished in the March 26, 1997, issue of graduation, hopes to do chemical the Journal of the American Chemical research for the government after his and Sciences Society. Mike Bell, Jamieson En- mandatory four years in the armed glish, and Charles Johnson co- services. English is touring England. Scholarship authored the paper with Mike Haley, assistant professor, and Tim Each spring, the College of Arts Weakley, research associate. The stu- and Sciences dean’s office presents dents worked as undergraduate re- Biochemistry four scholarships to outstanding stu- searchers with Haley investigating dents to encourage their pursuits in the chemistry of carbon-rich mol- Major higher education. These scholarships ecules. Mike Haley said, “Of the five are made possible by the generosity desired products we wanted to cre- of alumni and friends. Alexander ate, four of them were made by the Approved Pico, an undergraduate biochemis- undergraduates.” try major, received one of these es- Undergraduate research gives stu- This fall University of Oregon teemed scholarships. Alex would dents an opportunity to be scientists students will be able to choose a like to earn a Ph.D. and become a and apply all that they have studied. new major. The university now of- university professor. Congratula- Mike Bell thought that publishing an fers a major in biochemistry through tions, Alex! article in such a prestigious journal the Department of Chemistry. The was something that only graduate degree is designed to prepare under- students were able to do. graduates for a research career in academia, in an industrial setting, or in a profession such as medicine.
9 Undergraduate Research Projects
BREN SCHILL CAREY MARTINS REBECCA HAMBLIN Research Adviser: Michael Haley Research Adviser: O. Hayes Griffith Research Adviser: Catherine Page Research Project Research Project Research Project Our project is directed toward the My primary focus in the labora- I’m working on a thin-film self- development of a standard synthetic tory has been to study the use of assembly hybrid project. The inter- route to metallabenzenes and their fluorescence spectroscopy in deter- esting aspect of this project I’m isomers. Metallabenzenes are novel mining the kinetics of our enzyme, focusing on is, instead of alternating aromatic systems in which an iso- B. cereus PI-PLC. This has involved inorganic-organic (1 and 2) layers, electronic transition metal fragment both tryptophan and substrate fluo- I’m attempting an inorganic- replaces a methine (CH) unit. The rescence. Recently I have moved into organic-inorganic'-organic' (1-2-3-4) molecule retains its aromatic physi- site-directed mutagenesis, where we scheme. cal and chemical properties. Only a hope to modify the active site of our Personal Statement few examples of metallabenzenes bacterial PI-PLC to behave closely to I became interested in this project exist, and their valences isomers are that of the mammalian PI-PLC. mainly through conversations with unknown. Personal Statement my peers already working in Page’s My contribution to the project is During the biology core, I was lab and enhanced my interest after the synthesis of a cis-vinylcyclo- really excited by cellular biochemis- reading about the project. My future propene that may lead to a valence try. The various proteins and com- plans include getting a master’s de- isomer of metallabenzene. Despite pounds involved in the pathways gree and using it to help people, the temperamental nature of my sparked my interest. I learned about either through teaching or research. problem child (and its capricious Griffith’s lab while taking physical intermediates) we found ourselves chemistry from him. This motivated the proud owners of 3-phenyl-3-(2- me to try to enter a biochemistry lab iodophenyl)cyclopropene. dealing with proteins. Since Griffith Interest in the project came about was my instructor, I approached him because it involved syntheses, and it has been a terrific experience. transitional metal chemistry, and My research experience has had a questions on the mechanism of great influence in my life. Prior to formation. research I wanted to become a phy- Personal Statement sician. Now I am planning to go to Participation in undergraduate graduate school for a Ph.D. in bio- research strongly affected my deci- chemistry–molecular biology or sion to pursue graduate studies in bioengineering. Another option I am chemistry. My initial interest in or- considering is getting a combined ganic chemistry was primarily due M.D.-Ph.D. to lecture, rather than lab work. ULIE ENDRICKSON Teaching labs (fall and winter terms) J H were a relatively stale and stressful Research Adviser: David Johnson experience that inhibited rather than Research Project enhanced my interest in chemistry. We are looking at a class of com- Experience in a research lab is a pounds called skutterudites. The world apart. particular skutterudites I looked at had an iron-antimony framework
10 along with a rare earth element. Personal Statement These compounds have possible I met Jim Hutchison through Or- thermoelectric properties, and we ganic Analysis (CH 339) and learned are looking into seeing exactly how about the projects he was working good those properties are. on. The ion channel project appealed Personal Statement to me most, and I began working in Participation in an undergradu- the Hutchison lab during the sum- ate research project has undoubt- mer after my sophomore year. For edly affected my future plans. It has the future, I have a job offer to work been a wonderful opportunity for as a lab technician in the OHSU lab me. I am interested in continuing to that is studying the dopamine trans- learn about materials science and porters. I’ve enjoyed working in the thin films through employment. lab here and look forward to trying an new lab experience that will be JON LITTY geared more towards biochemistry.” Research Adviser: David Tyler Research Project Synthesis of organic dimers con- taining an inorganic molybdenum backbone. Derivatives of these con- tained various hydrocarbon chains on the organic component. Photo- chemistry of Mo-Mo linkage has been evaluated for each dimer. Personal Statement I became interested in this project because of my interest in industry’s use of inorganic materials for com- FREDRIC ROSQVIST munication. In the future I hope to work for the communications indus- Research Adviser: Paul Engelking try as a chemical engineer. AYA MYTHE Research Project M S The objective of the research Research Adviser: Alice Barkan project was to set up two lasers to be Research Project used in the analysis of different My research focuses on maize chemical systems for the presence of mutants that are deficient in protein ozone. The lasers involved were the targeting within the chloroplast. I excimer laser and the dye laser. The am currently working on cloning a excimer laser was set up to power gene that encodes a protein which the dye laser. The dye laser was set appears to have a novel targeting to a characteristic absorption wave- mechanism in vitro. length at which ozone becomes Personal Statement excited when hit with radiative Our lab has studied and charac- energy. terized mutants deficient in two Personal Statement protein targeting pathways. A third I took a course called Instrumen- pathway has been identified by in tal Analysis that was being taught vitro studies conducted by other by Engelking. The course involved MARY KNAPPEN OLTMAN labs, but no one in our lab had done using different instrumentation to Research Adviser: James Hutchison any in vivo studies. I was asked if I analyze molecules. I really enjoyed Research Project would like to study this third path- the course and Engelking’s teaching For my first year and a half, I way. I thought this project would be style, so I asked if he had any re- worked on the synthesis of a crown very interesting and that it would search opportunities available. He ether molecule, which was to be the broaden our understanding of pro- informed me of the project men- building block of a synthetic ion tein targeting. tioned above, which seemed like an channel. When the project moved to In the future I would like to con- extension of instrumental analysis to the back burner, I began working on tinue to do lab work. I am planning me. I enjoyed working with the la- the synthesis of dopamine ana- to work in a lab at OHSU for the sers and I had interests in the study logues, which a lab at Oregon next year or two before going to of ozone. Health Sciences University (OHSU) graduate school. needs to study the human dopamine transporter.
11 NEWS FROM ALL OVER of Clinical Research at Gen-Probe, Inc. in San Diego. Katie’s advice to 1940s students entering the field of bio- 1960s technology is “get as much back- Marthe E. Smith, B.A. ’48, had a Russell J. Molyneux, postdoctoral ground as you can in molecular long and distinguished career in fellow 1963–65, with Virgil biology and cell biology, anything medicine. After earning an M.S. in Boekelheide, is project leader at having to do with medical applica- pathology and an M.D. degree in Natural Toxins Research Western tions, recombinant DNA technology, 1951, she held a residency in pathol- Regional Research Center ARS- and molecular modeling. Also, mak- ogy (1952–56) at the University of USDA, Albany, California. ing contacts and networking are im- Oregon Medical School (now Oregon portant.” Health Sciences University). She was Wayne M. Stalick ’64, is professor of director of the Cytology Laboratory chemistry at George Mason Univer- Terrone L. Rosenberry, Ph.D. ’69 at the University of California, San sity in Fairfax, Virginia. with Sid Bernhard, reports that his title at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Francisco (1956–58), and assistant Thomas G. Frey ’65 with Lloyd clinical professor. Later she was as- Florida is professor of pharmacol- Dolby, received his Ph.D. from the ogy and consultant. He says “the sociate pathologist at St. Luke’s Hos- University of Idaho in 1970. From pital Department of Pathology and move to Mayo has been a good one there he went directly to Cal Poly in for me. I will have some additional Nuclear Medicine and director of San Luis Obispo, California, where Transfusion Service, 1957–87. institutional resources, and I will he teaches organic and general begin a third area of research on the Marthe writes, “Retired, gratefully, chemistry, and glassblowing. He in 1987. Now I ski, read novels, raise aggregation and disaggregation of also teaches chemistry of glass in A-beta amyloid, in addition to my orchids, travel, and do salt water summer workshops. fishing, and audit math classes at other established areas on acetylcho- San Francisco State University.” Peter M. Bayley, postdoctoral fellow linesterase and GPI biosynthesis and 1967 with John Schellman, received structure.” the 1997 award of the Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Division of Warner- 1950s Lambert Corporation for the best paper published in Protein Science. 1970s Gerald G. Ohlsen, B.A. ’55, worked Peter is with the Division of Physical as a nuclear physicist at Los Alamos Emmanuel L. Udoye, B.S. ’70. After Biochemistry, National Institute for National Lab. In 1980 he entered the receiving his doctor of pharmacy Medical Research, Mill Hill, London, real estate development business degree from the University of the England. and then law school at the Univer- Pacific in Stockton, California, in 1974, he worked for Merck Sharp & sity of New Mexico in 1992. Gordon W. Gribble, Ph.D. ’67 with Dohme in Nigeria from 1979 to 1988. Lloyd Dolby, is professor of chemis- H. Andrew Johansen, Ph.D. ’56 with He is director of Emace Pharm. Co. try at Dartmouth College in Vermont Pierre Van Rysselberghe, is retired in Nigeria (distributor and importer) where he was awarded the Distin- and lives on a small farm near guished Teaching Award for 1997. McMinnville, Oregon. Arthur E. Johnson, Ph.D. ’73 with John Menninger and Pete von Hippel, Chup Yew Mok, Ph.D. ’68 with Ri- George H. Kennedy, B.S. ’59, presented the seminar, “Nascent chard Noyes, is associate professor received his master’s and Ph.D. Protein Environment during Co- of chemistry at the National Univer- degrees from Oregon State Univer- Translational Translocation and Inte- sity of Singapore. sity, where he worked with the late gration at the ER Membrane,” at the Wendell Slabaugh. He joined the Catherine Schaecher (Katie Smith), University of Oregon on December faculty at Colorado School of Mines B.A. ’69, stopped by to visit the UO 3, 1996. Arthur moved from the Uni- immediately after graduation. He in February 1997. Katie worked for versity of Oklahoma to Texas A&M retired last year and plans to build a two summers with Ray Wolfe. She in 1992 where he holds the Wehner- log cabin on his property along the studied biochemistry in graduate Welch Chair in Chemistry. Siletz River near Logsden, Oregon. school and received her Ph.D. from H. Peter Jensen, research associate the University of Arizona in 1976. 1974–75 with John Schellman, visit- Katie worked in research and devel- ing professor in 1978, and lab guest opment at Abbott Laboratories in in 1976 and 1984, has been the Rektor Chicago, then transferred to Allied of the Danish Technical University. Instrumentation Laboratory in Bos- Peter and his family love Oregon ton. After working for a while with and visit almost every summer. Hybritech, Inc., Katie is now director
12 Penelope Toothman, Ph.D. ’76 with assistant professor in the Department Peter von Hippel, is an independent of Biomathematics at the University scientist in Boulder, Colorado. 1990s of California, Los Angeles. Thomas L. Paquette, Ph.D. ’77 with Mitchell Martin, Ph.D. ’90 with Ed Timothy Aukett, M.S. ’93 with Ed Herbert, is a research scientist at Herbert, is principal scientist in David Tyler, was chosen by the Al- Nexstar, Inc. in Boulder, Colorado. bioinformatics and genomics at chemist, a newsletter of the Student Hoffmann-La Roche in Nutley, New Affiliates of the American Chemical Jersey. Society, as Teaching Assistant of the Winter Term 1997. During that term 1980s Hale Nicholson, Ph.D. ’90 with he was one of the two teaching assis- Brian Matthews, and Susan Hem- James Garbe, Ph.D. ’82 with Virgil tants for the honors general chemis- ming became parents of a baby girl try lab. He is well known for his Boekelheide, is still working at 3M on December 1, 1996. in St. Paul, Minnesota. His current patience with the students and for research is in new materials for Brian E. Daikh, B.A. ’90, is in the his firm but relaxed teaching style. high-energy rechargeable batteries. residency training program in inter- Tim has accepted a position as se- nal medicine at Maine Medical Cen- nior technician at Hewlett-Packard Randall Mrnsy, postdoctoral fellow ter in Portland. He married Heidi in Corvallis. 1982–85 with Hayes Griffith, is now Wierman, B.S. ’96, who is a resident Alfred A. Avey Jr., Ph.D. ’93 with a researcher at Genentech in Palo in the same program. Alto, California. David Tyler, is a research scientist in Chanrithy Him, B.A. ’92. After organic synthesis with Lloyd Dolby James B. Marth, B.S. ’83, is at the graduation, she worked for the at Organic Consultants, Inc. in Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Division of Child Psychiatry at Eugene. the University of California, San Di- Oregon Health Sciences University ego in LaJolla. Jeffrey Marks, B.A. ’94, received a on a major post traumatic stress dis- master of science degree in analyti- Parthasarathy Nambi, Ph.D. ’84 tress study on the survivors of the cal chemistry from the University of with John Schellman, is an instructor Cambodian Holocaust. She has Washington in 1997. at Seattle Community College in written an autobiography, When the Washington. Owl Cries, and has nearly completed Pamela R. Fischer, Ph.D. ’95 with a book, When Broken Glass Floats, A Geraldine Richmond, returned to Julie A. Haack, B.S. ’86, recently be- Memoir of the Khmer Rouge Years in Oregon this year to begin a position gan work as a staff scientist in the Cambodia. She presented a twelve- at Intel, Inc. in Hillsboro. research and development of diag- year follow-up study on the survi- Ye Xu, B.S. ’95, has joined the Boston nostic test kits at Emerald Diagnos- vors of the Cambodian Holocaust, Group, LP. He can be reached at One tics here in Eugene. “Cambodia: Power, Myth and Exchange Plaza, 24th Floor, New Memory,” at an international confer- Klaus D. Plitzko, Ph.D. ’86 with York NY 10006. Virgil Boekelheide, recently returned ence at Monash University in Aus- to Oregon for a visit before begin- tralia. This research paper was also Tommy Thompson, B.S. ’95, a kicker ning his position as business man- presented at the eighth annual con- for the San Francisco Forty-Niners, ager of BASF Corporation in Mt. ference, organized by United Cam- is a chemist for Athena Neuro- Olive, New Jersey. bodian Students of America, held at sciences, Inc. during the off-season California State University in Long from February to June. Tommy is Bao-Lu Chen, Ph.D. ’88 with John Beach in January 1997. part of a group trying to produce a Schellman, is principle scientist at drug to arrest the progress of Howard Reese, postdoctoral fellow Chiron Corp. in Emeryville, Califor- Howard Reese multiple sclerosis. nia. 1991–94 with John Schellman, is a senior research scientist with Benjamin Geertz, B.S. ’95, has been Karen Larison, M.S. ’88 with Nanogen Corp. in San Diego, a research assistant at the Oregon Charles Kimmel, earned another California. Health Sciences University in Port- master’s degree at Oregon State land. Fall term 1997, he entered the Keith Blake Moring, B.S. ’93, is a University and is now a researcher Keith Blake Moring M.B.A. program at Portland State technical service and development in the Histology Laboratory in the University. Institute of Neuroscience at the chemist at Hydrite Chemical Co. in University of Oregon. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Alasdair Turner, B.S. ’96, worked in an environmental testing laboratory Kirsten Vance-Higman, M.S. ’94 Kirsten Vance-Higman at NVL Laboratories and is now an with David Tyler, is a process devel- analytical chemist for Ecology and opment chemist with Aerojet in Environment, Inc. in Seattle, Rancho Cordova, California. Washington. Hong Qian, postdoctoral fellow 1990–93 with John Schellman, is
13 Jennifer Gage, Ph.D. ’97 with Bruce Jesse I. Bohrer-Clancy, M.S. ’97 Branchaud, is beginning her as a with Catherine Page, worked in the postdoctoral fellowship at the Uni- Page lab during the summer and In versity of Notre Dame in Indiana. entered the Peace Corp in Septem- ber. He is teaching high school Lynnette C. Garner, Ph.D. ’97 with Lynnette C. Garner chemistry in Kenya. Ken Doxsee, has accepted a position Memoriam at the Cancer Research Institute at Michael Godsey, M.S. ’97 with Arizona State University with Carlos Bustamante, will continue Note added in proof. Richard M. George Pettit. his graduate studies at the Univer- Noyes died on November 25, sity of Oregon Health Sciences in 1997, after a series of strokes. He Eric A. Miller, Ph.D. ’97 with the field of crystallography and bio- was seventy-eight years old. Geraldine Richmond, is a process chemistry. Dick Noyes was a beloved engineer for Wacker-Siltronic, a sili- member of the department and con wafer manufacturer in Portland. Jane F. Hetzer, B.S. ’97, has been avid conservationist. See p. 3 for hired as a quality-control technician Yen-Ju Chen, Ph.D. ’97 with Tom H. a description of his professional Yen-Ju Chen at East Earth Herb, Inc., a manufac- Stevens, joined Genentech, Inc. in achievements in chemistry. He turer of herbal extracts located in South San Francisco in August. learned of the Richard M. Noyes Eugene. Physical Chemistry Achieve- Dewaine Jackson, Ph.D. ’97 with Marc Hornbostel, postdoctoral fel- ment Award before his death. Tom H. Stevens, has accepted a low 1993–96 with David Johnson, teaching postdoctoral position at Charles E. Klopfenstein received has accepted a position as staff sci- Mount Holyoke in South Hadley, his B.A. in 1962 and his Ph.D. in entist at Symyx Technologies in Massachusetts. 1966 with Leroy Klemm at the Sunnyvale, California. University of Oregon. He began David Adler, M.S. ’97 with Mark Anne Qin Zhu, Ph.D. ’97 with Peter as an assistant professor in the Lonergan, has been accepted for von Hippel, has accepted a Department of Chemistry at the graduate study at the Medical Col- postdoctoral position with H. Singh University of Oregon in 1967 lege of Virginia. at the University of Chicago. and left the UO in 1991. His re- search was in organic chemistry, Gregory Baxley, Ph.D. ’97 with chemical instrumentation and David Tyler, has been teaching Envi- computers in industry. Chuck ronmental, Air and Water Chemistry died on March 12, 1997, at the during summer session here at the age of fifty-seven as the result of University of Oregon. He has ac- a stroke. cepted a position as an organic chemist at Organic Consultants in Theron Edwin Holland, M.S. ’93 Eugene. with Warner Peticolas, died on April 21, 1997, in Missoula, Montana. He was thirty-two years old. Theron enjoyed the outdoors and owned an envi- ronmental services consulting Derek Gragson firm at the time of his death. Susan Jones Hill, wife of Marion Receives Prestigious Hill (B.A. ’48, M.A. ’50) died Sunday, August 10, 1997, at home surrounded by her family, Nottingham Prize ending her seven year battle against metastasized breast can- Derek Gragson, Ph.D. ’97 with Geraldine Richmond, won the Nottingham cer. The “Reflections” articles Prize at the fifty-seventh annual Physical Electronics Conference sponsored on student life at the University by the Division of Condensed Matter Physics and Division of Atomic, Mo- of Oregon featured in two previ- lecular and Optical Physics of the American Physical Society held at the ous chemistry newsletters were University of Oregon, June 18-21, 1997. This highly regarded prize is written by Marion, and the 1996 awarded to the best graduate student talk based on a Ph.D. thesis that is chemistry newsletter high- presented at the conference. The title of Derek’s thesis is “Investigations of lighted Susan’s adjustment to the Structure and Ordering of Water Molecules at Air-Water and Oil-Water student life. Private interment Interfaces.” Gragson has accepted a teaching postdoctoral position with was held Tuesday, August 12, Shenda Baker at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. and a memorial service was held on Friday, August 15, 1997.
14 1997 1997 Department of Chemistry Chemistry Awards Graduates Graduating Seniors
ACHELOR S EGREE General Chemistry Achievement B ’ D Heide Smith, Andrea Seig, Walter Weare, Suthida Supantamart Barrett Adams, Paul E. Bennett, Arianne C. Boyer, Katherine Brown Bill Bowerman Fund Scholarships (Honors), LaMarr J. Cannon, Dustin Kane Anderson (Named for Senior Instructor Ralph Barnhard) D. Carlson, Heather Crafts, Jonathan Alex Pico (Named for Professor Catherine Page) Crane, Marka Crittendon (ACS), Devin L. Drew, Jamison J. English, Physical Sciences Scholarship For Women Eric Fritz, Rebecca S. Hamblin, Julie Andrea Seig Hendrickson, Jane F. Hetzer, Justin Kulongowski, Jeremy M. Lehmann, Seniors with Departmental Honors Jon J. Litty, Carey R. Martens, Katherine Brown, Mathew Miller, Mary Oltman Mathew G. Miller (Honors), Mary Seniors with University Honors Knappen Oltman (Honors), Gratia Mathew Miller, summa cum laude; Marka Crittenden, cum laude; Eileen Parrack, A. O’Rouke, Eileen E. Parrack, cum laude; Desiree Pepper, cum laude; Jamison English, cum laude Melinda Pasquini, Desiree Pepper, Jason C. Pickens, Fredric Rosqvist, Seniors Elected to Phi Beta Kappa Brenden Schill, Maya S. Smythe, Marka Crittenden, Mathew Miller Brooke E. Taylor, Michael A. Tresidder, Karolina A. Wilczynska, American Chemical Society Certification Heng-I Wu. Marka Crittenden
MASTER’S DEGREE ACS Analytical Chemistry Award Brenden Schill, Brooke Taylor David H. Adler, Jesse I. Bohrer- Clancy, Stefan Fischer, Perry E. Biochemistry Achievement Award Francis Jr., Michael H. Godsey, Mathew Miller (Hawley) Marcus R. Helfrich, Christopher Johnson, Kimberly Komisarek, Organic Chemistry Achievement Award Lawrence F. Scatena, John L. Strehl, Katherine Brown (Branchaud); Mary Oltman (Hutchison); Jason Pickens Brandon M. Walts, Mark R. Watry, (Hutchison) Anne Q. Zhu. Richard M. Noyes Physical Chemistry Achievement Award Mathew Miller (Hawley) PH.D. DEGREE Gregory T. Baxley, David Tyler; Yen- Inorganic Chemistry Achievement Award Ju Chen, Tom Stevens; John C. Julie Hendrickson (Johnson) Conboy, Geri Richmond; Gary W. Daughdrill, Rick Dahlquist; Jennifer American Institute of Chemists Foundation L. Gage, Bruce Branchaud; Lynnette Marka Crittenden C. Garner, Ken Doxsee; D. Dewaine Chemistry Teaching Assistant Award Jackson, Tom Stevens; Megan M. Timothy Aukett, Grace Ann Neff, Sean O’Connor, Alexander Pico McEvoy, Rick Dahlquist; Eric A. Miller, Geri Richmond; Robynn V. Chemistry Graduate Research Award Schillace, Rod Capaldi; Chunlin Greg Baxley (Tyler) Tang, Rod Capaldi; Kenneth C. Usher, Jim Remington; Rodger B. Voelker, Alice Barkan; Anne Q. Zhu, Pete von Hippel.
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