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Chemistry News Chemistry news College of Arts And ScienCes · depArtment of Chemistry · 2009 InsIde Lorry I. Lokey Laboratories: Integrative 2 Uo Women in graduate science Science, Innovative Research alking into the Lorry 4 Department Head’s WI. Lokey Laboratories Perspective from the entrance between Deschutes and Huestis halls 5 New faculty on the University of Oregon campus is not much differ- 6 Endowed Chair ent than walking downstairs 6 Retirements into any building, but this building is completely 8 Green Chemistry underground. The facility is a signature research center news associated with ONAMI, the 12 Faculty Awards Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute, 13 In Memoriam a collaborative venture involving the UO, OSU, 14 Mordecai rubin’s Portland State University, “Love Affair with Uo” Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and regional John Donovan using a Cameca SX50 Electron Microprobe 16 Alumni news industry representatives, Analyzer in the MicroAnalytical Facility in the Lokey Laboratories. designed to cultivate 22 Chemistry gifts research leadership and and Characterization Lab, electron microscope, in high-tech economic de- and the Photovoltaics which a beam of electrons velopment in Oregon. Characterization Facility. interacts with an ultra-thin A $10 million gift from sample, with down to a 0.8 Business Wire founder Integrative Science Angstrom resolution) is Lorry I. Lokey in 2006 The facility’s impressive almost impossible. They’re initiated construction of the array of equipment and $5 million each. By combin- 26,000-square-foot build- trained technicians and ing resources and support ing, phase one of the two- scientists are available for . it’s more bang for their phase, $76 million integrat- interdisciplinary research buck because instead of ed science complex. Within projects, bringing together supporting ten graduate the Lokey Lab is CAMCOR, scientists in the fields of students, we can support the Center for Advanced chemistry, biology, physics, fifty grad students or 100 Materials Characterization in anthropology, geography, grad students with this Oregon. More than twenty and geological sciences. investment, and in times of high-tech instruments fill “There are no departments tight budgets that’s a very CAMCOR’s MicroAnalytical here,” says John Donovan, important consideration.” Facility, Alice C. Tyler director of the CAMCOR Nanofabrication and Imaging MicroAnalytical Facility, Economic Impact Facility, Nuclear Magnetic “this facility belongs to ev- The nation’s budget Resonance Spectroscopy eryone. For a single faculty tightening does not seem to Facility, Surface Analytical member or even a single have affected ONAMI very Laboratory, X-Ray Diffraction department to get a Titan (a much. When the funding for Lab, Device Fabrication state-of-the-art transmission contInued on 3 University of oregon 1 UO Women in Graduate Science: Helping University Women Become Successful Scientists hen UO alumna out other women. “Of the reaching out to the high together at a luncheon WSara Staggs first nine students entering in the school kids and encour- to share knowledge and formed the UO Women in organic-inorganic division, aging them—you know, mentoring. “I think its really Graduate Science organiza- I was the only female,” she ‘you can do it’—and be valuable, especially for the tion (UOWGS) in 2004, says. “That’s not a typical a positive role model.” high school students who there was no funding, so situation, we’re really not In addition, last years’ don’t necessarily get to see Staggs sought out speak- only 10 percent female, but ers who were already on for me, that’s kind of how campus for other events, I felt.” Membership is both and asked them to speak male and female. “It’s an to her fledgling member- organization for anybody ship. Today, the group has who supports women a fully formed program in science,” Fox says. aimed at strengthening ties Networking is one of the between female gradu- main goals of the group. ate students and women UOWGS hosts monthly in industry and academia speakers, along with two throughout the sciences. skill-building workshops The group is a student- each year. “We try to be run organization with very interactive,” Fox says. graduate students from Past workshops have in- many disciplines. Though cluded public speaking and membership began in the mock interviews with group chemistry department and members conducted by was predominantly chemists people from local business- for the first few years, they es. events for the 2009–10 have expanded outside of school year include an intel- chemistry into physics, biol- lectual property and patent ogy, neurology, and geology. law workshop. “We try to President Brandy Fox has provide skills and informa- been involved as an officer tion that students don’t of UOWGS for four years. necessarily pick up in the The organization strives course of graduate school to reach out to incoming but which are nonetheless graduate students to let very important skills,” Fox UOWGS President Brandy Fox them know the group is says. Life Technologies there for them, and works to (formerly Molecular Probes, speakers included Judith a lot of role models in that meet the needs of the forty then Invitrogen) is a major Iriarte-Gross, who runs position,” Fox says, “and or so members. “Women are collaborator with the group, a successful women-in- undergraduate students who definitely in the minority in cosponsoring workshops sciences group at Middle may not know what they chemistry, not necessarily at and providing an opportunity Tennessee State University. want to do get a chance to the bachelor’s level but once for members to develop “It was definitely use- talk with professionals in you get up into the graduate networks with, and ben- ful,” says Fox. “It gave industry and academia.” level,” Fox says. The group efit from, the experience us all ideas as we move The organization sup- was founded in order to of biotech professionals. forward, of how we can ports its members through offer “a support group and Outreach is a primary reach back and bring awards. Two travel awards find out from different female goal of the group. UOWGS girls up behind us.” are offered annually to help speakers about their life members frequently visit Last year, for the first of a member travel to a confer- path, how they got where local schools and talk about what is planned to be an ence and give a presenta- they are and some of the career paths in science and annual event, UOWGS held tion or poster in their field. challenges they faced.” give a few demonstrations. a Generations Luncheon, in One single-parent award Fox, who is in the chem- “All of our outreach events which high school students, is awarded yearly, which istry Ph.D. program and are targeting younger girls undergraduate students, is designed to assist with is working in David Tyler’s to help get them interested graduate students, and pro- the extra expenses a single lab, entered her career at in careers in science,” Fox fessionals in both industry Oregon as a first-year Ph.D. says. “There’s something and academia are brought student, and began to seek really rewarding about contInued on 4 2 DepartmeNT OF CHeMISTRy Lorry I. Lokey Laboratories: Integrative Science, Innovative Research contInued from 1 being a remote moun- maceutical division of Pfizer, with Johnson and Johnson taintop in New Mexico.” which is developing vaccine developing new, long- the Lorry I. Lokey Integrative The first thing that catch- delivery technologies that wearing contact lenses that Science Complex was an- es the eye upon entering is use no needles. This work were inherently antibacterial nounced, a major goal was a cool blue glow emanating should remove barriers for based on nanotechnology. economic support for high- from the ceiling. At first getting people vaccinated, “They are actually going tech industry in Oregon. glance, the facility does not such as fear of needles, and into manufacturing right ONAMI’s executive director, look like much more than a alleviate issues of needle now,” Donovan says. “We Skip Rung, noted in the rectangular shaped complex reuse in poorer countries did the nanocharacteriza- August 2009 ONAMI news- of offices. A large common that can lead to disease tion and they spent, I letter that in the fiscal year area in the center serves transmission. “you know think, close to $300,000 2009 research members as a place for students to the Star Trek hypo-spray?” in development with us.” collectively won a record eat, talk, and study. It’s only Donovan queries. “They’ve $36.6 million in new awards once you start opening got such things now but Interdisciplinary from federal and private doors and peering into quiet they’re only subdural—they Research sources. He notes, “This is labs that the true purpose don’t actually go into the The frontiers of science, after subtracting $4.5 mil- and potential of this place bloodstream, where you though they are constantly lion in internal subcontracts reveals itself. Within these sometimes need a vaccine expanding, are also in- and before any effects of walls, the research taking to go.” Researchers are us- creasingly being brought federal stimulus spending.” place is poised to place ing gold nanoparticles that together. Rarely now is such Net research award volume Oregon squarely at the are coated with the DNA of research being conducted won by ONAMI member re- forefront of safe, environ- the virus in order to stimu- in isolation, and especially searchers is more than $50 mentally benign, and socially late an immune reaction. at Oregon. The shared in- million, well above the bien- conscious nanotechnology. The nanoparticles penetrate strumentation at facilities nium goal of $40 million, CAMCOR’s slogan into the blood and create like CAMCOR results in and major private gifts to is “Oregon’s High-Tech an innoculation without a merging of fields and ONAMI facilities are above extension Service.” “People needles.
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