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The Nucleus May 2006 3 Noyce NESACS Golf Tournament - Osmium Level Donor IRIX Scholars Students Corporate Patrons and Golf Platinum Program Win Awards AstraZeneca R&D Boston Cardinal Health Funded by National Science DSM Foundation to Train Teachers in Germany Genzyme Drug Discovery & Dev. for City Schools By Morton Z. Hoffman Hovione IBM By Ed Hayward Dan Killelea, a graduate student in the Lyophilization Service of New Eng- A new University of Massachusetts Chemistry Department of Tufts Uni- land Boston project designed to prepare versity, received a third place award Phasex Corporation teachers of math and science for work for his oral presentation at the Eighth Strem Chemicals Inc. in the Boston Public Schools has Young Scientists’ Conference on Zone Enterprises Chemistry (Frühjahrssymposium), received funding from the National Corporate Sponsors and Golf Science Foundation that will support which was organized by the Younger Chemists Committee (Jungchemikerfo- Gold 39 graduate and undergraduate stu- Aerodyne Research Inc. dents in their teacher preparation stud- rum-JCF) of the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Cambridge Isotope Laboratories ies over the next three years. New England BioLabs, Inc. Building on the university’s model Chemiker-GDCh) in Konstanz, Ger- many, March 16-18, 2006. Killelea, a Pfizer urban teacher training program, Teach Rhodia Pharma Solutions Next Year, the Noyce Scholars Pro- graduate student of Prof. Arthur Utz, spoke on “Controlling Surface Chem- Sigma-RBI gram will focus on undergraduate and Teledyne ISCO graduate students preparing to meet the istry via Selective Excitation of Rovi- high demand for subject-trained math brational States.” Donors and Golf Silver and science teachers in the classrooms Two other NESACS students Consulting Resources Corp. Dishman Pharmaceuticals and Chem- of the 21st century. received certificates citing the excep- icals Limited “We’re delighted the NSF has tional quality of their research posters: Vikki Tsefrikas, a graduate student in Houghton Chemical Company funded this program,” said Professor Organix Inc. Lisa Gonsalves, a member of the team Prof. Lawrence Scott’s laboratory at Boston College, on “Progress Toward Peptimmune that secured the grant. “The university Vertex has established an award-winning col- the First Chemical Synthesis of a Sin- laboration with the Boston Public gle Walled Nanotube” and Leland Schools and the Graduate College of Johnson, a graduate student at Boston University with Prof. James Panek, on Education has a proven record of teach mathematics or science in the preparing teachers for urban class- “Expansion of [4+2] Annulation Strategies.” N Boston area during the next three rooms. years. The program will work in part- As with the seven-year-old Teach nership with Boston schools so that Next Year program, which successfully will assist 18 graduate students and 21 teacher training and professional guided graduate students through undergraduate students with tuition, development programs meet the needs courses and internships at the second- fees and other expenses during their of the city and the state. ary Dorchester Education Complex studies and assist graduate students The Noyce Scholars team consists and sent 19 teachers on to the BPS, the during their internship year in a Boston of Graduate College of Education fac- Noyce Scholars will focus on the criti - Public School. Eligible candidates will ulty Lisa Gonsalves, Assistant Profes- cal need for trained math and science have at least a 3.0 GPA, demonstrated sor of Literacy and Assessment, and teachers in urban school systems. strength in mathematics or science, and Jorgelina Abbate-Vaughn, Assistant In Massachusetts, more than 30% an interest in and commitment to Professor in Curriculum and Instruc- of the newly-hired math teachers are teaching. tion; College of Science and Math fac - not licensed to teach the subject, as are The goal of UMass Boston’ s ulty Brian White, Assistant Professor 29% of their science counterparts, Noyce Scholars Program is to increase of Biology; and Marietta Schwartz, according to the Massachusetts Depart- the number of qualified Science, Tech- Associate Professor in Chemistry. Ali- ment of Education. nology, Engineering, and Mathematics son Skerrett, of the GCOE, will serve The $500,000 Noyce NSF grant (STEM) graduates who are qualified to as project coordinator. N 4 The Nucleus May 2006 Monthly Meeting Abstract The 870th Meeting of the Northeastern Section of the American In addition to low cost, adhesive bond - ing offers many advantages including Chemical Society the ability to join dissimilar materials, Education Night the formation of a sealed and aestheti- Thursday, May 11, 2006 cally pleasing joint and the uniform dis- tribution of stresses across that joint.