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2000

Letter from the Chair ................... 1

Spotlight Profiles ........................... 2

New Faculty .................................. 4

Faculty News .................................. 7

Symposia and Special Events ..... 8

Graduate Program News

Graduate Awards .................... 11

Doctoral Degrees .................... 14

Undergraduate Program News 16

Undergraduate Awards .......... 18

Summer Research Programs . 20

Undergraduate Degrees ........ 21

Spotlight Endowment ................. 22

Gifts ................................................ 23

Alumni News ................................ 25

In Memoriam ................................ 29

Faculty Listing .............................. 30

Alumni ReplyForm ............ inside back cover

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2000 U-M DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

Warm greetings from Ann Arbor and the Department of Chemistry. The past yearhas been a rewarding and exciting one for the Department. We have recruited fournew assistant professors to the Department, and they will begin this September. Wehave also hosted two major symposia this summer in the 8th International Meetingon Free Radicals honoring the 100th anniversary of the discovery of organic freeradicals by Moses Gomberg and the 16th Biennial Conference on ChemicalEducation. The chemistry buildings have undergone few changes, but the reorga-nization of space to accommodate the new hires always remains a high priority andan interesting challenge.

In summarizing our faculty recruitment this past year, the Department facultyand I believe that we have hired four of the most outstanding candidates in thenation. For the first time in recent history, we have hired someone jointly withanother College, namely Pharmacy. We are pleased to have Dr. Anna Mapp joinour faculty as Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Assistant Professor of Medici-nal Chemistry. Anna has a strong background in synthetic organic chemistryhaving received her Ph.D. with Clayton Heathcock at Berkeley, and is coming froma postdoctoral stay in the laboratory of Peter Dervan at Cal Tech. Part of Anna’sresearch program will focus on the understanding of transcription, an early step ingene expression. Anna’s research laboratories will be on the third floor of theWillard H. Dow building.

Another addition to our faculty is Dr. Adam Matzger who comes to us with aPh.D. from Berkeley working with Peter Vollhardt, and a postdoctoral at Cal Techwith Bob Grubbs and Nate Lewis. Adam’s research interests include organicmaterials and polymer chemistry. He will be an important addition to both theorganic cluster as well as our efforts in materials chemistry.

A third hire this year also comes from Berkeley and is Dr. Zhan Chen who willbe Assistant Professor in analytical chemistry. Zhan did his Ph.D. research withProfessor Herb Strauss and then a postdoctoral with Gabor Samorjai at Berkeley onmolecular characterization of polymer surfaces using vibrational spectroscopy.Zhan plans to study polymers and biopolymers by using advanced optical tech-niques. He will be a strong addition to both the analytical and physical chemistrygroups.

In an effort to build a strong theoretical physical chemistry subgroup, we havehired Dr. Eitan Geva who received his Ph.D. from Hebrew University in Jerusalem,and then did postdoctoral work in the U.S. working first with Jim Skinner atWisconsin, and more recently with Greg Voth at the University of Utah. Eitan isinterested in understanding dynamics, chemical reactivity and spectroscopy incondensed matter. We are very pleased and excited about having these four youngcolleagues begin their academic careers at Michigan. More details regarding theirresearch programs follows in the new faculty section of this newsletter.

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University of MichiganCLetter from the Chair

2 2000

Spotlight Profiles on Faculty,Graduate Students andUndergraduates

We highlight one faculty member, one graduate student and one undergraduate studentto let you know of their special accomplishments in the past year. Although the choiceis difficult, considering the numbers of outstanding people in Chemistry at Michigan,we hope you agree this group deserves merit.

Faculty MemberProfessor Mark Meyerhoff joined the Chemistry Department faculty in 1979 and iscurrently in the midst of his 3rd sabbatical leave. During the last 10 months, ProfessorMeyerhoff has spent half of his time working closely on collaborative researchprojects with two major biomedical companies who are utilizing some of the electro-chemical sensor technology developed in his laboratory to devise new productssuitable for monitoring certain chemical species (blood gases, electrolytes, heparin,

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Other faculty news in the Departmentincludes the promotion of Assistant Pro-fessor Neil Marsh to Associate Professorwith tenure, effective September 1st, 2000.One of Neil’s research projects involves,“How do enzymes generate and controlfree radicals”, funded by NIH. Afterreturning from a sabbatical leave, Profes-sor Jim Penner-Hahn has accepted a threeyear appointment as Associate Vice-Presi-dent for Research of the University, ef-fective May 1, 2000. This past year hasincluded some retirements from the fac-ulty. Professor Rich Lawton officiallyretired on January 1st. Professor JohnWiseman will begin a retirement furloughin September of 2000, and ProfessorSeyhan Ege will officially retire on May31st, 2001. We will dearly miss the out-standing and singular teaching contribu-tions in organic chemistry of these threecolleagues.

A number of significant and very posi-tive additions to the administrative staffof the Department have occurred this pastyear. We have hired Mr. Tim Wade as anadministrative manager to oversee theoperations of the Department, superviseall of the staff and assist the Chair inimplementing departmental policies. Timcomes to us with more than 20 years ofexperience in the Medical School. Wehired a senior business manager, Laura

Hornbeck, who will supervise the busi-ness office. Because of the increasedgrant activity and departmental accounts,the business office has been expanded toinclude 2 more positions, bringing thetotal team to 6 people.

On June 25th, 2000, the President ofthe American Chemical Society, Dr.Daryle H. Busch, presented to the Uni-versity and the Department an historicchemical landmark plaque to commemo-rate Moses Gomberg’s discovery of or-ganic free radicals in 1900. The cer-emony included biographical and scien-tific descriptions of Gomberg and com-ments from Dean Shirley Neuman. Theplaque will be installed on a wall in theatrium of the 1988 chemistry building foreveryone to see. We are particularlyproud of this citation because it markedthe first major discovery in organic chem-istry in the United States, and was ac-complished by one of Michigan’s mostdistinguished faculty members.

At the last National Meeting of theACS in San Francisco, April, 2000, theDepartment hosted an annual receptionfor alumni and friends. I especially en-joyed renewing acquaintances with manyof you and look forward to seeing youand others at future receptions. We ex-pect to have another alumni receptionnext April, 2001 at the meeting in San

Diego. The Departmental Alumni andIndustrial Advisory Committee met lastyear, in October to catch up on the recentadditions and activities of the Depart-ment. They are scheduled to meet thisyear on November 10, 2000.

Thanks to your generosity, the pastyear has been a good one for gifts andfinancial support to the Department. Iwish to personally acknowledge yourcontributions and hope that they willcontinue. The major part of these giftsare directed towards undergraduate schol-arships and summer research internshipsand for graduate student support in thesummer. The very competitive nationalscene for quality undergraduates andgraduate students is very intense, and weneed to be in a position to recruit the bestprospects.

Finally, I wish to report that the Uni-versity initiative in the Life Sciences isprogressing well and ground will be bro-ken this year for a building to house theLife Sciences Institute. Another build-ing is planned for Undergraduate Educa-tion in the Life Sciences. Dean ShirleyNeuman is very determined to integratethe undergraduate experience in the LifeSciences with the exciting new researchdirections. The Department of Chemis-try expects to play a major role in thedevelopment and success of the Life Sci-ences Initiative.

Best personal regards, J. P. Marino

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etc.) in whole blood samples. Professor Meyerhoff has remained in Ann Arbor duringthis period, but has made frequent trips to Massachusetts and Minnesota, headquartersites for the two companies. It has been a very enjoyable period, after having spent twohectic years serving as the Department’s Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs.

Professor Meyerhoff’s research program over the years has been broadly based inthe area of bioanalytical chemistry, with particular emphasis on the development ofnovel polymer membrane-based electrochemical sensors for biomedically importantanalytes. His group’s recent work on a new type of non-equilibrium potentiometricmeasurement system for detection of polyions (e.g, heparin, protamine, etc.), hasresulted in a number of patents, and many papers describing both the theory andpractical bioanalytical applications of this novel technique. Professor Meyerhoff’sgroup has recently demonstrated that analogous optical sensors can be devised todetect important polyions, by doping polymeric films with suitable chromoionophoresthat cooperatively ion-pair with the target polyion structures.

Another major focus of Professor Meyerhoff’s current research efforts is centeredon the synthesis, study and application of hydrophobic polymer materials that generatelow levels of nitric oxide (NO) via the use of appropriate NO release chemistriesincorporated into the polymers. Meyerhoff and his co-workers are examining whethersuch materials exhibit improved biocompatibility, especially reduced activation andadhesion of platelets to the surfaces of intravascular devices coated with suchpolymers. In a recent article, published as a special accelerated report in AnalyticalChemistry (72, 1119-1126(2000)), Professor Meyerhoff and his collaborators demon-strated the utility of employing these new NO release polymers to improve the in vivoanalytical performance of intravascular oxygen sensors implanted within the bloodstream of living animals. Some of these same NO-release polymers are beingevaluated as potential coatings for extracorporeal polymer tubing circuits used incoronary bypass surgery, kidney dialysis, etc.

Professor Meyerhoff is on the editorial/advisory board for a number of journals,including Electroanalysis, Analytica Chimica Acta, Biosensors and Bioelectronics,and Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology. He also is an active consultant andmember of the scientific advisory boards for Medtronic Perfusion Systems, Instru-mentation Laboratory, Selective Technologies Inc., and GDS Technology Inc. InMarch of 2001, Professor Meyerhoff will become president of the Society forElectroanalytical Chemistry, an international organization dedicated to publicizingadvances in the field of electrochemical methods of analysis.

During his 21 years on the faculty, Professor Meyerhoff has taught analyticalcourses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Returning from his sabbaticalthis Fall, he looks forward to teaching one of his favorite graduate courses, Electroana-lytical Methods, and in the Winter, he will once again touch base with our undergradu-ate majors (juniors and seniors) by teaching Physical Methods of Analysis (akaInstrumental Analysis).

Graduate StudentLaurie Yoder is a researcher in the laboratory of Professor John R. Barker. Her workcenters on vibrational energy transfer in highly vibrationally excited molecules in thegas phase and in van der Waals clusters. In collaborative work, she also had theopportunity to travel to the Chemical Dynamics Visitor Laboratory at Sandia NationalLaboratories in Livermore, California. At Sandia, her work was the first to use the ionimaging technique to resolve the recoil distributions from van der Waals clusterpredissociation. In other research, she has used classical trajectory calculations toinvestigate the relationship between vibrational energy transfer in collisions and inclusters. She has authored and coauthored publications on experimental work incollisional energy transfer, cluster predissociation, and classical trajectory simula-tions.

She received the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies PredoctoralFellowship for the 1999-2000 academic year. In addition, she was a University ofMichigan Regents Fellow from 1994 to 1998. In her free time, she enjoys designingand sewing quilts and clothing, and is active in church functions. Her husband, Derek,is also a graduate student in Chemistry. Laurie Yoder

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New FacultyZhan ChenAssistant Professor of ChemistryPh.D., University of California at BerkeleyBiomaterial and Polymer Surfaces,Biocompatibility

I intend to study polymers andbiomaterials by using advanced opticaltechniques, such as sum frequency gen-eration (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy,supplemented by other state of the arttechniques including atomic force mi-croscopy (AFM), X-ray photoelectronspectroscopy (XPS), and neutronreflectivity.

SFG is a powerful and versatile in situsurface probe, which not only permitsidentification of surface molecular spe-cies, but also provides information aboutsurface structures. It has already dra-matically affected the progress of sur-

Undergraduate StudentSuzanne A. Blum excelled in no less than four different areas simultaneously. First,she had an outstanding academic program, including her competitive performance insome of the introductory graduate courses. Second, she participated on a variety ofundergraduate research experiences on and off campus (S. Lee, E. Vedejs, and A.Stacy at UC-Berkeley). Third, she has been a leader in our active American ChemicalSociety student affiliate organization. By the end of her first year at the UM, Suzannewas co-President of the UM American Chemical Society Student Affiliate (ACSSA)chapter. She organized and implemented a number of outreach programs that broughtimaginative science activities to college and pre-college students. Finally, Suzannehas worked in the teaching program with Prof. Coppola on curriculum developmentand educational research projects. Through numerous presentations and workshops atNational ACS Meetings, Suzanne’s work at the local level attracted the attention ofthe national ACS organization. Last year, Suzanne was the only undergraduate to beselected to work with the national Student Affiliate Task Force charged with redefin-ing undergraduate programming at the national meetings. In the eyes of the AmericanChemical Society, Suzanne is a leader among leaders. She has been a leader in theStructured Study Group program in Chemistry 210 and 215, and a laboratoryinstructor in Chemistry 211. Last summer, based on prior work in chemistry, shenearly single-handedly designed, implemented and evaluated a short-term interven-tion program in physics for at-risk college students. The Department has recognizedSuzanne’s achievement since her first year: 1996-97 Sokol Scholar and AXE Out-standing First Year Student Award, 1997-98 Friedley Scholarship, 1999-00 ACSSenior Leadership Award and WISE Award. In 1999 she received the U-M AlumniLeadership Award. Under her leadership, the ACS Affiliates received the NationalACS Outstanding Chapter Award (1997-99) and the National ACS Phoenix Award forCommunity Outreach in 1998. Suzanne will start graduate school at UC-Berkeleywith the benefit of a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. We congratu-late Suzanne on her accomplishments and thank her for her tireless work as a memberof our department for the last four years.

face science, a field of great importanceto many disciplines ranging from chemis-try, physics, and life sciences to engineer-ing including modern electronic technol-ogy. In an SFG setup, a pulsed visiblelaser beam (frequency *vis) and a tunablepulsed IR laser beam (frequency *ir) areoverlapped on a surface, then the lightemitted by the nonlinear process at thesum frequency, *sum=* vis +* ir, is de-tected by a sensitive photodetector. Boththeoretical calculations and experimentalresults show that SFG is submonolayersensitive.

The two projects I will study are thestudies of polymer surfaces, and the inter-actions between biomaterial surfaces andbiological molecules at the molecularlevel. The long-term goal of the firstproject is to realize the optimal polymersurface properties by manipulating sur-face structure. The short-term goal is to

Suzanne Blum

Zhan Chen


Eitan GevaAssistant Professor of ChemistryPh.D., Hebrew University of JerusalemTheoretical and Computational Chemistry

Understanding dynamics, chemical re-activity and spectroscopy in condensedmatter is at the forefront of modern physi-cal chemistry. Recent experimental ad-vances have made it possible to exploredynamics on time scales ranging fromfemtoseconds to months, and to probeindividual molecules embedded deep in-side condensed phase hosts (crystals, liq-uids, glasses, proteins, etc.). The unprec-edented level of detail made available bythese experiments calls for the refinementand extension of theoretical and computa-tional methodologies. The research in mygroup focuses on achieving this goal, inthe following areas:

(1) Quantum dynamics in condensedphase. Solution phase molecular dynam-ics often involves classically forbiddenprocesses, such as those in electronic spec-troscopy, and electron and proton transferreactions. We develop and apply compu-tational tools for simulating quantummolecular dynamics in such systems.

(2) Single molecule spectroscopy inbiosystems. Understanding the confor-mational dynamics of biomolecules, suchas protein folding, is of fundamental andpractical importance. It has recently be-come possible to perform spectroscopicmeasurements on individualbiomolecules, such as proteins, DNA andRNA molecules. Our goal is to quantifythe relationship between these measure-ments and the underlying conformationaldynamics. Our approach is based on sto-chastic models and dynamical simulationsof simple model biomolecules.

(3) Dynamical heterogeneity in glasses.Glasses, or amorphous solids, are verycommon and have many important tech-nological applications (e.g. plastics, opti-cal fibers and ceramic materials). At thesame time, glasses are also poorly under-stood, partly due to their intrinsically het-erogeneous nature. This heterogeneitygives rise to a distribution of local dy-namical environments whose spectro-scopic signature has only recently be-come experimentally accessible via singlemolecule spectroscopy. We explore the

detect molecular structure on polymersurfaces, e.g., to understand how mo-lecular weight (MW) and end groupsaffect polymer surface structure at themolecular level. The long-term goal ofthe second project is to find correlationsbetween biocompatibility and the sur-face structure of biomaterials. The short-

term goal is to understand the interactionsbetween biological molecules (such asamino acids, peptides, proteins) andbiopolymers at the molecular level in situ.In the future, I would also like to applySFG to study other surfaces, such as semi-conductor or nanoparticle surfaces, andbulk systems like chiral media. In addi-

tion, I would like to investigate vibra-tional dynamics of simple biological mol-ecules (amino acids or peptides) usingadvanced optical techniques, such as IRpump-probe or IR pump-SFG probe meth-ods. I would examine these biologicalmolecules both in the bulk and on thesurface.

Anna K. MappAssistant Professor of Chemistry andMedicinal ChemistryPh.D., University of California, BerkeleyOrganic Chemistry, Chemical Biology,New Synthetic Methods

Organic synthesis offers powerful toolsfor addressing questions of biologicalimportance, and the answers to such ques-tions are often limited by the scope ofavailable synthetic methods. Thus, as weseek to unravel complex biological pro-cesses such as eukaryotic gene expres-

sion as well as to develop new therapeu-tics, group efforts will simultaneouslyfocus on the development of new syn-thetic reactions. An outline of two repre-sentative projects follows.

Radical anion/anion cascade reactions.Cascade reactions offer a highly efficientapproach for the formation of multiplebonds and complex target molecules. Theprimary requirement for a successful,widely applicable cascade reaction is se-l e c t i v i t y - c h e m o s e l e c t i v i t y ,regioselectivity, and stereoselectivity. The

Anna K. Mapp

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relationship between dynamical hetero-geneity and spectroscopy by computingspectroscopic response functions frommolecular dynamics simulations ofglasses.

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Adam J. MatzgerAssistant Professor of ChemistryPh.D., University of California-BerkeleyOrganic; Polymers/Organic Materials

Our research program utilizes organicsynthesis to make polymers and orga-nized assemblies. Targets are chosen fortheir potential to have novel propertiesand methodology development is a criti-cal component of all efforts. Three majorresearch thrusts are:

Conjugated polymers. Cascade radi-cal cyclizations for the production ofplanarized polythiophenes, polypyrroles,and other heteroatom-containing conju-gated polymers will be developed. Thesematerials are expected to have signifi-cantly diminished HOMO-LUMO gapswhen compared to systems lacking pla-nar structural constraints. The effect ofthis perturbation on the conductivity andelectrooptical properties of these poly-mers will be explored. Ultimate applica-tion in organic light emitting diodes(OLED’s) and other devices will be pur-sued.

Physisorbed monolayers. Highly or-ganized monolayers can be obtained by

the spontaneous self-assembly, under at-mospheric conditions, of molecules con-taining long segments of methylenegroups. The imaging of these adsorbateswith submolecular resolution is possiblewith scanning tunneling microscopy(STM) which allows for an exquisitelydetailed understanding of their arrange-ment and constitution. Use of this knowl-edge in the design of structurally morecomplex layers should allow control ofsurface properties (oxidation, corrosion,hydrophobicity, etc.) and correlation ofthese bulk properties with organization atthe molecular level.

Controlling crystal polymorphism. Theability of molecules to crystallize in morethan one arrangement in the solid state hasserious implications for a variety of appli-cations including nonlinear optical prop-erties, solid state reactivity, and pharma-ceutical distribution. We are seeking tounderstand and control the process of crys-tallization in a general fashion with thegoal of making materials with improvedfunctionality. Combinatorial materialschemistry will play a vital role in theseefforts.

one electron reduction of suitablyfunctionalized unsaturated ketones, es-ters, and amides will provide a powerfulentry into cascade reactions which ex-ploit the differential reactivity of radi-cal and anionic intermediates, allowingthe formation of multiple carbon-car-bon bonds to produce polycyclic struc-tures in a controlled fashion. The scopeof the methodology will be defined bytotal syntheses of the Lycopodium alka-loids paniculatine, magellaninone, andmagellanine as well as the antihyperten-sive alkaloid gambirine. Studies ofasymmetric versions of the cascade re-action as well as its applicability tosolid-phase organic synthesis will alsobe initiated.

Artificial transcription factors Regu-lated gene expression is critical for cel-lular existence, and a disruption in theregulatory network can result in diseaseor death. Therefore, a goal of primaryimportance in the scientific communityhas been to discover methods of repro-

gramming gene expression in diseasedcells while leaving normal cells unaf-fected. Our understanding of transcrip-tion, an early step in gene expression, hasnow reached a sufficiently sophisticatedlevel to allow us to tackle this challengefrom a chemical perspective. Dendriticand polymeric structures designed to func-tionally mimic the protein participants inactivation and repression of transcriptionwill be examined through in vitro assaysand cell culture experiments. Organicsynthesis will play a critical role in thiseffort. By varying the synthetic approachesto the artificial transcription factors, theiroverall function as activators and/or re-pressors can be controlled and importantcharacteristics such as cell membranepermeability and tissue-type specificitycan be addressed. While the long termgoal is the development of novel thera-peutic agents for diseases such as cancerand diabetes, mechanistic questions sur-rounding the regulation of gene expres-sion will also be addressed.

Adam J. Matzger


Faculty News

Brian Coppola was awarded theAmoco Undergraduate Teaching Awardfor his inspiring and innovative work inscience education. Coppola was selected,by the American Chemical Society, toparticipate in the Shaping the Preparationof Future Science and Mathematics Fac-ulty program. He continues his work asPI for a Department of Education grantwhich supports Graduate Students in theArea of National Need (GAANN).

M. David Curtis, as co-PI with Rich-ard Laine, led the first cohort of gradu-ate students to be funded from the NSFIGERT (Integrative Graduate Educationand Research Training) program. In ad-dition, Curtis received funding from NSFfor his work on “Controlling Solid StateStructures of Conjugated Polymers: Op-toelectronic and Transport Effects”.

Billy Joe Evans was one of five indi-viduals to receive the “Giants in Science”honor from the Ninth Annual NationalConference of the Quality Education forMinorities (QEM) in Mathematics, Sci-ence and Engineering Network. He washonored for his impact on students andwork as a mentor, teacher and researcher.His research interests include the synthe-sis and structure/property relations inmagnetic and electronic materials.

Gary Glick received a recent grantfrom NIH on “Mechanistic Studies ofPro-Apoptotic Benzodiazepines”.

Richard Goldstein was awarded anNIH grant for “Computational Ap-proaches to Protein Sequence Analysis”.

Nancy Kerner received the 1999 Ex-cellence in Education Award from theCollege of LS&A. In addition, she re-ceived a University of Michigan awardcertificate for her innovative achievementin education and for her selection as lau-reate of the Computerworld SmithsonianInstitute. Kerner is the brain-child be-hind CoLABnet (Collaborative Labora-tories Through Networked Computers)project, a project designed to supportcollaborative team inquiry using net-worked computers.

Raoul Kopelman continued his ser-vice as a member of the ACS National

Panel for Annual Physical Chemical Prize.He is the co-organizer of the MaterialsResearch Society Symposium (4 days) onDynamics in Small Confining Systems,Boston, December 2000. He is the orga-nizer of the Symposium at ACSPacifichem Meeting, Honolulu, HI, De-cember 2000. He received U.S. Patent#6,002,817, “Optical Sensors for the De-tection of Nitric Oxide,” R. Kopelman, H.Clark, and S. Barker, issued December14, 1999.

In May, Robert Kuczkowski was aGrand Awards judge at the Intel Interna-tional Science and Engineering Fair heldthis year in Detroit. He renewed acquain-tances with several alums who also servedas judges: Phil Pavlik (Ph.D.-Blinder,’67), Karen Adams (Ph.D.-Rasmussen,’77), Nick Fotinos (Ph.D.-Curtis, ‘81),Linda Peerey (BSC, ’83; Ph.D.-Iowa St.,’89) and Charlene (Drumm) Hayden (BS’82, Ph.D.-Morris,’95).

David Lubman received NSF fundingfor “An Instrument for Sequencing ofProteins from 2-D Gels by CE/MS.” Healso was awarded funding from the Na-tional MS Society for “PosttranslationalModification in MBP from MS Myelin”.He is actively involved in developing anew liquid-phase protein separation tech-nology that could help scientists solve theproteomics puzzle.

Neil Marsh was awarded funding fromNIH for his work on “How do enzymesgenerate and control free radicals?” Moreimportantly, Dr. Marsh was promoted toAssociate Professor of Chemistry withtenure.

Kathleen Nolta was the recipient ofthe 2000 Golden Apple Award for Under-graduate Teaching. She is the secondfaculty member from Chemistry to havereceived this award (Coppola, 1994).Students at the University give this awardannually – it is considered one of theUniversity’s most prestigious pedagogi-cal honors.

William Pearson received the FacultyRecognition Award from the College ofLS&A for his research in the develop-ment of new methods to synthesize bio-

logically significant molecules. In addi-tion, he was awarded the LS&A Excel-lence in Education Award. In the re-search arena, he received funding fromNIH to study Alkaloid Synthesis via [3+2]Cycloadditions. He also was awarded agrant to study “Novel Glycosidase In-hibitors as Anticancer Agents.”

Vincent Pecoraro continued as asso-ciate editor of Inorganic Chemistry andserves on the editorial advisory board ofthe Journal of Biological InorganicChemistry. He also served as the Confer-ence Chair for the 2000 Gordon Confer-ence on Metals in Biology.

After his return from sabbatical, JamesPenner-Hahn returned to campus invigo-rated and rested. His research in bio-physical and physical organic chemistrycontinues. In addition, he was appointedas an Associate Vice President for Re-search in the Office of the Vice Presidentfor Research effective May, 2000.

William Roush received new fundingfrom NIH/NIGMS for research on “Acy-clic Diastereoselection: Methodology andSynthesis”. He also received the Distin-guished Faculty Achievement Awardfrom the University of Michigan as oneof the world’s leading synthetic organicchemists. He served as the co-chair of theUniversity of Michigan Life SciencesCommission.

Nils Walter completed his first year atMichigan. He has begun collaborativeefforts to apply biophysical techniques tothe analysis of RNA with several facultyat Michigan and Stanford.

The LS&A Excellence in TeachingAward was presented to Barbara Weath-ers. Weathers has been a critical link inthe teaching of undergraduates at the en-try level.

Omar Yaghi received NSF fundingfor the study of porous metal-organicmaterials.

Charles Yocum was the recipient ofthe Margaret and Herman Sokol FacultyAward in the Sciences this year. His talkwas entitled “Reactivity and Structure ofthe Photosynthetic Oxygen EvolvingSite”.

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Reunion of ProfessorWerner E. BachmannStudents and AssociatesTwenty one former students and post-doctoral associates of Werner Bachmannmet in Ann Arbor on May 1 and 2, 2000.Considering that all of the attendees hadreceived their PhD degrees before 1952(one had received his degree as early as1937), it was a remarkable turnout. Thenumber attending the meeting reflectedthe strong group spirit of his studentswho always referred to Bachmann as “The

Gomberg CelebrationIn June 2000, we celebrated the 100thanniversary of Moses Gomberg’s seminaldiscoveries and publications ontriphenylmethyl with “Gomberg 2000: ACentury of Organic Free Radical Chemis-try.” The conference featured all aspectsof organic radicals, mechanism and theory,

Chief”. The timing of the gathering wasappropriately held during the annualWerner Bachmann Memorial Lecture.

As part of the meeting, former studentswere asked to provide a short summary oftheir professional careers. The resultingcollection made fascinating reading.Bachmann’s colleagues were involved ineverything from academia (including acollege provost and a couple of deans) toworking in industry at research positionsor supervising the production of tonnagequantities of plastics. One of the partici-pants wrote, “Working for The Chief wasa great way to begin a career in Chemistry”.

Of the approximately 55 students andpost-doctoral associates of WernerBachmann, 41 are believed to be stillliving and more than half made it to AnnArbor. Several others wished to attendbut, mostly for medical reasons, wereunable to do so. Remarkably, three mem-bers of the group, all over 80 years old,are still actively engaged in laboratorywork. The daughter of Werner and MarieBachmann, Joan Bachmann Johnston-Stern and her husband were a welcomeaddition to the group.

synthesis, free radicals in biology, andpolymers.

The meeting, organized by the Interna-tional Society for Organic Free Radicals(ISOFR), was held at the University ofMichigan campus in Ann Arbor, June 25

- 29, 2000. Plenary sessions featuredlectures and parallel sessions featuredone Keynote Lecture and discussion fol-lowed by thirty-minute contributed talks.Attendees participated in poster sessionsand informal discussions.

Symposia/SeminarsThe seminar program was especially busythis year with four active search commit-tees interviewing prospective faculty can-didates. Not including student seminarsand thesis presentations, there were ap-proximately 80 seminars scheduled dur-ing the academic year alone. Since manystudents and faculty are interested in hear-ing other talks outside the chemistry de-partment, opportunities to hear many ideasis enormous.

The 39th Bachmann Lecture in Maywas a special event this year. The honoreewas Prof. Ryoji Noyori of Nagoya Uni-versity. He spoke elegantly on his exten-sive studies of asymmetric hydrogena-tion, including a second lecture the nextday. The event was further distinguishedby the attendance of about 25 Bachmannstudents, collaborators and spouses, andby several Bachmann relatives, who wereall recognized by Dr. Marino at the start ofthe lecture. This special reunion wasfostered with the help of several of thealums, especially John Dice and PeterSmith. The annual lecture is supported by

the Bachmann endowment fund and agift from Parke-Davis.

The 6th Michigan Symposium on Con-temporary Challenges in MolecularMedicine was held in May, co hostedwith Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Re-search. It was well attended by severalhundred people attracted by the theme:Biology and Chemistry of Natural Prod-ucts. In the morning session, Dale Boger(Scripps Research Inst.) spoke on Natu-ral Products and Nature’s Lessons, fol-lowed by Jon Clardy (Cornell) on Natu-ral Products and Natural Products Li-braries. In the afternoon the presenta-tions were by Peter Wipf (Pittsburgh),Cracking the Chirality Code: Total Syn-thesis vs. ab initio Computations, and byK. C. Nicolaou (Scripps Research Inst.),Enabling Technologies for Biology andMedicine Arising from Endeavors in To-tal Synthesis. Even a false fire alarm atthe start of Nicolaou’s talk could notdampen the enthusiasm of the attendeesfor a very stimulating day.

The Moses Gomberg Seminar series,sponsored by Dow Chemical, and orga-nized by the assistant professors, had adistinguished program of presentationsthroughout the year. There were fourvisitors in the fall term, including Ray

Freeman (Cambridge), NMR – TheChemist’s Wand; JoAnne Stubbe (MIT),Ribonucleotide Reductases: New Hori-zons; Judith Klinman (U.C., Berkeley),Dual Function Proteins: Cofactor Bio-genesis and Catalysis in the Copper AmineOxidases; Jacob Schaefer (WashingtonU.) REDOR NMR of Biological Solids:From Protein Binding Sites to BacterialCell Walls. In the winter term the speak-ers were Vern Schramm (A. Einstein Coll.of Med.), Transition State Analysis andEnzymatic Inhibitor Design; Douglas Rees(Cal Tech), Structures and Function ofMembrane Proteins; Harry Noller (U.C.,Santa Cruz), X-Ray Crystal Structure ofthe Ribosome. Implications for the Mecha-nism of Translation.

A vibrant seminar program is consid-ered essential to our mission to stimulateintellectual growth and breadth, and tofoster research and collaborations at thefrontier of modern science. The manylectures are supported by a variety ofsources, but the major contributions comefrom gifts and endowment funds. Gifts tothe Alumni Fund are used in part for thisimportant activity. We are grateful to allour many supporters, both large and small,to this key component of the department’sprogram.


Moses Gomberg: AnniversaryAs many of you know by now, the year 2000 marks the 100th anniversary of the

announcement by Moses Gomberg of a new compound containing carbon in thetrivalent state. The Chemistry Department marked the occasion by hosting a meetingorganized by the International Society for Organic Free Radicals (ISOFR) on June25-29 entitled “Gomberg 2000: A Century of Organic Free Radical Chemistry”. Theconference featured all aspects of organic radicals: mechanism and theory, synthesis,free radicals in biology, and free radicals in polymers.

Moses Gomberg was an intensely private and self effacing man and much of hisearly life is unknown. He was born February 8, 1866, in the small town ofElizvetsgrad in the Ukraine. In the twentieth century, some time after the death ofTsar Alexander II, the town was renamed Kirovograd, the name it now bears. Hisparents were Gersko (George) and Mariam-Ethel Resnikovoi Gomberg. His fatherwas a merchant in the town. Moses had two siblings, a brother, Isoskher, born acouple of years later, and a sister, Sophia, who came to America to join Moses andlived with him throughout his life. The fate of his brother is unknown since nomention has been found of him.

As a child, Moses Gomberg attended the boys classical gymnasium in Elizavetsgradand early displayed an aptitude for academic studies. In grades 1 through 3, heconsistently attained high grades and his name was always number one, or the onlyone, on the class honor wall. As a child of a poor family, he was usually excused frompaying tuition. The academic reports given probably correspond to what, in America,would be junior high and high school since some of the subjects listed include French,German, geography, arithmetic and drawing. In the 4th grade he was demoted to asecond ranking for acting in an impudent way when the list of students excused frompaying tuition was announced, and for using rude expressions in a composition hegave his teacher. It is surmised that he finished, or had nearly finished, his 6th gradeclass when he left for America.

In 1884 or shortly thereafter, Gomberg’s father was forced to flee Russia, accusedof political conspiracy and, probably, for being a member of the “Narodnaia Volia”society, an anti-Tsarist organization which was active at the time. At the age ofeighteen Moses followed soon after, although it is not known whether he also was amember of the society, or whether he was just subject to “guilt by association”. In anyevent, the two emigrated to the United States and made their way to Chicago. Therethey were joined somewhat later, by Gomberg’s mother and by his sister, Sophia. Thefamily, isolated and speaking little or no English, lived a hand to mouth existence, themen taking what jobs they could find. Gomberg worked for a time in the Chicagostockyards where the work was dirty and degrading. Alfred H. White, in his reviewof Gomberg’s life, notes that he confided to him once that he could personally attestthat many of the scenes in Upton Sinclair’s book, “The Jungle” were true. Theultimate fate of Gomberg’s parents in Chicago is unknown.

Gomberg National Historic LandmarkCeremony

The conference began with the “Gomberg Historical Landmark Cer-emony”, followed by a plenary session on Gomberg and his chemistry. Thehighlight of the evening was the presentation of a National HistoricChemical Landmark Award to the University of Michigan by the AmericanChemical Society for “The Discovery of Organic Free Radicals by MosesGomberg.” This prestigious award symbolizes the impact of research infree radicals over the last century on science and society.

Moses Gomberg in the laboratoryabout 1935

Moses Gomberg as a first yeargraduate student in 1890

Daryle Busch-ACS President and Prof. J.Michael McBride, presenting the ACSNational Historic Chemical Landmark Awardto Prof. Joseph Marino

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Moses worked hard, learned English, and was able to complete his high schooleducation, although it is unknown whether he attended school or studied by himself.When it came time to further his education, he debated the choice between theUniversities of Illinois and Michigan. The decision, it is said, in favor of Michiganwas made because he had heard that Michigan paid their student janitors more. Hematriculated in 1886 and the story is often told of how he wished to enroll in thebeginning physics course but was rejected by Professor Carhart because he had no

background in trigonometry. He reappeared in Carhart’s office three dayslater with the same request and got the same answer. He then protested thathe had studied trigonometry and when Carhart quizzed him, he was amazedto find that he was able to answer all his questions.

Gomberg graduated with a BS degree in 1890 and was invited byProfessor Prescott to continue in graduate school. He was awarded anassistantship to provide financial support and also earned additional fundsby carrying out analyses for commercial firms on a wide variety ofsamples. This work, plus his training with Professor Prescott whose basicexpertise was as an analytical chemist, impressed on him the value ofcareful analysis. He was awarded the MS degree in 1892 and the PhDdegree in 1894. In 1893 he was appointed to an instructorship and, afterreceiving his PhD degree, he joined the faculty, of which he remained amember for some forty-three years. Sometime in the 1890’s, his sisterjoined him in Ann Arbor to keep house for him. She served as one of thetwo required witnesses when Gomberg appeared in the court in Washtenaw

County to complete the naturalization process. She had been naturalized some timepreviously.

Gomberg’s only extended absence from Michigan came in 1896-7 when he tooka leave to study in Europe. His stay in Europe was extraordinarily productive. InMunich, he spent two terms in Baeyer’s laboratory and in Heidelberg, one term withVictor Meyer. The paper arising from his work in Munich on derivatives of butyricacid reports more results than might be expected from his limited time there, but thework in Heidelberg set the stage for much of his research in subsequent years. Heproposed to synthesize tetraphenyl methane, a synthesis which Victor Meyerhimself had attempted without success. Meyer had come to the conclusion thecompound was inherently unstable for steric reasons. Despite discouragement byMeyer, Gomberg persisted and, using a new synthetic route, was able to isolate threetenths of a gram of a compound that had the desired properties and gave the correctanalysis. It should be noted that this research was done in the days beforemicroanalysis was established and when customary samples for analysis were in thevicinity of 0.2 gm. or more, practically his whole yield. Upon his return to America,he had a student repeat his work and confirm his results.

Encouraged by his tetraphenylmethane experiments, Gomberg then set out inpursuit of hexaphenylethane. The story of this research has often been told and willnot be repeated here. Suffice it to say that Gomberg was successful in preparing asmall amount of a very reactive compound whose properties forced him to theconclusion that it was triphenylcarbon. Subsequent work confirmed his hypothesisand a new era in chemistry was born.

During his life, Gomberg received a number of honors from the Chemical andAcademic Communities. He became a member of the National Academy of Sciencein 1914 and was a honorary member of the Netherlands Chemical Society. He wasawarded the Nichols Medal in 1914, the Willard Gibbs Medal in 1925 and theChandler Medal in 1927. In 1931 he was President of the American ChemicalSociety. Honorary Doctor of Science degrees were bestowed on him by theUniversity of Chicago and the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and the degree ofDoctor of Laws was awarded him by Michigan in 1937.

Although Gomberg had planned to travel and visit colleagues abroad afterretirement, his sister’s failing health prevented that and he spent his remaining yearstaking care of her. He died in Ann Arbor on February 12, 1947.

Robert C. Taylor

Boy’s classical gymnasium inElizavetsgrad, Russia, where Gombergwas a student in the 1880’s. It hasnow been converted to an officer’sclub.

Moses Gomberg with some of hisstudents in 1915. Chester S. Schoepfle,second from the right, succeededGomberg as Chairman of theDepartment in 1936.


Graduate Program News

Prof. Dimitri Coucouvanis andNathan Ockwig

The Fall 2000 class will include 46 students from all over the United States and theworld. These new students will join the current cohort of 167 Ph.D. candidates inChemistry. With four new faculty joining the department, the exciting research andinspiring youth is sure to invigorate and rejuvenate the entire department.

New Program - IGERTThe Department completed its first year of the NSF Integrated Graduate EducationResearch and Training Fellowship program in the area of Molecularly DesignedElectronic, Photonic, and Nanostructured Materials. This fellowship provides fund-ing for students at the University in areas including Chemistry, Materials Science andEngineering, Electrical Engineering, and Applied Physics.

The IGERT training program is a new initiative funded by NSF to enhance andbroaden graduate education. Students entering the Ph.D. training program will receivea 2 year fellowship to complete an interdisciplinary sequence of courses especiallydirected to their research interests, and 3, one term research projects under differentmentors.

Annual AwardsDuring the annual awards ceremony, a number of outstanding students were recog-nized for their research, teaching, and academic achievements.

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor AwardAwarded to graduate students who taught undergraduate courses in Chemistry duringthe 1999-2000 academic year. Winners are chosen based on their contribution toinnovation in the lab or classroom, teaching evaluations, and written recommendationof faculty supervisor.

1999-2000 Award Winners were: Matthew Hartman (Coward), Patrick Stoy(Pearson), and Nathan Ockwig (Yaghi).

Outstanding Graduate Student Research AwardAwarded to graduate students based on research advisor recommendation, publica-tions, posters, meeting presentations, uniqueness and nature of research.

Theresa Reineke (Yaghi) The focus of her dissertation research project was aimedat developing the design of luminescent metal-organic networks. Her work hasbeen published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. and Angew. Chem. She has shown thescientific community that highly interpenetrating molecular structures can bedesigned to be highly porous.

Bathsheba Chong (Lubman) The focus of her research has involved new methodsfor rapidly screening changes in the proteome of a cell. She has been involved indeveloping liquid chromatographic separations of cellular proteins for rapidlymonitoring changes in cells. She has a broad range of skills in mass spectroscopy,separations, and protein chemistry. She can presently separate several hundredproteins in under an hour.

Matthew Hartman

Theresa Reineke

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Tincuta Veriotti and Prof. MiltonTamres

American Chemical Society Outstanding GraduateStudent Award for Research and TeachingThis award is given by the Huron Valley Section of the American Chemical Society.It is intended to recognize achievement in teaching and research by a graduate student.

The 1999-2000 award winner was Rebecca Peebles (Kuczkowski).

In Rebecca Peebles’ research, she has impressively merged spectroscopy and theoreti-cal calculations to understand a series of weakly bonded van der Waals complexes.Her research has been characterized as “an outstanding job of extending microwavespectroscopy in the study of weakly bound systems… research that goes beyond theusual levels of quantity, quality and originality.” She has held several departmentalfellowships and was recently awarded a NRC-NIST postdoctoral fellowship at theUniversity of Colorado.

Milton Tamres Outstanding Teaching AwardThis award is given by one of our emeritus faculty, Professor Milton Tamres.Professor Tamres wishes to recognize outstanding cumulative teaching service.

The winner for 1999-2000 was Tincuta Veriotti (Sacks).

Tincuta has taught chemistry courses for several years. She has taught both Chemistry125 and Chemistry 242. She received excellent evaluations with comments like“excellent lab instructor, awesome instructor, one of the best GSIs I have ever had atthe University of Michigan”. In addition to teaching courses, Ms. Veriotti has taughtfor the WISE (women in science education, see page 16) where she has had a mostpositive influence on younger girls. In addition, Tincuta has acted as a graduatestudent mentor to incoming Ph.D. students.

The Bob and Carolyn Buzzard Leadership AwardThe leadership award is given to a graduate student who has shown the skills of a leaderof many. This award is sponsored by Bob and Carolyn Buzzard, friends of theDepartment. The person selected for this award takes an active role in the Department– assisting with graduate recruitment; working with faculty and staff to provide a betterenvironment for graduate students; also serves as morale and welfare support person.The 1999-2000 winner was Stacey Nevins (Meyerhoff)

The Department offered three new awards this year to recognize outstanding achieve-ment by a first, second, and third year student.

Outstanding First Year Graduate Student Award was presented to Scott Shaw(Vedejs). Scott has a 9.0 GPA (A+) and has completed the cumulative examrequirement for organic students. He is well along the path of defining his researchproblem and is in the early stages of laboratory work. We look forward to interestingthings coming from Scott in the years to come.

Outstanding Second Year Graduate Student award was presented to KatherineHenzler (Ramamoorthy)

She has completed a project on “protein conformational transitions in solid-state”resulting in the submission of a paper to J. Am. Chem. Soc. She has started workingon the structure, dynamics and function of a human-antibiotic peptide (LL-37) inmembrane environments and was involved in writing, “Solid-State NMR Spectrom-eter Manual for Dummies”.

Prof. Dimitri Coucouvanis andKatherine Henzler

Stacey Nevins


Outstanding Third Year Graduate Student award was given to Kenneth Nicholson(Banaszak Holl)

Ken is completing his third year at Michigan. He has taught in Chemistry 130 and 463and has acted as a graduate student mentor, leading the way for future instructors inChemistry. In the research arena, he has three publications with one more submittedand another on the way. His research discoveries include a rare direct proof of a clustermonolayer covalently bonded to a metal surface. Ken has mastered the special infraredbeamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source. He has also discovered aninteresting precursor reaction behavior generally observed for simple molecules suchas H

2 and CO.

Prof Dimitri Coucouvanis and KenNicholson

Dustin Mergott and Scott Shawenjoy the goodies

Graduate Student FellowshipRecipients

American Chemical Society Fellowship

Glenn Micalizio (Roush)

Biophysics Training Grant

Kevin Hallock (Ramamoorthy)Marja Huhta (Marsh)Sarah Ingalls (Goldstein)Stephanie Mann (Penner-Hahn)

Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Fellows

Training Grant provided by National Institutes of GeneralMedical Sciences for research at the interface of chemistryand biology.Kirk HeringBeth KnappNicholas KnuthJennifer PickettJeremiah Powers

Dow Britton Fellows

Fellowship support from Dow Britton.Matthew Hartman (Coward) (Spring/Summer ‘00)Steve Poon (Mapp) (Spring ‘00)

General Electric Fellowship

Joslyn Yudenfreund (Pecoraro)

Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Eng. & Science (GEM)Competitive fellowship support for students from historicallyunderrepresented groups.

Dinari Harris (Walter)

Graduate Assistants in the Area of National Need FellowsEnhance teaching and research capacities to increase level ofchemists to meet the needs of emerging industries vital to ourtechnological competitiveness and to supply our collegeswith faculty to meet the 21st Century teaching and researchmissions.

Kristen Balchus (Fierke)Andrew Callender (Meyerhoff)Christian Casper (Coucouvanis)Jennifer FattoreMegan Frost (Meyerhoff)Megan McGuigan (Sacks)Benjamin Reynolds (Yaghi)

Hughes Predoctoral FellowPrestigious and highly competitive national fellowshipsponsored by the Hughes Foundation.

Katherine Henzler (Ramamoorthy)

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Doctoral DegreesAugust, December, 1999 and May, 2000

Neil Anderson (Sension)Ultrafast Polyene Reaction and Relaxation Dynamics inSolution: 1,3,5 Hexatriene, 1,3- Cyclohexadiene, and 7-Dehydrocholesterol. Dr. Anderson is a postdoctoralresearcher at Emory University.

Shaohua Chen (Meyerhoff)Study of Porphyrin-Silica Stationary Phases for LiquidChromatrography. Dr. Chen is a research chemist at Merckin New Jersey.

Yajuan Chen (Lubman)Analysis and Identification of Proteins from Human Cellsusing Mass Spectrometry combined with Liquid Chromatog-raphy, Electrophoresis, and Database Searching. Dr. Chenis a postdoctoral researcher at University of California, SanFrancisco.

Alexander Chimbayo (Barker)Collisional V-T Energy Transfer: Thermal Lensing Experi-ments and Semiclassical Model Calculations. Dr. Chimbayois a research scientist.

IGERT FellowshipsTraining Grant sponsored by the National Science Founda-tion for research in materials chemistry.

Mark Biscotto (Banaszak Holl)Chad BrickDavid Johnson (Fall only, Rasmussen)Amy Koren (Curtis)Thomas KrebsbachGregory LessAnderson Marsh (Gland)Kevin Schneider

Kodak Fellowship

Aaron Aponick (Pearson)

Medical Scientist Training Program FellowsFellowship support through the Medical School for studentspursuing a dual Ph.D.-M.D. degree designed to prepare anindividual for a career in biomedical science and/or medicalpractice.

Jeffrey Bednarski (Glick)Neal Blatt (Glick)

National Science Foundation Fellowship

Zuzanna Cygan (Banaszak Holl)

Pharmacology Training Grant

Jason Newcom (Roush)

Rackham Merit FellowsFellowship supported funded by the Rackham GraduateSchool for students from historically underrepresentedgroups.

Murphy Brasuel (Kopelman)Jason Brown (Curtis)

Rackham One Term Dissertation FellowsCompetitive award from the Rackham Graduate School forone term dissertation support.

Carrie Coutant (Sacks)Katrina Peariso (Penner-Hahn)

Rackham Predoctoral Fellow 2000-01Competitive fellowships awarded by the Graduate School fordoctoral students who have achieved candidacy and are nearcompletion of their degree.

Glenn Micalizio (Roush)

Regents’ FellowsFellowship support for students provided by the Regents ofthe University.

Jeffrey Bartolin (Banaszak Holl)Jeffrey Bednarski (Glick)Matthew Hartman (Coward)Scott Shaw (Vedejs)Morris Slutsky (Marsh)Ryan Sweeder (Banaszak Holl)Craig Vanderkooi (Zuiderweg)Nissa Westerberg (Fierke)Neal Yakelis (Roush)

Schalon FellowsFellowship provided by Edward I Schalon.

Kimberley O’Neil (Lubman)Lloyd Simons (Roush)

Sokol Graduate FellowsFellowship support provided by Herman and MargaretSokol.

Sridhar Narayan (Roush)Rebecca Peebles (Kuczkowski)

Graduate Fellowships continued


Ting-Lan Chiu (Goldstein)Optimizing Potentials for Protein Structure Prediction,Inverse Protein Folding and Protein Folding. Dr. Chiu is apostdoctoral researcher at the Donald Danforth Plant ScienceCenter in St. Louis, MO.

Heather Clark (Kopelman)Optical Nanosensors for Chemical Analysis Inside LivingCells. Dr. Clark is a research assistant at the University ofConnecticut Health Center, Farmington, in the Department ofPhysiology.

Roger Clark (Pearson)Synthesis of Diverse Pyrrolidines: (1) 2-Azaallyl Anion andAzomethine Ylide Cycloadditions on Solid Support and (2)Generation and Cycloaddition of Nonstabilized N-Unsubstituted Azomethine Ylide. Dr. Clark is a researcherat Bayer Corporation in West Haven, CT.

Steven Clarke (Francis)Supercritical Inert Gas Matrix Isolation Spectroscopy ofFullerenes and other Model Compounds. Dr. Clarke is apostdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado.

Joan Esson (Meyerhoff)Fundamental and Applied Studies of Polyion-SensitiveMembrane Electrodes. Dr. Esson completed postdoctoralresearch at Penn State University. She will begin a facultyteaching position at Kalamazoo College.

Aaron Gabelnick (Gland)Catalytic Oxidation of C3 Hydrocarbons: In Situ MechanisticStudies on Platinum & Supported Platinum Surface. Dr.Gabelnick is a research chemist at Midland Dow.

Joseph Gardner (Marino)Two new Chiral, Non-Racemic Sulfoxide Containing 1,3Amino-Alcohol Synthons: Application to the Total Synthesisof (+)-Negamycin. Dr. Gardner is a researcher at NationalStarch in New Jersey.

Andrew Grall (Sacks)High-Speed Analysis of Organic Vapors Using Vacuum-Outlet Gas Chromatography with Atmospheric-Pressure Airas Carrier Gas and Programmable Column Selectivity.

Peiqing Huang (Lubman)Development of Capillary Separations with Mass Spectrom-etry for Protein and Peptide Analysis. Dr. Huang is a re-searcher at Bristol-Myers Squibb in Syracuse.

David Johnson (Rasmussen)The Monomer and Polymer Chemistry of 4,5-Dicyano-2-vinylimidazoles. Dr. Johnson is a postdoctoral researcher atthe University of Texas, Austin.

Lin Liu (Lubman)Development of Capillary Electrophoresis and Mass Spec-trometry Methods in Protein Analysis. Dr. Liu is a researchchemist at Abbott Laboratories in Illinois.

Yuan Mi (Pearson)The Reactions of (2-Azaallyl) Stannanes I. An Approach tothe Kopsia Alkaloid (n) -Lapidilectine B Via A 2-AzaalylAnion Cycloaddition. II. Synthesis Heterocycles ViaAzomethine Ylide cycloadditions. Dr. Mi is a postdoctoralresearcher at Harvard University.

Kelly Mowery (Meyerhoff)The Development and Characterization of ThromboresistantNitric Oxide Releasing Polymeric Films. Dr. Mowerycompleted a one year faculty teaching position at KutztownState University in Pennsylvania. She is now at home withher newborn child.

Mark Mowery (Evans, C.)Interfacial Design with Polydiacetylene Monolayers. Dr.Mowery is a senior research chemist at Merck in WestPoint, PA.

Moira Ringo (Evans, C.)Pressure Effects on Complexation Equilibria as Elucidatedby Liquid Chromatography. Dr. Ringo is a researchchemist at Glaxco Wellcome in North Carolina.

Maria Rubio (Marino)New Methodology for the Asymmetric Synthesis of theAspidosperma Alkaloids. Dr. Rubio is a postdoctoralresearcher at Sloan Kettering Research Institute.

Jeffrey Schwinefus (Morris)Imaging and Dynamic Studies of DNA During CapillaryElectrophoresis: Implications for Biopolymer Electro-phoretic Resolution. Dr. Schwinefus is a postdoctoralresearcher at the University of Minnesota in Biochemistry.

Erich Steinle (Meyerhoff)Potentiometric and Spectroscopic Studies of Metallopor-phyrin-Based Polymer Membranes. Dr. Steinle is apostdoctoral researcher at the University of Florida.

Deepika Tandon (Toogood)Protein Synthesis Inhibition by Didemnin B : Mechanisticinsights. Dr. Tandon is a postdoctoral researcher at theUniversity of Michigan Medical School.

Jerilyn Timlin (Pezzuti) (Morris)Bone Microstructure: A Raman Spectroscopic ImagingStudy of Chemical and Mechanical Variation. Dr. Timlin isa postdoctoral researcher at Sandia National Labs inAlbuquerque, NM.

Shau-Chun Wang (Morris)Electroseperations in Thermal Plastic Micro-FabricatedChannels. Fluorescence Detection Strategies and Effects ofElectrosmosis. Dr. Wang is a postdoctoral researcher atWarner-Lambert.

Millicent Weldon (Morris)Development of Surface Enhanced Raman SpectroscopicSilicon Substrate Microprobes for the Investigation ofSubcutaneous Lipid Chemistry. Dr. Weldon is a researcherat Johnson & Johnson in New Jersey.

Chunxin Zhang (Laine)Synthesis and Characterization of OctasilasesquioxaneBased Molecular Composite Precursors with PotentialApplications as Dental Restoratives. Dr. Zhang is apostdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan inInternal Medicine.

James Zimmerman (Sacks)Low-Lying Collective Excitations in 18

F(g.s.) and 18

FmStudied Via Intermediate-Energy Coulomb Excitation.Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Marinette.

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Undergraduate Program News

Margaret and Herman Sokol Scholars (left toright) Darren King, Faith Boman, RachelHorowitz, Nicole Tuttle, Sarah Uhler. (Notpresent) Priya Gopwani, Gwendolyn Jacobs,Paul Pagano.

First Year Awards (front left to right) NancyDuncan, Suzanne Gothard, Sarah Uhler (back leftto right) Brody Flanagin, Paul Albertus, Prof.Brian Coppola, Andrew Weiss

Undergraduate HorizonsOur chemistry and biochemistry graduates pursue various career paths:graduate school in various areas, medical school, MD/PhD programs,industrial internships, public health, and employment in industry are a fewexamples. Some of this year’s graduates are highlighted below. For 1999-2000 chemistry degrees totaled twenty six, biochemistry had fifty, withseven students concentrating in both programs.

Undergraduate AwardsThe undergraduate awards ceremony in April 2000 was celebrated atRackham Assembly Hall. The guest speaker was Professor Rob VanderVoo, Director of the Honors Program and Professor of Geological Sci-ences in the College of Literature Science and the Arts. Professor VanderVoo spoke about how important mentoring is for research students.Another guest of honor was Professor Wilbur Bigelow, benefactor of theCarlene Friedley Scholarship, which is given in memory of his wife, AlyceCarlene Friedlley.

ACS Student AffiliatesThe ACS Student Affiliates have been collaborating with area schools and campusgroups, focusing on smaller, hands-on outreach activities. They have done demonstra-tions for the Clague Middle School girls’ science club, the University’s Women inScience and Engineering (WISE) program, and the campus-wide Kids-Fair event.Laboratory notebook sales have facilitated the outreach programs by decreasing thetime spent on publicity and other fundraising.

The group is continuing to thrive, and adding a large number of first- and second-yearmembers. During the next year, they hope to continue to develop their outreachprogram by building on focused science themes, and continuing to make contacts witharea schools through parents, teachers, and institutions like the Ann Arbor Hands-On

Museum.

The 2000-2001 Officers are: Co-Presidents - Jennifer Chang and BenjaminSinger; Vice President - Nicole Tuttle; Treasurer - Peter Apel; Secretary/Historian - Meredith Miller.

Websitehttp://www.lsa.umich.edu/~acssa/

Here are some highlights from the past year’s events:

• National Chemistry Week, done jointly with AXE, featured demonstrationson the Diag. This year they included polymer demonstrations, make-your-own slime, zinc- and brass-plated pennies, liquid nitrogen ice cream, andoscillating reaction demonstrations, among others.

• Four members presented a poster on the Kidscience summer outreach seriesat the spring ACS National Meeting in San Francisco. The poster emphasizedthe benefits of long-term involvement with the same students and of havingthe students keep records in laboratory notebooks.

• The chapter was given an Outstanding Student Affiliates Chapter Award for1998-99 at the ACS National Meeting.


2000 GRADUATION RECEPTION (l to r front row) Melike Bayram, Lawrence Li, Laura Khoury, RebeccaIhrie, Kendra Frederick (l to r row 2) Eugenia Njolito, Michael Tseng, Erika Wong, Jessica Kelley,Marieke Gilmartin, Shirley Lee, Laura Harley, Jennifer Stahl (l to r row 3) Aaron Conant, SoumyaChakravarty, Jason Kieltyka, Ryan Brady, Julie Wellnitz (l to r row 4) Ann Chopp, Ryan Owen, DavidSomand, Owen Stark, Christopher McGinley, Andrew Waltman, Christopher Goretski, Jeffrey McMahon,Nicholas Keppeler (for reprints of this photo email [email protected])

Summer Research Fellowships (front left to right) AlbertChao, Scott Harrison, Elena Garcia, Ross Smith, DarleneJohnson (back left to right) Lecia Harmer, Jonathan Perry,Zain Bengali, Ian Stewart, Samantha Tarras, Eric Hyun.

Scholarships (front left to right) Desiree Thayer,Jennifer Chang, Eric Hyun, Albert Chao (back left toright) Ian Stewart, Prof. Joseph Marino, Chad Stasik

Graduation 2000!

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Upperclass Awards (front left to right) Hongmei Ge, Scott Harrison,Laura Harley, Eric Hyun, Eugenia Njolito (back left to right) Prof.Rob Vander Voo, Nicholas Keppeler, Christopher McGinley, Prof.Joseph Marino, Andrew Waltman, Roberto Iaderosa.

ACS Leadership Award (left to right) Prof.Brian Coppola, Suzanne Blum, Prof. NeilMarsh

Carlene Friedley Scholarship (left to right) JenniferChang, Prof. Wilbur Bigelow, Meredith Miller,Samantha Tarras (Not Present) Angkana Roy

AXE Outstanding First Year Award (leftto right) Prof. Brian Coppola, NicoleTuttle

S.N. Ege WISE Award (left to right) Dr. Cinda SueDavis, Rebecca Ihrie, Suzanne Blum, Prof. Seyhan Ege

Award Recipients


Undergraduate Awards and Sponsors – 2000

1999-2000 Margaret andHerman Sokol Scholarships Faith Boman, Priya Gopwani, Rachel Horowitz, Gwendolyn Jacobs,

Darren King, Paul Pagano, Nicole Tuttle, Sarah Uhler

CRC Outstanding FreshmanAchievement Awards Andrew Weiss

First Year Chemistry Achievement Awards Paul Albertus, Nancy Duncan, Brody Flanagin, Suzanne Gothard,

Sarah Uhler

AXE Outstanding First Year Nicole Tuttle

Summer Research Funding

Abbott Labs Michael Asuncion (Laine)Amoco Foundation Zain Bengali (Fierke)Pfizer, Inc. Albert Chao (Koreeda)James E. Harris Fellowship Elena Garcia (Penner-Hahn)James E. Harris Fellowship Lecia Harmer (Koreeda)ACS Moisson Fellowship. Scott Harrison (Coward)Amoco Foundation Scott Harrison (Coward)Pharmacia & Upjohn Fdn. Eric Hyun (MarshPPG Industries Jonathan Perry (Koreeda)Moses Gomberg Ross Smith (Pearson)James E. Harris Fellowship Jungsan Sohn (Fierke)Pharmacia & Upjohn Fdn. Ian Stewart (Coppola)Alumni Fellowship Nicole Tuttle (Vedejs)Moses Gomberg Andrew Weiss (Vedejs)

Outstanding Second Year Student Ross Smith

Honors College Vanko Award Nicholas Keppeler

Carlene Friedley Scholarship Jennifer Chang, Meredith Miller, Angkana Roy, Samantha Tarras

Lubrizol Scholarship Ian Stewart

National Starch Scholarship Albert Chao, Chad Stasik, Desiree Thayer

Dow Elanco Award Eric Hyun

ACS Analytical Chemistry Award Scott Harrison

Merck Index Hongmei Ge, Laura Harley, Roberto Iaderosa, Shirley Lee, Eugenia Njolito,Andrew Waltman

ACS Outstanding Senior Leadership Award Suzanne Blum

S.N. Ege WISE Award Suzanne Blum, Rebecca Ihrie

AIC Chemistry Award Christopher McGinley

AIC Biochemistry Award Melike Bayram

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The National Science Foundation makesopportunities for undergraduates to joinresearch projects each summer. This al-lows students to experience first-hand howbasic research is carried out. The princi-pal support by NSF of such activities isthrough the Research Experiences for Un-dergraduates Program. The Research Ex-periences for Undergraduates (REU) pro-gram supports active participation by un-dergraduate students in chemistry re-search. REU projects involve students in

Sokol VisitOn April 12, 2000, the Department hosteda tea for our honored guest, Mrs. MargaretSokol. All past awardees and currentawardees were invited to this gourmetfeast of tea sandwiches, truffles, fruit andcheese. The yearly visit by Mrs. Sokol isan opportunity to visit with recipients of

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) ProgramSummer 2000

meaningful ways in ongoing research pro-grams or proposals.

REU opportunities are an excellent wayto reach into the student talent pool. REUprojects are strongly encouraged to in-volve the participation in research ofwomen, underrepresented minorities, per-sons with disabilities and, students frominstitutions where research programs maybe limited.

The Department of Chemistry pro-vides abundant opportunities where in-dividuals may in tandem assume respon-sibilities as researchers, educators, andstudents engaged in joint efforts that in-still education with the excitement ofdiscovery through a range of learningperspectives. Progress of responsive re-lationships is important to the learningopportunity. Dr. Brian P. Coppola coor-dinates the Department’s REU Program,which ran from June 7 - August 16, 2000.

This year the sponsored student affiliates for REU were:

Elaine Braithwaite from Southern Utah University (Professor Vincent Pecoraro)Tim Clark from the University of San Diego (Professor Edwin Vedejs)Amanda Freier from the University of Indianapolis (Professor Neil Marsh)Adam Goldberg from the University of Michigan (Professor Brian P. Coppola)Nzingha Harris from Florida A&M University (Professor Vincent Pecoraro)Kevin Jane from Indiana Wesleyan University (Professor James Coward)Lynne Kalmbach from Eastern Michigan University (Professor Richard Sacks)Colleen Nathan from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Professor Robert Kuczkowski)Sam Pazicni from Washington Jefferson College (Professor Larry Beck)Christopher Szakal from Muhlenberg College (Professor Richard Sacks)

Rebecca Peebles, Margaret Sokol, andSridhar Narayan

Margaret Sokol and Prof. CharlesYocum

(back, l to r) Gwendolyn Jacobs, Kendra Frederick,Paul Pagano, Darren King, Sarah Uhler, FaithBowman, Nichole Tuttle. (front, l to r) SuzanneBlum, Margaret Sokol, Joseph Wachler

the Margaret and Herman Sokol Fellow-ship. The Department selects two gradu-ate student fellows and eight undergradu-ate incoming freshmen fellows. The 1999-2000 undergraduate fellows were: FaithBoman, Priya Gopwani, Rachel Horowitz,Gwendolyn Jacobs, Darren King, Paul

Pagano, Nicole Tuttle and Sa-rah Uhler. The 1999-2000graduate student fellows wereSridhar Narayan and RebeccaPeebles.

In addition, the RackhamGraduate School selects a fac-ulty member from the sciencesto receive a Margaret andHerman Sokol Faculty Awardin the Sciences. ProfessorCharles F. Yocum, the AlfredS. Sussman Collegiate Profes-sor of Biology and Professorof Chemistry, received thisaward on April 11, 2000. Hediscussed “Reactivity andStructure of the PhotosyntheticOxygen Evolving Site” whichwas followed by a reception inthe Rackham Amphitheater.


Bachelors DegreesAugust, December, 1999 and May, 2000

CHEMISTRY DEGREESSuzanne A. Blum (Coppola, Lee, Vedejs)* – organic (UCBerkeley)Andrew D. Bolig (Rasmussen) – work, then grad schoolRyan Z. Brady (Vedejs) – Eli LillyGary M. Chinigo (Townsend) - FordAnn F. Chopp (Koreeda) – Parke-DavisAaron M. Conant (Townsend) – process Pharmacia&UpjohnAaron M. Daniel (Penner-Hahn)* – Parke-DavisMegan D. Davis – Pfizer pharmaceutical salesChristopher C. Goretski (Beck) – workChurlsun Han – medicine (Medical College of Ohio)Laura M. Harley (Pecoraro) – public health (Emery)?Jesica L. Kelley (Rasmussen) -Laura Khoury (Rasmussen)* – Anderson Consulting Chi-cagoJason W. Kieltyka (Pecoraro) – chemistry (Wayne State)Jesse L. Kuiper (Koreeda)* – organic (Illinois)Shirley W. Lee (Goldstein) – medicine (Wayne State)Lawrence Li (Nolta) – dentistry (U Minnesota)Jeffrey P. Mc Mahon (Coppola)* – Parke-DavisChristopher M. Mc Ginley (Townsend) – organic (U Illi-nois)Saira M. Rauf –Sara E. Roberts (Roush)* – organic (Harvard)Owen M. Stark – medicine (UM)Benjamin A. Tourkow (Rasmussen)- medicine (IndianaMedical College)Shengdar Tsai (Uhler)Andrew W. Waltman (Penner-Hahn)* – organic (Cal Tech)David E. White (Koreeda)* – organic (Harvard)

BIOCHEMISTRY DEGREESMohamed Abazeed (Beidler)*– medicine (UM MD/PhD)Rehan J. Ahmed (Uhler) – toxicology (UM SPH)Shane M. Bahng – will work with degreeKevin D. BeckerAndrew D. Bolig (Rasmussen) – work, then grad schoolAaron Boyle (Peliska) – Peace Corps, KenyaKimberly A. CantrellSoumya Chakravarty (Goldman)*– medicine (AlbertEinstein)Jason S. Chang (Kaufman)*Delia J. Chien (Yocum) – will work, applying to veterinarianprogramsMiri Choi (Ballou) – applying to science programsAnn F. Chopp (Koreeda) – Parke-DavisAaron Conant (Townsend) – Pharmacia & UpjohnHadi A. Dourra (Menon) – pharmacy (UM)

David J. EdwardsIrina Elterman (Robins) – pharmacy (UM)David A. EngelAlfred J. FlemingKendra K. Frederick (Ballou)* – applying to schools in ParisMary Ellen Freund – Teaching program/EMUHongmei Ge (Yocum) – EECS (UM)Marieke R. Gilmartin (Schacht)* – Neuroscience, Penn StateChristopher C. Goretski (Beck) – workNadia Haider (Ballou) – medical school (Wisconsin)Churlsun Han – medicine (Medical College of Ohio)Y-W. Grace Hsiao (Ninfa) – dental school (UCLA)Rebecca A. Ihrie (Marsh)* – immunology (Stanford)Nicholas A. Keppeler (Coward)* – medicineThomas D. Kim (Thompson) – medicine (Wayne State)Christopher R. La Pensee (Turner)– neuroscience (Cincin-nati)Caroline S. Lee (Giannobile)* – medicine (Wayne State)Lawrence Li (Nolta) – dentistry (U Minnesota)Joseph P-C. Liu –Roneil G. Malkani (Pecoraro)* – medicine (George Wash-ington U)Victor Marinescu (Traynor) – research, med schoolVlad Marinescu (Fuller) – work, then schoolChristopher M. Mc Ginley (Townsend) – organic (U Illinois)John Nagarah (Goldstein)– medicineBrent C. Nagy (Yocum) – workRyan P. Owen (Nichols) – pharmaceutical chemistry (UC-SF)Saira M. RaufJennifer A. Regan (Blackwood)* – MD/PhD (Northwestern)Erica D. Riddle (Ballou)* – immunology (Stanford)David M. Somand (Peliska)* – medicine (UM)Jennifer Stahl (Bardwell) – work, PfizerBenjamin A. Tourkow (Rasmussen) – medicine (IndianaMedical College)Shengdar Tsai (Uhler)Michael D. Tseng – medicine (Weil Medical College ofCornell U)Bryan J. Vander Lugt (Fuller)* – Navy (San Diego)Rohit Vanjani (Matthews) – Federal Reserve NYCChristopher Wilson – work in pharmaceuticalsThomas M. Witham – medicine (Wayne State)

*Honors Degree (includes undergraduate thesis)

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Many former students and senior faculty fondly remember the old chemistry libraryon the second floor of the 1908 building. Its musty atmosphere was tempered bypictures of chemistry legends like Gomberg, which in later years were periodicallyadorned with paper ties or hats by some unsanctimonious prankster. This was thehome where many a student spent hours. When a break was needed, one gazed out ofthe windows to view the Diag scene, or got a Coke from the pop machine alwaysnearby, or just socialized with another library occupant. One of the treasuredtraditions was assignment of a front door key that allowed entry to the library at allhours. This indicated that one really belonged.

A major change occurred in 1993 when the engineering library vacated the thirdand fourth floors of the UGLI (the undergraduate library). This became the site forconsolidation of the separate science collections on main campus (chemistry, physics/astronomy, geology, biology and mathematics). To create the Unified ScienceLibrary (now the Shapiro Science Library), the walls were moved outward about 15feet and the garish blue facade, was covered with the traditional Michigan red brick.This resulted in a modern, pleasant facility, along with better maintenance of thecollections (including less loss of material), cost savings and greater convenience forsome interdisciplinary researchers who no longer had to visit the several sites. But thegreater distance from the chemistry laboratory, and the larger size of the facility aswell as its seemingly less direct connection with the Department, produced a commen-surate change in usage patterns and relationship with the users. There is an areareserved for reading hard copies of recent journals in the Shapiro Science Library withfaculty cubicles containing computers. The consolidated library is more convenientfor faculty involved in interdisciplinary research.

Since that momentous physical relocation, the rapid growth of on-line journals andcomputerized databases like Chemical Abstracts and Science Citation Index havefurther revolutionized everyone’s use of the library. Today many library searches canbe completely conducted from campus labs and offices; many articles can be viewed,printed or ordered without a trip to the library. David Peck, a talented informationretrieval specialist and organic chemistry Ph.D., oversees this modern chemistrycollection. He works diligently with several other science librarians to incorporatemore fully the computerized collections into the system and make them accessible. Hetrains students in their uses and helps with searches. Of course for many old-timersand hopefully some of the younger generation, there is nothing like roaming the stacksand discovering something useful, serendipitous, and just enjoying the library as aplace to catch up on some journal reading.

As the use of the library has evolved, so has the Department’s chemistry libraryendowment fund. This fund has grown over the years from a combination of giftsdesignated for the library and those to the Kent Lanini Memorial fund, also designatedfor the library. The endowment’s present annual income is used more broadly thenjust providing monograph and periodical support. Since the library’s own budgets forthe latter have largely recovered from budget cuts in the 70’s and 80’s it is lessimperative to use all the income to supplement those purchases. Hence, someexpenditures are directed at computer software for library searches and for support ofan office for the chemistry librarian and computers in the chemistry building wherestudents can be trained and searches conducted. We expect that the current endow-ment income can support such activities and supplement the library’s monograph/periodical budget and annual gifts adequately for the foreseeable future. Shouldanyone be contemplating a large gift or bequest to the chemistry library endowment,we suggest that they contact the department to discuss the matter. One possibilitywould be to explore the establishment of a reading room in the chemistry building asan annex to the main science library with some of the popular journals and morecomputer terminals dedicated to on-line article retrieval, data searches and training.Additionally, we continue to subscribe to hard copy versions of most journals and to

acquire access to numerous databases. This privilege is very expensive to maintain.Our library is one of the best in the country with regard toelectronic access. We are very proud of this access privilege.

Spotlight on ChemistryEndowments


Gifts

Contributions from private and cor-porate donors received from July 1,1999 – June 30, 2000

(* Indicates corporate matching funds.)

Alumni Gift FundKaren M. AdamsAlbemarle Corp.*Allegheny Teledyne Inc.*Amoco Fdn. Inc.*Norman ArendsRichard BalzhiserHerbert BandesBASF Corp. HQ*J. Dolf BassJohn BaumanRichard BoiceBarbara BookerSteven BoskovichJames BrewbakerJohn BrueschBertie ButtsSusan ButtsDonald CampbellCargill Foundation*Cargill, Inc.*Thomas CaugheyShu-Sing ChangDan ChapelJohn ChemerdaJulius ChikosAlice CohenJerry Cohen Fdn.Eunice ConnorsAlice CoreyJohn CostantinoErnest CowellFrederick CraneRenee CribbinsM. David CurtisHarold DaweJohn DelosDow Chemical Co. Fdn.Judith and Richard DoyleDavid EbdonDavid EdwardsSeyhan EgeSue EgglingEli Lilly & Co. Fdn.*ExxonMobil Fdn.*Pui FanFederal Mogul Corp.*Larry FinkSister Suzanne Fleming

Fluor Fdn.*Gerald FongFord Motor Co. Fund*Howard FriedmanThomas GallagherPhyllis GarlandHoward GarrettThomas GiordanoStewart GloyerBruce GoetheThomas W. GougeonDavid GreenblattMindy GrunzkeDavid HartRoger HawkRebecca HenryHewlett-Packard Company*Mary Ellen HeydeKurt HilligWalter HollowayThomas HouserRichard HowlettC. Frederick HuntleyAlan HutchcroftJames JacksonTheodore JacobNorman JensenDouglas KalvinJohn C. KathMasato KoreedaThomas KorniskiRobert KuczkowskiEdgardo Viera LabordeRobert LandowneLisa LanningDavid LeeJoseph LeoneRandel Little, Jr.Yan-Hui LiuLockheed Martin Corp.*Gordon LockyerRichard LoeppkyGeorge LowrieMary Louise LowtherLubrizol Fdn.*John G. MacConnellJen-Jen Liu MaoThomas Marsilje IIIRobert MaxwellJames McLeanMerck Company Fdn.*Timothy MerkelDonald MeyerVeronica MillerMinnesota Mining and Manufacturing*John MooteAnnabel MuenterAmos NewtonRichard Northrop

Walter OpdyckeHarry OswaldRandolph OttoJohn PenderyMyrna Pendery SpivakSteven PetersonPfizer, Inc.*James PivnichnyCarlton PlacewayWayne PletcherIrvin PottsRussell & Margaret Price TrustProcter & Gamble Fund*Richard RacusinJames RehDaniel RiccaOmer RobbinsDavid L. RodgersErnesto RodriguezThomas RosseelCharles RothWalter RupprechtWarren RussMorley RussellJames M. SamanenSchering-Plough Fdn. Inc.*Klaus SchmiegelErich SchulzJohn V. ScibelliJohn SeavittElaine ShafrinHymin ShapiroJoseph ShephardSherwin-Williams Fdn.*Zhong-You ShiRobert SowersDavid StewardGraham StewartClark SwayzeJack SweetWalter SyrkowskiKumiko TakeuchiJames ThirtleRichard TomkoGeorge ToweJonathan TreismanJohn TrendKelly TriplettHing TseHoward UnAgustin VeneroGary VincentRonald VollmerJohn WhitmerJoel WolfeWilliam WongKatherina WoodwardOtto Wurzburg, Jr.Jamie Zhao

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ACS Student AwardsElizabeth Hugel

Bachmann Memorial Lecture FundWayne ColeMonsanto Fund*John PetraskyHoward SiefenLeland PenceEvelyn TynerRobert GreggUSX Fdn Inc.*

Biennial Conference on ChemicalEducationWarner-Lambert Parke-DavisThe Dow Chemical CompanyHayden-McNeil Publishing, Inc.Ford Motor CompanyGeneral Motors Corporation3 M CorporationPharmacia CorporationACS Corporation AssociatesWorld Heritage FoundationAmerican Chemical Society, DetroitSectionHoughton Mifflin CompanyThe McGraw-Hill CompaniesPrentice HallSequitur, Inc.American Chemical Society, HuronValley SectionDepartment of Chemistry, University ofMichiganDivision of Chemical Education, Ameri-can Chemical Society

Chair’s Discretionary FundAyco Charitable Fdn.Jerome KarleGary McCluskyOrganic SynthesesProcter & Gamble Fund*Warner-Lambert Company*

Chemistry Equipment FundSylvia Neivert

Eastman Kodak FellowshipEastman Kodak Co.

Library FundRichard BardRobert BinghamCombined Jewish PhilanthropiesStephen GaudiosoJanet HaartzRobert KarpiukHoward NickelsonHelen S. Schaefer

P.A.S. Smith ScholarshipIrving AdlerRobert BuzzardCarolyn BuzzardElmer CarlsonGordon L. DewallRobert EdgertonDavid EmersonJerome HorwitzPhyllis KarseboomJ. J. LagowskiShell Oil Company Fdn.*

Parry ScholarshipCharles HeitschLeona HeitschAlfred KiesselMinnesota, Mining and Manufacturing*Monsanto Fund*Joseph MorseKaren MorseRobert PaineDonald SchultzDuward Shirley ShriverMasanobu YamauchiJohn YokeYoke Family Trust

Special ScholarshipsAir Products & Chemicals, Inc.Abbott Laboratories FundDonald BaerDow Chemical Co FdnJohn GriffinNational Starch and Chemical Fdn.Pfizer, Inc.Pharmacia & Upjohn Fdn.PPG Industries Fdn.Elaine Shafrin

Willard Memorial FundGE Fund*Harold Miller (Mineral Services)Taft Toribara

Student research


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If errors or misstatements are noted in anyof the following items, the Editors of theNewsletter would appreciate such beingcalled to their attention. Mistakes can,and do, inadvertently or due to errors inthe official records, creep in. Correctionscan easily be inserted in the next edition.

BEFORE 1940Wayne Cole (Post Doctoral 1939,Bachmann) is living in Deerfield, IL.

David W. Stewart (PhD 1939, Fajans) isliving in Rochester, NY. He retired fromthe Eastman Kodak Co. in 1975 as aSenior Laboratory Head. His wife, theformer Gretchen B. Miller (PhD 1940)died in 1989.

1940 - 1949Gerald L. Alexander (BS 1949; MD1955, Duke Univ.) is retired and living inBay Harbor, FL.

John A. Dean (PhD 1949, Willard) is anEmeritus Professor of Chemistry at theUniversity of Tennessee. He is active asan author and editor in the 1st edition ofthe Analytical Chemistry Handbook (pub-lished in 1995) and, the 15th edition ofLange’s Handbook of Chemistry.

Charles F. Krecke (BS 1948, MD 1953)is retired and living in Pentwater, MI, butwinters in Tucson, AZ.

Donald F. Meyer (BS 1949) lives inFairfield Glade, TN, and was a productmanager for the BASF Corp.

Taft Y. Toribara (PhD 1942, Willard)consults and currently has developed anX-ray fluorescence procedure for analyz-ing metallic elements at one millimeterintervals along a single hair strand. Hewas able to date exposure to dimethylmercury in the recent death of a Dartmouthprofessor.

Marjorie I. (Garman) Uhl (BSC 1949;MA 1966, Central Mich. Univ. (HealthCare)) volunteers for the Water AdvisoryBoard in Orleans, MA, and is a registeredclinical chemist for a hospital and severalmedical supply labs.

1950 - 1959Martha L. Orr (BSC 1932, MS 1939) washonored recently by the American Chemi-cal Society as a fifty year member. Shelives in Palo Alto, Calif.

The following alumni receiving degreesin the 1940-49 period were honored re-cently by the American Chemical Societyas 50 year members:

Edward G. Baker, (BS 1948; PhD1951, Brown Univ.)

Donald F. Meyer, (BS 1949)

William Gasser, (BS 1948; PhD, Univ.of Maryland)

The following alumni/alumnae receivingdegrees in the 1950-59 period were hon-ored recently by the American ChemicalSociety as 50 year members:

Kathryn S. (Spackman) Andersen,(PhD 1954, Vaughan)Beatrice A. Arnowich, (MS 1952)Richard J. Bard, (PhD 1951, F.E.Bartell)David A. Berman, (PhD 1957, Parry)Samuel H. Dreisbach, (MS 1951)George C. Feighner, (MS 1950)Gaylord K. Finch, (PhD 1954,Vaughan)Robert M. Fitch, (PhD 1955, Halford)Howard L. Garrett, (BSC 1950, MS1957 (Botany))David E. Harmer, (PhD 1955, Ander-son)Harley Y. Jennings, Jr., (PhD 1953,F.E. Bartell)Edward Leon, (PhD 1956, Smith)Joseph T. Leone, (PhD 1956, Elving)Gordon Lockyear, (BS 1949, MS1950)Edward C. Olson, (PhD 1955, Elving)Alexander Ross, (PhD 1953, Smith)Richard H. Schwendeman, (PhD 1956,Brockway)Duane N. Sunderman, (PhD 1956,Meinke)John J. Van Voorhis, (PhD 1956, FEBartell)Robert D. Westland, (PhD 1959,Smith)Herman Wexler, (PhD 1953 (Ill.);Postdoc 1954, Rondesvedt)

The following alumni receiving their de-grees in the 1960-69 period were honoredrecently by the American Chemical Soci-ety as 50 year members:John L. Griffin, (PhD 1962, Case)John M. Powers, (BSC+BSE 1967)Arnold S. Prostak, (PhD 1969, HBMark)

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Husni R. Alul (PhD 1956, Smith) retiredfrom the Monsanto Chemical Co. and livesin St. Louis.

Howard M. Dess (PhD 1955, Parry) is anAssociate Professor at Rutgers Univer-sity in New Jersey.

Charles J. Eby (BSC 1951; MS 1953,Dartmouth; PhD 1956, Duke Univ.) hasretired from Monsanto and is living inVirginia.

Raymond E. Maginn (BSC 1956) livesin Columbus, OH, where he has retired asa senior editor for the Chemical AbstractsService.

Myrtle B. (Sundberg) McLain (BS 1952,MD 1966) retired as Deputy Medical Ex-aminer in Kent County, MI.

Gilbert J. Sloan (PhD 1954, Vaughan) isPresident of the Delaware Advanced Tech-nology Center for Medical Devices.

Martha “Peggy” B. (Wells) Stiles (BS1954) continues to add to her publishedtitles as an author. Her latest effort is apicture book set on Grosse Isle.

1960 - 1969Frederick H. Brohn (BSC 1965; PhD,Wayne State Univ. (Biochem.)) is an Ad-junct Professor at Oakland CommunityCollege.

George C. Case (BSC 1968; PhD 1972,Univ. of Washington (Biochem)) is em-ployed by the U.S. Postal Service in Port-land, OR.

Marilyn W. (Chen) Chu (PhD 1968,Cooke) is a computer programmer atWestern Illinois University.

Willard L. Craft (BSC 1961; PhD) re-tired from Adrian College and moved toBozeman, MO, with his wife, Patricia R.(Skog) Craft (BSC 1961).

Harry A. Dugger, III (PhD 1962, Smith)is President and CEO of FlemingtonPharmaceutial Corp. in New Jersey.

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Dennis Flanagan (BSC 1966) retired asplant manager from the Aexcell Corpora-tion in Ohio and now lives in Grand Rap-ids, MI.

Morton Z. Hoffman (PhD 1960,Bernstein) received the 1999 Henry A.Hill Award of the ACS Northeastern Sec-tion given for outstanding service. Hewill serve as Chair of the Education Pro-gram Committee of the Division of Chemi-cal Education in 2000-02.

Jo Anne (Zelmanski) Kundrat (BSC1967) is living in State College, PA.

Ronald H. Radzilowski (MS 1966) isManager of Primary and Finishing Tech-nology at the Rouge Steel Co. in Dearborn,MI. The company produces coiled carbonsteel for the automotive industry.

Walter Robert Scheidt (PhD 1968,Rasmussen) has been appointed to theendowed Warren Professorship at theUniversity of Notre Dame.

Arden R. Slotter (PhD 1960, Parry) is anEmeritus Professor of Chemistry atBluffton College, OH.

Michael S. Zisman (BSC 1966; PhD 1972,Univ. of Calif./Berkeley) is a senior sci-entist at the Lawrence Berkeley NationalLaboratories in Berkeley, CA.

1970 - 1979Nicholas W. Beeson (BSC 1979; PhD1995, Harvard Univ. (Biophys.)) is a re-search scientist with ERIM Internationalin Ann Arbor.

John E. Bercaw (PhD 1971, Brintzinger)has been named an Arthur C. Cope Scholarfor the year 2000 by the American Chemi-cal Society. He is a Professor of Chemis-try at the California Institute of Technol-ogy.

Betty Sue (Liggett) Brooks (BSC 1971;MD) is a physician in Birmingham, AL.

Thomas C. Buchanan (BS 1974; MD1978, Tulane Univ.) is an orthopedic sur-geon in Terre Haute, IN.

Lorrain M. (Losinski) Dang (BSC 1975;PhD 1982, Univ. Calif./Berkeley) is achemistry instructor at the City College ofSan Francisco.

Paul A. Davis (BSC 1974, PhD 1979(Biol. Chem.)) is an Associate Professorat the University of California at Davis.

Howard S. Friedman (PhD 1976, NYUniv.; PDoc. 1977, Ashe) and his wife,Lori, have moved to Corvallis, OR, wherehe is a manager for the Hewlett PackardCorp.

Daniel R. Gallie (BS 1979; PhD 1985,Univ. Calif. at Davis (Biochem.)) is Pro-fessor of Biochemistry at the Universityof California at Riverside.

Walter M. Holloway, Jr. (MS 1970) isSecretary/Treasurer of the HollowayBrothers Produce Co. in Jessup, MD.

Solomon A. Kamson (BSC 1978; MD1982, Washington Univ. of St. Louis) isPresident of the International Pain Pro-gram in Seattle, WA. He is a BoardCertified Pain Specialist and a member ofthe clinical faculty of the University ofWashington.

Cornelius C. Maher, III (PhD 1977,Gordus; MD 1986, St. Louis University)is a flight surgeon in the neurology train-ing program at the Madigan Army Medi-cal Center in Washington.

Steven H. Peterson (PhD 1972, Verdieck/Taylor) is a senior scientist at Geo-Cen-ters, Inc. in Virginia. Last year he re-ceived his 15th U.S. Patent for a systemfor destruction of shipboard waste.

Sterling R. Putt (MS 1974) is a ProjectManager in the process R&D group forPharmacia & Upjohn in Kalamazoo.

David L. Rodgers (MS 1967, MiddleburyColl.; Student, 1972) is Vice President forBusiness Strategy for Argus Associates inAnn Arbor.

Ernesto L. Rodriguez (MS 1979, PhD1982, Overberger (Macromol. Sci.)) is aResearch Associate for the B. F. GoodrichCo. in Ohio.

John V. Scibelli (PhD 1972, Curtis) hasbeen named President of ConMed AspenLaboratories in Englewood, CO.

1980 - 1985Dean T. Behm (BSC 1980; PhD 1985,Univ. of Massachusetts) is Director ofPlastics Technical Services for Ciba Spe-cialty Chemicals in Pennsylvania.

Steven A. Boskovich (BS 1983, MD 1987)is a physician at the Retina-Vitreous In-stitute in Flint, MI.

Richard M. Byler (BSC 1980, MD 1984)is a cardiologist in Jackson, MI.

Rutgers L.G. Chow (BS 1982; MS 1984,Univ. of Virginia (Chem. Eng.)) is Re-gional Vice President for sales in SouthEast Asia for the Shipley Co., a divisionof Rohm & Haas.

Stephen L. Coulter (PhD 1983,Overberger) is Vice President of Researchand Development for Carter-Wallace, Inc.,in Pennsylvania.

Cynthia (Tsang) Crouch (MS 1981)works as a business manager for the E.I.duPont Company in Pennsylvania.

Suma Datta (BSC 1980; PhD 1987, Univ.of Calif./San Diego) holds a tenure posi-tion in the Department of Biochemistryand Biophysics at Texas A&M Univer-sity.

Maria J. Doa (BS 1980; PhD Univ. ofPittsburgh (Organic)) is Director of theToxic Release Inventory Program for theU.S. Environmental Protection Agency inWashington.

Nicephoros A. Fotinos (PhD 1981,Curtis) is a Development Associate atPPG Pretreatments and Specialty Prod-ucts in Troy, MI.

David S. Gorski (BSC 1984, MD 1988;PhD 1994, Case Western Reserve Univ.(Cell. Physiology)) is an Assistant Pro-fessor of Surgery at the Robert WoodJohnson Medical School in New Jersey.

David S. Gottfried (BSC 1984; PhD 1990,Stanford Univ.) is a Research Scientist atthe Georgia Tech Research Institute inAtlanta developing integrated opticalbiosensors to detect environmental andfood-borne pathogens.

Thomas J. Gustaferro (BS 1985; MD1989, Johns Hopkins U.) is anopthalmologist in Cleveland, OH.

Eric C. Jackson (BSC+BSE 1982; MBA1998, Michigan State Univ.) is continu-ing his education in business operationsmanagement at Michigan State Univer-sity.

John J. Klutke (BS 1985; MD) is Chiefof Urogynecology at the University ofSouthern California School of Medicine.

Frederic W. Lickteig (BS 1980) is aLieutenant Colonel in the U.S. MarineCorps stationed in Independence, MO.

Karen D. Locke (BSC 1982; MD) is apediatrician in Dearborn, MI.


John Quin, III (BS 1982, U/M Flint) is asenior chemist for the Parke-Davis Re-search Laboratories in Ann Arbor.

Ronald P. Swendris (BSC 1982, MD1986) is a physician for the Mid-AtlanticEye Care Clinic in Chesapeake, VA.

Marian L. Valentine (BSC 1981; MSE1994, Univ. of Washington) is a hydraulicengineer with the Army Corps of Engi-neers in the Pacific northwest.

Scott A. Westveer (BSC+BSE 1985) isemployed by Luman Enterprises whilebuilding an engineering consulting prac-tice in Texas.

Josef K. Zehetmair (BSC 1982; PhD1988, Wayne State U.) is Manager ofAnalytical Services for PPG Industries inTroy, MI.

1986 - 1989Fotis Fotiou (PhD 1987, Morris) is man-ager of the International FormulationsDept. of American Cyanamid in Princeton,NJ.

Val S. Goodfellow (PhD 1986, Lawton)is an Associate Director in medicinalchemistry at Neurocrine Biosciences inSan Diego, CA.

D. Rachel Green (BS 1986; PhD 1993,Harvard Univ.) is an Assistant Professorin the Department of Molecular Biologyand Genetics of the Johns Hopkins Uni-versity Medical School.

Elizabeth A. Hugel (PhD 1988, Griffin)is a research chemist in the AnalyticalDivision of the BASF Corp. in Wyan-dotte, MI.

Charles M. Kausch (PhD 1989, Ashe) isa technologist with Omnova Solutions inAkron, OH.

Lisa A. Lanning (BS 1986; PhD 1994,Univ. of Vermont) is a chemist withLaidlaw Environmental Services in Co-lumbus, OH.

Shu-Ching Ma (PhD 1989, Meyerhoff)is a principal scientist for the Via MedicalCorp., and her husband, Fu H. BensonTsai (PhD 1990, Overberger) is a SeniorResearch Fellow for the Rexam ImagingCorp. both in San Diego.

Robert A. Pufahl (BS 1988, PhD 1994,Marletta (Med. Chem.)) is a research sci-entist in the pharmaceutical division ofthe Monsanto Co. in St. Louis, MO.

John A. Sandin III (BS 1989, MD 1993)will complete his residency at the Univer-sity of Wisconsin in 2000 and will take upa Fellowship at the University of Ala-bama, specializing in surgery of the spine.

Leo R. Sharkey (BS 1986; MS 1996,Ohio State U. (Mech. Eng.)) is a managerat Shipley, Inc., who supply photo resistsystems for the semiconductor industry.

Frederick M. Smith (BSC 1987; MD1991, Michigan State U.) is a surgeon atthe Great Lakes Plastic Surgery Center inTraverse City, MI.

1990 – 1995Mary P. (Andrews) Bradley (MS 1990,PhD 1993 (Pharmaceutical Chem.)) worksin computer aided molecular design forRhonePoulenc, Inc., at the Research Tri-angle Park in North Carolina.

Benjamin M. Chien (PhD 1994, Lubman)is President and CEO of Quest Pharma-ceutical Services in Newark, DE.

Joe S. Chomchai (BSC 1990; MD 1994,Wayne State U.) is a otolaryngologic phy-sician and surgeon in Mt. Pleasant, MI,and will be a volunteer clinical facultymember in Central Michigan University’sphysician assistant school. He reports hisfirst publication dealing with head andneck cancer.

Brian C. Cooper (BSC 1994; MD 1999,Wayne State Univ.) is a resident surgeonat the University of Iowa Hospitals. Hisspeciality is obstetrics and gynecology.

Chantal R. Culpepper (BS 1991; MD1997, Ohio State U.) has joined WayneState University as a physician in theirfamily practice medical program.

Jon P. Degnore (BS 1991; PhD 1997,Univ. of Florida) is employed by Perspec-tive Biosystems in Marlboro, MA.

Mamadou S. Diallo (MS 1993) is Direc-tor of the Molecular Environmental Sci-ence & Engineering Collaboration for theCalifornia Institute of Technology and isa visiting faculty member at Howard Uni-versity in Chemistry and Civil Engineer-ing.

Louis I. Grace (PhD 1994, Lubman) is aVisiting Scientist at the Hebrew Univer-sity of Jerusalem in Israel.

Monica A. Guzman-Rojas (MS 1993) isliving in Hackettstown, NJ.

Brian B. Haab (BS 1992; PhD 1998,Univ. of Calif/Berkeley) is a PrincipalInvestigator for the Van Ardel Institute inGrand Rapids.

Tasir S. Haque (BS 1991; PhD 1996,Univ. of Wisconsin) is a Senior ResearchScientist with the DuPont PharmaceuticalCo. in Delaware.

Sean P. Hickey (MS 1994) is an Instruc-tor in Chemistry at Delgado CommunityCollege in Louisiana.

Michael Z. Hoeman (PhD 1993, Marino)is a senior scientist at Sepracor, Inc., inMarlborough, MA.

James D. Hoeschele (PhD 1969, Michi-gan State U.; Research Scientist 1994,Curtis/Pecoraro) is a Lecturer in Chemis-try at Michigan State University.

Toby E. Horwitz (MS 1993) is complet-ing her graduate work in Pharmacy.

Jeffrey D. Hsi (PhD 1990, Koreeda) is aPatent Counsel for Kinetix Pharmaceuti-cals, Inc., in Medford, MA.. The com-pany specializes in small molecule kinaseinhibitors for a variety of disease indica-tions.

Regina M. (Wagner) Janicik (BS 1990;MD 1994, Univ. of Chicago) is a practic-ing physician specializing in internalmedicine at New York University.

Sigridur Jonasdottir (PhD 1995,Coucouvanis) is a research chemist em-ployed by SRI International in Menlo Park,CA.

Christopher A. Kennedy (BS 1994; MSUniv. of Calif./San Diego (biology)) is arestaurant owner in Eugene, OR.

Robert Kertayasa (MS 1990) is SalesManager for Candela Instruments in Fre-mont, CA.

Agnes S. Kim-Meade (PhD 1993,Marino) is an Associate Principal Scien-tist at the Schering Plough Research Insti-tute in New Jersey.

Sang-Ho Koo (PhD 1992, Koreeda) is anAssociate Professor of Chemistry atMyong Ji University in South Korea.

Heewon Lee (PhD 1995, Lubman) is asenior scientist with Arqule, Inc. inMedford, MA.

Keqiang Li (PhD 1994, Koreeda) is aSenior Reseach Chemist in new productand process development for Cargill, Inc.,in Minneapolis, MN.

Diane L. (Babuts) Montgomery (BS1991; MD 1995, Univ. of Rochester) has

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joined a pediatric practice in Syracuse,NY., and became a Fellow of the Ameri-can Academy of Pediatrics in 1999.

Paul I. Mullen (MS 1995; MBA, Univ. ofNotre Dame) is Marketing Manager forJanssen Pharmaceutica in Pennsylvania.

Shahid M. Murtuza (BS 1994; PhD 1999,Penn. State Univ.) has a postdoctoral as-sociate position at the University of Chi-cago.

Patrick D. O’Connell (BSC 1993) is aChemical Buyer for the Parke-Davis Ac-tive Pharmaceutical Ingredient Manufac-turing plant in Holland, MI while pursuingan MBA degree at Grand Valley StateUniversity.

Adrian A. Polliack (BS 1990; PhD 1994,Oxford Univ., Engl.) is a biomedicalengineer with the Rancho RehabilitationEngineering Program in Downey, CA, andan Adjunct Asst. Professor in the Univer-sity of Southern California BiomedicalEngineering Department.

Jeffrey S. Pudlo (PhD 1991, Townsend)is a senior scientist at Cygnus, Inc. inRedwood City, CA.

Jeffrey A. Read (PhD 1993, Francis) is achemist at the Army Research Laboratoryin Maryland.

Rachel S. Rohde (BS 1994; MD 1999,Harvard Univ.) is a resident surgeon at theUniversity of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Tecle S. Rufael (PhD 1994, Gland) is aresearch chemist for the Texaco Group,Inc. working on a project to convert natu-ral gas to a liquid product.

Robert M. Schelkun (MS 1991) is a Se-nior Associate Scientist at Parke-DavisResearch Laboratory in Ann Arbor.

Catherine L. (Lobach) Scott (BS 1994)is a laboratory supervisor for the CaymanChemical Co. in Ann Arbor.

Michelle M. (Poppelreiter) Spencer (BS1991, BPh 1995, Michigan) is an Oncol-ogy Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at theLoma Linda Medical Center in Califor-nia.

Kimberly A. (Kramer) Stickland (BS1992; PhD 1997, Univ. of Arizona (Phar-macology/Toxicology)) is a Research Sci-entist and Study Director for DuPont Phar-maceuticals in Delaware.

Christopher J. Voci (BSC 1995; JD 1999,Franklin Pierce Law School) is an Associ-ate with the Pewrie & Edwards Law firmin New York City.

Richard L. Waite (BS 1991) is complet-ing his MS degree at Northern IllinoisUniversity in DeKalb.

Yingqi K. Wang (PhD 1993, Lubman) isa laboratory head in Drug Discovery forthe Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. inNew Jersey.

John P. Williams (PhD 1991, Pearson) isan Associate Director in chemistry atNeurocrine Biosciences in San Diego, CA.

Karen K. (Beatty) Zimmerman (MS1994) is a senior technician in the Mo-lecular Biology Department of RutgersUniversity in New Jersey.

1996 – 1999Farrah Bagaman (BS 1999) is living inHong Kong.

Susan L. (Ritenour) Barker (PhD 1999,Kopelman) is a research chemist at theNational Institute of Standards & Tech-nology in Gaithersburg, MD.

Robert J. Cain (PhD 1997, Glick) is asenior scientist with Allergan, Inc., and hiswife, Teresa C. (Taylor) Cain (PhD 1997,Lubman) is an analytical chemist at CortexPharmaceuticals, both in Irvine, CA.

Sherry R. Chemler (PhD 1999, Roush(Indiana U.)) is a postdoctoral scholar atthe Memorial Sloan-Kettering CancerCenter in New York City.

Yajuan Chen (PhD 1999, Lubman) is apostdoctoral scholar in PharmaceuticalChemistry at the University of California,San Francisco.

Ting-Lan Chiu (PhD 1999, Goldstein) isa postdoctoral scholar in the JeffreySkolnick’s group at the Donald DanforthPlant Science Center in St. Louis, MO.

Heather A. (Crocker) Clark (PhD 1999,Kopelman) is a postdoctoral scholar at theUniversity of Connecticut Health Center.

Brent A. Donovan (PhD 1998, Sension)is a scientist specializing in inhalationanalysis at Magellan Laboratories in NorthCarolina.

Danette A. (Domagala) Dudley (BS1996) is working as a senior assistantorganic chemist for the Parke-Davis Re-search Laboratories in Ann Arbor.

Joan M. Esson (PhD 1999, Meyerhoff) isa postdoctoral scholar at PennsylvaniaState University.

Michael H. Feld (BS 1999) is a researchassistant in the University of MichiganDental School pending admission to medi-cal school.

Erik J. Hembre (PhD 1996, Pearson) is asenior organic chemist with the Eli LillyCo. in Indianapolis.

Tracy M. Hobson (BS 1998) is an Asso-ciate Scientist with the Dupont Pharma-ceutical Co. in Wilmington, DE.

Maria Jancevski (BS 1998) plans to en-ter the Wayne State University MedicalSchool in August of 2000.

Christina A. (Johnson) Johannesson(BSC 1996; MA 1998, Trinity Univer-sity) is teaching communication arts his-tory at Northside intermediate school inSan Antonio, TX.

Christopher A. Laroo (BSC 1996) is ananalytical product engineer for HoribaInstruments, Inc. in Ann Arbor.

Jordan S. Laser (BS 1999), is a ResearchAssociate with Angion Biomedia inBrookville, NY.

Scott T. Lefurgy (BS 1999) plans to enterthe biochemistry program at Wisconsin/Madison in the fall of 2000.

Irwin M. Liu (BS 1999) is a researchassociate with Genelabs Technologies inCalifornia.

Yan-Hui Liu (PhD 1996, Lubman) hasaccepted a position as senior scientist withthe Schering-Plough Research Institute inKeniworth, NJ.

Emily J. Maglott (PhD 1998, Glick) is aSenior Research Chemist for the AveryDennison Co., Graphics Division, inPainesville, OH.

Mohamad Adnan Mansour (PhD 1996,Curtis) is a scientist and engineer for theGeneral Electric Lighting Co. in Cleve-land.

Jennifer L. Marti (BS 1999) is a highschool biology teacher at St. Peter’s Pre-paratory School in New Jersey while sheapplies for medical school.

Yuan Mi (PhD 1999, Pearson) is a postdoctoralfellow at Harvard University.

Elizabeth A. Mieczkowski (BS 1999) isa Research Assistant in the University ofMichigan Pathology Department.

Mark D. Mowery (PhD 1999, CE Evans)is a senior research chemist with Merck &Co. in West Point, PA while his wife,Kelly A. (Brooks) Mowery (PhD 1999,


In MemoriamWe were sorry to learn of the deaths ofthe following alumni, alumnae andfriends of the Department.

Frederick W. Albaugh (PhD 1942, FEBartell) died February 22, 1999 inRichland, WA. He retired as Director ofthe Battelle Pacific Northwest Laborato-ries, was a member of the National Acad-emy of Engineering and, a Fellow of theAmerican Nuclear Society.

Robert F. Broderick (BS 1949) died May13, 1997, in Molalla, OR.

James H. Carter (PhD 1962, Smith) diedFebruary 29, 2000, in Palmetto, FL. Heretired from the Organic Chemistry Labo-ratories at Barnard College, ColumbiaUniversity.

Minn-Shong Chi (PhD 1972, Overberger)died September 5, 1999 in Newark, NJ.He was employed by the Aviation Divi-sion of Hercules, Inc. in New Jersey.

Charles C. Countryman (BS 1934, MS1935) died December 18, 1993, in Cerritos,CA. He was retired from Dart Industries.

James Day (MS 1936) died March 18,1999, in New Canaan, CN. He worked forDow Chemical Co. from 1936 - 1977.

Malcolm H. Filson (PhD 1937, Willard)died October 8, 1997, in Winter Haven,FL. He was an Emeritus Professor ofChemistry at Central Michigan Univer-sity.

Nicholas J. Galluzzi (BSC 1945; MD,Univ. of Chicago) died November 24,1991. He was a Rear Admiral in the U.S.Public Health Service and former Direc-tor of the U.S. Public Health Service Hos-pital on Staten Island.

Marian B. Geiger (PhD 1932, Anderson)died January 1, 1986. She had worked forthe Hooker Chemical Co.

Carroll L. Hoffpauir (MS 1934) diedJanuary 22, 1999 in Metairie, LA. He wasa research chemist at the Southern Re-gional Research Laboratory.

Helen E. Konapek, a former secretary inthe Department, passed away in Ann Ar-bor, MI, on May 5, 2000.

Norman Krieger (BS 1937; ScD 1965,Royal College of Science (Biochem)) diedAugust 7, 1997 in Riverdale, NY. He hadbeen a high school teacher and Chair of theScience Department in West Hempstead,NY.

Sidney I. Miller (Instructor in Chemis-try, 1951; PhD 1951, Columbia) died Sep-tember 17, 1999 in Chicago. He hadinstructed at Michigan during 1950-51;

Meyerhoff) is an Assistant Professor atKutztown University.

Edward P. Nicholas (BS 1999) is ananalytical chemist at Huntingdon LifeSciences in New Jersey.

Scott E. Osborne (PhD 1996, Glick) is ascientist at Procter & Gamble Co.

Russell B. Pawlowski (CMB 1999, Engl1999; MD) is a clinical research associatefor Warner-Lambert, Parke-Davis Labo-ratories in Ann Arbor.

Miguel J. Pereira (BS 1999) is a researchassistant in chemistry at the University ofMichigan in Ann Arbor.

Mark G. Qian (PhD 1996, Lubman) is aSenior Research Scientist at Dupont Phar-maceutical Co. in Newark, DE.

Moira C. Ringo (PhD 1999, CE Evans) isa Senior Scientist in Analytical Sciences,with GlaxoWellcome, Inc. in Raleigh, NC.

Pernilla Rollin (MS 1997) is a radio-chemist at the Schering-Plough ResearchInstitute in Kenilworth, NJ.

Bobby L. Rose (BS 1997) is a NetworkEngineer for the University of MichiganMedical Center.

Timothy R. Rozof (BS 1999) is a chemistwith Pentech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in Chi-cago, IL

Amy Y. Shih (BS 1999) is a Research Assis-tant in the Internal Medicine Dept., AllergySection, of the University of Michigan.

Amethyst C. Smith (BSC 1999) is a chem-istry and physics high school teacher inHouston, TX.

Glen E. Southard (PhD 1998, Curtis) isa polymer chemist for the Schafer Corpo-ration in Livermore, CA.

Erich D. Steinle (PhD 1999, Meyerhoff)is a postdoctoral scholar at the Univer-sity of Florida in Gainesville.

Erland P. Stevens (PhD 1997, Pearson)is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry atDavidson College in North Carolina.

Larry A. Walker, II (PhD 1998,Sension) is a chemist for Clark MXR inDexter, MI.

Andrew T. Yen (PhD 1997, Kopelman)is employed by Baker Petrolite, a divi-sion of the Baker Hughes Corp., in SugarLand, TX.

Jeffrey P. Zajac (BS 1996) is a scienceteacher at Littleton High School in Den-ver, CO.

Kefei Zheng (PhD 1998, Lubman) is asenior applications chemist with the Wa-ter Corporation in Milford, MA.

and went on to the Illinois Institute ofTechnology where he taught for 38 years.

Marian Carol (Bade) Pease (BS 1947;MS, Northern Illinois Univ.) died De-cember 3, 1998 in Tucson, AZ. She hadtaught in Holland, MI for 30 years, andserved as a counselor and Director for theVentura Alternative School.

Eugene A. Radell (BSC 1953) died in Fairport,NY, January 18, 1998. He had been a unitdirector for the Eastman Kodak Co.

Patricia A. (Clancy) Schuerger (BS 1948)died February 15, 1990, in Maryland.

Dorothy (Houghton) Soule, widow ofAssoc. Prof. Byron A. Soule, died De-cember 2, 1997 in Ventura, CA, at the ageof 100.

Charles C. Templeton, died December28, 1999 in Houston, TX. He had in-structed in the Department from 1948-1950. He later accepted a position withthe Shell Development Co. in Houstonwhere he worked until 1981.

Kenneth A. Van Lente (PhD 1931,Ferguson) died recently in Macomb, IL(date unknown). He was Professor Emeri-tus at Southern Illinois University.

Bruce H. Wark (PhD 1960, Elderfield)died June 20, 1999, in Woodcliff, NJ. Hehad been a senior research scientist withEastman Kodak Co.

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Vincent L. Pecoraro, Professor. SyntheticInorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry.

James E. Penner-Hahn, Professor. Bio-physical Chemistry and Inorganic Spec-troscopy.

A. Ramamoorthy, Assistant Professor andResearch Scientist, Chemistry and Bio-physics Research Division. StructuralStudies of Biological Molecules.

Paul G. Rasmussen, Professor. Polymer/Inorganic Chemistry.

William R. Roush, Warner Lambert/ParkeDavis Professor. Organic Chemistry.

Richard D. Sacks, Professor. High SpeedAnalytical Separations.

Roseanne J. Sension, Associate Professor.Physical Chemistry, Ultrafast Laser Spec-troscopy.

Robert R. Sharp, Professor. Multidimen-sional and Multiquantum NMR of Para-magnetic Systems.

Leroy B. Townsend, Professor, MedicinalChemistry and Chemistry. Design Syn-thesis and Biological Evaluation of Het-erocycles and Nucleosides.

Edwin Vedejs, Moses Gomberg Professor.Organic Chemistry.

Nils G. Walter, Assistant Professor. Chemi-cal Biology.

Barbara J. Weathers, Lecturer, and Lec-turer in Comprehensive Studies Program.

John R. Wiseman, Professor. Synthetic Or-ganic Chemistry and Mechanisms ofChemical Reactions.

Omar Yaghi, Professor. Materials Chemis-try.

Charles F. Yocum, Professor, BiologicalSciences and Chemistry. BiologicalChemistry of Photosynthesis.

Edward T. Zellers, Associate Professor,Chemistry and Environmental and In-dustrial Health. Environmental-Analyti-cal Chemistry.

Erik R. P. Zuiderweg, Professor, Chemistryand Biophysics. NMR Studies ofBiomacromolecular Conformation andDynamics in Solution.

Professors Emeriti: Lawrence S. Bartell, S.M. Blinder, Thomas M. Dunn, Rich-ard G. Lawton, Daniel T. Longone,Christer E. Nordman, Lawrence J.Oncley, Peter A. S. Smith, MiltonTamres, Robert C. Taylor, Edgar F.Westrum, Jr.

Richard A. Goldstein, Associate Professorand Research Scientist, Chemistry andBiophysics Research Division. Compu-tational Molecular Biophysics, PhysicalChemistry.

Adon A. Gordus, Professor. Radioanalytical-Radiation Chemistry.

Henry C. Griffin, Professor. Nuclear Chem-istry: Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy of“Hot” and “Cold” Nuclei.

Nancy K. Kerner, Lecturer, Coordinator ofGeneral Chemistry Laboratory. Chemi-cal Education : Learning and Instruc-tional Methods.

Raoul Kopelman, Kasimir Fajans Profes-sor. Chemistry, Applied Physics, andPhysics. Analytical/Physical/Biophysi-cal Chemistry.

Masato Koreeda, Professor. Chemistry andMedicinal Chemistry, Synthesis of Natu-ral Products. Small Molecule-DNA In-teraction, Chemical Carcinogenesis,Glycobiology.

Robert L. Kuczkowski, Professor. Micro-wave Spectroscopy of Weakly BondedComplexes.

Richard M. Laine, Associate Professor, Ma-terials Science and Engineering andChemistry. Materials Chemistry.

Lawrence L. Lohr, Professor. TheoreticalStudies of Molecular Structure and Re-activity.

David M. Lubman, Professor. BiologicalMass Spectrometry, Spectroscopy andInstrumentation.

Anna K. Mapp, Assistant Professor. Or-ganic Chemistry, Chemical Biology, NewSynthetic Methods.

Joseph P. Marino, Professor and Chair.Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry.New Synthetic Methods and Strategiesfor Natural Product Synthesis.

E. Neil G. Marsh, Assistant Professor. En-zymes: Structure, Mechanism, and Speci-ficity; Protein Engineering and Molecu-lar Recognition.

Adam J. Matzger, Assistant Professor. Or-ganic, Polymers/Organic Materials.

Mark E. Meyerhoff, Professor. BioanalyticalChemistry, Electrochemical and Opti-cal Sensors.

Michael D. Morris, Professor. AnalyticalLaser Spectroscopy and Imaging; Elec-trophoretic Separations.

Kathleen V. Nolta, Lecturer. Organic Bio-chemistry.

William H. Pearson, Professor. SyntheticOrganic Chemistry.

Arthur J. Ashe III, Professor. Organome-tallic Chemistry.

Mark M. Banaszak Holl, Associate Profes-sor. Synthetic and Mechanistic Solu-tion, Surface, and Solid State Chemistry.

John R. Barker, Professor, Chemistry andAtmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sci-ences. Chemical Kinetics, AtmosphericChemistry.

Larry W. Beck, Assistant Professor. Ana-lytical NMR spectroscopy of Materials;Zeolite Catalysis.

Mary Anne Carroll, Associate Professor,Chemistry and Atmospheric, Oceanicand Space Sciences. Atmospheric Chem-istry.

Zhan Chen, Assistant Professor. Biomate-rial and Polymer Surface,Biocompatibility.

Brian P. Coppola, Associate Professor, Or-ganic Chemistry. Coordinator of Un-dergraduate Organic Chemistry Curricu-lum. Science Learning and InstructionalMethods.

Gene H. Cordes, Professor, Chemistry andMedicinal Chemistry. Molecular De-sign; Enzymatic Reaction Mechanisms;Biochemistry.

Dimitri Coucouvanis, Professor. Synthesis,Structures and Reactivities of Metal Clus-ters and Supramolecules.

James K. Coward, Professor, MedicinalChemistry and Chemistry. BioorganicChemistry and Medicinal Chemistry.

M. David Curtis, Professor. Organometal-lic and Conducting Polymers.

Seyhan N. Ege, Professor. Heterocyclic Re-active Intermediates.

B. J. Evans, Professor. Solid State Chemis-try: Electronic and Magnetic Materials.

Carol Fierke, Professor, Biological Chemis-try.

Anthony H. Francis, Arthur F. ThurnauProfessor. Magnetic Resonance, Vibra-tional and Electronic Spectroscopy ofMaterials.

Eitan Geva, Assistant Professor. Theoreti-cal and Computational Chemistry.

John L. Gland, Professor, Chemistry, Chemi-cal Engineering, and Applied Physics.Solid State and Surface Chemistry, Physi-cal Chemistry.

Gary D. Glick, Werner Bachmann Profes-sor. Bioorganic Chemistry, MolecularRecognition.

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