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Volume 24, Number 1

June 2003 Chemistry and Biochemistry Commencement

P.O. Box 951569607 Charles E. Young Drive East

Los Angeles, California 90095-1569310-825-4219 www.chem.ucla.edu

William M. Gelbart, Chair

First I want to thank the large num-ber of you who were generous enoughto respond to our recent appeals for con-tributions to help offset the severe bud-get cuts that have been levied on us(along with all other departments in theCollege here at UCLA). This past yearhas been particularly hard, as we re-bounded from our first round of cutsonly to face additional and larger onesfor the current and upcoming years. Butthe good news is that our faculty andstaff continue to rise to the occasion andto excel on all fronts. In addition to theprestigious awards won by FredHawthorne, Ken Houk, and WayneHubbell that are described on the nextpage, we have just learned that FraserStoddart is the winner of the 2004Nagoya Medal of Organic Chemistry, tobe conferred on him in Japan at nextsummer’s 15th International Congress ofOrganic Synthesis. And facultythroughout the Department continue to

contribute substantively to newresearch and outreach initiatives withinthe California NanoSystems Institute(CNSI) and the Materials CreationTraining Program (MCTP) describedfor the first time in the last Newsletter.A special forum – the “Cram Debate”– was initiated on September 22 as JimHeath and Ed Chandross argued thecases for and against a future for mo-lecular computers before an audienceof hundreds. A heartwarming surge ofcontributions to the Daniel KivelsonUndergraduate Fellowship Fund willmake it possible for the first student tobenefit from this support as early asnext quarter. And the 2nd KivelsonLecture will be given on December 1by Gilles Tarjus, Dan’s most recent and

long-time collaborator. Finally, plansare well in place for an exciting SeaborgSymposium on December 6 (see pages10 and 12) to help commemorate theinstallation of our new 800 Mhz NMRfacility and to honor Seaborg Medal-ists Ad Bax of the NIH and Alex Pinesof Berkeley for their pioneering con-tributions to NMR. We look forwardto seeing as many of you as possible atthis and other departmental occasionsin the near future.

Very best wishes,

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NEWS ITEM #1Faculty Awards

New FacultyTom Mason

M. Frederick Hawthorneis the 2003 Winner of theMonie A. Ferst Award.This award, administeredby the Georgia Institute ofTechnology Chapter of the

Sigma Xi Society, recognizes those who havemade notable contributions to motivationand encouragement of research througheducation. The award is made every year toa person who has touched and inspired hisor her research colleagues in a manner thatcan be documented by their subsequentscientific accomplishments. The award wasnamed after the late Monie A. Ferst, anoutstanding engineer and businessman, whoin 1933 co-founded the Georgia TechResearch Institute out of personal funds. Believing strongly in the idea that basicresearch conducted by science faculty wouldsignificantly enhance the effectiveness oftheir teaching, he endowed the $5,000 FerstMedal to honor those who have madenotable contributions to the training ofscientists in the academic arena.

Kendall N. Houk is oneof three Americanscientists to be elected thisyear to the InternationalAcademy of QuantumMolecular Science. The

Academy was founded in 1967 in Menton,France, to honor scientists of all countries“who have distinguished themselves by thevalue of their scientific work and their roleas pioneer or leader of a school in the broadfield of the application of quantum mechanicsto the study of molecules andmacromolecules.” Membership involvingscientists under the age of 65 is limited to 35worldwide, and includes photochemists andmolecular scattering theorists as well asquantum chemists.

Wayne L. Hubbellreceived the ZavoiskyAward of the RussianAcademy of Sciences,established in 1991 tohonor the contrib-utions of E. K.

Zavoisky to the discovery of EPR overfifty years ago. The award waspresented at a public ceremony on the19th of September, in Kazan, Russia,attended by officials of TararstanRepublic, Kazan City, and Kazan StateUniversity. The ceremony was thecapstone of a two-day workshop onModern Developments in MagneticResonance, and included receptions,banquets, and performances by a fullstring orchestra, all in honor of Wayneand his work.

Dr. Thomas G. Mason has recentlyjoined the chemistry and biochemistryfaculty as an assistant professor in July,2003. He holds the John McTagueCareer Development Chair and has ajoint appointment in the department ofphysics and astronomy. Prior tocoming to UCLA, Tom worked as anindustrial scientist in the field ofcomplex fluids for nearly six years atExxonMobil Research and EngineeringCo. in Annandale, New Jersey. There,he developed polarized laser tweezersthat can be used to trap and rotatebirefringent microscopic particlessuspended in a liquid, and, using

tigated the structure and interactionsof heavy polyaromatic moleculesknown as asphaltenes that poseproblems in refining crude oils. Hispostdoctoral experience includes inter-disciplinary research in chemicalengineering at the Johns HopkinsUniversity, where he studied themechanical properties of biopolymersolutions, and in physical chemistry atthe Paul Pascal Research Center inBordeaux, France, where he studiedemulsification. Tom’s primary research interests liein developing a fundamental under-standing of the structure and mechani-cal flow properties, or “rheology”, ofsoft materials including denseparticulate suspensions, highly concen-trated emulsions, and entangledpolymer solutions. The shapes of andinteractions between the microscale andnanoscale structures of the constituentparticles, droplets, and polymers canprofoundly influence the macroscopicphase behavior and rheology of thesesuspensions. His research group atUCLA will be exploring the followingareas: (1) designing and studying thephase behavior of new kinds of colloi-dal particles using optical and e-beamlithographic methods, (2) creatingnanoemulsions of liquid droplets thathave zeptoliter volumes in anotherimmiscible liquid for applications incoatings and drug delivery, (3) measur-ing the mechanical flow properties ofvery small volumes, or microrheology,of biopolymer solutions using particletracking, laser tweezers, and lightscattering, and (4) performing neutronscattering experiments at nationalbeamline facilities in order to measurethe structures of hydrocarbons in bulksuspensions. Tom’s laboratory space has just beencompletely renovated, and his group isin the process of setting up emulsifica-tion, rheology, light scattering, lasertweezers, and lithography experiments.

More information about Tom’s researchprogram is available on his website:http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/Mason/.

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New Faculty Appointment

Tom Mason

Alumni News Continued on Page 8

Fred T. Weiss, BS’38 (Young), PhD’41(Harvard), is still active in the Judah L.Magnus Museum of Jewish Studies inBerkeley, which recently purchased anew building and will rebuild it withmore extensive galleries. He writes thatit takes “a different sort of chemistry toget many people involved.”

Arthur Furst, MA’40 (Stone), PhD’48(Stanford), is still active at age 88. Herecently published two papers in theInternational Journal of Toxicology andFood and Chemical Toxicology. His book“151 Myths in Everyday Science“ hasjust been published.

Stanley Singer, BS’46, PhD’50(Jacobs), is director of research atAthenex Research in Pasadena.

Ross I. Wagner, BS’47, PhD’54 (USC)is, since July 2000, a research associatein the Loker Hydrocarbon ResearchInstitute at USC.

Ursula (Solnitz) Osborne, BS’48,writes that her BS allowed her to workas a lab assistant in university labs atBerkeley, Wisconsin, Indiana, andHeidelberg, Germany. Despite heradvisor’s attempt to discourage herfrom majoring in chemistry (“Womenchoose to study chemistry merely tofind a chemist husband.”), she believesthat her motive “was a deep yearningto learn of the beauty and intricacies ofnature at a molecular level”. She didfind a chemist husband, Clyde E.Osborne, BS’48, and their marriagelasted 46 years until his death in 1994.Her career included teaching highschool chemistry in California from 1965to 1969, and two years (1996-98) as aPeace Corps volunteer in the highlandsof Papua New Guinea. She writes thather twelfth-grade students there wereextremely self-motivated, and that “Ibelieve that the rigor in setting up ex-pressions for calculations using units ofmeasure, balancing oxidation-reduc-tion equations, and reasonable attentionto significant figures, as I learned atUCLA, was helpful to these third-worldstudents”.

S. Kathleen Tendick, BS’50, MS’52(Crowell), retired from Los AngelesHarbor College in June 2002. She writesthat she “missed last year’s SeaborgDinner because we were in southeastAsia, returning to Nepal from Thai-land”, but expects to attend the dinnerin December.

Robert V. St. Louis, BS’54, PhD’63(Minnesota), is emeritus professor ofchemistry at the University of Wiscon-sin – Eau Claire, having served therefrom 1968 to 1998. He has been activein the Central Wisconsin Section of theACS, serving as newsletter editor, chair,and National Chemistry Weekorganizer.

Noriko (Chiwaki) Clement, MS’55(James), widow of Robert A. Clement,PhD’54 (Young), is doing Japanesetranslation and interpretation, as abusiness entity, Clemenor, LLC.

Cornelius Steelink, PhD’56(Geissman), emeritus professor ofchemistry at the University of Arizona,is president-elect of the SouthernArizona Section of the ACS, presidentof the University of Arizona RetireesAssociation, and president of theSouthern Arizona Chapter of theArizona Civil Liberties Union. Hewrites that “All of this keeps me busyand in constant trouble.”

Carleton D. Bingham, PhD’59(James), has been retired since 1995 fromthe AED/ERDA/DOE New BrunswickLaboratory, of which he was directorfrom 1971 to 1995.

James A. Pegolotti, PhD’59 (Young),is retired from being librarian at WestConnecticut State University inDanbury. He is author of “DeemsTaylor: A Biography” to be publishedin the fall of 2003 by Northeastern Uni-versity Press.

Matthew L. Howard, BS’60, MD’64,JD’93 (UC Berkeley), practices medicinepart-time as a staff physician in thedepartment of head and neck surgeryat Kaiser Permanente Medical Group in

Santa Rosa. He also maintains a lawpractice in Ukiah and Santa Rosaspecializing in Social SecurityDisability law. He writes: “Followinggraduation and in medical school, Iworked as a bench chemist for facultyon research projects, but have donenothing similar since finishing medicalschool. Indeed my next-to-last such jobwas as a student technician in WillardLibby’s lab until he fired me for goingto medical school instead of graduateschool.”

Bruce Rickborn, PhD’60 (Cram), isemeritus professor of chemistry at UCSanta Barbara, having retired in 2001.

Edwin C. Friedrich, PhD’61(Winstein) is emeritus professor ofchemistry at UC Davis.

Eugene N. Garcia, PhD’61 (McKee),is emeritus professor of chemistry atCSU Dominguez Hills.

David E. Whittington, BS’63, JD’66(Hastings), practiced law from 1966 to1996, but now is on inactive status. Hislast position was county counsel of ElDorado County, California. He writesthat “Since 1971 I have also owned andoperated a small farm where I now growwine grapes.” He also serves on theboard of directors of the GeorgetownDivide Public Utilities District.

C. Dale Poulter, postdoc ’68(Winstein), professor at the Universityof Utah, has been named winner of theJames Flack Norris Award in PhysicalOrganic Chemistry sponsored by theACS Northeastern Section. He willreceive the award at the March 2004meeting of the ACS. Michael H. Sekera, BS’69, MS’82(CalTech) writes that “I have recentlyreturned to Southern California afterhaving spent the last six years in Kona,Hawaii, and the 2 years prior in the SanFrancisco Bay area. In the winter of2002, I had the very satisfying opportu-nity of being part of the drug-testingprogram at the Salt Lake Olympics. Ihave now rejoined the UCLA OlympicAnalytical Laboratory on a full-timebasis as Scientific Director. This labora-tory is the only one in the U.S. accred-ited by the International Olympic Com-mittee to perform testing of athletes forperformance-enhancing drugs such asanabolic steroids.”

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M.S.s 2003

Ph.D.s 2003

Michael AllenCarlos ArcosDiana DavisMary DoudRegina EasleyMartha EllisonJie LanLee McPherson

M.S.’s 2003

Thomas MillerRobert NascimentoJulie OrfJennifer PadillaMichael PageMarie ParkesGloria RodriguezSadaf Sehati

Brian Baker “Adhesion, Cohesion, and Secondary Structure of Mussel Adhesive Protein and Related Biopolymers in Solution and Thin Films” (Robin Garrell)Erik Barthel “Charge-Transfer-To-Solvent Reactions of Sodide in Tetrahydrofuran Investigated by Ultrafast

Pump Probed Spectroscopy” (Benjamin J. Schwartz)Kirsten Beverly “Charge Transport in Low-Dimensional Solids and Single Molecule Systems” (James Heath)Theresa Chang “Mechanically Interlocked Molecules Beyond Catenanes and Rotaxanes“ (J. Fraser Stoddart)Hung Dang “Structural Design, X-ray Characterization, and Photochemical Investigation of Organic Molecules

in Ordered Media: Organic Molecular Rotors and Reactive Intermediates in Crystals”(Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay)

Hieu Duong “Synthetic Strategies and Building Blocks for the Assembly of Heteroacenes, Polyacenes andTwistacenes” (Fred Wudl)

Yunfeng Hu “Theoretical Investigation of Biological Catalysis by Antibodies” (Kendall N. Houk)Kristopher Irizarry “Bioinformatics Detection and Analysis of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the Coding

Regions of the Human Genome” (Christopher Lee)Rebecca Janes “Controlling Thermodynamics in the Synthesis of AIN and Surface Area in TIN Using Solid State Metathesis Reactions” (Richard B. Kaner)Jonathan Katz “Discovery and Characterization of Novel Methyltransferase Reactions and Pathways for the

Amelioration of Molecular Aging in Microorganisms” (Steven G. Clarke)Catherine McKinstry “Arginine Sensing and Coordinated Feedback Inhibition of Acetylglutamate Synthase and

Acetylglutamate Kinase In Neurospora Crassa “ (Richard L. Weiss)Gregory Mitchell “Isofluorindine: The Keystone of Some Novel Materials” (Fred Wudl)Danny Ng “Photochemical Decarbonylation Reactions of Ketones in the Solid State and Applications to the Stereoselective Synthesis of Vicinal Quaternary Centers in Natural Products“

(Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay)William Nguyen “Synthetic Approaches Towards Piperazinomycin and K-13. Formal Total Synthesis of LLU-a” (Michael Jung)Andrew Norris “Understanding the Mechanism of the Enzyme” (T. Toyokuni/C. Clarke)Grazyna Orzechowska “Atmospheric Chemistry of Ozone Reactions With Alkenes” (S. Paulson/D. (Baugh)Fusayo Saeki “Self-Assembled Monolayers And Thin Films: Structure, Interfacial Interactions and Electro-

wetting” (Robin Garrell)Elva Torres “Coherent Dynamics via Polarized Parent/Product Photofragmentation Spectroscopy:

Experiment and Theory” (Delroy Baugh)Alon Volner “Bacterial Phenylalanine Hydroxylase: Cloning, Preparation, Structural Features, Steady-State

Mechanism, and Preliminary Investigation of Active-Site Residues” (Mahdi Abu-Omar)Zhe Yang “Photodecarbonylation of Crystalline Ketones and Its Application to the Synthesis of Tochuinyl

Acetate” (Miguel Garcia-Garibay)

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Ernest AgadzhanovChibuikem AkamnonuDavid AkopianAbraham AlejandroMichael AllenCourtney AmorNadya AndiniJohanna AngFrancis BaltasarSahar BedroodElaine Villanueva BernalKinnar BhavsarKe Kurt BiCraig BloisPaul CelestrePamela ChaoPui Shan ChauCatherine Shih-Fang ChenCrystal So-Pin ChenI-Shan ChiangChristine ChienJiah-Hung ChihCollins ChijiokeVivian ChiuMariae So Yung ChoiCarol Jacquelyn ChowMaria ChuangPhilip ChuangAlena ChungAllison CollenCharisse CrenshawAdelaine De VeraDarla DraperSandra EnfiedjianRussell FellerThomas FlahertySaori FurukawaFrank GarciaRachel Rose GarciaStephen GardnerKimberly GordyMichael HuKatie So-Lai HuiAdam HunterBich Nhi Thi HuynhMiguel A. JimenezRichard JuliusEvish KamravaWei-Hsin KaoJaspreet KaurKelly KawaokaMahmood KhaledyJee Hee KimYoonhan Kim

Jeff KirchnerTakeyoshi KondoNadia KostritskayaMilka KoupenovaRichard KruszewskiScott KubomotoWoo Jin KwakBenjamin Joseph Lim LacarKate Yuenshun LamDoo-Sang LeeMimi Young LeeWoo Yun LeeEmerson LegoSong LieuThan Saung LinJack LiuMelissa LorangYen LuongThuy Thanh LuuYoon-Mi Lee MatraciaKeric MenesRavi MenghaniAlexander MorfDan MuhtarBenny Chun Hei NgVi NgoVincent NguyenFarrah NoorbakhshFausto OrtizRajay PanditBojun ParkHuyen Cecile PhanJelena PopovicMochtar PribadiAlexander Red EagleAndrew RenJessica Lizett ReyesNichole A. ReyesSean RobertsRosemary RohdeMaria Louisa SabarskySyed Ferhaan SaquibKarin SardarianAnnie Yuchen ShenNoel SintLisa SmithMorleh So-KargboTolulope SonuyiBrandee Lynn Spencer-MichlBrian StalkerMarc StarksJennifer StellerMarc StephensonSusan SunMitra TabidianWinnie Tai

B.S.s 2003 Heather TiensonKarrie TomiskaPei-Ling TongThuy TranKim TrinhRose TrinhTim TrinhAmy TseJeffrey TsengYen TsengAlfonso Ricardo UrdanetaKim VanguilderMania VartanianLonnie VaughnBlanca Velez

Michael AldridgeChristopher AmanteaAni BaroniHuynh CaoAlejandro CentenoKin ChanTammy Lujing ChenPeter ChoiFiona ChowJae Hwan ChungKimberly ClarkQuochiep DaoMarrisa GittisarnShoulamit GolfeizMichael HuSung Jung HongAnderson IpRebecca JonesFrancisca KartonoJeanne KimMichelle KimJoseph Mark LatVan LeCheng Hsien LeeSharon LimJose A. Lozano, Jr.Mary Ma

Yow-Ning WanCharles WangGeorge Chu-Kai WangSusAnn WinbushDennis WongDixon WongJason WongLewis WongTeresa WooTae YangJohnathan Chun YehJimmy YipSylvia YounShirley Zhao

SUMMER GRADS

Wai-Yin NaSarah NgNam NguyenTuong Van NguyenBrittany O’DaleMitchell OngTevan OvsepyanSara PanahandehJennie PhuAli RashidianShadi RezaiSepideh SamzadehSoonyong ShimJames ShinnBryan SonKenneth TamLinda TranMy-Linh TruongSheila WanGeorge WangYa-Ju WuIsaac YoshiiJesse Ray ZamudioWei ZengMalachi Zubiate

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Race to the Finish

Launching Lives

Chemistry and Biochemistry Commencement CeremonyCBy Amy Portello

At the Chemistry and Biochemistry Ceremony on June 14, the sun shone brightly on the 170 Bachelor’s of Science and 30PhD graduates in black robes. Faculty, staff, and approximately 1,700 guests watched with delight as the Departmentrecognized the students’ completion of their degrees. Due to the generous donations of alumni and friends of the Department,72 honors and $28,000 in monetary awards and fellowships were also presented to designated students. The afternoonended with caps flying, graduates hugging, and smiles from everyone celebrating the success of the Class of 2003.

Commencement 2003, AwardsCommencement 2003, AwardsCommencement 2003, AwardsCommencement 2003, AwardsCommencement 2003, Awards

Saul Winstein Award Presented by Sylvia Winstein toClifton Shen

Physical Chemistry Award Presented byProfessor Benjamin Schwartz to Erik Barthel

Biochemistry Award Presented by Professors Todd Yeatesand Sabeeha Merchant to Jennifer Padilla and DanielleLeuenberger

Inorganic Chemistry Award Presented byProfessor Richard Kaner to Rebecca Janes

Thomas L and Ruth Jacobs Award Presented byMrs. Ruth Jacobs and Mrs Antoinette Kayser toAlexandra van den Heuvel

Graduate AwardsGraduate AwardsGraduate AwardsGraduate AwardsGraduate Awards

Undergraduate Student AwardsUndergraduate Student AwardsUndergraduate Student AwardsUndergraduate Student AwardsUndergraduate Student Awards

Alumni Undergraduate Summer Research fellowshipsPresented by Dr Robert Boschan to Tal Danino

Ronald S Gabriel MD/Scrubs Unlimited Summer ResearchFellowship Presented by Professor Richard Kaner toMichelle Lee

Yoshie Kadota Undergraduate Award Presented byMs Ruthi Kadota and Ms Akiko Woods to Carrie Brubaker

Arthur Furst Award for Excellence in UndergraduateResearch Presented by Professor Sarah Tolbert to Van Le

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Waiting Their Turn

Getting Ready

Dolores Cannon Southam Award for Excellence in Research Presented by Mr Hillel Fierer to Michael Allen & FranciscaKartono

Dunn Award for Excellence Presented by Professor Emil Reisler to Courtney Amor, Charisse Crenshaw, Stephen Gardner& Alexander Red Eagle

Geissman Award for Excellence in Organic Chemistry Presented by Professor Heather Maynard to Kimberly Gordy

Ramsey Award for Excellence in Physical Chemistry Presented by Professor Benjamin Schwartz to Paul Celestre,Benny Chun Hei Ng & Sean Roberts

Ralph Bauer Award for Excellence in Inorganic Chemistry Presented by Professor Mahdi Abu-Omar to Russell Feller

Ethel terry McCoy Award for Excellence in Chemistry and Biochemistry Presented by Professor Sabeeha Merchant toVi Ngo, Maria Sabarsky, Karin Sardarian, Karrie Tomiska & Pei-Ling Tong

Merck Index Award Presented by Dr Margie Bates to David Akopian, Maria Chuang, Philip Chuang, Nam Nguyen,Mochtar Pribadi & Syed Ferhaan Saquib

Hypercube Scholar Presented by Professor Fred Hawthorne to David Akopian

Gold Family Foundation Award Presented by Professor Sarah Tolbert to Britnee Veldman

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Melvin Hoshiko, BS’69 (Jacobs),MD’73 (UC Irvine), is medical directorof the department of pathology at LongBeach Memorial Medical Center.

Joanne Seltzer, AB’71, MD’75, isassistant clinical professor in the UCLASchool of Medicine and training andsupervising analyst at the SouthernCalifornia Psychoanalytic Institute.

Gary B. Quistad, PhD’72 (Lightner),is a research toxicologist in the Depart-ment of Environmental Science, Policy,and Management at UC Berkeley. Hehas worked on mechanisms of pesticideaction and toxicity for the last 11 years.

Wendy S. Hallett, BS’72, is themanager of Laboratory Operations at theMt. Diablo campus of the John Muir –Mount Diablo Health system. She writesthat “This role includes being thelaboratory information system coordina-tor. The funny piece is that shetransferred from a degree in mathemat-ics to avoid a career in computer pro-gramming.

William R. Roush, BS’74, PhD’74(Harvard), now at the university ofMichigan, has been named winner of theErnest Guenther Award in the Chemis-try of Natural Products, sponsored byGivaudan. He will receive the award atthe March 2004 meeting of the ACS.

Richard W. Bild, PhD’76 (Wasson) isProject Manager Technical Services atSandia National Laboratory inAlbuquerqque, New Mexico. He ismarried to Karen L. Robinson, BS’73.

George P. Teitelbaum, BS’76, MD’80(UC San Diego), is professor of neuro-logical surgery at the USC/Keck Schoolof Medicine. He is also founder of theVertelink Corporation in Irvine,California.

Mark A. Minton, PhD’77 (L. Scott), isa post-doc and chemical safety officer inthe department of natural sciences atNew Mexico Highlands University inLas Vegas, New Mexico.

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In Memoriam

William J. Scanlon, PhD’77(Eisenberg), JD’78 (Wisconsin), has hisown law office, The Scanlon LawOffice, in Madison, Wisconsin.

Gary R. Weisman, postdoc’77(Cram), is professor of chemistry at theUniversity of New Hampshire inDurham. His research emphasizes ste-reochemistry and conformationalanalysis, and the chemistry of amines,polyamines, and derivatives. He isvice-chair of the 2003 Gordon ResearchConference on Physical Organic Chem-istry

Catherine Ann Asaro, BS’78(Heller), is currently president of theScience Fiction and Fantasy Writers ofAmericas. Her book “The QuantumRose” has won the Nebula Award.

Steven A. Boyd, PhD’84(Thompson), is currently a director ofmedicinal chemistry withArrayBioPharma, Inc., a drugdiscovery company in Boulder andLongmont, Colorado. He waspreviously with Abbott Laboratories for13 years.

Robert J. McMahon, PhD’85(Chapman), is professor of chemistry atthe University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Earl D. Murray, Jr., PhD’85 (S.Clarke), is associate director ofdevelopment operations at EncorePharmaceuticals, Inc. in Riverside.

Andrew D. Fortney, BS’85 (Hersh),PhD’90 (Princeton), JD’95 (GeorgeWashington), began a career in patentlaw in Virginia. In 1996, he joinedCypress Semiconductor Corporation inSan Jose, as Senior Corporate Counseland Director of Intellectual Property.He “retired” from Cypress in 2002 andmoved to Fresno, where he has a smalllaw practice.

Robert L. Buchanan, PhD’88(Gralla), is now a partner in theEdwards & Angell, LLP law firm inBoston. He has a JD from SuffolkUniversity Law School and his practiceinvolves obtaining and protectingintellectual property rights for avariety of research institutions and lifescience companies in the U.S. andabroad.

Lenore M. Martin, PhD’89(Chapman), was promoted in 2002 toassociate professor (with tenure) in thedepartment of cell and molecularbiology at the University of RhodeIsland. She writes that she has writtena biochemistry text in 2002 and chairedan ACS symposium on antimicrobialpeptides in June 2003.

Susan A. Kamper (MS’89 (El Sayed),MD’96 (Illinois), is an internist withSt. Luke’s Internal Medicine Associatesin Duluth, Minnesota.

Daniel J. O’Leary, PhD’91 (Anet), isassociate professor of chemistry atPomona College. His wife, June FuO’Leary, MS’91 (S. Clarke) is a researchassociate at the Rand Corporation inSanta Monica.

Charles W. Sokolik, PhD’91 (Cohen)is associate professor and chair in thedepartment of chemistry at DenisonUniversity in Granville, Ohio.

Yu-Shen Chen, BS’91 (Kivelson),PhD’96 (Chicago), is staff scientist atLumileds Lighting in San Jose,California.

Scott K. Silverman, BS’91 (Foote),PhD’97 (CalTech), is assistant professorof chemistry at the University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign.

Bennet So, BS’91, MD’96 (Chicago),practices medicine in Laurel, Maryland.

Christopher M. Hicks, BS’92(Diederich), MD’96 (UC San Francisco),is a full-time clinician as assistant chiefin the department of internal medicinewith the Kaiser Permanente MedicalGroup in Denver, Colorado.

Wai-Hong H. Song, BS’92(Trueblood), MA’96 (CSU DominguezHills), is a police supervisor (detectivesergeant) in the Los Angeles PoliceDepartment

Tam L. Nguyen, BS’93 (Strouse),PhD’98 (SUNY Stony Book), is acomputational chemist at the NationalCancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland.

Robert D. Williams, BS’93 (Strouse),PhD’98 (Northwestern), is seniorresearch scientist in analytical researchand development at Pfizer GlobalResearch and Development in Groton,Connecticut.

Jamey Anderson, PhD’96 (Foote),chemistry professor at Santa MonicaCollege, has been named the recipientof the Marvin Elkin/NorthropGrumman Chair of Excellence. He willreceive $5,000 a year for each of the nextthree years to be used for projects of hischoice that will enhance his teaching.He plans to use the funds for upgrad-ing the college’s Nuclear MagneticResonance Laboratory.

John D. Tovar, BS’97 (Rubin), PhD ’02(MIT), is a postdoctoral fellow inmaterials science and engineering atNorthwestern, working with S. Stupp.

Michelle W. Wu, BS’98, OD’02 (UCBerkeley), is now an optometrist inArcadia, California

Kristi Stepien Wees, MS’99 (Kaner),is sales manager for Kelly ScientificResources in Houston, Texas.

Angela M. Boutté, BS’00, is agraduate student in neuroscience at theCenter for Molecular Neuroscience atVanderbilt University and thedepartment of pathology at theUniversity of Washington.

William J. Arnold, BS’47, died 3February 2003. A native of Los Angeles,he served in the Army Air Force duringWorld War II. He became a chemist forthe state of California and retired as aspecial agent.

Linda Sweeting, BS’ 64 (Toronto)PhD’69 (Anet), Professor of Chemistryat Towson University, died suddenly 28September, 2003. Her researchinterests in the chemistry of organicmaterials and spectroscopy led her toexamine triboluminescence. She alsowrote and spoke widely in the field ofprofessional ethics for scientists.

Kate Blacet, widow of Francis E.Blacet, former Chair and Professor ofPhysical Chemistry, died 17 July 2003,a few days after her 103rd birthday.

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2003 Seaborg Symposium and Dinner“Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, Biology and Medicine”honoring Ad Bax and Alex Pines.

Glenn T. Seaborg 2003 Medal Winners

Ad Bax

Alex Pines

Adriaan (Ad) Bax was born in 1956, in The Netherlands and became a US citizenin 1999. He received his Ph.D. in 1981 from the Delft University of Technology,The Netherlands, for work related to the development of two-dimensional nuclearmagnetic resonance (NMR) techniques, which he carried out at Delft and OxfordUniversities. His Ph.D. thesis was reprinted in book format and for many yearsserved as a popular text, introducing students to the application of two-dimen-sional NMR in chemistry. After post-doctoral work in solid-state NMR, Bax joinedNIH where he has been working on the development and application of a widevariety of advanced multi-dimensional NMR techniques. Initially, this work fo-cused on the study of natural products and other small molecules, but in thelatter half of the eighties he shifted his interests to the study of the three-dimen-sional structure and dynamic properties of proteins.

Bax’s work has been recognized by numerous awards, including the MarylandOutstanding Young Scientist Award from the Maryland Academy of Sciences, theGold Medal from the Dutch Chemical Society, the Bijvoet Medal from UtrechtUniversity, the Protein Society Young Investigator Award, the E. Bright Wilson,Hillebrand, and Remsen Awards from the American Chemical Society, theKirkwood Medal from Yale University, the Gunther Laukien Award from the Ex-perimental NMR Conference, the John Scott Award from the City of Philadel-phia, the Jeanette Piperno Award from Temple University, and the Hans NeurathAward from the Protein Society. He is also a corresponding member of the DutchRoyal Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sci-ences, and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Alexander Pines is the Glenn T. Seaborg Professor of Chemistry at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, and Principal Investigator in the Materials Sciences Division ofthe Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 1972, he obtained his Ph.D. in ChemicalPhysics at MIT and joined the faculty at Berkeley. Pines was awarded the Wolf Prizefor chemistry in 1991. Among his numerous other honors, he has received the LangmuirAward of the American Chemical Society and the Faraday Medal of the Royal Societyof Chemistry. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a ForeignMember of the Royal Society (London); he is Doctor Honoris Causa at the Universityof Paris and the University of Rome, and past President of the International Society ofMagnetic Resonance. A renowned educator, Pines has been recognized by receivingthe University of California Distinguished Teaching Award; and has been mentor togenerations of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows worldwide, the self-dubbed“Pinenuts”.

Pines is a pioneer in the development of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)spectroscopy, particularly for solids. His innovations include contributions to multiple-pulse coherent averaging, time-reversal of dipolar couplings, cross-polarizations, multiple quantum coherence, multidimensional spectroscopy, andzero-field NMR. Applications of his widely used techniques range from catalyst and polymers to liquid crystals andbiomolecules. Recently, Pines has introduced a novel approach to high-resolution “ex-situ” spectroscopy and imaging; hehas also further enhanced NMR and its offspring, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), using laser-polarized noble gases andsuperconducting (SQUID) detectors, with applications extending from chemistry and physics to materials science andbiomedicine.

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The UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistryis proud to announce that

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on Saturday, December 6, 2003 at the dinner following the Seaborg Symposium.

will receive the2003 Glenn T. Seaborg Medal

“Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, Biology and Medicine”

9:30 a.m. - 12:10 p.m

Alex Pines, University of California, Berkeley. “Thirty Years of Ups and Downs”Peter van Zijl, Johns Hopkins University. “Exploiting the NMR Signals of Mobile Proteins &

Peptides for MRI”Ann McDermott, Columbia University. “NMR Studies of Intrinsic Membrane Proteins”2:00 p.m. - 5:20 p.m.Ad Bax, National Institutes of Health. “A New View of Protein Structure by Weak Alignment

NMR”Lewis Kay, University of Toronto. “NMR Approaches for the Study of Protein Structure &

Dynamics”

Gerhard Wagner, Harvard Medical School. “NMR Approaches for Studying Proteins Involved in GeneExpression”

Reception at 6:30 p.m. - UCLA Covel Commons, Grand Horizon RoomDinner at 7:30 p.m. - UCLA Covel Commons, Grand Horizon RoomFurther information and reservation forms will be sent in October. Go to http://www.chem.ucla.edu/ for additional details.

Paul D. Boyer Hall, Room 159

Dorothee Kern, Brandeis University. “Enzymes in Action in the NMR Tube: Protein Dynamics During Catalysis”