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1998 U-M DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

Letter fromthe Chair

Greetings from Ann Arbor and theDepartment of Chemistry. After one fullyear as Department Chair, I have come torealize the full scope of this administra-tive challenge. It’s been a very busy andexciting year as we forge ahead to meetthe goals and implement the plans set outin our new 5-year plan.

One of the most ambitious parts of ourplan is the recruitment of new faculty atthe senior and junior levels. During thepast year, Professor William Roushsettled in the Department as the firstWarner Lambert/Parke Davis Professorof Chemistry. Bill has assembled a superresearch group of graduate students andpostdoctorals. We were successful thisyear in recruiting Professor Edwin Vedejsfrom the University of Wisconsin. Edwill join the faculty next January as theMoses Gomberg Professor of Chemistry.Some of his research group will startarriving at Michigan by August of 1998.Ed is a very distinguished organic chem-ist whose research spans both mechanis-tic and synthetic chemistry. He is a longtime consultant for Pharmacia UpjohnPharmaceutical Co. and is currently anAssociate Editor of the Journal of theAmerican Chemical Society. We werefortunate in recruiting Professor CarolFierke from the Department of Biochem-istry at the Duke Medical School. Shewill arrive at Michigan some time nextsummer. Carol is a biochemist with astrong physical organic background, andsomeone who will be a significant addi-tion to our biochemistry undergraduateprogram and our graduate program in

chemical biology. In addition to thesetwo outstanding senior hires, we welcomeDr. Larry Beck from Cal Tech as the DowCorningAssistant Professor of analyticalchemistry in September. Larry brings abroad spectrum of research expertise insolid state NMR, zeoli tes andnanostructures. Faculty recruiting willcontinue at a vigorous pace in the comingyear with no less than four searches in thearea of theoretical physical chemistry,organic and chemical biology and inor-ganic/materials chemistry. The Collegeand the University both have been sup-portive and have facilitated the recruit-ment of outstanding faculty.

Unfortunately, we are losing one of ourgreatest supporters in the administration.In April, Edie Goldenberg announced herresignation as Dean of LS&A effectivethis August. In October, she will becomeProvost at the University of Texas, Aus-tin. We all express our gratitude for herefforts to build a stronger Chemistry De-partment and wish her well in her newpost. During the coming year, ProfessorPat Gurin of the Psychology Departmentwill serve as interim Dean while a na-tional search is undertaken for a perma-nent Dean.

Other news in the Department includesthe promotion of Dr. Richard Goldstein toAssociate Professor with tenure. Richardis also an Associate Research Scientist inthe Division of Biophysics. ProfessorJames Penner-Hahn finishes his term asAssociate Chair for Curriculum Develop-ment and Faculty Affairs. The Depart-ment is grateful for the outstanding job

that Jim has done. He will be replaced byProfessor Masato Koreeda. ProfessorMark Meyerhoff will continue as Associ-ate Chair for Graduate Student Affairs foranother year after which he will take awell deserved sabbatical leave.

We have had another excellent year forrecruiting graduate students. In the fall,45 new Ph.D. students will join the De-partment. This summer has also been avery productive one for undergraduateresearch participation with a total of 20undergraduates doing research in variouslaboratories. We were fortunate to re-ceive several significant gifts for under-graduate support this year which we havedirected to summer fellowships includinggifts from the Dreyfus Foundation, fromPPG Co. and the Pfizer PharmaceuticalCo. Special gifts were also received fromHelen Schaefer and from Marion Harristo supplement named endowments forundergraduate scholarship support. LouCentofanti and Bob and Marj Parry addedspecial gifts to the Robert W. Parry fund,and Jerry Robertson similarly strength-ened the P. A. S. Smith fund. These twoendowments and a new corporate giftfrom Pharmacia & Upjohn in Kalamazooare directed to graduate support. Charlesand Genevieve Walton also initiated anendowment fund for the support of mate-rials research.

I would like to acknowledge and thankthe alumni, alumnae and friends of theDepartment for their generous gifts dur-ing the past year. It is gratifying to see somany special gifts to named fellowships,lectures and to our Alumni/ae Fund. This

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TheDepartment of Chemistry

Newsletteris published once a year by the Depart-ment of Chemistry at the University ofMichigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055

Printed on Recycled Paper

Chair: Joseph P. MarinoEditor: Doreen FussmanAsst. Editor: Agnes SoderbeckAlumni News: Robert C. Taylor

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

Symposia and Seminars................ 2

Spotlight Profiles........................... 3

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

Faculty News.................................. 5

Graduate Program News

Graduate Awards....................... 7

Doctoral Degrees......................10

Undergraduate Program News

Undergraduate Awards.............12

Summer Research Programs....14

Undergraduate Degrees...........15

Gifts................................................ 16

Alumni News ................................. 18

In Memoriam................................. 25

Faculty Listing.............................. 26

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

The Regents of the University of Michigan:Lawrence B. Deitch; Daniel D. Horning; Olivia P.Maynard; Shirley M. McFee; Rebecca McGowan;

Andrea Fischer Newman; Philip H. Power; S. MartinTaylor; Lee C. Bollinger, ex officio. Lee C. Bollinger,

President.The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/

affirmative action employer.

Contents

World Wide Web Address:http://www.umich.edu/~michchemE-mail: [email protected]

Symposia/SeminarsOctober 28, 1997 was an extra specialday for the Department. ProfessorDimitri N. Coucouvanis, Professor ofChemistry, received the Margaret andHerman Sokol Faculty Award in theSciences. Professor Coucouvanis gavea lecture on Understanding the Struc-ture-Function Relationship in Nitroge-nase: A Major Challenge in Bio-inor-ganic Chemistry. The event was held atthe Rackham Amphitheater in theRackham Graduate School with a recep-tion and dinner following. The awardwas established at the Graduate Schoolthrough the generosity of Mrs. MargaretSokol.The Department hosted, with pleasure,many visitors to special events this pastyear. The Moses Gomberg Lecture Se-

latter resource has become an increas-ingly important component of our effortto provide the finest educational experi-ence for our students. You will find thatthe back cover of the newsletter has thefamiliar gift reply form for the depart-mental annual appeal. This newsletterwill be the only solicitation this year to allof you from the department for your con-tinued support of our endeavors.

One of the high points of the academicyear was the award of an honorary degreeto alumnus, Professor Richard Smalley(BS ‘65) at the December, 1997 com-mencement. Professor Smalley is Profes-sor of Chemistry and Director of the Cen-ter for Nanoscale Science and Technol-ogy at Rice University. He was acorecipient in 1996 of the Nobel Prize inChemistry for the discovery ofbuckminsterfullerene.

At the next national meeting of theAmerican Chemical Society in Boston,the Department will have a separate re-

ception and social hour on Mondayevening, August 24, at 6 P.M. in theBrandeis Room of the Marriott, CopleyPlace. I invite those of you at the meetingto stop by and meet new and old friends.

In the fall, the College and Departmentwill have a short program and reception tocelebrate the naming of Bill Roush as thefirst Warner Lambert/Parke-Davis Pro-fessor of Chemistry. We are all indebtedto Dr. Ronald Creswell, Chairman andWarner Lambert/Parke-Davis for spon-sorship of the first endowed chair in theDepartment and in the College from acorporate source. This event will takeplace on October 29, 1998.

In closing, I extend my best wishes fora happy and prosperous year. I look for-ward to seeing some of you in Boston andto relating to all of you next year theprogress in making the Chemistry De-partment at Michigan one of the best.

J. P. Marino

ries, coordinated and hosted by our assis-tant professors, and co-sponsored by theDow Chemical Co. began in Septemberwith Prof. Jiri Jonas (U. of Illinois,Champaign-Urbana) discussing high-resolution NMR spectroscopy at high pres-sures. Prof. David Chandler (U. of Cali-fornia, Berkeley) presented a lecture se-ries Phase Equilibria, Frustration, andSelf Assembly. In December, Prof. CraigTownsend (Johns Hopkins U.) conducteda lecture series on Understanding the Syn-thetic Roles of Multifunctional Proteinsin the Formation of Polyketides and Beta-Lactam Antibiotics. In April, the Depart-ment was very busy with visits from Prof.Alexander Pines (U. of California, Berke-ley) presenting NMR/MRI: All Lit Up;Prof. Christopher Walsh (Harvard Medi-cal School) speaking on Post Transla-tional Modifications; Prof. FrancisDiSalvo (Cornell U.) speaking on Chal-lenges and Opportunities in Solid StateChemistry; and Prof. Graham Fleming(U. of California, Berkeley) giving a lec-ture series on Ultrafast Nonlinear Spec-troscopy and Photosynthetic Light Har-vesting.In May, the Department was co-host tothe Fourth Michigan Symposium on Con-

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Spotlight Profileson Faculty,GraduateStudents, andUndergraduates

As a new addition to the newsletter, wewill highlight one faculty member, onegraduate student and one undergraduatestudent to let you know of their specialaccomplishments in the past year.

Faculty MemberProfessor William Roush joined the fac-ulty here at Michigan this past year. Hejumped right into the fray of combining

research, mentoring graduate students,and serving on committees while inte-grating himself and his family into a newcommunity.During the past year, Professor Roushwas appointed co-Chair of the Life Sci-

ence Commission by President LeeBollinger. He is co-Chair with ProfessorHuda Akil of the Medical School. Thecharge of this committee is to assess thestrengths and weaknesses in the area ofLife Sciences at Michigan, both in re-search and in the education of students.It is also charged with formulating a planas to how Michigan can become one ofthe leading academic centers for the studyand application of the life sciences.Rousch and his colleagues are hard atwork developing strategies for achievingthese goals.Professor Roush’s current research in-terests focus on the stereocontrolled syn-thesis of stereochemically complex natu-ral products, and on the design and de-velopment of new reactions and syn-thetic methods. New ventures in thelaboratory focus on the design and syn-thesis of oligosaccharides as site selec-tive DNA binding agents, and inhibitorsof cysteine proteases isolated from im-portant human pathogens.Professor Roush continues to serve on anumber of boards including the editorialboards of Organic Reactions, Encyclo-pedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis,Organic Synthesis; as well as serving onthe Board of Directors for Organic Reac-tions. In 1998, he was the invited lec-turer at the Heterocycles Gordon Con-ference in Rhode Island, the Natural Prod-ucts Gordon Conference in New Hamp-shire, and the University of Colorado-Syntex/Roche Symposium on OrganicSynthesis in Colorado. Later this year hewill assume the role of Associate Editorof the “Journal of the American Chemi-cal Society”.Additionally, Professor Roush served theDepartment on various committees in-cluding the Executive Committee andthe UM/Parke-Davis Symposium Orga-nizing Committee and was coordinatorof the organic chemistry cluster. Cur-rently, he is the research advisor to 18

graduate students and six postdocs. Hetaught his first course at Michigan, “Ad-vanced Organic Chemistry,” in the winterterm. This fall term he will teach his firstundergraduate course at Michigan, “Struc-ture and Reactivity.” All in all, it was avery busy and productive year for Profes-sor Roush.

Graduate StudentMs. Susan Barker is an up and comingresearcher who has won numerous awardsand honors. In the past year, Susan re-ceived the ACS Analytical Chemistry Fel-lowship for the 1998-99 academic year.In addition, she received the Horace H.

Rackham Graduate School PredoctoralFellowship for the 1998-99 academic year.Susan also received a Sloan Summer Fel-lowship for 1998. She received the KenanAward at a Union Carbide symposium inApril 1998 (see Graduate Program Newsfor write-up). She received the first prizefor the best student presentation at theANACHEM (Analytical Chemistry)Meeting, in Detroit in November of 1997.

She received much recognition for pub-lishing work on the first optical biosensorfor the biomedical detection of nitric ox-ide (has been found recently to play ahighly important role in brain cell trans-

temporary Challenges in Molecular Medi-cine sponsored by Parke-Davis Pharma-ceutical Research. This year the focus ofthe symposium was on research at thechemistry-biology interface. Guest speak-ers included Prof. Stuart Schreiber(Harvard), Prof. Ralph Hirschmann (U. ofPennsylvania), Prof. Andrew Myers (Cali-

fornia Institute of Technology), and Prof.Paul Wender (Stanford U.).The Bachmann Lecture was presented thisyear by Yoshito Kishi (Harvard) and theWillard Lecture speaker was Csaba G.Horvath (Chem. Eng., Yale).All the special named seminars were at-tended by many throughout the year. It is

very exciting to bring new ideas and re-search developments to the Departmentthrough seminars, symposia and lectures.The Department is able to host these eventsthrough funds from endowments and gen-erous corporate and individual gifts. Theseresources are essential to sustain a vitalseminar program.

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New Faculty

Larry W. Beck , Assistant ProfessorAnalytical NMR Spectroscopy ofMaterials; Zeolite CatalysisPh.D., Texas A&M UniversityFundamentally, our objective is to under-stand the relationship between chemicalstructure and the physical properties ofbulk materials through spectroscopic mea-surements. Our specific focus is to inves-tigate the complex physical propertiesthat affect heterogeneous catalysis by ap-plying solid-state NMR. Inorganic oxidecatalysts, in particular zeolites, are ourprimary interest. Zeoli tes aremicroporous, crystalline solids used ex-tensively by the chemical industry as cata-lysts and adsorbents.

The problems that we study are di-rectly relevant to the chemical industry.Chemical systems include acid-catalyzedoligomerization, bimolecular addition re-actions and transition-metal catalyzedpartial-oxidation of hydrocarbons. Whilemany successful processes employ zeo-lite catalysts, very little is known abouthow these catalysts work. Our researchstrives to understand how catalyst struc-ture relates to performance. Once thecatalytic mechanism is understood thenthe catalytic materials can be redesignedfor optimum performance.

We are developing and applying so-phisticated NMR spectroscopic tech-niques in order to investigate heteroge-neous catalysis. Importantly, the cata-lysts are investigated under reaction con-ditions using in situ, high-resolution NMRmethods. This enables us to learn howthe catalyt ic process changes thematerial’s local structure and in turn how

the structure affects catalytic performance.NMR is the best technique to monitormany dynamic surface processes occur-ring within the NMR time-window, msecto sec.

The problem-solving approach of thisresearch is also multi-disciplinary. Ourresearch involves technically demandingNMR measurements and requires someinstrument design and modification. Ad-ditionally, the pulsed-NMR experimentsare constantly evolving in order to opti-mize the measurement. Our efforts tounderstand surface-mediated organictransformations has led us into cutting-edge physical-organic chemistry. Thesesurface reactions are different from gas orsolutionphase reactions and often theempirical rules of traditional chemistrydo not apply. Materials synthesis is alsoan integral part of our research, since wedesign and synthesize the catalyst for eachproject. This enables the greatest degreeof flexibility and control over the struc-tural properties we want to study.

Edwin Vedejs, Moses GombergProfessor of Chemistry, OrganicChemistryPh.D., University of WisconsinOur work is designed to develop an un-derstanding of conceptual, stereochemi-cal, mechanistic, and preparative aspectsof organic synthesis. All Ph.D. studentsin the group become involved in the

mission and is implicated in medicationsfrom the heart drug nitroglycerin toViagra). Ms. Barker’s research has re-sulted in many first author publicationsincluding “Fiber Optic Nitric Oxide Se-lective Biosensors”, “Nitric and Chlo-ride Selective Fluorescent Nan-Optodesand In Vitro Application to Rat Concep-tuses” in Analytical Chemistry. Susan, inher copious free time, enjoys oil paintingand is active in church functions. Shehopes to find a research position in agovernment or industrial lab. Her hus-band, Scott, is a graduate student in Elec-trical Engineering.

Undergraduate StudentMr. Andrew Haidle (Chemistry, Cow-ard) authored honors theses in both Cel-lular & Molecular Biology and Chemis-try in preparation for the PhD program inorganic chemistry at Harvard. In Prof.James Coward’s lab he attempted thesynthesis of B-fluoro L-threonine deriva-tives for incorporation into a peptide

which is to be used to investigate themechanism of the enzyme oligosaccharyltransferase. Goldwater Scholar, LubrizolScholarship, National Starch Fellowshipand American Institute of ChemistsChemistry Award are among his honors.In addition, he was awarded a Hertz Foun-dation Fellowship for five years of gradu-ate study at Harvard (about twenty aregive nationally).


construction of complex target structuresto learn the strategies and logistics ofmultistep synthesis. The targets can benatural products derived from nitrogen-containing heterocycles, but they can alsobe complex unnatural heteroelement (bo-ron, nitrogen, phosphorus, etc. ) contain-ing molecules that have been designed toserve as catalysts for enantioselectivereactions. We use total synthesis as achallenging testing ground for the funda-mental issues that are under study in ourgroup, and as an extraordinary tool fortraining that teaches logical analysis andpractical mechanistic thinking as well aspreparative chemistry. Targets are care-

fully chosen to combine the investiga-tion of several fundamental questions inconnection with a specific structural fam-ily and to provide a diverse experiencefor group members. In some cases, ourprojects encounter biologically interest-ing activity and collaborative screeningefforts, but our principal focus is on thechemistry and on fundamental questions.The ideal synthesis project in our grouptargets a substance that is needed for aspecific purpose, and addresses conceptsthat have lasting value beyond the spe-cific family of targeted structures.

Recent studies have focused on theinvestigation of reagents and catalysts

based on heteroelements and phase isola-tion technology, the exploration ofstereogenic heteroatoms as sites wherestereochemical information may be tem-porarily stored, and on a variety of meth-ods for enantioselective synthesis (anionprotonation; acylation and alkylation ofchiral or prochiral nucleophiles; parallelkinetic resolution; configuration controlusing crystallization methods). In thearea of synthetic methodology, we havebeen especially interested in the activa-tion of sensitive heterocycles for bondformation. Advances on this topic arecurrently featured in our total synthesisprojects.

Faculty News

Mark Banaszak Holl received two newgrants this year. NSF sponsored a projecton the structure and reactivity of silicon/silicon oxide interfaces. Dow-Corningwill provide funding for the study of thestructure and reactivity of interlayer di-electrics derived from T8-resin orflowable oxide. He also received an IBMResearch Partnership Award and a 3MNontenured Faculty Award.Professor Emeritus L. S. Bartell gave alecture on nucleation at the Institute ofIndustrial Research in Wellington, NewZealand and in March gave an invitedtalk at a symposium on nucleation at theMarch meeting of the American PhysicalSociety in Los Angeles. In June he lec-tured, again on nucleation, at the Interna-tional Symposium on Nucleation in StateCollege, PA. He went to Russia to speakat an International Workshop on nucle-ation and first-order phase transitions inSt. Petersburg. In August he will give aninvited lecture on supercooled water atthe Gordon Research Conference onWater in the Holderness Academy in NewHampshire.Brian Coppola, along with MarkMeyerhoff, will serve as co-PI of a De-partment of Education GAANN grant fo-cusing on the creation of an infrastruc-

ture for developing teaching scholarship.The project is part of a larger programcalled “Chemical Sciences at the Inter-face of Education”. Brian was named asPew Scholar in the first round of a newprogram created by the Carnegie Founda-tion for Teaching and Learning, located atthe Stanford Research Institute. He willbe involved in shaping the new programand planning for establishing “TeachingAcademies” at the home campuses.Dimitri Coucouvanis received an NIHgrant to continue research on "Iron andMolybdenum Complexes: Enzyme Ac-tive Sites". He received the Margaret andHerman Sokol Faculty Award in the Sci-ences during a lecture held last Fall. Heattended the nitrogenase Gordon Confer-ence and the International Conference onCoordination Chemistry in Florence, Italywhere he presented invited lectures.James Coward was appointed Directorof the Medicinal Chemistry Interdiscipli-nary program in January of this year bythe Rackham Graduate School.M. David Curtis spent three weeks inJapan on a lecture tour sponsored by theJapan Society for the Promotion of Sci-ence. He also presented papers at the NorthAmerican Chemical Congress, Cancun,Mexico, and at the Dallas ACS meeting.

As General Chair of the 16th BiennialConference on Chemical Education, Pro-fessor Seyhan N. Ege continues to workon plans for the meeting to be held at theUniversity of Michigan from July 30 toAugust 3, 2000. As her first official dutyin this role, she, along with BrianCoppola, will be representing the 16thBCCE at the 15th BCCE taking place atthe University of Waterloo in Ontario inAugust 1998. Information about the 16thBCCE may be found on the web at http:// w w w . u m i c h . e d u / ~ b c c e .The fourth edition of Professor Ege’s text-book “Organic Chemistry. Structure andReactivity” will be published in October1998.Christine Evans’ lab has made signifi-cant research progress in two primaryareas: pressure studies and interfacialchemistry. A grant from the NationalScience Foundation was recently receivedto support this work. Several prestigiousawards were received by researchers inher group: Amethyst Cook-Smith, under-graduate, Regional ACS Analytical Chem-istry Award; Mark Mowery, fourth-yeargraduate student, Regional ACS Outstand-ing Research and Teaching Award; MoiraRingo, fourth-year graduate student, Na-tional ACS Full-Year Fellowship spon-sored by the Procter & Gamble Co.

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in Europe. He received the Alexandervon Humboldt Stiftung Award this year.A. Ramamoorthy received funding (co-PI with Erik Zuiderweg ) from NIH forwork in high field NMR spectroscopy.He also received a PRF (ACS) grant.William Roush was appointed co-chairof the University of Michigan Life Sci-ences Commission. In addition to hisongoing research projects supported byNIH, he received funding for his researchfrom Eli Lilly & Co. this past year.Richard Sacks continued progress onhis research in high-speed separations.Funding from Sandia National Labs andCDC supported this research.Roseanne Sension, with co-PIs, receivedfunding from NSF for development of anadvanced high field science laser facilityat the Center for Ultrafast Optical Sci-ence. Additionally, she received NSFfunding for research in “Ultrafast Stud-ies of Electron Transfer in PhotosystemII” and NIH funding for “Time-ResolvedStudies of B

12 Enzymes and Coenzymes.”

Leroy Townsend was recently appointedto the American Chemical Society Com-mittee on Chemistry and Public Affairs.He served as the Academic Councilor ofthe Medicinal Chemistry Division at theACS national meeting in Dallas. In Sep-tember of 1998, he will present the firstplenary lecture at the XIIIth InternationalRound Table in Montpellier France.Professor Emeritus Edgar Westrum, Jr.presented a series of presentations on thethermodynamics in Europe, Asian andaround the country. He completed abook on the thermodynamics of ternaryoxides.Charles Yocum was named to a Colle-giate Professorship, the Alfred S.Sussman Collegiate Professor of Biol-ogy. He was elected Councilor of Divi-sion 3 (Photosynthesis) of the AmericanSociety for Photobiology, and continuesto serve as a member of the MolecularBiochemistry Advisory panel at NationalScience Foundation. He completed anine year tour of duty on the editorialboard of Biochimica et Biophysica Actaand six years as a senior associate editorof Plant Physiology.

John Gland received a DOE grant for acollaborative program with Ford ScienceLaboratories to study propylene and pro-pane oxidation over platinum surfacesusing soft X-ray methods. These funda-mental studies are related to the develop-ment of calorimetric hydrocarbon sen-sors which are being considered for usein automotive exhaust applications.Congratulations to Richard Goldsteinwho was promoted to Associate Profes-sor of Chemistry and Associate ResearchScientist in Biophysics this year. Richardrecently received the Class of 1923 Me-morial Teaching Award for undergradu-ate education. He also received aRosenbaum Fellowship this year to studyat the Newton Institute at CambridgeUniversity during the Fall semester.Nancy Konigsberg Kerner received aFaculty Development Fund Grant at theUniversity for a project entitled “Instruc-tional Strategies for Process Learning.”She continues curriculum developmentof collaborative laboratories in generalchemistry with a grant from NSF. Shewas recently appointed to the Biochemis-try Task Force with the ACS Division ofChemical Education and is working ondevelopment of collaborative inquiry bio-chemistry experiments.Raoul Kopelman, the Kasimir FajansCollegiate Professor of Chemistry, Phys-ics and Applied Physics, presented theworld’s smallest sensors (10 nm) andtheir intracellular applications at the ple-nary session of the 1998 InternationalBiosensors Conference in Berlin. Invitedtalks were also given by him and hisgroup members at European, Japaneseand North American conferences, con-cerning bionanosensors as well as excita-tions and non-classical kinetics insupermolecules, nanostructures andmicrodomains. He received new grantsfrom DARPA, NIH and MicroSense In-ternational LTD.Robert Kuczkowski spent his sabbaticalyear reading, writing and doing experi-ments. He presented a talk “Modeling ofSulfur Dioxide Complexes” at the 17thAustin Symposium on Molecular Struc-ture” in March summarizing the work of

his students over the last ten years. Bobis a member of the Executive Committeeof this biennial meeting which bringstogether experimentalists and theoristsfrom a variety of areas. He is presentlyhelping to edit a special Festschrift issueof the Journal of Molecular Structurecelebrating Prof. Emeritus LawrenceBartell’s 75th birthday. The issue shouldappear in spring 1999.Professor Lawrence Lohr and ProfessorEmeritus Christer Nordman , each re-galed in white tie and tails, attended (inApril) the 160th Anniversary meeting inHelsinki, Finland, of the Finnish Societyof Sciences and Letters (Finska VetenskapSocieteten). Both are Foreign Membersof this Society.David Lubman received a grant fromNIH for his research on “Methods Devel-opment for Microsequencing in an IonTrap TOF Device”. He also receivedgrants from the Army for “Methods ofScreening Bacteria by MALDI-MS.”Neil Marsh received funding from NIHfor his research on “How do enzymesgenerate and control free radicals?” Hewas also nominated by the University fora Packard Fellowship.Mark Meyerhoff received two NIHgrants to continue his various researchprojects including polymer membraneion/polyion sensors, and one DOE grant(co-PI with Brian Coppola) to develop aprogram within the department/univer-sity that will train future chemistry fac-ulty.Michael Morris received funding fromPHS and Unilever Research to continuehis research efforts on Electro-Optic tech-niques in capillary gel electrophersis, CE/Raman Spectroscopy of ATP, and SERSMicroprobe for spatial localization ofskin care product delivery. He com-pleted a productive sabbatical in the fallterm.Will Pearson spent the academic year asa Visiting Scientist at Parke-Davis Phar-maceutical Research while on sabbati-cal.Vincent Pecoraro was on sabbatical thispast year at Merck Pharmaceuticals and


Graduate Program News

45 Entering GraduateStudents for Fall, 1998The department is pleased to announcethat it has had another successful recruit-ing season. The Department hosted threerecruiting weekends that brought 76 pro-spective students to Ann Arbor, with an-other 21 visiting independently. Forty-five students will be joining the Ph.D.program this Fall. The new class mem-bers come to us from both the large re-search universities as well as the smaller,liberal arts colleges. Welcome to theincoming class!

Departmental AwardsCeremony and IceCream SocialSummer 1998 began May 29th in the loweratrium of the Chemistry building with theDepartment’s annual ice cream social andgraduate awards ceremony. Nine stu-dents were honored for their outstandingachievements in the department for theacademic year 1997-98. For each awardcategory students were nominated by fac-ulty and selected by the Awards Commit-tee.

Outstanding GraduateStudent InstructorAward (GSI)The Department of Chemistry pro-vides awards annually to outstand-ing graduate student instructors.Winners are chosen for their contri-butions to innovation in the lab orclassroom, and by teaching evalua-tions and written recommendationof professors. The 1997-98 Out-standing Graduate Student Instruc-tor Award winners were: MatthewBrukwicki, Allwyn Cole and LeahMeeuwenberg.

Outstanding GraduateStudent ResearchAwardThis award isgiven to thosestudents thatdemonstrate su-perior researchskills and recog-nizes the creativ-ity of the stu-dents and theuniqueness oftheir topic. Win-ners of thisaward have sev-eral publicationsand have pre-sented at majornational confer-ences. The 1997-98 OutstandingResearch Awardwinners were: Xinggao Fang (Ashe) andJeffrey Schwinefus (Morris).Mr. Fang’s research focused on the prepa-ration of new homogeneous catalysts forZiegler-Natta polymerization of olefins.Mr. Fang has co-authored over 18 ar-

GSI Award - Allwyn Cole,Matthew Brukwicki, Leah Meeuwenberg,Prof. Joseph Marino

ticles and presented most recently at theDallas ACS National Meeting.Mr. Schwinefus’ research focused on elu-cidation of electrophoretic migration

mechanisms of linear and supercoilednucleic acids. He used video microscopyand electrophoresis. Mr. Schwinefus hasfive co-authored publications and pre-sented most recently at the PittsburghConference in New Orleans.

Research Award - Xinggao Fang, Jeffrey Schwinefus,Prof. Mark Meyerhoff

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Outstanding Leadership - StevenClarke, Prof. Mark Meyerhoff

Joseph Gardner, Prof. JosephMarino, Prof. Milton Tamres

American ChemicalSociety OutstandingGraduate StudentAward for Researchand TeachingThis award is given by the Huron ValleySection of the American Chemical Soci-ety. It is intended to recognize achieve-ment in teaching and research by a gradu-

ate student. The 1997-98 award winnerwas Mark Mowery (C. Evans). Mr.Mowery’s research focused on the un-derstanding of the fundamental events inanalytical measurements and biologicalprocesses that occur at the interfaces oforganic thin films. He has co-authoredover seven articles. He will be present-ing his work at three separate events thissummer (two at the ACS conference inBoston) and fall (American Vacuum So-ciety International Conference). Mr.Mowery was a graduate student instruc-tor for senior level instrumental analysisand physical chemistry laboratorycourses.

Milton TamresOutstanding TeachingAwardThis award was established in the nameof Emeritus Professor Milton Tamres.This award recognizes outstanding cu-mulative teaching service.The 1997-98 winner was Joseph Gardner(Marino). Mr. Gardner motivates stu-dents to learn. He values students andthey value the time he gives them indiscussion. He has shown leadership inassisting in the GSI training sessions. Hehas been ranked as one of the top threechemistry GSIs in the department over

the last ten years. Mr. Gardner has per-formed as a true colleague in the instruc-tional program.

Leadership AwardThe leadership award is given to a gradu-ate student who has shown the skills of aleader of many. The person takes anactive role in the Department giving extratime assisting with graduate recruitments,working with faculty and staff to providea better environment for graduate stu-dents, and also serves as morale and wel-fare support resource for the graduatestudents. The 1997-98 winner was Steven

Clarke. Mr. Clarke served the year aspresident of the Graduate Student Com-mittee. He oversaw the organization of

many social events for graduate students.He interacted with faculty at ExecutiveCommittee meetings, and was the pivotalperson in maintaining a consistent linkbetween the “red-tape” and graduate stu-dents.

In addition to the Departmental awards,we wish to recognize three additionalawards given to our students this year.

Hoffmann-La RocheAward (Spring 1998)This is an external award given by theHoffmann-La Roche Company for Ex-cellence in Organic Chemistry.

The Department chose one student to benominated for this award. The 1997-98winner, Joseph Gardner (Marino), wasone of seven graduate students in chem-istry from top-ranking universities se-lected to receive this honor. Mr.Gardner’s research focused on the syn-thesis and dianion reactivity of opticallypure B-amino sulfoxides. This has prac-tical applications, such as providing aquick route to protected B-amino acids.This methodology is being used to worktowards the total synthesis of the antibi-otic Negamycin.

ACS Award - Mark Mowery,Prof. Joseph Marino

Hoffmann LaRoche - Dr. DennisLoh (Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc.),Joseph Gardner


Dr. Katherine Grabar, (SymposiumOrganizer) Susan Ritenour Barker,Dr. Eugene Boros (Union Carbide)

1998-99 ACS Fellows - SusanBarker, Moira Ringo

1998-99 Rackham PredoctoralFellows - Susan Barker, JeffSchwinefus

CBI Fellows - Jessica Pankuch,Craig McClure

Regents’ Fellows - Morris Slutsky,Neil Yakelis, Steven Clark

GAANN Fellows - Murphy Brasuel,Jerilyn Timlin, Rose Sattler

Susan L. Ritenour Barker was presentedwith this award at the 8th Annual KenanAward Symposium in April. She wasnominated by the Department. Ms. Barkerwas chosen along with nine other gradu-ate students to receive this award. Ms.Barker’s research involves the develop-ment of optical sensors for anions and aselective nitric oxide biosensor capableof dynamic intra- or intercellular mea-surements on a biological time scale.

FellowshipsIn addition to the awards, the Departmentprovides fellowships to outstanding stu-dents. Fellowships given during the pastyear by the Department, the College andthe Rackham Graduate School includeChemical Biology Interdisciplinary(CBI) Training Grant Fellowships :Sanmitra Deo, Craig McClure, JessicaPankuchDow Britton Fellowship: Mark BiscottoGraduate Assistance in the Area of Na-tional Need (GAANN) Fellowships:Rebecca Appleman, Murphy Brasuel,Cory Emal, Jennifer Holt, MaureeenKachman, Andrea Kastrup, RoxanneKunz, Carrie Leonard, Jerilyn (Pezzuti)Timlin, Rose Sattler

ACS AnalyticalDivision FellowshipThis year, we were fortunate to have two1998-99 ACS Analytical Division FullYear Fellowship winners. Ms. Susan

Barker (Kopelman) won this award andis sponsored by Merck and Co., Inc. (seewrite-up on page 3 about Ms. Barker.)Ms. Moira Ringo (C. Evans) was thesecond recipient of this award. Her spon-sor is Procter & Gamble Co.Ms. Ringo’s research focused on the ef-fect of pressure on equilibria in liquidchromatography and capillary electro-phoresis, with an emphasis on fundamen-tal elucidation of chiral interactions. Ms.Ringo is the primary author of five publi-cations currently in print and two that arein review, one of which was recently fea-tured on the cover of Analytical Chemis-try.

Union CarbideCorporation KenanAwardThis award is given for outstanding gradu-ate students working in the field of mea-surement science.

Rackham Predoctoral Fellowships:Susan Barker, Jeffrey SchwinefusRackham Merit Fellowships: MillicentWeldon, Tania PearsonRegents’ Fellowships: Jeffrey Bednarski,Neal Blatt, Roger Clark, Steven Clarke,Matthew Hartman, Morris Slutsky, NealYakelisSchalon Fellowships: Karla MillerSloan Fellowships: Wendy Blanda, JoanEsson, Luyi Guo, Peiqing Huang, MaricelKann, Karla Miller, Katrina PearisoSmeaton Fellowship: Jin-Hai YangSokol Fellowships: Theresa Ambroseand Keenan DungeyThese fellowships recognize the academicand research excellence of graduate stu-dents.

Sloan Fellows - Karla Miller andMaricel Kann

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Doctoral DegreesAugust, December, 1997 and May, 1998

Shawn Abernathy (Sharp)Effects of Zero-Field Splitting Interactions on NMRRelaxation in Paramagnetic Solutions. Dr. Abernathy is apost-doctoral researcher at Howard University where he isworking with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Theresa Ambrose (Meyerhoff)Investigations of Photocrosslinked Decyl Methacrylate asa Membrane Matrix for Electrochemical and Optical Ionand Polyion Sensors. Dr. Ambrose has joined the ClinicalChemistry Postdoctoral Training program at the Washing-ton University School of Medicine.

Teresa Cain (Lubman)Application of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ioniza-tion Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry to the Study ofBacterial Biomolecules. Dr. Cain is now employed atMagellan Labs in North Carolina.

Wonyoung Choe (Lee)Structural Studies on Silver(I) Coordination Networks ofLow-Symmetry Ligands and on Dysprosium CopperTellurides.

Kenneth Christensen (Morris)Hyperspectral and Filter-Based Raman Microscopy andImaging: Design of Practical Imaging System. Dr.Christensen is a post-doctoral researcher at the Universityof Michigan Medical School.

Ted Clark (Evans B. J.)Local Crystal/Chemical Structures at Iron Sites in Amor-phous, Magnetic and Nanocrystalline Materials. Dr. Clarkrecently completed a position as a visiting assistantprofessor at Denison University and will begin a post-doctoral research position at Ohio State University.

Kelly Daly (Penner-Hahn)Determination of Electronic Structure and Dynamics forTransition Metal Systems Using X-Ray Spectroscopy. Dr.Daly is employed as a Research Scientist at EnergyConversion Devices in Troy, MI.

Cherie Dotson (Evans B. J.)Order-Disorder Phenomena in Naturally Occuring MetalOxides. Dr. Dotson is taking time to start her family.

Keenan Dungey (Curtis)Attacking the Hydrodesulfurization (HDE) Pie with a ThreeProng Fork: Modeling HDS by Solid State Synthesis,Homogeneous Desulfurization and Hetrogeneous ProbeReactions. Dr. Dungey is a NSF funded post-doctoralresearcher at Furman University.

Sridhar Govindarajan (Goldstein)Protein Structure and Folding: An Evolutionary Perspec-tive. Dr. Govindarajan is a post-doctoral researcher at theUniversity of Florida.

Brent Hamstra (Pecoraro)Vanadium-aminocarboxylate complexes: Models for theRoles of Vanadium in Biological Systems. Dr. Hamstra is apost-doctoral researcher at the Department of Chemistryand Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame.

Ling He (Lubman)Theoretical and Experimental Improvements for Using anIon Trap/Reflectron Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer toDetect Biological Molecules. Dr. He is a Research Scien-tist at Scherring-Plough Pharmaceuticals.

Sean Kane (Gland)The Role of Hydrogen and Surface Structure in the Reac-tions of Model Thiols on Nickel Surfaces. Dr. Kane will bestarting a 1-3 year term as a Caltech post-doctoral Scholar(supported by NASA’s Upper Atmosphere ResearchProgram) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,California this August. He will be investigating heteroge-neous chemistry in stratospheric ozone depletion.

Xuhui Li (Lubman)On-Line Capillary Separations / Mass Spectrometry forBiomolecular Characterization with an Ion Trap /Reflectron Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometer. Dr. Li is aResearch Scientist at Bristol-Myers Pharmaceuticals inConnecticut.

Brian Lian (Pearson)The Total Synthesis of (+)-Cocciine via an Intramolecular2-Azaallyl Anion Cycloaddition. Dr. Lian is employed atMicrocide Pharmaceuticals.

Xiaoli Liang (Lubman)Analysis of Complex Biological Mixtures by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry.Dr. Liang is a postdoctoral research associate at ArgonneNational Labs.


Hui Liu (Rasmussen)Syntheses and Characterizations of Derivatives and Poly-mers containing Cyanoimidazoles. Dr. Liu accepted aposition with Solutia Inc., a spinoff of Monsanto.

Weiman Liu (Townsend)Direct and Efficient Convergent Synthetic Routes toPyrazine C-Nucleosides. Dr. Liu is a Senior Scientist atShionogi BioResearch Corporation in Lexington, Massa-chusetts.

Steven Malinak (Coucouvanis)The Design and Synthesis of Potential Catalysts for theReduction of Small Molecules, with Specific Emphasis onModeling the Function of Nitrogenase. Dr. Malinak is apostdoctoral researcher at Michigan.

Michael McClure (Marino)Stereocontrolled Synthesis of (-)-Macrolactin A. Dr.McClure is a post-doctoral researcher at Emory University.

Robert Reynolds (Coucouvanis)The Synthesis and Characterization of Polynuclear Car-boxylate and Polynuclear Carboxylate/Catecholate Com-plexes.

Jennifer Sowinski (Toogood)Total Synthesis of a Keramamide: Structural Evaluation ofKeramamide J. Dr. Sowinski is now a medicinal chemist atG.D. Searle in Chicago, Illiniois.

Erland Stevens (Pearson)Preparation and Reaction of Nitrogen-SubstitutedCarbanison: (1) Heteroatom-Substituted 2-Azaallyl Anionsand (2) Branched -Amino Anions. Mr. Stevens has ac-cepted an assistant professorship at Davidson College inNorth Carolina.

Tong Xu (Coward)Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Unnatural AminoAcid-Containing Peptides as Mechanistic Probes andInhibitors of Oligosaccharyltransferase. Dr. Xu is aresearch chemist at La Jolla Pharmaceuticals located in LaJolla, California.

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Undergraduate AwardsIn April, the Department hosted the annual Undergraduate Awards. Invited speaker,Professor Michael Martin, Director of the Honors Program, kept the guests amusedwith “lessons learned” from his biology school days.

Summer Research Fellowships (front left to right) Aaron Daniel, Rebecca Ihrie,Sara Roberts, Jesse Kuiper, (back left to right) Lisa Viculis, David White,Michael Bruderly, Amethyst Smith, Adam Geiger, Jeffrey Bryant, Claudia Lopez(not pictured:) Chris Conrad, Jeffrey McMahon.

Undergraduate Program News

ACS StudentAffiliates

The American Chemical Society Stu-dent Affiliates Chapter have received aUniversity of Michigan LeadershipAward for being an Outstanding StudentOrganization. Out of over 60 nomina-tions, they were one of only five studentorganizations to receive this award, andthe only one to be associated with anacademic department. The award recog-nizes their efforts to revitalize their Chap-ter over the past year. They have beenparticularly effective in their efforts tobring chemistry into the classroom withtheir outreach program to local schools.

Growing from almost zero to morethan sixty active members in less than ayear the University of Michigan Ameri-can Chemical Society Student AffiliateChapter is a success story about revitaliz-ing a struggling chapter. Innovative of-ficer positions, increased delegation ofauthority, and the courage to try newideas created a special chemistry in thegroup. In order to encourage all membersto be creative and reach their full poten-tial, the officers stressed, “Dream an out-standing activity, and everyone will makeit happen.” This organization is the resultof dreams. The co-chairs of the Chapterthis past year were Jonathan Irish andSusan Blum.

UndergraduateHorizons

Our Chemistry and Biochemistrygraduates pursue a number of differentcareer paths: graduate school, MD/PhDprograms, industrial internships, medi-cine, public health or employment inindustry are a few examples. Some ofthis year’s graduates are highlightedbelow. For 1997-98 chemistry degreestotaled thirty-two, biochemistry hadthirty-seven, with seven students con-centrating in both programs. This is justa small sample of our outstanding stu-dents.

Karl Granskog (Chemistry,Townsend) found a niche in Professor

Leroy Townsend’s group doing researchon triazines and their attachment to sugarbases. He worked there for two yearsgaining valuable experience which helpedhim obtain a position at Pfizer, Inc., inresearch and development.

Sajida Jackson (Biochemistry &Chemistry, Cordes) will work towards amaster’s degree in epidemiology at theUniversity of Michigan School of PublicHealth. Her research in Prof. EugeneCordes’ lab was to design highly potentand specific inhibitors of purine nucleo-side phosphorylase.

Rahul Kohli (Biochemistry, Massey)will pursue medicine and research throughthe MD/PhD program at Harvard. Rahulhas been recognized nationally as aGoldwater scholar, and the departmentawarded him a National Starch Scholar-ship and the American Institute of Chem-ists Biochemistry Award.

Jason Pontrello (Chemistry, Penner-Hahn) has pursued an industrial intern-ship at Warner Lambert before attendinggraduate school next year. His chemistryhonors thesis, under Prof. James Penner-Hahn, is entitled “Investigations of theManganese Catalase Enzyme from Lacto-bacillus Plantarum.”

Sarah Reybuck (Chemistry,Rasmussen) completed her degree in sevensemesters, allowing her time to pursueresearch in Germany for eight monthsbefore attending Stanford this fall. Shewrote an honors thesis entitled “Synthesisand Characterization Mono-anil Deriva-tives of Diaminomaleonitrile and VinylicMonomers and Polymers from 4,5-dicyano-2-vinylimidazoles.” She receiveda freshman Sokol fellowship, a Schaefferscholarship, and the ACS Huron ValleySection Outstanding Leadership Award.


American Institute of ChemistsChemistry and BiochemistryAwards (left to right) Prof. JamesPenner-Hahn, Rahul Kohli, AndrewHaidle, Prof. Joseph Marino.

Sabat Biochemistry Award Dr.Margaret Lomax, Cagri Besirli. Scholarships (front left to right) Laura Khoury,

Suzanne Blum, Jennifer Chang, AmethystSmith, (back left to right) Laura Harley, DavidWhite, Sara Roberts, Michael Bruderly.

Senior Awards (front left to right) Carolyn Owen,David Zaziski, Tammy Durant, Jonathan Irish (backleft to right) Prof. Michael Martin, Ryan Fields,Adam Geiger, Ron Gaba, Edward Luk, Cagri Besirli,Rahul Kohli, Andrew Haidle, Prof. Joseph Marino.

Sokol Scholars (left to right) Erik Hofer, KeraLagios, Zain Bengali, Julie Albertus, AdamJanco (not pictured) Sarah Carson, MarkDalton, Angkana Roy.

First Year Awards (front left to right) MarkZakaria, Lauren Greenlee, Jason Bronkema (backleft to right) Desiree Thayer, Albert Chao, ScottHarrison (not pictured) Justin Fitzpatrick.

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The Department of Chemistry celebratedits 10th year as a host for the ResearchExperiences for Undergraduates (REU)Site Program, funded through the Na-tional Science Foundation (NSF). Underthe direction of Professor Brian P.Coppola, this summer’s REU programsupported the participation of eight un-dergraduate students. Participants werechosen from a competitive pool of 200applicants. Final selections were basedon academic achievement, letters of rec-ommendation, and interest in research.Students were assigned separately to on-going research groups and worked withfaculty, post-docs, and graduate students,taking part in multidisciplinary researchprojects, workshops, and technical pre-sentations to obtain a better understand-ing of the research experience.Students encountered first-hand how ba-sic research is conducted, practicing avariety of skills needed as a researcher,including proposal and report writing,investigative studies, conducting experi-ments, analyzing data, and presentingtheir findings. Other activities includedan industrial site visit, safety and scien-tific seminars, lunch meetings, and socialfunctions that were organized to facili-tate interaction among the visiting under-graduates, and with other REU host sitesin Michigan. This summer research op-

Research participants and their projects:

Jeffrey M. Bartolin from Baldwin-Wallace College (Banaszak Holl)“Synthesis of Ortho(difluoromethyl)aryl and Ortho(monofluoromethyl) Germanesand Continued Study of Weak Fluorine-Germanium Interactions”

Deniz Buyukisik from Ohio Wesleyan Universitiy (Townsend)“An Approach Toward Synthesis of 7-H-Pyrazolo-[3,4-d]-1,2,3-triazine”

Amanda Haes from Wartburg College (Gland)“Desufurization of Benzenethiol on the Pt(111) Surface”

Carrie Kaminski from Alma College (Zellers)“Comparison of Polymer/Vapor Partition Coefficients from Gravimetric Methodand Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) Sensors”

Jennifer Larimer from Grinnell College (Morris)“Raman microprobe as a thermometer for packed capillaries”

Amy Swift from Swarthmore (Marsh)“Preparation of Glutamate Mutase Proteins”

Christine Tratz from University of Oklahoma (Ashe)“Synthesis of 2,2’-bis(boratabenzene)biphenyl zirconium dichloride for use inCatalysis of Polymerization Reactions”

Thomas Watson from Grand Rapids Community College (Banaszak Holl)bis[Bis(trimethylsily)methyl]germylene C–H insertion of CH

3CN

Research Experiencesfor Undergraduates

ACS Leadership Award (left to right) Prof. PeterToogood, Carolyn Owen, Jonathan Irish, Prof.James Penner-Hahn.

S.N. Ege WISE Award (left to right)Prof. Seyhan Ege, Jennifer Meddings,Margaret Krasnoff.

portunity plays a very important andcomplementary role in undergraduate edu-cation. In addition, it helps students de-cide more realistically on their own inter-

est in subsequent research careers, andbridges the transition to graduate schoolfor those who wish to pursue a researchdegree.


Bachelors DegreesAugust, December, 1997 and May, 1998

CHEMISTRY DEGREESPaulo B. Abada (Koreeda) – MD/PhD (USC)*Vadim G. Astrakan (Gordus) – employed*Bassel H. Atasi (Pecoraro)*Regina Belenkaya (Pugh)Erik R. BialkKeenan Bora (Townsend) – medicineDaniel T. Chang (Marsh )Melvin C. DacresMark A. DzendzelRyan C. Fields (Pecoraro) – medicine (Stanford)Ron C. Gaba (Koreeda) – medicine (Wayne State)*Margaret E. Gillis (Pecoraro) – medicine (UM)*Karl J. Granskog (Townsend) – PfizerAndrew M. Haidle (Coward) – organic chemistry (Harvard)Michael J. Herrera – AvTech Laboratories Inc.Benjamin S. Hong – public policy (UM)Teresa C. Hsu (Zellers) – chemistry (Cal Tech)Jonathan M. Irish – immunology (Stanford)Sajida L. Jackson (Cordes) – epidemiology (UM School ofPublic Health)Li Tsz Lam – industryKevin Leach (O’Brien/Morris) – Bioanalytical SystemsDavid J. Lieberman – Great Lakes ChemicalsAnil Mitra (Townsend) – Dupont-MerckBrian T. Molenda – dentistryJason Pontrello (Penner-Hahn) – intern (Parke Davis)*Sarah E. Reybuck (Rasmussen) – chemistry (Stanford)*Arif M. Sitabkhan (Curtis)Joseph W. Styrna – Edward Jones InvestmentsErika A. Taylor (Toogood) – chemistry (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)*Eric L. Wise (Pearson) – intern (Parke Davis)Payam Zarehbin-Irani – (Coon/Lawton) – opthalmology(Berkeley)*David J. Zaziski (Francis) – chemistry (Berkeley)*

BIOCHEMISTRY DEGREESBassel H. Atasi (Pecoraro)Cagri Besirli (Lomax) – MD/PhD (Washington University)*Daniel T. Chang

Kristi M. Cowell – medicine (MSU)David Crandall (Goldman) – medicine (Utah)*Iman H. DaoukTammy Durant (Goldman) – medicine (UM)*Ron C. Gaba (Koreeda) – medicine (Wayne State)Neil A. Gardner (Penner-Hahn)Eric A. Guisbert (Engelke) – graduate school*Manish GulatiRamy A. Hassan – employedJoseph M. Haurani (Zand) – medicine (Wayne State)*Tracy M. Hobson (Nichols) – employedSam Shih-Kuang Hong (Yocum) – medicine*Teresa C. Hsu (Zellers) – chemistry (Cal Tech)Jonathan M. Irish – immunology (Stanford)Sajida L. Jackson (Cordes) – epidemiology (UM School ofPublic Health)Timothy A. Jatkoe (Gaut)Abhay A. Khosla (Cordes)Rahul M. Kohli (V. Massey) – MD/PhD (Harvard)Joseph X. Kou (Peliska) – medicine (Wayne State)Azizah Mainal (Goldstein) – physical chemistry (Malaysia)Steven H. McKinley (Kaufman) – medicine (Vanderbilt Uni-versity)Jennifer A. Meddings (K. Massey/Yocum) – medicine (UM)*Adarsh D. Pandit (Ballou)*Arthur J. PeitchRuben Recabarren (Goldstein)*Laura Schmidt (Nichols) – Environmental & Industrial Health(UM SPH)*Jeffrey M. Shore (Nooden/Peliska)John P. Snow (Peliska)Krista SwaningerSara A. Tracy – Huron Valley AmbulanceHoi Leung WongLisa M. Zaddock – biochemistry (U. Nebraska-Omaha)Melissa A. Zagorski (Ramamoorthy)Payam Zarehbin-Irani – ophthalmology (Berkeley)

*Honors Degree (includes undergraduate thesis)

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GIFTS

Contributions from private and cor-porate donors received from June 21,1997 – June 30, 1998.(* Indicates corporate matching funds.)

Alumni Fund

Irving M. AdlerNorman ArendsCharlene AxelrodConstance BakerHerbert BandesCharlotte E. BartelJames BartelJohn E.Bauman, Jr.Larry BellErnest BerganBarbara T. BookerJames L. BrewbakerDonald K. BrundageDiane BurleyBertie N. ButtsSusan B. ButtsRonald Lee CampDonald E. CampbellThomas P. CaugheyDan G. ChapelJohn M. ChemerdaGary ChipmanAlice Sackheim CohenJoel C. ColburnAlice CoreyAllen CoreyDavid CribbinsRenee CribbinsRussell E. Curtice EstateLyubica DabichScott P. DamaskMerton L. DavisRobert DevoeVirginia A. DilkesMatthew A. DobzyniakRoxanne M. DrnevichRobert DukeGrace S. DunnThomas M. DunnDavid A. EbdonPui FanGerald FongHoward S. FriedmanLori M. FriedmanThomas J. GallagherPhyllis Hope Garland

Howard L. GarrettThomas J. GiordanoStewart E. GloyerThomas W. GougeonMark T. GouletArthur F. GrandPhilip GravelDavid GreenblattNathaniel GrierAnna B. GriffinJohn L. GriffinDean Lester GriffithGeorge GroveStanley F. HajecElizabeth E. HamiltonGordon HassingRoger HawkGeorge HeinRebecca HenryMary Ellen HeydeArno HeynReynold E. HolmenThomas HouserGeorge R. HudockAlan HutchcroftJames JacksonWillliam G. JacksonNorman P. JensenHenry W. KaoJerome KarlePhyllis W. KarseboomJohn C. KathAlfred KiesselNorman KnightHarold L. KohnThomas J. KorniskiPaul Martin KovachEdward KrockmalskiRobert LaBuddeRichard J. LadnerJoseph LagowskiRobert LandownePatty H. LaswickLaura LieblerRandel Q. LittleGordon LockyerRichard LoeppkyGeorge B. Lowrie, IIIMary Louise LowtherDavid A. LustigBernard ManningIsabelle ManningJen-Jen Liu MaoThomas H. Marsilje IIIJose Martinez-PiccoRobert W. Maxwell, Jr.Gary A. McCluskyLee G. McKnightJames McLean

Norman J. MeluchTimothy F. MerkelVeronica A. MillerRima MislankarSuresh MislankarGeorge W. Moersch, TrustEric M. MonbergAnabelle MuenterRichard NeubigRichard NorthropHarry OswaldRandolph OttoKaren PakkalaGordon ParringtonMary Haven PerryJohn A. PetraskyCarlton PlacewayWayne PletcherEric R. PohlIrvin PottsRichard RacusinJames RehBlanche K. ReidEugene ReidRobert K. ReynoldsDaniel J. RiccaRobert M. RobinsonThomasina M. RobinsonGeorge Hein RomneyJohn C. RosemergyThomas RosseelCharles RothWarren K. Russ, Jr.Sidney R. SafirEdward SandersErich SchulzJohn ScibelliTerene M. ScibelliHymin ShapiroJoseph ShepardClaude F. SpencerLouise W. SpencerLeonard Dale SpicerGraham D. StewartClark E. SwayzePeter SwiecickiGregory K. ThompsonJohn K. TomlinsonJohn E. TrendKelly Bruce TriplettRobert C. TrippHing TseShiu F. TseGeorge UgoliniHoward H. UnMary C. UnClifford G. VenierGary VincentSusan M. Ward


James A. WebleyToni A. WhiteVeronica H. WileyJoseph G. WirthJoel WolfeWilliam WongBernard Zemel3M Fdn. Inc.*Albemarle Corp.*Allied Signal Fdn. Inc.*American Home Products Corp.*Amoco Fdn., Inc.*AT&T Fdn.*BASF Corporation-Hdqs.*BP America, Inc. *Cooper Inc. Fdn.*Corning Inc. Fdn.*Dow Chemical Co. Fdn.*Dow Corning Corp. *Edwin & Roberta Przybylowicz Fdn.Eli Lilly & Co. Fdn. *Essex Group, Inc. *Ford Motor Co. Fdn.*General Electric Fdn.*General Motors Fdn., Inc.*Hewlet-Packard Co. *Joel & Marianne Yancey TrustLockheed Martin Corp.*Merck Co. Fdn.*Novachem Corp. *Pennzoil Co. *Pfizer, Inc.*Pharmacia & Upjohn Fdn.*Russell E. & Margaret G. Price Trust*S.C. Johnson Wax Fdn., Inc.*Shell Oil Co. Fdn. *The Lubrizol Fdn.*The Procter & Gamble Fdn.*The Xerox Fdn.*USX Fdn., Inc.*Warner-Lambert Co. *Witco Corp.*

Bachman Memorial Lecture Fund

Bristol-Myers Squibb Fdn., Inc.*Merck Co. Fdn.*Marvin CarmackFrederick CraneLeland H. PenceMario B. ReyesLawrence B. ScottJohn SmithArthur C. StevensonDavid A. TynerEvelyn TynerArthur J. Zambito, Sr.Richard Zerbe

Chair Discretionary

Dicken School PTO*E.I. DuPont DeNemours & Co.*Thomas M. DunnMelvin Friedland

Chemistry Special Scholarships

Donald BaerLeonard BrunerElmer CarlsonGordon L. DewallJerome P. HorwitzWilliam E.M. LandsMichael MorrisAbbott Laboratories Fdn.*Camille and Henry Dreyfus Fdn., Inc.National Starch and Chemical Fdn.PPG Industries Fdn.*

Dow Britton Fellowship

Dow Chem. Co. Fdn.

Elving Lecture

Mobil Foundation, Inc.*

James E. Harris Scholarship

Marian E. Harris

Lanini Memorial LibraryDow Chemical Co. Fdn.*Xerox Fdn.*Richard J. BardE. Ann FinlaysonStephen GaudiosoRobert S. KarpiukIrene C. PiscopoOmer Robbins

Parry Scholarship

3M Fdn.*Louis F. CentofantiDe-Xiang JiangGoji KodamaJoseph G. MorseKaren W. MorseRobert T. PaineMarjorie ParryRobert W. ParryDonald R. SchultzSheldon G. ShoreJohn T. YokeMary A. Yoke

Pharmacia & Upjohn Scholarship

Pharmacia & Upjohn, Inc.

Helen Schwarz Schaefer Scholarship

Helen Schwarz Schaefer

Smith Fellowship

Robert EdgertonDavid EmersonRichard LoeppkyRoy PointerJerry RobertsonAvery Dennison*3M Fdn. *

Undergraduate Research

Danny L. Curtis

Charles and Genevieve Walton FundCharles W. WaltonGenevieve Walton

Willard Memorial Fund

Richard GerstellMasako ToribaraTaft Toribara

ACS AlumniSocial Hour

Monday, August 24, 1998

6:00 PM

Marriott Hotel

Copley Place

Boston, MA

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AlumniNews

BEFORE 1940

Milton C. Kloetzel (BS 1934, PhD 1937,Bachmann/Gomberg) writes that he alsobegan his dissertation research with Prof.Gomberg, who retired before he was fin-ished, so his Research Director of recordwas Prof. Bachmann. He remained atMichigan for a year then had short ap-pointments on the faculties of Harvardand Depauw Universities. He ended up atthe University of Southern California fromwhich he retired as Academic Vice Presi-dent and Professor of Chemistry. He haslived in Hawaii since 1975.

Millard S. Roberts (BA 1932, MD 1936)did not have the opportunity to have Prof.Gomberg as a teacher but remembers wellProfessors Smeaton and Schoepfle who,he says, were fabulous. He practicedgeneral surgery in Kalamazoo for manyyears and now at 90 lives in Vicksburg,near there.

Robert A. Van Nordstrand (BS 1938,MS 1939) took “Early Retirement” fromChevron Research Co. at age 75 after along career in the area of petroleum ca-talysis. He participated in the discoveryof a new form of aluminum hydroxidewhich is now named “Nordstrandite”.

1940 - 1949

Robert G. Craig (BS 1944, PhD 1955,F.E.Bartell) was honored June 7-8, 1997,by a symposium, “The Past, Current andFuture of Dental Biomaterials”, sponsoredby the Dental School and the KingeryProsthodontic Study Club. The Sympo-sium celebrated the 10th edition of thetext, “Restorative Dental Materials” byDr. Craig.

Ralph E. Friedrich (BSC 1947) retiredfrom the Dow Chemical Co. in 1983 andstill lives in Midland. He has been recog-nized by the American Chemical Societyin 1997 as a fifty year member.

Isabella Lugowski Karle (BS 1941, PhD1944, Brockway) has been awarded the

1998 Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Pep-tide Chemistry. This is an AmericanChemical Society Award sponsored bythe Merck Research Laboratories for out-standing research in peptide chemistry.

James H. Lorenz (BSC 1948) retiredfrom the Union Carbide Corporation in1982 after 35 years in their silicone pro-gram where he was Director of their Re-newable Energy contracts. He is a 50 yearmember of the ACS and during WWIIwas a B-24 pilot with the 8th. Air Force inEngland.

Harold W. Miller (BS 1943; MS 1948,U. of Colorado) is a retired nuclear chem-ist living in Boulder, Colorado.

Richard B. Northrup (BS 1943) retiredas an analytical chemist from the GeneralElectric Co. in Schenectady, NY, and isnow living in Sun City West, Arizona.

William M. Spurgeon (PhD 1942, Fajans)retired from the University of Michigan,Dearborn Campus, in 1991. He lives inSouthfield, Michigan.

Taft Y. Toribara (PhD 1942, Willard) isProfessor Emeritus at the University ofRochester Medical Center where he wasassociated with the Environmental Medi-cine group. He writes that his group wasinterested in the toxicology of mercuryand he was instrumental in developing amethod for determining mercury levelsalong a single strand of hair, which retainsa history of the levels of the metal in anindividual’s blood. Also, he and a studentpublished a paper in 1956 on the microde-termination of phosphorus which, accord-ing to the Science Citation Index, hasbeen cited over 7000 times. At age 81 heis still active and is the national squashchampion in the over 80 age group. Sincetaking up the sport in 1960, he has won anational championship five times.

1950 - 1959

Avram Amith (BSC 1951; PhD 1960,Harvard (Physics)) retired as chief scien-tist from the Electro-Optical ProductsDivision of the ITT Corporation and isnow a Professor of Materials Engineeringat Virginia Polytechnic Institute and StateUniversity at Blacksburg, Virginia.

Kenton E. Bentley (BSC 1950; PhD 1959,U. of New Mexico) is retired and living inHenderson, Nevada.

Leonard B. Bruner (PhD 1957, Smith)was recognized by the American Chemi-

cal Society in 1997 as a fifty year mem-ber. Dr. Bruner is still active as a consult-ant and lives in Manchester, Michigan

David H. Campbell (PhD 1953, Parry)has retired from the Ethyl Corporation butstill lives in Baton Rouge. He keepsactive managing a foreign language trans-lation service from his home.

Michael P. Cava (PhD 1952, Bachmann/Dreiding) was recognized by the Ameri-can Chemical Society in 1997 as a fiftyyear member. Prof. Cava is the RamsayProfessor of Chemistry at the Universityof Alabama in Tuscaloosa.

Joseph A. Chapple (BA 1955) has re-tired from the General Motors Corpora-tion and is living in Flint, Michigan.

Norman J. Doorenbos (BSC 1950, PhD1954 (Med Chem)) is Vice President forAcademic Affairs at Auburn University.He was recognized by the AmericanChemical Society in 1997 as a fifty yearmember.

Elliott Greenberg (PhD 1955, Westrum)has retired from the Prairie State Collegein Illinois. He was recognized in 1997 bythe American Chemical Society as a fiftyyear member.

Henry W. Habgood (PhD 1952, Fajans)was recognized by the American Chemi-cal Society in 1997 as a fifty year mem-ber. He retired from the University ofEdmonton and the Alberta Research Coun-cil in 1984 and now lives in Pleasant Bay,Nova Scotia.

George E. Hein (PhD 1959, PAS Smith)writes that after 23 years at Lesley Col-lege in Cambridge, Mass., he is planningto retire at the end of the 97-98 academicyear. Lesley College serves advancedprofessionals in education, the social ser-vices and museums. Among his variousachievements there, he was responsiblefor the establishment of a Program Evalu-ation and Research Group directed to-wards pre-college science and mathemat-ics programs and also exhibits in muse-ums. In the last few years, he has been aFulbright Scholar at King’s College (Lon-don), a visiting faculty member at theMuseum Studies Department of the Uni-versity of Leicester, and a visiting scholarat the Precollege Science Initiative Pro-gram at Caltech.

Raymond J. Jasinski (BSC 1954; PhD,Iowa State Univ.) is a senior scientist forSchlumberger-Dowell in Aberdeen, Scot-land.

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Robert C. Karpiuk (PhD 1953, Ferguson)retired as an Administrative Assistant fromthe Dow Chemical Co. in Midland around1987. He was recognized by the Ameri-can Chemical Society in 1997 as a fiftyyear member.

Bernard Manning (PhD 1950, Ander-son) retired from the National SecurityAgency in 1990 but still serves as aconsulant on security techniques. He wasrecognized by the American ChemicalSociety in 1997 as a fifty year member.

George A. Miller (PhD 1955, Halford) isProfessor Emeritus at the Georgia Insti-tute of Technology in Atlanta.

Elmer E. Most (PhD 1993, Smith) retiredas a Senior Research Chemist from the E.I. duPont de Nemours Co. in North Caro-lina. He was recognized by the AmericanChemical Society in 1997 as a fifty yearmember. Dr. Most lives in Durham NC.

Edwin Przybylowicz (BS 1953, PhD1956, MIT) chaired an NRC committeeon Black and Smokeless Powder. TheCommittee’s activities to study thefeasability of tagging propellents whichmight be used in bombs can be viewed onthe internet at http://www2.nas.edu/bcst/21e6.html. Last fall, Dr. Przybylowiczwas elected to the Bureau of IUPAC andthe Executive Committee of IUPAC. Hecurrently chairs the Finance Committeeof IUPAC.

Leon I. Rechtman (BS 1950; DMD, U. ofAlabama) is a practicing dentist inDoraville, GA.

Christine C. Rosenfield (BSC 1957, MD1978; PhD 1960, Univ. of Alberta) is aphysician specializing in mental healthfor the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Alice L. (Platt) Schwarz (BS 1952, MD1958) is semi-retired and living in GrandBlanc, MI, with her husband, Heinz.

Sheldon G. Shore (PhD 1957, Parry) hasbeen reappointed the Charles H. Kim-berly Professor of Chemistry at Ohio StateUniversity. In 1997 he was awarded theUniversity Distinguished LectureshipAward and elected as a correspondingmember of the Bavarian Academy ofMathematical and Natural Sciences. Incelebration of his 65th birthday, a specialissue of the Journal of Main Group Ele-ments, published by the Belgian Chemi-cal Society, was dedicated to him.

Nancy L. Shawley (BS 1953, PhD 1975(Biochem); MS Boston Univ. (computerscience)) is a computer specialist in the

Department of Defense DependentsSchools located in Germany.

1960 - 1969

Clifford J. Ahola (BSC 1968) currentlyis living in Painesville, OH.

Paul L. Anderson (PhD 1966, Ireland)has retired and has moved to Auburndale,FL.

Marlin D. Buckmaster (PhD 1963, Stiles)has retired from the DuPont Co. and livesin West Virginia.

Elizabeth A. Irwin (BS 1966, Ms 1968;MD 1979, UCLA) has a medical practicespecializing in obstetrics and gynecologyin the Los Angeles area. Her husband isFrancois Denis.

Walter A. Jankowski (MS 1964; BSUniv. of Minnesota (Computer Science))has left the field of chemistry and is ateam leader and systems analyst for TRWin Montana.

Philip D. Lafleur (PhD 1967, Griffin)has retired from the Eastman Kodak Co.and moved to California. He is goingback to school to study psychology.

John G. Lanese (PhD 1962, Jaselskis)heads the Lanese Group, Inc., which con-sults in the Pharmaceutical Industry forregulatory compliance.

Klaus F. Loehr (BS 1962) has retiredfrom his post with the Lockheed Corpora-tion in Germany and is living in HiltonHead Island, SC.

George B. Lowrie, III (BSC 1966; MSBucknell Univ. 1969) is retired and livingin Ann Arbor.

Hubert C. MacDonald, Jr. (PhD 1969,H.B. Mark) is a Laboratory Manager forthe Westinghouse Power Generation Div.in Pennsylvania.

Kenneth D. MacKay (BSC 1964; PhD1960, Minnesota) is Vice President forResearch and Development with theHenkel Corporation in Pennsylvania.

Robert G. Mallen (BS 1961, MD 1968)is a physician with a medical practice inKentwood, MI.

Lowell R. McCoy (PhD 1967, HB Mark)has retired from Atomics Internationaland now lives in Woodland Hills, CA.

Richard E. Rice (MS 1967) is now Asso-ciate Professor of General Education atJames Madison University in Virginia.

Edward B. Sanders (PhD 1966, Martin)has been transferred to Peseux, Switzer-land, where he is a Principal Scientist forPhillip Morris Europe.

George J. Shimp (MS 1963, MBA) isManager of Cost Accounting for theSchwarz Pharma Manufacturing Co. ofNashville, IN.

Lola S. (Insel) Steinbaum (BSC 1967;MD) is Chief of Staff specializing in In-ternal Medicine at the local hospital inPacific Grove, CA

H. Bradford Thompson (PhD 1953,MSU; Post. Doct. 1967, Bartell) retiredfrom the University of Toledo as Profes-sor Emeritus. He now lives in St. Peter,MN and was recognized by the AmericanChemical Society in 1997 as a fifty yearmember.

Marios P. Tsoukatos (PhD 1967, Gordus)has retired as Director of the Technologi-cal Applications Dept. of the NuclearResearch Centre in Greece. He is living inAthens.

Clifford G. Venier (BSC 1962; PhD 1966,Oregon State Univ.) has recently beenpromoted to Vice President for AdvancedTechnology at the Pennzoil Products Co.in Woodlands, TX. He joined Pennzoil in1984. Prior to that he was on the staff ofTexas Christian University for 13 years.

Po Sang Yuen (PhD 1968, Overberger) isPresident of Goldwater Filters, Inc., inScarsdale, NY.

Richard J. Ziel inski (PhD 1961,Elderfield) retired in April from QuestInternational. He is now living inMiddleburg, OH.

1970 - 1979

Patricia E. (Davey) Baker (BSC 1978;MS 1996, Arizona State (Computer Sci.))is a computer consultant for the faculty atGilbert Community College in Gilbert,AZ.

Philip S. Bryan (PhD 1979, Kuczkowski)is Director of Health Imaging Researchfor Eastman Kodak Co. in Rochester, NY.

Richard T. Crane (BS 1973; MD 1978,Indiana U.) is a physician at the WesternWisconsin Ear, Nose and Throat Center inEau Claire, WI. He was recently made aFellow of the American College of Sur-geons.

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Robert M. Domeier (BSC 1979; MD) isan emergency physician at St. Joseph’sHospital in Ann Arbor.

Alan M. Donn (BSC 1971; MS 1979,Sangamon State U. (Computer Sci.)) is asenior service manager for the IBM Cor-poration in Tampa, FL.

Janet R. Elliott (BSC 1983; PhD 1980,Calif. Inst. of Technology) has recentlyrelocated to La Jolla, California, and joinedAgouron Pharmaceuticals as a researchchemist.

Ruth E. Kelly Evans (BSC 1979; PhD1986, Wayne State U.) is a staff scientistfor the Bayer Corporation in Berkeley,CA.

Richard A. Kurnot (BS 1979; MS 1982,Michigan State U.; MD 1986, Wayne StateU.) is an urologist in private practice andalso a clinical assistant professor at theUniform Services University of HealthSciences in Bethesda, MD.

Donald T. Freese (BSC 1977; MS 1982,Drexel Univ.) is an Associate of W. L.Gore and Associates in Pennsylvania.

Steven R. Geiringer (BSC 1975, MD1979) is Professor of Physical Medicineand Rehabilitation at the Wayne StateMedical School. He and his wife, theformer Karen Bantel, still reside in AnnArbor where his wife is on the faculty ofthe Business School.

Margaret M. (Martin) Goldberg (MS1978; PhD 1987, U. of North Carolina(Environ. Chem.)) is a chemist at theArgonne National Laboratory in Illinois.

Duane D. Hall (MS 1976, BS 1978 (MedChem)) is a pharmacist for St. Mary’sHospital. He lives in Ada, MI.

Mark A. Jandreski (BSC 1979; PhD1987, Univ. of Toronto (ClinicalBiochem.)) is a customer support consult-ant for Chiron Diagnostics in Massachu-setts. He is a Fellow of the NationalAcademy of Clinical Biochemistry.

Erich K. Jensen (BSC 1974) is Directorof Worldwide Clinical Training, Devel-opment and Standards, for Parke-DavisPharmaceutical Research in Ann Arbor.

Robert C. Job (PhD 1971, Curtis) is aresearch chemist for the Union CarbideCorporation in Bound Brook, NJ.

Robert D. Johnson (BSC 1976; PhD1981, U. of Calif/Davis) is living inRidgefield, CT.

Jeffrey D. La Haye (BSC 1979) is man-ager of process and equipment engineer-

ing for Motorola Semiconductor Productsin Cary, NC.

Mary J. Leenheer (MS 1978, PhD 1981(Oceanic Science)) is living in WestRichland, WA.

Chaur-Sun Ling (PhD 1976, Sacks) is atechnology leader for the Monsanto Co.in St. Louis.

James D. Lisius (BSC+BSE 1977; PhD1985, U. of Illinois (Chem. Eng.)) is aphysics teacher living in Farmington Falls,ME.

Eugene S. Lopata (PhD 1973, Blinder)has joined the Technical Staff of theWatkins-Johnson Company in California.

King Way Ma (PhD 1975, Groves) isBusiness Director for Asia CRI Interna-tional, a part of Royal Dutch Shell, inSingapore.

Walter Maruszczak (BS 1978, Dearborn)is a specialist in automotive applicationsfor Solutia, Inc., in Rochester, MI.

Eric M. Monberg (PhD 1977, Kopelman)is a distinguished member of the technicalstaff for Lucent Technologies in Princeton,NJ. His research is in the field of semi-conductor crystal growth and optical fibermats.

Betty Jeanne Morris (BSC 1978; MS1981, Texas A&M U.) has moved toLongmont, CO, where she is a deliveryproject executive for the IBM Corpora-tion.

Alan C. Mumby (BSC 1972) has beenmoved to Strasbourg, France, as GeneralManager of the European Division ofJohnson Controls, Inc.

John S. Offord (BS 1973; MBA 1984, U.of Iowa) is a senior staff engineer forJohnson Controls and living in Brighton,MI.

Clayton B. Quinn (PhD 1972, Wiseman)is manager of the specialty fluids andemulsions division of the General Elec-tric Co. in Waterford, NY.

Eric N. Randall (PhD 1971, H.B.Mark)is a member of the technical staff of Lu-cent Technologies’ Bell Laboratories inGeorgia.

Pamela K. (Brenkert) Reband (BSC1976; MD 1982, U. of Mississippi) ismedical director in the Department ofAnesthesiology for the Wilkes RegionalMedical Center in North Carolina.

Martin S. Skokan (BS 1978) writes fromHungary that he has lived in that country

since the Berlin Wall came down and hasbeen fascinated by the transformationwhich has occurred.

Peter L. Thomas (BSC 1975, BSE 1978(Elec. Eng.); PhD) is Assistant Professorof Science and Education at the Univer-sity of Science & the Arts of Oklahoma atChickasha.

Mark H. Tucker (BSC 1970, MD 1974)has been appointed Chief Medical Officerof commercial programs for Blue Cross -Blue Shield of Tennessee.

1980 - 1985

Edward W. Badger (1983; MS 1980, U.of Toledo) is a senior information special-ist with the Ashland Chemical Co. in Co-lumbus, OH.

Kerry A. Brandt (PhD 1984, Overberger)is a senior information scientist with theRohm & Haas Co. in Philadelphia, PA.

Mark T. Brandt (BS 1982, MD 1986) isa urologist in Chicago. He writes that heand Trisha Miki were married in Hono-lulu in April, 1998.

Eugene P. Cisek (BS 1984) is a chemistfor Starks Associates, Inc., in Buffalo,NY.

Marco A. Ciufolini (PhD 1981, Koreeda)is a Professor in Organic Chemistry at theUniversite Claude Bernard at Lyon,France.

Bruce C. Crist (MS 1980) is a salesrepresentative for Varian Instruments,Chromatography Systems, stationed inWashington.

Martin D. Dunne (BSC 1982, BSE 1983(Chem. Eng.)) is regional sales managerfor Chem-Trend, Inc., in Tennessee.

Robin L. Garrell (PhD 1984, Krimm(Biophysics)) is an Associate Professorof Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA.She was awarded the 1997 Hanson-DowAward for teaching excellence and is Presi-dent Elect of the Society of Applied Spec-troscopy.

David H. Gorski (BSC 1984, MD 1988;PhD 1994, Case Western Reserve (Cellu-lar Physiology)) is a Fellow in SurgicalOncology at the University of Chicago.

Juan Carlos Jaen (PhD 1984, Marino) isthe Director of Medicinal Chemistry forTularik, Inc., in South San Francisco.

Frederic W. Lickteig (BS 1980) has beenpromoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the


Marine Corp. and assigned to the facultyof the Army Command and General StaffCollege at Fort Leavenworth where hewill be the marine aviation advisor.

Wan-Li Liu (PhD 1980, Overberger;MBA 1993) is an advanced senior chem-ist for the Mobil Chemical Company inEdison, NJ.

Melvin L. Luetkens (PhD 1984,Sattelberger; MBA 1993, Chicago) ismanager of business development for theAmoco Corp. near Chicago.

Devi P. Malladi (PhD 1981, Filisko/Westrum) is manager of package devel-opment for Sun Microsystems in Califor-nia.

Richard W. Muth (MS 1982) is the Ex-ecutive Officer of the National StrikeForce Coordination Center of the U.S.Coast Guard in Elizabeth City, NC.

Jonathan C. Noetzel (MS 1983) has beenadvanced to Lieut. Colonel and made Chiefof the U.S. Air Force Operations PlansDivision in Honolulu, HI.

Jerome C. Pando (BS 1984; PhD 1989,West Virginia U.) has recently been trans-ferred to Sacramento, CA, where he is asenior chemist involved in chemical pro-cess development for the Aerojet Corpo-ration.

Paresh D. Patel (BSC 1983, MD 1990,PhD 1990 (Neuroscience)) has returnedto Ann Arbor as a Research Scientist inthe Mental Health Research Institute anda Lecturer in child and adolescent psy-chiatry.

Kristin Ann Peterson (BSC 1983; PhD1989, Stanford U.) is a Senior ResearchScientist with Southwest Sciences, Inc.,in Santa Fe, NM.

Timothy D. Race (BS 1980) has joinedCorrosion Control Consultants and Labo-ratories in Lombard, IL.

Renee Marie Rossi (BSC 1982, MD 1986)is an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngol-ogy at the Southwestern Medical Schoolof the University of Texas in Dallas.

Joseph L. Sailors (BSC 1984; MD 1991,Wayne State U.) reports he is now work-ing for a PhD degree in molecular medi-cine. He is living in Port Washington,NY.

Scott F. Stoeffler (BSC 1983; MS 1986,Northwestern (Forensic Chem.)) is a se-nior research microscopist for McCroneAssociates in Downers Grove, IL.

Susan M. (Sosnowski) Szegedi (BSC1984) is a chemistry teacher at theFarmington Public Schools. She is alsocompleting work for a MS degree at Michi-gan State University.

Charles C. Tsai (BS 1984, MD 1989) isserving as a cardiologist with the GouldMedical Group, Inc., in Modesto, CA.

Gail E. (Ghastin) Underiner (BS 1984;PhD 1989, U. of Wisconsin) is a seniorprocess chemist for the Cauldron ProcessChemistry Co. in Malvern, PA.

William N. Vance (BSC 1981; PhD 1986,Stanford U.) is a Research Associate atStanford University, Chemistry Depart-ment.

Robert B. Wilson, Jr. (PhD 1981,Sattelberger) has been named Director ofthe Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringLaboratory of the chemicals division ofSRI International in Menlo Park, CA.

Lili Yamasaki (BS 1982; PhD 1991, U.of Texas Health Science Cntr./San Anto-nio) is an Assistant Professor at ColumbiaUniversity, NY.

1986 - 1989

James S. Bartunek (BS 1985; MD 1989,Wayne State Univ.) is in medical practiceas a psyschiatrist. He lives in Orion, MI.

Timothy G. Bee (BS 1987; PhD 1993,Univ. of Massachusetts; MBA 1997,Carnegie Mellon Univ.) has joined Inter-national Specialty Products in Wayne,NJ, as a business analyst for new prod-ucts.

Pamela Bergquist (MS 1987) currentlyis finishing up her PhD degree in chemis-try at Clark University in Massachusetts.

Janet L. Binder (MS 1986) is working onher PhD degree in philosophy andwomen’s studies at the University of Min-nesota.

Cynthia (Praski) Bolognese (BSC 1989)is in the final stages of her PhD research inmicrobiology at the University of Mary-land.

Deborah W. Chen (BSC 1989; PhD 1995,Stanford U.) has completed herpostdoctoral appointment at the Univer-sity of Cambridge, England, and has ac-cepted a position with Zeneca Pharma-ceuticals in Wilmington, DE. Her PhDdegree erroneously was attributed to theUniv. of Wisconsin in the last Newsletter.

David A. Cleary (PhD 1986, Francis) isan Associate Professor of Chemistry atGonzaga University in Spokane, WA.

Jocelyn H. (Carag) Encarnacion (MS1988) is living in Creve Coeur, MO. Shereports she has a three year old son.

Jennifer (Petty) Guenther (BS 1989;MA 1990, Columbia Univ. Teachers Coll.)is a physics teacher at the Troy (Mich.)Athens High School.

John A. Hovanesian (BS 1988, MD 1992)is a Visiting Assistant Professor ofOpthamology at the Univ. of California inLos Angeles.

Joseph T. Jarrett (BSC 1988; PhD 1993,MIT) has accepted an appointment as anAssistant Professor of Biophysics at theUniversity of Pennsylvania in Philadel-phia.

Thomas J. Johnson (BSC 1987; MBA,Michigan State) is manager of LaboratoryServices for the KMart Corp. in Detroit.

Nancy Mae Kemling (BS 1986; PhD1996, Wayne State U.) is a Research As-sociate in the Childrens Hospital of theWayne State University Medical School.

Donna Kay (Dickie) Kniffen (BSC 1986;MS Oakland Univ. (Statistics)) is a cus-tomer lane leader for the BASF Corpora-tion near Detroit.

William J. Kronenberg (BSC 1986) hasbeen disabled since 1993 and unable towork.

Mary Beth (Westerdale) Kubitsky (BS1987; MS 1995, Eastern Michigan U.) isa lecturer in physics at Eastern MichiganUniversity in Ypsilanti.

Mark H. Levy (BSC 1986; PhD & MD1990, U. of Illinois) is in medical practicewith “Physicians of the North Shore” whoprovide medical services for Skokie andNorthern Illinois. He also is a lecturer onlipid research, an Associate Professor atRush Medical Center and a physician fora major NBA team.

Daniel J. Link (BS 1988, MD 1992) is ananesthesiologist with Burnham Anesthe-siology in Chicago.

Shu-Ching Ma (PhD 1989, Meyerhoff)is a Senior Scientist at Sendx Medical,Inc., in Carlsbad, CA.

Julie-Ann Mancewicz (BS 1987; MS1989, Penn State Univ) is attending theUniversity London studying art restora-tion. She and Ruhi Arslanoglu were mar-ried in 1995.

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Chris J. Noah (BSC 1987; MD 1991,Wayne State Univ.) is a family practicephysician in Cheboygan, MI.

Jung Ki Park (BS 1985; MD 1989, CaseWestern Reserve Univ.) is a physician inFort Lee, NJ, specializing in obstetricsand gynecology.

Michael K. Rosen (BS 1987, BSE 1987;CPGD 1988, Cambridge U.; PhD 1993,Harvard) is an Assistant Member in theCellular Biochemistry and BiophysicsProgram at the Sloan-Kettering CancerCenter in New York. His research pro-gram involves the use of NMR in struc-tural biology. He and Yuh Min Chookwere married June 30, 1996.

Ellen D. Roussey (BS 1988) reports shewill be a stay-at-home mom for a whilelooking after Alexandria, 2 years, andCullen, 5 mos.

John A. Sandin, III (BS 1989, MD 1993)is a fifth year neurosurgery resident at theUniversity of Wisconsin hospital in Madi-son.

Mia Ruth Schmiedeskamp (BSC 1988;PhD 1996, Univ. of Washington(Biochem)) is a freelance science writerliving in Issaquah, WA. Her articles haveappeared in Scientific American.

Benjamin J. Schwartz (BS 1986; PhD1992, Univ. of California/Berkeley) is anAssistant Professor of Physical Chemis-try at the Univ. of California at Los Ange-les.

Marc H. Settineri (MS 1988, MD 1992)is an anesthesiologist at the CortlandMemorial Hospital in Cortland, NY.

Leo R. Sharkey (BS 1986; MS 1996,Ohio State U. (Mech. Eng.)) works for theMicroelectronics Division of the IBMCorporation in Burlington, VT.

Jeffrey T. Strnad (BS 1987; PhD 1992,Carnegie Mellon Univ.) is a TechnologySpecialist with the Stepan Company nearChicago.

David P. Voss (BSC 1986; MS 1990,Michigan State U.) is the General Chem-istry Laboratory Coordinator for Michi-gan State University in East Lansing.

William J. Weadock (BSC 1988, MD1992) is a Fellow at the University ofMichigan specializing in cross-sectionalimaging.

Ann E. (Lukens) Weise (BS 1988) is anEnvironmental Health Specialist for theBoulder County Health Department in

Colorado. She and Cameron Weise weremarried in August of 1977.

P. Douglas Williams (PhD 1985, Curtis)is the Instrument Laboratory Manager forKALSEC, Inc., in Kalamazoo, MI.

Michael G. Yang (BS 1989) is a Profes-sional Products Representative for RocheLaboratories, headquartered in Lancaster,NY.

Carolyn Ann Zanta (BS 1986; PhD 1997,Purdue Univ. (Biology)) is working viatelecommuting as a software design spe-cialist for the Purdue University BiomediaCenter. She is living in Champaign, IL.

1990 – 1993

Diane L. Babuts (BS 1991; MD 1995, U.of Rochester) is a resident physician inpediatrics at the Children’s Hospital,Strong Medical Center, Rochester, NY.

Lainie N. Baumgarten-Hoover (BS1990, MD 1994) is a pediatrician inGaithersburg, Maryland. Her husband,David M. Hoover (PhD 1997, Ludwig(Biophysics)) is a Fellow at the NationalCancer Institute in Gaithersburg.

Teresa Sue (Layne) Becse (BSC 1991) isa chemistry services manager for MEMCSouthwest in Sherman, TX.

Randall C. Boehm (PhD 1991, Lohr) isemployed by the Intercontinental Chemi-cal Co. in Loveland, OH.

Jean Marc Bovet (BSC 1986, PhD 1993,Sharp) is Vice President for Investiga-tional Pharmaceutics at Cirrus Pharma-ceuticals, Inc., in Durham, NC.

Mary P. (Andrews) Bradley (MS 1990,PhD 1993, Crippen (Pharm. Chem.)) is aresearch scientist with the Rhone-PoulencAgricultural Products Co. in ResearchTriangle Park, NC.

Linda M. Briggs (PhD 1990, Pecoraro)has left the chemistry field and is pursu-ing a career in physical therapy.

Stephen J. Brocchini (PhD 1990, Lawton)is a lecturer at the Center for PolymerTherapeutics, School of Pharmacy, Uni-versity of London, England.

William D. Burk (BS 1991; JD 1996,Geo. Washington Univ.) is an attorneywith Kirk Rankin and Associates inRockville, MD.

Mike G. Chemaly (PhD 1994, Griffin) isemployed as a field scientist and lab chem-

ist by the Earth Resources Corporation inPennsylvania. He reports that he andVirginia Montalvo were married in Sep-tember of 1997.

Tracy L. (Hill) Chinigo (BS 1990) is ananalytical research scientist at Wyeth-Ayerst Research Laboratories in PearlRiver, NY.

Joe S. Chomchai (BSC 1990; MD 1994,Wayne State Univ.) is a physician spe-cializing in otolaryngology at the DetroitMedical Center.

Amy Jo (Wiersma) Cowart (BS 1993;MD 1997, Michigan State Univ. (Oste-opathy)) is a Family Practice Residentphysican at the University of Massachu-setts Medical Center.

Scott P. Damask (BS 1993) is an Associ-ate Scientist with the Parke Davis Phar-maceutical Research Laboratories in AnnArbor. He is in the Cell Biology andVascular and Cardiac Diseases section.

Jon P. Degnore (BS 1991; PhD 1997,Univ. of Florida) has joined the NationalInstitutes of Health in Bethesda where heis doing research in Biophysical Chemis-try.

Julie Ann Dixon (BSC 1992; PhD 1997,Univ. of Illinois) is doing postdoctoralresearch at Yale University.

Lhanh-Dung T. Do (BS 1991; MS) is astaff mass spectroscopist for the Univer-sity of Illinois at Chicago.

Christopher Espinosa (BSC 1992; MD1997) is a resident physician living in OakPark, IL.

Kevin J. Forrestal (BS 1990; PhD 1997,U. of Calif./Irvine) is a senior researchchemist with Quantum Materials, Inc., ofSan Diego, CA.

Brent M. Fuller (BSC 1993; MD 1997,Wayne State U.) is a resident physician ininternal medicine and pediatrics at Will-iam Beaumont Hospital in Detroit.

Anne L. Gillian-Daniel (BSC 1993) wasmarried on May 24, 1997.

Ravi Gutta (BS 1990; MD 1995, WayneState Univ.) is a resident physician inophthamology at the University of Illi-nois in Chicago.

Monica A. Guzman-Rojas (MS 1993) isliving in Tucson, AZ.

Bryan R. Harvey (BSC 1991; DDS 1997,Columbia Univ./NY) is a resident spe-cializing in oral and maxillofacial surgeryat the Ohio State University in Columbus.


Suzanne M. Harvey (BS 1991; JD 1997,Franklin Pierce Law Center) is an attor-ney specializing in intellectual propertyfor Weintraub and Brady in BinghamFarms, MI.

Jeffrey D. Hsi (PhD 1990, Koreeda; MS,Indiana Univ.; JD, Rutgers Univ.) is anattorney in Chicago.

Steven G. Karseboom (BSC+BSE 1990;PhD 1997, U. of Texas/Austin (Chem.Eng.)) is a Senior Research and Develop-ment Engineer for the Albermarle Corpo-ration in Baton Rouge, LA.

Sonya S. Khatana (MS 1990) is living inLeawood, KS.

Mitchell E. Klausner (BS 1993; MD1997, Medical Coll. of Ohio) is a residentphysician in Internal Medicine at the Uni-versity of Cincinnati Hospital.

Albert H. Li (BS 1991; MD 1997, WayneState U.) is a resident physician in generalsurgery at William Beaumont Hospital inDetroit.

Michael X. Li (PhD 1997, Lubman) is aresearch investigator for Bristol-MyersSquibb in Wallingford, CT.

Kei-Lee Liu (PhD 1994, Morris) is asenior process chemist with DuPont Tai-wan, Ltd., living in Chung-Li, Taiwan.

Michalis G. Nicolaou (BS 1990; PhD1996, U. of Kansas (Pharm. Chem.)) is astaff scientist with Amylin Pharmaceuti-cals in San Diego, CA.

Jennifer M. Pace (BSC 1991; PhD 1997,Wisconsin) is a postdoctoral research as-sociate at the University of North Caro-lina in Chapel Hill.

Kathleen A. (Lengemann) Packard (BS1991) is teaching chemistry in the AnneArundel County Schools in Maryland. Sheis pursuing a MS degree in education atTowson University.

Suhithi M. Peiris (BS 1991; PhD 1996,U. of Chicago) has accepted an appoint-ment as a research chemist at the NavalResearch Laboratory in Washington, DC.She will be doing research on the reac-tions of energetic materials at high andpressures.

Anh Kim (Duong) Pham (BS 1992) is amedical sales representative for G. D.Searle Pharmaceuticals in Grand Rapids,MI.

Kimberly A. Pummill (BSC 1993; MD1997, Wayne State Univ.) is a residentphysician in general surgery at DetroitMedical Center.

Jeffrey A. Read (PhD 1993, Francis) is aSenior Battery Scientist with AER En-ergy Resources, Inc., in Atlanta.

David T. Reichel (PS 1993; MD 1997,Wayne State U.) is a resident physician ininternal medicine at the Orlando RegionalMedical Center in Florida.

Robert K. Reynolds (BS 1991) is a qual-ity assurance engineer for the Allied Sig-nal Co. (ADCO) in Jackson, MI.

Scheherazade Rostam-Abadi (BSC1993) is a teacher in the Outdoor Educa-tion Program of Nature’s Classroom inRoyal Oak, MI.

Andrew A. Russell (BS 1993; MD 1997,Medical Coll. of Ohio) is a resident phy-sician in family practice at the SharpMemorial Hospital in San Diego, CA.

David J. Schwartz (BS 1990; PhD 1996,U. of Calif./Berkeley) is a senior researchchemist with the Dow Chemical Co. inFreeport, TX.

William J. Smith, III (MS 1993) went towork for Eli Lilly & Co. on completion ofhis MS degree. After three years withthem, he was given an educational leaveof absence to complete his doctoral workwith Prof. W. R. Roush at Indiana. WhenProf. Roush left Indiana to come to Michi-gan, Bill accompanied him and is nowback in graduate school in Ann Arbor.

Michelle M. (Poppelreiter) Spencer (BS1991, B.Pharm. 1995) is employed as anOncology Clinical Pharmacy Specialist atLoma Linda University Medical Center inCalifornia.

Kimberly Ann (Kramer) Stickland (BS1992; PhD 1997, Univ. of Arizona (Phar-macology)) is a Postdoctoral Fellow atthe Arizona Cancer Center in Tucson,AZ.

Ramachandran P. Subrayan (PhD 1993,Rasmussen) is a research and develop-ment chemist for King Industries inNorwalk, CT.

Weihong Tan (PhD 1993, Kopelman) isan Assistant Professor at the University ofFlorida at Gainesville. In the last year hehas been honored with a Young Investiga-tor Award from the Arnold BeckmanFoundation, a Faculty Career Award fromthe National Science Foundation and aYoung Investigator Award from the Of-fice of Naval Research.

Him-Tai Tsang (PhD 1990, Penner-Hahn)has moved to Maryland where he is anInstructor in Chemistry at Montgomery

College. His wife, Mei-Ching Fok, is aphysicist at the Goddard Space FlightCenter nearWashington.

Benson Tsai (PhD 1990, Overberger) andhis wife, Shu-Ching Ma (PhD 1989,Meyerhoff), both are employed as researchchemists by the Sendx Medical Corpora-tion in Carlsbad, CA.

Richard L. Waite (BS 1991) is a chemis-try teacher at the Mother Guerin HighSchool in River Grove, IL.

Li-Wei Xu (PhD 1991, U. of Chicago;Postdoctoral 1993, Kuczkowski) is a Vis-iting Assistant Professor of Physics at theUniversity of Toledo.

Jennifer W. Zalenko (BS 1993) is a con-sultant for the Sandy Corporation nearDetroit.

1994 – 1998

Angela R. Adams (BSC 1997) is a terri-torial business manager for Bristol-MyersSquibb with headquarters in Miami, FL.

Theresa M. Ambrose (PhD 1997,Meyerhoff) is a postdoctoral fellow inclinical chemistry and pathology at Wash-ington University of St. Louis.

Laura J. (Emerich) Anna (PhD 1996,Marino) is an Assistant Professor of Chem-istry at Millersville University in Penn-sylvania.

Edward J. Armbruster (BS 1995; MA1998, Boston Univ.) is a laboratory super-visor in rheumatology at the Boston Uni-versity School of Medicine.

Michael J. Baldwin (PhD 1992, StanfordU.; Postdoc 1997, Pecoraro) has accepteda position as Assistant Professor of Chem-istry at the University of Cincinnati. Hiswife is Kimber G. Clark (PhD 1994,Penner-Hahn).

Jerrell D. Brenner (PhD 1995, Barker) isa Postdoctoral Fellow in the ChemistryDepartment of the University of Pennsyl-vania in Philadelphia.

Claudia C. Cotca (BSC 1997) is an in-tern with Parke-Davis in Ann Arbor.

Brian P. Davies (BS 1997) is employedby Phyto Laboratories in Germany.

Bonnie L. Dickler (BSC 1997) is pursu-ing a degree in applied physiology withplans to graduate in June of 1998.

Trung M. Doan (BS 1996) is a territorymanager for Warner Chilcott Co. in phar-

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maceutical sales. He is stationed in theDetroit area.

Danette A. Domagala (BS 1996) has beenadvanced from intern to synthetic organicchemist for the Warner-Lambert Parke-Davis Research Laboratories in Ann Ar-bor.

Scott H. Druker (PhD 1995, Curtis) worksas a research chemist for the FMC Corpo-ration in Doylestown, PA.

Alexander P. Ducruet (BS 1997) is tem-porarily working as a research specialistin surgical oncology at the University ofPittsburgh Medical Center.

Ken Wen-Kui Fang (PhD 1997, Pearson)has accepted a position as research chem-ist with Allergan, Inc., in Irvine, CA.

Brendan J. Foran (PhD 1996, Lee) is amaterials analyst with the SEMATECHCorp. in Austin, TX.

Luis A. Gomez (BS 1995 (Chemistry &Physics)) is an engineer for OSMIC Coat-ings, in the Detroit area.

Nancy W. Goroff (PhD Univ. of Califor-nia/Los Angeles; Postdoctoral 1996-97,Ege/Coppola) has joined the Departmentof Chemistry at the State University ofNew York at Stony Brook.

Sridhar Govindarajan (PhD 1997,Goldstein) has accepted a position as sci-entist with Sulfonics, Inc., which is asso-ciated with the University of Florida atGainesville.

Tony O. Greco (BS 1997) is a chemistwith Instrumentation Laboratories in AnnArbor.

Charles W. Gundlach (MS 1996) re-ports that he and Marnay Zell were mar-ried in August of 1997. He is continuingas a graduate student in Chemistry atMichigan.

Xuan Guo (PhD 1996, Meyerhoff) is aresearch scientist with Lifescan, Inc., inSan Jose, CA.

Ling He (MS 1996) is a senior scientistfor the Schering-Plough Corporation inNew Jersey.

Samir N. Kelada (BS 1997) plans toenter the School of Public Health at theUniversity of Michigan in the fall of 1998.

Burton H. Kim (BS 1997) is an accountmanager assistant with Kletner Advertis-ing in New York. Kletner Adv. handleshealth care and pharmaceutical accounts.

Danny Sung-Ung Kim (BS 1995) worksas a research chemist for the UnileverResearch Corp. in Flushing, NY.

Yongseong Kim (PhD 1996, Morris) is aPostdoctoral Research Associate at theLos Alamos National Laboratory in NewMexico.

Chad A. Link (BS 1997) is working tem-porarily at Henry Ford Hospital in De-troit. He plans to enter the Michigan StateCollege of Osteopathy in August of 1998.

Hui Liu (PhD 1997, Rasmussen) has apostdoctoral position with the CoatingResearch Institute at Eastern MichiganUniversity in Ypsilanti.

Nicole R. (Ramberger) Lockhart is aresearch associate with Lumigen, Inc., inDetroit.

Holly J. Logue (BS 1997) is living inSaline, MI.

Todd J. Marion (BSC 1994) is a chemistfor the Ashland Chemical Co. in Texas.

Paul Milne (PhD 1996, Lubman) is seek-ing employment in the Ann Arbor area.His wife, Elizabeth A. Todd (PhD 1996,Morris) is employed by Kaiser OpticalSystems in Ann Arbor.

Michel Molinier (Post doctoral 1998,Curtis) has accepted a position with Al-lied Signal Environmental Catalysts inTulsa, OK.

Nicole N. (Miller) Morris (MS 1995) isan Advanced Research Chemist in theAbrasives Division of the 3M Co. inMinneapolis.

Suzanne M. (Argentine) Olds (PhD 1995,Francis) has accompanied her husband toThailand where he is involved in settingup a new refinery.

Athanasia D. Panopoulos (BSC 1997) isengaged in pharmaceutical research onHIV proteases at the Warner-LambertParke-Davis Laboratories in Ann Arbor.

Andrew J. Phelka (BS 1997) is a PeaceCorp. volunteer teaching chemistry inNamibia, Africa.

Jonathan M. Plawchan (BSC 1997) isworking for PICON, Inc., in Detroit.

Stuart H. Pullen (PhD 1998, Sension)currently is a postdoctoral scholar at DukeUniversity working with Prof. John Simon.

Guangyu Qian (PhD 1996, Lubman) is aresearch scientist for the Chiron Corpora-tion in Emeryville, CA.

Aaron M. Raphael (BS 1996) finds lawschool at Emory University challengingplus being a member of the InternationLaw Review requires a lot of attention.

He plans to specialize in intellectual prop-erty.

Michael T. Render (BS 1995) is em-ployed by the Akzo Nobel Co. in Troy,Michigan. His work involves the synthe-sis of acrylic emulsions, polyesters, poly-urethanes and analysis of various mix-tures of these polymers.

Pamela Riggs-Gelasco (PhD 1995,Penner-Hahn) appeared in the Nov. 3,1997, issue of C&E News as a participantin the MIT “Conference on Careers inEducation at Principally UndergraduateInstitutions”. She is a postdoctoral scholarworking with Dr. JoAnne Stubbe at MIT.

Ben A. Robinson (BSC 1996) has a jobwith Janssen Parmaceutica in Ann Arbor,a Belgian Company which maintains asmall laboratory in Ann Arbor.

Luis Rodriguez (BS 1997) is living inChicago.

Steven W. Roeder (PhD 1997, Gordus) isa chemist with the Tetra TechnologiesCorporation in Texas.

Pernilla Rollin (MS 1997) is a scientistfor the Hoffmann-LaRoche Corporationin New Jersey.

Charles P. Rospierski (BSC 1994) is inthe MBA program at Ohio State Univer-sity.

Robert D. Schiller (MS 1994) is a seniordevelopment chemist for the BASF Cor-poration in Wyandotte, MI.

Reed G. Selby (BS 1997) is a pharmaceu-tical sales representative for Abbott Labo-ratories stationed in California.

Karen E. (Ramos) Sexton (BSC 1995) isa research chemist with the Esai ResearchInstitute in Andover, MA.

Ted A. Skolarus (BSC 1997) is a userplanning analyst in the computer supportdivision of the Ford Motor Company. Healso has an independent business access-ing the Amway Servicing Corporation.

Eleanor Jane Slater (BS 1997) is a prod-uct development chemist for PPG Indus-tries in Natrona Heights, PA.

Jeffrey D. Smithers (BSc 1997) is spend-ing the 1997-98 year as a Fulbright Scholarin Lubeck, Germany. He plans to enterthe Vanderbilt University Medical Schoolin the summer of 1998.

Jennifer A. Sowinski (PhD 1997,Toogood) has accepted a position as re-search investigator for the Searle Pharma-ceutical Co. in Skokie, IL.


Tresa M. Staeven (BSC, BSE 1997) is areport coordinator for Weyco, Inc., inEast Lansing, MI.

Karin Ann Stein (MS 1996) is a researchscientist for Microcide Pharmaceuticalsin San Jose, CA.

Chad A. Van Huis (BSC 1997) is a chem-ist at the Warner-Lambert Parke-DavisResearch Laboratories in Ann Arbor.

Seth J. Vander Muelen (BS 1995) is aresearch analyst with Buck Consultants inCleveland Heights, OH.

Rajesh S. Walavalkar (PhD 1994,Pearson) has been transferred to AsburyPark, NJ, by his employer, the LibennAroma Co., a perfume and aroma manu-facturer.

Yamin Wang (PhD 1998, Koreeda) is aresearch chemist for the PharmaceutialDivision of the Bayer Corporation in WestHaven, CT.

Brian C. Weinrick (BS 1996) is a sci-ence teacher with the Peace Corp. sta-tioned in Eritrea.

Kevin R. Winer (BS 1997) is employedat the Regional Criminalistics Laboratoryof the Police Department in Kansas City.He does DNA and trace evidence analy-ses.

Ziyan Wu (PhD 1994, Moore/Lee) is aproject leader for the Essex Specialty Prod-ucts Corp., a subsidiary of the Dow Chemi-cal Co. She and her husband, Zhijian Zhu,live in Southfield, MI.

Zhijian Zhu (PhD 1996, Townsend) is onthe scientific staff of the Parke-Davis

Pharmaceutical Research Laboratories inAnn Arbor.

THE FOLLOWING NEWS ITEMS AREFROM NON-ALUMNI FRIENDS OFTHE CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT

Mary Sue (Kellams) Rulfs, wife of formerProfessor Charles L. Rulfs, has moved toIowa City, IA, to be near her daughter.

(If errors or misstatements are noted inany of the news items, the editors of theNewsletter would appreciate their beingcalled to their attention. Mistakes can,and do, creep in inadvertently or due toerrors in the official records. Correctionscan easily be inserted in the next edition.)

InMemoriam

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

Gladys C. Barth, former employee ofthe Chemistry Store, died November 10,1997 in Dixon, IL. Older alumni willremember Gladys as the major domo ofthe second floor dispensing stand whoruled dispensing and returns with an ironhand for 28 years. She was a former armynurse, administered her domain in truearmy style, and was somewhat of a leg-end in the Department. The stand wasnever the same after she retired.

Jeremy K. Burdett (MS 1968; PhD 1972,Univ. of Cambridge, England(PhysChem)) died unexpectedly in 1997 inKalamazoo, MI. The day before he hadbeen in Ann Arbor as the guest of theDepartment and had given a talk. At thetime of his death, he was a Professsor ofChemistry at the University of Chicago.

John Controulis (PhD 1950, Bachmann)died May 30, 1997 in Morristown, NJ.He retired from Warner-Lambert Corpo-

ration as Manager of Product Evaluationand Planning.

Russell E. Curtice (BS 1953; PhD 1964,Oregon State Univ.) died in 1996 in Phila-delphia. He was an Emeritus AssistantProfessor of Chemistry at the Universityof Rutgers at Camden. He left a bequestto the Department endowment fund.

Vincent M. Drost (AB 1932, MS 1934)died of pancreatic cancer on May 30,1997 in Summerland Key, FL. His wife,Wilver I. (Brown) Drost, also a Michigangraduate although not a chemistry major,predeceased him in 1993.

Carl E. Evans (MS 1932) died February12, 1995 in Sandusky, OH. Before retir-ing, he had been Vice President for Pro-duction at the Sandusky Foundry andMachine Company.

Jean M. (Rogers) French (BS 1948) diedon August 3, 1996 in Oak Ridge, TN. Shehad been employed as an analytical chem-ist by the Union Carbide Corporation intheir Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge.

Oswald H. Greager (PhD 1929, F.E.Bartel l) died October 8, 1996 inKennewick, WA. He had been a researchchemist with the General Electric Com-pany.

Elbert H. Hadley (BS 1936, MS 1937;PhD 1940, Duke Univ.) died in NorthAdams, MA.. He was Emeritus Professor

of Chemistry and former Dean of the Col-lege of Science at Southern Illinois Uni-versity at Carbondale.

Philip F. Jackisch (PhD 1965, Ireland)died in Baton Rouge, LA. He had been aresearch chemist for the Ethyl Corpora-tion in Baton Rouge.

Warner M. Linfield (MS 1941, PhD 1943(Pharm Chem)) died in Tamarac, FL. Hehad been a research leader at the U.S.Department of Agriculture Regional Re-search Laboratory in Philadelphia.

Edward L. Morehouse (BSC 1942) diedin 1992. No details are available.

Lloyd R. Rexer (BS 1947) passed awayin 1997. He retired from the ChryslerCorporation and was living in Trenton,MI.

Bernard W. Rottschaefer (PhD 1939,Schoepfle) died in 1998, in Wyomissing,PA. Further details are not available.

William S. Struve (BS 1937, PhD 1940,Bachmann) died in 1997 in New Jersey.He retired as Director of Color Research.

Doris M. (Shapiro) Trevas (MS 1939)died on July 18,1997 in Manhasset, NY.She was a Professor at Nassau Commu-nity College.

James H. Zwemer (MS 1948) died inLithonia, GA in 1997. He retired as VicePresident of the Environmental Chemis-try Division, Monsanto Company.

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

Kathleen V. Nolta, Lecturer III. OrganicBiochemistry.

William H. Pearson, Professor. SyntheticOrganic Chemistry.

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, Assistant 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 .

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

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

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

Edward T. Zellers, Associate ProfessorChemistry 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, Daniel T. Longone,Christer E. Nordman, Lawrence J.Oncley, Peter A. S. Smith, MiltonTamres, Robert C. Taylor, Edgar F.Westrum, Jr.

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

Gary D. Glick, Associate Professor. Bioor-ganic Chemistry, Molecular Recogni-tion.

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.

Richard G. Lawton, Arthur F. Thurnau Pro-fessor. Bioorganic Reagents as Chemi-cal Probes of Molecular Architecture.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

John R. Barker, Professor. Atmospheric,Oceanic and Space Sciences and Chem-istry, Chemical Kinetics, AtmosphericChemistry.

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

Mary Anne Carroll, Associate ProfessorChemistry, Atmospheric, Oceanic andSpace Sciences. Atmospheric Chemis-try.

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.

Thomas M. Dunn, Professor. Optical Spec-troscopy of Large (benzenoid and fusedring systems) and Small (mainlyheteronuclear di- and triatomic) Mol-ecules. R2PI Jet Spectra of CondensedRing Aromatic Molecules and the Studyof Conformers and their PossibleInterconversion.

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

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

Christine E. Evans, Assistant Professor. Ana-lytical/Physical Chemistry.

Anthony H. Francis, Arthur F.ThurnauProfessor. Magnetic Resonance,Vibrational and Electronic Spectroscopyof Materials.

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