BLUE HEN CHEMIST

ALUMNI NEWS

FORTIES:

Jane M. Cram (MS47) died on May 27, 2000. Her husband, Nobel Laureate Donald J. Cram, Professor of Chemistry at UCLA, also passed away on June 17, 2001.

FIFTIES:

SIXTIES:

Howard S. Bender (PhD62), having retired in 1999, now runs his own consulting company, P.U.D. Technology, in Brewster, MA. Howard, who was one of Prof. Elizabeth Dyer's last doctoral students, recalls his mentor's penchant for providing interest-free loans to her graduate students, particularly those with young families. She also had a unique degree requirement: each of her students was required to go bird watching with her at least once a year. (hsbender@earthlink.net)

R. Kirk Wicker (MS63, PhD66) has retired from his position as professor of chemistry at Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA. (expchemiker@yahoo.com)

Edward D. Cohen (PhD64) has been awarded the John A. Tallmadge Award, sponsored by the AIChE National Program Committee, the Eastman Kodak Company, and the International Society of Coating Science and Technology, which he serves as President. A retired (1998) DuPont Fellow, Ed was cited for his outstanding contributions to the understanding of the technology of the coating of continuous webs. (cohened146@aol.com)

C. Frank Shaw III, Ph.D. (BS66), professor and chairman of Eastern Kentucky University's chemistry department, will serve as co-chair of the first Metals in Medicine Gordon Conference, at Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH next July. (cheshaw@acs.eku.edu)

Peter A. Christie (PhD67) is the chair of the ACS Board of Trustees Group Insurance Plans. Pete provided an overview of the 35-year history of the ACS member insurance program in C&E News, p. 87, 7/9/01. (www.chemistry.org/insurance), (memins@acs.org)

Reed E. Pyeritz, M.D., Ph.D. (BS68) has been appointed Professor of Medicine and Genetics and Chief of the Division of Medical Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine in Philadelphia. (reed.pyeritz@uphs.upenn.edu), (pyeritzr@yahoo.com)

Shirish K. Shah (PhD68), associate professor of chemistry at the College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD, received an ACS Science Policy Award for his special efforts to advance state and federal science policy (C&E News, p. 77, 9/18/00). Shirish started the Kids in Chemistry program in Baltimore city and county schools in 1996. He also serves as a part-time instructor at Towson and Morgan State Universities. (sshah@ndm.edu)

Sylvan D. Hersh (PhD69) had a hilarious story from his graduate student days, "The Fine Adjust", published in the Lighter Elements section of the ACS magazine Today's Chemist at Work, p. 72, 8/00. (shersh_it@nv.doe.gov)

Bruce E. Nyers (BS69) and his wife, Barbara, have realized the culmination of a 30-year-old dream - the creation of a new, operating winery on Sage Canyon Road, east of St. Helena, CA. This will serve to complement and extend the ongoing success story of Neyers Vineyards. (bneyers@aol.com)

SEVENTIES:

Anthony A. Kossiakoff (PhD73) and his wife, Sue, own and operate the Hutchins House Bed and Breakfast, 4810 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60615. (Also see the article on our 6^th CHEM/BIOC Graduation Convocation in this edition of the Blue Hen Chemist.) (skossiakoff@yahoo.com), (koss@cummings.uchicago.edu)

Paul A. Silver (PhD73) has retired from the Caulk Division of Dentsply International, Milford, DE, and is serving as a part-time laboratory instructor in our Department. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Salem Community College, Carney's Point, NJ. (pasilv@aol.com)

Eric J. Michael, M.D. (BS74) is an assistant professor of pediatrics, specializing in clinical work in the neonatal intensive care unit, at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA. (emichael@hmc.psu.edu)

John A. Sofranko, Ph.D. (BS75), formerly the chief technology officer at Lyondell Chemical Company, has been named the executive director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. (AIChE Extra, p. 1, 2/2001; p. 1, 5/01).

Emily M. Gaul, Ph.D. (BS77) is a faculty member in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Jeanne E. Pemberton, Ph.D. (BS77), professor of chemistry at the University of Arizona, Tucson, is a member of the National Committee on the Advancement of Women Chemists. (C&E News,p. 46, 9/4/00). (pembertn@u.arizona.edu)

Thomas M. Ford (PhD79) is a senior research associate in DuPont's Central Research and Development Department in Wilmington. (thomas.m.ford@usa.dupont.com)

Kay Griffith Gamble (BS79) is a marketing manager for Novozymes North America, in Raleigh, NC. (kayg@novozymes.com)

Alan B. Kravitz, M.D. (BS79) is a general surgeon in Rockville, MD. In the "It's a Small World Department", he recently performed an emergency appendectomy on the husband of Madeleine Jacobs, Editor-in-Chief of C&E News, and recent speaker at the U of D. Alan recalls operating on a former biochemistry professor while he (Alan) was a surgical resident at the Medical Center of Delaware. Moments before the scalpel's descent, he reminded the prof that he had only given him a B in his course. Without missing a beat, the patient arched his neck so that he could see Alan and said "and I want you to know that I have always regretted that!" (akravitz@pol.net)

EIGHTIES:

Barbara Shaw Harrison (BS80) is a clinical data analyst for DuPont Pharmaceuticals in Wilmington.

Randy A. Bull (PhD81) has been promoted to director of sales and marketing for Rohm America, Inc. (randy.bull@rohmamerica.com)

Keith E. Huss, Ph.D. (BS81) is now a principal analyst in information management with Abbott Laboratories in Abbott Park, IL. (keith.huss@abbott.com)

I. Frank Cheng, Ph.D. (BS82), an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Idaho, Moscow is spotlighted on p. 7 of the 2000 ACS Annual Report.

According to C&E News (p. 15, 6/11/01), the presentation by F. Gregory Stakem (PhD82), vice president of R & D at Univation Technologies (the polyolefin technology licensing joint venture between ExxonMobil and Dow Chemical) "caused the greatest stir" at the MetCon 2001 Conference. Greg described Univation's use of metallocene catalysts to make a bimodal, high-molecular-weight, high-density polyethylene in a single Unipol gas-phase polyethylene reactor.

William Toreki III, Ph.D. (BS82) is a research chemist at Analytical Research Systems, Inc., in Gainesville, FL. (www.ars-fla.com), (toreki@bellsouth.net)

Judi Cannova Fitzpatrick (BS84) has been named director of e-commerce at General Chemical Corp., Parsippany, NJ. (C&E News, p. 61, 12/11/00).

Rodney D. Hudson (MS84) is president of QuickSilver Analytics, Inc., in Abingdon, MD. (www.quicksilveranalytics.com), (hudsonrd@aol.com)

Shayne J. Landon (PhD84) is now the global technology manager for the Crompton Corporation's consumer care business. (landosh@cromptoncorp.com), (msjl714@att.net)

Edward J. Miller (PhD84) has been appointed interim provost of the State University of New York's College at Plattsburgh.

Jeffrey A. Gates (PhD85) is a global business director for Cognis in Cincinnati, OH.

G. Paul Sutton, Ph.D. (BS85) is an analytical chemist/R & D scientist with Americhem, Inc., a manufacturer of specialty color concentrates and additive concentrates for plastics, in Cuyahoga Falls, OH. (www.americhem.com), (psutton@americhem.com)

Christopher M. Hadad, Ph.D. (BS87), associate professor of chemistry at the Ohio State University, Columbus, has received an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award. (www.chemistry.ohio-state.edu)

Richard O. Crossland, Jr. (BA88) reports that his position at Ford, which involves running the Taurus, Crown Victoria, and Think electric car brands, provides some interesting perks, e.g., attendance at the Sugar Bowl, the Daytona 500, and the Brickyard 400. This has enabled him to meet a Who's Who list of celebrities and NASCAR drivers. Chemists do the darndest things! (xland@peoplepc.com)

Ronald C. Orlando (PhD88), a scientist at the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center at the University of Georgia, had his work on using MS to pinpoint the sites of post translational modifications spotlighted in the Pittconn 2001 article "Probing Proteomes" in C&EN, p. 49, 4/2/01.

Gerhard K. Gallwitz (BS89) is vice-president of marketing and product management for ImpactRx, an information services provider for pharmaceutical sales and marketing. (ggallwitz@impactrx.com)

Kristi L. Kiick, Ph.D. (BS89) has completed her doctoral work in polymer science and engineering at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She was married on 6/9/01 to Rick Beyer. Kristi and Rick now live in Elkton, MD. In the fall, she will join UD's Department of Materials Science Engineering as an assistant professor. (kristiandrick@yahoo.com)

Darryl S. Williams, Ph.D. (BS89) is now a staff chemist in General Electric's Polymer Materials Laboratory, in Schenectady, NY.

NINETIES:

Iris C. Gibbs, M.D. (BS90) is an assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology in the Stanford University School of Medicine. (iris@reyes.stanford.edu)

Steven J. Stuart, Ph.D. (BS90), an assistant professor of chemistry at Clemson University, presented a seminar at the U of D on "Simulations of Confined Hydrocarbons with Next-Generation Reactive Potentials", on 11/20/00. (ss@clemson.edu)

Paula A. Uhrin (BS90) is a principal research technician in performance chemicals technology with Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., in Allentown, PA (uhrinpa@apci.com)

Joseph A. Albanese (PhD91), manager of analytical development for Janssen Pharmaceutica, Inc., and Susan A. Lerke (PhD92), senior research scientist in analytical R & D with the DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company, co-organized and co-chaired the Conference on Pharmaceutical Excipient Formulation Strategies held in Philadelphia last September. Both presented two case studies. (jalbane@psgaus.jnj.com), (jalban2437@aol.com), (susan.a.lerke@dupont.pharma.com)

Marc J. Farrell, Esq. (BS91) is an attorney, specializing in intellectual property law, with Reed Smith LLP, in Harrisburg, PA. Marc and his wife, Greta, were blessed with the birth of their second son, Will, on 12/7/00. (mfarrell@reedsmith.com), (mjfipesq@aol.com)

Holly C. Gaede, Ph.D. (BS91), assistant professor of chemistry at Ursinus College, spent the 2000 spring term on a sabbatical leave at CUNY-Staten Island. Since this is also her husband's (Prof. James Batteas) department, they were able to share the "delights" of his lengthy commute from their home in Bensalem, PA. (hgaede@acad.ursinus.edu)

Joseph R. Paller, Jr. (BA91) is a senior corrosion technologist/analytical chemist with the Brandywine Research Laboratory, in Newark, DE. (brlweb@brandywinelab.com)

J. Michael Sauder, Ph.D. (BS91) is working on protein structure modeling with Structural GenomiX, in San Diego, CA. He and his wife are the proud parents of a baby boy. (www.stromix.com), (sauder@glinka.fccc.edu), (msauder42@go.com)

Lee J. Silverberg (PhD91) was a member of the Bristol-Meyers Squibb research team in Syracuse, NY that has developed a simpler, more efficient synthesis for the anti-cancer drug etoposide (Org. Lett., 2, 3281 (2000); C&E News, p. 12, 10/9/00).

Steven E. Wonchoba, Ph.D. (BS91) has been promoted to senior systems engineer at US West Enterprise Networking, in St. Paul, MN. Displaying his versatility, he has been writing and recording music since 1986. His work is "finally getting the recognition it never deserved". Two of his songs made it into the Top 20 on the MP3 music charts and his CD has been favorably reviewed by rock magazines in The Netherlands and Great Britain. Check it out at (www.mp3.com/wonchoba). (sdwonchoba@aol.com)

Christopher D. Krause (BS93) is near the completion of his doctoral studies in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (formerly known as Rutgers Medical School), and has published his first paper. (krause@umdnj.edu)

James F. Lettieri (BA94) is a chemistry teacher at Polytech High School, in Woodside, DE. (www.k12.de.us/science/lettieri), (jlettier@polytech.k12.de.us)

Anthony J. Lupinetti (BS94) is a member of a team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists who have developed a chemical reaction that could make storage of actinides such as uranium and plutonium safer and easier (C&E News, p. 59, 4/23/01).

Erica S. Oxenreider (BA94) received her M.A. Ed. degree from Gratz College, Melrose Park, PA last May. She has changed her teaching venue to the Tulpehocken Area High School in Bernville, PA. (eoxenrei@tulp.k12.pa.us), (agchem@aol.com)

Jennifer R. Ogrodnick Cochrane, Ph.D. (BS95) completed her doctoral work in biological chemistry at MIT this past February. (jrogrod@mit.edu)

Matthew L. Kieke (PhD95) is the laboratory director at Cabot Performance Materials, Boyertown, PA.

Jeffrey L. Reinking, Ph.D. (BS95) has completed his doctoral work in molecular biology at Cornell University. He and his wife, Samantha, were married in Ithaca, NY this past March. (jlr@cornell.edu)

Ethan R. Badman, Ph.D. (BS96) reached a number of important milestones in 2001. He completed his doctoral work with Prof. R. Graham Cooks, at Purdue University, and is now a joint post-doctoral associate of Profs. David Clemmer (Indiana University) and Scott McLuckey (Purdue University). He has initiated the first phase of his work in the former's laboratory, where he has been reunited with Anne E. Counterman (BS96), who is a Ph.D. candidate working with Prof. Clemmer. The project, which involves ion mobility/MS and the construction of an FT-ICR/IMS instrument, will eventually take Ethan back to Purdue. He was also recently married to Lonna Murphy, a doctoral student in developmental psychology at Purdue. (ethanbadman@yahoo.com)

Scott A. and Krista King Barber (both BS96) are the proud parents of Craig James, who was born 6/10/01, tipping the scales at 7 lbs., 8 oz. Scott, "an engineer by trade, but an educator at heart" is a systems engineer for Apple Computer, Inc. (www.apple.com/educational), (sbarber@apple.com)

William J. Donovan (BS96) is celebrating the publication of the first phase of his work with Prof. Mary Nakhleh at Purdue University (J. Chem. Ed., 78, 975 [2001]). If you watched any of Purdue's football games this past season, you may have seen Bill clad as Purdue Bill, the unofficial sidekick of Boilermaker mascot Purdue Pete. (Bill is the larger of the two.) (expert.cc.purdue.edu/~wdonovan), (wdonovan@purdue.edu), (wdonovan@omni.cc.purdue.edu)

Liwei L. Hua, Ph.D. (BS96) has completed her doctoral work in neuropathology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Next up is a stay in Japan to teach for at least a year. (hua@aecom.yu.edu)

Billy T. George (BS97) is an AstraZeneca chemist in Wilmington, working in the drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics department. (billtg@juno.com)

John M. Geremia, Ph.D. (BS97) has completed his doctoral work in chemical physics at Princeton University. This fall, he will become a post-doctoral associate in CalTech's physics department. (jgeremia@princeton.edu)

David L. and Laura Jane Swanson Henning (both BS97) have returned to Marietta, PA to pursue careers in high school chemistry teaching. They are the proud parents of Samuel Walter, all 7 lbs. 1 oz. of him, born 7/2/01. Dave is teaching science and math to secondary students at the Janus School, a non-profit school for average and above-average learning disabled students in Mt. Joy, PA. The School's motto is worth sharing: "Because not all great minds think alike". (dhenning@dejazzd.com)

Joseph D. Jean (BS97) will begin his graduate studies in chemistry at Purdue University this fall - yet another Boilermaker! (josephjean@hotmail.com)

Jeffrey C. Molloy (MS97) is a field researcher for Spotfire, Inc. Jeff and his wife, Karen, are the proud parents of a bouncing baby girl, Elizabeth Mary. (www.spotfire.com), (jeffrey.molloy@spotfire.com)

Jason J. Evans (PhD98) will move to the Bay State this fall as an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Massachusetts - Boston.

Kristina N. Faulk (BS98) works as a chemist in DuPont's Agricultural Biotechnology Group in Newark, DE. (kristina.n.faulk@usa.dupont.com)

Adebayo O. Onigbinde (PhD98) is the pastor of the Annointed House of God, in Wilmington, DE.

Jason R. and Jennifer Kern Remy (both BS98) are now living in Garner, NC. Jay is a chemistry teacher at East Wake High School, in Wendell, NC; Jen is a trace chemist working in the crime laboratory of the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. (jremy@mail.jus.state.nc.us)

Piyush Shukla (BS98), working on his doctorate at the University of Texas, presented his first paper at a National ACS Meeting in San Diego last April. (piyush@mail.utexas.edu)

B. Jill Trafton (BS98) and Andrew Venton were married in Chapel Hill, NC on 6/23/01. Attending the nuptials were Keith Hornberger (BS97), Jason and Jennifer Remy (both BS98) and Prof. Burnaby Munson.

Wilmin J. Bartolini (PhD99) is a product specialist at Micromass, Inc., in Beverly, MA. (wil_bartolini@mspeople.com)

Alec J. Belsky (PhD99) and Jennifer L. Sterner (PhD99) carried out the Double Del Reaction in Hazleton, PA, this past May. Jen is a forensic chemist with the FBI in Washington, DC. She reports "thank goodness I taught freshman chem [CHEM-105] so long, because I actually use a lot of the information in my analyses - such as the solubility rules and concentration calculations". (jen_sterner@yahoo.com)

Brandon T. Budenz (MS99) has moved to Korea, and plans to work at the Korean Chemical Company LG Corp.

Jennifer L. Paulson (BS99), a doctoral candidate in cell biology at the University of California - San Francisco, has been awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship. (jpaulso@itsa.ucsf.edu)

Amanda M. Simons (BS99), a doctoral candidate in biochemistry at the Harvard University Medical School, has also been awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship. (asimons@fas.harvard.edu)

CLASS OF 2000:

Sylvester Marchman, Jr. (BS00) is a real estate agent with Remax Associates, in Newark, DE. (www.homebuyeru.com), (smarchman@homebuyeru.com)

Scott C. Quinlan (BS00) spent this past year working as an intern for Pleiad Consultancy, a pharmaceutical consulting company in Perth, Scotland.

James B. Witkoskie (BS00) has moved his graduate school venue from CalTech to MIT, where he will pursue a doctorate in chemistry with mathematical applications in the physical sciences.

ALUMNI-TO-BE

Jennifer M. Crocco (BIOC/02) and Jaimie S. Robinson (BIOC/02) both presented posters describing their work with, respectively, Profs. Roberta Colman and Eugene Mueller at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, in Orlando, FL. Jen's poster, co-authored by Jennifer Brosius (GR/02), was awarded first prize in the Society's 5^th Annual Undergraduate Research Achievement Award Poster Competition. While exhibiting their research posters, Jen and Jaimie were visited by Dr. Thomas Cech, president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and 1989 Nobel laureate in chemistry, who discussed their projects with them.

Alicia Glatfelter (GR/02) has accepted a position as visiting assistant professor at Salisbury (MD) State University. There, she will join forces with UD alums Profs. Edward T. Shaffer (PhD67), Edward G. Senkbeil (PhD80), and Anita Robinson Brown (PhD88).

Alaina M. Brown (CHEM/04), James N. Sarakatsannis (BIOC/04), and Charles Collins-Chase (CHEG/04) (all members of your Editor's CHEM-112 Honors General Chemistry class this past spring) had their admissions essays published in the U of D Messenger (10, no. 1 [2001]).