BLUE HEN CHEMIST

9^th CHEM/BIOC Graduation Convocation, May 29, 2004

A truly perfect Blue and Gold Saturday provided the backdrop for what has become the highlight of the academic year for our Department. Over 300 parents, relatives and friends gathered in Pearson Hall to congratulate the 44 BA/BS, 9 MA/MS, and 17 Ph.D. recipients. Were this 2002 (the last year for which the ACS has reported national CHEM/BIOC graduation data), our 34 certified BS/CHEM + BS/BIOC graduates would have ranked 9/623 in terms of size. In the same vein, our graduating Ph.D. class was the largest we've produced since 1996.

The featured speaker for the occasion was one of the Department's most distinguished graduates: Dr. Linda J. Pike (BS75), Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University (St. Louis) School of Medicine. Linda was introduced by her undergraduate research mentor, Prof. Emeritus Don Dennis (FAC 61-99).

2004 B.A. CHEMISTRY AND CHEMISTRY EDUCATION GRADUATES
Michael R. Berseth (XCE)	Tien Nhat Huynh	Andrew M. Shatley(XCE)
Matthew P. Cushman	John A. Morgan (XCE)	Kathryn A. Zimmerman
Patrick M. Ducey	Karen M. Pizzolato
Sharon K. Byrd Ellis	Christine M. Reno
2004 B.S. BIOCHEMISTRY GRADUATES
Gregory G. Abendrotha a	Jordyn L. Gamiel	Christopher W. McAndrewaa
Melis A. Arslan	Samantha N. Janas	Robert T. Mingoia
Stephen G. Brohawn b	Lauren M. Latshawa a	James N. Sarakatsannis b
Alaina M. Brown a	Michael C. Mays	Jared D. Sharp
Bryan R. Franck	Richard W. McLain a	Mark K. Tsakiris
		Carrie L. Ziemniak
a Honors Degree b Honors Degree with Distinction
2004 B. S. CHEMISTRY GRADUATES
Deidre L. Blackwell	Brian D. Hess	Hee- Yeon Park
Harish Chander	Kholiswa M. Laird	David J. Quirico
Diane E. Cripps	Katie A. Lang	Susan A. Ricketts a
Alicia E. DelRosso	Megan J. McCoy	Christopher S. Shores
Richard R. Eidle, Jr.	Timothy J. Miller	Nathan A. Small
Gerald W. Farmer, Jr. a	Monica C. Welker Myers	Lakshmi S. Subbarao
aHonors Degree
2004 M.S. AND M.A. GRADUATES
Krista A. Brewin (MS)	David W. Finneran (MS)	Mark E. Powell (MS)
Christopher J. Buck (MS)	Gee-Ling Lai (MS)	Pradyumna S. Singh (MA)
Stuti Christie (MS)	Kyung Hoon Lee (MS)	Sowmya Subramanian (MS)

2004 Ph.D. GRADUATES
Thomas Harley Bailey	B.S., Muhlenberg College Dissertation: Time and Energy Resolved Studies of Fragmentation in Surface-Induced Dissociation Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry: Instrumentation and Experiment	Futrell Ridge
Show-Jen Chiou	B.S., National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan Dissertation: Synthesis and Coordination Chemistry of Tripodal Thioether-Pyrazole Ligands and Their Application to Modeling Reactivity of Zinc Thiolate Enzymes	Riordan
Frederick James Cox, Jr.	B.S., Loyola College Dissertation: Analysis of Non-Polar Polymers and Copolymers by Laser Mass Spectrometry	Johnston
Danesha Renee Fitzgerald	B.S., University of Virginia Dissertation: Computational Approaches to Molecular Design In Surface and Organometallic Chemistry	Doren
Christopher Damian Incarvito	B.S., Lafayette College M.A., University of Delaware Dissertation: Alkali-Metal Phosphides and X-Ray Crystallography: Investigating Cation-II Interactions	Rheingold
Derek Anthony Lake	B.S., Lindenwood University Dissertation: Real Time Analysis of Individual Aerosol Particles by Laser Ablation	Johnston
Michael Evans Lassman	B.S., Franklin and Marshall College Dissertation: Determining Gas Phase Properties by Ion-Molecule Reactions	Munson
Anna T. Mathauser	B.A., Rutgers University Dissertation: Surface Structure and Chemical Properties of Cu-Pt Alloys	Teplyakov
Berk Oktem	B.S., Bogazici University, Turkey Dissertation: Organic Aerosol Characterization by Mass Spectrometry	Johnston
Kun Qin	B.S., Peking University, China Dissertation: Dioxygen Chemistry of Hydrotris(Pyrazolyl) Borate Chromium(Il) Complexes	Theopold
John E. Robinson	B.S., Indiana University of Pennsylvania Dissertation: Rhodium(I)-Catalyzed Alylic Amination and Carbocyclization Reactions	Evans, P.A.
Bryce ChristopherTappan	B.S., New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Dissertation: New Approaches to Modifying High Energy Materials	Brill
Charles Chester Van Kirk	B.S., Temple University M.S. Youngstown State University Dissertation: Investigations of the Electrode Reactions of Some Rhenium(V) and Chromium(III) Complexes and Reductive Dimerization of 2-Naphthaldelhyde and 9,9'-Spirobi (9H-fluorene) -2-carbonxaldehyde	Evans, D.H.
Melissa Vargo	B.S., Lebanon Valley Collge Dissertation: Glutathione S- Transferase A 1-1: Affinity Labeling of the Nonsubstrate Steroid Site and Probing of Interface Interactions Using Mutagenesis	Colman
Nathaniel A. Woody	B.S., University of Maine at Orono Dissertation: Novel Techniques for Data Mining and Pattern Recognition	Brown
Deqing Xiao	B.E., First Academy of the Company of Aerospace and Aviation Industry, China M.S., Beijing Institute of Technology, China Dissertation: Surface Confined Living Radical Polymerization and Its Application in Coating Microfluidics for Use in Protein Electrophoretic Separation	Wirth
Dennis Yoon	B.S., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Dissertation: Activities of Recombination Proteins RecA and Rad51. Effects of P53 on Rad51 Mediated Strand Exchange and Replication Fork Regression.	Chen

Graduate Or Professional School Bound

Gregory Abendroth, Rutgers University (Doctor of Pharmacy Program) <gregaben@eden.rutgers.edu>; Melis Arslan, Northeastern University (Biotechnology) <cheshirecat82m@hotmail.com>; Deidre Blackwell, University of Rhode Island (Chemistry) <dlb382@yahoo.com>; Stephen Brohawn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Biology) <sbrohawn@yahoo.com>; Alaina Brown, University of Virginia School of Medicine <amb7h@virginia.edu>; Matthew Cushman, University of Delaware (Art Conservation) <mpcushman@hotmail.com>; Gerald Farmer, Jr., Duquesne University Law School <tenkistar@chem.byu.edu>; Bryan Franck, Thomas Jefferson College of Medicine <bryanfranck@msn.com>; Kholiswa Laird, University of Maryland - Baltimore County (Chemistry); Katie Lang, Pace University (Forensic Chemistry); Lauren Latshaw, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (Chemistry); Christopher McAndrew, University of California - San Diego (Biochemistry) <plooker@comcast.net>; Richard McClain, University of Virginia School of Medicine <wjmcc1ain@suscom.net>; Karen Pizzolato, George Washington University (Forensic Chemistry) <karenpizz@aol.com>; James Sarakatsannis, Columbia University (Philosophical Foundations of Physics ); Jared Sharp, Rutgers University (Chemistry) <sharpjd@comcast.net>.

Headed for Industry, Etc.

Richard Eidle, Quality Control Chemist, Apptec Laboratories, Philadelphia <rreidle@hotmail.com>; Timothy Miller, Research Technician, Alloy Surfaces, Baltimore, MD <tjm1394@hotmail.com>; Robert Mingoia, Associate Scientist, Discovery Toxicology, DuPont Stine Laboratory, Newark, DE <bmingoia@hotmail.com>; John Morgan, Chemistry Teacher, Edgewood (MD) High School; David Quirico, Laboratory Technician, Octel Starreon, Newark, DE <dquirico2001@yahoo.com>; Susan Ricketts, Research and Development, Pfizer, Inc., Groton, CT <chemfreak2000@yahoo.com>, <susan ricketts@groton.pfizer.com>; Christopher Shores, Research Technician, Polymer Modifications, CCL Biomedical, Inc., Havre de Grace, MD <bangka@hotmail.com>.

Graduate Student Placements

Krista Brewin, Research Chemist, Janssen Pharmaceutica Division of Johnson & Johnson, Titusville, NJ <kbrewin@psgus.jnj.com>; Juliana Kretsinger, Senior Chemist, Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, IN; Kristian Link, Post-Doctoral Associate (Prof. Ronald Breaker), Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University; Berk Oktem, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine <berkoctem@yahoo.com>, <oktem@jhmi.edu>; Brian Salisbury, Research Scientist, Millenium Inorganic Chemicals, Baltimore, MD <briansalisbury@milleniumchem.com>; Christopher Spedaliere, Post-Doctoral Associate (Prof. Hiroshi Matsui), Hunter College of the City University of New York; Melissa Vargo, Post-Doctoral Associate, Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine <vargo_mel@hotmail.com>; Nathaniel Woody, Principal Scientist, Cheminformatics Group, GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle, NC <nathaniel.x.woody@gsk.com>.