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Chemistry Department News Archive4/2/07 An interview with Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley, Associate Professor of chemistry, was published in a MarketPlace.com story on March 28, 2007, about open-source science. StoryLink-MarketPlace.com 3/11/07 Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley will be giving a talk and participating in a panel about Open Source/Open Notebook Science on April 17, 2007 at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia. For further information, see http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2007/03/chemical-heritage-foundation-talk-on.html 2/5/07 As read in the February 1, 2007 Drexelink... Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley, e-Learning Coordinator for the College of Arts & Sciences and Associate Professor of Chemistry, hosted the Open Notebook Science Session at the Science Blogging Conference at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 1/30/07 Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley's research blogs UsefulChem and UsefulChem-Molecules were listed in a January 29, 2007 article in Chemical and Engineering News on chemistry blogging. See the electronic copy of the article at http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/85/8505sci2.html 1/29/07 Dr. Yen Wei, Herman B. Wagner Professor of Polymers and Materials Chemistry and Director of the Center for Advanced Polymers and Materials Chemistry, delivered an invited lecture on "Nanostructured Materials Platforms for Biocatalysis, Drug Release, Neurological Diseases, Dentistry, and Tissue Engineering" in the Department of Chemistry at Rutgers University, Newark. He also served as invited panelist on NIH Biomaterials and Biointerfaces (BMBI) study section in Bethesda, MD. 1/3/07 Dr. Yen Wei, Herman B. Wagner Professor of Polymers and Materials Chemistry and the Director of the Center for Polymers and Materials Chemistry, delivered invited lectures on "Nanoporous Materials for Bioscience and Biotechnology" in the Department of Chemistry at University of Connecticut, Storrs, and on "Nanostructured Materials Platforms for Biocatalysis, Drug Release, Neurological Diseases, Dentistry, and Tissue Engineering" in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, University Park. He also served as invited panelist on NIH study section for "Nanotechnology for dental materials (NIDCR RFA DE-07-005)" in Bethesda, MD. 12/1/06 Dr. Yen Wei, Herman B. Wagner Professor of Polymers and Materials Chemistry and Director of the Center for Polymers and Materials Chemistry, presented an invited paper on "Templated Synthesis of Novel Electroactive Periodic Mesoporous Organosilica Materials" at the 7th National Conference on Functional Organic Solids in Suzhou, China. The paper was co-authored by Yi Guo, Andreas Mylonakis and Dr. Zongtao Zhang of the Chemistry Department, and Prof. Peter Lelkes, Calhoun Chair Professor, of the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems at Drexel University. In addition, Dr. Wei delivered invited lectures on "Nanostructured Materials for Bioscience and Biotechnology" at Wuhan University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in China. He was honored with a Guest Professorship at HUST and gave a seminar on "The Joy of Being A Chemist" to the general student population as part of the "Spirit and Practice of Sciences" distinguished lecture series at HUST. He also gave an invited talk on "Organic-Inorganic Hybrid and Nanostructured Materials for Dental and Other Biomedical Applications" at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 11/6/06 As read in the November 2006 Drexelink... Dr. Anthony Addison, professor of chemistry, presented the paper "Some Bis (azacylce)Isoindolines and Mono- Di- and Trinuclear Complexes of Nickel (II) Derived From Them&uot; at the American Chemical Society's 232nd National Meeting in San Francisco. The paper is about work performed by Drexel undergraduates Evan Beard, Lindsay Crist, Larry Wolf and Andrew Milewski. 11/3/06 Dr. Yen Wei, Herman B. Wagner Professor of Polymers and Materials Chemistry and the Director of the Center for Polymers and Materials Chemistry, was honored with a Lecture-Chaired Professorship in Nanotechnology at the Chung Yuan Christian University (CYCU) in Taiwan. He delivered an inaugural speech on "A Nanoporous Materials Platform for Drug Release, Conformational Diseases, Dentistry, and Bioengineering" at the International Symposium on Nanotechnology, sponsored by the Center for Nanotechnology at CYCU. In addition, he gave a lecture on "Nanoprobes for Neuronal Signal Detection and Electroactive Materials for Tissue Engineering" in the Chemistry Department at CYCU. He also presented invited seminars on "Organic-Inorganic Hybrid and Nanostructured Materials for Dental Applications" at National I-Lan University and Ching Yun University in Taiwan. 10/16/06 Dr. Lynn Penn, Department Head of Chemistry, delivered a talk entitled "Polymer Brushes for Creating Fiber Surfaces of Controlled Structure and Technological Relevance" at the Fiber Society Meeting, October 10-12, in Knoxville, TN. 10/5/06 Dr. Yen Wei, Herman B. Wagner Professor of Polymers and Materials Chemistry, co-chaired a successful International Symposium on Polymer Chemistry (PC2006) in Dalian, China. He also presented an invited paper there on "Synthesis of nanoporous materials for applications in dentistry, drug release, neural diseases and bioengineering", co-authored by Dr. Solomon Praveen, Houping Yin, Dr. Man-Chien Chao, Yi Guo and Dr. Alpa Patel of the Chemistry Department and Prof. Peter Lelkes of the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems, Drexel University, as well as Prof. George Baran of Temple University. He served as an invited panelist on the proposal review committee for the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He also delivered invited seminars on "Nanostructured Materials for Bioscience and Biotechnology" at Fudan University, Nanjing University, Tsinghua University and Sichuan University, and on "Encapsulation of Enzymes and Metal Nanoparticles in Porous Nanofibers for Catalysis and Sensor Applications" at the Beijing Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. 9-29-06 Dr. Daniel King, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, presented the poster entitled "Quantitative Measures of Personal Response Device Effectiveness" at the American Chemical Society Fall National Meeting in San Francisco on 9/12/06. 9/26/06 As read in the September 2006 Drexelink... Dr. Anthony Addison, professor of chemistry and Gordan T. Reeves, chemistry doctoral student, presented the research posters " Synthesis, Characterization and Comparison of Ruthenium (II) Complexes of Tetradentate Thioether and Pyridine-Containing Ligands and Bidentate Nitrogen Coligands" and "Synthesis and Structures of New Binuclear Copper (II) Complexes with Bis(3-alkoxy-2-hydroxybenzaldehyde) Thiocarbohydrazones" at the American Chemical Society's 38th Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. The research was completed in collaboration with colleagues and featured the work of Diana Dragancea, a Soros Foundation Fellow at Drexel in the spring of 2006 from the Republic of Moldova. 9/26/06 Also read in the September 2006 Drexelink... Dr. Daniel A. Kleier, senior instructor of chemistry, and colleagues published the article "Computational Characteristics of Metal Binding Groups for Metalloenzyme Inhibitors" in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, vol 2., pp990-6. 7/22/06 Open-source science- the sharing of all details of a research project in real-time- has the potential to remake the scientific landscape. Work now being done in the laboratory of Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley, Associate Professor of Chemistry, is featured in the July 24, 2006 issue of Chemical & Engineering News; the article is also available on-line at http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/84/8430sci1.html. Full details of the groups synthetic work being done in an open-source format on compounds with antimalarial properties is posted at http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com. 6/24/06 At the request of the UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Peter Wade served as Chairman of the Visiting Committee for Initial Accreditation of an undergraduate chemistry program at the University of Sharjah. The accreditation visit occured from June 6th to June 8th in 100 degree temperatures. Peter also served as a member on the initial accreditation team for an undergraduate chemistry program at the American University of Sharjah from June 10th to June 12th. Formal reports were prepared for both accreditation visits and a short meeting was held with HH Sheikh Nahyan bin Moubarak al Nahyan, UAE Minister of Education. 6/9/06 The Owens research group was well represented at the 54th American Society of Mass Spectrometry Meeting held in Seattle, WA, May 28-June 1, 2006. William J. Erb presented a paper entitled, "The Study of Salt/Analyte Ratios for Four Matrices in MALDI TOFMS", along with coauthors Kevin G. Owens and Andrew J. Hoteling. The group also presented a poster entitled, "Optimization of the Electrospray Deposition Technique to Produce Better Quantitative MALDI Samples", which was co-authored by former chemistry undergraduate student Rocco DelConte, William J. Erb, and Kevin G. Owens. 6/7/06 Dr. Daniel King, Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department, gave a talk entitled "Teaching environmental chemistry: which course components are most effective?" at the Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) held in Hershey, PA, on Sunday, June 4th. 5/30/2006 Congratulations to Ms. Mozhgan Bahadory, a winner of the 2006 Teaching Excellence Competition. She will receive a certificate and a cash award to be presented at the Award Ceremony in the Bossone Auditorium at 3 pm on June 1, 2006, Graduate Student Day. Dr. Stephen Director, the Provost, will be present to make some remarks and the ceremony will include a keynote address by Dr. Ron Berk of the Johns Hopkins University. The award ceremony will be followed by a reception in the Lobby of the Bossone Building. 5/25/06 Ms. Alpa Patel, a Ph.D. candidate working under the direction of Dr. Yen Wei, Herman B. Wagner Professor, at the Department of Chemistry, is the winner in the research/service competition for graduate students at Drexel University. She will be presented the Award at the Ceremony on Thursday June 1, 2006 in the Bossone Auditorium on Market Street. She has also won the American Institute of Chemists Graduate Achievement Award, which will be officially presented at the College of Arts & Sciences Honors Day held on Thursday, May 25, 2005 in Mandell Theater. She has also received several American Chemical Society Graduate Student Research and Poster Awards for her research work on nanostructured metal oxide, nanofibers, and enzyme- containing nanocomposites for biosensor and biocatalysis applications. 5/25/06 Dr. Yen Wei, Herman B. Wagner Professor of Polymer and Materials Chemistry, was honored with Cheung-Kong Lecture-Chaired Professorship in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. The Chair is named after "Chang Jiang (a.k.a. Yangtze River)" and is endowed jointly by Mr. Li Ka-shing of Hong Kong, who is the No. 10 richest person in the world in 2005 according to Forbes magazine, and by the Chinese Ministry of Education). Dr. Wei was also appointed as Guest Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Tianjin University, China. 5/25/06 As reported in the March 3, 2006 Drexelink... Dr. Anthony Addison, professor of inorganic chemistry and colleagues published their paper "Copper (II) Complexes of Tetradentate Thioether-Oxide Ligands" in Inorganic Chimica Acta vol 358, p3311. It was ranked seventh on Science Direct's "Top 25 Hottest Articles on Science Direct" list. 5/25/06 Also as reported in the March 3, 2006 Drexelink... Dr. Karl Sohlberg, associate professor of chemistry, presented the lecture entitled "How will Tomorrow's Machines be Engineered?: Inventing Tools to Desing Molecular Devices" for the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's "Science on Saturday" public lecture series. 5/12/06 Congratulations to the following chemistry department graduate and undergraduate students who have won the awards listed below. The awards will be officially presented at the College of Arts & Sciences Honors Day which will be held on Tuesday, May 25, 2005 at 2:00 pm in Mandell Theater:
Robert O. Hutchins BIOMOL Prize for Research: Ross Pennington 4-17-06 Professor Joe Foley presented the invited paper "Recent Advances in Surfactant-Based Separation Media in Capillary Electrophoresis and HPLC" in the technical session "Separation Science: It's Not a Contradiction in Terms Anymore" at the 231st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Atlanta. The invited session was organized in honor of Prof. John G. Dorsey, this year's recipient of the ACS Award in Chromatography and Prof. Foley's Ph.D. advisor. 4-17-06 Professor Foley also recently published the following peer-reviewed articles, each co-authored by current or former Drexel graduate students in chemistry: Robert J. Pascoe, John A. Masucci, and Joe P. Foley, "Investigation of Vesicle Electrokinetic Chromatography as an In-Vitro Assay for the Estimation of Intestinal Permeability of Pharmaceutical Drug Candidates", Electrophoresis, 2006, 27, 793-804. Kimberly A. Kahle and Joe P. Foley, "Chiral Microemulsion Electrokinetic Chromatography with Two Chiral Components: Improved Separations via Synergies Between a Chiral Surfactant and a Chiral Co-Surfactant", Electrophoresis, 2006, 27, 896-904. Marilyn X. Zhou and Joe P. Foley, "Quantitative Theory of Electroosmotic Flow in Fused Silica Capillaries Using an Extended Site-Dissociation Site-Binding Model", Analytical Chemistry, 2006, 78, 1849-1858. 3/7/06 Congratulations to Dr. Dan King, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, for his win in the "Battle of the Brains" competition at the Handschumacher Dining Center. Students nominated faculty to provide a recipe to the Dining Center staff and help serve the meal. The dish Dan suggested, chicken and chick peas in peanut sauce, sold the best… making him the winner. Cooking is chemistry… 1/22/06 Congratulations to Ms. Alpa C. Patel, winner of the "Service is Our Business Award", at the Fifth Annual Graduate Student Poster Session sponsored by the Philadelphia Section of the American Chemical Society at the meeting held January 19, 2006 at Villanova University. Her poster was entitled "Electrospinning of Silica Micro/Nanofibers Containing CdSe/ZnS Quantum Dots". Her co-authors on the poster are Shuxi Li and her advisor Dr. Yen Wei. This is the third time Ms. Patel has won an award at the poster session. 1/22/06 Congratulations to Dr. Karl Sohlberg, Associate Professor of Chemistry, who received a five-year $527,152 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for his proposal entitled: "A New Approach to Modeling Switchable Interlocked Macro-Molecular and Nano-Devices". 1/22/06 Dr. Kevin Owens, Associate Professor of chemistry, presented a talk entitled "Quantitative Analysis by MALDI TOFMS: Is it REALLY Possible" at the January 18, 2006 meeting of the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh held at Dusquesne University. 12/13/05 Dr. Daniel King, Assistant Professor of chemistry, presented a poster entitled "Oceanic Contributions of Bromine to the Atmosphere" at the annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco on December 6. Dan was also a co-author on two other presentations at the meeting entitled, "Depth Profiles of Selected Halocarbons during PHASE-1" and "Fluxes of Short-Lived, Halogenated Methanes into the Marine Boundary Layer". 11/3/05 As noted in the Drexel Daily Digest... Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley, Associate Professor of chemistry, was featured in a WCAU-TV (NBC-10) newscast on November 1, 2005 on the use of blogs in the classroom. 10-14-05 Dr. Anthony W. Addison, professor of chemistry, and colleagues published the article "copper(II) Complexes of Tetradentate Thioether-Oxime Ligands", in Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol 358, 2005, pp 3449-56. 10-14-05 Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley, associate professor of chemistry, presented the talk "Podcasting, Screencasting, Blogs and Games as part of a Low Risk Strategy to the Production of Blended and Fully Online Classes" at the Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange at Utah Valley State College. A recording of the talk is available at Drexel-coas-elearning.wikispaces.org. 10-14-05 Dr. Yen Wei, Herman B. Wagner Professor of Polymer and Materials Chemistry, delivered the invited speech "Novel Nanobiotechnolgy: Encapsulation of Enzymes and Therapeutic Agents in Nanoporous Materials for Biocatalysts, Biosensor and Pharmaceutical Applications" at the Johnson & Johnson Ninth Annual Analytical Worldwide Conference. He was also an invited panelist for the NIH National Cancer Institute Special Emphasis Panel on Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence. 9/23/05 Dr. Anthony Addison, Professor of Chemistry, presented "Coordination Considerations in Biomemetic and Oligonuclear Systems" at the University of Sydney and at Massey University in New Zealand. Addison and colleagues published the article "The Hexakis(thiocyanato)ferrate(III) Ion: A Coordination Chemistry Classic Reveals an Interesting Geometry Pattern for the Thiocyanate Ligands" in June in the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 9/23/05 Dr. Daniel King, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, presented the poster "Changing Focus: Becoming a Chemical Education Researcher" at the Gordon Conference on Chemistry Education, Research and Practice. 9/23/05 Hold on to your [technology] hats… as written in the President’s message in the September 1, 2005 Drexelink: "As Philadelphia's technological university, Drexel is continually exploring ways to bring new advancements to our campuses to improve the learning experience. Podcasts are a way for students to extend campus boundaries to their off-campus residences or across the country or around the world while on co-op. For example, associate chemistry professors Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley and Dr. Kevin Owens create podcasts and screencasts of their lectures so that students can download, listen, study and learn anywhere". 8/30/05 Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley, Associate Professor of chemistry, appeared on WGIR-AM, WGIN-AM and WGIP-AM (New Hampshire) on August 20, 2005 to comment on the use of technologies such as podcasting and screencasting in college courses. 7/5/05 Dr. Yen Wei, Herman B. Wagner Professor of Polymer and Materials Chemistry, delivered an invited speech on "Novel Nanobiotechnology: Encapsulation of Enzymes and Therapeutic Agents in Nanoporous Materials for Biocatalysis, Biosensor and Pharmaceutical Applications", at the Johnson & Johnson 9th Annual Analytical Worldwide Conference, June 7, 2005, in Princeton, New Jersey. He also served as an invited panelist for NIH National Cancer Institute Special Emphasis Panel (ZCA1 GRB-S -O1) on Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNEs), in Washington DC July 19-22, 2005.
6/23/05 Eugene J. Rosenbaum, 97, of Broomall, a
chemist and retired Drexel University chemistry professor, died June 2 at Bryn
Mawr Hospital. 6/15/05 Dr. Yen Wei, Herman B. Wagner Professor of Polymer and Materials Chemistry, delivered an invited lecture at University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) on "Synthesis of Nanostrucutred Materials for Dental Applications" on May 24, 2005. He also led a discussion session there on "The Future of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Research". 5/7/05 Congratulations to the following chemistry department graduate and undergraduate students who have won the awards listed below. The awards will be officially presented at the College of Arts and Sciences Honors Day which will be held on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 at 2:00 pm in Mandell Theater, with a reception following at 3:30 pm in the Living Arts Lounge:
Robert O. Hutchins BIOMOL Prize for Research: Thomas Measey 5/4/05 Dr. Yen Wei, Herman B. Wagner Professor of Polymer and Materials Chemistry, was an invited speaker and discussion panelist at "the Joseph Priestley Society Symposium on Electroactive Polymers", organized by the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia on April 14, 2005, on the occasion of Prof. Alan G. MacDiarmids 78th Birthday. Dr. Wei spoke on the Bioscience and Biotechnology of Electroactive Polymers. Dr. Wei also served as an invited panelist on the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology "Strategic Development Workshop" at University of Pennsylvania on March 21, 2005.
4/16/05 College of Arts & Sciences Fifth Annual Research Day,
April 13, 2005 4/5/05 Dr. Yen Wei, Herman B. Wagner Professor of Polymer and Materials Chemistry, delivered an invited seminar at University of Pennsylvania, Department of Chemistry, entitled "Protein folding and protein-protein interactions in nanostructured metal oxide matrices" on March 8, 2005. He also presented three papers at the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) and American Association for Dental Research (AADR) national meeting in Baltimore, March 9-12, 2005: (1) "Polymerization of vinyl-modified silica nanoparticle assemblies to form nanocomposites with low volume shrinkage for potential dental applications" co-authored with Prof. G. Yang of the Physics Department and chemistry graduate students S. Cheng and Z. Sun at Drexel University, (2) "Micro-tensile evaluation of a novel organic-inorganic hybrid reactive dentin primer" co-authored with Dr. S. Li, Research Associate Professor of Chemistry and Dr. S. Praveen at Drexel University and Profs. K. Boberick and G. Baran as well as graduate students J. Davis, B. Zuckman at Temple University, and (3) "Synthesis of nanostructured materials for potential dental filler applications" co-authored with Prof. Li, Dr. S. Praveen and graduate students A. Patel, Z. Sun, J. Xu and Q. Feng at Drexel University and with Prof. K.-Y. Qiu and J. Bai at Peking University, China.
3/11/05 Drexel Chemistry Department alumna Cynthia A. Maryanoff,
distinguished research fellow of Johnson & Johnson’s Cordis Corporation, a
McNeil Pharmaceutical company, will be presented the Earle B. Barnes Award for
Leadership in Chemical Research Management at the ACS Spring Meeting in San
Diego. The award, sponsored by Dow Chemical, recognizes here many years of
chemical and pharmaceutical research management at McNeil.
2/12/05 Dr. Yen Wei, Herman B. Wagner Professor of Polymer and Materials Chemistry, received a $190,000 U.S. Army Research Office grant via a subcontract from Triton Systems, Inc. for his research on the preparation of novel hierarchical multilayer laminated plastic structures. 2/11/05 Dr. Yen Wei, Herman B. Wagner Professor of Polymer and Materials Chemistry, served as Chairman of NIH Musculoskeletal, Oral and Skin Sciences-Integrated Review Group (ZRG1 MOSS-A 02) in January 2005. He is also an invited panelist for NIH National Center for Research COBRE (Center for Biomedical Research Excellence) Review Panel in February 2005. In addition, Dr. Wei has been a Chartered Member of the NIH Oral, Dental and Craniofacial Sciences (ODCS) Study Section since July 2002. 2/11/05 Dr. Yen Wei, Herman B. Wagner Professor of Polymer and Materials Chemistry, received the 2004 SEAM Award from the Herman Mark Polymer Research Institute of Polytechnic University on Dec. 4, 2004. The Award was presented to Dr. Wei for his contributions to the materials chemistry of inherently conductive and electroactive polymers at the 10th International Meeting on Search for Electro-Active Materials (SEAM) at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York. 2/3/05 Congratulations to the following students for their awards at the Fifth Annual Graduate Student Poster Session sponsored by The Philadelphia Section of the American Chemical Society at the meeting held January 27, 2005 at Drexel University:
Ms. Alpa Patel, winner of the Rohm and Haas Award for Material Science,
for her poster entitled "Electrospinning Of Porous Silica Micro/Nanofibers
Containing Silver Nanoparticles". Her advisor is Dr. Yen Wei. This is the
second time Ms. Patel has won an award at the poster session. 1/11/05 Dr. Yen Wei, Herman B. Wagner Professor of Chemistry, was recently honored with appointment as Distinguished Guest Professorship (a.k.a. Consultant Professor) of Materials Science at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He delivered invited lectures on "Conductive Polymers and Nanostructured Materials for Neuronal Tissue Engineering" at Peking University, Jilin University, Beijing Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Fudan University in China. He also gave invited seminars on "Novel Nanoporous Materials for Enzyme Immobilization, Biocatalysis, Biosensor and Pharmaceutical Applications" at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai University in China, and at Chung-Yuan Christian University, Institute of Chemistry of the Academia Sinica, National Cheng Kung University, and Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan. 12/22/04 Dr. Kevin G. Owens, Associate Professor of chemistry, former graduate student Richard C. King III, and Bruce N. LaPrade (Burle Electro-Optics, Inc., Sturbridge MA), were recently granted US patent # 6,828,729 (issued December 7, 2004) entitled, "Bipolar Time of Flight Detector, Cartridge and Detection Method". The patent is for development of an improved microchannel plate-based detector for use in time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The detector yields better high mass detection sensitivity through a combination of conversion surface coatings and a unique optically isolated high voltage post-acceleration design. The detector is commercially manufactured by Burle Electro-Optics (Sturbridge, MA) and is available from Burle, Inc. (www.burle.com). 10/4/04 Dr. Alan Bandy, R.S. Hanson Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, received three National Science Foundation (NSF) grants: a one-year, $250,000 grant for "Airborne Study of the Chemistry of Sulfur in the Tropical Marine Troposphere"; a one-year, $165,000 grant for "Chemistry of Sulfur in Marine Tropical Cumulus Clouds"; and a one-year, $131,000 grant for "Determination of Atmospheric Hydrogen Peroxide Using Isotope Dilution Atmospheric Pressure Ionization Mass Spectrometry." 8/12/04 Dr. Karl Sohlberg, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, is part of a multi-investigator team that recently received a three-year, $334,071 grant from the National Science Foundation for the project "DREAM: Drexel Research Experience in Advanced Materials". The team is led by Dr. Surya Kalidindi, Department Head of Materials Science & Engineering and Dr. Antonios Zavaliangos, Professor of Materials Science & Engineering. 8/12/04 Dr. Peter Wade, Associate Professor and Interim Department Head of chemistry, was a discussion group leader at the Fourth Annual Leadership in Science Education Conference held at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. 7/16/04 Dr. Anthony Addison, Professor of Chemistry, presented a seminar entitled "Coordination Chemistry Consequences in Biomimetic and Oligonuclear Systems" at Texas A&M University. 7/16/04 Dr. Yen Wei, Herman B. Wagner Professor of Polymer and Materials Chemistry, received a US patent for "Mesoporous Materials and Methods of Making the Same". Co-inventors are his former graduate students Drs. Danliang Jin, Jigene Xu and Tianzhong Ding. Wei also presented talks entitled "Nonsurfactant Pathway to Mesoporous Materials and Nanohosts for Proteins" at Sandia National Laboratories and "Electroactive Polymers and Nanostructured Materials for Neuronal Tissue Engineering" at Los Alamos National Laboratories. 6/22/04 Dr. Anthony Addison, professor of chemistry, and colleagues published an article entitled "Efficient Mechnochemical Synthesis of Tris(Pyrazolylborate) Complexes of Manganese(II), Cobalt(II), and Nickel(II)" (Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 2004, 7, 485-88). 6/18/04 The faculty and staff of the Chemistry Department would like to congratulate the following students on their graduation:
Bachelor of Science: Pauline Barco, Anthony Coppolino, Laura Kaderabek, Genevieve Kennedy, Michelle Madden, Amber Reilly, Bethany Sires, and Catherine Vicente Master of Science:Subhabrata Bhattacharyya, William Erb, Jeanine Erdner, Nadata Green, Kimberly Kahle, Ting-Ching Liao, Michelle Parker, Poonam Rohilla, Alexis Tanjutco, and Mathew Zagorski Doctor of Philosophy: Andrew Hoteling, Patrick Ndungu, Fang-Huang (Jim) Tu and Marilyn Zhou
We wish you all the very best in your future professional careers and personal lives- please keep in touch and let us know what you are up to. 6/3/04 Faculty Recognition Dinner, Behrakis Grand Hall The 2004 Faculty Recognition Dinner was held on Thursday June 3, 2004 at 6:00 pm in the Behrakis Grand Hall. Congratulations to Dr. Amar Nath and Dr. Allan Smith of the Chemistry Department on the occasion of their retirement. Congratulations also go to Dr. Karl Sohlberg, co-winner of the Allan Rothwarf Award for Teaching Excellence (awarded at the Junior Faculty level).5/5/04 Drexel University Research Day, May 4, 2004 4/27/04 College of Arts & Sciences Research Day, April 26, 2004
Ari Silver for a third-prize award in the Undergraduate Division for his
poster entitled "A Novel Conformational Searching Technique for Low Degree
Polymers". Ari’s faculty advisor is Dr. Karl Sohlberg. 4/27/04 Congratulations to Bill Erb on winning the Delaware Valley Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group (DVMSDG) 2004 Student Travel Award! The cash award will defray travel costs to the annual American Society of Mass Spectrometry Meeting which will be held at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville TN May 22-27, 2004. Bill will be presenting a poster entitled "A Study of Gas Phase Cationization in MALDI TOFMS". He is also co-author on a second poster with Drew Hoteling entitled " Importance of Relative Solubility of Matrix and Analyte in MALD/I Sample Preparation, Explored Using HPLC ". The Travel Award was announced at the April 12, 2004 meeting of the DVMSDG at Widener University. 4/16/04 Congratulations to chemistry alumni Rich and Liz Billmers, principles of RL Associates, Inc! As reported in an April 15, 2004 article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, RL Associates, Inc., a Langhorne research company, received a five-year Small Business Innovative Research contract worth up to $10 million to develop an optical filter that will allow U.S. Navy aircraft to use light waves to detect underwater objects. The system is known as laser radar because it bounces light waves instead of acoustical- or radio- waves off objects. RL Associates’ filter would allow the laser beam to come back into the detection system while blocking other light. RL Assoicates also has an office and laboratory in Chester’s University Technology Park. 4/14/04 Dr. Yen Wei, Herman B. Wagner Professor of Polymer and Materials Chemistry, received a U.S. Patent (No. 6,696,258 B1 issued on February 24, 2004) for "Mesoporous materials and methods of making the same". Co-inventors include Dr. Danliang Jin, Mr. Tianzhong Ding and Dr. Jigeng Xu,, who are former graduate students and research associates with Dr. Wei. He also delivered two invited seminars at Sandia National Laboratories on "Nonsurfactant pathway to mesoporous materials and nanohosts for proteins" and at Los Alamos National Laboratories on "Electroactive polymers and nanostructured materials for neuronal tissue engineering". 4/14/04 On April 14 Dean Donna Murasko announced that Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley, Associate Professor of Chemistry, has agreed to serve as the new Coordinator of e-Learning within the College of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Bradley has not only utilized web-based technology in his courses here at Drexel, but has also published on his results in this area. Concerning e-Learning within CoAS, Dean Murasko wrote: “As you are well aware, the University has had considerable discussions regarding e-Learning over the last year or so. While e-Learning has multiple definitions, it is clear that the utilization of various technologies in our classes is an avenue that needs to be carefully explored, evaluated, and implemented where appropriate”. In order to assist other faculty in the college who are interested in pursuing these activities, Dr. Bradley will have an office within the Dean's Office suite to make him more available. Workshops on e-Learning will also be held in the College during May. 4/6/04 Dr. Kevin Owens, Associate Professor of Chemistry, gave an invited talk entitled "Application of Correlation Analysis to Mass Spectral Data: Tips and Techniques" on March 16, 2004 to the North Jersey Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group in Somerset, NJ. He also presented a talk entitled "Quantitative Analysis by MALDI TOFMS: Is it REALLY Possible?" on March 26, 2004 to the Department of Chemistry at Howard University, Washington, DC. 4/6/04 Dr. Kevin Owens' research group published two papers recently in the Journal of the American Society of Mass Spectrometry. The first, with co-workers at Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, PA) and the National Institute of Standards & Technology (Gaithersburg, MD) is entitled, "Investigations of Electrospray Sample Deposition for Polymer MALDI". The second, with graduate student Andrew J. Hoteling, describes important instrument improvements developed by the group and is entitled "Improved PSD and CID on a MALDI/TOFMS". 3/30/04
Congratulations to the following chemistry department undergraduate students
who have won the awards listed below. The awards will be officially presented
at the College of Arts and Sciences Honors Day which will be held on Tuesday,
May 18, 2004 at 2:00 pm in Mandell Theater, with a reception following at 3:30
pm in the Living Arts Lounge:
Robert O. Hutchins BIOMOL Prize for Research: Amber Reilly 3/30/04 Dr. Yen Wei named Herman B. Wagner Professor of Chemistry On Monday March 29, 2004
Interim Provost Dr. Ali Houshmand announced that Drexel University will
officially confer a named professorship upon three of its most distinguished
faculty members at the Convocation ceremony to be held in October of this year.
The chemistry departments’ Dr. Yen Wei will become the Herman B. Wagner
Professor of Chemistry. 2/27/04 Dr. Yen Wei, Herman B. Wagner Professor of Polymer and Materials Chemistry, presented a paper entitled "Synthesis of Polymer-Inorganic Hybrid and Nanocomposite Materials" at Triton Systems, Inc. in Boston. He also gave an invited seminar entitled: "Biochemistry and Biotechnology of Nanostructured Materials Immobilization of Enzymes in Mesoporous Materials for Biocatalyst, Biosensor and Pharmaceutical Applications" at the State University of New York in Binghamton on Feb 20, 2004. He co-authored a paper "Chemical Sensors Based on Electrically Conductive Immiscible Polymer Blends" which was presented at the Conference on Advances in Plastics Technology held in Katowice, Poland. He is also a North American Alumni Coordinator for the International Symposium in Celebration of 50 Years of Polymer Education and Research in Peking University, which will be held in Beijing, China, May 28-31, 2004. 1/16/04 Fourth Annual American Chemical Society-Philadelphia Section Graduate Student Poster Session, January 15, 2004 Congratulations to the following chemistry department poster submissions that won awards at the Poster Session, held in the Behrakis Grand Hall at Drexel University: Rohm & Haas Company Award: Natalie Carroll and Karl Sohlberg for "Application of Time-Dependent Quantum Mechanics to Electron Transport Through Molecular Junctions" Dupont Central Research Biochemical Sciences & Engineering Division Award: Melissa Mertzmann and Joe Foley for "Chiral Cyclodextrin-Modified Microemulsion Electrokinetic Chromatography" William Penn Family Award: Alpa Patel, Shuxi Li, Yen Wei, Ce Wang and Wanjin Zhang for "Fabrication of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Co-Polymer Nanofibers via Electrospinning" 1/12/04 Dr. Anthony Addison, Professor of Chemistry, presented a paper entitled "Strongly Antiferromagnetically Coupled Copper (II) Dimers of Tripodal Oximate Ligands" at the 226th Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in New York City. The paper was co-authored by M. Vaidyanathan and colleagues. As a Councilor of the local ACS section, Dr. Addison also addressed the ACS Council on potentially adverse impacts of the new INS policies on the American scientific endeavor. 12/2/03 Dr. Yen Wei, Professor of Chemistry, received the 2003 Outstanding Overseas Scholar Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China. He also co-authored a paper entitled "Effects of Confinement and Crowding on Protein Folding and Protein Stability" with Prof. Jian-Min Yuan of Physics Department, physics graduate student Mr. Guanghui Ping and chemistry graduate student Mr. Zhengfei Sun, which was presented by Prof. Yuan at European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Workshop on "Biological Implications of Macromolecular Crowding" in Palacio de Magalia, Spain. This work was included in a commentary article: "Join the crowd" by R. John Ellis and Allen P. Minton in NATURE (Vol. 425, 4 September 2003, pp. 27-28). 12/1/03 Dr. Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner, Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry, will present an invited lecture at the 3rd Singapore International Chemical Conference, to be held December 15-17, 2003. Dr. Schweitzer-Stenner also received a three-year, $596,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for the project entitled, "The Use of Vibronic Coupling to Determine the In-Plane and Out-of-Plane Distortions of Metalloporphyrins in Solution and in Proteins". 12/1/03 Dr. Yen Wei, Professor of Chemistry, was an invited panelist at the Chinese National Higher Education Press (HEP) Conference. 11/18/03 Dr. Kevin Owens, Associate Professor of Chemistry, gave an invited lecture entitled "Quantitative MALDI of Synthetic Polymer Blends" at the Mass Spectrometry of Synthetic Polymer Mixtures Workshop held at the National Institute of Standards & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD on November 13, 2003. 11/17/03 Dr. Karl Sohlberg, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, joined the editorial board of the Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience. 11/11/03 Dr. Yen Wei, Professor of Chemistry, delivered two plenary speeches: "Synthesis of Nanocompsite Materials and their Biological Applications" at the 2003 Chinese National Polymer Symposium in Hang Zhou (Oct. 10, 2003), and "Electroactive Oligomers of Controlled Conjugation Length Towards the Molecular and/or Nano-Scaled Electronics" at the 6th Organic Solid State Electronics Conference in Wuhan, China (Oct. 17, 2003). In addition, he gave four invited talks on nanoscience and biotechnology at South China University of Technology in Guangzhou (a.k.a. Canton), the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, Wuhan University of Science and Technology and Central China University of Technology both in Wuhan, China (Oct. 9-22, 2003). He received a Guest Professorship at Wuhan University. He also gave an invited seminar on "Novel Nano-Materials Based on 1-D, 2-D, 3-D and 'Supra 3-D' Assemblies and Related Biochemistry" at Howard University in Washington DC (Nov. 7, 2003).
10/1/03 Dr. Yen Wei, Professor of Chemistry, presented an invited paper entitled, "Wrapping DNA Double Helix with Plastics via Self-Assembly and Photodecomposition of Diazonium Salt and Diazoresin" at the 226th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Symposium on Polymer Chemistry in Nanotechnology, in New York City, September 7-11, 2003. He was also appointed as a member of the International Editorial Board of the Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, which is a premier peer-reviewed bimonthly journal for polymer chemistry and polymeric materials science and is distributed by Springer-Verlag.
8/12/03 Dr. Yen Wei, Professor of Chemistry, presented two papers at the 36th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Princeton University: "Sol-gel synthesis and characterization of silver nanoparticles in D-glucose-templated mesoporous silica materials" co-authored with graduate students Ms. Alpa Patel and Mr. Zhengfei Sun, and "Using resonance Raman spectra to monitor folding state of cytochrome c immobilized in silica matrix with different pore size" with Prof. Jian-Min Yuan of Physics Department, graduate student Mr. Zhengfei Sun and collaborators at Princeton University Prof. T. Spiro, Dr. G. Balakrishnan, Dr. S. Venkatesh, and Dr. N. Steen.
Graduation 2003 Smile, you're on candid camera... pictures of the department graduates from graduation 2003 can be found here.
6/23/03 The faculty and staff of the Chemistry Department would like to congratulate the following students on their graduation:
Bachelor of Science:Annecia Bolvin, Joseph Bennett, Dawn Cohen, Laura Frankfort, Mark Heitzmann, and Lauren May Minor in Chemistry: Renata Luciani and Adam Richards Master of Science:Alexander Adair, Robert Langish, Andrew Mahan, Edward
Marshall, Doctor of Philosophy:Bryan Brook, Shan Cheng, Rose Mulligan, James Murray, Robert Pascoe, Michael Pence and Jun Tian
We wish you all the very best in your future professional careers and personal lives- please keep in touch and let us know what you are up to. 6/3/03
Dr. Yen Wei, Professor of Chemistry, has been
appointed as an Academic Board Member at the National Key Laboratory of Polymer
Physics and Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in China. He was
also an invited panelist at the meeting in New York City (4/17/03) with the
Chinese Academy of Sciences delegation headed by CAS Vice-Present Chun-Li Bai,
discussing the issues related to the science and technology policies in
China. 6/3/03
Dr. Yen Wei, Professor of Chemistry, has published a
book "Electroactive Polymers for Corrosion Control" (ISBN 0841237905; February
2003), co-edited with Drs. Peter Zarras and John Stenger-Smith, both at Naval
Air Warfare Center Weapons in California, published by the American Chemical
Society and distributed by the Oxford University Press. Dr. Wei co-authored 4
chapters in the book, presenting recent advancements in protection of metals
from corrosion/rusting via a novel electroactive oligomer approach developed at
Drexel. Prof. Alan MacDiarmid of University of Pennsylvania, 2000 Nobel Laureate
in Chemistry, wrote the preface. The book represents the frontier research
results on corrosion prevention in the world. It should be noted that
Drexel University holds several patents on Dr. Wei's technology related to the
corrosion prevention. The latest patent was issued on February 11, 2003, US
Patent No. 6,518,394 B2. This is the second book co-edited by Dr. Wei, whose
earlier book is entitled "Semiconducting Polymers: Applications, Properties and
Synthesis", also published by the American Chemical Society-Oxford University
Press (ISBN: 0841236127, August 1999), co-edited with Dr. Bing R. Hsieh of Xerox
Corporation." Outstanding Undergraduate Awards, May 29, 2003 Congratulations to the following chemistry department undergraduate students who have won the awards listed below. The awards will be presented at 2:00pm on May 29, 2003 in the Mandel theatre: Maryanoff Research Prize: Laura
Frankfort Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, May 15, 2003 Congratulations to Gordan T. Reeves, who has just been designated one of the three CoAS Teaching Assistants to win a 2003 T/A Excellence award. These awards are based initially on nominations by the students in the T/A's courses. The Awards ceremony will take place in the University Club (6th floor McAlister Hall) on Monday May 19th at 3:30pm. Drexel University Research Day, April 23, 2003 Congratulations to the following chemistry department poster submissions that won Honorable Mention at the 5th Annual Research Day: Substitutions of the Aniline Trimer: Potential Applications
in Nanoelectronics. College of Arts & Sciences Poster Day, April 15, 2003 Congratulations to Mrs. Melissa Mertzman for a first-prize award in the Graduate Division of the College of Arts & Sciences Poster Day for her poster entitled, "Microemulsion Electrokinetic Chromatography Studies in Enantiomeric Separation Using the Chiral Surfactant Dodecoxycarbonylvaline". Melissa's faculty advisor is Dr. Joe Foley. Departmental Graduate Student
Awards Ms. Houping Yin has been named
the American
Institute of Chemists Post-Baccalureate Awardee for 2003. This selection is
based on the students’ academic record and demonstrated accomplishments in both
research and teaching. Previous awardees in the department were Dr. Michael
Prushan (2001) and Sr. Rose Mulligan (2002). Departmental Undergraduate Student
Awards Mr. Joe Bennett has been named
the American Institute of Chemists Undergraduate Awardee for 2003. Ms. Lauren May has been named the American Chemical Society
Philadelphia Section Chemistry Baccalaureate Awardee for 2003. Each
ACS-accredited college and university within the Philadelphia Section designates
an Awardee from the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering departments. Lauren will
be the guest of the Section at the award ceremony, which will be held in
association with the Section Meeting on Thursday, April 10th at 6 pm to be held
at Rutgers-Camden. Each of these students will also be
honored at the College of Arts & Sciences Honors Day ceremonies on Thursday
May 29th 2003 at 2 pm in the Mandell
Theatre. January 17, 2003 Chemistry Alum wins 2003 ACS Award in Industrial Chemistry. Dr. Bruce Maryanoff (Ph.D. Drexel University 1972, Chemistry Department Alumni Award 1994) was recently named as the 2003 recipient of the prestigious American Chemical Society Award in Industrial Chemistry. Bruce will receive the award at the 225th National Meeting of the ACS in New Orleans on March 25, 2003. The citation on the plaque will read: “For his outstanding contributions to organic and medicinal chemistry, and for leadership in the discovery and development of TOPAMAX topiramate, a pharmaceutical product for the treatment of epilepsy and other CNS disorders.” Dr. Bruce E. Maryanoff, a native Philadelphian, earned a
B.S. degree in chemistry from Drexel University (1969) and continued at Drexel
to earn his Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry (1972) working with Prof. Robert
O. Hutchins. In 1995 he and his wife Cyndie established the Bruce &
Cynthia Maryanoff Endowed Scholarship Prize in the Chemistry Department. The
prize is awarded annually to an outstanding undergraduate chemistry major
performing undergraduate research. After a post-doctoral stint at Princeton University, Dr.
Maryanoff joined McNeil Laboratories, a Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Company
in 1974 and advanced to his present position of Distinguished Research Fellow,
the highest scientific-ladder position in Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical
Research & Development. His drug discovery efforts have focused on
therapeutic agents for the treatment of disorders of the cardiovascular system,
agents for treating disorders of the central nervous system (antidepressants,
antiepileptics, anxiolytics, and antipsychotics), anti-cancer agents,
antidiabetic agents, antiviral agents, antithrombotic and anti-inflammatory
agents. Dr. Maryanoff discovered TOPAMAX® (topiramate), a unique,
sugar sulfamate drug that is marketed worldwide for the treatment of epilepsy.
Additionally, he has pursued drug discovery efforts for a number of drugs
currently in Phase 1, 2 or 3 clinical trials. He has authored nearly 200
scientific publications, many of which appear in top-rank journals, and has
presented over 110 invited lectures at universities and scientific conferences.
He is an inventor of 34 issued US patents ant 23 pending applications. Dr. Maryanoff is
a member of many scientific societies, and has held office in several of them.
He has served on the editorial advisory boards of various organic and medicinal
chemistry journals, edited a monograph series in medicinal chemistry, and served
as a member of the NIH Medicinal Chemistry Study Section. Dr. Maryanoff has received numerous awards and honors: the J&J's prestigious Philip B. Hofmann Research Scientist Award (twice - 1978, 1987); the Johnson Medal for Research and Development (1997), the highest award at J&J, for his contributions to the discovery and development of topiramate; two RWJPRI Discovery Awards, a J&J Excellence in Science Award (1994), a J&J Achievement Award for TOPAMAX® (1996), and an RWJPRI Achievement Award for RWJ-53308 (1999). In 1984, he received the prestigious Philadelphia Section Award of the American Chemical Society (ACS). He has also received the Drexel University Distinguished Chemistry Alumni Award (1994), the Philadelphia Organic Chemists' Club Award (1995) and the Drexel University Distinguished Alumni Award for Service to the Profession (1999). In 2000, he was an ACS National Hero of Chemistry and this coming Spring will receive the 2003 ACS National Award in Industrial Chemistry. Some of this information was extracted from http://jjw.prius.jnj.com/DisplayArticle.cfm?ID=4789. January 9, 2003 The Department of Chemistry has named Dr. Walter J. Stevens as the biennial Chemistry
Distinguished Alumnus for 2002-2003. Dr. Stevens is currently the Director of
the Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division of the U.S.
Department of Energy in Washington, DC. He graduated from Drexel with a B.S. in
Chemistry in 1967, and went on to do his doctoral and postdoctoral work at
Indiana University and Argonne National Laboratory, respectively. He has
published over 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Stevens will be visiting Drexel in the spring to
present a seminar on the science supported by his Division at DOE and to receive
his Distinguished Alumnus award. Formerly at the National Institute for Standards &
Technology, Dr. Stevens joined the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences in
October 2000. Since that time, he has had responsibility for the biophysics and
biochemistry aspects of research included in many of the programs of the
Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division. He has also been
responsible for advanced scientific computing throughout the Division, and he
concurrently serves as the principal point of contact for the Office of Science
for homeland defense and counterterrorism. October 25, 2002 In memory... The department passes along with sadness the news that Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Louis L. Pytlewski suffered a fatal heart attack on Sunday October 20. Funeral services will be held on Monday October 28, 2002 at All-Saints Episcopal Church, 9601 Frankford Ave., Phila. 19114. The Viewing will be at 9:30 AM, the funeral Service at 11 AM. Arrangements are being made by Barnes Funeral Homes (9708 Frankford Ave.: 215-637-1414). October 3, 2002 Congratulations to Dr. Yen Wei on the award of a $1,345,991 five-year duration National Institutes of Health grant (NIH-NIDCR) entitled "Novel Molecular Composite Dental Materials".
August 19, 2002 The MSDS project is now complete! As part of the University's increased attention to safety, Material Safety Data Sheets for all chemicals present in the department's teaching and research labs were required to be within reach of each of the laboratories in the department. You will notice a large number of yellow loose-leaf binders have appeared on each floor that the chemistry department occupies containing these important safety documents. Special thanks go to Ms. Edith Smith, Department Operations Manager, for coordinating the effort, and to the following work-study students who spent a great deal of time and effort to make it happen: Marquiese Pullen, Shaquonda Bibbins-Blake, Elam Kazam, Evan Henderson, and Meghan Landes.
June 8, 2002 The faculty and staff of the Chemistry Department would like to congratulate the following students on their graduation:
Bachelor of Science: Michele J. Bednarek, Lauren G. Beers, Roy K. Bowman, Marisa Jo-Lair Brown, Teresa Head, Jason C. Riggs, Douglas J. Schauer, Karen Schaum, David Skrocki, Robert Tyson, III, Ulyana V. Vyugina, Matthew C. Zagorski Master of Science: Guangji Shi Doctor of Philosophy: Cynthia Chavez-Eng, Hua Dong, Qiuwei Feng, Michael J. Prushan
We wish you all the very best in your future professional careers and personal lives- please keep in touch and let us know what you are up to.
May 20, 2002 As detailed in the IRT Technology Update 3.8, Drexel University is the beneficiary of the donation of a site license for ChemSketch v5.0 software from Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. (ACD, Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, www.acdlabs.com). ChemSketch 5.0 is bundled with ACD/Tautomers, ACD/3D Viewer, ACD/Name (freeware) and the ACD/I-Lab Add-on. This donation is the result of a collaboration between ACD and Dr. Kevin Owens in Drexel’s Chemistry Department. ACD is working to incorporate Dr. Owens’ research groups’ expertise in mass spectral correlation analysis into ACD’s MS Manager software. More information can be found on the ChemSketch information page.
April 2002 April 19, 2002 The Drexel University Chemistry Department announces the establishment of the Dr. Robert O. Hutchins Endowed Chemistry Prize. Dr. Ira M. Taffer '79/PhD'83 and Dr. Robert Zipkin '79 established the Dr. Robert O. Hutchins Endowed Chemistry Prize Fund to honor Bob Hutchins, The George Sassin Professor in the Chemistry Department of the College of Arts & Sciences. He has been a mentor to Ira and Rob- instrumental in their personal and professional successes, especially with their company, BIOMOL Research Labs Inc. The fund shall be used to provide a prize earned in a competition to be determined by the Head of the Chemistry Department. The prize shall be given to a student majoring in Chemistry and actively involved in a research project at Drexel University. Preference will be given to a Junior. In the event that a Junior does not meet the criteria, the award will be presented to a Senior, then Pre-Junior, then Freshman or Sophomore. The Head of the Chemistry Department will select the recipient(s) as recommended by the Chemistry Department Awards Committee.
Dr Robert E. Zipkin, President Dr. Ira M. Taffer, Vice President BIOMOL Research Labs, Inc.
BIOMOL provides the research community with the most comprehensive offering of innovative signal transduction reagents of the highest quality, backed by superior technical support. BIOMOL Research Laboratories, Inc., located in Plymouth Meeting, PA, has been providing the worldwide research community with cutting-edge research reagents since its inception in 1983. After over 15 years of developing, producing and marketing high quality research reagents, the company's portfolio has grown to include over 1400 innovation tools for signal transduction research.
April 12, 2002 Congratulations to Dr. Karl Sohlberg, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, who has been selected as one of eight North America DuPont Young Professors for the 2002-2003 academic year. This prestigious award includes research funding from E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. for a period of three years.
12/01 Professor Joe P. Foley recently presented two invited talks: "Novel Separation Modes and Pseudostationary Phases in Capillary Electrophoresis", to the Department of Chemistry, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, December 4, 2001, and "Surfactant-Based Separation Media in HPLC and Capillary Electrophoresis: Fundamental Advances and Pharmaceutical Applications", to the Central New England Chromatography Council, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, December 4, 2001. 10/01 Dr. Karl Sohlberg (Assistant Professor) is the lead principal investigator on a proposal to the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy program that was awarded a three-year $599,000 grant for research to address "Atomic-Scale Investigations of the Structure and Dynamics of Complex Catalytic Materials". He also received a $93,552 grant from the National Science Foundation for the Project "Toward Efficient Design Tools for Molecular Machines: Theoretical Investigations of Nanosystems". He also delivered an invited talk entitled "Hydrogen Catalytically Important Oxide Materials" at the Eight International Conference on Composites Engineering in Tenerife, Canary Islands.
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