One of the most difficult questions we have to answer these days is "How many faculty are there in the Chemistry Department at Beloit?" Nominally, we have a staff of five, but we always seem to have significantly more people around the 4th floor of Chamberlin Hall these days.
For the past four years, we have had Tom Brauch with us filling in as needed in Chemistry 117 and in a variety of other ways as various of us have gone on leave or assumed administrative responsibilities. Brad DeLeeuw has helped us out significantly this past year as Rama's sabbatical replacement, and Sharon Anthony will continue for her second year as the ChemLinks Post Doc, working on ChemLinks modules and workshops while teaching half-time for us.
For the coming year, with Roc and Laura on sabbatical leave, and Brock continuing with ChemLinks administration and a one-year stint as Associate Dean, we will again have two visiting faculty in addition to our ChemLinks Post Doc. Tom Higgins, a Kalamazoo graduate, is completing his Ph.D. in organometallic chemistry at Northwestern University this summer before joining us in the fall. He has participated in an interesting teaching internship program while a grad student, which gave him some experience at Lake Forest College. Lisa Kroutil comes to us from the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in North Carolina where she has been a post doc doing biochemistry and molecular biology since completing her Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis. Tom and Lisa will both be teaching Chemistry 117 as well as an advanced course in the fall, Tom in organometallic chemistry and Lisa biochemistry.
Having these people join us provides a great advantage as they bring their new perspectives and experiences, as well as their enthusiasm for working with undergraduates, to our program. In return, we have been able to provide them with an unusually supportive and creative environment in which to get significant teaching experience. Recent "graduates" of this program such as Liz Gron (Hendrix College), Nancy Devino (Dickinson College and now the undergraduate education program at the National Research Council), and Paul Czech (Providence College), are excellent examples of this mutually advantageous experience. Although having visiting faculty could pose problems of continuity, our success for them, for us, and for our students probably comes from the way our students and staff readily integrate our visitors into the department. We really appreciate the on-going contributions these visitors make to the richness of our program.
For many, Chamberlin Hall is still the "new" science building, but its completion in 1967 means that it has been serving us well for 30 years and is in need of some attention. We are starting the process of planning for its renovation. The Science Division has adopted an educational mission statement, and departments are now considering a number of educational questions that follow about the kind of teaching and learning we envision for the coming decades. With a planning grant in hand, we will be looking at a number of recently constructed or renovated science facilities and talking with others who have recently gone through this process to help us refine our picture of what we would like to be doing with students in the future and how the space we use will make that possible. We are still several years away from detailed architectural plans for Chamberlin, but the process is started, and we will be giving you periodic updates.
With Bill and Laura on half-time status for the next few years and the continuing enrollment pressure on both organic and biochemistry, we were authorized this year to search for a new tenure-track faculty member to teach in these areas. We are pleased to introduce you to Charles Abrams, who will be joining us in January. Charlie majored in chemistry and biology at Washington University in St. Louis, then completed a masters in organic chemistry at Columbia University. He stayed at Columbia for several years as their organic laboratory coordinator while he also devoted considerable attention to developing computer-based multimedia materials. He is now completing his Ph.D. at McGill University in Montreal, where he is working on organic sulfur compounds as biological probes with Prof. David Harpp, who was Bill Brown's first graduate student at Wesleyan University. Charlie comes to us with an international reputation as the author of "IR Tutor," an interactive computer-based tutorial that is suitable for introducing the principles of infrared spectroscopy to beginning students (we have been using it successfully in Chemistry 117) and also has sufficient depth to be effective for advanced undergrads and graduate students. He is now working on "NMR Tutor" to introduce pulsed FT NMR to advanced undergrads and graduate students. We are delighted that Charlie will be joining us to fill out our permanent staff of "five" (i.e. Abrams, Brown, Lisensky, Ordman, Parmentier, Spencer, Viswanathan).
The more things change, the more they stay the same. What remains constant is our concern for the development of individuals, both students and staff, and the continuing success of our graduates supports the soundness of that judgement.
Chairs
Brock Spencer - Fall 1996
George Lisensky - Spring 1997
Roc Ordman, Chair, Biochemistry Program
Growth, tradition, and distinction are hallmarks of our Biochemistry
Program at Beloit. Perhaps the biggest step forward this year
was our accreditation by the Committee on Professional Training
of the American Chemical Society (ACS) to offer Certification
in Biochemistry, which permits students graduating from Beloit
who elect the proper combination of courses to graduate with a
degree "Certified in Biochemistry by the American Chemical
Society." The last time I checked, only about 50 schools
in the nation were certified to offer this distinction to their
students.
In addition to the support of Professors Laura Parmentier, who received tenure this year in Chemistry, and Marc Roy, who will serve as Chair of Biochemistry while I am on sabbatical next year, this year Chemistry has hired Charlie Abrams who will be involved in the Biochemistry Program and periodically be teaching biochemistry. Among other accomplishments, Charlie is widely known for development of his IR Tutor and NMR Tutor software.
Those who have struggled with our autoclave and searched through the building for pipettors will appreciate how happy we are to be getting a new $29,500 autoclave, and ten new sets of pipettors, thanks to support from the Kresge Fund. With these additions, the Program is in the delightful situation of having all the major pieces of equipment we need. With the growing Biochemistry Fund, we are also able to begin to get more of the smaller items like gel trays so that working in the laboratory can be as pleasant as most of you have experienced after Beloit.
But the big news in Biochemistry is always the people - alumni
and students. So many achievements come to mind. Kelley Bradley
('96) is in graduate school at Rice University, with a mentor
who won the Nobel Prize this year! Kristie Mather ('97) continues
a three year tradition of biochemistry majors accepted to Harvard
for graduate study (although she's chosen to attend UC-Berkeley
with both NSF and Howard Hughes graduate fellowships to choose
from), following Mark Brockman ('95) and Kevin Welch ('96). Chris
Maeda ('97) is headed to the Medical College of Wisconsin for
medical school where he'll be joining Michael Beins ('96). And
the long-standing connections with Rush University will be continued
by Greg Ehrendreich ('97) in the Biochemistry Department joining
Kay Dennis ('93) and Brian Pfister ('94). Tanya Danner ('97) will
also be entering Rush Medical School. Our students, too, are establishing
traditions by passing on distinguished internship positions. For
instance, Norad Morgan ('98) will be replacing Kai Tan ('97) working
this summer in Boston with Dr. Balz Frei, perhaps the most distinguished
researcher in the field of antioxidants. As I attended this year's
Honors Day, when the College recognizes the distinguished achievements
of our students, or read the Symposium Day Program where Beloit
students present their research, I was full of pride for the biochemistry
students being recognized for their achievements. Thank you for
the support, opportunities, and tradition from you, our alumni,
which continually provide our present students with an outstanding
education and future.
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We are now starting the third year of the ChemLinks project, a 5-year $2.7 million National Science Foundation "Systemic Change Initiative in Chemistry," one of five such initiatives around the country (the others being centered at Madison, Berkeley, UCLA, and CCNY). In collaboration with the Modular Chemistry Consortium (MC2) of California schools, our coalition of about 20 two-year and four-year colleges and universities is developing and testing 3-to-5-week modules that can be used to teach the first two years of the undergraduate chemistry curriculum. Each module starts with a question of interest to students, and uses active and collaborative approaches in the classroom and laboratory so that students can experience how science is actually done.
Between ChemLinks and MC2, we are developing approximately 40 modules during the first three years of the grant, with the final two years devoted to testing and disseminating them widely. We have chosen John Wiley and Sons to publish our materials and will be starting with a "draft edition" of about a dozen modules for testing by the fall of 1998, with additional modules following as ready, and a formal "first edition" to be released in the year 2000.
In addition to having the project centered at Beloit College, with Sharon Anthony as a teaching post-doc and Heather Mernitz (a 1996 Kalamazoo College chemistry graduate) as project assistant, we have been heavily involved in developing and testing these modules. The modules under development or scheduled for development here are:
What should we do about global warming?
Sharon Anthony and Tom Brauch
You are what you eat, but what are you eating?
Sandra Laursen (Kalamazoo College) and Heather Mernitz
Why does the ozone hole form in the Antarctic spring?
Tricia Ferrett (Carleton College) and Sharon Anthony
What happens to acid rain?
George Lisensky, and Karen Harpp (Lawrence University)
Vitamin C (How much should I take?)
Jack Bell (Vista Community College) and Roc Ordman
Cholesterol
Laura Parmentier and Roseann Sachs (Colorado College)
Should you weatherstrip your home?
Tom Brauch and George Lisensky
How can you get blue light out of a solid?
George Lisensky, Arthur Ellis (UW-Madison), Herb Beall (Worcester
Polytechnic)
"Weatherstripping" was used several times in Chemistry 117 before being converted into a module dealing with indoor air pollution and radon. This past spring semester as an experiment, we tried an entirely modular version of Chemistry 117 with Sharon Anthony, Roc Ordman, and Brock Spencer team-preparing the classes and each taking one section which meets for three 2-hour class/lab sessions per week. In addition to Sharon's "Global Warming" and Roc's "Vitamin C" modules, we tried two modules being developed at Berkeley. One used the sense of smell to motivate learning about molecular structure and functional groups, while the other involved the class in the process of designing an automobile airbag system. Jennifer Loeser, a Berkeley post-doc who is a co-author on the "Airbags" module, joined us for the 3-week test of the module. You may have seen this module featured in a March 17th Chemical & Engineering News article on the five "systemic change" initiatives. During the spring, George Lisensky also class-tested his "Acid Rain" module in Chemistry 220, our Chemical Equilibrium course. Shortly before the end of the spring semester, a video crew came to campus to see the "Global Warming" module in action. It will be featured, as an example of the ChemLinks/MC2 modular approach, as part of an American Chemical Society satellite network broadcast from Washington, D.C., on National Chemistry Day (Mole Day!), on November 3rd.
This April, seven of us from Beloit (including Charlie Abrams, who will be joining us in January) participated in a joint ChemLinks/MC2 meeting at Berkeley. This annual meeting, which focuses on issues of student learning and how best to approach it through our modules, has grown in three years from about 55 to 105 participants. It was followed by a three-day symposium, "Using Real-World Questions and Active Learning to Teach Students How Science is Actually Done," at the American Chemical Society's National Meeting in San Francisco. The symposium, jointly sponsored by our two groups with many of the presentations by our module authors and project evaluator, drew considerable interest.
Thus, it is clear that Beloit is having a continuing impact on chemical education nationally, and that our program, in turn, is being influenced by our participation in this national movement. Just as chemistry is an experimental science, so is teaching chemistry. We are trying experiments to find out what works best for our students, and they are actively involved in the experiments as well.
Sharon Anthony
ChemLinks Postdoctoral Fellow
A.B. Bowdoin College
Ph. D. University of Colorado
At Beloit for 1996-98
My first year at Beloit College has been very exciting for me. As the ChemLinks postdoc, I taught half time and did ChemLinks 'stuff' half time. In the fall, Tom, Brock and I taught Chem. 117 in the Beloit 's 'traditional' lab-based manner. I was very excited to try this approach to teaching general chemistry, as it is quite unique to Beloit. I feel very lucky to have had Tom and Brock as guides in this endeavor--we had tons of fun together and I learned a lot. In the spring Brock, Roc, and I changed Chem. 117 completely, using 4 modules developed by ChemLinks and the Modular Chemistry Consortium. My creative abilities were definitely put to use this semester! We started with a module Tom and I developed entitled "What Should We do about Global Warming?" I'm quite happy with how this module was received in my class, though I will be spending quite a bit of time editing it this summer. After global warming, we moved to the topic of smells, trying to understand how chemical structure affects our sense of smell. Our next module challenge was to learn how to design an effective airbag. Students from all three of our sections decided that airbags should be inflated by gas cylinders filled with nitrogen rather than the current chemical system. Pretty impressive for a general chemistry class! We finished off the semester by using Roc's vitamin C module to ask ourselves how much vitamin C we should ingest each day. Overall, it was a fun and exhausting semester during which I definitely learned as much about teaching chemistry as my students did about learning chemistry! I had a very good year and am looking forward to teaching physical chemistry in the fall.
Tom Brauch
Visiting Instructor
B.S. Colorado State University
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
At Beloit since 1993
This has been a hectic and exciting year for Tom, who leaves Beloit this summer to return to Colorado. Tom started his academic career in Colorado, came to Wisconsin to finish his Ph.D. (which he has successfully defended!), spent four years at Beloit while his wife, Suzette, finished her M.D. in Madison, and now completes the circle by moving to Denver, where Suzette will do her residency. While at Beloit, Tom has taught lots of General Chemistry as well as Inorganic, Organic, Chemical Equilibrium, Scientific Literature, Seminar and Thesis. He has also been involved in developing modules for ChemLinks, in particular the Weatherstripping module with George and the Global Warming module with Sharon. He had a busy year with teaching, thesis writing, Army Reserves, restoring his 150 year old house and being an active father for three year old Camille. Please contact Tom (via email at braucht@beloit.edu) if you know of any teaching jobs in the Denver area!
William H. Brown
Professor
B.A. St. Lawrence University
M.A. Harvard University
Ph.D. Columbia University
At Beloit since 1964
Academic 96-97 was a year of transition for me, to what is called "phased retirement." A new category at Beloit as far as I can tell. What it means for me is reduction to half-time teaching status and no committees. I enjoy teaching and working with students too much to consider retirement at this point, but I have wanted some reduction in status in order to devote approximately equal times to teaching and writing.
Over the fall and spring terms I taught one section of Organic I & II. Stimulating, as usual. And, in the spring term, for the first time in more years than I would like to remember, I was able to offer Advanced Organic Chemistry. What a wonderful experience to work at this level with four of our best chemistry majors. As a the focus of the course, I chose a series of target molecules, each with some interesting synthetic challenges, among them warburganal, insect juvenile hormone, taxol, compactin, and estrone. For each target molecule, I assigned each student a different literature synthesis and required them to give a blackboard discussion of its chemistry. We then compared the various synthetic strategies for what we chose to call "elegance," loosely defined as control of stereochemistry, brevity, originality, etc. How exciting to see students mature to the point where I can sit back in the class and have them take over the discussion, go to the board, and develop their ideas. Suffice it to say, now that I am in phased retirement, I hope to teach Advanced Organic on a regular basis.
Writing this year has also been exciting. It began with the publication of Introduction to Organic Chemistry (Saunders College Publishing) in July '96. I had published four previous editions of this title under the Willard/Grant and then Brooks/Cole imprints. Now that I have landed with Saunders, they have published this completely revised and updated work as a first edition with them. The Study Guide for this text has been prepared by Brent and Shiela Iverson, University of Texas, Austin. Then in May '96, even before Introduction to Organic chemistry was published, I began work on a second edition of Organic Chemistry. In preparation for this revision, we enlisted Christopher Foote, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, as a Consulting Editor. Chris brings to this project over 25 years of teaching experience, a research record of over 200 publications, and a keen sense for pedagogy. Given my half-time teaching status and consultations with Chris, the revision is now completed and scheduled for publication July 1997. The Study Guide for this book, too, is being prepared by Brent and Sheila.
Where from here? No major writing projects for the next year or two. I plan to use the time to "replenish the seed corn."
Bradley J. DeLeeuw
Visiting Assistant Professor
B.A. University of Minnesota-Morris
Ph.D. University of Georgia
At Beloit for 1996-97
My first year of teaching has been very busy and challenging. In the Fall, I taught Chem 245 (Quantum Chemistry) to a small but diverse group of students, including one physics major. I was very pleased by the wide range of interests and backgrounds among students in the class. Interestingly, Sharon Anthony may have several physics students in Chem 245 next fall. Also during the Fall, I used the new IBM RS/6000 UNIX workstation to conduct some research using the Spartan quantum chemistry software package. My work focused on fullerenes ("buckyballs") and fullerene fragments ("buckybowls"). I also made use of MacSpartan, a limited version of Spartan for the Power Macintosh. The Chemistry Department recently purchased a Gateway2000 Pentium PC, so I spent time installing and learning to use the Gaussian94W software package. The Chemistry Department here at Beloit now has an impressive array of computational tools for use in the classroom and for student and faculty research. During the summer months, I'll be working with Bill Brown and Sharon Anthony to help them find ways to make use of these programs in their classes next year. In the Spring, I taught Chem 240 (Thermodynamics and Kinetics) and teamed up with Darrah Chavey to teach CS 240 (Scientific Computing).
Kathy Greene
Assistant Professor
B.Sc. University of Lethbridge
M.A., Ph.D University of Wisconsin-Madison
At Beloit since 1987
Kathy has spent the year teaching in the Education Department's newly revised curriculum and continuing to direct the seven-year-old Girls and Women in Science Project. She has also recently become the chair of the Science for Elementary Teaching Program. In June, Kathy is visited two student teachers in Adelaide, Australia, and in July and August, she is working on publishing her dissertation research on the women science students at Beloit College.
George Lisensky
Professor and Chair
B.A. Earlham College
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology
At Beloit since 1980
George was the faculty director of the Beloit overseas seminar at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, in the fall, taking his entire family along with 13 Beloit students. All three of George's daughters (Laura, age 17, Diana, age 14, and Rachel, age 3) attended the Glasgow city schools. Beloit students took two courses with extensive field trips, Scottish Heritage (literature, history, and archaeology) and a Science and Environment course (water quality, nuclear power, agricultural issues, and land reclamation), as well as two more courses from the regular Glasgow University offerings. The group brought a digital camera on their class field trips and then posted pictures on the web of places they visited. The original purpose of the site was to keep in touch with folks back home, but it is also a nice record of some interesting places in Scotland. You can still check out where they visited at https://www.beloit.edu/chemistry/Scotland
In the spring, George taught Chemical Equilibrium and Instrumental Analysis. Chemical Equilibrium was taught rather differently this year, with an increased emphasis on MathCad and a decreased emphasis on approximation methods. The present course continues to focus on K, charge, and mass equations (George asks whether all former students remember those equations) as well as interpretation of results. The effects of acid rain on soils as studied by the class is being prepared as a ChemLinks module.
George has continued to present papers and workshops on a variety of topics including solid-state chemistry, environmental chemistry, and chemical education. June: a half-day workshop on "Semiconductors and Metals" at the NSF Solid State Chemistry Program for Undergraduates and College Faculty at SUNY Binghamton, a two week chemistry class for sixth and seventh graders at UW-Rock County, and a presentation on the "Workshop Approach in Teaching General Chemistry" for BioQUEST at Beloit. July: Gordon Conference on "Innovations in the Teaching of College Chemistry," at Plymouth, NH, as a discussion leader for the session "New Perspectives on Teaching Analytical Chemistry" and presentation of a poster on the Solid-State Resources CD. January: Beloit College faculty forum, "You Do Teach Atoms, Don't You?" April: presentations on "Solid-state resources and the language of chemistry" and "What happens to acid rain? An active-learning topical module for analytical chemistry" at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Francisco. The former is related to the Materials Science project and the latter to the ChemLinks project. George also chaired several sessions. May: workshop on "Integrating Materials Science into the Curriculum" at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Publications
· G. C. Lisensky, M. N. Patel, and M. L. Reich, "Experiments with Glow-in-the-Dark Toys: Kinetics of Doped ZnS Phosphorescence," J. Chem. Ed., 73, 1048-1052 (1996).
· E. J. Winder, G. C. Lisensky, and A. B. Ellis, "Thermoelectric Devices: Solid-State Refrigerators and Electrical Generators in the Classroom," J. Chem. Ed., 73, 940-946 (1996).
· J. W. Moore, J. J. Jacobsen, K. H. Jetzer, G. Gilbert, F. Mattes, D. Phillips, G. Lisensky, and G. Zweerink, "ChemDemos II Videodisc," Journal of Chemical Education Software. Reviewed in J. Chem. Ed., 73, 874-875 (1996) .
· G. C. Lisensky and A. B. Ellis, "Solid-State Resources CD-ROM," Journal of Chemical Education Software. Reviewed in J. Chem. Ed., 72, 918 (1995) and 73, 667-668 (1996) . Both Macintosh and Windows version are now available.
Alfred "Roc" Bram Ordman
Professor, Chair of Biochemistry Program
B.A. Carleton College
Ph. D. Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
At Beloit since 1977
This has been the busiest year of my life - working 4 am until exhaustion seven days a week - but now that I am about to start a sabbatical, it's all been worth it. Teaching microbiology and biochemistry in the fall and molecular biology and introductory chemistry in the spring, I also developed a new chemistry module "Vitamin C: How Much Should A Person Take?," supported generously by our ChemLinks Coalition. I presented a talk at the American Chemical Society meeting in April in San Francisco with co-presenter Jack Bell from Vista College in Berkeley. I had two papers published in J. Chem. Ed. describing courses here:
"A Biotech Lab Project for Recombinant DNA Protein Expression in Bacteria", M. Brockman, M. Campbell, and A. B. Ordman, J. Chem. Ed. 73(6):542-3 (June, 1996)
"Scientific Literature and Literacy, A Course of Practical Skills for Undergraduate Science Majors", A. B. Ordman, J. Chem. Ed. 73:753 (August,1996)
This year I also supervised 11 students in my nutrition research, including Tanya Danner '97 as a McNair Scholar last summer. My research, with assistance from many students, has resulted in Patent Number 5,558,870. "Method for Maintaining a Continuously-Saturated Level of Ascorbic Acid in a Patient's Body" issued Sept. 24, 1996, which was featured in the New York Times Patent Column in October. Tanya and Amy Cone, '98, accompanied me to the American Aging Association conference in San Francisco last October to present a poster on our determination of a sensible dosage of calcium supplementation to reduce the risk of osteoporosis. That work has appeared in "Urinary Excretion of Calcium in Students and Mature Women Taking Supplements," A. Cone, T. Danner, and A. B. Ordman, AGE 19(4): 164 (1996), and a patent is pending on those dosages. Most recently, we have finished a study of vitamin C dosage for people who smoke, and this summer I will be analyzing the data to submit for publication with Meredith Matz '98, Luke Schwantes '98, and Suzanne Thorp '99.
Personal Health Corporation celebrated its first anniversary this April. As Chief Scientific Officer, Chairman of the Board, and principal stockholder, I have travelled frequently to New York getting our products ready for sales in the near future. The $5,000 shares have been selling briskly, and we have contracts with several manufacturers for making the supplements, packaging, and distributing them, along with a host of law firms to make sure everything is done properly. The network of Beloit alumni has been instrumental in our progress, from former Beloit Chemistry Professor Mike Flood at Keller and Heckman who has been helping with Food and Drug law, to alumna Linda Clifford at Lafollette/Sinykin who has been involved in trademark work, to Mike Mellea in investment banking at New York, and to Eric Brown '89, Phil Christian '81, R. K. Boutwell '39, and Trudy Hartmann '89 who are some of the members of the Medical Advisory Board of the Corporation. I am also very excited about arranging and sponsoring, through the American Aging Association, a Consensus Conference of top nutritional experts throughout the nation who will be developing a public policy statement on optimum intake of antioxidants.
A highlight of the year has been the graduation of my daughter, Katrin, from Beloit College this May. I now know how proud your parents were when you graduated from Beloit. She received the Willard Wirtz Prize for Volunteerism, a delightful and well-deserved honor, especially precious because Mr. Wirtz was Secretary of Labor under John F. Kennedy when my father was General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, so the two were friends.
Those of you who babysat for Max will be pleased to hear he is making excellent progress, and Majka, Gretel, and Carly have completed their freshman years at Haverford, Mt. Holyoke, and Northwestern. July 1st, Noah, Max, Eliza and I are off to Middletown, CA, in the mountains north of the Napa Valley, where I will spend my sabbatical studying nutrition at UC-Berkeley where Drs. Bruce Ames, Gladys Block, and Lester Packer are doing outstanding research on how we can use good nutrition to reduce the risk of age-associated disease.
Laura E. Parmentier
Associate Professor
B.S. Northland College
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison
At Beloit since 1991
This has been a year of milestones for me. My son, William Thomas Blain, was born on 24 December, 1996, and I was on parental leave for spring semester to care for newborn Willie and sister Maddy (3 1/2). During that time, I was also granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor, honors I celebrated by staying home with my children.
In the fall term I taught Organic I, a course that I really enjoy. Like our introductory Chem 117, I am striving to make the Organic course more hands-on, group oriented and laboratory based.
I have been involved in a number of professional endeavors this past year. This spring I submitted a paper, co-authored by Jennifer Smith Kristensen ('93), entitled "Studies on the Urea Cycle Enzyme Ornithine Transcarbamylase Using Heavy Atom Isotope Effects" to Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, an international biochemistry journal. I am staying active in chemical education by participating in the ChemLinks Coalition (Willie has been active, too - he came along to the April meeting in Berkeley!). I am beginning work, with Roseann Sachs at Colorado College, on an organic module on cholesterol. I am also currently finishing up revisions on a paper that George, Brock,and I submitted to The Journal of Chemical Education that describes our discovery approach to introducing NMR spectroscopy into the first year curriculum. Finally, the sociological research project on academic women in the sciences combining careers and motherhood that I began two summers ago is still going strong. I travelled to Whitman College in September to present our findings, and the talk was very well received. Co-authors on this paper are Kim White and Kris Zimmermann, both class of '96. My sabbatical project for the fall of '97 is to finish up data analysis and get the final copy of this paper ready for publication.
I am once again an editor of the Newsletter this year (this has really been a group effort with George and Brock - we try to model group problem solving behavior!), so please let me know what you think. Photos were well received last year, so we're trying them again. Keep in touch!
Brock Spencer
Kohnstamm Professor of Chemistry
B.A. Carleton College
Ph. D. Univ. California-Berkeley
At Beloit since 1965
Brock continue to split his time between teaching and being Project Director for the ChemLinks Coalition. This spring, he combined the two activities by working with Sharon Anthony and Roc Ordman to test four modules from ChemLinks and the Modular Chemistry Consortium in Chemistry 117. As part of his ChemLinks activities, he visited Colorado College, Carleton College, Oakton Community College, New Mexico State University, University of California - Berkeley, University of Wisconsin - Madison, and the University of Puerto Rico, met with several publishers in New York, and was an invited speaker at the American Chemical Society's US-Taiwan Symposium on Chemical Education at the University of California - San Diego. He serves as a member of the Project Kaleidoscope National Issues Task Force and the board of the Wisconsin Academy's Center for the Advancement of Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education. On campus, he has been a member of the Long Range Planning Committee and the committee that is starting the process of planning the renovation of Chamberlin Hall. For the coming year, he will serve as Associate Dean of the College.
Rama Viswanathan
Professor
B.S. Bombay University
M.S. Indian Inst. of Technology
Ph.D. University of Oregon
At Beloit since 1983
I was on sabbatical leave for this past academic year. It has a very hectic and interesting time for me professionally. I spent most of Fall semester at Innovationszentrum Itzehoe, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, working with Dr. Ingo Hussla (a former colleague during my post-doctoral years at Northwestern University) on a project to investigate the possibility of fabricating photovoltaics using polyynes (long chains of carbon with alternate single and triple bonds)! What we found was that the polyyne chemistry was rather difficult to start-up experimentally, given the sensitive (euphemism used in the literature) nature of such chains. In the process, I got to meet some authorities in the field, including Dr. Uwe Buns of the Max Planck Institute of Polymer Science in Mainz. I also learned about the (different) culture of science in Europe first-hand, including a visit to European Commission headquarters for their funding agencies, located in Brussels. [Incidentally, Jesko Hussla '93 works for the Commission and says hello to all Beloiters!] I investigated possibilities for safer synthetic routes for preparing the polyynes when I returned to Beloit in the Spring, meanwhile working with Bill Brown and some of his students in Advanced Organic Class on the safe, published (J. Chem. Ed.) syntheses of simple substituted diacetylenes. However, after a substantial long-distance discussion (via email) with a pioneer in the field (Dr. D.R.M. Walton at Univ. of Sussex), I came to the conclusion that the project was too ambitious for me to handle experimentally at Beloit. I then started working on the other half of my sabbatical proposal, namely to write software for Personal Digital Assistants (especially the Apple Newtons) to interface instruments to them, thus creating totally self-contained "electronic" laboratory note-books for the acquisition, recording, and annotation of data. This has some obvious and interesting applications in both teaching and research laboratories. I am glad to report substantial progress, with a completed general purpose program developed for acquiring data from a digital voltmeter using a variety of Newtons, as well as a specialized program (designed in consultation and collaboration with Dan Shea of the Anthropology Department) that acquires data from an electronic total station (transit/theodolite) interfaced to a Newton to create a hand-held recording survey station.
The weekend of April 4-5, 1997 saw the seventh annual Girls and Women in Science Conference, organized by Kathy Greene. This unique Beloit College program, supported by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, brings 40 area sixth-grade girls and their teachers and parents to Beloit where they interact with Beloit College faculty and students. The Beloit College students who plan and organize the annual Conference are known as the Women of Chamberlin because most of them are women science students. This year the theme of the Conference was "Modeling Our World," a theme represented in program materials, science investigation stations, and souvenir shirts for both college students and sixth-graders. As usual, the Chemistry Department faculty, staff, and students were active and enthusiastic participants. Ashley Eversole '95 and Carrie Tuit '96 returned to participate in the alumnae panel, and Sharon Anthony, George Lisensky, Heather Mernitz, and Brock Spencer represented faculty and staff.
In addition to our student-led seminar series, this year the
Chemistry Department hosted Dr. Joe Verdi '83, now a research
professor at the Amgen Institute in Toronto, who presented a seminar
on his research in neuronal differentiation and molecular genetics
Professor R. K. Boutwell '39 of the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer
Research, returned for a week's visit as Distinguished Scholar
in Residence, presenting classes and public lectures ranging from
Ethics to the War on Cancer. Megan Reich '95 returned to campus
this spring to give a seminar on tests for the sense of smell,
which she took on the road for Johnson Wax this past year.
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FALL
| 117 | General Chemistry | 67 |
| 230 | Organic Chemistry I | 54 |
| 245 | Quantum Chemistry | 4 |
| 250 | Inorganic Chemistry | 5 |
| 300 | Biochemistry | 26 |
| 380 | Senior Seminar | 9 |
| 385 | Senior Thesis | 1 |
| 390 | Special Projects | 3 |
| Total | 167 |
| 117 | General Chemistry | 69 |
| 220 | Chemical Equilibrium | 31 |
| 235 | Organic Chemistry II | 35 |
| 240 | Thermodynamics and Kinetics | 12 |
| 275 | Biotechnology and Molecular Biology | 15 |
| 280 | Scientific Literature | 23 |
| 360 | Instrumental Methods of Analysis | 3 |
| 375 | Advanced Topics | 4 |
| 380 | Senior Seminar | 7 |
| 385 | Senior Thesis | 5 |
| Total | 181 |
Departmental Awards
JOHN H. NAIR AWARD
honors an alumnus (Class of 1915) and provides membership in the
American Chemical Society for one or more seniors who plan careers
in chemistry.
Kelly Knudson '97
WILLIAM J. TRAUTMAN AWARD in PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
(Professor at Beloit 1921-1947) given to a senior doing outstanding
work in physical chemistry.
Lay Yeap '98
EDWARD C. FULLER AWARD in CHEMICAL EDUCATION
was established by the majors of the Class of 1982 in honor of
Professor Fuller and is given to a junior or senior who has done
outstanding work as a teaching assistant.
Nate Allen '97
MERCK INDEX AWARD
is given to an outstanding senior and consists of a copy of the
Merck Index from the publisher.
Tanya Danner '97
CRC PRESS FRESHMAN CHEMISTRY AWARD
recognizes outstanding work by a first-year student and consists
of a copy of the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics from its publisher,
the CRC Press.
Siddarth Alexander '00
Courtney Maeda '00
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN ORGANIC
CHEMISTRY
sponsored by the Division of Polymer Chemistry recognizes outstanding
work in introductory organic chemistry course by providing a subscription
to Organic Chemistry and a video tape about polymers.
Suzanne Thorpe '99
EDWARD STEVENS RESEARCH AWARD
recognizes significant research progress. This award is given
in memory of Edward Stevens '78 by his classmates.
Tanya Danner '97
Kristie Mather '97
CONWELL-HUFFER PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS
Lay Yeap '98
JACKSON J. BUSHNELL PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS
Siddharth Alexander '00
BANUCCI AWARD IN MUSIC
Chris Maeda '97
PAT DAWSON AWARD for outstanding athletic and academic achievement
Bart Gottschalk '97
FIELD EXPERIENCE FELLOWSHIP
Yutan Getzler '98
1997 BEST EVENT AWARD - Student Health Fair
Angela Moten '98
VICTOR E. FERRALL MEDICAL SCHOLARSHIP
Chris Maeda '97
Tanya Danner '97
Honors at Graduation
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
Bart Gottschalk
MAGNA CUM LAUDE
Kelly Knudson
Christopher Maeda
Kristie Mather
CUM LAUDE
Nate Allen
Greg Ehrendreich
Shannon Fountain
Sarah Renish
Kai Tan
DEPARTMENTAL HONORS
Nate Allen - Chemistry
Gregory Ehrendreich - Biochemistry
Shannon Fountain - Biochemistry
David Gan - Biochemistry
Kelly Knudson - Chemistry
Christopher Maeda - Biochemistry
Kristie Mather - Biochemistry
Sarah Renish - Molecular Biology
Kai Tan - Biochemistry
Honor Societies
PHI BETA KAPPA
Bart Gottschalk
Kelly Knudson
Chris Maeda (elected spring '96)
Kristie Mather (elected spring '96)
MORTAR BOARD
Kristie Mather
PSI CHI
David Gan
This year our students again had great opportunities to gain professional
experience by presenting their research at various programs and
publishing their papers in the school magazine "The Beloit
Biologist". Their topics give an indication of the outstanding
research performed by our undergraduates. Following are the papers
printed and presentations given:
The Beloit Biologist, Volume 16, 1997
Caroline J. Clothier, "Coevolution of Plants and Insects
with Botanical Pesticide Use," (work done at Beloit College).
Tanya S. Danner, "Urinary Excretion of Calcium in Women Over Forty Years of Age," (work done at Beloit College).
Gregory P. Ehrendreich and Jurgen Mollenhauer, "Fluorescent Methods for the Study of Collagen and Collagen Peptides in Chondrocyte Cell Culture," (work done at Rush University).
Shannon Fountain, "Compost as a Biocontrol Against Damping-Off," (work done at Beloit College).
David Gan, "Examining the Role of Cell Adhesion in FAS-induced Cell Death in Human Keratinocytes," (work done at Beloit College).
Bartram R. Gottschalk, "Regenerating Transected Central Nervous System Pathways Using Schwann Cell Transplants," (work done at Beloit College).
Chris Maeda, Arun Gosain, Liansheng Song, Hani S. Matloub, and Christian Caballero, "The Role of Growth Factors (TGF-b and FGF) During the Reossification of Calvarial Defects," (work done at the Medical College of Wisconsin).
Kristie A. Mather, Carrie Grimsley, and Carol Ober, "The Molecular Evolution of HLA-H," (work done at the University of Chicago).
Amy O'Neill, "Prader Willi Syndrome and Chromosome 15: Methods of Inheritance," (work done at Beloit College).
Sarah Renish and James M. Musser, "Allelic Variation in the Streptococcus pyogenes Cysteine Protease Structural Gene," (work done at the Baylor College of Medicine).
Kai Tan, Alya Dabbagh, and Balz Frei, "Mechanisms of Iron-Mediated Oxidation of Human Low Density Lipoprotein," (work done at the Boston University School of Medicine).
Gregg R. Ward, "Retroviral-Mediated Gene Therapy of Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency," (work done at Beloit College).
Beloit College 21st Annual Student Symposium, 10 April 1997
Caroline Clothier - Biochemistry '97
The Effects of Botanical Pesticide Use in Agriculture on Plant
Source (work done at Beloit College)
Tanya Danner - Biochemistry '97
Urinary Excretion of Calcium in Women Over Forth (work done at
Beloit College)
[Also presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the American Aging
Association, October, 1996, in San Francisco]
Gregory Ehrendreich - Biochemistry '97
Fluorescent Methods for the Study of Collagen and Collagen Peptides
in Chondrocyte Cell Culture (work done at Rush University)
David Gan - Biochemistry '97
The Role of Cell Adhesion in FAS-induced Cell Death in Human Keratinocytes
(work done at Beloit College)
Kelly Johanson - Biochemistry '98 and Laura Sasse - Biochemistry
'98
Rate of Excretion of Calcium in Urine of College Students: Determining
a Practical Supplemental Dosage (work done at Beloit College)
Chris Maeda - Biochemistry '98
The Role of Growth Factors in the Regeneration of Craniofacial
Bone (work done at the Medical College of Wisconsin)
Kristie Mather - Biochemistry '97
The Molecular Evolution of HLA-H (work done at the University
of Chicago)
[Also presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research
at the University of Texas - Austin, April 1997, and the Pew Midstates
Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Chicago, November
1996]
Sarah Renish - Chemistry '97
Allelic Variation in the Streptococcus pyogenes Cysteine Protease
Structural Gene (work done at the Baylor College of Medicine)
Chemical Properties of Natural Dyes (work done at Beloit College)
Kai Tan - Biochemistry '97
Mechanisms of Iron-mediated Oxidation of Human Low-density Lipo
Protein (work done at the Boston University School of Medicine)
Sarah Beirise ('98) is doing research on the physiology of hypertension
with Prof. Julian Lombard at the Medical College of Wisconsin
this summer.
Yutan Getzler ('98) is working with Prof. Judith Klinman in the chemistry department of the University of California at Berkeley for the summer with the assistance of a Field Experience Fellowship.
Sarah James ('99) is working this summer with Dr. Joe Macedonia and Dr. John Phillips at Indiana University doing histologies, pigment chromotography, and behavioral studies on the dewlap color of Anolis Lizard from the Grand Caymen Island. She will also be studying the mating color change in male stickleback fish and the effects red wavelengths of light has on it.
Danijela Lucic ('98) is doing an internship at Rush University, Department of Biochemistry, this summer.
Norad Morgan ('98) is working on the oxidation of LDL lipoproteins with Dr. Balz Frei this summer at the Whitaker Cardiovascular Center at Boston University School of Medicine, following Kai Tan ('97) who worked there last summer.
Jeaninne Pennington ('98) is working with Drs. James Smith and Olivia Peria-Smith at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston studing aging in cultured human fibroblasts, following in the footsteps of a number of other Beloiters who have participated in Baylor's Summer Medical and Research Training program.
Mary Salsbury ('99) is doing research on osteoporosis with Dr. David Burr at Indiana University, Purdue University of Indianapolis for the summer.
Ian Schmitz ('98) plans to do an internship at Rush University this summer.
Steven Schmoldt ('99) is studying Japanese at Beloit's Center for Language Studies, as well as serving on active duty with the Wisconsin Air National Gaurd in the Program Management section of the Communications Squadron.
Laura Tarwater ('98) spent the spring semester at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Lakmini Weerakoon ('98) was a participant in the Beloit seminar at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, which George Lisensky led.
Melanie Whalen ('98) is working as a summer technician at G.E.
Plastics, Ottawa, IL, in the resin department.
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Nate Allen - Milwaukee, WI. Chemistry with Departmental Honors and a self-designed minor in Color, Form and Metal Patina. Cum Laude. Nate has done research in organic chemistry at the University of California - Berkeley with Prof. Andrew Streitweiser and at Argonne National Laboratory. He has been a Student Academic Senator and Chemistry Department representative to the Science Division, as well as a teaching assistant for organic chemistry and chemical equilibrium. Next fall he will start graduate school in organic chemistry at the University of California - Irvine.
Caroline Clothier - Clinton, WI. Biochemistry and a minor in Environmental Studies. Carrie spent last summer doing research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in plasma-engineering. She designed and implemented a test that determined the optimal nitrogen plasma dose to produce corrosion resistance in both bearing steel and aluminum alloy. Her freshman year she did research with Marc Roy on estrus termination in guinea pigs, supported by a Howard Hughes grant. Results from both research experiences were presented at the Pew Consortium Student Research Symposium at Washington University in St. Louis. She also spent a summer studying in Australia. At Beloit she played softball for one year, participated in Community Senate and Folk-N-Blues, tutored, volunteered at Merrill school and developed nutritional meetings for the local Girl Scouts. The next two years she will spend doing biochemical research. Eventually she plans to become a physician.
Tanya Danner- Chicago, IL Biochemistry. Tanya spent last summer doing research with Roc Ordman in the McNair Scholars Research Program looking at urinary excretion of calcium in women over 40, and then at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison in the Kinesiology Dept. studying the influence of exercise training on insulin signaling proteins. Since the summer of her senior year of high school, she has participated in numerous biomedical research experiences across the nation. This summer she will be doing an internship in the ENT Department at the University of Chicago Medical School. At Beloit, Tanya played 1 year of varsity volleyball and 3 years of intramural volleyball, was Vice-President of Black Students United and was formal co-chair and pledging co-chair of Zeta Kappa Zeta Sorority. Tanya will be attending Rush Medical College in the fall and eventually plans to practice primary care medicine in her northwest side community in inner-city Chicago.
Gregory Ehrendreich - Ashland, WI. Biochemistry with Departmental Honors and a minor in Environmental Studies. Cum Laude. Gregory spent last summer doing cartilage research at Rush University in Chicago and will return to Rush in the fall for graduate studies. During his stay at Beloit, Gregory was an active member of Phi Kappa Psi and spent most of his spare time in the theater. He hopes to get his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and then spend some time teaching.
Shannon Fountain - Meridian, MS. Biochemistry with Departmental Honors. Cum Laude. Shannon became intrigued by horticulture after managing the greenhouse at an organic farm last summer. This led to an independent project researching potting soil mixtures and plant fungal diseases. While at Beloit, she worked as a supervisor at the Costume Shop, danced, sewed, re-learned Southern cooking, served as an RA for Arts Coop and Womyn's Center, and developed an unfortunate Yankee twang. After having braved the Arctic weather and constant exposure to "Chamberlin Cooties" for four whole years, Shannon plans to spend a while relaxing in a warm climate and shunning any exposure to science. She is very unsure of her future plans, but is interested in sustainable development and agriculture.
David Gan - Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia. Biochemistry with Departmental Honors and Psychology. David played varsity soccer at Beloit and went abroad to study at University College, London, his junior year. Upon, graduation, David will be working for the Biological Research Department in Melville, NY. He plans to go to graduate school as well, possibly in neuroscience, then do research in cancer and neural regeneration.
David Gordon - Decatur, IL. Chemistry. David distinguished himself in athletics, playing varsity football and baseball, and was active in Greek affairs as a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. He plans to enter graduate school in a field related to molecular biology.
Bart Gottschalk - Minneapolis, MN. Biochemistry. Summa Cum Laude. Bart spent the summer before his junior year doing research at the University of Minnesota. He played varsity soccer for 4 years and spent last summer coaching soccer. He plans to continue coaching soccer, travel, and return to graduate school within a few years. He received the Pat Dawson award which is given to a senior male athlete who best exemplifies the qualities of athlete, scholar and leader, and received a Beloit Blanket for his accomplishments on the soccer field.
Kelly Knudson - Council Bluffs, IA. Chemistry with Departmental Honors. Magna Cum Laude. Kelly plans to enroll in Boston University's Master of Arts in Archaeology program after teaching English in Costa Rica for ten months through the WorldTeach program. While at Beloit, she participated in the Glasgow Seminar for a semester and the Beloit College summer archaeology field school in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. She was also a teaching assistant for general and organic chemistry, a tutor for chemistry and calculus, and a participant in Beloit College Girls and Women in Science. In July, 1996, Kelly was the student representative for the Beloit College delegation invited to participate in "Shaping the Future," a National Science Foundation science education conference in Washington, D.C.
Christopher Maeda - Hilo, HI. Biochemistry with Departmental Honors and Music. Magna Cum Laude. Chris did an internship at Rush University Department of Biochemistry. He was selected as an Engstrom Scholar and will be entering medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin next fall.
Kristie Mather - Richland, MI. Biochemistry with Departmental Honors and a minor in Latin American Studies. Magna Cum Laude. Over the past four summers Kristie conducted research with Roc Ordman here at Beloit, with Mark Seeger at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, and with Carole Ober and Carrie Grimsley at the University of Chicago. She presented this research at two Beloit Student Symposia, two Pew Midstates student research conferences at the University of Chicago, and this past April, at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research at the University of Texas - Austin. Kristie spent her junior year on the Beloit College seminar in Quito, Ecuador, having been awarded a National Security Education Program fellowship. She played soccer for the three years she was on campus, worked with Girls and Women in Science, has been a teaching assistant for organic chemistry, and was a member of the Spanish Club and Amnesty International. Next year Kristie will start graduate school in Integrative Biology at the University of California - Berkeley, studying evolution and genetics with a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship. She also won at National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
Amy O'Neill - Springfield, IL. Biochemistry. Amy spent last summer working at the Goldie Floberg home for developmentally disabled children in Rockford. At Beloit she played 4 years of varsity soccer and ran track and field. She received All Conference recognition two years and was awarded a 'B' Blanket. Eventually she plans to work with children in the health care field, but she isn't sure how she is going to go about doing than quite yet.
Sarah Renish - Racine, WI. Chemistry and Molecular Biology with Departmental Honors. Cum Laude. Sarah has done summer research in the Department of Pathology at the Baylor College of Medicine and at Penn State University, where she will start graduate school in Biological Anthropology in the fall.
Kai Tan - Chengdu, China. Biochemistry with Departmental Honors. Cum Laude. Kai was a transfer student from West China University of Medical Sciences. After transferring to Beloit he became interested in biochemistry and finished his B.S. in two years. Last summer he was at Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University school of medicine, working on the role of iron in human LDL oxidation. This summer Kai will be doing research in neurobiology with Dr. Morgeng Sheng at Harvard University. In the fall he will start graduate studies in neurobiology at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Gregg Ward - Nassau, Bahamas. Biochemistry. Gregg was a member of the International Club and the Chemistry Club at Beloit. This summer he has an internship at New York University's Institute of Environmental Medicine in Tuxedo, New York, working with Dr. Liza Thomas Snow (Beloit '68) on a project involving arsenic toxicology. He then hopes to be in graduate school in the Department of Pharmacology at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where Dr. Brian McMillen (Beloit '71) is a faculty member.
Matthew Whiting - Rockville, MD. Chemistry.
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1961 Thomas Tisue, a chemistry faculty member at Clemson University,
has been working for the International Atomic Energy Agency in
Vienna, Austria, on technical cooperation with developing countries.
1964 Tom Moran is an attorney with Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum in Palo Alto, CA.
1965 Gene Banucci, President of Advanced Technology Materials, Inc. of Danbury, CT, reports that ATMI has executed a merger agreement with Lawrence Semiconductor Laboratories in a $78 million stock swap. Lawrence Semiconductor specializes in manufacturing epitaxial or "epi" silicon thin films by chemical vapor deposition, while ATMI's Epitronics subsidiary provides epi services for next generation materials such as gallium arsenide and silicon carbide.
1969 Ellen Leisman Dalton has moved from the chemistry department at Bowling Green State University to the college of musical arts, where she is coordinator of budgets. She was also elected to the Bowling Green school board.
1976 Leslie DeLong and her husband announce the birth of their second child, Peter Solomon DeLong, who was born 11/17/96. Peter joins big brother Alexander DeLong Solomon who just turned 4.
1982 Susan Van Galder is finishing her Masters degree in Biochemistry at Notre Dame. She has a six year old and twin four year old boys.
1984 Dan Gentry is now working at SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals in Collegeville, PA.
1985 Laura Wright is an Associate Academic Planner in the university academic administration at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
1987 George Reid finished his Ph.D. in 1994 at the University of Missouri-Rolla, and is now working for a small chromatography company, Advanced Separation Technologies, in New Jersey that specializes in chiral separations. George plans to get married in August, 1997.
1988 Anne Whalen has a faculty position in the Department of Science at Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado. She and Jarrall W. Ryter were married August 9, 1996.
1989 Shao Chyi Lee has joined the Valley Medical Clinic in Duncan, British Columbia as a general practitioner.
1989 Erica Black Periman returned from the Peace Corps in Ecuador just in time to see her father, Rick Black, received an honorary degree from Beloit College at this year's commencement. She and her husband, Daryl, will be practicing veterinary medicine in Wyoming.
1990 Brent Kelley graduated from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine and is doing his residency in family medicine in Muskegon, Michigan.
1992 David Norris, a chemist at Enzyme Bio-Systems in Beloit, died on October 21, 1996. Survivors include his wife, Sara Daigel Norris ('92), his father, Robert D. Norris (chemistry, '66), and a sister, Ericka A. Norris ('91). A memorial fund has been established at Beloit College to support student research.
1993 John and Alice (1990) Dobie Galuska announce the birth of their son, David Jakob Dobie Galuska, born 18 May, 1997.
1993 Kim Hardy has completed her M.D. at the University of Iowa and is starting a residency in family practice in Waukesha, Wisconsin. For her last rotation during medical school, she worked in a country hospital in Kenya.
1993 Greg Hess completed his M.D. at the Medical College of Wisconsin and will be doing his residency in internal medicine in Arizona. His wife, Sonja, will also be doing her residency in family practice.
1993 Jennifer Smith Kristensen has finished her M.D. at the University of Minnesota and will begin residency in family medicine at United Hospital in St. Paul.
1993 Anna Applebaum Sigworth has completed her master's degree in Photochemistry at Bowling Green State University and is now working toward her Ph.D. in Biotechnology.
1993 Brenda Waller is a recipient of a fellowship sponsored by the National Science Foundation-State of Idaho EPSCoR Program for her graduate work in the Chemistry Department at the University of Idaho.
1994 Robert Bergman now works for MapQuest by Geosystems in Denver as an Internet Engineer.
1994 Tara Sander is in her third year of graduate school at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She recently won first prize for best student poster presentation at the 10th Annual Chicago Signal Transduction Symposium.
1995 Ashley Eversole will be starting her second year in the Biophysics graduate program at Yale University this fall where she is working with Prof. Nancy Maizels on genetic recombination. She recently received an Honorable Mention for the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program. Ashley returned to participate in the Girls and Women in Science program this spring.
1995 Ann Miller has finished her first year in graduate school at Texas A&M University.
1995 Megan Reich was promoted to staff scientist and is also the environmental operations liaison to manufacturing at S. C. Johnson Wax in Racine, Wisconsin.
1995 Beth Riley has been accepted to the University of Illinois Medical School.
1996 Damir Akhoundov is a research assistant in molecular genetics studying the use of silicon microchip technology in genomic mismatch scanning at the University of Pennsylvania.
1996 Michael Beins will start medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin in the fall.
1996 Kelley Bradley, a graduate student in chemistry at Rice University, shared in the excitement last December when it was announced that Prof. Rick Smalley (his research advisor) and Prof. Robert Curl (from whom we was taking a course at the time) had won the Nobel Prize for their discovery of fullerenes.
1996 Mark Burleigh is a graduate student in the chemistry department at the University of Tennessee.
1996 Kham Lee has completed his degree in medical technology at Rush Medical College and will be starting school in podiatry in Chicago in the fall.
1996 Amy Litscher is working in quality control for Cargill in Blair, Nebraska.
1996 Bianca Mothe has been living in Madison but commuting to Beloit to take classes and complete a research project with Roc Ordman. She now plans to work for at least a year and then either go to medical school in Wisconsin or graduate school for biomedical research.
1996 Carrie Tuit returned to participate in the Girls and Women in Science program this spring. She has completed her first year in graduate school at MIT in geosciences, with her research based at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
1996 Lina Tze co-authored an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (April 1997, Genetics) based on work she did in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Wisconsin Medical School last year. She will be starting graduate school in molecular biology and genetics at the University of Minnesota in July.
1996 Kris Zimmerman is an analyst for Corning Hazelton in Madison,
Wisconsin.
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Gifts to Chemistry and Biochemistry have been received from: Jeffrey
S. Cleaveland '83, Dr. and Mrs. Ram Das (parents of Maya Das,
'00), William G. Hipple '89, Kirk L. Jacobson '80, Eddie Limon
'89, Pa Houa B. Ly '93, the Paul and Mary Haas Foundation, Megan
Reich '95, Patricia A. Smith '86, and Robert F. Taylor '37.
Thank you for your support, and thank you to all those not
listed here who continue to give generously to Beloit College!
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