t the College of NaturalSciences & MathematicsCommencement onJune 1, Dr. Bette T. Kor-ber (BS Biochemistry

1981, PhD Caltech) was recog-nized as the Distinguished Alumnafor 2001 and praised for her im-portant contributions to AIDS research.

Last year, in a paper presented at the Seventh Conference onRetroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in San Francisco, Bette reported that the results of her research indicated that the HIVviruses probably passed from chim-panzees to humans in about 1930as a result of hunting, butcheringand eating chimpanzees during aperiod of food shortage. This find-ing challenged previous unsubstan-tiated assertions that HIV trans-mission evolved from chimpanzeecells used in testing polio vaccinein Africa in the 1950s. Her com-puter-based studies compared thecomposition of the genetic materi-al of many current strains of thevirus which extrapolated back to acommon origin. Two different sta-tistical investigations both pointedto 1930 as the crossover date.

Bette is employed as a genet- icist at the Los Alamos NationalLaboratories, the custodian of allthe genetic sequence informationon HIV reported throughout theworld.

Notices of her presentationwere widely heralded in the popu-lar press, including Time magazine (Feb. 14, 2000) and on the frontpage of the Los Angeles Times (Feb. 2, 2000) and in a major

article in Atlantic Monthly(October 2000).

She singled out five membersof the faculty at CSULB as beingparticularly influential in her edu-cation: Her late father Dr. GeorgeKorber, professor of sociology, whotaught his students the values ofempathy and compassion and toreject prejudices; Dr. Art Metzger,professor of business, who taughther that “being comfortable was

not the most important thing—being fully alive was a betterthing”; Dr. Nail Senozan, professorof chemistry, “who taught me thatthe process of understanding a sci-entific concept is difficult, wonder-ful, challenging, exciting”; Dr.Larry Lerner, professor of physics,who gave her “the confidence Ineeded to change my major (fromEnglish) and go on in science”;and Don Depree, her karateteacher, who “taught me to con-front fear, to do what is right evenif it is difficult.”

Bette added, “There are manythings I love about CSULB. It (consists of) a great mix of students,from fresh young 18 year-olds, toolder working people coming back,children of new immigrant familiesand new immigrants themselves.People from all walks of life—many languages spoken, many cul-tures represented. Sometimes stu-dents have to make great personalsacrifices to learn, but they comeanyway. Through CSULB they havea door to an education that other-wise might be closed. I am veryproud to have been part of thiswonderful system.” �

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Editorial boxCSULB Chemistry and Biochemistry De-partment NewsletterFall 2001, Number 26

An annual publication of the De-partment of Chemistry and Bio-chemistry for past and presentstudents and friends of the de-partment. News items, featurearticles, photos, and commentsare eagerly invited. All articlesnot signed in this issue of theNewsletter were researched andwritten by the Editor. TheNewsletter and other departmen-tal news and information may beaccessed on the internet at thefollowing address:

http://www.chemistry.natsci.csulb.edu

To send information about your-self electronically for publicationin the Newsletter, (1) open upthe website indicated above, (2)click on Newsletter, (3) click onthe Fall 2001 logo, (4) on theside bar, scroll to Alumni Re-sponse.

Kenneth L. Marsi, Editor

Appreciation is extended to Con-nie Lane, Publications Office ,for the Newsletter layout and toBob Freligh, Audiovisual Ser-vices, for many of the photo-graphs contained in this Newslet-ter.

(562) 985-4941e-mail: kmarsi@csulb.edu

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Groundbreaking Ceremony

for the New Science Building,

Feb. 2, 2001. Left to right:

Chemistry Chairs, past and pres-

ent, Dr. Darwin Mayfield (Chair

1964-1966), Dr. Ken Marsi (Chair

1975-1996), Dr. Nail Senozan

(Chair 1996-present), Dr. Roger

Bauer (Chair 1966-1975). Not

shown: Dr. Don Simonsen (Chair

1961-1963).

Photo by David J. Nelson

The profile of our department continues to change rapidly.

This fall two physical chemists, Dr. Christopher Brazier and Dr. Stephen Mezyk, join the ranks of our faculty as assistant professors.

Dr. Brazier, a native of Eng-land, has a BS degree in mathe-matics and chemistry from theUniversity of Southampton, Unit-ed Kingdom, and a PhD in chem-istry from the same institution.He is a spectroscopist with a par-ticular interest in small metalclusters that may play a role inrocket fuels. Dr. Brazier came tous from California State Univer-sity, San Bernardino where hewas a lecturer.

Dr. Mezyk has received hisPhD from the University of Mel-bourne, Australia, worked at theBrookhaven and Argonne NationalLaboratories and held post-doctor-al positions at the Universities ofSaskatchewan and Calgary and atNotre Dame. Prior to his appoint-

ment at Long Beach, he was a re-search associate professor at theUniversity of North Carolina inWilmington. Dr. Mezyk’s researchis in reaction kinetics of transientspecies such as the hydroxyl radi-cal and the environmental impactof such species.

Both Dr. Brazier and Dr.Mezyk join us with impressiverecords of scientific publications–over 80 articles between the twoof them in distinguished journalsof chemistry.

This year, Dr. Marsi completeshis Faculty Early Retirement Pro-gram (FERP) while Dr. Baine be-gins FERP. Dr. Marsi will continueto serve as the coordinator ofalumni relations and the editor ofthis Newsletter. Dr. Baine willkeep his responsibilities as thevice-chair and advisor to the Stu-dent Affiliates of the AmericanChemical Society.

We are presently authorized tosearch for two biochemists andone chemistry educator for the ac-ademic year 2002-2003. Thus, bySeptember 2002 the number oftenured and tenure-track facultywho have joined our departmentsince 1997 will reach nine. Re-cent additions to our faculty ros-ter include Dr. Doug McAbee(1997), now a tenured associateprofessor, Dr. Lijuan Li (1998),also now a tenured associate pro-fessor, Dr. Paul Buonora (2000),Dr. Krzysztof Slowinski (2001),and, starting this fall, Drs. Brazierand Mezyk. Meanwhile, since1997, Drs. Kalbus, Lieu, Devore,Wynston and now Dr. Marsi haveretired.

We would also like to wel-come two new members to ouracademic/community liaison, the

Chemistry & Biochemistry AdvisoryCouncil. They are Dr. MichaelTreuheit of Amgen, Inc. and Dr. Martin Sobczak of AblestikLaboratories, a division of Nation-al Starch and Chemical Corp. Weappreciate the dedicated assis-tance of our 25-member AdvisoryCouncil, founded in 1977.

“Being in the teaching profes-sion is a precious privilege,” Dr.Marsi once remarked, and indeed,as our graduates embark on theirnew destinations, I realize againhow privileged and fortunate Ihave been to have touched theireducation. Elsewhere in thisnewsletter you will read moreabout the achievements of ourstudents, but here is a sampler:Kevin Phillips is now in his sec-ond year at Harvard where he iscreating a library of DNA mole-cules capable of imparting cataly-tic activity to metal complexes.Jared Aschcroft will begin PhDwork in analytical chemistry atRice University. Michael Eaganand Matthew Harris are startingmedical school, Mike at UCLAand Matthew at USC. And we areproud indeed to see our formerstudent Bette Korber receive theDistinguished Alumna award for2001. Dr. Korber (Caltech PhD)

was recognized for her pioneeringstudies on the origins of the AIDSvirus. Her discoveries, which datethe appearance of the HIV to the1930s, received extensive nation-al coverage including a major arti-cle in the Atlantic Monthly in October 2000.

Cal State Long Beach continuesto be a very good place to study chemistry. In recent years, withnew faculty joining our ranks, research opportunities for under-graduates and master’s studentshave greatly expanded. Our stu-dents now can participate in exciting projects in many areas including electron tunnelingthrough films of molecules, modu-lation of electrical and opticalproperties of coordination com-pounds, characterization of biolog-ical receptors and aggregation andfolding of proteins implicated indebilitating diseases. If you knowany good students who may enjoythe excitement of chemistry, tellthem to give us a call. We wouldlove to show them the possibilitiesthrough chemistry.

Best regards and please stay in touch. �

by Nail M. SenozanRemarks by the Chair

Also pictured at the Groundbreaking

Ceremony for the New Science

Building are left to right:

Dr. Robert Loeschen (Chemistry),

Associate Dean; Dr. Beth Ambos

(Geology), Associate Dean; Dr. Glenn

Nagel, Dean, College of Natural

Sciences & Mathematics.

Photo by Victoria Sanchez

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Department NewsletterFall 2001, Number 26

An annual publication of the Department of Chemistry and Bio-chemistry for past and present stu-dents and friends of the depart-ment. News items, feature articles,photos and comments are eagerlyinvited. All articles not signed inthis issue of the Newsletter wereresearched and written by the Editor. The Newsletter and otherdepartmental news and informationmay be accessed on the Internet atthe following address:

To send information about yourselfelectronically for publication in theNewsletter, (1) open up the Website indicated above, (2) click onNewsletter, (3) click on the Fall2001 logo, (4) on the side bar,scroll to Alumni Response.

Kenneth L. Marsi, Editor562/985-4941e-mail: kmarsi@csulb.edu

Appreciation is extended to Connie Lane, Publications Office,for the Newsletter layout and toBob Freligh, Audio Visual Services,for many of the photographs con-tained in this Newsletter.

The 22nd Annual DistinguishedVisiting Lecturer was Dr.

Catherine Fenselau, professor ofchemistry at the University ofMaryland. Dr. Fenselau received anAB from Bryn Mawr College, andher PhD from Stanford University,where she worked with Dr. CarlDjerassi. She is a former presidentof the American Society of MassSpectroscopy. She is also the recipi-ent of the Garvan Metal of theAmerican Chemical Society, theMaryland Chemist Award and theMerit Award of the National Insti-tutes of Health. Dr. Fenselau is thenewly elected chair of the Analyti-cal Division of the AmericanChemical Society. Since she trainedas an organic chemist, the widescope of her expertise is reflected in the breadth of her re-cent publications, appearing in Analytical Chemistry and in Cellu-lar and Molecular Biology.

While at CSULB, Dr. Fenselaupresented two lectures to studentsand faculty, at times with standingroom only. In her first, a general lecture, titled “How Much DoThings Weigh?,” she presented thecapability of mass spectrometry toweigh individual molecules, molec-ular complexes and even smallviruses. Dr. Fenselau illustratedhow the determination of molecu-lar masses provided answers to important questions in biology,medicine and space travel.

After an interactive luncheonwith students, Dr. Fenselau gave a more technical talk, titled“Chemistry of Zinc-Binding Pro-teins Studied with ElectrosprayMass Spectrometry” to a crowd ofchemists and biologists. Her revo-lutionary techniques for accurateanalysis of high molecular weightproteins (greater than 30K Dal-tons) is paving the way for better

understanding of these proteins.Dr. Fenselau and her co-workershave used electrospray MS at pH8.0 in combination with accuratemass measurements to confirm themultiplicity of insulin in stablenon-covalent complexes with zincions. They showed that the natureand number of ligands involved inchelation agrees with re-sults from crystal andsolution structures.Counting the numberof ligands participat-ing in each centerallowed deductionof the geometricconfiguration of theligand field and gave

indirect information about the conformational state of the insulinmonomers in solution.

An enthusiastic discussion ensued, which has led to new dialog between our universi-ties and between differ-ent disciplines.

The lecture was fol-lowed by a receptionand dinner at Andiamo’sRestaurant in Long Beach.

This lectureship issponsored by a generousgift from Allergan Pharma-ceuticals, Inc. �

Irecently attended a conferenceof college and university presi-

dents and deans at Fermi NationalLaboratory outside of Chicago. Theconference was sponsored by fiveprivate foundations (Camille andHenry Dreyfus, W. M. Keck, M. J.Murdock, Research Corp. andRobert A. Welch Foundation) thathave been strong supporters of un-dergraduate student research.

The purpose of the conferencewas to release the results (539pages) of a study undertaken toprovide a basic understanding ofthe environment for research inthe natural sciences at predomi-nately undergraduate colleges anduniversities. CSULB was one of136 institutions invited to con-tribute data and opinions to thestudy. Other institutions includedliberal arts colleges (e.g., Bates,Carleton, Harvey Mudd, Knox,Middlebury, Mount Holyoke, Occi-dental and Pomona Colleges) aswell as larger colleges and univer-sities (e.g., William and Mary,

Western Washington, NorthernArizona and Rochester Institute ofTechnology). Three CSU campuseswere represented (CSULB, CalPoly SLO and San Jose State). Inthe words of Dr. Michael Doyle,vice president of Research Corp.,“These institutions have served asa national resource for a signifi-cant proportion of students whoundertake professional careers inthe sciences and a primary reasonfor their output has been the re-search experiences of undergradu-ate students with faculty mentors.”The foundations were concerned,however, that the number of pro-posals from science faculty was decreasing and that the opportuni-ties for external funding wereshrinking.

I am happy to report that theconcerns of the organizers did notapply to our institution. CSULBranked #9 of 136 in the number of research grants awarded and #4in the number of baccalaureate de-grees conferred in the sciences. In

addition, 87 students earningbachelor’s degrees in the sciencesfrom CSULB were granted PhD de-grees between 1991 and 1999.

While we are very proud ofthese accomplishments, there wassome room for concern. One cal-culation made from the study wasthat it takes, on the average, morethan $35,000 in funding to pro-duce a published paper in a first-rate science journal. We stronglybelieve that student co-authorshipof a research paper is a real markof the quality of the work beingdone in our laboratories. Our costat CSULB was actually somewhathigher than the $35,000 figure,indicating that we either need tobe more aggressive in publishingwork or that we need to attractmore funding in order to increaseour publication rate with students.I believe strongly we must doboth. What can you as alumni andfriends of CSULB Chemistry andBiochemistry do to help us in ourquest of Academic Excellence? The

first is all important: promote ourprogram to your peers and associ-ates and encourage talented stu-dents to apply for admission here.Second, we are always in need offunds to support student-faculty research. Your contributions canhelp support student research fellowships, lab materials and supplies, or costs associated withthe presentation and publication of results.

If you wish to let us know of a student who is interested inapplying or has applied to CSULB,you can reach me by calling 562/985-1521 or by e-mail (gnagel@csulb.edu). Donations tosupport undergraduate research in Chemistry and Biochemistrymay be made via Dr. Marsi as isdescribed elsewhere in thisnewsletter.

Your support and continuing interest in science at CSULB isdeeply appreciated. �

http://www.chemistry.natsci.csulb.edu.

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Dennis AnjoMy research continues with bothcarbon electrode studies and somenew work on organoborane com-pounds. Paul Sierocki has workedon the pH response of carbon elec-trodes, extending our diagram ofthe pH, potential and response sur-face for carbon electrodes. Paul hasalso developed buffers that workin electrochemistry experiments,without causing interference. Hewas accepted in the PhD programat UCLA for the fall 2001.

Jared Ashcroft has also beenworking in my group. Jared isstudying the emission spectrum oftri-anthracene borane. His workhas indicated that the emission ofthe compound is not the tradition-al Kasha type. Multiple emissionpeaks are observed in condensedmedia. Jared is also going on tograduate school, beginning thePhD program at Rice this fall 2001.

I met a former student of mine,Greg Whitaker (BS Biochemistry1990), during the last week ofclasses. Greg is at present workingin anesthesiology, and will be fin-ishing his residency soon. Gregalso brought greetings fromMichael Wanger (BS Biochemistry1990), who is now practicing med-icine in Florida.

Paul BuonoraAs I write these comments it is exactly one year since my wife,Sarah, and I arrived in Long Beachto look for housing and begin ourlives in California. The year has

been full and gone by quickly. Thefaculty, students and universityhave lived up to all the hopes Ihad when I accepted the position.

Nail Senozan organized a wel-come party, and Ken Marsi wasvery helpful in assisting Sarah infinding a position in dental materi-als research working with LongBeach alum Greg Dorsman (BSChemistry 1977, MS Chemistry1983) at Danville Materials. Myorganic colleagues have given ad-vice and guidance as I learn tonavigate life at CSULB and inSouthern California.

On the research front, threeundergraduate students will beginwork this summer and a half do-zen others have expressed interestin starting research in the fall. Wehope to make short work of tyingup loose ends on chiral gamma-di-carbonyl synthesis projects whichwere nearly complete when I leftPennsylvania.

The corrected galley proof of aninvited review with Tae Oh of CSU,Northridge, of recent progress inimino Diels-Alder reactions, wasreturned to the journal Tetrahe-dron in late May.

I have not had much time forwork in the history of chemical science, but I was asked to sit onthe Outstanding Paper SelectionCommittee of the Division for theHistory of Chemistry of the ACS.Next year I will chair that committee.

In the teaching arena, I taughtthe Organic Chemistry 320 se-quence this year. In the second se-

mester my class participated inbeta testing the questions for the2002 version of the ACS organicexamination. In the laboratory forthat course we replaced mercurythermometers with digital ther-mometers, an innovation I had uti-lized in Pennsylvania. This invest-ment should provide dividends inthe future as we eliminate mercu-ry spill cleanup and reduce re-placement costs. Currently, I amorganizing materials to teach aSpecial Topics: Medicinal Chem-istry course in the spring of 2002.

Jeffrey CohlbergSummer and fall of 2000 werespent on a sabbatical leave in TonyFink’s lab at UC Santa Cruz. Iworked on the protein α-synuclein,which aggregates to form Lewybodies in the brain cells of Parkin-son patients. The aggregation canbe replicated in the test tube. Idiscovered that this process isstimulated by glycosaminoglycansand obtained some informationabout the mechanism of this stim-ulation. The work generated datafor two manuscripts, one of whichwas submitted for publication thisspring. Santa Cruz was a delightfulplace to spend seven and 1/2months, and in particular the Department of Chemistry and Bio-chemistry there provided a stimu-lating and friendly environment.

While in Santa Cruz I guidedGene Rozumov and Frank Le tocomplete their MS theses. They are both now at UCLA, Gene in

the PhD program in organic chemistry and Frank in dentalschool. Paula Spencer is finishingher thesis while she works as a protein chemist at Amgen. I taughtChem 441B in the spring andhave been working in the lab withthe aim of finishing my currentproject on neurofilament proteininteractions. I am also working ona curriculum development involv-ing the use of molecular modelingby students in biochemistry courses.

Dorothy GoldishIn addition to teaching classes andserving as the undergraduate ad-vising coordinator for the depart-ment, I have been serving on twoimportant university committees.In the past year, we have beenpreparing our self-study for reaffir-mation of accreditation by our re-gional accrediting body, the West-ern Association of Schools andColleges. With Vice President forStudent Services Douglas Robin-son, I co-chaired the task forcewriting a section on Services toStudents. (Dr. Merryfield was co-chair of the task force writingabout General Education.)

We were writing about somethings that have been going well,but mostly about efforts to correctsome of the problems alumni nodoubt remember, such as slowgrad checks, late evaluation oftransfer credit, difficulty gettinginformation about financial aid,non-functional classrooms and others. The good news is thatmany of these have been greatlyimproved. Grad checks are donequickly, admissions and financialaid information go out more effi-ciently, advisors have access totransfer records and other usefulinformation so we can give accu-rate answers, some classroomshave been air-conditioned andequipped for modern technology(but others are still waiting forrenovation.)

I am also a member of the com-mittee dealing with enrollmentmanagement. The university’s en-rollment has been increasing rap-idly, especially with an increasingnumber of freshmen. We are rap-idly running out of classroomspace and many departments arefinding it impossible to hireenough faculty members to teachall the classes needed. We have

now received approval from theChancellor's Office to limit thesize of the freshman class, startingwith the class entering in fall2002. This doesn't mean that wewill turn away highly qualified stu-dents or that we will redirect stu-dents who live and work close toCSULB to other campuses.

Under our plan, we will contin-ue to admit all students fromschool districts close to the cam-pus who meet the minimum CSUentrance requirements, but willimpose somewhat higher standardsfor students from school districtsfarther away. This will be based onthe CSU “eligibility index” whichcombines high school grade pointaverage with scores on the SAT orACT exam. A study of predictorsof student success showed thatthis index gave us better predic-tions than using grades or testscores alone. Students who are ini-tially denied admission wouldhave the opportunity of attendinganother CSU campus or of attend-ing a community college and thentransferring. We will continue toadmit all eligible upper divisiontransfer students.

(Editor’s Note: After submittingthe above narrative, Dr. Goldishwas appointed acting dean of Un-dergraduate Studies and will notbe teaching during the 2001-2002academic year.)

Lijuan LiDr. Lijuan Li, assistant pofessor ofinorganic chemistry, was promotedto associate professor effective thebeginning of the 2001-2002 aca-demic year.

In March 2001, Dr. Li wasawarded a SCORE (Support forContinuous Research Excellence)grant by the NIH in the amount of approximately $500,000 for aperiod of three years. She has alsobeen notified that she is the recip-ient of two additional grants: (1)an American Chemical SocietyPertroleum Research Fund grant($25,000) and (2) a Research Corp. grant ($34,238).

Dr. Li joined our department in1998 and in the past three yearsshe has published eight papers injournals such as the Journal of theAmerican Chemical Society, Jour-nal of Polymer Science and theCanadian Journal of Chemistry.The article, “Metalloporphyrin-

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challenges successfully met iscommunicating matters of healthto people of a variety of culturesand languages. This has been ac-complished by maintaining a work-force that reflects the ethnic com-position of its patients and by hiring staff who live in patients’neighborhoods and speak theirlanguages. Molina Healthcare is aprovider of health care to approxi-mately 350,000 persons.

Nearly all the company’s rev-enues derive from Medicaid andother government-sponsoredhealth insurance programs. How-ever, customers also include stateagencies such as the CaliforniaDepartment of Health Services.

According to Mario, “Othercompanies enter and exit theMedicaid market depending onhow profitable it is for them andhow much effort they have to expend. It’s just the opposite forMolina Healthcare. We are in itfor the long term. We find ways to make it work.”

Mario received high honors and was elected to Phi Beta Kappawhile at CSULB.

Martha, also a Phi Beta Kappagraduate of CSULB, received nu-merous awards during her under-graduate career, including theKhalil Salem Award, the Toni Horalek Award and the David L.Scoggins Scholarship. She was alsopresident of the Student Affiliatesof the American Chemical Societyduring one of its most active years.

Catalyzed Electrocarboxylation ofAlkyl Halides,” published in Re-cent Advances in Electrochemistry,was co-authored by John Liarakas,a master’s student. A recent arti-cle, appearing in JACS titled, “Synthesis, X-ray Crystal Struc-ture, and Solution Behavior ofFe(NO)2(1-MeIm)2: Implicationsfor Nitrosyl Non-heme-iron Com-plexes with g = 2.03,” was co-authored with Dmitry Pervitsky, who received his MS degree thissummer.

Dr. Li also received a Scholarlyand Creative Activities Awardfrom the university for the sum-mer of 2001.

Dr. Robert LoeschenThis year has been a busy one forme, with respect to facilities. (Dr.Loeschen is associate dean incharge of physical facilities in theCollege of Natural Sciences &Mathematics.) In January we hadthe groundbreaking for the newscience building, which is locatedjust north of PH3. Since then, Imet with campus officials, the con-tractor, the project director andthe architect’s representativeevery week and listened as theydiscussed the whys and why-notsof building a science building. Thecontractor is trying to maximizeprofit (of course), but is really notworried about speed; CSULB ea-gerly wants the building finishedand does not want to spend thecontingency money, and the proj-ect manager is trying to figure outwhat everyone is doing. The re-sults give rise to some interestingdiscussions, and I am glad I amnot in charge. If everything goeson schedule, we should move inthe summer of 2003. Please planto come for a visit after the build-ing is completed. Meanwhile, the

shop people and I are workinghard to try to do renovations ofexisting space in PH1,2,3 and theMicrobiology Building because wehave so many new faculty mem-bers who need research space toaccommodate their needs.

I have been “acting” associatedean for CNSM since 1992, andafter an exhaustive search (no oneelse applied) I was appointed to the permanent position. It is niceto take off the “acting” prefix.

Academically, I am teaching or-ganic chemistry and enjoying it alot. I was very honored to havebeen selected for the MayfieldTeaching Award at graduation thisyear. In the fall, I am looking for-ward to teaching in the organiclaboratories, as I have not donethat for several years.

Marco LopezLeaving the “Heme Team” thisyear are Alex Nunez, who was accepted to University of Illinois,Chicago Medical School, and JosePena, who was accepted to the UCBerkeley PhD program in Virology.Both will start fall 2001. Two grad-uate students, Danny Ponce andVipal Patel, defended their mas-ter’s thesis. Danny’s thesis, “Syn-thesis and NMR of Tractable Mod-els of Aqueous Heme Proteins,”was defended in summer 2000,and Vipal’s thesis, “Computer Sim-ulated Trajectory of a StericallyHindered CO-Heme System,” wasdefended in May 2001. MS stu-dents Jing Leng and Kian Kani arewriting their MS theses this sum-mer. MS student Phat Hoang wrotehis thesis last year and got a job inthe Bay Area; we are waiting forhim to return and defend it. TheHeme Team will be looking to in-crease the number of students.Currently, Juan Lopez, whose

project is the characterization ofNO-Heme complexes, is the only“Heme-Teamer” remaining. Wewill be looking to recruit studentsto the Heme Team this summer.

Together with other faculty inthe college, we were fortunate in receiving funding for a researchproposal titled, “Proximal Effectson Ligand Binding to HemeproteinModels,” submitted as part of aSCORE grant to the NIH. Thefunds will be used to set up ananosecond flash-photolysis lab forstudying the kinetics of ligand(O2, CO, and NO) binding toheme models of proteins. Further-more, this grant will provide fundsfor a technician to help in per-forming the experiments. Thefunding is for three years andstarts Sept. 30, 2001.

During the last year I have beengetting experience in teaching the Advanced Organic Chemistry Lab-oratory course, Chem 420. Lastfall I “interned” Dr. Nakayama’slab section and attended Dr. Berry-hill’s lectures. This spring I taughta section of the course. In the fall,I will take over responsibilities forthe course. The course teaches ad-vanced laboratory techniques andspectroscopy, focusing on MassSpectrometry and Nuclear Magnet-ic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.

Tom MaricichThis past year reflects the comingyear, where I will continue toteach organic chemistry lectureand lab, coordinate the lab and co-ordinate the department seminarprogram. Four years ago I intro-duced the teaching of Chem 320Aduring the summer session. It nowregularly draws about 50 (oftendesperate) students, who tend toperform better than those in class-es during the regular terms.

My research students are mak-ing progress on their projects. An-drea Chen is completing her mas-ter’s project working with a chiralsulfonimidate alkylating agent shesynthesized. She has submittedcrystals of one diastereomer for X-ray analysis by one of our seminarspeakers this past semester, Dr.Katherine Kantardjieff, professorand director of the W. M. KeckFoundation Center for MolecularStructure at CSU, Fullerton. An-drea is hoping to demonstrate

selective, chiral alkylation onracemic mixtures of chiral acidsand on meso or prochiral diacids.Another student, Dustin Wride, isbeginning to investigate the alkyla-tion of sulfhydryl groups underacidic conditions, with potentialapplications toward alkylation ofcysteine SH groups in peptides andproteins. This project was stimu-lated by suggestions from Dr.Roger Acey. Mike Eagan completedhis project and graduated SummaCum Laude. He is heading formedical school at UCLA this fall.Caroline Carter worked on a sum-mer internship at Neutrogena inLos Angeles.

This summer we travelled toAnacortes, Wash. with our two sonsand daughter, their two spousesand our three grandchildren tojoin with over 100 descendants ofmy parents to celebrate a memori-al centennial of my mother’s birth.While we were there, we took infour operas of “Der Ring des Ni-belungen” by the Seattle Opera.

Kenneth MarsiI have completed my Faculty EarlyRetirement stint, but will continueto teach the second semester oforganic chemistry in the fall of2001. I have an ongoing assignmentas the editor of the Chemistry &Biochemistry Newsletter and asthe Coordinator of the AdvisoryCouncil and am active in assistingDean Nagel with fundraising forthe department and College ofNatural Sciences & Mathematics.

In April I served as the exter-nal reviewer for the Department ofChemistry at California State Uni-versity, Hayward. Every five yearseach department in the CaliforniaState University System must bereviewed by an external visitor inthe discipline. I had been the re-viewer in the previous cycle andon returning for my second five-year review I was pleased to findthat many of my recommendationshad been implemented by the de-partment. Dr. Leroy Chauffe, thedepartment chair at Hayward, wasa lecturer in our department dur-ing 1967-1968. The year justended marked the 40th year of mymembership on the faculty at CSULB.

I was privileged to have sixPresident’s Scholars in my firstsemester organic class, and I look

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forward to continuing to teach thesecond semester of this class inthe fall.

Douglas McAbeeThe 2000-2001 academic year wasa busy and productive time for meand for members of the lab. Wesaid goodbye to Daekeun Joo lastsummer, who entered medicalschool this past year at the Univer-sity of Cincinnati. Daekeun suc-cessfully defended his researchthesis, which focused on identify-ing regions of the lactoferrin mole-cule involved in binding the rat

hepatic lectin (RHL). GeorgeLiarakos, Pat Pierce and ThanhNguyen are nearing completion oftheir MS theses. George has mostrecently examined the interactionof lactoferrin with hepatocytes iso-lated from control and iron-loadedrats. Iron loading induces the cellsto take up about twice as muchlactoferrin as control cells, indicat-ing that physiologic iron overload-ing is accompanied by a change inhepatic lactoferrin metabolism. Pathas shown that one or more pro-teins in serum block the binding oflactoferrin with hepatocyte RHL.He isolated and identified twolactoferrin-binding proteins fromserum: the copper-containing ferroxidase ceruloplasmin and anas yet unknown polypeptide of165 kDa.

Jennifer Laprise, an undergrad-uate research assistant, joined thelab in April and is assisting Patand me with purifying these lacto-ferrin-binding proteins from serumand helping to analyze their bio-chemical features. Thanh has beenworking on characterizing the in-teraction of human lactoferrin withthe human hepatoma cell lineHuH7. Using this homologous sys-tem, she has found that lactoferrininteracts with the human hepaticlectin (HHL) in a galactose-inde-

pendent manner, similar to whatwe had previously found with aheterologous system. It also ap-pears that lactoferrin binds to non-HHL molecules on HuH7 cells.

Cathy Overstreet and VincentYee are in the second year of theirthesis work. Cathy, with the helpof undergraduates Sonya Boteroand Eva Morlok, is generating re-combinant glycosylation variants of lactoferrin for expression inyeast. This group has made verygood progress on the project. Vin-cent is examining the effects of invivo iron overloading in rats on

the expression activity and is mak-ing solid progress on this work.Grace Jung, a graduate studentwho joined the lab just this year, isworking on expression of lactofer-rin-transferrin hybrid proteinsusing a baculovirus vector and in-sect cell expression system.

Two lab members are workingin labs elsewhere this summer.Sergio Lopez, who is cloning therat lactoferrin gene, received asummer fellowship through theSPUR program at Hunter College,at the CUNY in New York. Sonyareceived a MIRT fellowship thissummer and is working with Dr.Robert Evans at Oxford Universityin England on lactoferrins.

My own activities this past yearhave focused primarily on coordi-nating and guiding student re-search projects and teaching bio-chemistry and my cell membranesgraduate course. I filled in for Dr.Jeff Cohlberg as interim biochem-istry graduate advisor when Jeffwas on sabbatical leave during thefall semester. My aversion to formsand strict procedures notwith-standing, I got through the fogwith much assistance from Jeff,the departmental office staff andthe dean’s office. In between allthese activities, I have been at-tempting to teach myself UNIX

and learn to use the MolecularSimulations molecular modelingsoftware the college obtained thisspring.

This was also a watershed yearfor me in that I was awardedtenure by the university. With thatin mind, I would like to take thisopportunity to publicly thank mychairman, Dr. Nail Senozan, DeanGlenn Nagel and my biochemistrycolleagues (Drs. Merryfield, Aceyand Cohlberg) for their unstintingsupport and encouragement duringmy first four years here at CSULB.I would also like to thank Gina

DeFinis and Wanda White for theircheerful and competent adminis-trative assistance and for helpingme when I broke my arm playingbasketball last winter. I am lookingforward with anticipation to teach-ing and research (and more basket-ball!) this next academic year.

Margaret MerryfieldThis year marked my first year asprogram director for Honors in Biological Sciences, a research-cen-tered program sponsored by the

Howard Hughes Medical Institutefor students in the Departments ofChemistry & Biochemistry and Bio-logical Sciences. This program wasdescribed in some detail in lastyear’s newsletter. In the 2000-2001 academic year, our first yearof operation, we brought threenew courses online–a freshmanseminar, Ideas in Biological Sci-ences, a critical thinking class forscience students, and a course inresearch design. Eleven studentsare now working in labs and re-ceiving support as the first groupof HBS students. I team-taught thecritical thinking class to a group offreshmen who wrote essays about“My Life as a Scientist” and creat-ed “Project Think,” a campaign tobring critical thinking to middleand high schools. For next year, aBioinformatics course will come on-line, and we have extended offersof participation to 22 talented in-coming freshmen.

Team-teaching seemed to be mytheme this year; in the spring Ialso team-taught the pilot offeringof Chem 105, a one-unit labcourse for students planning to be-come elementary school teachers.Nancy Gardner and I managed towrite the labs just barely ahead ofthe lab meetings and worked thestudents almost as hard as weworked ourselves. We are now re-vising the labs in preparation forthe course becoming a require-ment in the liberal studies curricu-lum in the fall. I continued as theGeneral Education Implementationcoordinator, with this year’s majorproject being to prepare a sectionof the university’s WASC selfstudy. Meanwhile, in my copiousfree time I continue to work withgraduate students Mike McAllisterand Cathy Barra. Congratulationsto graduates Kristi Fox and SofiaAguero.

(Editor’s Note: Dr. MargaretMerryfield was promoted to fullprofessor effective the fall semes-ter of 2001. In June Dr. Merryfield

was a panelist on authoring grantproposals at the Western RegionalAAAS meeting held at UC Irvine.)

Henry PoDr. Senozan and I published achemical education article on thehistory and limitations of the Hen-derson-Hasselbalch equation. Itshould appear in the Journal of Chemical Education in the fall. Ifyou would like to receive a copy ofthe reprint, please write to eitherone of us. We have also developed a computer experiment for ourclass, based on the published arti-cle. The students really enjoyeddoing this experiment and theirtime away from the wet lab.

I attended the Pacifichem con-ference in Hawaii last Decemberand presented a paper on the ki-netics and thermodynamics of theoxidation of thiols. This work is a collaborative effort of several inter-national students who came toLong Beach for their education.They are Janet Hunting (US), Rozi-ahanim Mahmud (Malaysia), Shu-Chin Shen (Taiwan) and TheodoreNguyen (Vietnam).

Chris SlowinskiMy first semester at CSULB

(I arrived in January of 2001) wasquite eventful. My lab will be upand running at the beginning ofthe fall semester of 2001. I wouldlike to thank Joyce Kunishima forher most professional help in pur-chasing instruments and dealing with every day problems.

My students and I will investi-gate electronic properties of singlemolecules using the electrochemi-cal approach and tunneling junc-tion method. Three undergraduatestudents have already expressedtheir interest in working with mein the fall, and I am looking for-ward to working with an evenlarger number of graduate and un-dergraduate students. I have estab-

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Others who attended the Awards Banquet are left to right: Dr. Nail Senozan, Yannis Papastamatiou, Dr. Kenneth Marsi,Roger York (standing), Caroline Carter (standing), Jared Ashcroft, Ulf Kiehne and Chosu Khin.

The banquet attendees included, from left to right, Dr. Douglas McAbee, Patricia Maxwell, Gina DeFinis, Jack Clark, DinoSantos, Cheryl Ea and Jean Kigozi.

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Roger Acey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .racey@csulb.eduDennis Anjo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .danjo@csulb.eduPeter Baine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pbaine@csulb.eduRoger Bauer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .rbauer@csulb.eduStuart Berryhill . . . . . . . . . . . . .sberryhi@csulb.eduChristopher Brazier . . . . . . . . . . .cbrazier@csulb.eduPaul Buonora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pbuonora@csulb.eduJeffrey Cohlberg . . . . . . . . . . . . .cohlberg@csulb.eduDorothy Goldish . . . . . . . . . . . . .goldish@csulb.eduEdwin Harris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .eharris@csulb.eduLijuan Li . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .lli@csulb.eduRobert Loeschen . . . . . . . . . . . . .loeschen@csulb.edu Marco Lopez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .lopezm@csulb.eduTom Maricich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .tmaricic@csulb.eduKen Marsi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .kmarsi@csulb.eduStephen Mezyk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .smezyk@csulb.eduKen Nakayama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .nakayama@csulb.eduDouglas McAbee . . . . . . . . . . . . . .dmcabee@csulb.eduMargaret Merryfield . . . . . . . . . .mmerry@csulb.eduHenry Po . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .hppo@csulb.eduNail Senozan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .nsenozan@csulb.eduKrzysztof Slowinski . . . . . . . . . .nkslowin@csulb.edu

E-mail Addresses

Dr. Stephen Mezyk comes tous by way of the University ofNorth Carolina at Wilmingtonwhere he was research associateprofessor. He received his BSc andPhD in Chemistry, both from theUniversity of Melbourne, Aus-tralia. Following completion of hisPhD he was a postdoctoral fellowat the University of Calgary, Cana-da, the University of Saskatchewan,Canada and Notre Dame Universi-ty. Prior to taking the position atUNC Wilmington he was a re-search scientist for eight yearswith Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.

While with the AEC

he invest-gated thefree radi-cal chem-istry of

iodine containing

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water, the supercritical fluid radi-olysis of perfluorocarbons andwater, and studied aqueous corro-sion chemistry.

During his appointment at UNCWilmington he taught courses inspectroscopy and kinetics, advancedquantitative chemical analysis anda general chemistry course.

He has received funding total-ing over $1.3 million to supporthis research activities during hisscientific career. Dr. Mezyk hashad over 40 publications appear inscientific journals such as J. Phys.Chem., Can. J. Chem. and J. Chem.Soc. Faraday Trans.

When asked what attracted himto Cal State Long Beach, he said,“I felt [the department offered] anexcellent opportunity for me topursue my research goals of doingbasic physical/analytical chemistrystudies in support of important en-vironmental problems, while stillallowing me to enjoy undergradu-ate teaching. I wanted to be ableto do collaborative work with established scientists in a depart-ment that had the equipment re-sources that I require. And, havingtraveled extensively around NorthAmerica, I really liked the idea ofbeing located near a major citywith a climate that one couldenjoy all year round.”

Dr. Christopher R. Brazierjoined the tenure-track faculty inthe area of physical chemistry thisfall. Dr. Brazier received his BScDegree (1st Class Honors) inChemistry with an emphasis inmathematics at the University ofSouthampton, Southampton, Eng-land and his PhD in Chemistry,also at the University of Southamp-ton. His thesis work involved thespectroscopy of gas phase free rad-icals. Following receipt of the doc-torate, he served as a postdoctoralresearch associate and researchscientist at the University of Ari-zona where he performed exten-sive research on the chemistry andlaser spectroscopy of alkaline earthorganometallic free radicals, help-ing to establish a new field of gasphase inorganic chemistry. Dr. Bra-zier comes to us directly from CSUSan Bernardino where he servedas a full-time lecturer for threeyears in the Department of Chem-istry and was responsible forteaching beginning chemistrycourses, quantitative analysis, in-strumental analysis and a numberof general education courses in

chemistry. Prior to his appoint-ment at CSUSB he was a researchscientist at Hughes STX, PhillipsLaboratory at Edwards Air ForceBase where he studied rocket fuelchemistry and technology. He ob-served the AlC molecule for thefirst time through spectroscopicmeans. He plans to pursue his in-terest in spectroscopic techniquesto determine properties of smallmolecules.

Dr. Brazier is the author of 45articles published in professionaljournals and has given 41 presen-tations at scientific meetings.

Dr. Brazier states, “I have beenteaching in the CSU system forfour years now and really appreci-ate the wide variety of studentsthe system attracts. At Long BeachI am looking forward to workingwith graduate students and educat-ing the next generation of chem-istry researchers for academe orindustry. I consider it a privilegeto help educate some of the bestand brightest students being re-cruited through the President’sScholars program.” �

Should you wish to correspond with Chemistry/Biochem-istry faculty, their e-mail addresses are listed for your use.They would be happy to hear from you.

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lished a research collaboration with Dr. Marcin Majda from theUniversity of California, Berkeley.We will investigate the propertiesof phospholipid monolayers and bi-layers on solid substrates. We havereceived an ACS-PRF grant for thiscollaboration. In the fall I will alsostart collaborating with Dr. Christo-pher Chidsey from Stanford Uni-versity. My lab will investigate theelectronic conductivity of molecu-lar wires synthesized by Dr. Chid-sey. I have written three researchproposals: for the ACS-PRF, the Research Corp. and the DreyfusFoundation. I am extremely grate-ful to Dean Glenn Nagel and ChairNail Senozan for constant supportand help in these activities.

In January I attended the GordonResearch Conference on Electro-chemistry in Ventura and present-ed a poster concerning the tunnel-ing junction method. In the fall of2001 I will attend two additionalconferences and will present an

invited lecture at the Symposiumon Interfacial Electron Transfer (apart of the American Chemical So-ciety meeting in Chicago). I willalso present my research results atthe 200th meeting of The Electro-chemical Society in San Franciscoin September of 2001. In addition,I was invited to serve as a co-chair(with Dr. K. Kolb from the Univer-sity of Ulm) of the session titled“Electrochemical Surface Scienceand Thin Organic Films.”

I really enjoyed teaching Chem251 (Quantitative Analysis) thisspring. We are working with Dr.Dennis Anjo to add some new ex-periments to the Chem 251 Labo-ratory and to develop a computerlab experiment in statistical analy-sis of experimental data. I alsocontributed a small section to Dr.Ken Nakayama’s NSF proposal for the purchase of an NMR up-grade. This fall I will be busy de-veloping and teaching a complete-ly new graduate course in electro-chemistry.

In addition to the above activi-ties, I serve as a peer reviewer fortwo international journals: Lang-muir and the Journal of Electroan-alytical Chemistry.

Ximeng WangI am a visiting lecturer assigned toteach Chemistry 111B and also todo research with Dr. Lijuan Li. Iam supervising four students in-volved in research in her laborato-ry. My work is on “The Novel System Displaying Metal-Metal In-teractions and Electron Transfer ina Molecular Wire” and “Synthesis,X-ray Crystal Structure and Proper-ties of Fe(NO)2L2 (L = imidazoleor 5,6-dimethylbenzimidazole),Implications for Nitrosyl Non-Heme-Iron Complexes.”

I formerly worked at Kent StateUniversity in Ohio; Clark AtlantaUniversity in Atlanta, Ga; Univer-sity of Bristol in the UK; and Uni-versity of Hong Kong. �

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We have been fortunate to have had the services of so many per-sons who made important contributions to our department over theyears, but who, for various reasons, chose to continue their careerselsewhere or have retired. We remember some of them in this col-umn. We would like to hear from others as well.

Dr. J. Kenneth Bartlett (Professor 1954-56), our first fac-ulty member, now retired fromSouthern Oregon State College inAshland, wrote, “Just a short notein the small world department.The Fall 2000 issue of yournewsletter includes pictures andcomments concerning the visit ofNobel Laureate, Dr. Dudley Her-schbach to CSULB. By coinci-dence, I was a TA in the Qualita-tive Analysis portion of his generalchemistry course at Stanford Uni-versity. Not only was it obviousthat he was a highly intelligent in-dividual, but he also was a trulynice, friendly guy who even partic-ipated in some of our flag footballgames.

Dr. Leroy Chauffe(Lecturer 1967-68), retired inJune of this year from the CSUHayward faculty. Dr. Chauffejoined the Chemistry Departmentat CSUH in 1968, served as chairof the department periodically and

as acting dean in 1994-95. At thetime of his retirement he had beenchair of the department since1995.

Burt Codispoti(Stockroom Clerk 1993-1995)completed his high school teach-ing credential in June in Chem-istry, Music, German and GeneralScience. “I’ve just accepted theband director job at Arcata High...jazz and concert band. I am sup-plementing my work with lots oftrumpet lessons and performances.I often think of my great job in thestockroom at CSULB working withso many good people.”

Dr. Beth DeBeus (Lecturer 1998-2000), a DreyfusTeaching Fellow in our departmentunder the sponsorship of Dr. JeffCohlberg, has been appointed tothe tenure track at MidwesternUniversity/Arizona College of Os-teopathic Medicine (Arizona State University) in Phoenix.

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LeticiaArellano-Summer

Leticia Arellano-Summer, who received her MS degree in our depart-ment in 1995, passed away September 2000. Leticia received a BA inPhysical Science from UC Berkeley in 1987 and subsequently taughtchemistry and physical science at Jefferson High School in South CentralLos Angeles for several years. Desiring to learn more chemistry, she en-tered the MS Chemistry program at CSULB in 1992 where she was a re-search student of Dr. James Jensen and Dr. Henry Po, performing workon reaction mechanisms and authoring a thesis titled, “The Mercury(II)-Promoted Hydrolysis of 2-Phenyl-1,3-oxathiolane and 2-t-butyl-2-phenyl-1,3-oxathiolane.”

Leticia was a much-honored student at CSULB: She received the JohnStern Memorial Award in Physical Chemistry, the Hewlett PackardAward for Excellence and was elected to Phi Lambda Upsilon, NationalHonorary Chemistry Society.

Following completion of her thesis, Leticia briefly joined our department as a lecturer and taught Chem 202. She is survived by herparents, husband, and two young children. �

Dr. Charles (Chuck) Bennett, a lecturer in our department in the 1980s, passed away on Nov. 12, 2000 atage 54. He was an active member of the ACS Orange County Section, having held such positions as chair-elect, chair, past-chair, and councilor, and was a member of the ACS National Committee on EnvironmentalImprovement.

The eulogy at Chuck’s memorial service was delivered by Dr. SteveJones (MS Chemistry 1979 CSULB) who stated, “Chuck’s passion wasas an environmental advocate. I know that he loved teaching collegechemistry at Long Beach State, Cal State Fullerton and Cerritos College,[but] what he loved most and what he would probably like to be re-membered for was to be involved with any environmental fiasco. Hespent countless hours investigating problems associated with superfundsites and would represent the public against the big corporations with-out compensation.”

In a moving tribute to Dr. Bennett, published in the Orange County& San Gorgonio Sections Newsletter, Ray Ouellette (BS Chemistry 1968CSULB) said, “During his career Dr. Bennett brought a deeper under-standing of the importance of science and true chemistry to our every-day lives. Chuck loved to teach and he loved to tackle difficult prob-lems. His devotion to his endeavors, whatever they were, was always inthe search for truth. Science was his tool for arriving at the truth.”

He is survived by a daughter, Anastacia. �

Dr. C. Dennis Hall(Visiting Lecturer 1972-73), has retired from King’s College, London University, and he and Jean live in Dun-nellen, Fla. “We are enjoying our days in Florida, and my part-time association with the University of Florida,Gainesville, enables me to keep in touch with chemistry.” While at CSULB he was the master’s supervisor forJoe Bramblett (MS 1972).

Dr. Fred Shair(Dean of the College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics 1989-1993), has retired asmanager of Educational Affairs at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Dr.Shair came to CSULB from Caltech in 1989 where he was professor of chemical en-gineering for many years. While at CSULB he proved to be a popular and innovativedean. He has had a distinguished career in chemical engineering, and is especiallywell known for studies of dispersion of airborne pollutants and indoor air pollution.In his retirement he plans to maintain an academic relationship with Caltech.

Dr. Augustine Silveira(Lecturer 1976-77) retired from the faculty at SUNY Oswego in August 2000 where he has served as chair forthe past 33 years. During his 1976-77 sabbatical, he taught in our department and was simultaneously in-volved in research at UC Irvine. Dr. Silveira was appointed Distinguished Teaching Professor in the SUNY sys-tem for his services as an outstanding teacher and researcher. Following retirement he was appointed as a dis-tiguished visiting lecturer at the University of Tasmania and is currently involved in collaborative research inthe chemistry department at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He and his wife, Beverly, will dividetheir retirement time between their homes in Fairhaven, Mass. and San Clemente, Calif. His daughter, Dr.Linda Silveira, is associate professor of chemistry at Redlands University. �

In Memoriam

Dr. Charles R. (Chuck) Bennett

Dr. Charles “Chuck” Bennett and daughter,Anastacia.

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Lab Support, a division of OnAssignment, Inc., an agency thatprovides temporary professionalassignments in laboratories, hasestablished a $2,500 scholarshipfor area community collegetransfer students who intend tomajor in chemistry or biochem-istry at CSULB. This is the sev-enth consecutive year in whichthis award has been conferred.

Previous awardees havetransferred to CSULB from Cypress College, Citrus College,Mount San Antonio College,Irvine Valley College, LongBeach City College and CerritosCollege.

The award recipient for2000-2001 is Kyla Perkins, atransfer student from FullertonCollege, who intends to contin-ue on to pharmacy school afterreceiving a BS degree in chem-istry. She is a graduate of La Mi-rada High School and was at-tracted to chemistry because ofthe challenge of analytical think-ing that is required.

The purpose of the Lab Sup-port Scholarship is to identifyand encourage outstanding com-munity college transfer studentsto enter our chemistry and bio-chemistry programs as majorsand to foster closer relationships

with nearby communitycolleges. The depart-

ment would like toexpress its gratitudeto Jean Kigozi,Account Managerwith Lab Support’s

Carson office, for fa-cilitating this scholar-

ship. Ms. Kigozi is amember of our Advisory

Council.

Kyla Perkins, Lab Support Scholar.

Patricia T. Abe

Courtenay Anderson

Christos Angeletakis, PhD

Dennis Anjo, PhD &

Florence Butler

Neary Arpajirakul

Aaron Bakly

Robert Bau, PhD

Elizabeth Brinkman, PhD

Daniel J. Brooker

Oliver M. Brown, PhD

Betty Burri, PhD

Norman Byrd, PhD

Ray Calloway

Ronald & Kathleen Carroll

Stephen Castellino, PhD

Vickie Clawson

Violet D. Dadufalza

Fred H. Dorer, PhD

Gregory J. Dorsman

Jennifer A. Dulalia

Henry Eran, PhD

Ronald Garber, PhD

Nancy Gardner

Victor Gearhart

Dwayne Gergens, PhD

Robert Grant

Alexander Greer, Phd

Michael Hall

Dora Henderson

Renee Hermes

Margaret Hohly

Jimmy Holstein

William Hulbrock

Jeffrey Ichikawa

Thomas Ito, PhD

Joseph C. Kaufman

Larry Klein

Pete Ladjimi

John E. Lee, PhD

Luis A. Lomeli, MD

Larry V. Manes, PhD

Lewis Manring, PhD

Phillip D. Marchis

Kenneth L. Marsi, PhD &

Irene Marsi

Kenneth L. Marsi, PhD

Kenneth S. Marsi

Marianne Marsi, PhD

Darwin Mayfield, PhD

Patrick McKay

Charles & Frances McLuen

Diane C. McGann

Dorothy H. Middleton

Joanne A. F. Myers

David R. Oliver, PhD

Cathie Overstreet

Melanie M. Grady Patterson

Patrick Pierce

Mary Porter

Michael & Mary Porter

Michael Porter

Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, MD

Robert Rzasa, PhD

Jeannette & Spencer Santage

Charles B. Seaton

Nail Senozan, PhD

Alan Senzel, PhD

Gregory Shaw

Leo Stemler

William A. Thomasson, PhD

Delyse R. Williams, DDS

Marco D. Wong, MD

Leslie Wynston, PhD

Kenneth S. Yamaguchi, PhD

Corporate Gifts to the Department

During the 2000-2001 fiscal year the department received gifts totaling $37,482.50. Of this amount,$23,650.04 was given by individuals. The average giftwas $311.18, and the median gift was $100. The faculty,staff and students of our department are very grateful foryour generosity.

Cash gifts received are used for scholarships, awards,the seminar program and purchase of supplies and equip-ment for which there is not adequate state funding. Also,the costs of publishing the Chemistry & Biochemistry De-partment Newsletter are met with private giving. You maygive an income-tax-deductible gift directly to the depart-ment by making a check to:

CSULB Foundation/Chemistry FundDepartment of Chemistry & BiochemistryCalifornia State University, Long Beach1250 Bellflower BoulevardLong Beach, CA 90840-3903

The Office of University Relations and Development isinformed of all gifts, and you will receive a personal letterof acknowledgement from the department. You might investigate the possibility that your company matches em-ployee gifts. In that way, the value of your gift to the de-partment is multiplied.

If you are contacted by a university representative and a gift is requested, please specify the Chemistry and Bio-chemistry Department as the recipient of your gift, if that is your intention. Thank you!

The total value of gifts to the department, in-kind andcash, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001 was$37,482.50. Gifts from business and industry amounted to$12,562.50 in cash and $1,269.96 in in-kind gifts.

We wish to acknowledge the help of the following per-sons in assisting us in securing gifts for the department: Mr. Donald Ferm, Ms. Jean Kigozi, Ms. Joyce Kunishima,Dr. Ken Marsi, Ms. Patricia Maxwell, Dr. Steve Ruckmick,Mr. James Richards, Dr. Ercan Unver and Dr. Dennis VanWesterhuyzen.

Companies and foundations contributing in-kind and/orcash gifts are listed:

Allergan Foundation*CRC PressDiagnostic Products Corp.* Hypercube, Inc.Lab Support* Merck & Co.National Starch and Chemical Foundation

(Ablestik Labs.)*Raytheon*U.S. Borax, Inc.*

Matching gifts were received from the following companies(employees whose gifts were matched are given in paren-theses):

Boeing* (Dr. Norman Byrd)IBM (Dr. Elizabeth Brinkman)McDonald’s Corp. (Chris Appleton)GlaxoWellcome (Dr. Steve Castellino)

*Companies are members of the Chemistry & BiochemistrAdvisory Council

JeanKigozi

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Eva Morlok

Yvonne Burns

Eric Sundberg

Roger York

Kathleen High

Robert B. Henderson AwardThe Robert B. Henderson

Award was established by Dr. Hen-derson’s family, colleagues andfriends to honor his memory. Dr.Henderson was a member of theChemistry and Biochemistry De-partment from 1955-1983 and adistinguished scientist and teacherof organic and general chemistry.Recipients for this award are cho-sen from among bachelor’s andmaster’s graduates as those bestexemplifying Dr. Henderson’sscholarship and commitment tothe profession of chemistry. Thisyear’s award of $1,000 was pre-sented to Yvonne Burns andDmitry Pervitsky.

Yvonne, a December 2000 BSChemistry and BS Biochemistrygraduate, is employed by Accelrys,a scientific software company andsubsidiary of Pharmacopeia, whereshe works in “inside sales.” Yvonnewill eventually enter an MBA orPhD program. She is also thisyear’s winner of the AnalyticalChemistry Award, the Biochem-istry Award, the Robert B. RhodesAward and last year’s Kelly Scien-tific Resources Award in inorganicchemistry.

Dmitry, who received his MS inChemistry in the summer of 2001under the supervision of Dr. LijuanLi, has continued on to the PhDprogram in chemistry at UC Irvinewhere he will be a research stu-dent of Dr. Bo Hong. Dmitry wasalso honored this year with the

American Institute of ChemistsGraduate Award and was alsonamed to the Graduate Dean’sHonor List. For the past two yearsDmitry has been the Dr. MichaelMonahan Summer Research Fellow.

Kenneth L. Marsi ScholarshipThis $1,000 scholarship, estab-

lished by faculty, staff, family,friends and former students on theoccasion of Dr. Ken Marsi’s retire-ment, is used to defray registrationfees of an outstanding junior orsenior chemistry or biochemistrymajor. This year’s scholar is Eva Morlok.

Eva, a biochemistry major, willbe in her senior year this fall and is a research student of Dr. Doug-las McAbee. She was last year’srecipent of the Spyros PathosAward and a co-recipient of the Diagnostic Products Corp. Award.Eva plans to continue on for herPhD in biochemistry and enter theacademic profession.

Michael Monahan FellowshipThe Monahan Award was estab-

lished through a generous bequestof Dr. Michael Monahan, an alum-nus of our department who re-ceived his BS in Chemistry in1963 and his PhD in 1968 at UCSan Diego in physical organicchemistry. While an undergraduatehe was a research student of Dr.Robert Henderson. He was a dis-tinguished scientist and a memberof the faculty at the Salk Instituteand subsequently a senior researchscientist with Beckman Instru-ments. Dr. Monahan was also thefounder and president of CaliforniaMedicinal Chemistry Corp. In1985-87, following his retirement,he served as a lecturer in our de-partment. According to his will,the income from his bequest is tobe used to support student re-search in our department. This isthe fourth year this $2,500 awardhas been given.

Eric Sundberg, this year’s Mona-han Fellow, will be a senior BSChemistry major in the fall of

2001. During the summer he wasa research student of Dr. Lijuan Li.He also shared the Spyros Pathos Award this year, and last year was the recipient of the FreshmanChemistry Award. Eric plans toenter medical school following graduation.

Spyros Pathos IV AwardThe Spyros Pathos IV Award is

presented annually to a student excelling in the second semester of general chemistry, Chemistry111B. This year is the fifth yearthat the Pathos Award has beengranted. The award is made possi-ble by friends of Spyros Pathos IV,who was an undergraduate chem-istry major in our department at the time of his death in 1993.

Kathleen High and Eric Sundberg are this year’sawardees.

Kathleen is a senior BS Biochem-istry major and a returning studentwho worked previously in businessfor 23 years before enrolling at CSULB. Following graduation sheplans to work for a non-profit envi-ronmental foundation.

Eric Sundberg (see the MichaelMonahan Fellowship above).

David L. Scoggins AwardThis award memorializes David

L. Scoggins, a 1968 BS chemistrygraduate of CSULB and a graduatestudent and teaching assistant inthe Department of Chemistry atthe time of his death in 1969.This award recognizes outstandingscholarship and promise by a grad-uating chemistry or biochemistrystudent who intends to pursue acareer in one of the health-relatedprofessions. The Scoggins scholarthis year is Helene Pao.

Helene, a BS Biochemistry graduate, intends to enter medicalschool. She was last year’s Diag-nostic Products awardee.

John H. Stern AwardThe Stern Award, consisting of

a cash prize, is given in memory ofDr. John H. Stern, internationally known for his work in solutionthermodynamics and author ofmany publications in that field.The award was established by col-leagues, former students andfriends of Dr. Stern, who was amember of our faculty from 1958-1984 and a distinguished teacherof physical and general chemistry.

Roger York, this year’s Stern awardee, is majoring in chemicalengineering and is a junior thisfall. He was a transfer studentfrom Grossmont College in SanDiego, and plans to continue onfor a PhD in chemistry or chemicalengineering. He is currently a research student of Dr. ChrisSlowinski.�

Helene Pao

Dmitry Pervitsky (with daughter, Vera)

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President • 2000-2001by Caroline Carter

Lauren IhdeShaina Magness

Yannis Papastamatiou

Chiharu Kumagai

Jared Ashcroft

Ulf Kiehne

Cheryl Ea Caroline Carter

Chosu Khin

Sotiria Contos

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Chemistry/Biochemistry

Yu Lim

Students

Awards to

The Student Affiliates of theAmerican Chemical Society

participated in a wide variety ofevents during 2000-2001, makingit an interesting year.

SAACS attended the ACS re-gional meeting in San Franciscoduring October, where JenniferGuzzo and Jackie Duvall presenteda poster together on their re-search. In April, we attended theACS 2001 national meeting in SanDiego. We viewed numerousposters, heard speakers presentinga wide variety of topics and metstudents from other schools at theUndergraduate Kick-Off Social.Registration fees and hotel costsfor the meetings were provided bySAACS with money earned by the

Garb Sale, which is held at thestart of each semester.

Once again, SAACS sponsored acanned food drive for Thanksgiv-ing. A decorated box was placed infront of the chemistry stockroomto collect food for the needy.

Several speakers were hostedby SAACS during the year, provid-ing useful information to students.During the fall, Denise Lutz ofKelly Scientific Resources present-ed information on finding a job inthe field of chemistry and the serv-ices that KSR provides. Dr. DonaldReish presented information onparticipating in science internshipsfor school credit. SAACS met withDr. Andrew Fisher, professor ofchemistry at UC Davis, to discuss

graduate school opportunities inchemistry. We also had the oppor-tunity to meet and have lunchwith the Allergan DistinguishedVisiting Lecturer, Dr. CatherineFenselau of the U of Maryland, inMarch.

In May, we attended a field tripto the Hyperion Water TreatmentPlant in Playa Del Rey, sponsoredby the ACS Younger Chemist Com-mittee. We saw (and smelled!) justwhat happens to water after it isflushed or washed down a drain.We were also given a tour of someof the labs of the facility.

SAACS sponsored several socialevents during the year. We partici-pated in the College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics Student-

Faculty mixer in March, handingout fliers and information aboutSAACS to interested students. Dr.and Mrs. Baine graciously hostedboth the end-of-the-semester win-ter party and the spring fling party,an opportunity for students andfaculty alike to relax after thestress of finals. SAACS also hosteda pizza party for students, facultyand staff at Ecco’s Pizza on the lastday of classes in May, where Dr.Baine was presented with a gift inappreciation for his sponsorship ofSAACS. In addition, we continuedto sponsor the coffee and donuthour every Friday morning, wherestudents and faculty are able tomeet informally. �

Students on tour of the Hyperion

Water Treatment Plant in Playa

Del Rey. Left to Right: Caroline

Carter, Gian Gacho, SAACS Faculty

Sponsor, Dr. Peter Baine, Uyen

Dang and Tsu-Chi Hsu.

Freshman Chemistry Award: Yu Lim & Shaina Magness

American Chemical Society Polymer Chemistry Award:Yannis Papastamatiou

Analytical Chemistry Award: Yvonne Burns

Merck Award in Organic Chemistry:Chiharu Kumagai & Lauren Ihde

Biochemistry Award: Cheryl Ea & Yvonne Burns

Inorganic Chemistry Award:Ulf Kiehne

American Institute of Chemists Baccalaureate Award:Jared Ashcroft

American Institute of Chemists Graduate Award:Dmitry Pervitsky

Toni Horalek Award for Departmental Service:Caroline Carter

Hypercube Award: Chosu Khin

Diagnostic Products Corporation Scholarship:Chosu Khin & Eva Morlok

Departmental Honors at Graduation:Sotiria Contos, Matthew Harris & Michael Eagan

Khalil Salem Award:Eddie Correa

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We very much appreciate the time you have taken to inform us about yourselves, and we

always enjoy hearing from you. The information which you send us about your careers is

often shared with students who are considering professions in chemistry, biochemistry,

medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, law, etc. Alumni having both bachelor's and master's degrees

from our department are listed under the year they received their bachelor's degree. To

communicate about the Newsletter or to send information, write to: Dr. Ken Marsi;

Department of Chemistry/Biochemistry, California State University, Long Beach; Long

Beach, CA 90840. FAX: 562/985-8557. E-mail: kmarsi@csulb.edu.

Dr. Oliver M. Brown

BS Chemistry 1966, PhD 1970Kansas State U, is Professor ofPharmacology at the SUNY UpstateMedical University College ofMedicine in Syracuse, N.Y. He isinvolved in teaching and educa-tional administration and is phas-ing out of research. “I do lots ofconsulting on drug-related courtcases, and I am enjoying garden-ing, landscaping, sailing and play-ing with old tractors and old cars.”

Dr. Roger Clark

BS Chemistry 1966, MS Chemistry1970, PhD U of Utah, is a chemistfor the French company, Total, andlives in Pottstown, Penn. Son, Bill,is a software engineer at RationalComputer in Boston and his twinbrother, Jim, is a mechanical engi-neer at American Meter Co. inErie, Penn. Roger and Carol areanticipating Roger’s retirement andare thinking of returning to Cali-fornia.

Dr. Alan Cunningham

Chemistry Minor 1956, MA Biolo-gy 1958, PhD Chemistry UC SantaCruz, has retired from his teachingposition at Monterey PeninsulaCollege after 26 years of teachingchemistry.

Violeta Dadufalza

MS Biochemistry 1967, continuesto work at the Children’s Hospitalof Orange County.

Alan Distefano

BS Chemistry 1968, MBA UCIrvine, is Director, Global Tradeand Investment, with the State ofNevada, Commission on EconomicDevelopment in Carson City, Nev.“In addition to my position withthe State of Nevada, my wife and Iown our own export business. Weexclusively represent six U.S. envi-ronmental companies with ourown distributor network in 20countries in Asia and Latin Ameri-

ca. I also serve on boards or com-mittees of the U.S. Department ofCommerce, the Nevada DistrictExport Council, the Nevada WorldTrade Council and the Internation-al Resource Center of NorthernNevada.”

Dr. Fred Dorer

BS Chemistry 1961, PhD Chem-istry U of Washington, Seattle,now retired as Academic VicePresident from California StateUniversity, Bakersfield, has taken apart-time assignment with theWestern Association of Schoolsand Colleges. He facilitates accred-itation visits and reviews pro-grams. Son, Garrett, works forChemonics International and livesin Cairo, Egypt. Son, Russell, livesin Boston and has completed twoyears of a clinical residency inpathology at Harvard MedicalSchool. He received a HowardHughes Fellowship to do basic can-cer-related research.

Dr. David R. Fagerburg

BS Chemistry 1967, PhD OrganicChemistry U of Washington, is As-sistant Professor of Chemistry atNortheast State Technical Commu-nity College, Blountville, Tenn.“Downsizing in some cases worksout very well. I retired from 29years at Eastman Chemical Co. inDecember 1999 and went intofull-time college teaching in Janu-ary 2000.”

Diane McGann

Chemistry student, MA Instruc-tional Media, teaches at Santa AnaHigh School. Last November shewas coordinator for high schoolstudents’ programs for NationalChemistry Week sponsored by theOrange County Section of theAmerican Chemical Society. In1999 she received the ACS awardfor exceptional teaching service inthe Southwestern United States.

Tim McGauley

BS Chemistry 1968, MS ChemistryCalifornia State U Northridge, isemployed as a chemist with theProduct Assurance Laboratory inPine Bluff, Ark. “We are one of thefew, if not the only, Army installa-tions to have its own productionline, making nearly all the smokemixes used by the Armed Services,as well as flares and incendiaries.We also store about 12 percent ofthe nation’s stockpile of chemicalweapons. I purchased an ocean-going yacht in 1997 and wouldlike to take it out on a trial voyagenext year from its home port of Superior, Wis., to a port in the Gulf.”

Joanne Ehteshamzadeh Myers

BS Chemistry1963, MS Chemistry1967, retired as an employee ofthe California State CompensationInsurance Fund. She recentlyspent time in Germany (see photo)where “those two years of Germanin the ‘60s paid off.” Son, Robert,is a programmer in New York, andson, Raymond, lives in Sacramentowhere he is a jazz musician.Joanne and husband, Bill, live inFresno.

John S. Nelson

BS Chemistry 1969, JD LoyolaUniversity, was the featured speak-er at the January meeting of theOrange County Section of theACS. His topic was “Breast Im-plant Litigation: The Intersectionof Science and Law.” John is a

founding partner of Nelson & Nelson (1995), an insurance defense litiga-tion firm whose cases include toxic torts, construction defect and fraudu-lent personal injury claims. From 1992-1995 he worked at Morgan,Armbrister, Nelson & Nelson, which was one of several defense firmsrepresenting Dow Corning Corp. in the breast implant litigation.

Gilbert Ogle

BS Chemistry 1968, worked for TRW for 20 years in space travel, lasers,combustion and environmental science and is now semi-retired and agolf professional at Alta Sierra Country Club in Grass Valley, Calif.

Dr. Alan J. Senzel

BS Chemistry 1967, MS and PhD Chemistry UCLA, is employed as Pub-lications Manager for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chem-istry in Research Triangle Park, N.C. As such he has responsibility forthe monthly journal, Pure and Applied Chemistry; the bimonthly newsmagazine, Chemistry International; and about 25 IUPAC-sponsored con-ferences held around the world each year. “I’m in my third year asIUPAC Publications Manager. My daughter, Lisa, received her MD fromAlbert Einstein College of Medicine in June and began a residency inclinical pathology. She earned her PhD in neuroscience in 1999. Myson, Richard, works as a statistical analyst for TV Guide in New YorkCity.” Alan and Phyllis celebrated their 32nd wedding anniversary in June.

Gloria Leonard Shelton

BS Chemistry 1968, works as Senior Account Representative for BakerIndustrial Chemicals in Bellingham, Wash. “Tell your students that thereis a great need for ‘chemical generalists’ in the various fields of industri-al water treatment; a little bit of engineering (fluid mechanics) helps.The problem-solving techniques that seem to come ‘naturally’ to mostchemists are very much in demand and not easily taught. And most engi-neers are lacking the understanding of the chemistry of processes—pres-sure and temperature are all they seem to understand!”

Dr. Ted A. Bailey

BA Chemistry 1973, BA Visual Science and OD 1977 Southern Califor-nia College of Optometry, is an optometrist in Santa Cruz, Calif.

Ray Calloway

BS Chemistry 1978, and now retired from Aerospace Corp., continues tovolunteer many hours in the Long Beach Unified School District. “Thereis such a great need. I am able to provide some elementary studentswith an introduction to science that wouldn’t otherwise be possible.”His daughter, Lisa Thompson (BS Chemistry 1995), is a forensic scientistemployed by Orange County.

Dr. Stephen Castellino

BS Chemistry 1979, PhD Chemistry UC Riverside. “I’ve been at GlaxoWellcome for three years in drug metabolism doing LC-NMR to supportpre-clinical and clinical studies. The science continues to be challengingand rewarding. I still enjoy lab work and have tried to avoid confine-ment to an office. Life is pretty chaotic with one son graduating fromhigh school, a daughter and son in middle school and the youngest in el-ementary school. The family and I spend our leisure time cycling, play-ing volleyball and hiking.”

Phil R. Cowan

BS Chemistry 1971, works as a Senior Engineer/Scientist with BoeingAerospace in Huntington Beach, Calif.

Dr. Hideki Goko

MS Chemistry 1977, is Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Kobe Univer-sity School of Medicine.

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Rick Goyt

BA Chemistry 1977, manages a senior housing facility in San Luis Obispo and is building a new senior facility in Templeton, Calif. In his“spare” time he is working toward his teaching credential in chemistry,physics and math.

Stephen Headrick

BA Chemistry 1979, MS USC, is an Integration and Test Manager in Sys-tems Test Engineering with Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Palo Alto,Calif. “I moved back to California in 1993, started working for LockheedMartin and am enjoying myself with as many outdoor activities as I canfind.” Many alumni may remember that Steve was a former Stockroomemployee at CSULB.

Joseph Kaufman

BS Biochemistry 1983, is Vice President for Bioinformatics with AgilixCorp. in New Haven, Conn. “In 1999 I co-founded Agilix Corp., a ge-nomics and proteomics company, in New Haven, Conn. We are develop-ing next generation universal DNA microarrays.” Joe lives in Hamden, Conn.

Dr. Claude Lassigne

BS Chemistry 1970, PhD Simon Frazier U, is Professor of Chemistry anddepartment chair at Kwantlen University College, Surrey, British Colum-bia, Canada. Claude, a bicycling enthusiast, is recovering satisfactorilyfrom a serious bicycle accident requiring extensive surgery.

Dr. Luis Lomeli

BA 1978, MD UCLA, is completing a book titled Dermatology in PrimaryCare & a Visual Perspective of Clinical Medicine. “My medical practiceis thriving, and it allows me to privately finance medical care for theworking poor.” Luis and Diana have two children, Danica (17) andNathan (15). Luis practices medicine in Ontario, Calif.

Dr. Marianne Marsi

BS 1978, PhD Chemistry UCLA, is R&D manager at DuPont’s Central Re-search & Development Laboratories in Wilmington, Del. She managesseveral groups in the Corporate Center for Analytical Sciences that areinvolved in surface science research and NMR technology.

Pat McKay

MS Biochemistry 1979, celebrated his 20th year at Genentech andworks in the Recovery Sciences (Process Development) Department andteaches part time at Skyline College in the evening division. Daughter,Allison (11), received an Academic Achievement Award upon graduationfrom elementary school and enjoys science. Son, Brian (15), will beginhis junior year in high school. “He continues to excel in school, receiv-ing academic awards in geometry (he finished first in his school and10th in the state for the statewide competition), algebra and biology.”

Randall E. Smith

BA 1978, MA West Coast U, is employed as an Engineer Scientist Spe-cialist in Materials Engineering with Boeing in Huntington Beach. Ran-dall worked for Hughes Aircraft before joining McDonnell Douglas in1987. McDonnell Douglas was purchased by Boeing several years ago.

Scott Barker

BA Chemistry 1982, is Sales Director for Gunther International in Cool,Calif.

Dr. Gregory Downs

BA 1981, MD Medical College of Wisconsin, is employed as an anesthe-siologist and critical care physician and lives in Shorewood, Wis. “I en-joyed my time at CSULB without question. I am currently president of a41-member anesthesiologist group in Milwaukee and fly part-time forcharitable organizations in the area.”

Ellen Greenman

BS Chemistry 1984. “Having completed a four-year Landscape Architec-ture Certificate Program at UCLA, I am now phasing out of teaching atHollywood High School and beginning a new career in Landscape Archi-tecture. I hope to be licensed in about another year. It is a very excitingchange! I’ve given 14 years to the public schools and now it is time tomove on. My daughter has embarked on her third year at Berkeley, butis spending this year abroad in Padua, Italy.”

Dr. Larry Manes

BA 1981 Chemistry, PhD UC SantaCruz, is Vice President and Direc-tor of Chemical Manufacturing atGilead Pharmaceutical in FosterCity, Calif. and is also Chief of Sci-entific Operations for the ALSTherapy Development Foundation,a non-profit organization that isdeveloping new therapies for thetreatment of ALS or Lou Gehrig’sdisease. “The foundation’s effortsare now growing rapidly in numer-ous directions related to identify-ing drugs for development fortreatment of ALS.” The foundationhas a web site at www.als-tdf.org.His wife, Cristina Diaz, teaches acourse in marine biology at CalState Monterey. About three yearsago Larry was diagnosed with aslowly developing form of ALS.

Melanie Grady Patterson

BS Chemistry 1978, MS Manage-ment Redlands University. “I spent20 years (1979-1999) working inboth aerospace and pharmaceuticallaboratories. In August of 1999 I

made the decision to leave the 9-5scene to spend more time raisingmy children. During my career asa chemist and Lab Manager, Igained considerable knowledge inthe area of Laboratory InformationSystems (LIMS). This expertise hasallowed me to start my own inde-pendent LIMS consulting servicecalled Lab Data Consulting. I work10-20 hours per week around mychildren’s school schedule. It hasbeen wonderful! When I am notchauffeuring the kids to their vari-ous activities, I spend time volun-teering at the children’s school, atchurch activities and raising thefamily dog. The quality of the edu-cation I received at CSULB hasplayed a major role in my profes-sional success and I shall continueto support the department to showmy gratitude. My husband and Ihave four children: Jasmine, 18(she will be attending CSU Fuller-ton in the fall), Stuart, 15, Renee,9, and Victoria, 8.

Dr. Kenneth Yamaguchi

BS 1980 Chemistry, MS Chemistry1981, PhD Chemistry UC River-side, is Associate Professor ofChemistry at New Jersey City Uni-versity, Jersey City, N.J. “I havebeen busy this year with grant

writing and research and otherprofessional activities.”

Dr. Andrea Baxter

BS Biochemistry 1988, MD U ofOklahoma, and her husband,Derek, are parents of a daughter,Loren Illisa Case (1-1/2). Andreais in family practice in St. Louis,Mo. and was chosen chief resi-dent. She lives in Belleville, Ill.

Tim Brady

BA Chemistry 1987, has a naturo-pathic medicine practice in Whitti-er, Calif.

Dr. Hugh Cecil

Chemistry 1988, MD UC Davis,works in a group practice inKalispell, Mont., where he special-izes in vascular and interventionalradiology. He is also the Chief ofDiagnostic Radiology at theKalispell Regional Medical Center.“We have just purchased a newMRI and have an outpatient imag-ing center in the works. I’ve neverregretted this choice of special-ties.” His wife, Denise, teaches atthe local community college.

Dr. Kerry DeGroot

BS Biochemistry 1988, MDGeorgetown U, and Dr. JacquelineDeGroot announced the arrival ofa son, Pieter Christian, born Jan.14, 2001. Kerry is an anesthesiol-ogist and medical school facultymember at Georgetown U inWashington, D.C.

Dr. Dwayne D. Gergens

BS Chemistry 1987, PhD Chem-istry UC Irvine, is now AssociateProfessor of Chemistry at MesaCollege in San Diego.

Dr. Ray Gritton

BA Chemistry 1987, MD Hahne-man College of Medicine, and Dr.Liva Yates-Gritton announced thebirth of a son, Raymond JamesGritton, Jr, born on Aug. 15, 2000.

Dr. Erich Keller

BS Biochemistry 1989, PhD UCSanta Barbara, is in his secondyear of a fellowship with the Na-tional Institutes of Health inBethesda, Md.

Dr. David A. Lee

BS Chemistry 1989, PhD OrganicChemistry UC Davis, is TechnicalLeader in Performance Additivesand Fluids with Great LakesChemical Corp. in West Lafayette,Ind. “Our products include addi-tives for lubricants and industrialfluids and additives for specialtiessuch as waxes, paints and coat-ings, medicinal applications, etc.”

Dr. Larry Matsumoto

BS Biochemistry 1987, MDCreighton U, is a physician with aperinatal group in Dallas, Texas,and he and Susan and their threechildren are enjoying life in theirfirst new home in Plano.

Dr. Rodney Solgonick

BS Biochemistry 1988, MD UCDavis, is an anesthesiologist withthe Champlain Regional MedicalCenter in Plattesburg, N.Y.

Leo J. Stemler, Jr.

BA Chemistry 1988, is TechnicalSupport Manager for RPS Indus-tries, a Division of Endress +Hauser, Inc., in Brea. Leo is activein the Orange County Section ofthe ACS, having served as SectionChair. “I have had a new challengefor the past two years: stage actingin community theater. The actingexperience is similar to chemistryexcept that the director experi-ments with people and personali-ties instead of solutions and mole-cules!”

Melanie Grady Patterson and family.

Dr. Andrea Baxter, husband DerekCase and daughter, Loren Case.

Dr. Ray Gritton, Dr. Liva-Yates Gritton,and children, Jasmine and Ray Jr.

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Nina Bao

BS Chemistry 1994, MS Chem-istry, is a Lecturer in the Depart-ment of Chemistry & Biochemistry.Nina is completing her credentialto enable her to teach high schoolscience.

Dr. Oren Beske

BS Biochemistry 1994, receivedhis PhD earlier this year from UCSan Francisco and is currently em-ployed by Virtual Arrays, Inc., abiotech company. “I get to thinkabout a lot of different biologicalproblems and how to apply giventechnologies to solve them. In fact,we have just submitted my firstpatent to our lawyers and shouldbe submitting another one soon. Iam running my own group withtwo technicians and plan to hireanother.” He and Michelle are ex-pectant parents and live in Bel-mont, Calif. Visit his web page athttp://oren.gocc.com.

Dr. Rich Charlebois

BS Biochemistry 1993, DO Califor-nia College of Osteopathic Medi-cine of the Pacific, has a medicalpractice in Waterville, Maine. Heand Tracey Gratto, also a CSULBgraduate, have two children,Caleigh (3) and Sagan (1-1/2) andlive in China Lake, Maine on a 4.5acre home site. “I have fond mem-ories of Dr. Marsi, Dr. Steve Mc-Dowell and Dr. Roger Acey.”

Erin Crenshaw

BS Biochemistry 1994, is em-ployed by Merck Human HealthDivision. On March 12 she be-came the mother of a girl, AveryElizabeth.

Dr. Steven Dell

BS Chemistry 1993, PhD Chem-istry Princeton U, is a researchchemist with Novartis in Summit,New Jersey, studying reactionmechanisms by using continuousflow pressurized microwave condi-tions.

Dr. Alec Greer

MS Chemistry 1993, PhD UWyoming, is in his third year asAssistant Professor of Chemistry atBrooklyn College in New YorkCity. “Presently I have two gradu-ate students and three undergradu-ates working in the lab. We arehaving fun with some naturalproducts chemistry and also somephotochemistry. Some of ourphoto-deoxygenation work is remi-niscent of the high-valent iron por-phyrin work that I did with Dr.Marco Lopez back in 1991-93!”

Michael Hall

BA Chemistry 1995, is TrainingSupervisor for the Pacific Maritime

Association in the Port of Los An-geles/Long Beach, and lives in Bel-mont Shore.

Dr. Brian Lafitte

Chemistry Minor 1994, has re-ceived his PhD at UCLA and isdoing postdoctoral research, also atUCLA.

Dr. Mario Meallet

Chemistry Minor 1994, MD Har-vard U, is an ophthalmology resident at the Los Angeles CountyHospital. “I am in my final year of training and am once again ap-proaching a fork in the road. I amleaning toward a future in academ-ics and hope that doors open forme. I am in the process of apply-ing to cornea fellowships acrossthe country, but would like to stayin the Los Angeles area.”

Jon Spencer

BS Chemistry 1994, is a Special-ized Investigator for the CaliforniaDepartment of Health Services,Food and Drug Branch, and livesin Huntington Beach. His work in-volves a combination of science,public service and law enforce-ment focused on the protection ofpublic health. He inspects manu-facturing sites of food, drugs andcosmetics for health complianceand is involved in the licensingand regulation of all aspects ofmanufacturing in these areas. Partof his job entails training manufac-turing personnel in sanitation andstate regulation.

Dr. Jeffrey S. Peterson

Student 1993, BA Business UCBerkeley, received his MA/MDfrom Boston University in 1996and has just completed an emer-gency medicine residency at Stan-ford. “I am currently on the facultyin the Department of EmergencyMedicine and a Fellow in the De-partment of Sports Medicine.”

Dr. David Porzio

BS Biochemistry 1990, MD UCIrvine, has returned to Long Beachafter a cardiology fellowship at theU of Massachusetts. “I have takena position with a cardiology prac-tice at St. Mary Medical Center.My wife, Pam, is planning on car-ing for our son, Luca, until she ob-tains her California medical li-cense. Cousin, Dr. Robert Porzio(CSULB 1994), just moved toMichigan to start residency train-ing in emergency medicine.”

Robert Stevens

BS Biochemistry 1993, begins hisfinal year of law school at Lewisand Clark College of Law in Port-land, Ore.

Kiana S. Tabibzadeh

BA Chemistry 1990, MS Chem-

istry 1994, is Chair of the Schoolof Physical Sciences & Technolo-gies at Irvine Valley College.

Davide Tenaglia

BS Chemistry 1994, MS Chemistry1996, works as a chemist forWindsor Research and Develop-ment, a division of Kodak Poly-chrome in Windsor, Colo. He, wifeJulia and daughter, Olivia (1-1/2),live in Broomfield, Colo.

Dr. Mike Wanger

BS Biochemistry 1990, practicesinternal medicine in Clearwater, Fla.

Dr. Gregory Whitaker

BS Biochemistry 1990, DPM SchollCollege of Podiatric Medicine, re-ceived his DO Degree from NovaSoutheastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Ft.Lauderdale, Fla. He completed arotation at the Long Beach Veter-ans Administration Hospital inLong Beach, followed by a rotation with Dr. Rich Charlebois (BS Bio-chemistry 1993) in Waterville,Maine. He is presently in a surgi-cal residency in Knoxville, Tenn.,to be followed by an anesthesiolo-gy residency. Following his resi-dencies he will enter the U.S. Armyfor four years to complete his med-ical school scholarship obligation.

Daniel S. Brooker

BA Chemistry 1997, is chemistand plant supervisor for Chem-Mex Industries, Inc. in South Gateand lives in Long Beach.

Martha De La Rosa

MS Chemistry 1997, continues herwork on the PhD in Chemistry atUCLA.

Thang Dinh

BS 1995, MS UC Irvine, formerlyemployed by IDUN Pharmaceuticalin La Jolla, is now working at Al-lergan Pharmaceuticals in Irvine inthe Chemical Sciences Depart-ment.

Nancy J. Gardner

BA Chemistry 1995, MS Chem-istry 1997, continues as a Lecturerin the Department of Chemistry &Biochemistry at CSULB. “I enjoybeing involved in the creation of

our new class, Explorations inChemistry. This class is for futureelementary education instructors.Developing experiments and lec-tures is challenging but fun. Iwould like to see this activity be-come part of an outreach program,extending seminars to instructorswho are already teaching elemen-tary school. Next year this newclass will become part of the Ser-vice Learning Curriculum.”

Randal Goff

BS Chemistry 1999, is a PhD stu-dent at Brigham Young Universityin Provo, Utah. He enjoys TAing infreshman chemistry and organicchemistry. Prior to entering gradu-ate school he was laboratory man-ager and general manager for Sher-win, Inc. He is co-author of twopapers in Materials Evaluations Pe-riodical.

Thach Ho

BS Chemistry 1995, MS Chemistry1997, is serving as a lecturer in theDepartment of Chemistry & Bio-chemistry and teaching quantita-tive analysis and organic chemistry.

Gail Jones

BS Biochemistry 1998, is a mathteacher at Granite Bay High Schoolin California.

Shirin Khorashadi

BS Biochemistry 1999, is a phar-macy student at UC San Francisco.“I really enjoy pharmacy schooland am very happy about my deci-sion. UCSF is a great school. Myundergraduate studies at CSULBare helping me a lot, especially or-ganic chemistry and biochemistry.I have recently started to work atWalgreen’s pharmacy during mystudies.”

Phillip D. Marchis

BS Chemistry 1998, is a radio-chemist and Staff Research Associ-ate at UCLA.

Kareem Morgan

BS Chemistry and BS Biochemistry2000, spent the past summer atUC San Francisco engaged in bio-chemical research.

Dr. Bao Thien Vu Nguyen

Student 1997, received his DDSdegree on June 3 from UCLA Den-tal School and began his dental ca-

reer at the Camp Pendleton Ma-rine Base this year. Although Baowas a biochemistry major, he wasaccepted into dental school at theend of his junior year.

Naomi-Trang Nguyen

BS Biochemistry 1998, worked fortwo years in diabetes researchwith Novo Cell in Irvine. She ispresently a volunteer with Ameri-corp, working with the American Red Cross, assisting with disasterrelief in Southern California.

Hiral Patel

BS Chemistry 2000, is employedwith Truett Laboratories, Inc., apharmaceutical company. “Thanksto the CSULB Chemistry & Bio-chemistry Department that givesstudents an opportunity to be cre-ative and think on their own.”

Kevin Phillips

BS Biochemistry 2000, is workingtoward his PhD in physical chem-istry at Harvard U. “I work for Dr.David Liu who started here 1-1/2years ago. We have eight full-timers (seven grads and one post-doc) and six undergrads. Most ofour group’s work is geared towardmolecular-directed evolution;namely, trying to expand the cur-rent techniques of the directedevolution of peptides and nucleicacids to include unnatural smallmolecules as well (see our website: evolve.harvard.edu). So far,my work has been an exercise inorganometallic chemistry…every-thing is water stable but very oxy-gen sensitive, so I have gottenpretty good at air-sensitive work.”

Patrick Pierce

BS Biochemistry 1997, MS Bio-chemistry 2000, is a lecturer inthe Department of Chemistry &Biochemistry.

Joel Daniel Ponce

MS Chemistry 2000, has returnedto Mexico, but is planning to cometo the U.S. again to study for hisdoctorate in chemistry at UCLA.

Gil Ramirez

BA Chemistry 1997, is an inorgan-ic chemist with Montgomery Wat-son Laboratories in Pasadena. Hereports that alumni Carol Jean Beltand Tuan Nguyen are also em-ployed with Montgomery WatsonLaboratories.

Jeffrey L. Rogers

BS Chemistry 1999, BS Geology Uof Missouri, works as a TechnicalSupport Chemist with Litho-Chem,Inc. in Santa Fe Springs. “Mystyrene acrylic coating formula-tions set new performance levelsfor the graphic arts industry.”�

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Jared AshcroftBS ChemistryPhD Program, Rice University

Monty BadgerMS BiochemistryDow Agriscience, San Diego

Brian C. BakerBS BiochemistryMS Biochemistry Program, CSULB

Yvonne BurnsBS Chemistry, BS BiochemistryAccelrys, San Diego

Sotiria D. ContosBS ChemistryMS Chemistry Program, CSULB

Edward CorreaBS BiochemistryUCLA School of Dentistry

Michael J. EaganBS BiochemistryUCLA School of Medicine

Bruce T. GormleyBS ChemistryAblestik Labs, Carson

Frank LeMS Biochemistry Dental School, UCLA

Matthew E. HarrisBS BiochemistryMedical School, USC

Daekeun JooMS BiochemistryMedical School,

U of Cincinnati

Thomas KellyMS BiochemistryBausch & Lomb

Kian Kani

MS Chemistry PhD Program, UCLA

Kareem A. MorganBS Chemistry, BS BiochemistryLaw School

Rolando Alex NunezBS BiochemistryMedical School of University

of Illinois, Chicago

Vipal M. PatelMS ChemistryPhD Program, UCLA

Dmitry PervitskyMS ChemistryPhD Program, UC Irvine

Patrick E. PierceMS BiochemistryLecturer, CSULB

Gene RozumovMS BiochemistryPhD Program, UCLA

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Members of the 2000-2001 Graduating Class with several members of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department faculty.