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Beginning in the Fall of 2004, Bill Wood and I will be the senior chemists at HSU - everyone here bfore we were hired in 1976 has now retired and gone on to other pursuits.
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at the Sixteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium; Santa Clara
University, California, May 2004: Matthew Lincoln (working with Josh Smith),
Fabian Batista (working with Bill Golden), Sadie Solem (working with Bill
Golden and Bob Zoellner), Joan Zoellner (working with Bill Golden and
Bob Zoellner) Stephanie McLaughlin (working with Bob Zoellner), and Luke Hamm (working with Bob Zoellner). They were accompanied by there faculty advisors, Bill Golden, Josh Smith and Bob Zoellner. |
| A number of our students also presented at the CNRS Fifth Annual New & Used Poster Session, including: Fabian Batista, Luke Hamm, Matthew Lincoln, Stephanie McGlaughlin, Jessica Momb, Sadie Solem, and Joan Zoellner. |
 The Humboldt Women in Chemistry Scholarship was not given this year.
The events of September 11 resulted in the donor being called to active reserve duty, resulting in a temporary loss of funding for this scholarship. The founding donor is interested in continuing this scholarship, dependent on future income. If you are interested in helping to reactivate this scholarship contact Rich Paselk. |
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 Noah Johnston is our 2004-2005 Clark Scholar. His proposal involves
the identification of flavor/odor components of honey under the
direction of Kjirsten Wayman. Noah recieved his award certificate
from Kjirsten following our last seminar of the spring semester,
April 26, 2004. |
 Stephanie McGlaughlin
is our 2004-2005 Hanson Scholar. She is pursuing a computational
study under teh direction of Bob Zoellner. Bob presented the award
certificate to Stephanie following our last seminar of the spring
semester, April 26, 2004. |
Each year the publishers of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics sponsor an award of a free Handbook to the "top" student in Chem 109/110 at HSU. This year Chelsey A. Van Scyoc was selected as HSU's winners.
Each year the American Chemical Society (ACS) sponsors an award for the top analytical chemistry student in our department. The award consists of an honorary membership in the Analytical Division of the ACS and an eight month subscription to Analytical Chemistry, one of the world's leading journals of analytical chemistry. This year our awardee was Ayrian Dilts.
| Last year our new President, Rollin Richmond, was able to get special funding to upgrade equipment at Humboldt. As a result the College of Natural Resources and Sciences recieved a few hundred thousand dollars for new equipment. As a result Chemistry was able to get two new badly needed instruments: an HPLC and a FT-IR. |
 HPLC: The department's
primary request was for a new HPLC to replace our Beckman-Altex instrument
put into service in 1981. This instrument has given great service,
but the purpose built computer was failing, and other other components
were also reaching the ends of useful life. We were able to get a
Waters Breeze HPLC System with binary pump, manual injector, dual
wavelength detector, and NT workstation. One of this years graduates,
Jessica Momb, can be seen in the photo using this instrument in the
Biochemistry lab. |
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Our old Perkin-Elmer instrument was taken down to the Physical Chemistry lab where our P-Chem students used it in lab this past Spring under Bill Golden's direction. |
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Both sets of benchs have already seen use. In fact we probably need a couple of more on the fifth floor - we just need a donor! |
| Student Lab Fees: This year the students at HSU voted to impose a lab fee on all students taking laboratory classes. The fees go to the departments offering these classes on a need basis as determined by a Student committee and the CNRS Dean. The funds may only be spent on OE types of expences (expendables, inexpensive items with limited life etc.). This has been a wonderful improvement in funding for our program in its first (Spring) semester. The Chemistry department had over $10,000 in requests approved for the Spring semester. Among other things we were able to purchase new electrophoresis cells for biochem, digital thermometers for the melting point apparatus in o-chem, Eppendorf pipettors, electrodes, an HPLC column, quartz cuvettes, and a variety of chemicals etc. This is expected to be an on-going source of money (as long as the students approve it). It will certainly enhance the students education as it enables us to purchase essential laboratory supplies we could otherwise not afford. |
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| Tom Borgers After two years in the Facluty Early Retirement Program (FERP) Tom has decided to retire completely. Tom will very much miss working with students, and they will miss him as well. Good luck Tom. |
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Bill and Bob Zoellner took a group of students to Santa Clara University this Spring to make poster presentations:
Bill also is co-author on a couple of publications describing his continuing work of flourine compounds:
Other activities include:
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Carol Lasko Carol has writtten a paper on her continuing research on chitosan:
Other activities include:
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Richard Paselk This is my last year of my current stint as Department Chair for Chemistry. Its been an exciting nine years, though its gotten to be considerably more work in the recent past. Of course I had to time it so that I had to do the latest Seven-year Self Study just before I left! And, as last time, it was a "new" version - I seem to have a target on my back which says test-subject. Some of my other activities are listed below:
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Josh took one of his research students to the Sixteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium in Santa Clara University, California to present a poster this Spring. Josh was also co-author on a paper with Kjirsten Wayman and Bill Wood:
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Kjirsten Wayman Kjirsten was co-author on a paper with Josh Smith and Bill Wood:
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As we have come to expect, Bill continues to be very productive in his research area, publishing a number of papers as listed below:
Bill also presented some of his research in two posters, including some great pictures of unhappy banana slugs, at the CNRS Fifth Annual New & Used Poster Session, |
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Robert Zoellner Bob and Bill Golden took a group of students to Santa Clara University this Spring to make poster presentations:
Bob is also is co-author on a couple of publications describing his continuing work of flourine compounds:
Other activities include:
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We would like to thank the many alumni and their parents who have made donations to the Chemistry Department Trust over the years. This year some of these donations were used to match CNRS funds to enable us to purchase our new FT-IR.
For the fourth year in a row a generous alumni donation allowed us to offer two Research Scholarships (our endowment will only currently support one).
If you'd like to share information about what you are doing, professional or career successes etc. please submit information via email to Rich Paselk, rap1@humboldt.edu and I will post them to this newsletter. We are also hoping to put out a print version, so if you want to be put on our mail list drop us a card or email us your address.
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Eight students graduated
2003-2004. Seven are shown just prior to the Spring 2004 ceremony. Pictured
from left to right: Jessica Momb received the Bachelor of Science in
Chemistry, option in Biochemistry, Matthew Lincoln and Fabian Baptista
received the Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, Jessica Hebert received
the Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry, Micheal Smeaton and Annie Carter
recieved the Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a second major - B.S.
in Cellular and Molecular Biology, and Patrick Jimenez received the
Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry. Kathleen Gosnell (not shown) recieved
the Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a second major - B.S. in Oceanography.
Graduation was followed by a reception in the Chemistry Department,
with food and drink provided by the faculty. Graduates, families and
friends showed up for conversation, refreshments, and congratualtions.
FT-IR:
By offering matching funds (about $11,000) from our departmental
trust account we were able to get a second instrument. Our previous
instrument was purchased when we took over the west end of Science
A and was getting rather fragile. Our new faculty have been prevented
from using FT-IR in our brief organic course due to the age and
fragility of this instrument. We have now installed a Thermo-Nicolet
Avatar 370 FT-IR and used it in Chem 328 as well as in Chem 321/2.
This has increased the annual number of student users from 50-60
to 250-260! The new instrument is extraordinarily convenient for
beginning users and so ideal for student use, while allowing very
sophisticated operation by advanced users. Jessica Hebert, one of
this years graduates, is shown using this instrument in the Organic
Chemistry Instrument room.
Student Benchs: During our Department retreat of Spring 2002
we decided it would be nice to provide benchs for students to use
outside of the chemistry labs. The Department recieved two donations
of benches: two for the fifth floor From Darin Price (alumnus and
staff member) and his wife Sandra and two for the third floor from
Rich Paselk and his wife Gail. Darin designed his benchs based on
the benchs in the entry area on the fourth floor of Science A, but
constructed them from walnut and old-growth fir with a natural varnish
finish. Rich was going to build benchs, but then found some nice
Teak benchs at Costco (semi-kit form) for less than the cost of
the lumber, so he and Gail just purchased them. These benchs have
been placed across from the Analytical lab, where you can see a
number of students from that lab using them.