Prior to joining North Carolina State University, Dr. Osteryoung was Professor of Chemistry at SUNY University at Buffalo. Her research interests are in chemical analysis and electrochemistry, in particular, advanced electro analytical techniques and their application to the phenomenology of superficial reactions, the degradation of materials, and the fabrication of microelectromechanical devices. She is the author of about 200 research papers and articles and also has co-authored a text for general chemistry. Her work has been recognized by the Garvan Medal of the American Chemical Society, the Triennial Honorary Member Award of Iota Sigma Pi, the Anachem Award of the Association of Analytical Chemists, and the Schoellkopf Medal of the Western New York ACS. She is a Fellow of the AAAS and was a Guggenheim Fellow and Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton in 1985-1986. Most recently she was awarded the 1998 Pittsburgh Conference Award in Analytical Chemistry. Also, Dr. Osteryoung is to receive the Pittsburgh Conference 1998 Charles N. Reilly Award in Electro analytical Chemistry. Dr. Osteryoung has also served on the faculties of Montana State University and Colorado State University and has held visiting positions at California Institute of Technology, Colorado College, and the National Science Foundation, where she was Program Director for Chemical Analysis, 1977-1978.
Dr. Osteryoung has served on the Occupational Safety and Health Study Section of NIH, the Research Advisory Board on Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace of the March of Dimes, the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the Advisory Board of Analytical Chemistry. She has served in many other voluntary professional activities and is presently Chair of the Analytical Division of the ACS. She received her undergraduate education at Swarthmore College, where she was a Merit Scholar and Dolfinger-MacMahon Summer Fellow, and her graduate education at California Institute of Technology, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. While an undergraduate she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. Her graduate research explored the role of ligand bridging in charge transfer reactions at electrodes. She was born in Pennsylvania and attended public schools in Pennsylvania and in Florida.
She is a 1984 recipient of the Chemical Manufacturing Association's
Catalyst Award for excellence in college chemistry teaching, the 1989 CASE
(Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) New York State
Professor of the Year and National Gold Medalist Award, a recipient of the
1989 Merck Innovation Award, the 1996 Western Connecticut ACS Section's
Visiting Scientist Award and the 1996 recipient of the James Flack Norris
Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of Chemistry. On March
23, 1999 she will receive the 1999 ACS George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical
Education.
She is active in several divisions of the American Chemical Society, having
served as Chair, Program Chair and Treasurer of the Division of the History
of Chemistry. She is currently serving as ACS Councilor, Program
Coordination Conference Advisor, and Chair of the Division of Chemical
Education. She served as Treasurer and Member of the Examinations Institute
Board of Trustees of the Division of Chemical Education for the past twelve
years. She was also Program Chair for the 14th Biennial Conference on
Chemical Education which was held at Clemson University in August, 1996.
She is also presently a member of the Committee on Nominations and
Elections, ACS, and former Associate Member of the Society Committee on
Education, and former member of the Divisional Activities Committee and the
Committee on Meetings and Expositions.
She has presented plenary lectures and named lectureships on at least eight
different occasions. She is presently President of "ChemSource, Inc." a
major effort in chemistry teacher preparation and enhancement funded by the
National Science Foundation, and also of Dwight D. Eisenhower Title IIA
chemical education programs at the College of New Rochelle over the past
seven summers. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Israel (1994-95) where she
lectured at The Hebrew University, The Weizmann Institute of Science and
Shenkar College of Textile Technology. She also did research on ancient
middle-eastern artifacts in collaboration with the Israel Antiquities
Authority, the Israel Museum and the Edelstein Center for the Analysis of
Middle Eastern Textiles and Related Artifacts. She spent Spring, 1995 in
Italy where she studied Italian language and examined Italian medieval
manuscripts.
As a hobby, she enjoys constructing crossword puzzles and has been a
frequent contributor to the Sunday New York Times, SciQuest,
Clinical Chemistry News, American Laboratory, Today's
Chemist and other publications
The dinner will follow at 7:00 p.m. in the North Dining Room. The cost is
$35. Dinner reservations are required either through pre registration or
at the registration desk at the Meeting. Unsold tickets will be available
at the Museum registration table. Seating is limited to 65 for the meal,
but the Museum Cafe, which is catering the meal, is also open for dinner.
Reservations at the Cafe can be made by calling (919) 833-2031.
The presentation by Sr. Mary Virginia Orna, should begin about 8:15 in the
North Carolina Museum of Art Auditorium which has a seating capacity of
270. Seating will be reserved for banquet participants. The presentation
is also open to other members of the North Carolina Section of the ACS and
their guests.
There is no charge either for the tour or for the presentation.
Before appointment as Chancellor at NC State, Dr. Fox was the M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Regents Chair in Chemistry and Vice President
for Research at the University of Texas at Austin. In the latter capacity, she was responsible for administrative support of research, including that conducted in off-campus sites. The portfolio, which included $246 million in sponsored research in 1996-97, extended over a broad range of departments and interdisciplinary units.
Fox was born in Canton, Ohio, in 1947 and received her B.S. from Notre Dame College and her Ph.D. from Dartmouth College, both in Chemistry. After a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Maryland, she joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin in 1976.
Professor Fox has taught in the Chemistry department in courses ranging from lower division to advanced graduate levels. She
was named by UTmost Magazine as one of the "Best of UT Natural Science Faculty" and in 1986 won the College's Teaching Excellence Award. In 1996, she won Sigma Xi's Monie A. Ferst Award in recognition of outstanding mentoring: so far, 27 doctoral and 15 master's degrees have been awarded under her supervision. At the national level, she is a frequent lecturer on science education reform and acts as an advisor to the Association for Women in Science. She has served as co-chair of a NSF/NSB Taskforce on Graduate Education and on NRC, Texas, and Louisiana advisory panels for systemic improvement of K-12 science and mathematics education and teacher training. She chairs
the NRC Committee on Undergraduate Science Education.
Professor Fox is one of the nation's most creative and prolific physical organic chemists, having published over 300 refereed papers, 5 books, and more than 20 book chapters, mostly in organic photochemistry and electrochemistry. Her work has clear application in materials science, solar energy conversion, and environmental chemistry. The quality of this work has been recognized in many awards. She has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society and as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association of Advancement of Science. From the American Chemical Society, she has received the Garvan Award and the Southwest Regional Award, and has been named an Arthur C. Cope Scholar. She has received international research awards and was cited by Esquire Magazine as "Best of the New Generation." She has been a Sloan Research Fellow and a Dreyfus Teacher Scholar.
Professor Fox currently serves on the Council of the NAS, its Governing Board, and the Committee on Science and Education Public Policy. In 1990, after confirmation by the U.S. Senate to the National Science Board, she served as its Vice Chairman (1994-96) and chaired its Committee on Programs and Plans (1991-94). She serves on the Texas Governor's Science and Technology Council, has chaired the Chemistry Section of AAAS, and advises its Center for Science, Technology and the Congress. She has served on advisory panels for the Army, the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. She has served on 14 editorial boards, including a stint as an associate editor of the Journal of American Chemical Society. She serves on boards of the Texas Environmental Defense Fund, Texas Agribusiness Council, Texas Food and Fiber Commission, W.R. Grace, and Oak Ridge Associated Universities and its Foundation.
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"The Chemical Workforce in 2020"
FUNCTION:
Women Chemist's Committee
SPEAKER:
Janet G. Osteryoung, OSU
Director, Division of Chemistry
National Science Foundation and Professor of
Chemistry at North Carolina State University
ABSTRACT:
In 1998, the US population is about three-fourths non-Hispanic and white, whereas in 2020 that fraction will be two-thirds. Changing
demographics of the population of the US have prompted more focused thinking about the composition of the workforce for science and
technology, and for chemistry in particular. The issues are complex, transcending simple notions of inclusion of underrepresented groups
for fairness. They involve the practices and needs of educational institutions at all levels, industry, and government, and also social
issues, such as distribution of income among various identifiable groups. The overall economic health of the country also is based on
the development of a technologically sophisticated workforce. From the perspective of scientists, it is desirable to enlist all of the talent available in the work of moving scientific understanding forward. The challange is to work together across institutional and disciplinary boundaries to help develop the workforce that will benefit us all.
BIOGRAPHY:
Janet G. Osteryoung is Professor of Chemistry at North Carolina State University and Director, Division of Chemistry, National Science Foundation. In the latter position, she is responsible for Federal funds in excess of $120 million to support research and education in the chemical sciences. She was Head, Department of Chemistry, at NCSU from January, 1992 until she began her position with NSF in August of 1994. As Head, she led the Department into a major cycle of renewal and development of both graduate and undergraduate programs.
"On The Scientific Road To Chapel Hill With Professor Robert G. Parr"
FUNCTION:
Parr Symposium Banquet
SPEAKER:
Dr. Mel Levy
Department of Chemistry
Tulane University
ABSTRACT:
This talk will discuss aspects of Professor Parr's accomplishments, including his recent work and personal observations regarding his entry into density-functional theory during the period of his journey from Johns Hopkins to UNC twenty-five years ago. Memorable moments, non-scientific as well as scientific, will be recalled.
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Mel Levy did his postdoctoral research with Professor Parr at Johns Hopkins in the early 70's. He then became a Lecturer at UNC for two
years when Parr first moved there. Levy has taught at Tulane since 1976. Professor Levy is a member of the American Chemical Society and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is on the editorial boards of Advances in Quantum Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, and Progress in Theoretical Chemistry, and has served as one of the guest editors for a very recent special density-functional issue of the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. Levy is the recipient of Tulane's 1998 Arts and Sciences Research Award and of Tulane's
Mortar Board Teaching Recognition in 1997 and 1998. Most relevant, however, is the fact that he married Michele almost exactly twenty-five
years ago in the basement of the Chapel Hill police station
"Doing Chemistry at the Art/Archaeology Interface"
FUNCTION:
Dinner and Tour of the NC Museum of Art
SPEAKER:
Mary Virginia Orna, OSU
Professor of Chemistry
College of New Rochelle
New Rochelle, NY
ABSTRACT:
The archaeological chemical rewards of spending a sabbatical year
in Israel and Italy will be discussed along with modern chemical
methods used to examine both ancient and modern artifacts. The
archaeological work in Israel involved analysis of ancient pigments
and dyes found on excavated materials from caves in the Judean desert
and the ancient fortress of Masada. Textiles from the "Cave of the
Warrior" were examined for their pigment content. The work in Italy
involved examination of medieval artists' manuals for recipes for
blue pigments which were then carried out and characterized with some
surprising results. Additional applications of the methods of
archaeological chemistry to such famous artifacts as the forgeries of
Han van Meegeren and the Shroud of Turin will be discussed, including
some evidence that the radiocarbon date of the Shroud may not be
valid because of fire damage experienced by the Shroud in 1532. Pros
and cons will be discussed.
BIOGRAPHY:
Sister Mary Virginia Orna, O. S.U. (Order of Saint Ursula) is Director of
Educational Services and Editor of Chemical Heritage magazine at the
Chemical Heritage Foundation, having been Professor of Chemistry at the
College of New Rochelle for the past 31 years. She received her Ph.D. in
analytical chemistry from Fordham University. She has lectured and
published widely in the areas of color chemistry and archaeological
chemistry. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Chemical
Education, Color Research and Application, Studies in
Conservation, Analytical Chemistry, Microchemical Journal, Journal of
Biological Chemistry, American Chemical Society Monographs, and various
other journals. She has also authored numerous book chapters and
encyclopedia articles, three books and co-edited six others. She recently
edited a book on Archaeological Chemistry for the American Chemical Society
which appeared in March, 1996.
SCHEDULE
The tour by museum guides will begin at 6:00 p.m. with a brief overview of
the highlights of the Museum Collection. A registration table will be set
in the Main Lobby. Guests will meet guides at the entrance to the lower
Level Gallery. Small groups will be guided through the exhibits while
others sip wine and mingle with other guests at a cash bar that will be set
up near the North Dining Hall. Guests will pay for alcoholic beverages,
but the Meeting will pay for soft drinks. The tour is open not only to
SERMACS registrants, but also to other members of the North Carolina
Section of the ACS and their guests.
"On the Road from Student to Chemist to Chancellor"
FUNCTION:
Banquet for the Undergraduate Research Meeting-in-Miniature Awards and High School Chemistry Teacher's Award
SPEAKER:
Marye Anne Fox
Chancellor,
North Carolina State University
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Marye Anne Fox, a chemist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, is North Carolina State University's 12th chancellor. Appointed on April 9, 1998, Dr. Fox assumed the duties of the top post at the state's flagship science and technology university on August 1,1998.
