Double Bond - June 1998

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Double Bond
June 1998

Have a Restful and Fun Filled Summer
Don't Forget To VOTE

CANDIDATES FOR THE WESTERN NEW YORK SECTION OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR
JANUARY 1, 1999 TO DECEMBER 31, 2000


Chair-Elect Dr. Mary McCourt { } D'Youville

Vice Chair Dr. Luis A. Colon { } SUNYAB

Secretary Dr. Nancy R. Gleason { } Canisius College

Councilor David Nalewajek { } Allied Signal

Member at Large Niagara Falls Dr. Curt Mancuso { } Life Technologies



Voting Instructions:

Please vote for the candidate of your choice, place your coice in an envelope and return by July 10, 1998. Mail to Chem. Office, Canisius College, 2001 Main St. Buffalo, NY 14208

Print your name and provide your signature on the outside of the envelope.

EDITORIAL

Recently the WNY ACS recognized Dr. Esther Sans Takeuchi, Director of Electrochemical Research and Development at Wilson Greatbatch Ltd., for her "creative research resulting in the development of superior batteries for powering implantable cardiac defibrillators and pacemakers. Dr. Takeuchi gave a very interesting talk regarding technologies developed at Wilson Greatbatch Ltd. and how they will impact the future of the health care industry.

Ninety-five people attended the dinner. The group consisted of numerous local dignitaries, a representative from ACS (National), several 50-year members, several previous Schoellkopf medal honorees, many students, officers and staff of the local section, and a large group from Wilson Greathatch Ltd. It certainly was a pleasure and honor of mine to participate in the program and be in the presence of such research talent, technical expertise, and career achievements.

Thanks to the hard work and dedication of Marcia Meredith Galloway, Jim Felger, Randy Leising, Patty Shelley, and Troy Wood, the evening was a great success. The Award Jury of Marcia Meredith Galloway, Larry Fertel, Mary Schreiner and Mariusz Kozik also deserve credit for selecting a very deserving individual, Dr. Esther Sans Takeuchi, for the 68th Annual Schoellkopf Medal.

Thank you all very much for your support of the section!

Mike Brewster, Section Chair

BIOGRAPHY OF CANDIDATES

Voting Instructions

Included in this issue is your ballot for the election of Sections Officers. Check your selections (one or two) for each office and mail the ballot (envelope enclosed) to the Assistant Editor, Patty Shelley. The following people are candidates for office.

Chair Elect

Dr. Mary Mc Court received her Ph.D. in 1988 in theoretical/computational chemistry from SUNYAB. From there she had a post doc at RPCI with Dr. Robert Rein where she continued her computational studies but applied them to biological systems. In 1989, Dr. Mc Court joined the staff of the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute and in 1994 also became an assistant professor of chemistry at D'Youville College. Dr. Mc Court has also been secretary for the ACS for the past two years. Dr. Mc Court's research interests include the study of the structural parameters responsible for the stabilization of multi-component solids as well as the theoretical development of methods for determining protein structures using electron diffraction data. Dr. Mc Court is married and has two children and resides in Snyder, New York. She and her husband are avid collectors of early American primitives and folk art.

Vice-Chair

Dr. Luis A. Colon was born in Cidra, Puerto Rico. He received a B.S. (Magna Cum Laude) in Chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, after which he worked in a pharmaceutical company in Humacao, Puerto Rico (Syntex, F.P., Inc.) as Senior Chemist for five years. He obtained a Ph. D. in Chemistry (Analytical) from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell in 1991 and was a Postdoctoral Associate at Stanford University from 1991-1993. Since 1993, he has been Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His current research interests are in the development of capillary separation techniques for micro- and nano-chemical analysis, and non-invasive sampling techniques for clinical analysis. He is co-inventor in four U.S. patents and three other U.S. patent applications. He has over 30 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and over 100 presentations at scientific meetings and universities. He is also interested in the progress of undergraduate education. He is a mentor for the ACS Scholars Program and provides research opportunities to undergraduate students in the MBRS program. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, Society for Applied Spectroscopy, California Separation Science Society, and the Puerto Rico Chemist Association. He served as the Chair for the Western New York - ACS Young Chemists Committee from 1994 to 1997 and is serving as a member of the Governing Board of the Northeast Regional Chromatography Discussion Group.

Secretary

Dr. Nancy R. Gleason is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Canisius College, where she has been since the spring of 1997. She received her B.A. from Rutgers University, Camden College of Arts and Sciences in 1989 and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (Surface Chemistry) from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1995. Her Ph.D. research involved the study of how water adsorbs and reacts on alloys (transition metal aluminides) used as structural materials. She spent two years as a postdoctoral associate at the University of California at Riverside group. Where her research involved characterizing the chemistry of hydrocarbon fragments on oxygen covered nickel surfaces to determine the mechanism of how the fragments are oxidized and to learn how to control product selectivity for partial versus total oxidation. Since arriving at Canisius, she has been teaching freshman and physical chemistry courses and has recently become the advisor for the Student Affiliation of the ACS at the school. Her research project at Canisius will involve characterizing surface intermediates formed during the hydrodenitrogenation of pyridine over supported NiMo model catalysts.

Member-at-Large Niagara Falls 1999-2000

Dr. Curt Mancuso is currently an Engineering Technical Specialist, developing custom biotechnology products for Life Technologies in Grand Island. From 1992-96 Curt scaled up synthetic organic processes for nine pharmaceutical active ingredients as a Senior Development Chemist and interim Manager of Process Development at Hoechst Celanese in Rhode Island. From 1990-1992 Curt performed research on heterogeneous catalysts for the production of ethylene oxide as a Senior Chemist for Union Carbide in Charleston, West Virginia.

Curt earned his Ph.D. in 1990 and M.S. in 1986 in Chemistry from the University of Chicago, performing the synthesis and analysis of organometallic compounds and measuring the kinetics of selected reactions with Jack Halpern. Curt graduated with honors from Princeton University with an A.B. in Chemistry in 1985 after attending Nichols in Buffalo, NY. Employment during studies included research and teaching assistantships, as well as stints at Pierce & Stevens Chemical, Pratt & Lambert, and The Buffalo Museum of Science.

Curt resides in North Collins with his wife Del Ericson, who is an analytical chemist, their three children, and six horses.

Councilor

David Nalewajek is currently a Senior Research Associate at AlliedSignal. He received his B.S. in chemistry at Canisius College in 1974 and his Ph.D. from the State University of NY at Buffalo in 1978. His postdoctoral was spent at AT&T Bell Labs where his research involved the design and synthesis of multidimensional superconductors. His current research interests are directed toward the development of photo curable materials and interloper organic dielectric substrates.

Since 1987, Dave has served as member-at-large, vice chairman, chairman elect, and chairman of the WNY Section. He has held the position of councilor since 1992. In addition to these positions, he has chaired the Schoellkopf committee and served as National Chemistry Week chairman since 1989.

CONGRATULATIONS

Herman Stone of Williamsville was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree, May 23, at the Bethany College, West Virginia, commencement. He is a chemist, author, lecturer, and administrator who has authored 67 technical papers and holds twenty two patents, many relating to polyurethane foam.

He is a 50+ year member of ACS and served in a number of capacities in the WNY section including chairman in 1967-8 and Councilor in 1968-9.

Senior Chemists

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A Cyberspace Science Milestone: All ACS Journals Now on the 'Net

The launch of 25 Web editions means new features, greater comprehensives, and flexibility for subscribers.

The ACS Publications Division has announced that-for the first time-Internet editions of all 25 of its prestigious journals are available. Officially launched at the ACS National Meeting in Las Vegas, these Web versions include interactive features not available in the print journals and a wide range of subscription options.

"We're providing our members and other scientists with what they've been asking for-Web access to all our journals," said Robert Bovenschulte, director, ACS Publications. "Few, if any, other scientific publishers can match the combination of new features, comprehensives, and flexibility we offer on the Web."



The ACS Web editions contain:

Sigma Two separate formats to view articles: interactive text (HTML) and complete page image (PDF). Users can search and print articles from the entire database starting from 1996 to the present.

Sigma Interactive links to other recognized databases. These include Medline, the Protein Database, GenBank, and Chemport.

Sigma Articles ASAP (as soon as published). Beginning in January 1998, ACS will post journal articles on the Web as soon as they have been peer reviewed, copy edited, and checked by authors for accuracy. That will allow subscribers to see "published" articles several weeks before they appear in the pages of a printed journal.

The editions come with flexible pricing, so subscribers pay only for as much or as little information as they need," said Bovenschulte.

For ordering and price information call 1-800-333-9511 or 1-614-447-3671, or travel to the ACS home page and click on "About Electronic Editions" at http://pubs.acs.org.

AMHERST CHEMISTRY STUDENT EARNS CHANCE AT INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION IN AUSTRALIA

Tom Snyder from Amherst Central High School, a student of Mr. Paul Graf, has been selected as one of the 20 finalists in competition for a place on the four-person United States team for the 1998 International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) in Melbourne, Australia. The announcement was made by Dr. Mariusz Kozik, associate professor of chemistry at Canisius College, local IChO coordinator. The finalists were selected from almost 900 outstanding high school students nationwide who were chosen from an original pool of about 10,000 students competing in exams administered by 145 ACS local sections. The twenty American finalists, including Tom Snyder, will meet for a two-week study camp in June at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. At the conclusion, the four top students will be named to represent the U.S. in Australia, at the international contest with teams from 46 other countries.

In the WNY tradition of outstanding success in the IChO, Tom Snyder is the eleventh finalist from WNY since the region entered the competition in 1985. Tom also qualified to the study camp last year. Past finalists include a gold, a silver, and two bronze medalists in the international finals. Only two (out of 145 participating) other sections in the U.S. have a better record, and the higher ranked sections include regions of the U.S. with much larger populations.

The International Chemistry Olympiad originated with several East European countries in 1968. Western Europe began participating in 1974. The first U.S. team competed in 1984. Each country sends four contestants and two coaches to the host country for seven days of exams, lectures, recreation and tours. Last year the international finals took place in Montreal,Canada, where the U.S. team earned one gold, two silver, and one bronze medal.

The Western New York Section's participation in the IChO was sponsored by Allied Signal Inc., E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., the Chemistry Department of Canisius College, Starks Associates, Wilson Greatbatch, Praxair, Ecology and Environment, Oxy Chem, and CRA Services.



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