USC CHEMIST
A Newsletter for Alumni and Friends of the Department
Fall 2004
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of South Carolina
Dr. Jerome Odom Returns
to the Chemistry Department
A
fter seven years of serving as provost
for USC, Dr. Jerry Odom is returning
to his faculty post in the Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry in August. After
a sabbatical in the fall semester, Dr. Odom will
once again be teaching and researching in the
chemistry department.
As provost, Odom has been involved in
recruiting and hiring fifteen deans and two vice
presidents for research, as well as creating the
position of chief information officer and hiring
the first CIO. The quantity and quality of the
undergraduate student body has increased during his tenure. He worked to increase the number of minority faculty members, chaired the
Strategic Directions and Initiatives Committee,
and has had a strong influence on the University
Foundations. He also presented a joint plan to
the deans for hiring faculty using research and
tuition funds.
“In baseball parlance, Dr. Odom is both a
good starter and a good closer,” said Dr. Susie
VanHuss, president of University Foundations.
“In addition, he is a great team player. He has
consistently given both his time and energy at
Dr. Jerome Odom is presented an award from the
Graduate Council chair Dr. Murray Mitchell at the
Aug. 2004 graduation.
the critical moment to make initiatives come
to fruition. With his background of more than
30 years of teaching and administrative experience, Jerry Odom was able to capitalize on a
tremendous well of institutional knowledge
and administrative skill to make good things
happen. One of his greatest contributions has
been his quiet initiatives to attract and retain
excellent faculty at the University.” VanHuss
adds that Odom participated actively in the
University Foundations and kept them abreast
of both the many exciting things happening at
the University and the many challenges facing
the University. He assisted them in focusing on
University priorities and, through his leadership,
garnered significant foundation support for those
priorities.
At the board’s invitation, Odom has agreed to
serve on the Educational Foundation as a representative of the faculty.
In the years before Odom left the department
to assume his position as provost, his primary
research interests were, as an inorganic chemist,
Group 13–15 materials, multinuclear NMR studies, selenium and tellurium chemistry, 77Se and
125Te NMR studies of bio-organic and biological
molecules, and selenium as a probe for the structure of biomacromolecules.
Odom greatly looks forward to his return to
the department. “While serving as dean and provost since 1994, I have been somewhat removed
from my true academic home, and it is time for
me to return. Faculty in the department are wonderful colleagues and I have truly missed day-today interaction with them,” said Odom. “After a
sabbatical during the fall 2004 semester, I also
look forward to returning to teaching. It is my
understanding that I will be teaching CHEM 111
Odom cont. on pg. 8
Chemistry Faculty Members Receive Prestigious
Award Two Years in a Row
It’s a great honor to have even one faculty member win the prestigious Governor’s Award for
Excellence in Science, but the faculty of USC’s
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry have
now seen a faculty member win the award for two
consecutive years.
The most recent winner, in 2004, was Dr. John
Baynes. Baynes researches biomarkers of aging
and chronic disease, as well as the chemical basis
for the pathology of diabetes, atherosclerosis, and
aging. He works with his wife and co-investigator,
Dr. Suzanne Thorpe, who is a research professor
of chemistry and biochemistry. Their laboratory
applies analytical biochemical techniques to the
characterization and measurement of trace chemical modifications of tissue proteins, particularly
compounds that are useful as biomarkers of disease and that provide insight into mechanisms of
disease and response to therapy.
“This is overwhelming,” said Baynes, a Carolina Distinguished Professor. “It makes me feel
proud of myself but also appreciative of my lab
group of nearly 30 students who have earned master’s or doctoral degrees with me, plus a number
of collaborators, especially my wife and co-investigator, Susan Thorpe, and my colleagues at USC.”
Dr. Richard Adams, who won the award in
2003, felt greatly honored as well. “The recog-
Dr. Daniel Reger, Gov. Mark Sanford, Dr. John Baynes,
Dr. Susan Thorpe and Dr. Harris Pastides.
nition is a testament to the quality of research
conducted at USC and an inspiration to pursue
Award cont. on pg. 7
From the Chair
At the start of another academic year, I am happy to report
that the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is doing
very well in all aspects of its mission. Our research funding
increased dramatically, such that in the last fiscal year we
received $6,637,444 in new grants. We currently have eight
NIH grants and ten NSF grants as well as major funding from
other federal agencies such as the DOE, DOD, FBI, and EPA.
The reasons for this outstanding funding record are that we
have a high-quality faculty that works together on many collaborative grants and great graduate students and postdoctoral
fellows.
We have been in our new building for four years now, and
the state-of-the-art facilities are also very important. In addition, we have a number of outstanding research and teaching
support facilities, most notably the NMR Center, the Mass
Spectroscopy Laboratory, and the X-ray Crystallography Center, all staffed buy high-quality, mostly Ph.D.-level, specialists. One particularly exciting development this year was the
purchase of a mass spectrometer and robotics system designed
for carrying out proteomics research. This facility, supported
financially by six different units on campus, will have a major
impact on future biomedical research at the University of
South Carolina.
While we did not hire any new faculty this year, our three
hires that started in August 2003 have all established vigorous
research programs with multiple graduate students, postdocs
and undergraduates working on their research projects. This
year, we anticipate trying to add three new faculty. In addition, Jerry Odom, who has been provost of the University
for the last seven years, has returned to full-time status in the
department. While our faculty won a number of awards, one
outstanding award was the Governor’s Award in Science to
John Baynes—with Rick Adams winning that award last year,
our department has achieved a level of recognition with no
precedent in the state (we have
two other winners of this award
on the faculty). Also notable was
that Dr. John Dawson won the
2004 Southern Chemist Award of
the American Chemical Society.
It appears that after three
years of difficult financial times,
we have bottomed out and are
actually on an upslope. The UniDr. Daniel Reger
versity of South Carolina is clearly
focused on building its research
base, and as a top research unit we are getting solid support.
In addition, we have been able to couple our teaching mission
with budget increases because mounting numbers of undergraduates are taking our courses. Part of this increase comes
from a dramatic increase in the number of majors—up to 198
overall, nearly a doubling over the past four years. We have
always used our best teachers in the large service courses
such as introductory or organic chemistry, and this emphasis
on high-quality teaching is literally “paying off.”
Our teaching and research mission is supported by an outstanding staff. We are truly fortunate to have dedicated people
keeping the unit organized and running on all cylinders. It is
a daunting task to keep track of all our grants and research
personnel, organize multiple seminars every week, and keep
our equipment and computers running. Our stockroom is an
amazingly efficient operation, and the support that the graduate director, undergraduate director, and myself get on a daily
basis is truly magnificent.
USC CHEMIST
A Newsletter for Alumni and Friends of the Department
USC Chemist is written and edited by Alice Hartzog, with help on
this issue from Stephen Morgan, Daniel Reger, and Barbara Wachob.
To contribute alumni news or feedback, go to our Web page, www.
chem.sc.edu/news/alumni/alumniinfo, or follow the links from the
chemistry department homepage, www.chem.sc.edu. You may also
e-mail chemgradoffice@mail.chem.sc.edu or write to USC Chemist, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South
Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208.
Department Purchases Mass Spectrometry System
through Interdepartmental Cooperation
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry has been able to purchase
a MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometry system. Through Dr. Dan Reger’s
efforts, the funding to purchase the MALDI was raised through interdepartmental cooperation.
The equipment is a Bruker Ultraflex MALDI-TOF/TOF, which is a
matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometer
with high-energy tandem MS capabilities for analysis of biomolecules and
synthetic polymers. This instrument will be used primarily as a proteomics
service instrument, but it also does polymer analysis.
“I commend Dan Reger for his efforts in garnering support for the purchase of this equipment from a broad array of researchers at the Univer­sity,”
said Dr. Harris Pastides, vice president for research and health sciences.
“The decision to fund this equipment was made much easier due to the
broad base of support he had. I recognize the effort put into obtaining the
spectrometry system, and I appreciate [his] contributions to the University’s
research and academic mission.”
“It brings new capabilities and allows us to do new experiments,” said
Dr. Mike Walla, director of the Mass Specrometer Center. “It’s a way of
getting molecules ionized that we didn’t have before. It has some unique
advantages over other ionization techniques.”
In order to purchase the new spectrometer, the Mass Spectrometry
Center saved money for several years. Over time, they accumulated around
$100,000, and then department chair Dan Reger raised the rest from many
units on campus who need this research capability. “He grew that $100,000
into $500,000 by shopping it around to different departments. In the initial
survey that we sent out, around 20 people were interested,” said Dr. Bill
Cotham, associate director.
Several different units came together to buy the equipment: G. Thomas
Chandler from public health, Franklin Berger from the Colonial Center,
Sarah Woodin from the biology department, Gordon Colston Baylis from
Dr. Bill Cotham, with the new MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometry system
psychology, Donald Allen from basic science at the USC School of Medicine, Michael Amiridis from chemical engineering, the College of Pharmacy, the College of Science and Mathematics, the College of Liberal Arts,
and the College of Engineering and Information Technology.
Although the instrument is now operating, the associated robotics have
not yet been installed. “We hope to be fully operational within the next few
months,” said Cotham.
“The new capabilities provided by this instrument will be especially
useful in the area of proteomics,” said Dr. Lee Ferguson, the Mass Spectrometer Center’s technical advisor. “There is a great demand by researchers on campus for protein identification and characterization by mass
spectrometry, and now with the new MALDI-TOF/TOF system and the
complementary robotics equipment we are positioned to fill that need.”
Dr. Angel Named Weissman Chair
Dr. Mike Angel has
been named the
Fred M. Weissman
Chair in Chemical
Ecology.
The Weissman
chair was established by Frederick
M. Weissman, MD,
in 1989 as one of
Dr. Michael Angel
several endowments to support the
University’s educational mission.
Dr. Angel is a graduate of North Carolina
State University, where he earned a Ph.D. in
1985. After a postdoctoral at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1985 to 1986,
Angel became a research scientist there and was
later appointed group leader of the advanced
measurement sciences group. He joined the faculty of the USC chemistry department in 1993.
His research specializes in the development of in
situ characterization techniques including fiberoptic chemical sensors and remote spectroscopy
including Raman, LIBS, and REMPI, and of
particular interest is the application of optical
spectroscopic techniques to environmental process-chemical and planetary science problems.
Recently, his lab’s interest has been focused on
deep-ocean LIBS measurements and planetary
measurements using Raman spectroscopy. LIBS
provides information on major element composition while Raman allows molecular analysis.
“What I’m most happy about is that this
chair has been brought back into the Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry,” said Angel.
The Weissman chair was previously held by Dr.
Bruce Dunlap, who left the department to accept
a position as dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences at Florida International University in
August 2003.
The Weissman professorship was established by Frederick M. Weissman, MD, a New
York City neurologist who graduated from the
University of South Carolina in 1936 with a
degree in chemistry. The chair was established
to recognize the chemistry department and to
enhance the salary of a faculty member involved
in interdisciplinary ecological and environmental
research.
Dawson Receives Prestigious Honors
Dr. John Dawson has received the 2003 Southern Chemist Award from the American Chemical Society, as well as the prestigious Carolina
Trustee Professor Award.
The 2003 Southern Chemist Award recognized Dawson’s accomplishments in bio-inorganic chemistry,
specifically
his investigations of oxygen-activating
heme enzymes
and the use of
spectroscopy
to determine
the coordination structure
of heme centers
Dr. John Dawson
in proteins.
The award,
presented annually by the Memphis Section of
the ACS, recognizes one outstanding chemist
in the southeastern United States. The Southern Chemist Award, awarded since 1950, was
presented to Dawson on December 17, 2003, in
Memphis.
On April 29, 2004, Dawson also received
the Carolina Trustee Professor Award. “As the
winner of this award in 2000, I feel that I have
a very good sense of what must be accomplished to receive this award,” said department
chair Dr. Dan Reger. “John has achieved a
very high level of excellence in all three areas
[teaching, research, and service] and is, in my
estimation, an ideal candidate for the Carolina
Trustee Professor Award.”
Dawson joined the chemistry faculty in
1978 following his studies at three of the most
prominent institutions of higher learning in the
country: Columbia, Stanford, and CalTech.
His career got off to a very strong start and
in 1982–83, as his research at the University
began to be regularly published in the top
journals of his field, he also began receiving
honors for his accomplishments. He was named
an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, the first
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher/Scholar
at the University, and an NIH Research Career
Development Awardee. In the mid 1980s he
was selected to contribute important review
articles to a special issue of Chemical Reviews
on Frontiers in Biological Chemistry and in Science on Frontiers in Chemistry. In 1987 he was named Carolina Distinguished Professor, a position he still holds. In
1988, at age 38, the University recognized him
with the Russell Award for Research Excellence
in Science and Engineering, and he also was
named Outstanding South Carolina Chemist
by the S.C. section of the American Chemical
Society (ACS). The next year he was elected
a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the organization that
publishes Science.
In the 1990s Dawson continued to be recognized as a research leader at the University
with the receipt of the School of Medicine Basic
Science Faculty Research Award and at the state
level with his receipt of the Governor’s Award
for Excellence in Science Discovery in 1997.
At the national and international level, in 1993
Dawson was named to the International Science
Advisory Committee for the International Conferences on Cytochrome P450, a very important
conference series pertaining to his research on
P450. He is still a member of that committee. In
1997 he was chair of the first conference of that
series held in the United States—a measure of
the respect with which he is held by the leaders
of that research area.
In 1996 he was selected to be editor of the
Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, published by
Elsevier, a position he still holds. This journal
is the oldest and most well-established specialty journal covering the area of bio-inorganic
chemistry. In 1998 he was elected chair of the
Bioinorganic Subdivision of the ACS Division
of Inorganic Chemistry for 2000 (chair-elect
in 1999). In this position, he worked on behalf
of all bio-inorganic chemists in the ACS to
promote that subdiscipline at national meetings
and the like. Continuing to publish numerous
research articles in the top journals of his field,
he was again selected to contribute a review
article for a special issue of Chemical Reviews
on Bioinorganic Enzymology organized by two
leading researchers in that subject, one from
Harvard and the other from Stanford.
Since the start of his research career, John
has published more than 150 research and
review papers, most in the top journals of
chemistry, biochemistry, and bio-inorganic/
biophysical chemistry. He has been invited to
lecture at 78 conferences and at more than 150
universities around the world. He has garnered
more than $5.3 million to support his research,
including current annual funding of $344,372.
Dawson has also served the department and
the University. For nineteen years, he was chair
of the Department Graduate Admissions Committee. “We compete with many other graduate
programs for outstanding students, making this
committee the most important in the department. John was very effective in leading this
effort. Nearly a third of the 152 lectures that he
has given at universities over the past 26 years
were done specifically for the purpose of graduate recruiting,” said Reger. “Many of our Ph.D.
graduates, including USC Research Foundation
managing director Dr. Anthony Boccanfuso,
would tell you that they came to the University
of South Carolina for their graduate studies
because of John’s efforts to recruit them.”
Dawson is also a very respected teacher of
biochemistry. “John is recognized as an excellent teacher and has received good evaluations
from students as well as from his colleagues
during Peer Review of Teaching,” said Reger.
Dawson has established and maintained a
highly productive, internationally recognized,
and well-funded research program. Evidence
of his strong reputation in his research field
comes from the many awards he has received
as well as his selection to contribute noteworthy
review articles, to organize a major international
conference, to serve as editor of an important
journal, to serve on the editorial board of J.
Biol. Chem., to chair an ACS subdivision, and
to chair a Gordon Research Conference.
“The recognition that I have received is the
result of the hard work and dedication of the
many exceptionally capable graduate students
and talented undergraduates who have worked
in my lab over the years together with the
crucial insight and key contributions from my
long-time co-worker, Research Professor Dr.
Masanori Sono,” said Dawson. “In recent years,
I have also benefited from fruitful collaborations with faculty colleagues Tom Bryson and
Lukasz Lebioda.”
CHEM 401 and 701 Help Students Explore Careers
Many students don’t get a chance to peer into
their future and see what sort of careers would
fit well with the knowledge that their degrees
give them. Chemistry and biochemistry majors,
however, have the chance to get a sneak peek
at what the world of chemistry has in store for
them after they graduate.
CHEM 401, an industrial chemistry capstone
experience, is being taught for the second time
this fall 2004 semester by Dr. Jim Hendrix and
Dr. Steve Morgan. The course is designed to
prepare undergraduate chemistry and biochemistry students for future roles in the private
sector or graduate school. A companion course,
CHEM 701, is designed for graduate students.
Hendrix and Morgan developed the courses at
the suggestion of the Department of Chemistry
and Biochemistry’s Industrial Advisory Board,
which is composed of chemistry faculty and representatives from industry in South Carolina.
Industry’s interest in the course is very
strong, so strong in fact that two companies,
Borden Chemical and ParaChem, have made
financial contributions of $500 each to support
out-of-pocket costs incurred by bringing guest
lecturers to visit and speak to the class. CHEM
401 is designed for all chemists and biochemists, not just future industrial chemists.
The “chemical industry” represents a broad
spectrum of career opportunities available to
chemists and biochemists in the industrial,
medical, government, and academic communities. Students may find employment in
manufacturing, marketing/sales, or research.
The course helps prepare students for making
more informed decisions about their prospective
careers and teaches them to find job opportunities more effectively.
Instead of the traditional classroom lecture,
students work in teams to accomplish the objectives of the course. By working in teams, much
more can be accomplished. The student teams
complete four instructive projects, report on
the projects orally to the class, and report on
the projects in written form to the instructors.
Through judicious selection of project themes,
students can tailor the course to provide valuable
insights into their individual proposed career
choices.
The projects assigned to the students include
the following: 1) identify companies, organizations, institutions, etc. that hire chemists and
biochemists. Learn about what these companies
do, where they are geographically located, how
they are organized, what products they produce,
Alicia Hasse, Sally Stephens, Jovan Wright, and Christina Young discuss ideas in CHEM 401.
and what roles chemists and biochemists play
in these companies; 2) understand the chemistry/biochemistry practiced by a company, lab,
or institution that is of particular interest to students in the team; 3) develop a profile of a new
product (e.g., drug, dyestuff, polymer) from its
conception through development, manufacturing
scale-up, and introduction to marketplace; and 4)
develop a personal portfolio of skills and experiences, a career plan, and an effective resume.
The courses meet twice weekly. Each week,
one class period focuses on team reports while
the other day is devoted to a guest speaker. The
guest speakers address topics of interest to the
team projects and are professionals (often a
CEO, president, or vice president of a major
company or institution) with whom students
can interface. Through the invited guest speaker
program students create at least a dozen contacts with whom they can begin to network.
The focus on team reports helps the students to
develop strong skills in oral and written communications, and near the end of the semester
the course concludes with two days of mock
interviews.
The students in the fall 2003 class reported
that CHEM 401 was very helpful in developing
their career paths and finding job opportunities.
“I was in the application process for graduate school, but was not sure what I wanted to
do afterwards,” said Elizabeth Enlow, a USC
chemistry graduate who took CHEM 401 last
year and is currently in graduate school at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
studying polymers. “My tentative plan was to be
a professor at a university, and I wanted nothing to do with industry. In CHEM 401, we had
many speakers from a wide variety of industries.
I realized that a chemist in industry does not
have to be a man in a white lab coat hunched
over a bench in some monotonous task. These
people had interesting, challenging jobs. Once I
realized all the possibilities available in industry
to someone with a chemistry degree, I changed
my goals. Leaving this class, I felt much more
informed and ready for the real world.”
The USC Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry encourages its alumni to attend
the Spring 2005 Seminar Series.
All seminars are held at 4 p.m. in the Jones
Physical Science Center, Room 006. Refreshments will be served at 3:45 p.m. Here is a
list of the distinguished speakers who will be
presenting seminars in spring 2005. Please
keep in mind that all speakers are subject to
change. For an up-to-date listing, please check
our Web site at www.chem.sc.edu.
Feb. 11: Dr. Robert Strongin,
Louisiana State University
Feb. 18: Dr. Robert G. Salomon,
Millis Science Center, Case Western Reserve
University
Feb. 25: Dr. Bridgette Barry,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Apr. 8: Dr. Christine Keating,
Pennsylvania State University
Apr. 15: Dr. Sophia Hayes,
Washington University
Apr. 22: Dr. Royce Murray,
University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
(Lipscomb Lecture)
Apr. 29: Dr. Barry Sharpless,
H. Willard Davis Seminar, Nobel Laureate
Chemistry Scholar Praised for Master’s Thesis
Sometimes the most extraordinary achievements
are discovered long after they occurred. For
Helen Mappus Riley, this day came nearly 20
years after her death.
Riley earned a bachelor’s degree from the
College of Charleston in 1931 and a master’s
degree from the USC Department of Chemistry
and Biochemistry in 1935. She wrote a master’s
thesis on the phosphate industry in South
Carolina that caught the eye of Tom Fetters, a
researcher for Piedmont and Northern.
“This is a most extraordinary work and
appears to be the only genuine historical study
of what became the world’s greatest phosphate resource at the time. It helped bring both
Charleston and South Carolina back to economic
life when they most needed it, during the time of
reconstruction,” said Fetters.
According to Fetters, beginning in 1867 and
up to about 1900, when the Florida fields took
over the market, the phosphate exploitation at
this most critical time put more than 300 ships
out to sea from Charleston, sailing to critical
markets in the United States, France, England,
Germany, Belgium, and Holland. Royalties from
the “river-rock” variety that was shipped overseas brought in $208,842 to the state treasury
from the producers in 1887 alone. The next year,
some 190,274 tons of river rock were mined for
export at or near Charleston.
“My own interest in railroads in South Carolina led to fact-finding that resulted in my getting
a copy of the thesis by interlibrary loan,” said
Fetters. “I was amazed at the facts and statistics
involved with this industry that rose and fell in a
30-year period. This is not to say that Charleston
did not continue to manufacture fertilizer, but
there was no longer any phosphate mining in
the Charleston and Berkeley County area. I well
recall the huge sheds in the “neck” above the
Charleston city limits in the 1950s. Some highly
significant areas were once hotbeds for phosphate mining: Drayton Hall, Middleton Gardens,
PonPon, Johns Island, and Bees Ferry. These are
all seemingly oblivious to their industrial past
that pulled the area out of a severe economic
slump and led to hundred of jobs.”
Riley died in 1985, and the department has
been unable to find any of her living relatives.
However, the department would like to commend
Riley on her unusual achievement and would like
to thank Tom Fetters for such a great recognition
of one of our alumni.
If you are a relative or friend of the late Helen
Mappus Riley or know one of her relatives
or friends, please e-mail Alice Hartzog at
chemgradoffice@mail.chem.sc.edu. We would
be very happy to hear from you.
Beloved Former Staff Member Dies
This year, the Department of Chemistry
and Biochemistry
said goodbye to
administrative
assistant Stephanie
Wilson. Wilson, who
died on Aug. 16,
2004, after a long illness, retired from the
Stephanie Wilson
department in January
2003 after being with us since October 1985.
Business manager Sam Burgess was one of
the many colleagues who enjoyed working with
Wilson. “She was a warm and sincere person, the
kind of co-worker who truly enjoyed helping and
serving others,” said Burgess. “Because Stephanie is not here anymore, it seems like part of the
department is missing. I considered her not only
an outstanding co-worker, but a close friend.”
Dr. Stephen Kistler adds, “Stephanie was
with the department for such a long time that it
is a bit hard to find faculty who remember her
early days. While Stephanie was good technically, the really special thing about her was her
personality. She was just so pleasant to deal with
that your day was always a bit more sunny after
talking with her. Any request was always met
with a smile and a cheery reply. Stephanie was
not a very loud person, and she could be easy to
overlook if you did not have a reason to talk to
her. But if you did speak with her, you always
felt happier for it. She will certainly be missed,
especially by those of us who were lucky to
know her for nearly two decades.”
Before her death, we spoke with Wilson, and
she reflected on her years with the department.
She was initially hired as a word processing
operator but stayed on to see the department
through many changes. When she began, Dr.
Jerry Odom was the department chair and Dr.
Robert Philp was assistant chair. “My major
duty those days was typing for the chemistry
professors. We typed manuscripts, exams, correspondence, handouts,” said Wilson. She added
that one of the most challenging things that she
had to learn to do was draw chemical structures.
“At first it was difficult, since I knew absolutely
nothing about chemistry. But as time progressed,
it became increasingly easier.”
Wilson added that the office structure
changed during the years. “At first, there was the
office manager, three word processing operators, a bookkeeper, and a business manager. A
receptionist was later hired to cover the front
desk. As the office continued to grow, more and
more responsibilities were generated and our
titles were eventually changed to administrative
assistants,” said Wilson. “I won’t list the different responsibilities that were added to our job
descriptions, but I will say that we became a lot
more than just word processing operators!”
Other changes that Wilson saw through the
years included personnel and student changes.
“Just thinking back through the years I was
employed here, I was able to see four chairmen,
three assistant chairmen, four office managers,
and many professors come and go,” said Wilson. “I also saw hundreds of graduate students
come and go and most received their Ph.D. and
master’s degrees and left to make their marks in
the world of chemistry.”
The department was blessed to have Wilson
as such a wonderful and dedicated staff member,
and her presence is very much missed.
In Memoriam
The wives of two longtime chemistry faculty
members passed away this year. Mary Davis,
the wife of former professor Dr. Willard Davis,
and Patricia Teague, the wife of the late graduate director Dr. Peyton Teague, were both very
involved with the department and well-liked by
their husband’s colleagues.
“When we bought our house in 1962, I went
over to look at it, and it had one of these large
bushes with bright red flowers on it, and Mary
cut off a piece and gave it to me. She was just a
great lady,” said Dr. Robert Bly. Mary and Willard Davis were married for more than 65 years.
Pat Teague was also very involved with the
department, and she even attended a few of the
department’s receptions after her husband’s
death in 1998. “Pat was like the queen mother
to the department of chemistry,” said Dr. Scott
Goode. “Regal, yet down-to-earth, she saw this
department grow from a sleepy half-dozen to a
158,000-square-foot research facility.”
Roscoe Breazeale (BS, MS ’38) died on July 2,
2004, at the Wesley Commons Healthcare Center in Greenwood. He was a World War II chemical staff warfare officer before retiring as an
Air Force lieutenant colonel. In 1950 he began
work as a research chemist for American Enka
of Asheville, N.C., then taught organic chemistry
at Clemson University from 1952 to 1956. He
retired as vice president of Sun (Sequa) Chemical Corp of Chester, S.C., where he worked from
1956 to 1983. He is survived by his wife, children, grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
Walter Pye (Ph.D. ’78), a former graduate student
of Dr. Thomas Bryson, passed away on March
7, 2004. He completed his postdoctoral studies
at Fordham University and Pennsylvania State
University and worked for the DuPont Company
for 25 years as a chemist and technical sales
representative. At the time of his death, he lived
in Hockessin, Del. He is survived by his wife,
JoAnn, and two daughters, Marisa and Alicia.
Teague Fellowships
Boost Recruitment
By paying tribute to the late Dr. Peyton Teague,
a much beloved former professor and director of
graduate admissions, the Teague Fellowship has
been an invaluable recruiting tool for the chemistry department since 1980. The fellowships are
awarded to the most promising entering graduate
students to supplement their first year assistantship
stipends. By attracting the best and brightest to our
graduate program through the Teague Fellowship,
the department has produced accomplished graduates who will contribute a great deal to the future
of chemistry.
One of these graduates is Tom Metz, a former
Teague Fellow who graduated from the department with his Ph.D. in 2003 and currently works
as a postdoc at the Pacific Northwest Laboratories
in Richland, Wash. “I had the pleasure to study
glycation and lipoxidation chemistry and its relation to diabetes and aging under the direction of
Dr. John Baynes,” said Metz. “Our work shed light
on the contribution of lipids to the development of
diabetic complications in that lipids appear to be
the primary suspect behind modification of protein, rather than glucose.”
“In terms of how the Teague fellowship
affected me, it was a tremendous recruiting tool,”
said Andrea Goforth, a fourth-year graduate stu-
dent. “Money is always a major factor in taking
a position anywhere, as you have to be able to
live. So giving these fellowships attracts quality
graduate students. I can’t completely express what
a difference a scholarship makes to a newlywed
first-year graduate student.”
Goforth has made great strides since her
matriculation to the department in the fall of 2001.
“In the spring of my second year, I was awarded
an honorable mention in the National Science
Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program,” said Goforth. “I have given talks and posters at several local, regional, or international meetings, including the Southeast Regional Meeting of
the American Chemical Society in 2002 and 2003,
the South Carolina Academy of Sciences Meeting
in 2003 and 2004, and the Gordon Conference on
Solid State Chemistry I in 2004. I also served as
the president of the Society for the Advancement
of the Chemical Sciences here at USC and have
authored or co-authored several papers.”
The Peyton Teague Fellowship Fund helps
the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
continue to attract outstanding students such as
Goforth and Metz and makes a difference in the
lives of first-year graduate students who will go on
to make their names in the world of chemistry.
Award, from pg. 1
still higher goals,” said Adams. “The fact that
the chemistry department has received the award
two years in a row is evidence of the high quality of the USC chemistry program in particular.
We should all be proud of our hard work and our
achievements.”
Adams studies inorganic and organometallic chemistry including synthesis, structures, and
catalytic properties of bimetallic clusters and
nanoparticles, as well as heterocyclic macrocycles
and molecular electronics.
The Governor’s Award was established in 1985
by the Drug Science Foundation specifically to
honor an individual or team within the state whose
achievements and contributions to science in South
Carolina merit special recognition and to promote
wider awareness of the quality and extent of scientific activity in South Carolina. The award consists
of an honorarium of $1,000 and a certificate that
is presented to the recipient at a special ceremony
held in the spring in conjunction with the South
Carolina Academy of Science’s annual meeting.
Many other professors from the chemistry department have also won this award, making the department of chemistry and biochemistry the most
honored department in South Carolina:
1985: Dr. James Durig, former Professor of Chemistry (then dean of the College of Science and
Mathematics)
1990: Dr. Paul Ellis, George H. Bunch Professor
of Chemistry
1991: Dr. James Marshall, Guy Lipscomb Professor of Chemistry
1994: Dr. Bruce Dunlap (for Science Awareness),
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
1995: Dr. Daniel Antion, Associate Director of
the Office of Technology Transfer and a Ph.D.
graduate of the Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry
1997: Dr. John Dawson, Professor of Chemistry
and Biochemistry
1999: Dr. Roy Wuthier, Professor of Chemistry
and Biochemistry
Davis Receives Honorary Degree
from USC
Dr. Willard Davis, professor emeritus of chemistry, received an honorary doctor of science
degree at the USC commencement ceremony on
Dec. 15, 2003.
Dr. Davis earned a BS in chemical engineering from USC in 1937 and then went on to
earn his master’s degree from the University of
Cincinnati in 1939; he later earned his Ph.D.
in organic chemistry from Cincinnati in 1941.
He joined the chemistry faculty in 1944 as an
adjunct professor and later served as the chemistry department chair, dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences, dean of The Graduate School,
vice president for research, and vice president
for academic affairs. He retired from the University in 1977 as vice president for regional
campuses.
He has been the recipient of many awards,
including the American Chemical Society, South
Carolina Section, Chemist of the Year Award. In
2003 he also received the Order of the Palmetto
and the College of Science and Mathematics
Distinguished Service Award.
Davis said that his 36-year career at USC,
Dr. Willard Davis receives his honorary degree at the
Dec. 2003 commencement.
half of which was spent in the chemistry department, was very fulfilling. “I feel that the most
productive period of my total USC service was
1949–1959, when we were able to get the chemistry graduate program started,” said Davis. “I
also suspect that it was my new friends in the
department who took the initiative in regard to
the honorary degree, and I would like for them
to know how much I appreciate that they did.”
He adds that he was “thrilled, grateful, and surprised when I was notified in July of last year
that the University would award me an honorary
degree at the December commencement.”
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in spring 2005, and I cannot think of a better
way to become reintroduced to the instructional
program, which has an excellent reputation on
our campus. I also have a sizable number of
research manuscripts that are in various stages
of preparation, and I look forward to working on
those. All in all, I am very excited about becoming an integral part of the department again.”
University Foundations is establishing the
Jerome D. Odom Fellowship in Chemistry,
which will be awarded to outstanding undergraduate or graduate students in chemistry. We
hope that you will consider contributing to this
important fellowship in his honor.
Contribute to “Looking Back”
If you’re an alumni of the chemistry
department and would like to share the
story of your life in chemistry beyond
USC, please feel free to write us at
USC Chemist,
c/o Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC 29208.
We look forward to hearing from you!
2003–2004 Academic Year Highlights
Appointment of New Faculty
Faculty Appointments
Dr. Linda Shimizu, research assistant professor,
appointed to The Graduate School’s faculty
Dr. Michael Angel, Fred M. Weissman Chair in
Chemical Ecology
Dr. Sofiya Garashchuk, research assistant professor, appointed to The Graduate School’s faculty
Adjunct Professor Appointments
Promotions of Current Faculty
Dr. John Ferry, assistant professor, promoted
to and awarded tenure at the rank of associate
professor
Dr. Timothy Shaw, associate professor, promoted
to the rank of professor
William Brewer, instructor
Scott Little, research professor
Peter Moeller, adjunct professor
2004 State Service Awards
Dr. Scott Goode, 30 years
Dr. Michael Angel, 10 years
Dr. Catherine Murphy, 10 years
New Appointments of Chaired
Professors
Editorial Board Appointments
Dr. Catherine Murphy, G.F. Lipscomb Professor
Faculty Awards and Honors
Reappointments of Chaired Professors
Dr. Richard Adams, elected to rank of fellow by
the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS) Council
Dr. Richard Adams, Arthur Sease Williams Professor of Chemistry
Dr. John Baynes, Carolina Distinguished Professor
Dr. Daniel Reger, Carolina Distinguished
Professor
Dr. Hanno zur Loye, David W. Robinson
Palmetto Professor
Dr. Catherine Murphy, Inorganic Chemistry
Dr. John Baynes, 2004 Governor’s Award for
Excellence in Science.
Dr. John Baynes and Dr. Suzanne Thorpe, 2004
Chemist of the Year Award winners for the South
Carolina Section of the American Chemical Society
Dr. John Dawson, 2004 Southern Chemist
Award, American Chemical Society; Carolina
Trustee Professor Award
Dr. Scott Goode, 2003–2004 Excellence in
Teaching Award, Alpha Chapter of Mortar Board
Dr. William Harris, Wiley Lifetime Achievement Award, keynote speaker, Biennial Speaker
Forum Dinner, California Polytechnic State
University
Dr. Catherine Murphy, appointed member of
Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group,
President’s Council of Advisors on Science;
joined 2004–2005 Defense Science Study Group
Dr. Hanno zur Loye, elected vice president of
the South Carolina Academy of Sciences; named
guest professor of Sun Yat-sen University
Dr. Qian Wang, DOD 2003 Breast Cancer
Research Program Concept Award; MURI
Award (2004–2009), together with Thomas Russell (UMASS), et al.
Student Highlights
Undergraduate Awards
Spring 2004
American Institute of Chemists
Foundation, Inc., Award:
Heath Catoe
American Chemical Society,
Division of Analytical Chemistry
Award: Ashley Jones
College of Science and Mathematics Senior Year Scholarship:
Samantha Roberson
CRC Press Freshman Chemistry
Award: Peter Egan
CRC Press Freshman Chemistry
(Honor) Award: Blake Hodges
Hiram and Lawanda Allen Award
and the South Carolina Section of
the American Chemical Society
for Performance as the Senior
Outstanding Undergraduate
Chemistry Major Award:
Elizabeth Enlow
Kelly Galin
Robert Gutierrez
Lorena Hatcher
Kristen Kirkland
Douglas Robinson
Brian Shiels
Hye Hyung Shin
Lindsay Taylor
Faculty/Staff Dependents
Scholarship
Michael Macias
Anand Pariyadath
Allyson Wells
May 2004
Marcus Barber
Heath Catoe
Elizabeth Enlow
Thuy Ho
Nicole Jackson
Ashley Jones
S.K. Kabisatpathy
Jennifer Kennedy
William Klauber
Adam Landy
Michael Macias
Honors College Scholarship
Thomas Styslinger
Undergraduate Scholarships
2003–2004
Library Scholarship
Amanda Peel
Andrew Spencer
Victor W. Laurie Junior Year
Scholarship: Andrew Spencer
Alumni Scholarships
Christopher Anderson
Anne Ellefson
Sally Stephens
Meredith Tershansy
Victor W. Laurie Senior Year
Scholarship: Ross Nesbit
Athletic Grant
Gregory Reece
Merck Index Award:
Anne Ellefson
The Outstanding Achievement
and Student Triumph Award
(TOAST): George Cooper, Xavier
Vanderstraeten, Heath Catoe,
Sabrina Smetana
2004 Phi Beta Kappa Nominees:
Michael Bechtold, Heath Catoe,
Sonia Karamchandani
Chemistry BS Graduates
August 2003
Stephen Bennett
Shana Burnett
Larry Jones Jr.
Erin Kastenschmidt
Marion Lawrence
Duong Nguyen
December 2003
Holly Barron
Sarah Brown
Keith Davis
Hiram and Lawanda Allen
Scholarship
Elizabeth Enlow
James A. Hicks Scholarship
Shayla Dorsey
Elizabeth Enlow
Thuy Ho
Tiffany Ross
Legacy Scholarship
Mary Jo Manuse
Douglas Robinson
Heather Taylor
Jason Wheeler
LIFE Scholarship
Marcus Barber
Anna Branham
Alison Bush
Jacqueline Campbell
Kristen Catchings
Timothy Clark
Dana Corum
Travis Deason
Shayla Dorsey
Thomas Edwards
Erin Griffith
Henry Hall
Daniel Heenan
Rachel Hipp
Ashley Home
Thuy Ho
Lawrence Irwin
Steven Jordan
Kristen Kirkland
Nathaniel Krueger
Elizabeth Langdon
Zachary Lee
Phillip Mason
Kimberly McNeil
Matthew Morgan
Bryan Oliver
Paul Pepin
Bouknight Scholarship
Daniel Stevenson
Carolina Scholars
Ashley Jones
Elizabeth Sutton
Xin Wang
Jason Wheeler
Chemistry Discretionary Scholarship
Elizabeth Enlow
Continuing Education Scholarship
Michael Macias
Engineering Scholarship
Anand Pariyadath
Allyson Wells
Estimated Scholarship Assistance
Emma Broom
Erin Griffith
Jason Morton
Kathryn Perrine
James Plampin
Michele Quigley
Sharlee Reed
Samantha Roberson
Berry Roberts
Tyler Roberts
Tiffany Ross
Da’Trice Sims
John Smith
Kristen Sprouse
Sally Stephens
Daniel Stevenson
Michael Szklennik
Christopher Vaigneur
Tuminh Vo
Carlos Washington
Christopher West
McKissick Scholarship
Julia Hartman
Music TFW Scholarship
Jonathan Wooten
National Merit Scholars
Ashley Jones
Xin Wang
Non-University Scholarship
Michael Bechtold
Monica Gaynor
Erin Griffith
Julia Hartman
Thuy Ho
Zachary Lee
Tessa Londre
Kimberly Painter
Amanda Peel
Butch Sokolowski
Andrew Spencer
Xin Wang
Allyson Wells
Jason Wheeler
Jonathan Wooten
Palmetto Fellows Scholarship
Brant Anderson
Christopher Anderson
Michael Bechtold
Anne Ellefson
Elizabeth Enlow
Brandon Floyd
Ashley Jones
Saswat Kabisatpathy
Mary Jo Manuse
Perry McGriff
Student Highlights
Stephanie Meyer
Kimberly Painter
Anand Pariyadath
Douglas Robinson
Matthew Skiles
Elizabeth Sutton
Heather Taylor
Lindsay Taylor
Xin Wang
Allyson Wells
Jason Wheeler
Jonathan Wooten
ROTC
Douglas Perkins
S.C. National Guard
Andrea Gooden
S.C. Vocational Rehabilitation
Grant
George Reed
USC Employee Assistance
Scholarship
Valerie Annette Kennedy
VA Tuition Scholarship
Douglas Perkins
Valedictorian Scholars
Michael Bechtold
Elizabeth Enlow
Saswat Kabisatpathy
Anand Pariyadath
Douglas Robinson
Jonathan Wooten
Volleyball Scholarship
Amy Benson
Graduate Organizations
SFAC/Abney Scholarship
Carlos Washington
Students for the Advancement of
Chemical Sciences (SACS) 2003
Officers
Derek Elgin, President
John Stone, Vice President
Tara Hansen, Secretary
Brett Rambo, Treasurer
Andrea Goforth, Safety Officer
SFAC/Faculty-Staff Scholarship
Nathaniel Krueger
Graduate Fellowships
SCAMP Grant
Shayla Dorsey
Perry McGriff
Springs Foundation Loan
Perry McGriff
Trustees’ Endowment Scholars
Matthew Skiles
Tuition and Fees Scholarship
Jonathan Coe
University Scholars
rant Anderson
Alison Bush
Travis Deason
Nathaniel Krueger
Zachary Lee
Mary Jo Manuse
Phillip Mason
Matthew Morgan
Kimberly Painter
Michele Quigley
Samantha Roberson
Daniel Stevenson
Heather Taylor
Lindsay Taylor
Allyson Wells
Fall 2003
Dean’s Fellowships
Marion Lawrence
Jay Ratliff
IRIX/David L. Coffen Fellowship
Hannah Nandor
Murtiashaw Fellowship
Preston Craig
Tanesha Osborne
Sloan Fellowship
Tanesha Osborne
Spring 2004
Teague Fellowship
Luisa Profeta
2004 Copenhaver Scholars
Michael Arket
Theppawut Ayudhya
Jessica Demeuse
Mahender Dewal
Suzanna Heath
Siqi Li
Wendi Marley
Jennifer O’Neal
Chrissy Powell
Roger Rasberry
Other Scholarships
2003 Raymond Davis Scholarship
Ryan Priore
Other Awards
2003 American Vacuum Society
Graduate Research Award:
Jing Zhou
Springer Award, FACSS
2003 Conference: Jon Scaffidi
2004 FACSS Tomas Hirschfield
Award: Ryan Priore
Marion Lawrence
Haiwei Lu
Garrison Reese
Camila Urbanek
Spring 2004
Hannah Barnhill
Matt Blatnik
Erin Boswell
Brandon Cash
Marion Lawrence
Eric Sorrells
Ph.D. and M.S. Graduates
2003–2004
Ph.D. Graduates
August 2003
The Outstanding Achievement and Li Kong
Student Triumph Award (TOAST): Lori Metz
Jon Scaffid
Tom Metz
Chris Mubarak
Graduate Student
Competitions
2004 Graduate Student
Symposium
Guy F. Lipscomb Award: Radu
Semeniuc
IRIX Pharmaceuticals Award:
Matt Davis
Oakwood Products Award:
Jing Zhou
December 2003
Mary Glascock
Kimberlyn Caswell
Ken Brown
May 2004
Jing Zhou
Ferdinard Solis
Holly Ricks
Matthew Davis
Kui Chen
Shengxi Jin
2004 Graduate Student Day Competition
Winner, Oral Competition in Phys- MS Graduates
August 2003
ical and Life Sciences: Jing Zhou
Kimberly Hall
2nd Place, Oral Competition in
Gina Iacovella
Physical and Life Sciences:
Yong Zhang
Matt Davis
May 2004
Winner, Health, Life, and EnvironBill Pearman
ment Poster Presentation:
Emily Homer
David Perkins
Judith Mwamuka
Winner, Physical Science Poster
Presentation: Alex Nieuwland
J.R. During Graduate Student
International Travel Awards
2003–2004
Jon Scaffidi
Daniel Slade
Bouknight Teaching Award:
Fall 2003
Matt Blatnik
Cole Hexel
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ALUMNI NEWS
Kelly Galin (BS ’03) was a runner-up in the
2003 International Young Chemistry Writer of
the Year Award for her article “The Healing
Power of Curry.”
Annette Deaver Havens (BS ’97) and her husband, Ryan, had their first child, Ryan Carter
Havens, on Sept. 23, 2003. She is taking time
off from teaching chemistry and physics while
Carter is young. The Havenses live in West
Columbia.
Barton Hawkins (Ph.D. ’92) was recently
appointed executive director of new technology
and product development engineering for SBC
Communications in San Antonio, Texas, serving
a portfolio of more than 900 active projects and
initiatives.
Morris Jones (MS ’99) is currently working
as a research coordinator for the University of
Georgia at the Savannah River Ecology Lab in
Aiken, where he currently resides.
Matthew Laskoski (Ph.D. ’02) works at the
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington,
D.C., and lives in Alexandria, Va.
Carole S. Letson (Ph.D. ’96) lives in Columbia
and accepted a full-time tenure track position as
an assistant professor of chemistry at Newberry
College in Newberry, S.C., in January.
Rowland L. Matteson (MS ’63) retired from
the faculty of Olive-Harvey College in 1994 and
has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, ever since.
He is now writing on Old Nordic and Baltic
silver for Silver, and he has had 11 articles published so far.
Tom Metz (Ph.D. ’03) is a postdoctoral
research associate in Dr. Richard D. Smith’s
laboratory at the Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory in Richland, Wash.
Erik L. Nimz (Ph.D. ’93) moved to Fort Worth,
Texas, in March 2004 after 10 years with Pfizer,
Inc., to join Alcon Research, Ltd., as manager
of biodisposition in the pharmacokinetics/drug
metabolism department.
Adaku Njoku (BS ’00) received her M.D. from
the University of Illinois at Chicago School of
Medicine in Rockford, Ill.
Joe Perrin (Ph.D. ’99) lives in Arlington, Va.,
and is currently working at the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office as a patent examiner.
Michael Pompeo (Ph.D. ’92) has been a technical group leader for Cognis Corporation since
2001. His wife, Karen (Ph.D. ’93), stays at
home with their three children: Michael, 6, Sam,
4, and Rosa, 1. They live in Mason, Ohio.
David Pond (Ph.D. ’68) was appointed managing director of the USC NanoCenter, effective
Sept. 29, 2003. He has been involved in research
and development throughout a long career in the
private sector, most recently as vice president
for technology at Eastman Chemical. There, he
managed an organization of 1,100 people and a
budget of $100 million. “As managing director,
he will bring stable management and leadership
to the growing needs of our center,” said Harris Pastides, interim vice president for research.
“He will also provide advocacy and networking
to our external constituents including the private
sector, state and federal government, and scientific organizations.”
Matthew Przybyciel (Ph.D. ’84) received
the 2003 Salute to Excellence Award from the
American Chemical Society North Jersey Section and the North Jersey Chromatography
Group. He was presented with a plaque and a
$1,000 prize at the groups’ November meeting.
He is currently a research and development
manager with ES Industries in West Berlin, N.J.
David J. Reed (BS ’00) lives in Columbia and
is currently working with the South Carolina
Department of Health and Environmental Control Oil and Chemical Emergency Response
Team.
Douglas Relyea (Ph.D. ’54) retired in 1996
after 40 years with U.S. Rubber/Uniroyal/
Uniroyal Chemical. His last 25 years with
the company were spent as a research associate/research fellow, and he was granted 19 U.S.
patents and has 25 publications to his name. He
is currently pursuing an MS in biology from
Southern Connecticut State University and lives
in Bethany, Conn.
William W. Rutledge (BS ’52) is retired and
lives in Greenville, S.C.
James Snider (Ph.D. ’90) left Applied Biosystems in October 2001 to join a startup in Boston
called Intelligent Medical Devices, LLC. IMD
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develops diagnostic medical products to be used
at the patient point of care.
Blanton S. Tolbert (BS ’99) completed two
years of graduate work at Hampton University
in the Department of Chemistry. He is currently
a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biophysics at the University of Rochester School of
Medicine in Rochester, N.Y. He earned his M.S.
in biophysics from the University of Rochester
in the fall of 2003. He currently lives in West
Henrietta, NY
Lawrence Triboletti (BS ’86) has been working with DuPont Electronics for 18 years and
lives in Cary, N.C.
Marc Weininger (Ph.D. ’72) is an associate
professor of chemistry at Florida A&M University, where he has taught since 1989. He lives in
Tallahassee, Fla.
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2003-2004 Donors
Friends of Chemistry
and Biochemistry
$500 –— Corporation
$150 — Individual
$50 — Retiree
Abbott Laboratories
Dr. William D. Bailey
Dr. Suzanne R. Thorpe and
Dr. John W. Baynes
Dr. Sondra H. Berger
Dr. Ruta K. Bly and
Dr. Robert S. Bly
Borden Chemical, Inc.
Ms. Julia L. Bouknight
Mr. Robert L. Cargill Jr.
Dr. Kent L. Cipollo
Dr. H. Willard Davis
Dr. John H. Dawson
Mr. John H. Dawson
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Deas Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. James R. Durig
Dr. and Mrs. Daniel G. Dyer
Dr. and Mrs. Steven Robert Earle
Dr. and Mrs. John L. Edwards
Mr. William T. Fetner
Mrs. Kira Fisher
Dr. Ruilian Wu and
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Other Donors
Ms. Susie H. Ashley
Dr. and Mrs. Porter G. Barron
Mr. Michael S. Bates
Clariant Corporation
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Howard Cohen
Mr. Charles H. Coney
Dr. William E. Cotham
Department of Chemistry
and Biochemistry
DMSM Pond LLC
Dr. Marie C. Egan and
Dr. William J. Egan
Dr. Donald F. Elias
FMC Foundation
Greenwood Development Corp.
Dr. Elizabeth H. Griffith
IBM Corporation
Mr. and Mrs. George S. King Jr.
Dr. Malathi K. Kistler and
Dr. W. Stephen Kistler Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Jan Kochansky
Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Laffitte Sr.
Dr. Elisabeth and
Mr. James Loncella
Mr. Stephen H. Lynn
Dr. Elaine S. Mayhall
Mr. and Mrs. James W. McCallum Sr.
Dr. Xiaoming Gao
Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin M. Gimarc
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Grey
Ms. Norah T. Grimball
Mr. Gregory L. Hillhouse
IRIX Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Ms. Eva Maria Rotter-Johnson and
Dr. Robert D. Johnson
Dr. Stephen K. Kerr
Dr. and Mrs. Victor W. Laurie
Mr. and Mrs. William Harold Leith
Dr. and Mrs. Timothy Scott Little
Matrix Scientific
Mr. and Mrs. William Harvey
McCall Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Fred M. McLean
Dr. and Mrs. Edward G. Mintz
Dr. and Mrs. William Joseph Natter
Dr. and Mrs. Richard V. Nuttall
Oakwood Products Incorporated
Para-Chem Praecis
Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Ms. Virginia H. Rogers
Mr. and Mrs. William W.
Rutledge Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Suarez
The New York Times Company
Foundation
Dr. Anne-Courtney Miller and
Mr. Robert A. Miller Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Morgan
Dr. and Mrs. William A. Munroe
NCR Corporation
Dr. and Mrs. David M. Pond
Dr. Daniel L. Reger
Dr. James C. Rogers
Dr. and Mrs. Harry E. Shealy
Dr. James V. Snider
Dr. and Mrs. James M. Sodetz
Mrs. Sangeeta S. Sohoni
Sterling Services Incorporated
Dr. Zvi Szafran
The Procter & Gamble Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Lothar L. Tresp
Ms. Barbara Wachob
Mr. and Mrs. J. William
Wakefield Jr.
Dr. Michael D. Walla
Dr. Marc S. Weininger
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