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Era (1980-1999)
1980
Michael Pirrung (Ph.D. , Chem) received a 2004 Chemical Pioneer
Award from the American Institute of Chemists. The award recognizes chemists
who have made outstanding contributions that have had a major impact on
chemical science and industry, and has been awarded to 13 Nobel laureates.
Pirrung was honored for his invention of DNA microarrays.
Geraldine L. Richmond (Ph.D. , Chem), Philip H. Knight Professor
of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of chemistry at the University
of Oregon, has been named the winner of the 2005 ACS Award for Encouraging
Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences.
1983
Leroy Chiao (B.S., ChE) will begin a six-month stay at the International
Space Station in October. He is the commander of a two-man crew that will
relieve two astronauts, an American and a Russian, currently at the Space
Station. He received his Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara and worked at Lawrence
Livermore Laboratory until 1990, when he was accepted by the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration to train as an astronaut.
1985
Frances H. Arnold (Ph.D. ,ChE), the Dick and Barbara Dickinson
Professor at Caltech, has been named the winner of the ACS’s 2005 Francis
P. Garvan-John M. Olin Medal, which recognizes distinguished service to
chemistry by women chemists. She writes that she and her family—husband
Andrew Lange (Ph.D. physics), a professor of physics at Caltech, and their
three sons, ages 7, 8 and 14—”spent the last year on sabbatical in various
wonderful parts of the world: Australia, Wales, Egypt, Namibia, Madagascar,
and South Africa.”
1988
Kelly Moran (Ph.D. , Chem) received an Environmental Award from
the EPA in recognition of her contributions to advance pollution protection.
She was one of 36 individuals and organizations in the western states
selected to receive the annual award in recognition of their efforts to
preserve and protect the environment. As manager of the pollution prevention
program at the Palo Alto Regional Water Quality Control plant, she has
implemented many efforts to control water pollution, including one that
reduced levels of five key metals in the Palo Alto plant’s wastewater
by 40-90 percent. As a Sierra Club representative, she led a coalition
to help pass legislation that provided significant funding to the Department
of Toxic Substances and Control’s pollution prevention program, and launched
a project that prevented two million gallons of contaminated wash water
from entering storm drains or wastewater treatment plants.
1989
Stuart B. Adler (M.S. , ChE) See 1993 Ph.D. ChemE.
1992
Laura S. (Magde) McWilliams (B.S. , Chem and B.A. Geophysics) received
her Ph.D. in oceanography from MIT/ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
She is a senior project scientist who does environmental consulting for
Blasland, Bouck and Lee in Portland, OR.
Tom F. Fuller (Ph.D., ChE) has accepted
the position of director of the Center for Innovative Fuel-Cell and Battery
Technologies at the Georgia Tech Research Institute at Georgia Institute
of Technology, where he will also be appointed professor in the School
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. For the past 10 years he was
with United Technologies Corp., where he served as director of engineering
at UTC Fuel Cells.
1993
Stuart B. Adler (Ph.D., ChE), assistant professor of chemical engineering
at theUniversity of Washington, was the first recipient of the Electrochemical
Society’s Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award. The award, which
honors our long-time faculty member, was established in 2003 “to recognize
outstanding scientific and/or engineering work in fundamental or applied
electrochemistry or solid-state science and technology by a young scientist
or engineer.”
David S. Brown (Ph.D., Chem) is a
process chemist in quality control at Shell Chemical in Martinez, CA.
Elizabeth Z. Bida (Postdoc, Chem) has
been promoted to full professor of organic chemistry at Louisiana State
University in Shreveport.
Manolis Stratakis (Postdoc, Chem) is
an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Crete, Greece.
1994
Michael A. Branch (B.S., ChE and Nuclear Engineering) works for
PWI Technologies in Kirkland, WA, where he is a Sun certified Core Solaris
systems engineer.
1995
Chris Sinz (B.S., Chem) earned a doctorate at UC Irvine before
spending two years as a postdoc at Caltech. In 2003, he became a senior
research chemist at Merck in Rahway, NJ.
Ram B. Gupta (Postdoc, ChE) was promoted
to full professor of chemical engineering at Auburn University, where
he holds the Alumni Professor chair.
1996
Jeremy Baryza (B.S., ChE and Chemistry) was one of six graduate
students chosen this year by the ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry to
receive its postdoctoral fellowship. Now a graduate student at Stanford,
Baryza is studying new molecules for the treatment and understanding of
human disease, focusing on functional analogs of bryostatin for the treatment
of cancer.
1998
Cofounder and principal staff scientist at Quantum Dot, Marcel Bruchez
(Ph.D., Chem) has been honored by the Technology Review by
being named to the TR100, a list of innovators under the age of 35. As
a graduate student, he helped to develop applications for quantum dots—tiny
semiconductor crystals that emit light brightly in a range of sharp colors
and are used in biomedical research. This work represents “one of the
first commercial applications of nanotechnology,” Bruchez told the magazine.
Scott M. Husson (Ph.D., ChE), assistant
professor of chemical engineering at Clemson University, received the
New Faculty Research Award from the American Society for Engineering Education
SE Section.
1999
Stephanie Grancharov (B.S., Chem) received her M.Phil. in materials
science engineering from Columbia University in May 2003. She will spend
this year on a Fullbright Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids
and Surfaces in Potsdam, Germany, before returning to Columbia to finish
her Ph.D. While in graduate school, she also worked on nanoscale materials
and devices at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center.
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