CHEMillennium Era (1980-1999)

1981
M.S. After 21 years with Rohm and Haas in Philadelphia, Carl R. Shervin (ChemE) has moved his family from the Philadelphia suburbs to the Cleveland suburbs, and joined Lubrizol Corporation as product manager for specialty monomers. They love Cleveland, but miss the Eagles and a good Philly cheesesteak.

1982
B.S. “Chugging along as a radiation oncologist” at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, Roy E. Abendroth (Chem) also plays trumpet in a couple of local bands.

M.S. Arthur A. “Artie” Chin (ChemE) left Mobil Research and Development in New Jersey last year to take a position in Rohm and Haas’s Engineering Technical Center in Croydon, PA.

1985
B.S. Ray E. Aquitania (ChemE) has been president of Ray E. Aquitania, M.D., Inc. Neurology Therapeutics and Diagnostics, since 1996. He has active staff privileges at Grossmont Hospital and Alvarado Hospital in San Diego, and holds the position of Medical Director of Crescent IVIG (Intravenous Immune Globulin) Therapeutics, a treatment for primary immunodeficiency diseases. Excursions in the past year have taken him to Greece, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, and France.

Since graduating from UCB’s Boalt Hall School of Law, Steven M. Rich (Chem) has practiced business litigation in Los Angeles.

Ph.D. Reinaldo S. Compagnone (Chem) has three daughters in school (medical, law, and high school). Since 1996, he has been a full professor of chemistry at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and, since 1999, has served as academic chairman of the faculty of science.

1987
B.S. Kurt Muetterties (Chem) received his MD from UC Davis in 1992, then completed a residency in diagnostic radiology in 1997 and a fellowship in interventional radiology in 1998, both at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is now an interventional radiologist/angiographer at Crozer Chester Medical Center in Upland, PA, and a partner in Southeast Radiology, Ltd. He also coaches youth travel hockey, both bantam and pee wee.

1990
Postdoc. In January, Maurits F.H. van Tol (Chem) took a position as global marketing director for DSM Elastomers BV, a business group of Royal DSM NV in the Netherlands. He has been with the company since 1992 and is currently responsible for more than $300 million in revenues.

1991
B.S. Toby E. Horwitz (Chem), who is a clinical pharmacist in Avon, OH, was married in November 2003 to Jason Massman.

1992
Ph.D. Having left academia over a year ago to take a position as a senior research chemist with Semafore Pharmaceuticals, Tim C. Smith (Chem) finds working in this small, growing, Indianapolis company enjoyable and fascinating.
Postdoc. Jouko Lahtinen (Chem) is an associate professor in Helsinki University of Technology’s Laboratory of Physics in Helsinki, Finland.

1993
Ph.D. Last year, Philip J. Bonasia (Chem) was promoted to senior director at Sepracor in Marlborough, MA, and enjoyed a week-long vacation in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico just before Christmas.

1994
Postdoc. Since 1994, Adrian L. Bonivardi (Chem) has been on the research staff of Argentina’s National Council for Research and Development, where he is currently doing research on carbon dioxide hydrogenation to methanol. Last year, he also took the position of Director of the Postgraduate School at the National University of Litoral, Argentina.

1995
B.S. Elena Rodriguez (See 1998 M.S. Chem)

Ph.D. Jeffrey A. Rzepiela (Chem) and his colleagues were awarded a patent for their invention of a defect detection and classification instrument used in the inspection of semiconductor materials. He is a senior systems engineer with KLA-Tencor Corporation in San Jose, CA.

1996
B.S. After working at Cardinal Health’s analytical division in Research Triangle Park, NC, since March 2002, Jeffrey M. Thompsen (Chem) accepted a promotion to “scientist” and moved early this year to their biopharmaceutical division in San Diego.

Ph.D. David Cohen (ChemE) was promoted last year to staff engineer in the computational modeling group at Novellus Systems in San Jose, CA. He and his wife, Shelly Bodnar, welcomed their daughter, Mia Rose Bodnar-Cohen, into the world in May 2003.

1998
M.S. Being surrounded by so many Berkeley alumni at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) in San Diego, where she is project manager for drug discovery, sometimes makes Elena C. Rodriguez (Chem, also 1995 B.S.) feel like she never left Berkeley, but most of the time she misses Berkeley a lot. Since starting at GNF three years ago, she has done everything from chemistry operations to compound management to software requirements analysis.