radical-radical andradical-moleculereactions ofinterest primarilyin combustionchemistry. Heis also interestedin atmosphericchemistry andchemical vapordeposition processes.More information about his researchcan be found on the web.http://www.chem.ndsu.nodak.edu/faculty/hershberger.html

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Hershberger named Chair-man Chemistry Department

Dr. John Hershberger

Dr. John Hershberger, associate professor,has been named chairman of the chemistrydepartment effective February 1, 2002. Hereplaces Greg McCarthy, who has servedas chair since 1993.

Dr. Hershberger earned his bachelor’sdegree at the University of California, SantaBarbara in 1982, and a Ph.D. from YaleUniversity in1986. He joined the NDSUfaculty in 1989.

His research interests are in chemicalreaction kinetics and dynamics, withemphasis on the study of elementary

Dr. Seth Rasmussen

Rasmussen receives NSF Faculty Early CareerDevelopment (CAREER) Award

Dr. Seth C. Rasmussen was recentlyawarded a Faculty Early Career Development(CAREER) award by the National ScienceFoundation (NSF).

The CAREER program is a Foundation-wideactivity that offers NSF’s most prestigiousawards for new faculty members. Thisprogram recognizes and supports the earlycareer-development activities of thoseteacher-scholars who are most likely tobecome the academic leaders of the 21stcentury. CAREER awardees are selected onthe basis of creative, career-developmentplans that effectively integrate research andeducation within the context of the missionof their institution.

Dr. Rasmussen’s proposal entitled “CAREER:Metallated Polythieno[3,4-b]pyrazines asOrdered Hybrid Materials” focuses onmultidisciplinary approaches to research andeducation, with the unifying goal of preparingstudents to apply their abilities and knowl-edge to a range of problems and enablingthem to identify similarities that overlapbetween traditional areas of science. Dr.Rasmussen’s research combines the areasof inorganic, organic, and polymer chemistrytowards the development of new optical andelectronic materials. In the area of education,Dr. Rasmussen strives to unify chemistry the

physical sciences through the history ofchemistry. Chemical history most readilyillustrates how problems can be over-come and techniques from other disci-plines and can be added or applied toany class or subject within the chemicalcurriculum.

In addition to funding the ongoingmaterials research in the Rasmussenlaboratory, this $495K grant will alsoprovide funding for teaching equipment toestablish a Chemical History Laboratoryclass and will establish a ChemicalHistory Lecture Series as part of thedepartmentalseminar program.

Dr. Rasmussen earned his B.S. atWashington State University in 1990, aPh. D. from Clemson University in 1994,and joined the faculty at NDSU in 1999.

Dr. Rasmussen is the third currentchemistry faculty member to receive aCAREER award. Previous winners areDrs. Gregory Cook and Sanku Mallik.

Chem-News 2 Spring 2002

Center for AdvancedTechnology Transfer andTraineeships (CATTT)

North Dakota StateUniversity

Mission: The mission ofthe CATTT is to facilitatetechnology traineeshipslinking companies with

students, faculty, and staff, and (2)education in technology transfer.

Programs

Bridges to Advanced Technology-Based CareersIndustry co-funded traineeships forundergraduates and graduate students.

Dr. Greg McCarthy, Director ofCATTT Program.

Administered with the CooperativeEducation offices at the campuses.

Technology Transfer GraduateTraineeshipsStudents are awarded supplements toassistantships and receive training inintellectual property and technologytransfer.

For further information and traineeshipapplication guidelines, see theCenter’s website: www.ndsu.edu/cattt

Or contact:Gregory J. McCarthy, Ph.D.Director (701)231-7193,Greg.McCarthy@ndsu.nodak.edu

Joining us in January 2002 as Assis-tant Professor in Biomolecular NMRSpectroscopy is Dr. Mahesh Jasejawho will oversee the operation of ourstate-of-the art NMR facility here inthe Chemistry Department at NDSU.He will carry out cutting-edge researchin biomolecular structure and dynam-ics using NMR methods.

Mahesh completed his Ph.D. inOrganic Chemistry from the Universityof Rohtak, India, with emphasis onNMR spectroscopy of a class ofnatural products. Since that time, hehas held multiple post-doctoral and

research fellow positions wherein hehas gained substantial expertise usingNMR spectroscopy to determine thestructures of proteins and enzymesin solution. He will participate in anumber of biomolecular structurestudies in collaboration with severalmembers of the NDSU ChemistryFaculty. These projects are financiallysupported by the National Institute ofHealth.

Dr. Jaseja was a post-doctoral fellowin the Chemistry/Microbiology Depart-ment at Montana State University,Bozeman, Montana prior to his arrivalat NDSU.

Mahesh brings his wife, Premila andtwo daughters, Vanita and Reshma,4th and 8th graders.

Dr. Mahesh Jaseja joins the NMR facility

The 500 MHz NMR ready for action:The spectrometer console (which alsohouses the field gradient amplifier) is tothe right of the magnet. Theantivibration legs are in place.Dr. Mahesh Jaseja

Jessica Nelson has been working in the NMRlab for 3½ years.

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Chem-News 3 Spring 2002

CPR | Research Projects

Project 1: Synthesis, Gregory Cookand Mukund Sibi

1.) Synthesize known inhibitors ofmatrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) andserine proteases (SPs) and establishbasic bioassay protocols.

2.) Develop new zinc binding func-tional groups for improved MMPinhibition.

3.) Develop improved syntheticmethodology for the preparation ofsuccinate based MMP inhibitors andsynthesize inhibitors of urokinase andplasmin.

4.) Assist the target/delivery team inattaching known inhibitors to liposomebased delivery systems.

Project 2: Targeting/Delivery, KentonRodgers and Sanku Mallik

1.) Construct liposome-based deliverysystems that will release their con-tents when Triggered by an MMP ofchoice.

2.) Address feasibility of Znˆ2+extraction from the MMP active sitesusing model Znˆ2+ complexes.

3.) Construct pro-photodynamic agents(proPDAs) to be appended ontoinhibitors in collaboration with theorganic synthesis group.

4.) Fabricate polymerized liposomeswith surface functionality and morphol-ogy complimentary to that of a chosenMMP as a recognition strategy.

Project 3: Biopharmaceutics/DrugDesign, Stefan Balaz

1.) Measure in vitro transport, binding,and protease inhibition of inhibitorssynthesized in the Center.

2.) Describe individual steps in theprotease inhibition in vitro in terms ofstructure and properties of inhibitorsusing computational methods andquantitative structure-time-activityrelationships (QSTAR).

3.) Use QSTAR to design improvedinhibitors.

Project 4: in vitro Cellular Interac-tions, Inder Sehgal

1.) The Core will assay the cytotoxic-ity of proteinase antagonists, theirability to inhibit in vitro invasion andtheir potency against specific pro-teases. These tests will allow us toidentify inhibitors, which are effectiveat reducing cell invasion and mayselectively inhibit proteinases in onecell environment vs. others.

2.) The Core will progress to animalstudies (Year 4) to assess in vivoefficacy of selected protease antago-nists developed in the Center.

For more information visit:www.ndsu.edu/cobre

Hikaru Hasegawa and Sandeep Ghorpe.First MMP compound.

Rasmussen Group

The Rasmussen Group has receivedvery good news in the last fewmonths. Dr. Rasmussen was awardedan NSF CAREER award that willprovide funding for the group for thenext five years. This grant will helppay for supplies and salaries for thegroup.

In December, graduate student KatsuOgawa gave his Second Year Seminarentitled, “Special Properties of CyclicPhosphines.” Also in December, Katsupublished his first paper along withlabmates Scott Rothstein and KarlaRadke. The paper entitled “Synthesisof Secondary and TertiaryAminothiophenes via Palladium-Catalyzed Amination,” was publishedin the Journal of Organic Chemistry (J.

Org. Chem. 2001, 66, 9067-9070). Inaddition to this paper, Katsu is workingon another publication and severalpublications are being written for thethienopyrazine project by DonKenning, Kari Mitchell, and DanielSattler. In April, Dr. Rasmussen andseven members of the group will beattending the 223rd ACS NationalMeeting in Orlando to present ourmost recent research results.

At this time, the Rasmussen groupcurrently consists of six undergradu-ates and two graduate students.However, we will soon be losingseniors Kari Mitchell, Patrick Griffin,and Misty Tomchuk as they will begraduating in May. All are planning onattending graduate school in either

Misty Tomchuk, Karla Radke, Mandy Zimmerli,working together in the Rasmussen Lab.

chemistry or materials and arecurrently visiting schools such asPurdue, Wisconsin, and Berkeley.

Center for Protease Research - NIH - COBRE

By Don D. Kenning

Chem-News 4 Spring 2002

Moved...The buildings of Ladd and Dunbar Halllost some of its occupants who movedto the Tech Park – Dr. Greg McCarthy,Polymers & Coatings, ND EPSCoR,Boudjouk Labs and the Tallman Lab.

North Dakota EPSCoRA State and Federal Partnership

North Dakota EPSCoR is a North Dakota University System program aimed atbuilding an exemplary research infrastructure, developing human resources andincreasing technology transfer from universities to the commercial sector. NorthDakota EPSCoR is open to student and faculty at all state university systemcampuses and Tribally Controlled Community Colleges. www.ndsu.nodak.edu/epscor

North Dakota Experimental Program toStimulate Competitive Research

By: Dr. Jeffery GerstProfessor, Biological Sciences

Through contact with Dr. Gerst,chemistry assistant professor Dr.Mallik began an experiment in Chem-istry 341 using the personal responsesystem.

Dr. Mallik is using the personal responsesystem in Chemistry 341

technological means to assist teach-ers and students in acquiring meaning-ful formative data in classes havinglarge student enrollments.

Students’ responses to questions are“private” so that there is no danger ofbeing embarrassed. A student mayindicate a “confidence level” for eachof their answers. The tallied responsesare displayed as bar graphs to provide“instant feedback” and a “real time”assessment of how well the studentsunderstand the concept or processunder discussion. The data is alsostored in comma-separated-valuestext files (csv files) for later analysis.

The students enjoy using the deviceand state that they “do more thinking”and “try harder to make sense of thesubject matter.” Dr. Gerst obtainedfunding for the pilot study from theStudent Technology Fee AdvisoryCommittee.

Mallik Lab

Joining the lab are Rahima Behabbour, SuadNadi, Binita Chandra and Nihar Sarkar.

Ryan Keddy

Technology ParkResearch Building 1

Chemicals being removed from Boudjouk Lab.

President Chapmanvisits Chemistry

Annual Visit of President Chapman to theChemistry Department. At the faculty meeting.

Cleaning up Dunbar lab for the Center forNanoscale Engineering.

The Personal Response System(http://www.educue.com) is a handhelddevice similar to television remotecontrol that provides a student-friendly

Chem-News 5 Spring 2002

From Chemistry... to Dakota Technologies, Inc.

$500,000 Grant Awarded Nov, 15, 2001 on SBIR Phase II: RevitalizingSpectrofluorimeters with Cryogenic Fiber Optic Probes, Fluorescence LifetimeCapability, and Tunable Laser Sources

$500,000 Awarded on May 1, 2002 on SBIR Phase II: Novel Multi-Wavelength Time-Resolved Laser Induced Fluorescence Detector

Greg Gillispie and Paul Jarski (MS 2000 NDSU).

Tom Rudolph (BS Geosciences, 1999) with thelatest batch of Northern Lights dye lasersmanufactured at DTI.

Laser-induced fluorescence projects conductedby Travis Martin (MS Chemistry, 2001 NDSU)take advantage of his experience from theCampigia Laboratory.

Dr. Greg Gillispie came to NDSU in 1983.He established Dakota Technologies, Inc.(DTI) in 1993.

Dakota Technologies specializes in real-time chemical analysis. It is the worldleader in the development and integra-tion of chemical sensors into direct pushsoil probes and uniquely capable ofproviding continuous vertical profiles ofsubsurface chemical contamination.

Since leaving NDSU Gillispie received a“1999 Small Business InnovationResearch Tibbets Award” in Washington,D.C. He was one of 62 honorees fromacross the country. The Air Force awardwas in the amount of $100,000 for Real-Time Fuel Leak Detector research. TheDepartment of Energy award for $75,000was for High Spatial Resolution OpticalSensors for DNAPLs research.

Gillispie, with Andres Campiglia andOrven Swenson received a $498,000two-year grant from the National ScienceFoundation to formally establish a Centerfor Applications of Laser and Spectros-copy. It will provide instrumentationresource sources and technical supportto allow faculty to try out experiments notcurrently possible in their own laborato-ries. With Gillispie serving as director ofthe Center, the group developed a shortcourse and curricular materials related tolasers and optics.

Recent Developments at DakotaTechnologies, Inc.

Greetings to friends of the NDSUchemistry department from DakotaTechnologies, Inc. The company has nowgrown to 18 staff members. Recentadditions include Terri Zimmerman, Dr.Mark Pavicic, Travis Martin, and KarryKyllo.

After nine years as a consultant forDeloitte and Touche, Terri Zimmermanserved as Vice-president of Finance andChief Financial Officer at Great PlainsSoftware from 1995-1999. The past twoyears, Terri was the Chief Financial

Officer at Wamnet, a Twin Cities companythat helps corporations manage theirdigital content via a global internet. Weare delighted that Terri has decided tobring her outstanding business experi-ence and insight to DTI. Terri is a native ofHannah, North Dakota and a graduate ofUND.

Mark Pavicic is a native of Fargo and agraduate of Fargo South. After receivingundergraduate degrees in math andphysics at Iowa State, Mark earned anM.S. degree in electrical engineering fromthe University of Illinois and M.S. andPh.D. degrees in computer architecturefrom Columbia. He also has industrialexperience at Texas Instruments, IBM,and Great Plains, as well as almost tenyears as a professor at NDSU.

Many of you know Travis Martin, whoreceived his M.S. degree under thedirection of Professor Campiglia at theend of last summer. The fluorescence andlaser experience he gained in theCampiglia group is being put to good useat DTI.

Karry Kyllo is also a North Dakota native.Karry earned his B.S. degree in chemistryat Mayville State; he also has anassociate’s degree in electronics andindustrial experience at the Milton Youngplant in the western part of the state andwith Northwest Airlines.

DTI’s technology activities have broad-ened considerably over the last two years.Although we continue to develop newmethods and instrumentation to charac-terize chemical contamination in soil andgroundwater, over the past two years wehave been moving the company’s mainfocus toward applying our laser-inducedfluorescence (LIF) technology for bio-medical and laboratory purposes. NSF iscurrently funding two Phase II SmallBusiness Innovation Research Projectsand we recently completed an NIH projectrelated to DNA sequencing. DTI andVarian, Inc. are collaboratively developinga laser accessory to Varian’s Cary Eclipsespectrofluorimeter.

Varian’s Optical Spectroscopy group islocated in Melbourne, Australia, sosome international travel is likely. Wealso have an industrially sponsoredresearch contract related to biologicalaerosol sensing and monitoring.

We encourage people to drop by andsee our renovated and expandedfacilities at 2201-A 12th St. N. Last yearwe had a large open shop area madeover into three laboratories and fouroffices. And in preparation for new hiresover the next year, DTI will assume anadditional 5000 square feet of space inApril, bring our total floor space to about17,000 square feet.

Chem-News 6 Spring 2002

July 21-26, 2002Roger Williams UniversityBristol, RI

Dr. Mukund Sibi, ChairDepartment of ChemistryNorth Dakota State UniversityFargo, ND 58105voice: 701-231-8251 or 701-231-9045fax: 701-231-1057

http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/grc/

Dr. Christopher R. Schmid, Vice ChairSenior Research ScientistChemical Process and Research Dev.Eli Lilly and CompanyIndianapolis, IN 46285-4813Voice: 317-276-5155fax: 317-433-5734

Sunday, July 21, 2002Session 1 Catalysis

Monday, July 22, 2002Session 2 Process ChemistrySession 3 Organometallic ChemistrySession 4 Catalysis

Tuesday, July 23, 2002Session 5 Radical ChemistrySession 6 Catalysis and Radical

ChemistrySession 7 Catalysis

Wednesday, July 24, 2002Session 8 New ReactionsSession 9 New ReactionsSession 10 Synthesis

Thursday, July 25, 2002Session 11 New ReactionsSession 12 New ReactionsSession 13 Featured Speaker

Wenfang Sun’s Lab

Undergrads Krista Berge, Kary Martin andDanielle Dyk.

Post Doc Dr. Fengqi Guo from China.

Summer ProfessionalDevelopmentOpportunities forScience TeachersJune & July 2002

Under the Eisenhouser/Title II Funds,ND secondary science teachers areencouraged to participate in an earlysummer series of graduate-levelscience courses.

Dr. Denley Jacobson, ChemistryDepartment, will teach Chemistry 736,Mass Spectrometry and Chemistry737, Gas Phase in Chemistry fromJune 10 - July 16, 2002.

www.ndsu.edu/csme

one from the NDSU Research Foun-dation for her photosensitizer re-search, another one from NASAEPSCoR for her two-photon absorbingmaterials study.

Dr. Fengqi Guo joined Dr. Sun’s groupon March 1st. Dr. Guo obtained hisPh.D. degree in 2000 from the Chi-nese Academy of Sciences. Hisexpertise is in organic synthesis,photophysical and nonlinear opticalcharacterizations. He will work on Dr.Sun’s Transition Metal ArylacetyleneComplexes for Optical LimitingApplication project.

Three freshmen, Krista Berge,Danielle Dyk, and Kary Martin haveworked in Dr. Sun’s lab since Septem-ber 2001 under the URM program.Currently, they are synthesizingsubstituted pyrrole precursors for

Dr. Sun was recently awardedher first two grants...

Sibi Group

Hikaru Hasegawa, Tara Rheault, Mei Liu, MonaAasmul, Shankar Manyem, Jake Zimmerman.

Ruzhou Zhang, Hirofumi Matsunaga,Sandeep Ghorpade, Thangaiah Subramanian

pentaazadentate porphyrin-like rare-earth complexes. Undergraduatestudent Gregory Rohde (junior) volun-tarily works in Dr. Sun’s lab to conductspectroscopic studies on platinumphenylacetylenes.

Chem-News 7 Spring 2002

Symposia

Plenary Session* Ronald A. Hites, Indiana University* Laura L. Kiessling, Univ of Wisconsin* Mark A. Ratner, Northwestern Univ* Samuel I. Stupp, Northwestern Univ

Environmental ChemistryChemical BiologyChemistry of Nanostructured MaterialsCompututational ChemistryUndergraduate Research Symposium

General Sessions* Analytical Chemistry* Chemical Education* Inorganic Chemistry* Organic Chemistry* Physical Chemistry

Poster Session

For questions about the program,please contact: 612-625-4061

William B. Tolman, Program ChairUniversity of Minnesotatolman@chem.umn.edu

Interdisciplinary Laser & Optics Teaching Lab Open House

An open house for our new interdisci-plinary laser and optics teaching lablocated within the Physics Departmentwas held on Wednesday, December12th in South Engineering 112 Lab.

The laboratory equipment was fundedthrough a $74,000 NSF grant withmatching University equipment fundsfrom the College of Engineering and

Architecture, the College of Scienceand Mathematics, and the CentralAdministration.

In addition, the Departments ofElectrical and Computer Engineering,Physics, and Chemistry have contrib-uted substantial amounts of facultytime and generous gifts or loans ofinstrumentation and components tomeet the needs of the new laboratory.

Using this new facility, we haveimplemented a new course, Optics forScientists and Engineers, targeted toa wide cross section of students incomputer engineering, electricalengineering, physics, chemistry,mechanical engineering, biology,agricultural engineering, etc.

The goal is to provide upper levelundergraduate and graduate studentswith the fundamentals necessary toenable them to successfully applyoptics in their respective disciplines.We are completing our first semesterof the course with 14 undergraduate

Dr. Orven Swenson, principal investigator, withstudent, Feng Hong.

The Hershberger lab is activelyinvolved in research on the kinetics ofradical species in combustion chemis-try. The group currently includes DaveThweatt, postdoc, who does bothexperiments and calculations, RandyBaren, graduate student, who iscurrently writing his thesis andinterviewing for jobs, April Metzger,sophomore, and Mark Erickson, junior.A new graduate student, Justin Meyer,just recently joined the group. Severalprojects are underway, includingmeasurements on CCN, CCO, NCN,and SiH3 kinetics.

The Hershberger Lab...by John Hershberger

and 3 graduate students. The teachinglaboratory is also well equipped forincorporation into courses such asfiber optics, spectroscopy, lasers,nonlinear optics, and imaging. OrvenSwenson, associate professor ofPhysics is the principal investigatoralong with Andres Campiglia, assis-tant professor of chemistry; FloydPatterson, associate professor ofelectrical and computer engineering;David Rodgers, professor of electricaland computer engineering.

Dr. Andres Campiglia with students.

Randy Baren, David Thweatt and Justin Meyer.

34th Great Lakes Regional Meetingof the American Chemical Society

June 2-4, 2002Minneapolis

www.chem.umn.edu/glrm

Chem-News 8 Spring 2002

NDS Ure

This year the 10-week summerundergraduate research experience inChemistry at NDSU is more popularthan ever.

Applications have been pouring infrom all over the country to meet theMarch 1 deadline. This year well over50 applications have been received.

We plan to fill 17 or 18 positions, themost we have ever hosted to date.Most of these summer research

Summer Research ExperienceOffered for Undergraduates - 2002

positions are being funded by a 3-year grant from the National ScienceFoundation.

The newly established NationalInstitutes of Health COBRE center atNDSU will fund an additional fourstudents.

So, this summer will be an excitingand busy time for NDSU Chemistry.The program will start on May 28,2002 and run through August 2, 2002.

On March 5-6, 2002, ProfessorDennis Tallman traveled to Washing-ton, D.C. to express to Congress theneed for increased and balancedfederal investment in research anddevelopment.

Professor Tallman joined with morethan 200 scientists, engineers andbusiness leaders who made visits onCapitol Hill as part of the seventh“Congressional Visits Day,” an annualevent sponsored by the Science-Engineering-Technology Work Groupand the Coalition for TechnologyPartnerships.

Professor Tallman’s visit wasorganized by the American ChemicalSociety (ACS), the largest scientificorganization in the world with morethan 163,000 professional chemistsand chemical engineers. Three ACSteams, each team consisting of fourmembers, participated in the event.Professor Tallman’s team (picturedabove left to right) consisted of BradSmith (ACS Staff), Ruth Hathawayof Missouri, Professor Tallman andDr. Jodi Wesemann of California.

While visiting congressional offices,Professor Tallman’s team discussedthe importance of the nation’s broadportfolio of investments in science,engineering and technology topromoting national security, prosperityand innovation. Most importantly, theyprovided a constituent perspective onthe local and national impact of theseprograms and their significance toindividual states such as NorthDakota and to the nation. They alsoemphasized the need for significant,sustained increases in funding forfundamental research in the physicalsciences, similar to the recentncreases passed by congress for thehealth sciences.

More than 50 percent of all industrialinnovation and growth in the UnitedStates since World War II can beattributed to advances pioneeredthrough scientific research, withpublicly funded research and develop-ment of the vital foundation for today’sscientific and technological progress.Examples of scientific and technologi-cal advances that can be traced backto federally funded science, engineer-ing and technology include globalenvironmental monitoring, lasers,liquid crystal displays, and theinternet.

Says Professor Tallman, “I waspleased to have the opportunity toparticipate in this important event. Ifeel strongly that making our voicesheard to our elected representativesin Washington is critical to ensureongoing support of Federal researchand development programs.”

Tallman visits DC for research

The Cook Group continues to evolve.New graduate student, Jason Smartjoined in December and has embarkedon a project to synthesize newinhibitors of Matrix Metalloproteinases.This project is part of the 5-year multi-disciplinary collaborative NIH COBREcenter that was granted to Chemistryand Pharmacy last year.

New undergraduate researcher,Jessica Goreham, is also working onnew MMP inhibitors in conjunctionwith Postdoc Manivannan.

Other group members who are workingon the COBRE project are PostdocLiangdong Sun, and Graduate Stu-dents Reza Hussain and NestorLoraCruz.

Brandon Gustafson is an undergradu-ate student who is working on newtandem reactions for the synthesisof new biological templates, andgraduate student Jason Hallman,and undergraduate Scott Reule areadvancing new selective chemistrymediated by indium metal.

The Cook Group

Nestor LoraCruz, Manivannan Ethirajan, JasonHallman

Cobre Office Staff

Amy Scott and Nancie Hergert. Nancie hasserved Dr. Sibi for 3½ years as an officeassistant. She has been instrumental in helpinglighten the workload and we say thanks!

Chem-News 9 Spring 2002

Chemistry GraduationCandidates

BS - Fall 2001Jonathan Wegner, Willmar, MN

MS - Fall 2001Travis Martin, Anchorage, Alaska

BS - Spring 2002Matthew Dewald, Bismarck, NDPatrick Griffin, Fargo, NDJustin Koehler, Upper Darby, PAAlisa Lockman, Champlin, MNKari Mitchell, Rhame, NDRenee Peterson, Grandin, NDScott Reule, Fargo, NDChristopher Taylor, Fergus Falls, MNMisty Tomchuk, Harwood, ND

Chemistry Labs get into NetworkComputing

Supplemental InstructionOffered to Chemistry

Students

Dr. Melvin Morris continues “Free Tutoring” toChemistry students every day from 1-3:30 withno appointment necessary.

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Chemistry Department Activities

Rodgers Lab

Chemistry Club cont’d

Horace Mann Elementary visit, “Chemi-luminescience Experiment” with ChrisTaylor,Justin Koehler and Misty Tomchuk.

Harwood Elementary visit, “DiseaseTransmission Experiment” with Galen Sedoand Chris Taylor.

Fargodome Fundraising - Home & Garden Showwith Lindell Kemmet, Mandy Zimmerli(Fargodome events coordinator), Justin Koehler.

West Fargo High School visit experiment“Methanol Combustion” with Dan Sattler,Scott Rothstein and Galen Sedo.

New Post-Doc Doug Linder.

Kent Rodgers, Doug Linder, Brent Roller,Gudrun-Lukat-Rodgers, Indrani Chakraborty,Lei Tang

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Chem-News 10 Spring 2002

The Southeastern ND RegionalScience and Engineering Fair, sponsoredby North Dakota State University andSociety of Automotive Engineers washeld at NDSU on March 12, 2002. Theterritory included the counties of Griggs,

Steele, Barnes,Cass, Ranson,Richland andSargent.

The McCarthy Lab has changed in itsmakeup and now also comprises staffwho are working in NDSU’s newCenter for Nanoscale Science andEngineering (CNSE).

Dean Grier is now splitting his time30% for the Chemistry Department,directing the MCL, and 70% for CNSEas an Assistant to the Director. Hisprimary task for the first phase of theCenter buildout is leading a team offaculty and staff who are conducting asurvey of sensor-related technologiescompatible with the two focus tech-nologies the Center will be helping todevelop (Nanoblock silicon microcir-cuit architectures and Fluidic SelfAssembly manufacturing processes).

Eric Jarabek, now a senior, has madeDean’s transition possible by takingover the bulk of the MCL operationand maintenance, as assistantdirector, including analysis (or supervi-sion of analysis) for in-house andcontract sample characterization.

Renee Peterson, also now a senior,has been taking advantage of severalteaching opportunities on campus,and as the senior undergraduateresearcher, is leading a subcontractinvestigating the mineralogical compo-sition and alteration of a series of coal

combustion by-products produced fora variety of commercial applicationsby Consol Energy.

Chrissy Bultema and Laura Mergen(a Concordia student who worked inthe lab last summer on an REUproject) have been performing libraryresearch for the sensor technologysurvey, and will also be working on thesubcontract project that Renee isleading.

Jordan Sand, who worked in the labtwo years ago during Governor’sSchool, has been performing literaturesearch and retrieval for the sensortechnology survey, and runningsample analyses. He has applied tothe National Laboratories to work as astudent researcher this summer.

In addition to Laura and Jordan, wehave welcomed two more faces to theMCL space this year, Stephen Stock-man and John Simon, both of whomare working for CNSE, and sharingtemporary desk space in the MCL untilmore permanent facilities becomeavailable.

Steve Stockman comes to us as aretired Lieutenant Colonel of the U.S.Army. He spent several months thisfall working part-time with the sensortechnology survey and planning

renovation of Dunbar spaces forthe construction of temporary CNSEcleanroom facilities. Steve hasrecently taken the full-time position ofSpecial Projects and LogisticsManager.

John Simon joined us at the beginningof the year, as Cleanroom andEquipment Manager for CNSE. As aformer “Alien” (Alien Technology Corp.employee) from Silicon Valley, he hasbrought with him both extensiveexperience in semiconductor fabrica-tion technology and facilities manage-ment, and apparently some SouthernCalifornia heat to contribute to our mildwinter.

McCarthy Lab working with Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineeringby Dean Grier

N o r t h D a k o t a S t a t e S c i e n c e & E n g i n e e r i n g F a i r

CNSE Staff: Stephen Stockman, SpecialProjects and Logistics Manager (L), and JohnSimon, Cleanroom and Equipment Manager.John joined us from Alien Technology, Inc.,Morgan Hill ,CA. Photo taken in front of Alien’snew facility, whose design and construction wasmanaged by John.

Nate Bosek, Sullivan Middle School.

Chem-News 11 Spring 2002

Societies Conference in Detroit, MI.The three of us gave oral presenta-tions as well as mingled with our peersfrom around the world. It wasinteresting to listen to some storiesabout Dr. Campiglia’s graduate studentlife at the University of Florida.

Andrea and I plan on defending ourthesis this spring. Finally, but notleast, we have had the pleasant visitof Professor Hector Goicoechea fromthe Department of Chemistry, Collegeof Biochemistry, Universidad Nacionaldel Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina. Hehelped us with the application ofchemometrics to luminescence data inenvironmental analysis.

Dr. Don Scoby from NDSU (retired),Mike Burton, from Discovery Jr. Highand Dick Swanson from West FargoHigh School were the originators of thethe Science Olympiad. Dick Swansonand his wife, Bonnie, are still activelyinvolved. This is the 17th year for theOlympiad.

The NDSU Science Olympiad is beingheld in the Bison Sports Arena onApril 20, 2002. About 800 studentsparticipate from across the state ofND. The events will be for Division Cschools (grades 9-12) and Division BSchools (grades 6-9) and run 9-3.

Contests will be such as: ChemistryLab, Life Science Process Lab,Qualitative Analysis, Science CrimeBusters, Water Quality.

www. ndsu.nodak.edu/csme/olympiad

The North Dakota Governor's Schoolin Science and Mathematics is asummer residential program forstudents who have completed theirsophomore or junior year in highschool. If you have above averageabilities and special aptitude and

interest in science or mathematics,the Governor's School may be for you.

The Governor’s School is held annu-ally on the campus of North DakotaState University. If you are chosen toattend the Governor’s School, you'lllive in student residence halls on theNDSU campus and eat your meals inthe student dining hall. Residentassistants help with the supervision ofthe student residence halls on theNDSU campus and eat meals in thestudent dining hall.

The Governor’s School is free tostudents. You will be responsible foryour own transportation to and fromhome, as well as for personal ex-penses such as snacks and laundry.

http://govschl.ndsu.nodak.edu/gs98.html

Campiglia Groupby Adam Bystol

During the past two years, our grouphas been heavily involved with thedevelopment of new experimental andinstrumentation for absorption,excitation and multidimensionalluminescence analysis at liquidnitrogen and helium temperatures.

Our methods provide the uniquecapability to perform unambiguousisomer identification in complexmixtures of aromatics such as thoseencountered in environmentalsamples. As a result, three majorproposals have been funded includingan NSF-SBIR Phase II with DakotaTechnologies Inc., an EPA-EPSCoRproposal and an NSF proposal (Ana-lytical and Surface Chemistry).

Travis Martin and Jen Whitcomb bothdefended their Masters Thesis in fallsemester of 2001. Travis is currentlyworking in Fargo for Dakota Technolo-gies Inc.

Jen is interviewing for severalprospective jobs, giving preference tothose located in the east coast.

Two new members have joined ourgroup this year. Shenjiang Yu is a firstyear graduate student who receivedhis B.S. in chemistry from the FudanUniversity in Shanghai, China. Whennot occupied by classes and studying,Shenjiang has been learning the ropesstudying the luminescence ofdibenzopyrenes at low temperatures.

Marina Santos joined our group thiswinter. Marina comes to us fromRosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. Shereceived her B.S. in chemistry fromthe Universidad Nacional de Rosario inSanta Fe, Argentina. Marina plans tojoin the ranks of incoming graduatestudents this coming fall semester.

Andrea Arruda and myself presentedposters on our research last Octoberat the SD/ND Joint EPSCoR BiennialConference. We also joined Dr.Campiglia in October at the 28th

Annual Federation of AnalyticalChemistry and Spectroscopy

Adam Bystol, Dr. Coicoechea, Marina Santos,Andrea Arruda, Dr. Campiglia and Shenjiang Yu.

Broberg Room continues tobe used extensively byChemistry majors

April 20, 2002

June 2 - July 20, 2002

News from Chemistry Club

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For the members of the NDSUchemistry club, spring semester hasturned out to be a busy time of year.Fundraising efforts have continuedwith exams sales and more FargoDome events. Community outreachprojects are also on the agenda forthis spring. Chem Club members gavedemonstrations and orchestrated“hands on” activities at Harwood andHorace Elementary Schools on Feb.28 and March 7, and will be at YunkerFarm on Apr. 20. The goal of thesevisits is to spark an interest in sciencein younger generations.

Chem Club also sponsored DanSattler as a contestant in the annual“Mr. NDSU” contest, which is producedby Alpha Gamma Delta. This contestbenefits the Juvenile Diabetes Foun-dation.

From April 7-11, fifteen chemistry clubmembers will be attending the NationalACS Meeting in Orlando, FL. Everymember going will be presenting aposter either on their research or onchemistry club activities. We are alllooking forward to attending thismeeting.

While at the National Meeting, thechemistry club will also be acceptingan Honorable Mention award for ourlast year’s activities. This award isbased on many aspects of the

organization including: communityactivities, fundraising, communication,hosting of speakers, tours and fieldtrips, involvement with the university,business meetings, and attendance ofother scientific meetings.

It is our hope that our increasedactivity this year will earn our studentaffiliate chapter a Commendable orOutstanding award for next year.

By Kari Mitchell

Yunker Farm “Frosty in Fargo” with MandyZimmerli and child.

Harwood Elementary School Visit,“Disease Transmission Experiment” with ReneePeterson, Scott Rothstein, Dan Sattler andGalen Sedo.

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