Alumni News - 2000 and Earlier

11/30/2000
Stephen Heller (B.S., 1963)
From C&E News, 11/20/2000:
Stephen Heller, an internationally recognized expert in the design, implementation, and management of chemical databases and information systems, will guide the development of specialized databases. Heller is the corecipient of this year's Herman Skolnick Award from ACS's Chemical Information Division. He is a member of the editorial board of the Internet Journal of Chemistry and holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

11/21/2000
James Avery (B.S., 1978)
Jim graduated in 1978 with a chemistry major . He was recently named medical director of The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast - the largest hospice in the United States. He lives with his wife, Jan, and their three children in Clearwater, Florida.
James Avery, M.D. JamesAvery@TheHospice.org

11/14/2000
Eduardo Duek (Ph.D.,1983, Alexander)
I noticed that my brief bios in the alumni news shows info that is outdated. I have already reserved the name duek.com for my personal internet page, which is still unpublished. ALSO please list that as of december 2000 I am moving to Aventura, FLA, after 6 years in Argentina, so that my eldest, Thomas, could start high school in the US. New coordinates after I move, but the email address listed below should be fine.
    Could u plz list
Eduardo E. Duek, Ph. D.
phone 011-5411-4393-3733, fax same
celular 011-5411-5014-3835
email eddieduek@hotmail.com

09/20/2000
Dan Moriarty(Ph.D., )
Dan is a post -doc at RPI.  He notes his e-mail address is moriad@rpi.edu

Anita Mehta
Now I am working as associate Director, Medicinal Chemistry Department, New Drug Discovery Research, Ranbaxy Research Laboratories.  E-mail address is: anita_mehta@hotmail.com

09/07/2000
Arnold Winters (B.S., 1968)
I appreciate the base of knowledge I received while an undergraduate chemistry student in the early days of the University at Stony Brook.   .... my interests evolved to business and finance which I feel my educational experiences (chemistry as well as dentistry) rounded out my knowledge base to evaluate the hot high tech industry.  .....
I went to Columbia U. for a year after Stony Brook to round out my knowledge of biology and anatomy. I then graduated with a DMD from University of Penn. in '73.

I am married to the same girl, Lois, since '73 and have two children. My daughter Tara is 23 and is a graduate student at the State University of West GA in speech pathology and my son, Shaun is 21 and is a junior undergrad at the University of FL.

I am a planning based financial consultant with Merrill Lynch. I specialize in retirement and estate planning for high net worth clients. I look at TIAA CREF statements and do a Financial Foundation Report to clarify goals and advise clients on allocation of their investments and on the best ways to
avoid estate taxation.

I have a web page at http://www.fc.ml.com/arnie_winters
Arnold

08/04/2000
David A. Marr (B.S., 1982)
Working in sales for an obscure dot com company in the Silicon Valley that is trying to cash in on the dot com craze and become a household name!!! If that happens, I will be retiring, if not I probably will have a new current position and wishing that I had gone on to Grad School!!  (Actually wishing that I studied harder, then I would have been able to go to Grad school).  Oh well, the world needs sales people too.

David Marr, Alliance Partner Manager, Kinzan
900 East Hamilton Ave., Ste 100
Campbell, CA 95008, (408) 294-6324; (408) 309-3359 (cell)
Home:1064 Ginger Ln
San Jose, CA 95128
davidmarr@netzero.net

Eric S. Gruff (Ph.D.,1990, Koch)
Since our company (Warner-Lambert) has just merged with  Pfizer, I expect a change to some of this data.  My phone number shouldn't  change, but if you have trouble reaching me at work, you can e-mail me at home  using egruff@pacbell.net.

Also, the last time that I spoke to Kathy McGraw (MS, '89),  she was working at Isis Pharmaceuticals in Carlsbad, CA.
Eric
Senior Manager, Pharmaceutical Development
Agouron Pharmaceuticals
11099 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037; (858) 622-7909
eric.gruff@agouron.com

Graham Peaslee (Ph.D., 1988, Alexander)
My happenings are pretty simple, but if you want to add to your data base, I just received tenure and promotion as a joint appointment in Chemistry and Environmental Science at Hope College.  Hope College is a liberal arts college in Holland, Michigan with 3000 undergrads and a long history of excellence in its chemistry research program. I am going to spend the 2000-2001 year on sabbatical at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, while my wife Cathy Mader (tenured in the Physics Dept at Hope) spends a sabbatical at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. My contact information is listed below if anybody wants to get in touch with me.

GRAHAM
Graham F. Peaslee
Associate Professor
Chemistry Department          phone:   (616)395-7117
Hope College,                      fax:        (616)395-7118
Holland,  MI  49422-9000      e-mail:    peaslee@hope.edu

Raymond Mackay(Ph.D., 1966, Schneider)
[Ray was at NSF as a Program Officer in Chemistry for a year.]  He writes:
As you are aware, I am curently on leave from Clarkson University at the National Science Foundation. Effective 10 July 2000 I will be continuing my leave from Clarkson, but will be moving to a different position. I will be at the Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center (ECBC) as Director of Research and Technology. Email sent to my Clarkson address (mackay@clarkson.edu) will continue to reach me, but my new information is given below.

Dr. Raymond Mackay
Director, Research & Technology
U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center
ATTN: AMSSB-RRT/Bldg E3150
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010-5424
Email: ramackay@sbccom.apgea.army.mil
Telephone: 410-436-3250 (fax 2649)
DSN: 584-3250

04/27/2000
Irving Kipnis (B.S., 1967)
I am a sunysb chem. alum.  However, I am neither long or lost as far as I know.  The alumni assoc. has had my address until recently.  It is now Irv Kipnis, 2009 Chapel Ct., Frederick, MD 21702.

After SB I attended Pitt (along with fellow chem alum Norm Rapino, who I roomed with our first year).  I was married to Joyce Bass in 1968.  Norm and I both selected Clay Griffin as our thesis advisor.  At the end of the second year Clay announced that he was moving to U. of Toledo to become Dept. Chairman.  Joyce and I decided to go to Toledo.  So did Norm and his new bride Eloise (nee Seifert) also a SB graduate, but not in chem.  As far as I know, Norm is still in Toledo, but not in a chemical field.

Norm was the first Ph. D. in Chem. graduated from Toledo.  I was number 3 in Dec. 72.  My daughter Stephanie was  born in Toledo (she is now a graduate of U. of MD with a Masters from Towson U.)  I was a postdoc for Donald Denney at Rutgers 71-72.  In 73 I worked part time at the FMC Corp. Tech Ctr., Princeton, NJ doing library searches.  In the 73-74 academic year, I was a lecturer in chem. at Douglass College of Rutgers.  I was involved with general chem assisting my SB General and Organic Chem Prof. Bob Boikess and I also taught the short (one semester) organic class.  In 74 I got a full time job as a Process Research Chemist at FMC.  My son Stuart (BS Chem Eng. Penn State) was born in Princeton in 1974.  The degree came several years after the birth.  In 1978 I transferred to the Baltimore, MD Agricultural Chem.
Div. Plant.  For 10 yrs I managed a plant process dev. lab doing crisis troubleshooting, environmental analysis, process improvement and industrial hygiene.  I became a certified industrial hygienist in 1982.  Along the way, I got an MBA (U. of Balt. 1980).

In 1987 I left FMC to become the laboratory director for Gascoyne Labs, a commercial environmental testing laboratory in Baltimore.  In 1992-3 I was the lab manager for Roy F. Weston in Stockton, CA,   In 1993 I returned to Baltimore to American Environmental Network as General Mgr. of their Columbia, MD lab.  I left there in 1994 and after a year of unemployment, I joined a small env. lab in Chambersburg, PA.  In 1995 I purchased the lab and changed the name to Express Analytical Services, Inc.  Although I should have fired myself several times, I am still there.

My wife Joyce got a Bachelors Degree from Hunter College and ironically ended up working in the nursing home industry.  She worked herself up to Asst.Administrator and after 20 yrs at one facility, is now the Director of Marketing at St. Agnes Nursing and Rehab. Ctr. in Columbia, MD.

Unfortunately, I do not encounter and have not maintained contact with many SB grads.  I did get to work for another of my classmates Al Porter while at FMC in Princeton.  I did some part-time teaching at Mercer Co. Community College where Al was the Dept. Head.

Am I still lost, or have I found my way?  Either way, I am still not long.

04/27/2000
Aaron Heiss (Ph.D., 1996, Bell)
writes to Professor Ojima:
Thanks for the update in the newsletter. I can tell that everything is moving at a fast pace for you, SUNY and the Chem Dept. Work here is going well, we will have 2 posters at the next ACS meeting and I am gathering information for a paper to keep the PR rolling. I was unable to say hello at the last ACS meeting because Anne and I had our second son, Ethan Samuel born on 3/22/2000. The family keeps getting bigger. Pretty soon it will be time for MiniVan shopping. Please add the the great news to your next newsletter!
Best wishes,
Aaron Heiss, PhD
Research Scientist
Discovery
MiniMed
12744 San Fernando Road
Sylmar, CA 91342
Phone: (818) 362-5958 Ext: 3508
FAX: (818) 362-0428
e-mail: aaronh@minimed.com

04/24/2000
Hong Yang(Ph.D., 1990, Whitten)
In a note to Dave Hanson and Joe Lauher, Hong writes:
It has been a very long time that I have not got in touch or heard from Joe.  Of course I met with Dave last October in Raleigh.  I have a surprising news for you.
I have accepted an offer from the University of Minnesota as the Director of China Center.  The Minnesota China Center, the US's first such center in this century, and one of the four such centers in the US, was established in 1979.  It is well structured and funded.  I am proud of myself and have competed with three other excellent candidates (one Berkeley PhD, one Harvard PhD, and another Chinese PhD from the United Kingdom).  The Minnesota position is excellent for my career and the offer is too attractive to be passed by.  I am excited about my new venture! I am sure that when you come to the Twin Cities, I will entertain you right.  I expect to have an adjunct professorship from chemistry.  I have become the UMn news since last Monday, 4/17, when I took my family for a second visit.  Although my pictures on the web site were removed, it is fun to check out the news article at www1.umn.edu/urelate/news.html.  Besides me there are three other staff member in the China Center.  I became the first FULL time director, and this shows the university's commitment.  In fact, the UMn has a very long history with China. I start my job on June 1, 2000 and will be in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan with the university President Mark Yudof and his delegation from June 19 to July 6.
Hong Yang
Research Associate Professor of Chemistry
hong_yang@ncsu.edu
919-515-3351

03/22/2000
John Tom(B.S., Engineering Chemistry, 1985)
wrote to Prof. Kerber:
I was surprised to get e-mail from you!  You were my environmental chemistry course professor!  That was a great course!!!  I graduated from Brooklyn Tech in 1981 and then went to Stony Brook for Engineering Chemistry (major) and Business Administration (minor).  I just got married about two months ago!  You can mail me the chemistry newsletter at home: 1373 Dahill Road, Brooklyn, New York 11204-2643.  Thank you very much!

Yours in education,
John Tom, A.P. Chemistry Coordinator
Brooklyn Technical High School
29 Fort Greene Place
Brooklyn, New York 11217-1299

03/20/2000
Arnold Winters (B.S., 1968)
We recalled some good old times with Arnold in a phone conversation.  He went on from Stony Brook to become a practicing dentist (Dental Degree from the U. Pennsylvania Dental School) which he did for 15 years. At that time, he gave up his practice and has been enjoying his role as a Financial Consultant with Merrill Lynch in Atlanta GA ever since..

03/17/2000
Bob Wedinger (Ph.D., 1984, leNoble)
Just got the Newsletter and was glad to be able to catch up on some old comrades.  Checked out the web-site and saw the last update on me was when I ran into Bob Kerber at an ACS meeting several years ago.  I have attached an announcement on where I am, and what I am doing now.  Allied acquired Honeywell In December and adopted the Honeywell name so my E-mail address is Robert.Wedinger@Honeywell.com.  Please add it to your directory.  I was a graduate student in Prof. leNoble's group and received my Ph.D. in 1984, then went on to Post-Doc for E.J.Corey at Harvard.

Soami P. Satsangee(Ph.D., 1990, Koch)
I am an alumni of Stony Brook Chemistry Department and have been regularly receiving the newsletter. Thank you for informing me about the activities going on in the chemistry department.  We are settled in Agra (India) and have two sons. My wife teaches in the education department(TESOL) whereas my job involves fabrication, maintenance and repair of our university's scientific instruments.  My graduate study experience at Stony Brook Chemistry Department has helped me in handling various scientific instruments.
Agra (The city of Taj Mahal) is getting all ready for Bill Clinton's visit on 22 March, 2000 to India. Faculty/Staff/Alumni of Chemistry department visiting Agra(India) in future can contact me.

Dr. Soami P. Satsangee
Reader & Incharge
University Science Instrumentation Centre
Dayalbagh Educational Institute
Dayalbagh, Agra-282005 INDIA
e-mail:soamips@vsnl.com

Domenic Ali (B.S., 1979)
In response to a note from Prof. Kerber

I went on to UC Berkeley and received a PhD in chemistry in 1983 (Dick Porter wanted me to go to Harvard -- to this day, I wonder what would have happened if I had accepted their offer instead of Berkeley). While I was doing well at UC Berkeley, I had mixed feelings about pursuing a career in science by the time I finished my dissertation. since I didn't want to make any abrupt decisions, I decided to take a post-doc position at Univ of Colorado (I lived in Boulder from 1983 to 1989). during that time, I started reading psychoanalysis and found it fascinating. in fact, so much so, that i volunteered at a local crisis clinic to see what mental health work "really looked liked." turns out I liked it, a lot. but more importantly, the people who supervised me seem to think I had a talent for it. so, while on sabbatical at Oxford University in 1985/6 (i was still a chemist), taking a walk on a sunday afternoon i decided i should take the plunge and change careers (i'm not making this up -- it was an important decision and I really remember when and where I was when I made it). .........I applied to Smith College and pursued a MSW and, in 1989, returned to the San Francisco area and began working as a social worker with HIV+ clients. I've spent to last ten years shaping my career towards psychotherapy and teaching. I currently am the Coordinator of the Brief Psychotherapy Training Program at the UCSF AIDS Health Project (being a married, heterosexual HIV- man working within the gay community in San Francisco is a whole story in itself -- I can't even begin to tell you how much I've enriched my life by having chosen to devote myself to this -- not the typical career path for a son-of-italian-immigrants-who-moved-to brooklyn- to-raise-a-family boy!).

The artwork is a separate story. I started missing science more and more as the years went by so in 1994 I bought a MAC computer so I could start experimenting with collage art .... So I taught myself collage art. Once I put up my web site, I started getting inquires to submit work to art sites and magazines, even being invited to submit art to a book project (the book is a collection of digital art work from around the world that is suppose to represent cutting edge work -- needless to say, I am flattered that I was seen in the company of some pretty serious graphic artists)......

Thanks for asking,

domenic

03/07/2000
Raymond Mackay (Ph.D., 1966, Schneider)
Ray Mackay, Stony Brook's first Ph.D., and Professor of Chemistry at Clarkson U. is on a one year leave of absence from his faculty position and is a Program officer in NSF's Division of Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry.

Deirdre Belle-Oudry (B.S., 1990)
I am currently working in the hydrology department at the University of Arizona as a Research Specialist.  My job entails analyzing ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica for a variety of chemical species in order to determine annual snow accumulation rates for these areas and to understand changes in past atmospheric chemistry.  I have worked here for about 14 months.  Last summer I was involved in field work in Greenland, which was an interesting experience.  We traveled to the middle of the Greenland ice sheet, where we analyzed a 136 meter deep ice core on site.

This research is quite a change from my educational/postdoctoral research. I completed my Ph.D. in physical chemistry at Cornell in November 1996. There I was studying crossed-molecular beam reactions using lasers to photolyze and probe molecules.  A large part of my time in graduate school was spent in designing and building an crossed-beam apparatus with a time-of-flight mass spectrometric detection system.

I then worked as a postdoc at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado for two years.  While I used a lot of the same techniques there that I used in graduate school, the research was applied to study biomass fuel combustion.  We used both time-of-flight and quadrupole mass spectrometric detection techniques
to detect combustion products.

After finishing my postdoc, my husband and I moved to Tucson.  I wanted a bit of a change from the research I had been doing, and found a position here at the university.
I hope all is well at Stony Brook.  Thank you for contacting me!

Deirdre Belle-Oudry
Department of Hydrology and Water Resources
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
email:  dbelle@hwr.arizona.edu
(520)621-7117
Fax: (520)621-1422
 

01/27/2000
Chi Wu(Ph.D., 1987 and Post Doctoral, Chu)
Current position: Professor of Chemistry  (British university system, a position similar to a Chair Professorship in the US system)
I am still interested in polymer science and trying to combine synthetic chemistry with physics. Particularly, I am interested in intelligent microgels, block copolymers with specific functions, and polymeric nanoparticles.  My wife, Yueyuan Huang, is also teaching in university and we have two kids, David (14 years old) and Jennifer (12 years old). Happy and Healthy in Hong Kong. Please visit us if you come near this part of the world. Please keep in touch. With best wishes.

Department of Chemistry
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, N.T. Hong Kong
Tel: +852-2609-6106    Fax: +852-2603-5057
chiwu@cuhk.edu.hk     http:\\www.chiwu.chem.cuhk.edu.hk

01/07/2000
Dan Moriarty (Ph.D., 1999, Raleigh)
I'm a postdoc at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) over in Troy, NY with Freddie Colon.  I'm doing work on protein folding (A DNA-binding protein known as FIS) and misfolding (Serum Amyloid A) and really enjoying myself, although I do miss everyone at Stony Brook.  I'm looking at a 2-2.5 year stint year, and after that, well, who knows?  The real big thing in my life was the birth of my son, Daniel Robert on July 20th (the 30th anniversary of the moon landing).  He's really cute and a ton of fun, and now that he sleeps through the night we're much happier!
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Chemistry Dept, Cogswell rm. 125
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180
Phone: (518) 276-3027 (lab); Fax:(518) 276-4887; (518) 237-3102 (home); moriad@rpi.edu

12/02/1999
Christian Labadie(M.S., Stony Brook 1989)
Here is my email address: http://www.stonybrook.edu/chemistry/alumni/alumdata/oldalumnews/CLabadie@t-online.de    My WWW is hosted by the nuclear chemistry group: http://nucwww.chem.sunysb.edu/CLabadie/
I am also starting an online collaborative research project towards the prevention of genocide and other forms of social violence. We will look at the potential that MRI could have in elucidating the role of trauma that occur after such violent events, such as PTSD [Ed: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder]. I would like to suggest the start of a corresponding international M.S. research online program. It has received the warm encouragement of the NIH/FIC who subscribed to our egroup. More at:
http://nucwww.chem.sunysb.edu/CLabadie/Prevention.html

The idea of this research came as a direct consequence of the research on magnetic resonance relaxation [Lab94a, Lab94b] I performed at the Max Planck Institute of Göttingen with Dr. Provencher in 1993. Indeed the long-term evolution of cognitive processes will require solid and commanding analyses of functional MRI data, so that the evolution of corresponding trauma may be followed over several years and possibly on different equipments.

Perhaps such project could be a wonderful way to commemorate the 30 years of magnetic resonance imaging

11/29/1999
Mitchell Koppelman(B.S., 1972)
Noted my inclusion in the most recent issue of the Chemistry alumni newsletter in an article describing Pfizer's undergraduate (PREPARE) program. Based on the last few years of stock market history, I would like to say that I am still part of the Pfizer family, but alas, my division, Specialty Minerals, was spun off in an IPO in 1992, the last of the non-strategic (non-healthcare) spin-offs.  Specialty Minerals is part of Minerals Technologies, a near $700 million company, listed on the NYSE (MTX).  Currently I am Vice President of Reseach & Development, responsible for global new product development, basic research and technical and applications services.  We maintaining laboratories in Pennsylvania (Bethlehem and Easton), and in Parainen, Finland.

After doing undergraduate research at SUNY Stonay Brook in geochemistry, I went on in the filed doing a doctoral thesis at Virginia Tech on the surface chemistry of minerals, specifically the adsorption of metal ions on clays using XPS (quite a new concept in 1972).

I joined Georgia kaolin, a mineral producing company in 1976 upon receipt of my  Ph. D. as a research group leader in the area of paper filling.  Hence I began a 25+year career associated with the paper and other process industries, all from a mineral perspective.

I went into marketing and business management for 15 years, heading the Precipitated Calcium Carbonate business for Pfizer and then Specialty Minerals in North America I assumed my current R&D management position in 1998.

I currently serve on the Virginia Tech Research Advisory Council, something Stony Brook may want to consider.

I live in New Jersey (North Plainfield), with my wife Debbie, an our daughter Tani, age 14 and a freshman in high school.  My offices are in Bethlehem and New York City and I can be reached at (610) 882-8751 or mitchell.koppleman@mineralstech.com.

11/04/1999
Nadim Kayaleh (Ph.D., F. Johnson, 1998)
Hello everybody...This is Nadim Kayaleh.  Having had a very enjoyable and productive time in my  Ph.D. with Professor Francis Johnson (I graduated in August '98), I accepted a post-doc offer with Professor Robert Holton at Florida State University.  I completed only 8 months there because I could not handle the absence from my fiancee Suparna Gupta, who is a graduate student with Professor Sampson.  So I moved back north and I'm currently a post-doc with Professor Paul Williard at Brown University.  I really like it where I am now.  Providence is a very nice place and I get to come to Stony Brook quite often.  I and Suparna will get married soon.  Thanks for the opportunity to share our news...
Email: nkayaleh@hotmail.com

11/01/1999
Jiqun (Larry) Yu (M.S., Chu, 1993)
I studied in the Chemistry Dept., SUNY at Stony Brook from Fall, 1988 to Fall, 1991 and got the my M.S. by the end of 1993. Prof. Chu was my advisor. After obtaining Ph.D. in Biophysics and M.S. in Engineering Management from Syracuse University in 1997, I relocated in Atlanta, GA and worked for a printed-circuit-board manufacturer as a process engineer working on manufacturing R&D and optimization. Now I am working for GA state as a computer programmer analyst to develop and maintain software.
Mailing Address: 9375 Parkwood Ave. Douglasville, GA 30135
Email Address: larry_yu66@hotmail.com

Hsing-Pang Hsieh(Ph.D., Burrows, 1993)
Years spent at Stony Brook, 8/88-12/93.  Currently, Assistant principal Investigator at National Health Research Institutes
Mailing Address: National Health Research Institutes1/F, 103 Lane 169, Kang Ning St., Hsi Chih City, Taipei Hsien 221, Taiwan, R.O.C.
E-mail Address: hphsieh@nhri.org.tw
Phone: 886-2-26954246 ext. 601, Fax: 886-2-26953759

10/12/1999
Jim DiLorenzo(Ph.D., Schneider, 1967)
was appointed President of Signal Technology Corporation earlier this year.  The announcement about his new position highlights his activities in recent years, at Bell Laboratories, Microwave Semiconductor Corp, and as General Manager of Raytheon Microelectronics.

10/04/1999
Here is a picture of David Yarkony (B.S., 1970 - Prof. of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins) running into Joanna and Bill Fowler at the Statue of Liberty earlier this year.
 

8/26/1999
In response to a recent e-mail survey, we have received a number of comments from alumni ranging from address information to short biographies which we summarize on a separate page.  In addition to some responses already posted below, we include messages from: Stephen Heller, Caroline Schauer, Jason Harris, Al Porter, Victoria Petrova, Pamela Shepard, Gary Hiel, Leopoldo Della Ciana, Jui-Tsen Hwang, Scott Kuduk, Thomas Nittoli, Arthur Schultz, Aaron M. Heiss, Mike Rickenbach, Louis Fensterbank, Tam Nguyen, Hiroshi Okazaki

7/14/1999    Kary Frullani (M.S. 1996, Raleigh)
Hello Fellow Alumni, Here's a brief update since my 1996 graduation.
Right before graduation I accepted a position with Ciba-Geigy Corporation in Suffern, NY.  During my stay in Suffern I worked in the Transdermal Pharmaceutical Development group where I conducted early compound feasibility studies (mostly on peptide fragments) using iontophoretic techniques.  After 2 years in Suffern and after a merger with Sandoz Pharmaceutical (now called Novartis Pharmaceuticals), I transferred to a new group......Analytical Research & Development (ARD) located in East Hanover, NJ.   During my stay with ARD, I worked mostly with stability samples looking for degradation and impurity trends.  I ventured out into mini-projects where I did some instrument validation, computer validation, and conducted training for our automated system in sample preparation.  Before I knew it, Purdue Pharma L.P. in Ardsley, NY was offering me a position within Pharmacokinetic & Drug Metabolism (PKDM) as a System and Training Administrator.  So, here is where I currently can be found.  I coordinate and conduct all the technical, regulatory and SOP training for PKDM as well as oversee and maintain the raw data archival.
Besides my career moves, the most exciting event within the past 3 years is my engagement to Erik Gonzalez.  We haven't set a date but I will be sure to
let you know.
A special hello to Prof. Raleigh and my old classmates. May success and happiness be with you always.
Kary Frullani
Purdue Pharma L.P., Systems & Training Administrator
Pharmacokinetics & Drug Metabolism
444 Saw Mill River Road
Ardsley, New York 10502
914-709-2244: kary.frullani@pharma.com

7/14/1999    Dah-ren (Ph.D. 1982, Helquist) and Yuying C. (Ph.D. 1984, Fowler) Hwang
It has been a long time since I left Stony Brook.  Job changes take me from Long Island to St. Louis then Dayton and now at New York.  I enjoy my current position very much.  Currently, I am an assistant professor at the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University.  Main responsibility is to provide positron-labeled tracers for clinical and research PET studies.  My own research is on the development of positron-labeled dopamine and serotonin ligands for measuring the changes of dopamine and serotonin receptor density in patients with schizophrenia or depression.  Yuying has a research position at the division of Cardiology, Columbia University.  Since her graduation from Stony Brook, she has been working on NMR (or MRI) related projects.  We have two boys, Lewis (13) and Ryan (12).  Both of them are currently in middle school, and they like their school very much. Our new address is:
Dah-ren and Yuying C. Hwang
20 Western Drive
Ardsley, NY 10502
Tel. (194)-693-8571

Stephen Nicolosi (M.S., 1973)
...Work wise I went from Brookhaven to Battelle, to Rocky Flats, to Pantex.  I am now a Chief Engineer (title only) with Parallax working as a subcontractor at the U.S. DOE Pantex plant.  Here I am currently doing safety analysis of the W76.  The W76 is a warhead for the Trident missile.  It is great stuff, which is another way of saying that I enjoy it.  I believe taxpayers really got a bang for their buck with these systems.  They are cleverly designed and well made.....You may wish to check out my home page (http://nicolosi.home.mindspring.com/sln.html), for my interests have expanded since those old SB days.

Stewart Novick (B.S. 1967)
has been elected chair of the Chemistry Department of Wesleyan University, Middletown CT. Condolences can be sent to snovick@wesleyan.edu. My research involves high resolution studies, using the supersensitive technique of pulsed-jet Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy of weakly bound complexes and of radicals that can be detected in the interstellar medium. My new web page address is http://www.wesleyan.edu/chem/faculty/novick/

Ed Altmann (B.S., 1979)
Thanks for sending me a copy of The Spring 1999 Edition of the Chemistry Alumni Newsletter.  Nice Job! Thanks to my folks I received my copy.  Please send future mailings to my correct address below:
191 West 19th Street
Huntington Station, NY  11746-2118
516-423-6152
mailto:edcdpd@aol.com
Keep the good news coming.....

Regards,
-Ed
Caroline Schauer (Ph.D., 1997, Joe Lauher, Bill Fowler)
I graduated in 1997 with my Ph.D. from the Folwer-Lauher group. After a one year post-doc in the Netherlands, I came back to the States. I am now doing a post-doc with David Walt at Tufts (another Stony Brook alumni). I really love the work I am doing.  On a more personal note: I got married to Ray Habas (Ph.D. in Biology 1998) a year ago. Time flies.
Caroline L. Schauer, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
62 Talbot Ave.
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
Phone: (617) 627-3675 (2013), Fax: (617) 627-3443, Email: cschau01@emerald.tufts.edu
http://ase.tufts.edu/chemistry/walt/

Eduardo (Eddie) Duek (Ph.D. Chemical Physics, 1984, John Alexander)
It was so good reading the news of many of my friends from 20 years ago. I am currently living on my native country, Argentina, since 1994. Here I am heading several companies and projects, some of them personal. Since my arrival I was elected member of the Argentine Council on Foreign Relations and nominated the Ambassador of the City of Dallas to Buenos Aires. Since my arrival,  I was asked to participate in a panel that reformulated the Argentine investment into S&T, plan that was approved in 1996.
    Before Argentina, I was Director of International Affairs at the Superconducting Super Collider. My responsibilities were mostly to support the Lab Director and the Dept. of Energy in their efforts to secure foreign participation. Was an intense time, when I was a member of US govt delegations to negotiate participation in Russia, China, Japan and many other countries. My office also managed to sign 17 agreements with scientific institutions in 13 countries, with two of them becoming government to government agreements, with China and Russia. In October 1993 the US Congress cancelled funds for the SSC.
    During my years in Dallas I was elected member of the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations and, in 1994, one of its representatives before the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
    From 1984 to 1991, before I joined the SSC, I was an post doc, Assistant Chemist, and later Associate Physicist at Brookhaven National Labs, working on experiments 802 and 814, searching for the elusive quark gluon plasma, a state of matter believed to have existed a few microseconds after the Big Bang.
    On a more personal level, my wife Mirta and myself are happy with the arrival of our 4th child, Michael Adam, on February 8th, 99. He follows the footsteps of siblings Thomas, 10, Matthew 8, and Maia, 6. Mirta and I are planning a return to the US, possibly in two years time.
    We would love to hear from our SB friends and, should anyone need anything from the other down under, let us know.
Eduardo E. Duek
phone and fax at the office 011-5411-963-7967
home 011-543327-454931
email : oilwel@einstein.com.ar

Glen T. Anderson (BS, 1990)
Please put me on the chemistry Alumni mailing list. Thank you.
Avon Products, Inc., Avon Place, Suffern, NY 10901 Glen Anderson

Sandra Lincoln (Ph.D. 1984, Prof. S. Koch)
We welcome Professor Sandra Lincoln back to the Chemistry Department at Stony Brook.  Sandra was Steve's first graduate student.  She will be spending part of her sabbatical leave in his group.  After receiving her Ph.D., she went directly to the University of Portland where she has advanced to the rank of full professor.  When she returns to Oregon in May, she will become the Chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Portland.  Sandra's office will be in Room 671 and she will be working in Laboratory Room 672.  Her email address will be slincoln@sbchem.sunysb.edu.  Sandra would be glad to share her experience with students who are interested in careers in college teaching

Leopoldo Della Ciana (Ph.D. 1984, Prof. A. Haim)
After spending a two year postdoc felloship with Tom Meyer at U.N.C. Chapel Hill, I worked at IGEN, Inc, Rockville, MD on ruthenium electrochemiluminecent labels. After the technology was acquired by Boerhinger Mannheim in 1993 it has become the most powerful method of immunoassay available today ! I then went back to Italy in 1989 and joined the country largest biomedical company, Sorin Biomedica. I developed many new sensors for monitoring dialysis and extracorporeal circulation and worked also on implantable devices. I am now busy setting up my own biotech company, InnoSense, near Turin.
My email is : leodc@tin.it

Ping Zheng (Ph.D. 1996, Prof. Rokita)
My current address is: 4909 Quail Ridge Dr., Plainsboro, NJ08536.  my Email is pzhengpi@umdnj.edu.

Doug Carsten(B.S., 1993)
My name is Doug Carsten, and I graduated from SUSB in '93 with a BS in chemistry/English lit.  I graduated from Harvard with an MA in Organic Chem in '95, and have recently graduated from Georgetown Law.  I now work in Los Angeles at Irell & Manella, and am anxiously awaiting the results of the California and Patent Bar examinations.  I have very fond memories of my time at SUSB, where I had the pleasure and honor of working with Professors Fowler and Lauher.  I also particularly recall Honors Orgo with Professor Kerber, and Orgo lab with Ms. Kandel.  So many great memories!  Well, since I came upon the site, I thought I'd add my two cents.
If any SUSB alumni are in Southern Cal, my e-mail address is dcarsten@irell.com, and my home # is (310) 858-1185.

Anita Mehta (Ph.D.)
After doing my post-doctoral work in US , Uk and France for the last five years  I have been working in a pharmaceutical company in India Named Ranbaxy which is India's No. 1 pharmaceutical company . I am presently working as a group leader in New Drug Discovery department.  I have very fond memories of the time that I spent in Stony Brook .  Please keep me informed .  Please send me mail at mehta_anita@hotmail.com

Stacey Shlachtman (B.S., 1992) writes
I graduated from Stony Brook with a B.S. in Chemistry in 1992. After graduating, I worked for a short time at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (protein crystallography and molecular bio), then as an analytical chemist for a small biotechnology company. I received my Master's Degree in Chemistry from Adelphi University. I am currently teaching at Lawrence Woodmere Academy, an independent high school on the South Shore of Long Island. Here I teach chemistry and Advanced Placement Chemistry, and I have developed a science research program there. Also, I have been doing some adjunct work at Adelphi University, teaching the Essentials of Organic and Biochemistry" course. This semester, I will teach the Biochemistry Laboratory.  Special hellos to Dr. Lauher (still throwing those crazy Halloween parties??), Mrs. Kandel (I model you in the lab...), and Dr. Haim (I STILL tell my students stories about the ferrocene lab...). I miss Stony Brook and hope to visit soon!
Lawrence Woodmere Academy
336 Woodmere Blvd.
Woodmere, NY 11598
(516) 374-9000, stazide@aol.com; http://members.aol.com/stazide

Doug Kalinousky(B.S., 1995, Engineering Chemistry) writes
My name is Doug Kalinousky, I graduated in 1995 with a BS in Engineering Chemistry. I recently finished my graduate work at MIT, I received a MS in Materials Science and Engineering and a MS in Nuclear Engineering. I am now working at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the Office of Research. I am attending the University of Maryland part time to get a
MBA.  E-mail: dnk@nrc.gov

Virginia Jacobsen (nee Estevez) (Ph.D.,Prestwich, 1991)
I am a Stony Brook Alumni (Ph.D. in 1991) and I have a new address.  My new home address is 137 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA 02116.  Also, I am going on maternity leave this week (an indefinite leave), so please do not send mail to my work address as of the end of this week.

Richard Ward (Ph.D., Haim, 1969)
Please add my name to your e-mail link jrward@cdra.apgea.army.mil and pass my regards to Professor Haim.  Hope all is well with him and his family.  If the e-mail address is to Prof Robert Schneider,my greetings and best wishes to you as well.

Christopher T. Brown (B.S., 1990)
I graduated from the StonyBrook Chemistry Department in May of 1990. I then attended The University of Texas at Austin where I completed my doctoral studies in Professor Jonothan L. Sessler's laboratory (title,The Synthesis of New Systems for Study of the Role Non-Covalent Interactions Play in Mediating Electron Transfer Events).  I am currently employed by Eastman Kodak as a synthetic organic chemist.
Thanks,
Christopher T. Brown, Ph.D.
Eastman Kodak Company            Home:
Building 82, RL                            1600-13 Wind Willow Way
Rochester, NY 14650-2103            Rochester, NY 14624
Ph. (716)-722-1176                        Ph. (716) 889-0166
email cbrown@kodak.com            email leena-chris@worldnet.att.net

Mario Studer (Post Doc, 1972, Phil Johnson)
Thanks for the Winter edition of Chemistry Newsletters.  I had a great time in SUNY 1972 to 1973, and again now browsing your exellent home page. It was great to see what old collegues of these times developed in science. Congratulation. Keep my address, which is correct. I am glad to have your the homepage adress to stay  in contact. My adress in internet is:   mailto:Mario.Studer@chbs.mbs.ciba.com As you see I am, since leaving Stony Book as a post doc, working for Ciba Specialty Chemicals Ltd, a worldwide leader in anitoxidants and ligt stabilizers for plastic, dyes and pigments, industrial polimers, chemicals for the paper industry, water treatment chemicals ....At present I am responsible for chemical safety (toxicology, ecology) for the Textile Dyes divison in Switzerland.
Have a nice summer, and enjoy the beach and research.
Mario Studer

Elke Schoffers (MS, 1991, Ojima)
I was a student in Prof. Ojima's lab and received a degree in 1991, then continued grad. studies at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI under Prof. Carl R. Johnson where I received my Ph.D. in 1996.  I am now proud to announce that I have accepted a tenure-track position as Assist. Prof. in the Chemistry Department of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI.  The department focuses on Environmental Chemistry and my research will address asymmetric catalysis (ligand design) and the use of biotransformations in synthetic organic chemistry.
exs13@po.CWRU.Edu

Anny Morrobel-Sosa (M.S., 1980)
More news:
Anny Morrobel-Sosa, Cal Poly materials engineering professor and chair of the university's Academic Senate, is one of 35 Americans in higher education to be selected a 1998 American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow. As an ACE Fellow, Morrobel-Sosa will attend seminars on higher education issues and learn about the challenges and opportunities for higher education today and in the next century.

Anny Morrobel-Sosa, Professor of Materials Engineering
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
805.756.1380 (office)   ;   805.756.2299 (fax)
amorrobe@calpoly.edu   (E-mail)

Arthur J. Schultz (B.S., 1969)
I just received the very informative Newsletter but I see that the address label has me still residing in the Chemistry Division.  In 1993 I moved to the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS) Division here at Argonne.  My current address is given below.
Best regards,
Arthur J. Schultz ajschultz@anl.gov
IPNS, Bldg. 360                630-252-3465
Argonne National Laboratory    Fax: 630-252-4163
Argonne, IL 60439-4814 http://aschultz.pns.anl.gov/

Mark D. Schnittman (B.S., 1989)
I'm a graduate of SUSB's chemistry department, class of 1989. My address has changed a number of times over the past few years, and I don't think that you have the current one on file. Please update your records and keep in touch.
    Mark D. Schnittman
    645 Belle Terre Road #7
    Port Jefferson, NY 11777
  mark_schnittman@msn.com

Swati Bal-Tembe (Ph.D. 1981)
Thanks so much for sending me the Chemistry Newsletter of Winter 1998. It was great to relive those wonderful days at Stony Brook!  I got my Ph.D. from Stony Brook in 1981 and after postdoctoral work at the Univ of Notre Dame in Indiana, returned to India in 1984. While I was at Stony Brook, I was known as Swati Bal. Now, I am Swati Bal-Tembe. My husband, Bhalachandra Tembe, is also a Stony Brook Chemistry Dept alumnus. I look forward to future issues of the Newsletter.
    My e-mail address is : http://www.stonybrook.edu/chemistry/alumni/alumdata/oldalumnews/baltembe@hoechstres.rpgms.ems.vsnl.net.in
    Office  Fax No : 0091-22-5641953
    Home Phone No. : 0091-22-5792530
Best regards to you and friends in the Chemistry Department,
Swati (Dr. Swati Bal-Tembe)
Principal Research Scientist

After completing my Ph.D. from Stony Brook, I did a postdoc at The Rockefeller University for three years and then returned back to India and am currently working as a Senior Research Scientist at the New Drug Discovery unit of Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, New Delhi, India.  My email : mailto:ashish.mukherjee@rllnd.globemail1.com
It will be nice if you could post my message in the Alumni News letter so that all my stony brook friends can get in touch with me
once again. If anything I can do as a stony Brook Alumni, please let me know.
My address: D-598 C. R. Park, New Delhi 110019, India       Phone     : 011-91-11-648-4150

Update: Bjarne (B.J.) Gabrielsen (Ph.D. 1969) has had two distinct careers, academia (1969-1986) and government. After serving on the chemistry faculties at Wagner College (Staten Island, N.Y.) followed by the University of Florida (Gainesville), BJ joined the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD) in 1986, leading the chemical drug discovery efforts against exotic RNA viruses. He joined the National Cancer Institute in 1992 overseeing the Frederick Cancer Research & Development Center as the Technical Coordinator / Ass't. Project Officer. He moved to the NCI-Developmental Therapeutics Program (DTP) in 1997 and currently serves as a technology development specialist to the NCI-DTP within the Technology Development and Commercialization Branch, located in Bethesda-Rockville [Phone: (301) 496-0477] and Frederick (Phone: 301-846-5465), Maryland.

My overall research interests lie in determining the role and regulation of proteases in biological processes. My laboratory has investigated the various protein components of the fibrinolytic system. The main function of the fibrinolytic system is the proteolytic dissolution of fibrin clots formed in blood vessels but a variety of other roles in normal and abnormal physiological processes have been proposed. We have characterized the

interaction of the fibrinolytic enzyme, plasmin,and its fragments both with normal peripheral blood cells and with transformed cells. Tumor cell surface proteases, which produce physiologically active fragments from cell bound plasmin, are also being investigated. These studies are directed at elucidating changes in cellular function in response to activation of the fibrinolytic system on the cell surface. In addition, my laboratory has a very productive collaboration on the isolation and characterization of gamma-glutamyl hydrolase, an intracellular peptidase involved in folate metabolism and tumor cell resistance to anti folate drugs.

Tom

Dr. Thomas J. Ryan - Lab. of Molecular Diagnostics,
Wadsworth Center, NY State Dept. of Health
Voice: (518) 474-6193 Fax: (518) 474-7992
E-mail: http://www.stonybrook.edu/chemistry/alumni/alumdata/oldalumnews/ryan@wadsworth.org

John W. Jost (Ph.D., 1971, Schneider):
has been appointed Executive Director of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (See C&E News, Feb 17, 1997, p 58). John's e-mail address is johnwjost@compuserve.com.  The IUPAC offices are located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

Found you guys on the web and fun to read alumni news and see PCL's machine and all that. We moved to Chapel Hill, NC in 1994. Now you know where WE are. We would be pleased to see visitors in person in addition to hearing from them on the Net. Hello to all and especially the Lunch Group.
Natalie,
Please respond to fiess@mindspring.com

    Kathy Fordon (Burrows Ph.D.): Assistant Professor of Chemistry at SUNY Maritime College.
    E-mail address: 103542.2100@COMPUSERVE.COM