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12/27/2001
12/12/2001
Raymond Mackay (Ph.D.,
1966, Schneider)
Ray was
named Maryland Chemist of the Year by the ACS Maryland Section
for his contributions to the fields of chemistry and of colloid and surface
science. Ray was Stony Brook's first PhD awardee and is currently Acting Director,
Research & Technology at the U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center.
10/23/2001
Mitchell Koppelman (B.S.,
1972)
Thought I'd take a minute and update readers to a change in my employment status. Last report had me working for Specialty Minerals, a subsidiary company of Minerals Technologies Inc (NYSE; MTX), as VP- R&D. Six months ago I was asked to take on the challenge of growing MTI by almost $1 billion by creating appropriate alliances or making supportive acquisitions in addition to organic growth. This new job responsibility also makes me responsible for the corporate long term plan, and its all encompassed under the title Vice President Strategic Planning. It is a board approved corporate office, and is located in their offices in the Chrysler Building in NYC. New telephone number is 211 878-1825. E-mail address remains the same: mitchell.koppelman@mineralstech.com. Now I commute eastbound from our house in North Plainfield NJ instead of westbound.
08/31/2001
Caroline Schauer (Ph.D.,
1997, Bill Fowler and Joe Lauher)
and husband,
Raymond Habas (Ph.D., Biology, 1998), report the birth of their son,
Cyrus Andrew (birth
announcement). Caroline begins a new job at at the Center
for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at the Naval Research Labs
in Washington, DC. and can be contacted at Raymond-habas@home.com
Address: 904
Whitehall St., Silver Spring, MD 20901, (301) 681-8705
08/18/2001
Hsing-Pang Hsieh
(Ph.D.
1993, Cynthia Burrows).
It is truly honored to have
a big chem. reunion party during Professor
Ojima and Yoko's visit in Taiwan. Right now, there are twenty-two chem.
alumni in Taiwan. I think that it may be the biggest SUNY chem. alumni
union outside the US. Current chairman of SUNY-Chem. Alumni in Taiwan is
Professor Chao-Hsiung Lin at National
Yang-Ming U. (Ph.D. 1995, Scott Sieburth).
I am currently working on
National Health Research Institutes as an Assistant Investigator, like
NIH in US. I am taking charge medicinal chemistry labs in our division.
The following information
briefly describes our division. If anyone wants to know more details about
us, please go the website http://www.nhri.org.tw/nhri_org/bp/home.html
or
http://www.nhri.org.tw/index/eindex.php3
The Division of Biotechnology
and Pharmaceutical Research (BPR Division) of NHRI was established in January,
1998. The goals of the Division are:
08/09/2001
Hsing-Pang Hsieh
(Ph.D.
1993, Cynthia Burrows).
Organized
a Stony Brook (Chemistry) Reunion on July 21 in Taipei. A photograph
of the assembled group.
08/04/2001
Ashis
Mukherjee (Ph.D.
1992, William le Noble)
This is great
!! I just got connected with a few of my old friends of stony brook. I
just wanted to let you guys know that I am currently working as a Principal
Research Scientist in a company called "Chembiotek Research International"
at Calcutta, India
My contact
e-mail addresses are Email: ashis@chembiotek.com;
ashish.mukherjee@mailcity.com
05/18/2001
George Deltoro
(B.S.,
Chemistry, 1981, M.S., Material Science, 1985)
Asyst Announces Additions
To Senior Management Team - Company Strengthens Management Team in Anticipation
of Continuing Growth
Fremont, CA, April 7, 2000
- Asyst Technologies, Inc.(Nasdaq NM: ASYT), in a move intended to augment
and strengthen the company's senior management team, today
announced the appointment
of several key recruits. Joining the company are Mr. Joseph Black as Sr.
Vice President of Human Resource Development; Mr. Steve Carlson as Vice
President of Manufacturing Operations;Mr. George Deltoro as Vice President
Global Fab Upgrade Operations and Ms. Kay Kendall as Vice President of
Corporate Quality. .......
George Deltoro
brings to Asyst's fab upgrade business extensive experience in technology
integration, project management and strategic marketing. He most recently
served as Chief Technical Officer for Comdisco Electronics Group. Prior
to his affiliation with Comdisco, George held management positions of increasing
responsibility with Motorola Corp., Western Digital Corp. and Standard
Microsystems. George holds a M.B.A. from University of California, Irvine
and a M.S. from S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook.
05/18/2001
John Bonucci
(B.S.,
1976)
I received a letter from
you asking if I was a long lost alumnus. Well it looks like you've
found me!
As for an update on what I have been doing since graduation; since I was in the class of 1976, that's an awful lot of ground to cover! You'll be grateful that I'm giving you the abbreviated version! My career has taken some interesting turns to the point where I am presently no longer involved in Chemistry.
After Stony Brook, I went on to Cornell and graduated in 1978 with an MS in Chemistry. I worked for a number of years for a metals/mining company called AMAX at one of their research labs in beautiful Carteret, NJ. While working for AMAX, I earned an MBA degree in Finance from Rutgers University in 1984. Shortly after receiving my MBA degree, I was promoted to a position in product development for the company's specialty chemicals division at its corporate headquarters in Greenwich, CT.
In 1987, I relocated to San Diego to work for a small biotech company in product development. Although that position was short-lived (because of a company reorganization) I was thankful to have landed it, since it brought me to beautiful (not intended to be sarcastic this time) San Diego, which continues to be my home. I went on from there to work in healthcare for one of the major hospital systems in the San Diego area, Scripps Health. I started out as a financial analyst at one of the hospitals and eventually became Manager of Treasury Services in the corporate office.
After ten years at Scripps, I decided it was time to leave the not-for-profit healthcare arena and return to the for-profit world. Therefore, about six months ago I started working for my present employer, Washington Inventory Service (WIS) as its Treasury Manager. WIS provides inventory counting services for most of the major retailers across the US and also internationally.
On a more personal note,
I do not have any children but do have a domestic partner of 13 years whose
name is David. We enjoy all there is to do Southern California as
well as traveling to interesting places in the US. I hope that I
haven't bored you with my story, but that's it in a nutshell. I would
be interested in hearing about any of the Chemistry Department faculty
that were there during my tenure at Stony Brook and also other members
of my graduating
class.
jbonucci@wisusa.com
05/18/2001
Dr. William Schoen
(B.S.,
1977) delivered the commencement address at the Chemistry
Department 2001 commencement
cermony. Bill is Vice President at the Bayer
Research Center located in West Haven Connecticut.
05/14/2001
David Kramer(Ph.D.,
1978, Lauterbur)
Just received the spring
newsletter and I noticed I need to update my address. It is interesting
to see the changes and to read about the folks I knew. Best Wishes,
David M. Kramer
Toshiba America MRI R&D
Center
280 Utah Avenue
South San Francisco, CA
94080
davek@tamri.com or
d-m-kramer@home.com
05/05/2001
Kumar Govindaswamy
(Ph.D,
1995, Koch)
"Greetings" to all the alumni.
I moved to the Boston area a few months ago. I work as a Patent Attorney
at Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc., in Cambridge, MA. Prior to this,
I was in NYC, working at the law firm of Fish & Neave. Corporate
life, I'm discovering, is much less stressful!
Contact Info:
Phone: (781) 641-0453
(home)
(617) 577-6619 (work)
email: billablehours@yahoo.com
04/09/2001
Prof. Ojima receives
Hershberg Award
Pictures
of the ceremony at the
recent ACS meeting in San Diego at which Prof.
Ojima received the E.B.
Hershberg Award for Important Discoveries in Medicinally Active Substances.
The award is sponsored by Schering-Plough Corporation.
04/07/2001
Dora Frachiolla-Kass
Prof. Ojima has established
a website in memory of Dora
Frachiolla-Kass (Ph.D., 1997, Ojima). Dora regrettably passed
away in December, 2000 after an extended bout with cancer. The site
includes a summary
of her accomplishments.
02/04/2001
Tokyo Reunion
of USB Chemists
Prof.
Ojima has provided information about the first
reunion of Stony Brook Chemists in Tokyo which took place on January
8, 2001
01/09/2001
Natalie Fiess
Natalie, Assistant to the
Chair, Emerita, sends a note with an enclosed newspaper clipping with
picture of Esther Linkletter, Chemistry
Librarian, Emerita, tending to her prize winning garden. Natalie
extends season's greetings to all. Both emeritae (?) live in different
regions of North Carolina and are doing well, although Esther is recovering
from a torn knee ligament.
01/08/2001
Gary
Hiel (Ph.D., 1996, Sieburth)
Greetings to
all my fellow SUNYSB survivors! Would love to hear from fellow Gradual
School chemikers anywhere....Am teaching and setting up a small lab at
Dowling College (on LI South Shore just ~25 miles miles south of ground
zero SUNYSB). I am having great fun, and learned that holding 7 AM classes
is a good thing (they're invariably small!). Dr.
Lori Zaikowski (Fowler group) and I make up what may be the
only all Stony Brook Alum-staffed Chem Dept. around (as well as the smallest
dept. of any kind). Because home (Port Jeff Station) and work are so close
to the University, I frequently return to the Scene of the Crime to chat
with old friends or raid the library - and do always feel happy and at
home there.... Wife Kelli (an adjunct at SUNYSB) and daughters Margaret
(8) and Isabel (11) form a tight-knit domestic gynocracy, but I can't live
without'em either..... Please drop a line (or drop by) at gpth55@aol.com
or 631-244-3053.
Arnold
Winters (B.S. 1968)
In my bio I have changed
the URL for my web page to http://www.fc.ml.com/awinters.
Thank you for posting this correction in the alumni news or other listing.
I wish you a very prosperous
and healthy New Year.
Arnold
Last Update: 2001-08-04
