In This IssueGraduates and Photo Gallery........................................................................ Pages 1-2Faculty, Staff and Students.............................................................................Page 8 Research Labs.................................................................................................Pages 5,6,7,11Chemisty Club................................................................................................Page 1232nd Great Lakes ACS Regional Meeting, June 4-7, 2000..............................Page 9Scholarships Awarded.....................................................................................Page 10

CHEM- NEWSNorth Dakota State University

Department of Chemistry

Volume 6 Number 2 Summer 1999

Dr. Glass, Aaron Smith, Dr. McCarthy, Ryan Keddy, Andrew Ertelt, Heather Nash, Brian Very, StephanieMoe, Jeremy Daum, Dr. Boudjouk, Dr. Hershberger.

Graduation 1999

Ladd Hall

Drs. Dean Seidler, Eric Hagestuen and MichaelEdwards.

On May 8, 1999 NDSU Chemistry majors joined incommencement ceremonies held at the Fargodome.

1998 - 99 Bachelor’s DegreesJeremy DaumRyan EddyLisa EllingsonAndrew ErteltMarcia GuetterGary KummetStephanie MoeHeather NashAaron SmithJennifer TwaitEthan VenzkeBrian Very

Master’s Degrees:Michael JohnsonMaxwell Lucci

Ph.D Degrees Michael EdwardsEric Hagestuen

DeanSeidler

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Renee Peterson and Marissa Wisdom,1999 and 1997 Freshman ChemistryAward Winners.

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Department of ChemistryNorth Dakota State University

PO Box 5516Fargo, ND 58105

Rose Overby, EditorDr. Greg McCarthy, Advisor

To obtain a copy of this newsletter or tosubmit your comments,

call (701) 231-8694Fax: (701) 231-8831

Chemisty Department Events Gallery

Greg Oswald presents at 3 NDrd

College Chemistry Faculty Conference.Greg Cook (L), Ryan Winburn (Cr) and Charmane Disrud look on.

Broberg Center Regulars: Aaron Smithand Tad Stewart.Linda Stoetzer, our 30 Year Veteran,

enjoys her new (used) computer.

Brian Very, Goldwater Scholarand Undergraduate ResearchFellow, received AmericanInstitute of Chemists Award asan outstanding graduate.

Chem Club memberNichole Howe helpswith the 1999 StateScience Olympiad atNDSU.

Stephanie Moe shows off her ACSperiodic table mousepad to Dr. DerekKillilea, Chair of Biochemistry. Stephwas the Merck Award winner as ouroutstanding graduate in organicchemistry or biochemistry.

Dr. Andres Campiglia,Martha and Breno.

New Molecular Visualization Laboratory in the Chemistry Dept.

Drs. Mallik and Cook received a grant from the Student Technology Fee ActionCommittee to develop a molecular visualization laboratory for the Chemistrydepartment. Currently, the facility has been set up and is open to all organicchemistry students and majors (Ladd 311). At the core of the facility is onedual-processor Silicon Graphics Octane computer and the modeling software(CAChe from Oxford Molecular Inc.). This computer has enough processingpower to accommodate future expansion of the facility (2 x 250 MHz processors,386 MB RAM, 22 GB hard disk, digital camera). Five PC's interact with theOctane for modeling and other computational needs. The facility will be used tosupplement Chemistry instruction by visualization of molecules and animation

.

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See you atthe GLRM!

32 Great Lakesnd

Regional Meeting

June 4 - 6, 2000Hosted by the Red River Valley Section

Fargo, North Dakota

The Department is the principal organizer of this meeting. Dr. McCarthy is the General Chairman and Drs. Boudjouk, Cook, Garvey, Hershberger, Jacobson, Mallikand Sibi are working on the program and meetingoperations. We are also getting great help from UND,MSU, CC and other area faculty.

Symposia & Special Session Topics• Agricultural and Food Chemistry• Asymmetric Synthesis for the 21 Centuryst

• Biochemical Approaches Toward Understanding Physiological Processes• Biomolecular Recognition• Chemical Education• Environmental Analytical Chemistry• New Chemistry of the Main Group Elements• Polymeric Coatings• Structure-Property Relations in Polymeric Materials• Theoretical/Computational Chemistry

There will be special events for NDSU Alumni andundergraduate majors.

for more information and program contacts:http://www.chem.ndsu.nodak.edu/glrm

ND EPSCoR Receives $ 3 Million Grant

The North Dakota Experimental Program to StimulateCompetitive Research has received a $3 million renewalgrant from the National Science Foundation. The grant,which will be disbursed over three years, is intended toimprove the state’s science, engineering and mathematicsinfrastructure. It is the maximum the state could receivethrough the program.“This is tremendous news for North Dakota,” said PhilipBoudjouk, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and NDEPSCoR program director. “We have received grants likethis in the past and they have allowed us to make greatstrides. It is a broad-based program that cuts across manyareas.” The grant will be matched with $3 million in statefunding, plus indirect costs approved by the State Board ofHigher Education.

In its application ranking, North Dakota competed with 12states and scored in the top two. Not all states receivedfunding. “What triggers this is the commitment NorthDakota has made to build its research infrastructure at itstwo research universities,” Boudjouk said. “One of theevaluation points is the strength of commitment of a state toimprove itself.”

Boudjouk said the ongoing research support program hasstimulated economic development, through such things astechnology transfer. “This is an important part of the ruralstates’ future. Developing a science and technology baseencourages economic development,” he said.

EPSCoR’s mission is to increase the success rate ofresearchers in the state for merit-based grants; put NorthDakota on the path to systemic reform in science,engineering and math education; increase opportunities forstudents and faculty to develop their capabilities; anddevelop strong links with business and industry.

EPSCoR Announces New GraduateFellowship Program

North Dakota EPSCoR will implement a new GraduateFellowships program in the fall semester of 1999. Theprogram is designed to increase opportunities forgraduating seniors from North Dakota University System institutions toobtain master's and/or doctoral degrees in science,engineering and mathematics at North Dakota's researchuniversities. One of the first fellowship recipients is Travis

Martin who graduated from Valley City State University inMay. Travis will work toward a graduate degree in physicalor analytical chemistry.

EPSCoR Promotes Two People

Cathy Lerud (UND) and Elizabeth Jung (NDSU) werepromoted to Administrative Assistant at ND EPSCoRprogram this past spring. Ms. Lerud has been with the

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program since August of 1992. Ms. Jung joined NDEPSCoR in June of 1998 part time and went full time May 1,1999.

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Stage 1: Uncrating the 500magnet.

Stage 5: Pumping it down. Stage 6: Cooling the magnet. Stage 7: Mapping the Shim.

NMR Labby Dan Wanner, NMR Managr

Stage 2: Setting up the hoist.

Stage 8: The 500 all set up!

Stage 3: Putting the 500 inplace. (Oxford personnel)

Stage 4: Dr. Mel Morris, our 32 yearchemistry department veteran, marvelsat the modern technology.

The new NMR lab, with three new Varian NMRspectrometers installed, took shape over a period of sevenmonths. Beginning in December 1998, the NDSU physicalplant tore out the wall between Dunbar 253 and 254 andbegan the renovation project that included a new ceiling,floor, windows, cabinets, air conditioning, compressed air and nitrogen gas delivery system, and an emergencycryogen exhaust fan that has been tested under quenchconditions. Some of the infrastructure renovation went onbehind the scenes, including a compressed air filtration anddrying system in the attic and a mechanism for automaticswitching from air to nitrogen gas in case of an aircompressor shutdown. The room renovation lasted fromDecember 1998 through May 1999. By February, the secondfloor of Dunbar Hall was lined with crates and boxes fromVarian and Oxford. Installation began in early April 1999. Stage 1 shows the uncrating of the 500 MHz Oxford magnet,

still on the pallet jack. Stage 2 showssome of the physical plant personnelwho helped with every stage of the

NMR project, including hoisting the magnets into place. InStage 3, an Oxford technician is shown bolting the 500 MHzmagnet to the temporary legs, later replaced byanti-vibration legs. Stage 4 shows one of the many visitingdignitaries who stopped by during installation to giveadvice on the process. In Stage 5, the magnet dewar is pumped down and preparedfor addition of the cryogens (liquid nitrogen and liquidhelium). The picture in Stage 6 shows a plume of gas exiting thehelium manifold. The helium cryostat was first cooled byliquid nitrogen and then cooled by liquid helium until it wasfilled with one hundred fifty liters of liquid helium. A total of750 liters of liquid helium was consumed during theinstallation, including 300 liters boiled off in the twoquenches that occured while the magnet was being broughtup to field. Stage 7 shows the mapping after the shimmagnet has been charged.. Stage 8 shows the 500 MHzNMR ready for action: the spectrometer console (which alsohouses the field gradient amplifier) is to the right of themagnet. The antivibration legs are in place. Not pictured isthe SUN workstation. Installation of the 300 MHz, 400 MHz,

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and 500 MHz Varian NMR spectrometers was completed inthe first part of July 1999.

The new equipment was funded by a competitive awardfrom the National Science Foundation’s Major ResearchInstrumentation Program and by matching funds from theUniversity.

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Rodgers Group By: Dr. Kent Rodgers

The Rodgers group would like tocongratulate Ms. Aruna Viswanathan,who successfully defended herMasters dissertation in late July. Shehas decided on a change of careerpath and we wish her well as sheenters the NDSU Computer Scienceprogram this fall.

Since the middle of June we have hadthe pleasure of working with Mr.Thane Underdahl, who will be enteringthe NDSU graduate

chemistry program this fall. Thane hasbeen working on the synthesis andspectroscopic characterization of anasymmetrically functionalizedporphyrin and a novel autoassembledoligomer of its iron complex.

Lei Tang and Kent attended the 9th

International Conference onBioinorganic Chemistry (ICBIC) inMinneapolis during July. Theconference had over 800 attendeesand, in addition to the diverse lecturetopics, there were more than 600

posters to take in. Kent and Leipresented a poster on transientresonance Raman spectroscopy ofFixL and Kent chaired an interestinglecture session on protein-basedbiological sensing.

Science Bound student, Lisa Volkcontinued her work on heme proteinsin our laboratory during the summer. She presented her results on thecatalase/peroxidase, KatG, fromMicobacterium tuberculosis at theNorth Dakota Science, Engineering &Mathematics 7 Annual Posterth

Session on July 28.

News from the Tallman Group By Vicki Gelling

The researchers in Dunbar 151 alongwith spouses, significant others, andchildren recently took a canoe /camping trip to Crow Wing River nearMenahga, Minnesota. Everyone hada great time, even my husband and Iafter tipping our canoe on somerapids!!! The weather was perfect,the water was clean, and many formsof wild life were seen.

We would like to welcome StacyRohlik (see picture) to our researchgroup. Stacy is a Junior Chemistrymajor with the Polymers & Coatingsoption. She joined our lab at the endof spring semester and continued towork with us throughout the summer

months. Stacy graduated fromWabasso High School in 1997 andgrew up in Wabasso, Minnesota. Her interests include water-skiing androllerblading. Brent Reems is cur-rently working on writing his thesisand should be defending for hismaster’s soon. Jie He recently gotback from an extended trip to Tianjin,China. While Jie was home hemarried his long time girlfriend,Xiaoying Sun. Xiaoying recentlyreceived her American Visa and isplanning on arriving in Fargo soon. We congratulate Jie on his mar-riage!!!

Dr. Dennis E. Tallman is as busy asever! He will be attending, chairing asession, and giving a talk at theInternational Corrosion Conference inSouth Africa on September 25th

through October 1 . Twice duringst

the next year Dennis will be headingsouth to Australia to explore newconducting polymer strategies forcorrosion control with our partners inresearch at the Intelligent PolymerResearch Institute, University ofWollongong, Wollongong, Australia. The first trip will be from November1 through December 15 , 1999. Thest th

second trip will be from February 1st

through March 31 , 2000. st

Dennis has also been busy with hisother passion, Handball. He is the1999 North Dakota State DoublesChampion, Masters Division, with hispartner, Dr. Jeffrey Suttle. He is alsothe 1999 Manitoba Open SinglesChampion, Masters Division.

Stacy Rohlik

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“A Journey in the Microcosmwith a Molecular

Organization Man”

Wednesday, September 22 8:00PM

Beckwith Recital Hall.......

“Lives and Times of SmallMolecule Dioxygen Carriers”

Thursday, September 23, 3:30 PMDunbar 152

featuring...

Dr. Daryl H. Bush

Broberg Lecture will feature 2000 PresidentAmerican Chemical Society

The Cook Group By: Dr. Greg Cook

The Cook Group has been very busy this summer. Therehave been a few new additions this year. Graduate studentHui Yu joined the group last May and postdoc Dr.(Shankar) Sankaranarayanan and his wife Mathangi,originally from India, arrived at the end of July after livingin Germany. Hui and Shankar are working on aspects ofthe palladium -catalyzed kinetic resolution projectsongoing in the lab.

A number of undergraduate researchers were on boardover the summer. Miranda Hvinden, a science boundstudent, continues her work with graduate student ScottErickson on new indium-catalyzed radical reactions. ScottReule, a McNair fellow, joined us this summer to aid in thesynthesis of a number of our key molecules and AaronFerguson has been exploring some new cobalt-mediatedisomerization reactions. Scott Peterson, a Goldwaterscholar and McNair fellow just returned from a summersemester in Germany and will continue his work on thesynthesis of novel aza-sugar compounds. His work lastyear with Dr. Sathya Shanker culminated in a publication inthe new American Chemical Society journal, OrganicLetters. The Cook Group hosted a Governor's School

student this summer. Kjirsten Swenson worked under thedirection of Miranda to prepare some substrates for thekinetic resolution project. So, the labs have been full thissummer!

The science in the Cook Group has continued to growalong with the personnel. The group was well representedat the National ACS Meeting in Anaheim last spring. ScottErickson, Dr. Shanker, and Scott Peterson presentedposters and Dr. Cook presented an oral paper. Dr. Cookalso attended two Gordon Research Conferences thissummer where he presented one talk and three posters. Inaddition to the Organic Letters paper, a few othermanuscripts are currently being prepared.

Funding for the science has been pretty good. With somesupport from NIH and NSF, the projects in the Cook Groupcontinue to develop. However, according to Dr. Cook, it isstill a struggle to fund a level of science that isinternationally competitive. "The biggest concern I haveis how to provide financial support for my students" saysDr. Cook. "I worry about this everyday. I know I'm payingout more money than is coming in. With the rising costsof research, grants just don't go as far as they used to. I'mpleased the Chemistry Department had the foresight to

his fall’s Broberg Lecturer, Dr. DarylTH. Busch, President-Elect of theAmerican Chemical Society, is the Roy A.Roberts Distinguished Professor ofChemistry at the University of Kansas, aposition he has occupied since August of1988. Previously he was a faculty memberat The Ohio State University where herose through the ranks from AssistantProfessor (1954) to Presidential Professor(1987). His research in basic transitionmetal coordination chemistry fatheredmoder macroyclic ligand chemistry andcreated the molecular template effect.

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Faculty, Staff and Students

Sibi Group NewsBy Tara Ternes

Dakota Technologies, Inc.

A new product developed by Gregory Gillispie, Professor ofChemistry, was featured on the cover of the June issue ofLaser & Optics magazine. The international publicationfeatures articles about laser technology and new productannnouncements. Gillispie’s tunable laser is a device usedby chemists, physicists and engineers for scientificresearch.

ND Chemistry Faculty Develop PlantPigment Experiments for CollegeChemistry Courses

Students sometimes say that introductory chemistry labs areuninteresting and not connected with their lives andinterests. Overcoming these perceptions is one goal of aworkshop held on August 9-11 at NDSU.

Dr. Gary Stolzenberg, Lecturer in the NDSU ChemistryDepartment, and six ND college chemistry faculty extractedand analyzed plant pigments from berries, barks and leavesof native North Dakota plants. All of the materials had aNative American cultural or medicinal connection.

Participating faculty included N. Balakrishnan of UnitedTribes Technical College (Bismarck), Daniel Buresh ofSitting Bull College (Fort Yates), Charmane Disrud of TurtleMountain Community College (Belcourt), Thomas Gonnellaof Mayville State University, Larry Groth of UND LakeRegion, and Anne Malan of Cankdeska Cikana (Little Hoop)Community College (Fort Totten).

The workshop was supported by a National ScienceFoundation grant known as NDSU CoMSTeP, theCooperative for Math and Science Teacher Preparation. Thegoals of the grant are to attract more talented students into

math and science teaching careers, and to improve theteaching of the math and science courses taken by futureteachers.

Dr. Mukund Sibi Receives NDSU Research Foundation Grant

The NDSU Research Foundation has awarded nine grantstotaling $37,832 under its Research Development SupportProgram. The funding comes from investment earnings onthe endowment established with revenue from research feesand royalties on intellectual property managed by thefoundation.

“This is the second year of our funding research at NDSU,”said Dale Zetocha, foundation executive director. “Thefunding has grown and we are encouraged by that. Wehope to see it increase each year in the future.”

Mukund Sibi, professor of chemistry, received a $5,000Innovation Award for his work with a practical synthesis ofbeta-amino acids. The category is for research anddevelopment projects that anticipate future patent orcopyright activity and have commercial potential.The awardees were chosen from 24 research proposalssubmitted by NDSU faculty and reviewed by the Researchand Consulting Committee.

The Sibi Lab has welcomed a new post-doc, YasutomiAsano (Kyoshin) to the group in April. He is from Kyoto,Japan and his new wife, Miho, recently joined him in Fargo.

Our group has also expanded into a new lab. Dunbar 250has been painstakingly remodeled to accommodate organicchemistry, and post-docs Chen and Kyoshin are thoroughlyenjoying their sparkling new lab. Graduate students TaraTernes, Mei Liu, Pingrong Liu and Justin Sausker allpresented posters at the ACS meeting in Anaheim, CA thispast March, and undergrad Greg Bjorkland presented aposter at the EPSCoR undergraduate poster session in July.

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McNair Scholars Programnames students

Four NDSU students have been selectedto participate in the McNair ScholarsProgram.

Chemistry is proud to welcome ScottRuele. He is a junior in biotechnology,with plans to pursue a doctorate andspecialize in orthopedics or pediatrics. His faculty mentor is Gregory Cook,assistant professor of chemistry, and hislibrary mentor is Lura Joseph, ChemistryLibrary.

McNair Scholars are selected from NDSUundergraduates who meet the programcriteria and who show an aptitude and aninterest in agricultural, engineering,science, mathematics or pharmacyresearch. To be eligible for selection,McNair Scholars need to be incomeeligible, first-generation college students,or from groups traditionallyunderrepresented at the graduate level fordoctoral study. The program encouragesscholars to pursue careers in collegeteaching and research upon completion ofthe doctorate. Each scholar is supportedby an NDSU faculty and library mentor.

Faculty, Staff and Students

Congratulations!Congratulations!

Dr. Kenton Rodgers Tenured

Tenure was granted by the StateBoard of Higher Education at itsmeeting on April 30 for Dr. KentonRodgers. Rodgers received his Ph.D.in 1988 from the University of Iowa. Postdoctoral experience was gainedfrom 1989-93 at Princeton University. He joined North Dakota StateUniversity in 1993 as AssistantProfessor and was promoted toAssociate Professor in August 1998.

30 Years!At the Employee RecognitionLuncheon Tuesday, April 13, amongthose honored was the ChemistryDepartment’s Linda Stoetzer, AccountTechnician, for her 30 years of service. Linda has been nominated for theGunkelman Award several times!

Welcome Welcome Dr. Seth Rasmussen

Dr. Seth Rasmussen, an Inorganic Chemist, joins the ChemistryDepartment. Seth received hisbachelor’s degree in chemistry fromWashington State University. He wentto Clemson University in S.C. where hereceived his Ph.D. in 1995 in InorganicChemistry. He held a postdoctoralresearch teaching position at theUniversity of Oregon beforeaccepting a position here.

His research interests are: 1) Synthesisand physical studies of conjugatedpolymeric systems incorporating thecoordination of active transitionmetals; 2) Synthesis of multidentateligands capable of bridging multipleactive metal centers.

Other Departmental Changes

Greg Oswald starts a continuingposition this fall as lecturer andteaching lab coordinator.

Gary Stolzenberg will be the organicteaching lab coordinator.

William Diamanti will expand hishorizons this year by teaching severalevening labs.

Renee Essig will move to anAdministrative Assistant positon inthe Tri-College University inSeptember.

Goodbye to... Goodbye to...

Dr. Allan Fischer

Fischer, who retired this year, has heldthe office of the Dean of the College ofScience and Mathematics and theinterim presidency in his 31-yearcareer. His warmth and caringattention will be missed. He will beremembered for his brainchild, theNorth Dakota Governor’s School.

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A C S 2 0 0 0A C S 2 0 0 03232 Great Lakes Regional Meeting Great Lakes Regional Meetingndnd

J u n e 4 - 7 North Dakota StateJ u n e 4 - 7 North Dakota StateJ u n e 4 - 7 North Dakota StateJ u n e 4 - 7 North Dakota StateUniversity University University University

SUNDAY AFTERNOON

Introduction -- Mukund Sibi (North Dakota State) Session Chair -- George O'Doherty (Univ. Minnesota) Amos Smith (Univ. Pennsylvania) James Cook (Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Craig Forsyth (Univ. Minnesot

John Stille (Eli Lilly)John Boukouvalas (Universitat de Laval)

Bill Donaldson (Marquette University)

MONDAY MORNING MONDAY AFTERNOON Session Chair -- Greg Cook (North Dakota State) Session Chair -- Irina Smoliakova (Univ. North Dakota)Tomas Hudlicky (Univ. Florida) Don Matteson (Washington State) Xumu Zhang (Penn State) David Ager (NSC Technologies)Graham Jones (Northeastern) Marvin Miller (Univ. Notre Dame)Steve King (Abbott) Robin Polt (Univ. Arizona)Viresh Rawal (Univ. Chicago) Rebecca Braslau (UC-Santa Cruz) Richard Tillyer (Merck) Ellen Baxter (Johnson & Johnson)

Yian Shi (Colorado State) TUESDAY MORNING TUESDAY AFTERNOONSession Chair - William Shay (Univ. North Dakota) Session Chair - Viktor Zhdankin (Univ. Minnesota-Duluth)Jim Takacs (Univ. Nebraska) Tom Hoye (Univ. Minnesota)

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Our Scholarship Recipients Say “Thanks.”

Our student-scholars wish to offer many thanks to those who have contributed to the Chemistry Department scholarship andaward endowments. Scholarship recipients received their awards at the College of Science and Mathematics’ “Day to CelebrateScholarship” rally. This year’s scholars are:

Donald Bolin ScholarshipRebecca R. Wertish (Faribault, MN)Patrick J. Griffin (Fargo, ND)Elizabeth A. Hillerson (Yankton, SD)Linda M. Mizeur (Williston, ND)Jonathan Zurbey (Cottage Grove, MN)

Chemistry Department Honor ScholarshipAngela Eppler (Fargo, ND)Todd M. Roper (Shakopee, MN)Tad D. Stewart (Williston, ND)

Lawrence Debing ScholarshipMei Liu (Beijing, China)

R. E. Dunbar ScholarshipMatthew C. Kidd (Lison, ND)Rachael A. Peterson (White Bear Lake, MN)Aaron Schwartz (Lakeville, MN)Michelle M. Wiest (North Mankato, MN)Galen Sedo (Rugby, ND)

Brady Brunsvold (Glyndon, MN)Jamie Baxter (Minot, ND)

R. E. Dunbar Scholarship (continued)Troy Kummer (Williston, ND)Michael Kroll (Williston, ND)

Milde ScholarshipVictoria Gelling (Grand Forks, ND)

Sugihara ScholarshipChristina M. Bulisco (Grand Forks, ND)Stephanie L. Lerach (Oakdale, NM)Krista M. Fisher (Dickinson, ND)Renee B. Peterson (Grandin, ND)

Wedel ScholarshipMarissa A. Wisdom (Washburn, ND)Stacy Rohlik (Vesta, MN)

EPSCoR Awards

Awards

If you are in town, please stop by Ladd 104 and visit. Also,we’d love to hear from you and what you are doing!Please keep us updated on address changes.

The ND EPSCoR Advanced disciplines. North Dakota residentsUndergraduate Research Awards Bismarck, worked with Dr. Mallik. and students enrolled at NDUSprogram provides up to $2500 for * Rachel Peterson, a sophomore from institutions are eligible. undergraduates who join a faculty White Bear Lake, MN worked with Dr. The average grade point average forlaboratory for summer research. Campiglia. an awardee is 3.65.For the summer of 1999, the NDSU *Shane Stafslien, a senior inAURA Awardees included the Microbiology worked with Dr.following: Boudjouk.* Nicole Howe, a senior chemistrymajor from West Fargo worked withDr. Sheridan in Zoology.* David Nelson, a freshman from

Aw

ards are competitive and made directly to the students from thesciences, engineering or mathematics

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From...the Mallik Lab: Contributed by Md. Abul Fazal.

A warm welcome to you all once again from Dunbar 251. It is nearly six months since weupdated you last time. So, let's look at the recent happenings in the Mallik lab.

We have just finished a busy summer. In addition to the regular members, our lab got aspeedy start at the joining of summer researchers. Like every year, a high school teacher,Sara Forness (from West Fargo High School) joined us this year. She worked on thesynthesis of new polymerizable amino lipids with Bidhan. Sara has a farmhouse and hasagreed to train our group on horse riding. An undergraduate student from University ofNorth Dakota, David Nelson, worked in our group as an EPSCoR AURA fellow. Heconducted initial experiments on the hydrolysis of phosphate esters by synthetic coppercomplexes (a new area of our research). With encouraging results, he plans to continue hisresearch at UND under joint supervision of Dr. Lakshamn (UND) and Dr. Mallik (NDSU).Governor’s school student Emily Arthur (from Ellendale) was busy with synthesis ofcompounds containing three triazacyclononane units. Synthesis of other metal complexeskept Joy working hard throughout the whole summer. Three posters were represented fromMallik lab in the 7th Annual REU Poster Session. Another undergraduate student, Jennifer,is preparing for her debut in the job market. She already has one interview trip coming up.We all wish her all the best!

Bidhan is concentrated on his liposome project as before. Meanwhile he got his paperpublished in the Journal of Organic Chemistry. Another manuscript with Fazal on proteinrecognition has already been submitted to the Journal of the American Chemical Society.Their work on the recognition of peptides is being sent for publication. Sun finished hiscoursework last Spring and now is working as a full time researcher towards his Ph.D. Fazalhas finished his course work for MS and is now getting the research done for the degree.Bidhan’s project on liposome has been recently competitively renewed by the NationalInstitutes of Health for another three years. Dr. Mallik presented the results on proteinrecognition at the Fall national meeting of American Chemical Society (New Orleans).

After a pleasant summer, Fall is at the door. We are ready to step forwardwith full strength. We are expecting another productive semester as thesummer was. So hope to see you again with the stories of success andpromise.

Page Lab By: Dave Thweatt

NDUS

Department of ChemistryMillion Dollar Campaign

Z Z Z Z The Department of Chemistry at NDSU has initiated an endowment fund for ChemistryGraduate Student Fellowships.The initial goal is to raise $1 million. This will provide interestincome which will be directly applied to supporting graduate students in our MS and PhDprograms. Gifts are tax deductible and may be sent directly to the NDSU DevelopmentFoundation, P.O. Box 5144, Fargo, ND 58105-5144. Designate your gift to “ChemistryGraduate Student Fellowship Fund”. You may make a gift by credit card by calling 1-800-279-8971 or 701-271-0296. Any size gift is very much appreciated.

his summer, the Page groupTdiversified. UndergraduateMatthew "Chuck"Kidd went toAdvanced Individual Training forthe North Dakota National Guard(NDARNG) as a diesel mechanic. Graduate student William "Dave"Thweatt did his two weeks ofAnnual Training for the NDARNGalso this summer. Can theChemistry department survive withso many Guardsmen?

Well, with Y2K compliantMacintosh PC's and IBM RS6000workstations and the majority of thegroup in the National Guard, it maybe the most Y2K-ready group in thedepartment.

On the serious side, Thweatt tookthe group's newest poster, authoredby himself and Dr. Page, entitled"Four-Center Unimolecular H-X(X=F,Cl) Elimination fromHaloethanes: Study of theSteepest-Descent Reaction Path"to the American Conference onTheoretical Chemistry in Boulder,CO this summer. At the conference,Thweatt made some good contacts,some new friends, and some newleg muscles during the free-time. Says Thweatt,"Some of the speakers were veryinteresting, and I learned quite abit."

In other news, some of the group'swork was published in the Journalof the American Chemical Society(JACS). The communication was acollaboration with two othergroups, one from ColumbiaUniversity and the other fromUCLA. JACS. v.121, pp. 4720-4721,1999.

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Chemistry Club News

The Chemistry Club once again had a successful year in1998-1999. Members participated in many communityoutreach programs such as, programs for area elementaryschools and an exhibit at Yunker Farm. To raise money to theannual ACS TRIP the Chem Club was busy selling gogglesand exam study booklets. Fifteen members attended theAmerican Chemical Society national meeting in Anaheim, CA. There, the group participated in various poster presentationsor their research and outreach activities.

The Chemistry Club is looking forward to the 1999-2000school year. We will be involved in outreach and fund raisingprograms and are planning a trip to the 2000 AmericanChemical Society national convention in San Francisco. Wewould like to invite all incoming chemistry majors to join, andwe ask all who are interested to watch for the signs that will beposted outside of the Broberg room.

Chem Club Members, Yunker Farm.

The McCarthy Group By: Dean Grier

The McCarthy group is nearing completion of their fouryear DOE project dealing with long-term alteration ofdisposed and utilized coal combustion by-products. RyanWinburn, Stephanie Lerach, Renee Peterson, and DeanGrier each gave presentations from this work in August atthe 48 Annual Denver X-Ray Conference held atth

Steamboat Springs, CO. Ryan (Dr.!) Winburn will beteaching at Minot State University beginning this fall. JeffWalsh received his B.S. and will be working as a geologistin Steamboat Springs, CO. Marissa Wisdom returns to thegroup this fall, having spent the summer as a researchfellow at Mayo Clinic. Pat Griffin, who finished the bulk ofa large project for the MCL this summer, returns this fall asa synthetic chemist in the Boudjouk group. Bryan Bortnemjoined a biotechnology research group, and Eric Jarabekhas taken over his responsibilities of instrumentmaintenance and calibration.

Bryan and Raquel Jarabek dropped by last month. Bryan isenjoying his Ph.D/M.D. program at Georgetown University. Future Astronaut Raquel was on her way to Houston for aride on the famous “vomit comet”.

1999 - 2000 OfficersPresident: Tad StewartVice President: Stacy RohlikSecretary: Stephanie LerachTreasurer: Krista FisherAdvisor: Drs. Eaton and Sibi