CHEM-NEWSNorth Dakota State University

Department of ChemistryVolume 6 Number1 March 1999

Prof. Sibi with Dr. MariJean Eggen

NDSU Chemistry awarded NSF grant for new NMR Spectrometer

The NDSU chemistry department has received a $598,900grant to purchase a 500 megahertz nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR) spectrometer. The instrument is funded through theNational Science Foundation's Major Research Infrastructureprogram.

NMR Technology is the basis of the Magnetic ResonanceImaging method used in medical diagnosis. In the hands ofchemists, it provides a type of image from which molecularstructure can be determined. "This equipment is extremelycapable and will bring us to the cutting edge of magneticresonance spectroscopy," said Kenton Rodgers, associateprofessor of chemistry and principle investigator for theproject. "NMR is really one of the bread and buttermethodologies for studying molecules."

The NMR technique is applicable to a wide variety ofmolecules and will advance research in areas such as materialsscience, medicinal therapeutics and the understanding ofbiological structure and function. "We're going to be able todo more complex experiments on a shorter time scale,"Rodgers said. "NMR works for small molecules, proteins,DNA, polymers and for molecules of potential interest tochemical, agricultural, and pharmaceutical industries."

The new instrument will impact NDSU in several ways. First,it will become part of the ever-growing technologicalunderpinning of science education at the university. It willassist participating researchers in furthering their work in anumber of areas of chemistry and help them compete forextramural grants. "Many of those grant dollars from outsideNorth Dakota get injected directly into our economy. Finally,the new instrument will help attract people with technicalexpertise to the Fargo-Moorhead area," Rodgers said. "Theseare people who may ultimately contribute to the technology-based enterprises in our region."

Co-investigators for the project are Phil Boudjouk, Professorof Chemistry; Greg Cook, Assistant Professor of Chemistry;Sanku Malik, Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Mukund Sibi,Professor of Chemistry; and Gudrun Lukat-Rodgers, AssistantProfessor of Chemistry.

Matching funds from the University will enable thedepartment to upgrade all the spectrometers in the facility tostate of the art instruments. When the installation is

completed, the Spectroscopy Laboratory will be home toInova 500, Inova 400 and Mercury 300 instrumentsmanufactured by Varian. They will be outfitted with the latestin pulsed gradient field technology. Work is underway toprepare the site for the new equipment which is expected to beinstalled in Dunbar Hall this spring. (See Photos on page 2)

Former Students Give Seminars. . .

Recently, three former NDSUundergraduates have returnedto the department to giveseminars. Dr. MariJean Eggenvisited in early November andpresented a seminar entitled"Synthetic Approaches to theCryptophycins and TheirAnalogues." During her timeas an undergraduate she wasactive in research under theguidance of Professor Sibi.

After graduating in 1991, shewent to graduate school in

chemistry at the University of Nebraska. While there, shereceived the Departmental Outstanding Teaching AssistantAward (1995) and the Outstanding Graduate Research Award(1996). Dr. Eggen is currently a postdoctoral researchassociate at the University of Kansas medicinal chemistrydepartment with Prof. Gunda Georg where she holds aDepartment of the Army Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dr. Eggenwas excited to meet with some of her former professors, andseveral new faculty. “As time goes by, I have come to realizethat my undergraduate experience was outstanding. Havingbeen a bright but very shy undergraduate, I can thank myexperience in the NDSU chemistry department for providingthe confidence to pursue graduate work,” commented Eggen.She was also impressed that the “NDSU ChemistryDepartment has continued to improve and excel, not only withinnovative faculty members and research, but with the newlyremodeled laboratory space and several pieces of newinstrumentation that will provide an even better environmentfor outstanding research.”

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Chem-News 2 March 1999

REMODELING IS UNDERWAY TO PREPARE THE FACILITY FOR THE NEW INSTRUMENTS.

Dr. Mukund Sibi “tearing down the walls”Dan Wanner, Spectroscopy Laboratory Manager,

oversees the room refurbishing

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Congratulations to our December, 1998 GraduateMarcia Guetter who earned her B.S. degree in

Chemistry, Polymers and Coatings Option.Marcia was President of the ACS Affiliate

Chemistry Club during 1997-98. Marcia has aposition with Lilly Industries in North Carolina.

Physical Plant employees working onthe NMR Lab in Dunbar Hall

Existing equipment is covered with protective plasticduring reconstruction

Chem-News 3 March 1999

Phil Boudjouk

NDSU has announced the first endowedprofessorships in the 108 year history ofthe university. One award is at the fullprofessor level, the second is at theassociate professor rank. Philip Boudjouk,Professor of Chemistry, was named theJordan A. Engberg Scholar. David Rider,Associate Professor of Entomology, wasappointed as the Walter F. and VernaGehrts Scholar. The awards are fundedthrough gifts made to the NDSUDevelopment Foundation.

"I am delighted to acknowledge the achievement of two of ourleading faculty," said Allan G. Fischer, interim president."Endowed professorships reward outstanding work byproviding supplemental financial support for salary andresearch. They help keep our quality faculty and attract newfaculty." Craig Schnell, vice president for academic affairs,said he was impressed by the quality of the candidates for theawards. "They were first rate and that made it a tough choicefor the selection committee," Schnell said. "The professorshipsallow us to recognize people who have done very well."Boudjouk was quick to credit others for this award. "This isdefinitely not a 'Lone Ranger' activity. I am pretty muchstanding on the shoulders of my students, research associates,and faculty collaborators," he said. "This award is anacknowledgment of the quality and quantity of their efforts aswell as mine."

Professor Boudjouk, who has been a member of the Chemistryfaculty since 1973, is a renowned expert in sonochemistry andorganosilicon chemistry. He pioneered the application ofultrasound to organic reactions. In 1984, The AmericanChemical Society cited his work on ultrasound as one of thetwenty most significant developments in chemistry,worldwide, for the two year period 1982-1983. The Institutefor Scientific Information listed one of his papers on siliconchemistry as one of the twenty-five most cited articles of allthose published in chemistry journals worldwide (>50,000articles) for the three year period 1980-1982. His researchgroup has produced more than 100 refereed articles on hisresearch, including several review articles and book chapters.

He has supervised approximately 30 undergraduates in hislaboratories. Of these, more than 20 went on to graduateschool. Two of his undergraduate researchers won GoldwaterScholarships (Ioanna Stoenescu, now completing her Ph.D. inChemistry at the U. of Minn. and Brian Very, currently asenior at NDSU). Stoenescu was the first North Dakotarecipient of a National Science Foundation GraduateTraineeship. One of his undergraduate researchers, PhilipAnfinrud, went on to a tenure track position in the Departmentof Chemistry at Harvard; another, Dan Falvey, has recentlybeen tenured in the Department of Chemistry at the Universityof Maryland.

Under Professor Boudjouk’s direction, 17students have completed their Ph.D.degrees, the first of which was in 1978.Two of his Ph.D. students are fullprofessors in Chemistry (See Lin,Chunghua National University, Taipei; andByung-Hee Han, Chungnam NationalUniversity, Korea). Twelve students havecompleted their M. S. degrees. Hislaboratory has also hosted approximately20 postdoctoral research associates andvisiting professors from around the world.Presently his research group consists of two

students pursuing the Ph.D., two in the M.S. program, fourundergraduates and five postdoctoral research associates. Hisresearch interests now focus on the chemistry of reactiveintermediates containing silicon, highly functionalized lowmolecular weight silicone polymers, hexacoordinate silanes,and optoelectronic materials derived from main grouporganometallic precursors.

Currently the state project director of the National ScienceFoundation program Experimental Project to StimulateCompetitive Research, Professor Boudjouk is the principalinvestigator and administrator for statewide programsdesigned to build the research infrastructure and relatedhuman resources in North Dakota. He received his bachelor'sdegree at St. John's University, Jamaica, N.Y., and hisdoctorate in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

[Portions of this article were taken from It’s Happening At State -November 4, 1998]

F ormer Students Give Seminars. . .

Continued from page 1

Jeff Schultz presented a seminar, "Studies towards thesynthesis of hydroperoxyeicosatetaenoic acids (HPETES)," inDecember. Jeff graduated from NDSU in 1994 and also wasan undergraduate researcher in Prof. Sibi’s group. He iscurrently a graduate student at the University of Nebraska.

Dr. Donald Boerth, Professor and Chair of the chemistrydepartment at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouthvisited on March 4th to present a seminar entitled "Structure -Activity Studies of Mutagenicity and DNA AdductFormation." Prof. Boerth graduated with a BS from NDSU in1969 where he did undergraduate research with Profs.Peterson and Rathmann. He continued his education as agraduate student at the University of Minnesota andpostdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley.

BOUDJOUK RECEIVES ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP AWARD

Chem-News 4 March 1999

Dr. Sugihara and his wife receive a gift from InterimPresident, Dr. Allan Fischer, at a reception held

in the President’s home

Dr. James Sugihara

Joey Rexine

SUGIHARA RECEIVES NDSUHONORARY DOCTORATE

James M. Sugihara, a nationally-known chemist and longtimeNDSU faculty member, received an honorary doctorate duringthe NDSU commencement ceremonies December 18, 1998.

Sugihara is noted forhis reactionmechanisms incarbohydrate researchand porphyrinchemistry. Hisresearch appeared in56 publications, mostfrequently in journalsof the AmericanChemical Society.Sugihara’s work was

supported by grantsfrom the AmericanPetroleum Institute,

National Science Foundation, Petroleum Research Fund,Research Corp., Mobil Foundation, Exxon Oil Co. andGilsonite Co.

He also held a number of administrative positions during his25 years at NDSU.

Born in Las Animas, Colo., in 1918, Sugihara received hisbachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, in 1939. He earned a doctorate inorganic chemistry at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, in1947. He conducted postdoctoral research in carbohydratechemistry at Ohio State University from 1948 to 1949.Sugihara joined the faculty of the University of Utah in 1944as an instructor and was promoted to full professor in 1954.

In 1964, he came to NDSU. He served as dean of the then-College of Chemistry and Physics until 1973 and dean of theCollege of Science and Mathematics in 1973-74 and 1985-86.Sugihara was dean of the Graduate School and director ofResearch Administration from 1974 to 1985. In 1984, heserved as interim academic vice president. He was interimdirector of Student Academic Affairs from 1987 to 1988.Awarded professor emeritus status in 1989, Sugihara also wasinterim chair of the department of polymers and coatings in1990-91.

In 1978, he was a member of the U.S. Department of Energydelegation that visited Moscow, Leningrad and Volvograd tomeet with Russian oil experts on geochemistry andfundamental properties of petroleum. He was a consultant forSun Oil Co., Exxon Oil Co., American Gilsonite Co. and theNational Science Foundation.

Sugihara was presented the NDSU Blue Key Doctor ofService Award in 1972.

Active in local and state organizations, Sugihara was amember of the Resources Research Committee of the NorthDakota Legislative Council, steering committee of theSoutheast Area Health Education Center of the North DakotaSchool of Medicine and board of directors of United Way ofCass-Clay.

Sugihara and his wife, May, have two sons.

[It’s Happening At State – December 3, 1998]

NDSU Chemistry Major ReceivesAstronaut Scholarship

Senior chemistry major, Joey Lee Rexine, is one of 17students in the nation, and the first North Dakota StateUniversity student, to be awarded the prestigious AstronautScholarship.

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation sponsors the award,which is given to upper-class undergraduates or post-graduateswho have demonstrated specialcharacteristics of mental ability, selfdiscipline, and great motivation andcreative energy in the field of science orengineering. More than 30 formerastronauts are involved in raising fundsfor the scholarships.

Rexine won the $8,500 award as a resultof his high grade point average and hisparticipation in research in Prof. Rodger'sgroup. He has now received this scholarshipfor a second year and is currently doing research in theCampiglia Group. He is the son of Rodney and Carol Rexineof Fargo.

[Portions of this article were taken from It’s Happening At State -June 10, 1998]

Chem-News 5 March 1999

FargOConferenCeoN Main GrouPChemiStry

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Jodee Hanson, Marie Slanger and Dr. Phil Boudjouk

Dietmar Seyferth

Herbert Roesky

Will Rees

The 2nd

The 2nd Fargo Conference on Main Group Chemistry, hostedby the Department’s Center for Main Group Chemistry,attracted 151 attendees from 23 states and 14 countries. Theconference was held at the Holiday Inn Conference Center onJune 4-6, 1998. Plenary lectures were presented by Dietmar

Seyferth, Professor ofChemistry at MIT andEditor-in-Chief of theACS journalOrganometallics, andHerbert Roesky, Professorof Chemistry at theUniversity of Goettingen,Germany.

The purposes of the FargoConferences are to fosterdevelopment in research

involving main groupelements; garneradditional national

exposure for this often neglected area of research; fostercollaborations and information transfer among researchersfrom academia, industry and national laboratories; and provideopportunities to students, post-docs and junior faculty tointeract with leaders in the field.

Twenty-seven main groupelements (beyond theubiquitous H, C, and O)were the research focus of52 oral and 48 posterpapers. As usual, Si led inpopularity, but other highlypopular elements includedLi, Al, Ga, In, N, P, S, andSe. These elements figurein such importantapplications aspolymerization catalystsand electronic materials. Ofthe non-radioactive maingroup elements only Be,

Mg, Hg and I did not receive attention in at least one paper atthe conference.

More photos of the Main Group Conference continued on page 6

Joyce Corey Presenting a Talk

Peter Jutzi, Bob West, Phil Boudjouk, and Herbert Roesky

Phil Boudjouk withDave Rislove(NDSU Alumnus)

ACS 2000 MeetingThe Red River Valley Section of the American Chemical

Society will host the 32nd

Great Lakes Regional Meeting inJune of 2000. The Department of Chemistry is the leadorganizer of this meeting. The third gathering of main groupchemistry researchers in Fargo will occur during the meetingwhen the NDSU’s Center for Main Group Chemistry hosts asymposium on this topic. Check out the website at thefollowing url: http://www.chem.ndsu.nodak.edu/glrm

Chem-News 6 March 1999

Main Group Conference Photos Continued. . .

N DSU Chem Club recognized by ACS

The American Chemical Society (ACS) StudentAffiliates chapter at North Dakota State University hasbeen selected for special recognition as aCommendable chapter for its activities conductedduring the 1997-98 academic year.

One of the Society’s important responsibilities is thepreprofessional development of students in thechemical sciences. One way the Society accomplishesthis is by offering undergraduate students majoring in

chemistry or a related science the opportunity to enroll in the ACS Student Affiliates (SA) program. The SA program has a currentenrollment of more than 9,000 students, and offers them the support, privileges, and benefits of the largest scientific professionalsociety in the world. Many of our students are affiliated with 900 chapters at colleges and universities in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.Every chapter is required to submit an annual report of its activities. Based on the review of these reports, chapters are selected by theSociety Committee on Education for recognition as Outstanding, Commendable, or Honorable-Mention chapters.

In addition to the recognition by their peers and by ACS members, this award brings the Chem Club and NDSU a note ofaccomplishment in Chemical and Engineering News, the Society’s official national newsmagazine, and in in Chemistry , the StudentAffiliates magazine.

Paul H. L. Walter, President of the American Chemical Society, in his letter of recognition gave special commendation to ProfessorsMukund Sibi and Joseph Eaton, faculty advisors to the NDSU Student affiliates chapter. He stated that “Few faculty members arewilling to make the great commitment of time and energy that a successful chapter requires of its advisor. It takes more thanexceptional effort to be named as a Commendable chapter; it takes the nurturing attention of a dedicated advisor. Professors Sibi andEaton’s efforts certainly represent the best in undergraduate science education and mentoring around the country.”

Current news from the Chemistry Club includes plans to continue their community outreach program by visiting more elementaryschools and expanding the program to include a day at the local children’s museum. Fundraisers are already in full swing andeverybody has probably seen the pink and green exam booklets circulating through the building.

The major event for the club this year (as it is every year) is the annual ACS meeting. We are all looking forward to the trip toCalifornia (a few members are already working on their tans…just ask Scott…he WILL show you!). This year we will be having sixmembers giving posters or demonstrations on NDSU Chem Club activities. There will also be a couple of members presenting onbehalf of their individual research groups.

An update of past members: Amy (Singer) Garman was spotted in the Broberg room recently. She and husband, Aaron, are PROUDparents of a baby girl (Isabel), who was born in Grand Forks, October 18. Jason and Shawn Barron have also been seen wanderingaround the building recently. Jason reports that he is enjoying New York, but misses the spectacular ND weather (yeah, right!).

Attendees presenting their work at the Poster Session

Entertainment Provided by Musichemistry fromCreighton University, directed by Prof. Kelly O.

Sullivan.

Chem-News 7 March 1999

Elizabeth Jung

LuAnn Dolan

New Faces in Ladd/Dunbar

ND EPSCoR Office Adds New Staff

ND EPSCoR (Experimental Program to StimulateCompetitive Research) has added two staff to their program:Elizabeth Jung joined the staff this past summer as Adm. Sec.in their 214 Ladd office. LuAnn Dolan joined in mid-November as Adm. Sec. in the program’s 258 Dunbar office.

Elizabeth has been on campus since 1988 in The Center forChild Development and Parenting The First Year. She nowdivides her time between The Center and ND EPSCoR. Anative of Lemmon, SD, Elizabeth, her husband, Dale, and twoteenagers reside in Reile’s Acres, Fargo.

LuAnn Dolan previously worked in the Graduate StudiesOffice. “I enjoy working part-time. It allows me to spendmore time with my family.” LuAnn and her husband, Pat, andtheir three sons live in Harwood, ND.

ND EPSCoR is a North Dakota University System programaimed at increasing research and developing human resources.The program is open to all NDUS faculty and studentsthrough: Infrastructure Improvement programs, ScienceOutreach & recruitment(SOAR) programs, TechnologyTransfer programs.

Center for Main Group Chemistryhires new Administrative

AssistantRenee Essig joined the Center for Main Group Chemistry inSeptember as their new Administrative Assistant. She hasbeen on campus for 10 years and has held several positionsworking for various departments including Computer Science;Mathematics; Apparel, Textiles & Interior Design; and mostrecently The NDSU Libraries. Renee and her husband, Darrel(also an NDSU employee), along with their two daughtersreside in Moorhead, MN.

Welcome New Graduate Students

(Back Row) Md. Abul Fazal (Kushtia, Bangladesh) MallikGroup; Shankar Manyem (Madras, India) Sibi Group; RyanKeddy (New Ross, Nova Scotia) Sibi Group; Kevyn Smith(Seymour, Tennessee) Rodgers Group; (Front Row) Zoha Al-Badri (Winnipeg, Manitoba) Boudjouk Group; Sherry Thomas(Winnipeg, Manitoba) Boudjouk Group; Jen Parker(Georgetown, Texas) McCarthy Group; Lei Tang (Kunming,China) Rodgers Group. Not pictured: Pornnipa Vichchulada(Bangkok, Thailand) Boudjouk Group.

Renee Essig

Chem-News 8 March 1999

Jared Drader

Rebecca Twite

Dr. Janet Osteryoung

Carl McNair and NDSU McNairScholars Visit Campus

The president of the Dr. Ronald E. McNair Foundation, CarlMcNair, visited the NDSU campus on Feb. 23-24, for theMcNair Scholars Celebration Banquet and National TRIO Dayluncheon. McNair was here urging NDSU faculty andstudents to continue to pursue new areas of science andmathematics. "Science, mathematics and technology aredriving our society at a rate that is unprecedented," McNairsaid. "We're at the advent of another technological explosion."

Chemistry and Polymers & Coatings alumniwho were McNair Scholars whileundergraduates at NDSU returned to Fargofor the occasion. Jared Drader received hisB.S. in Chemistry in 1993. He worked withProf. Denley Jacobson while a McNairScholar. He obtained his Ph.D. from theUniversity of Texas at Austin and iscurrently a Research Associate at theNational High Magnetic Field Laboratory atFlorida State University.

Rebecca Twite graduatedin 1992 With a B.S. in

chemistry (with P&C option). Herundergraduate research mentors were Profs.Frank Jones and Gordon Bierwagen. Shesubsequently obtained a M.S. fromCarnegie Mellon University and returned toNDSU for a Ph.D. in Polymers andCoatings Science (1998). She is currentlyan Assistant Professor at the New YorkState College of Ceramics at AlfredUniversity.

Jody Tishmack obtained her B.S. inGeosciences in 1991 and M.S. in Soil Science from NDSU in1993 under the mentorship of Profs. Greg McCarthy andJimmie Richardson (Soil Science, M.S. co-advisor). She is aPh.D. Candidate in Civil Engineering, Purdue University andwill finish her degree this May. She also holds a position asWaste Management Coordinator at Purdue. Jody was the firstMcNair Scholar at NDSU.

Chad Wold (B.S. in Chemistry, 1995) is currently a graduatestudent in Polymers and Coatings. He recently returned fromHampton, Virginia where he was working on a researchproject at NASA as part of his graduate program. He expectsto finish his degree in the near future.

The McNair Foundation develops and funds educationprograms to motivate and encourage students to pursue careersin science, mathematics and technology. It was founded tohonor McNair's brother, Dr. Ronald E. McNair, who diedalong with six astronaut colleagues aboard the space shuttleChallenger in 1986.

See “Current . . . McNair Scholars” – pages 13 & 14

National Science foundation directorfeatured at Broberg lecture

Dr. Janet G. Osteryoung presentedthe 14th Annual Joel Broberglecture on September 10th. Dr.Osteryoung is presently the Directorof the Division of Chemistry at theNational Science Foundation, whereshe is responsible for federal fundsof $135 million to support researchand education in chemistry. Shealso holds a position as professor ofchemistry at North Carolina StateUniversity, where she wasdepartment chair from 1992 to 1994.

The Lecture was presented at theBeckwith Recital Hall and was

titled, “Research, Education, and Money”. This lectureconcerned the Research and Development funding of collegesand Universities (always a fascinating topic here in thechemistry department), and addressed the questions; wheredoes this funding originate? What does it cost?, what are thebenefits?, who benefits?, and, perhaps most importantly, dothe benefits justify the costs?

Dr. Osteryoung presented the technical lecture to thechemistry department on Friday afternoon, September 11, onthe topic of her research, “Macroions: from the Molecular tothe Microscopic”.

Dr. Osteryoung’s research interests center on electrochemistryand chemical analysis, and their applications to thephenomenology of surface reactions, transport properties insolution, and the fabrication of microelectromechanicaldevices. Prior to joining the faculty at North Carolina StateUniversity, Dr. Osteryoung was professor of chemistry at theState University of New York at Buffalo. She has also servedon the faculties of Montana State University and ColoradoState University. During her distinguished career, she hasauthored nearly 200 research papers and has earned numerousawards.

Unfortunately, Dr. Osteryoung’s visit coincided with thenotorious Northwest Airline pilot’s strike. This necessitatedsome last minute scrambling to arrange transportation for Dr.Osteryoung to and from Fargo. While she was able to fly intoFargo, it was necessary to drive her to Sioux Falls to get aplane to the next stop on her busy schedule.

This was the 14th Broberg lecture in a series that has featurednumerous well-known scientists, including several NobelPrize winners. The lectureship was initiated in 1986 withfunding from alumni, friends, faculty, and businesses, to honorlong-time NDSU professor Dr. Joel Broberg. The purpose ofthe lecture is to honor eminent scientists and educators, and togive them an opportunity to instill in the students and facultyto excitement of science in general and chemistry in particular.

Chem-News 9 March 1999

Times in the Life ofthe Boudjouk Group

(By Michael Remington)

Happy New Year to everyone in thedepartment from the Boudjouk group.It has been quite a while since I lasthad to write this piece so I willattempt to bring everyone up-to-dateon the happenings on the second floorof Dunbar.

Ph.D.’s awarded

Both Beon-Kyu Kim and Seok-BongChoi received their Ph.D. degrees atcommencement last May. The titlesof their respective dissertations are“New Cationic HexacoordinateComplexes of Silanes” and“Monoanions and Dianions of SiloleSystems.” Look for them in a librarynear you. While actively seekingemployment they are continuing withthe Boudjouk group as postdoctoralassociates, and they seem to beenjoying themselves.

Ph.D. candidate

Last May, Mike Remington wasofficially admitted to candidacy forthe Ph.D. He successfully defendedhis original research proposal “A NewClass of Macrocycles. InherentlyChiral Calixarenes Derived fromChiral Binaphthols: Synthesis,Characterization, and Applications.”Mike was also awarded a NorthDakota EPSCoR Doctoral DissertationFellowship, upon completion of hisoral exam. Now that all the hurdleshave been cleared Mike would like tograduate ASAP (hint, hint).

New Arrivals

The past year has brought many newfaces to the Boudjouk group. Firstand foremost, Phil became agrandfather for the first time.Rosemarie Fettig was born on August14, 1998 to Monica Boudjouk andDwight Fettig. Phil has really enjoyedhis role as “grandpa” and wishes hecould visit Rosemarie more often.Bhanu and Moni Chauhan were alsoblessed with the birth of their son,

Sankalp (a.k.a. “Sunny”) on April 15,1998. Sunny’s interests includeSesame Street and Teletubbies, and ofcourse learning Schlenk technique.On August 20, 1998 Beon-Kyu andHyung Sun Kim were equally blessedwith their third child, Jinsuk. While itis their third child, it is their first son,which really made the day for Beon-Kyu. The smile still has not left hisface.

Three new graduate students have alsocommitted themselves to theBoudjouk group. Zoha-Al-Badri andSherry Thomas come to us fromUniversity of Winnipeg, Canada.They had a good first semester and asa bonus they are already used to thearctic-type weather. PornnipaVichchulada received herundergraduate training at BereaCollege in Kentucky. She thinks it isvery cold here. She says “Why go toAlaska when you can just come toNorth Dakota?”

One new post-doctoral fellow,Thomas Ready, has joined the ranksamong the Boudjouk group members.Tom received his B.S. and M.S. fromthe University of Texas, El Pasofollowed by his Ph.D. under thedirection of Marvin Rausch at theUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst.His research will focus on theapplications of polysiloxanes inanticorrosion technology. He secondsPornnipa’s sentiment saying “It’scold.” Tom and his wife Suzannehave a three year old son, Michael.Suzanne and Michael like the Fargo-Moorhead area, and Suzanne evenloves the cold.

Other Group News

Mike, Phil, and Greg McCarthyrepresented NDSU at the MaterialsResearch Society’s (MRS) Fallmeeting in Boston, MA in November.It was a very productive meeting inwhich Mike presented a paper entitled“Growth of Antimony Thin Filmsfrom Alternate OrganometallicPrecursors” and Phil presented “NovelSynthetic Routes to Binary andTernary Main Group Chalcogenides.”

Mike’s paper was submitted andaccepted for publication in Mater. Res.Soc. Proc., due out any time.

Research has been going well in thegroup. Several manuscripts have beensent out for review to journals such asJACS, Tet. Lett., Inorg. Chem., Angew.Chem., and the Materials ResearchBulletin. In fact Phil had mentionedthat we set a new group record bysubmitting 5 manuscripts in one week.With luck, 1999 should be asproductive as 1998.

In the HershbergerGroup, Michael Edwards

recently defended his Ph.D.

thesis, and is currently

interviewing for several

prospective jobs. Other current

group members are graduate

student Randy Baren and

postdoc Kwang Rim. Randy is

using laser-induced fluorescence

techniques to study kinetics,

while Kwang is using infrared

laser absorption to measure

product yields in combustion

reactions.

Dr. Michael Edwards

Chem-News 10 March 1999

Campiglia Group UpdateBy Erik Hagestuen

Welcome to another “Campiglia Group Update”. Our largestnews starts with the research group move from Dunbar toLadd 205. Several things in Ladd 205 were cleaned, moved,shuffled to make room for our instrument, large amount ofglassware and group members. But the move was a successand we enjoy the extra space. If you need anything in the hallnear Ladd 205, please help yourself. Stop by if you care to seeour new arrangement.

Our group has also been ordering several new toys. Inaddition to our SPEX Fluorolog 3, we will add a Laser / DyeLaser / ICCD system capable of measuring the luminescenceon surfaces. We have also obtained a Joule - Thomsonrefrigeration unit capable of cooling small samples to 80K inabout 15 minutes without the use of liquid nitrogen. This willbe put to use originally in the Fluorolog instrument, butcertainly could be placed in tandem with any laser system.

Our group remains strong with 3 graduate and 2 undergraduatemembers. These members are; Erik Hagestuen, Adam Bystol,Andrea Arruda, Rachel Peterson, and Joey Rexine. I also getthe pleasure of working with Max Lucci and Chris Walls, myprevious colleagues from the Gillispie Group.

After a brief stint of no classes, Adam and Andrea are now inthe fury of a full class schedule, teaching and research. Buteven with a busy schedule, their data acquisition stillcontinues.

Adam continues to work with the RTP properties ofbenzopyrones, but recently has been working with severalpharmaceutical formulations. He is trying to identify a classspecific quality control method for several of the abovecompounds. He and Dr. Campiglia have begun to assemble apaper regarding the data taken to date.

Andrea and I work on similar projects, but with much differentclasses of compounds. With three papers either published orin press, we have begun to convince the scientific communitythat merging SPE and RTP for the first time is a success. Notonly have we induced phosphorescence on the surface, buthave reduced the extraction volume significantly and receivedexcellent limits of detection. My poster presentation on thesubject was well received at FACSS ’98, and obtained positivefeedback from both EPA and USGS representatives.

Dr. Campiglia continues to keep busy writing journal articlesand proposals, teaching classes, and research advisor. In hisfree time, he will help set up the new equipment and maybeget some ‘play time’. He and his wife Martha are expecting ababy in March, so there goes all that free time. All jokingaside, I know both are looking forward to the arrival of theirfirst child.

Thank you for enduring my first, and perhaps last Chem Newsgroup update. You can look for my defense notice sometimelate spring or in early summer.

Cook’s Kitchen . . .By Dr. Greg Cook

Take two graduate students, four undergraduates, and apostdoc; mix thoroughly with a few good ideas, and you havea recipe for success. The Cook group continues to groweveryday. The new methodology involving dynamicpalladium intermediates that is being developed has been veryfruitful. Three papers have been published on the chemistry inthe last 8 months, including a communication in theprestigious Angewandte Chemie. The work was alsopresented by Dr. Cook at the Organic Reactions and ProcessesGordon Conference last July. In addition, two papers on worksupported by the Center for Main Group Chemistry, incollaboration with Prof. Sibi, have recently appeared in print.The group has received funding for its projects. Dr. Cook is arecipient of a NSF Career Award to support his educationaland research activities. The group also received funding fromNIH to support their amino acid synthesis projects. They arelooking forward to this spring’s National ACS Meeting inAnaheim where one oral and three poster presentations will bemade.

The Cook group has moved from its original laboratory inLadd Hall to the laboratories vacated by Dr. Atwood inDunbar Hall. “We’re happy about this move because we havea little more space and closer proximity to the other organicresearch groups. Our daily interactions with the Sibi Grouphave increased exponentially since our relocation,”commented Prof. Cook.

Current group members are: Dr. Sathya Shanker; graduatestudents Scott Erickson and Keith Pararajasingham; andundergraduates Becky Wertish, Miranda Hvinden, AaronFerguson, and Scott Peterson. The group is looking forwardto the addition of Dr. Sankaranarayanan, who will be joiningthe team this July. He is currently in a postdoctoral position inGermany and originally hails from India.

The Cookies . . .

(Back Row) Scott Erickson, Aaron Ferguson, Dr. SathyaShanker, Keith Pararajasingham, (Front Row) Becky Wertish,Miranda Hvinden, and Scott Peterson.

Chem-News 11 March 1999

(Back Row) Dr. Jianxie Chen, Dr. Sibi, Ryan Keddy,Shankar Manyem (Front Row) Pingrong Liu Tara Ternes,Justin Sausker, and Mei Liu.

Mallik Group NewsBy Md. Abul Fazal

Since joining NDSU last spring, theMallik group has been making steadyprogress in their extensive researchprogram.

Our research is focused mainly onbioorganic and bioanalyticalchemistry. Currently, we are busywith design and synthesis of receptorsfollowed by recognition study ofbiologically importantmacromolecules (proteins). Synthesisof polymerizable and nonpolymerizable metal chelatingliposomes is another area of interest.Also, a stimulating project onsystematic development of novelbiosensors is being pursued.

A recently purchasedmicrocalorimeter has added a new

dimension to the lab. We are reallyexcited about it. The microcalorimeterwill facilitate monitoring therecognition process as well as thethermodynamical aspects, with a highconfidence level. The new PC willfurther extend the existing facilities.

A new graduate student fromBangladesh, Md. Abul Fazal, joinedour group last summer. Twoundergraduate students, Jennifer Twait(Sr.) and Linda Mizeur (Fr.) are alsowith us. Jennifer is busy withsynthesis of receptors while Linda isworking hard at fabrication of avariety of liposomes. As a part of theHigh School Teachers' summerresearch program, Douglas Nelson andDavid Marso attended our group lastsummer.

The Post Doctoral Researcher BidhanRoy and graduate student Shuguang

Sun are doing better than ever.Recently, a paper by Bidhan onsynthesis of polymerizable lipids hasbeen accepted for publication in theJournal of Organic Chemistry. BothBidhan and Sun will represent ourgroup in the upcoming ACS meetingin Anaheim.

Recently, we have started acollaborative project with theCampiglia group. This project alsoaims to construct protein sensors usingfluorescence properties of lanthanidemetal ions.

The group members enjoy the friendlyand cooperative working environment.Celebration of social occasions is apleasant tradition in our lab. So, workand fun go hand in hand.

News from the Sibi GroupBy Tara Ternes

So many different and exciting things have happened in the Sibi groupover the past year that I don’t even know where to begin! Dr. Sibi waspromoted to the rank of full professor in 1998. He also was awarded a$5,000 Innovation Award from the NDSU Research Foundation for hiswork in developing a practical enantioselective synthesis of β-aminoacids. This chemistry, which was published in the Journal of theAmerican Chemical Society and featured as a Science and TechnologyConcentrate in Chemistry and Engineering News, was developed byDr. Sibi, John Shay, Mei Liu and Craig Jasperse. Dr. Sibi andcoworkers have also patented this methodology.

In other news, the (R)-(+)-4-(diphenylmethyl)-2-oxazolidinone chiralauxiliary developed by the Sibi group of recent past is nowcommercially available through Aldrich Chemical Co.

The Sibi group has also had some new students join and some old students move on to bigger and better things. New graduatestudents that recently joined are Shankar Manyem and Ryan Keddy. Krista Fisher is a new undergraduate researcher, who will workalong side current undergraduate researchers Tad Stewart, Greg Bjorkland and Nicole Howe. Third year graduate student JustinSausker and second year students Tara Ternes, Mei Liu, and Pingrong Liu continue to “wow” the boss on a daily basis by theexcellent quality of work routinely put forth. Jianxie Chen is the sole surviving post doc working in the group. Gone from the groupare Mike Johnson, John Shay, Saumen Hajra and Minoro Nagato. Mike graduated with a Master’s degree in October and quicklymoved to Connecticut to start his new job at Boehringer Ingelheim. John was offered a job at Rhone Poulenc Rorer in Philadelphia inNovember and left the group to start work there in December. Saumen Hajra also departed the group in December in order to gohome to India and get married (Feb. 7th 1999) and then to Germany where he has another postdoctoral fellowship.

In conclusion, everyone in the group is contently working on their thesis projects except for Mei, who has a new project, not fundedby the group: to maximize vacation days spent in Allentown, PA with minimal effect on TA salary.

Chem-News 12 March 1999

News from theMcCarthy Group

By Ryan Winburn

The McCarthy group has seen a flurryof activity since the last Chem-News.The group has added three newmembers: Jane Willenbring, a seniorgeosciences major, Renee Peterson, afreshman chemistry major, andJennifer Parker, a first-year graduatestudent.

Renee joined our lab under theUndergraduate Research Fellowshipprogram. She is planning on gettingher chemistry degree with a secondaryteaching option. She hopes to attendgraduate school to get her Mastersdegree when she finishes up here atNDSU. She is a North Dakota native,growing up in Grandin and attendingHillsboro High School. Renee likes tokeep active in school and communityactivities. She enjoys music andalmost any outdoor activity, especiallyrollerblading and skiing. Presently,she is working with Dean, Marissa andJeff to analyze the mineralcomposition of coal combustion by-products.

Jennifer Parker is a first-year Ph.D.student doing Rietveld analysis ofstandard reference material fly ashesand examining the amorphous contentof common materials. Jen receivedher B.S. in Chemistry from PrincipiaCollege in Elsah, IL, in 1996. Afterspending the summer in the InterfacialGeochemistry group at Battelle PacificNorthwest Labs in Hanford, WA, shewent to Beaverton, OR, where she gother M.S. in Environmental Scienceand Engineering at the OregonGraduate Institute for Science andTechnology. Last year, she was avisiting faculty member and labtechnician for the Principia CollegeChemistry Dept. Upon completion ofher studies at NDSU, she hopes toteach and do research at a college orsmall university.

Ryan Winburn, Jeff Walsh, StephanieLerach and Marissa Wisdom traveledto Colorado Springs, CO in August toattend the Denver X-Ray Conference.Ryan presented a talk on his

dissertation research entitled"Quantitative XRD Analysis of CoalCombustion By-Products by theRietveld Method. II. Testing withStandard Mixtures." Stephanie andMarissa squeezed into the XRD postersession at the last minute and werepleasantly pleased with the result.Their poster, titled "Quantitative XRDAnalysis of Coal Combustion By-Products by the Rietveld Method"received Honorable Mention for theXRD poster session (out of 36 postersgiven by world class X-rayprofessionals). Stephanie and Marissaare also planning on presenting aposter at the National ACS meeting inAnaheim this spring.

Dean Grier has been hard at workupgrading the single crystalinstrument to Windows NT andnetworking the instrument to the restof the lab for easier data manipulation.That process has proven considerablymore challenging than originallybilled, resulting in some unwanteddowntime. The thermal instrumentshave also been upgraded to aWindows NT environment, in thehopes that they will be more userfriendly.

Bryan Bortnem has become a proudfather for a second time. A baby girlarrived to bless their family. MaliaRae Bortnem was born on July 13,1998. Bryan has been quite busy then,in addition to spending time with hisfamily, keeping up with hiscoursework, and maintaining theinstruments in the MCL, he recentlystarted doing research for Drs. Redmerand Reynolds in the Animal Sciencesdepartment studying reproductivephysiology.

Rodgers GroupBy Dr. Kent Rodgers

The Rodgers group has seen a numberof recent changes in its membership.We welcome two new members, Ms.Tang Lei and Mr. Kevyn Smith. Tanghas joined our efforts in the study ofthe oxygen sensing protein FixL.Kevyn aims to broaden the scope ofhis analytical tools and will beparticipating in our studies of both

metalloproteins and syntheticcomplexes.

Postdocs Nikolay Gerasimchuk andAndrew Mokhir have taken new jobson opposite coasts of the US. Nick isworking in a start-up pharmaceuticalcompany called Pharmacyclics inSilicon Valley. This company makesporphyrin-like compounds asphotodynamic therapeutics. Andrewhas taken a second postdoctoralposition at Tufts University in Boston.

Dr. Tallman’sLaboratory

By Vicky Johnston-Gelling

A year has past since the last updateon the people and events in Dunbar151. It’s been an exciting and busyyear for all! We started out this fallwith a new addition to our researchgroup. Mindy Schmick, a freshmanChemistry major, joined us this fall.She hails from Brooklyn Park, MNwhere she graduated with highesthonors in 1998 from Champlin ParkHigh School. While there she was acounselor for a program thatencouraged young girls to look atscience as a career option. Wewelcome her and her love of scienceinto our laboratory family!

In addition to the new undergraduateresearcher, we also have added a fewnew instruments this past year. AGamry Instruments PC-4 potentiostatand an Applicable Electronics’scanning vibrating electrochemicaltechnique (SVET) have increased thespectrum of research that can beaccomplished in our studies oncorrosion and its inhibition.

It seems that almost every weeksomeone (usually Dr. Tallman) fromour group is traveling from coast tocoast to present our recent research.This summer Xiaofan Yang, post-doc,traveled to the “Workshop onAdvanced Metal Finishing Techniquesfor Aerospace Applications” inDenver, CO. Xiaofan presented theposter “Use of Sol-Gel ConversionCoating in Aluminum CorrosionProtection”.

Continued on page 13

Chem-News 13 March 1999

(Back Row Xiaofan Yang, Dr. Tallman, Brent Reems, Jie Hie(Front Row) Vicki Johnston-Gelling, Michelle Wiest, and Melinda Schmick.

Nicole Howe, Scott Peterson, Marissa Wisdom, Heather Nash Heather Nash discusses her research with Dr. Jared Drader

Scott Peterson Nicole Howe

Dr. Tallman’s LaboratoryContinued from page 12

Dr. Tallman has also been participating in numerousconferences this past year. Recently, he presented "Studies ofElectronically Conducting Polymers for Corrosion Inhibitionof Steel and Aluminum," with Y. Pae, G. P. Bierwagen, V.Johnston-Gelling, B. Reems and J. Hie. This seminar wasgiven at the Electroactive Polymers for Corrosion ProtectionWorkshop, Sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, onJanuary 5-6, 1999, in Washington, DC, where he was aninvited speaker. Dr. Tallman also presented a poster titled:"Scanning Vibrating Electrode Studies of ElectronicallyConducting Polymers for Corrosion Control of Steel andAluminum," with J. Hie, V. Johnston-Gelling and G. P.Bierwagen. The poster was shown at the Gordon ResearchConference on Electrochemistry, on January 17-21, 1999, inVentura CA. Also in January was a review meeting for ourAir Force URI grant. This meeting was held at Hawk's CayResort in the Florida Keys and included Professors GordonBierwagen (Polymers & Coatings), Marek Urban (Polymers &Coatings), and David Farden (Electrical Engineering). Thetitle of the presentation was “Corrosion Testing, LifetimePrediction, and Corrosion Sensor Development for CoatedAircraft Systems”. Dr. Tallman spoke on the recent resultsfrom our Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), conductingpolymer, and SVET (scanning vibrating electrode) research.

Current Undergraduate Chemistry Major McNair Scholars

Chem-News 14 March 1999

Marissa Wisdom presents her research at the McNair Scholars Celebrationheld February 23-24.

Wisdom Receives SummerFellowship

Marissa Wisdom, a junior majoring in Chemistry, has received aSummer Undergraduate Research Fellowship with Mayo Clinicin Rochester, MN. She was one of 65 students selected among1300 applicants from around the United States. She will receivea fellowship award of $4,000. Marissa is a current McNairScholar and an active member of the McCarthy Group

The Mayo Graduate School sponsors the SummerUndergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program. Theprogram provides more than just work experience in a lab.Recipients of this fellowship will have the opportunity toconduct their own small research project or work on part of anongoing research investigation for 10-12 weeks; develop theirtechnical skills; participate in a special weekly seminar seriesthat introduces them to rapidly progressing research areas; and join a summer journal club to study a topic in depth with their peers.

Marissa will begin her fellowship on June 1, 1999 and will beworking with Dr. Frank Rusnak in Molecular Biology andBiochemistry research.

David Atwood off to Kentucky – Seth Rasmussen Joins Faculty

After five years on the faculty, David Atwood left in August of 1998 to take a position as Associate Professor of Chemistry at theUniversity of Kentucky. Four of David’s post-docs joined him in the move to Lexington. David reports that the crush of setting up hisnew laboratories and the kids at home have left him little time for Wildcat basketball. He and Vicki hope to keep in touch with theirfriends in Fargo and the University. They can be contacted at datwood@mindspring.com.

David’s departure left a hole in the inorganic program that has just been filled by Dr. Seth Rasmussen, who will start his assistantprofessor appointment next August. Seth has been an Instructor and Research Associate in the Department of Chemistry at theUniversity of Oregon in Eugene. More on Seth in the next issue.

NDSU Chemistry Graduate Students Receive Two-YearFellowships

Graduate students Erik Hagestuen and Michael Remington have received North Dakota Experimental Program to StimulateCompetitive Research (EPSCOR) Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships funded through the National Science Foundation.

North Dakota EPSCoR implemented a new program in the Fall Semester 1998 designed to increase the number of Ph.D. degreesawarded in North Dakota in the sciences, engineering and mathematics, and to increase the number of proposals competitive forfunding from the National Science Foundation. These fellowships will enable students to dedicate their time exclusively todissertation research with no teaching responsibilities. The fellowship provides funds for salary, benefits, supplies and travel.

Erik Hagestuen is a fifth-year student pursuing his doctorate in Analytical Chemistry in the research group of Andres Campiglia,Assistant Professor of Chemistry. He plans to defend his thesis in May 1999. Hagestuen recently used some of the funds to attend theFederation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies conference in Austin, Texas. He presented a poster at the conferenceand won the award for best student poster.

Michael Remington is a fourth-year student earning a doctorate in Inorganic Chemistry and is a member of the Phil Boudjouk researchgroup. He plans to complete his dissertation work in May, 2000.

[Portions of this article were taken from It's Happening At State - November 4, 1998]

Chem-News 15 March 1999

Dr. Klosterman standing in front of theLibrary’s Chemical Abstracts

collection

Gayle Noraker (Library Associate), Dr. Klosterman, and Lura Joseph(Physical Sciences Librarian)

History of the NDSU H. J. Klosterman Chemistry LibraryBy Gayle Noraker, Library Associate

Dr. Harold J. Klosterman, a native North Dakotan, grew up ona farm near Wahpeton, ND. He came to NDSU in 1943 as ajunior majoring in Chemistry. He took a break from hisstudies in 1944 and 1945 but returned to complete a B. S. inChemistry in 1946. His work at NDSU and the ExperimentStation began in January of 1946. He took classes inconjunction with his employment until 1949 when hecompleted his M. S. in Chemistry.

He became interested in biochemistry at this time and duringthe summer of 1950, he went to the University of Minnesotato begin work on a Ph.D. in Biochemistry. After 5 quarters ofleave of absence to complete his course work, he returned toNDSU to do his research. The Biochemistry doctorate wascompleted in 1955. He continued to perform research atNDSU until his retirement in June of 1988.

Dr. Klosterman’smemories of achemistry library orresource center dateback to 1943 when hearrived at NDSU. Heremembers the librarybeing at the west end ofthe second floor ofLadd Hall. He recalls aroom of about 17 feetsquare which appearedto be part of theoriginal plan in the1911-1913 constructionof Ladd Hall. The outerdoor was framed withglazed glass panels.

In 1943, the chemistry resource center held only a few titles,such as, JACS, Berichte, Analytical Chemistry, Industrial andEngineering Chemistry, and some coatings journals. DeanDunbar paid for personal subscriptions that were shared in theresource center. It was not clear whether Dunbar wasreimbursed by the University or not. Dunbar was alsoresponsible for gradually adding older issues to titles to givecomplete runs of some titles. Berichte was mentionedspecifically, as Dr. Klosterman remembers having readingsassignments in Berichte for his Scientific German class duringhis undergraduate studies.

He said Chemical Abstracts was purchased by several peopleat this time as a personal subscription for a nominal fee ofmaybe $100 per year. This is a definite contrast to the$17,820.00 being paid for the 1998 subscription. Dr.Klosterman also said that at one time there were 3 CAsubscriptions on campus. At some point the decision wasmade to keep only the copy in the chemistry library.

Time passed and the library collection expanded into the twooffices in Ladd 203 during the 1950s. Dr. Klostermanrecollects Dean Dunbar’s office and that of his secretary ashaving oak paneling, nice windows and maple flooring. Whenthe offices were full, a "bumpout" room was added in thecorridor in the late 1950s or early 1960s.

That space was about full when Dunbar Hall was completed in1964 and the Chemistry Library as well as the Deans officewere moved to Dunbar Hall. Dean Sugihara’s office was inDunbar 150 and his secretary administered the ChemistryLibrary in Dunbar 152 through a set of glazed-glass panels.

The collection continued to grow until in 1968 or 1969, whenwooden shelves were added in Dunbar 154 and some completetitles of journals were moved. Dunbar 154 was used as aconference room at this time, as it is today. So the collectionwas inaccessible at certain times. Dr. Klosterman estimatesthe first cutting of journal subscriptions came in the 1970s.

Dr. Klosterman was the head of the building committee untilabout 1982. He recalls writing grants when grants were not aspopular as they are now. In 1961 he was instrumental inwriting a grant applying for matching funds for theconstruction of Dunbar Hall. That grant allowed the additionof the 3rd floor, which was occupied by the BiochemistryDepartment until 1990-91. Dr. Klosterman served as thechairman of the Biochemistry Department for 32 years.

About 1978-80, the lecture hall in Ladd 209 was convertedinto the library as we know it today. The chemistry librarybecame The H. J. Klosterman Chemistry Library in June of1988 when Dr. H. J. Klosterman retired after 42 years ofresearch, teaching and administration at NDSU

Both Dr. James Rudesill, NDSU chemist from 1957-1989, andDr. Melvin Morris, NDSU chemist from 1963-1995,concurred with Dr. Klosterman’s memories of thedevelopment of the chemistry branch of the NDSU Libraries.

The Department of Chemistry at NDSU has initiated an endowment fund for Chemistry Graduate Student Fellowships. The initialgoal is to raise $1 million. This will provide interest income which will be directly applied to supporting graduate students in our MSand PhD programs. Gifts are tax deductible and may be sent directly to the NDSU Development Foundation.

If You Would Like To Contribute . . .

North Dakota State UniversityDepartment of ChemistryP.O. Box 5516104 Ladd HallFargo, ND 58105-5516

Make your check payable to "NDSU DevelopmentFoundation" and send it to P.O. Box 5144, Fargo,ND 58105-5144. Please be sure to designate yourgift to the "Chemisty Graduate Student FellowshipFund"

You may make a gift with a credit card by calling1-800-279-8971 or 1-701-271-0296.

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