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CatalystFall 2010/Winter 2011 Volume 5 • Issue 2

COLLEGE OF CHEMISTRY • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

John Arnold and the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry Doug Clark on Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering The Department of Chemistry welcomes Naomi Ginsberg

This ain’t no fooling around

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The cover image shows chem-

istry professor and Nobel

Laureate Y. T. Lee, circa 1980,

in the foreground. In the yel-

low shirt is graduate student

Daniel Neumark, now the

chair of the chemistry depart-

ment. Also shown in the photo are Alec Wodtke

(left), the director of the Max Planck Institute for

Biophysical Chemistry, and Gary Robinson (rear),

the founder and chief business officer for Celek

Pharmaceuticals.

Recently, a barely legible photocopy of this photo was

discovered in the Neumark lab. Pursuing a hunch,

the Catalyst editor sent the image to LBNL photog-

rapher Roy Kaltschmidt. He searched through the

lab’s photo archives and found the original negative.

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4 CHEMISTRY NEWS

5 CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR

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6 FACULTY PROFILE

10 What’s in a name?

18 NEW & NOTABLE

20 NEW FACULTY PROFILE

22 CLASS NOTES

24 IN MEMORIAM

28 DONOR PROFILE

29 ANNUAL REPORT

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College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley

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d e a n ’ s d e s k

As the fall semester comes to a close, I am

happy to report on another successful year

in the College of Chemistry. Most notably,

the high placement of our two departments

in the recent National Research Council

national rankings of graduate programs

was a tremendous endorsement of our

research excellence. Well done, Chemistry

and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering!

We have also continued to make significant

progress on our renewal of the undergradu-

ate teaching laboratories and infrastructure.

Over the summer, our excellent facilities

and shops personnel performed a major

overhaul of one of our Chem 4 labs in

Latimer Hall—the bright, clean, and effi-

cient space is already being used to full

capacity by our undergraduate majors.

Thanks to our many generous donors,

especially alumni, we now have resources

to initiate this next important phase of the

lab renewal project.

In other news, the Berkeley Center for

Green Chemistry has now been officially

launched. Under the auspices of the

Berkeley Institute for the Environment,

and directed by chemistry professor John

Arnold, the center focuses on an interdis-

ciplinary approach to sustainable chemical

practices, together with the School of Public

Health, the College of Natural Resources,

and the Haas School of Business. Our

emphasis is on multidisciplinary research

and instruction at the undergraduate and

graduate levels in the principles and prac-

tice of green chemistry and chemical

sustainability. (For more information about

the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry,

please see p. 9.)

Sustaining excellence

RICHARD A. MATHIESDean and Gilbert N. Lewis Professor

I am also delighted to announce that we

have hired three outstanding new assis-

tant professors in the college—physical

chemists Tanja Cuk and Naomi Ginsberg,

whose labs are in Hildebrand Hall, and

biochemist David Savage, who has a joint

appointment with the Department of

Molecular and Cell Biology. These newly

hired faculty members represent the

college’s commitment to maintaining the

strongest physical chemistry program in

the world, as well as encouraging the inter-

disciplinary fields of biochemistry and

chemical biology.

I want to recognize faculty members Judith

Klinman, Sung-Hou Kim and William

Lester, who retired this year, but will con-

tinue their research and instructional

activities in the college as professors of the

graduate school.

I wish you all the best in 2011, and I hope

you will stay connected with and support

our great College of Chemistry in the

coming year.

The labs in Lewis Hall glow at dusk on a summer night. In the background is Stanley Hall.

As the new chair of the Department of

Chemistry, the first question that I have

to answer (for myself, my family and my

colleagues) is why am I doing this?

In my case, I feel a deep loyalty and sense

of obligation to the department in which

I have spent almost my entire adult life,

starting from 1978 when I was a Ph.D.

student with Yuan Lee and continuing in

1986 when I joined the faculty as an assis-

tant professor. The Berkeley chemistry

department is a unique and special place,

and as chair, it’s my job to keep it that way.

How special is our department? In the

recent National Research Council rankings,

we are the top-ranked chemistry department

in the “R” ranking scheme by a comfortable

margin and ranked third in the “S” ranking

scheme (which takes no account of the fact

that we grant more doctoral degrees than

any department in the country).

This high ranking is gratifying, to say the

least, especially in light of the bad press

that California and its university system

have been receiving in recent years, and

it reflects the efforts of previous chairs to

recruit the world’s best faculty and to retain

them in the face of lucrative offers from

our competitors. Our ranking also reflects

our close ties with Lawrence Berkeley

National Laboratory, with which we have

a highly mutually beneficial relationship.

How do we insure that we remain in this

lofty position? The demographics of our

department reveal considerable challenges

and opportunities in the coming years. If

we look at the age distribution of our fac-

ulty in 10-year intervals, the largest group

(36 percent) is in the 60+ age range. This

group includes many colleagues who are

considered the core of the department.

As our most senior colleagues retire, we will

need to engage in aggressive recruiting at

both the junior and senior levels to maintain

our quality. Mike Marletta made significant

progress toward this goal, particularly in

his last year as chair, when he hired three

junior faculty: Naomi Ginsberg, Tanja Cuk,

and David Savage. I plan to continue in this

vein. We currently have a junior search under

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DANIEL M. NEUMARKChair, Department of Chemistry, Joel B. Hildebrand Distinguished Professor

way as well as a senior recruiting effort, and

I hope to be able to hire at least two new

faculty members per year during my tenure.

A second challenge we face as a depart-

ment is space and facilities. When I visit

other chemistry departments in the U.S.,

I am struck by how many of them are in

new buildings with top-notch laboratory

and office space. Our facilities are clearly

showing their age, and to be competitive in

faculty recruiting and retention, we need to

undertake systematic renovations of exist-

ing space and formulate a coherent plan for

new space. I look forward to working with

Dean Mathies to push ahead on this front.

To all who ask, I am very much aware of

the challenges ahead, but I am enjoying my

new job and I look forward to the opportu-

nities that lie ahead.

by daniel m. neumark

Berkeley’s chemistry department retains its top position in the “R” ranking of the National Research Council. This ranking places higher weight on the size of the doctoral program than the alternative “S” ranking.

Having fun, meeting challenges: Keeping Berkeley chemistry the best

R ranking low R ranking high

University of California-Berkeley 1 2

Harvard University 2 8

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2 8

California Institute of Technology 2 9

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3 13

Stanford University 4 14

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 4 14

Northwestern University 2 17

Penn State University 4 17

Yale University 6 24

nrc graduate chemistry rankings

Note: Rankings are estimated to fall within the range determined by the low

to high estimates.

Source: National Research Council

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JEFFREY A. REIMERChair, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Warren and Katharine Schlinger Distinguished Professor

The academic world is abuzz this season

because the National Research Council

(NRC) has released its new findings on the

quality of doctoral programs in the United

States.

Previous NRC findings, published first in

the 1980s, then again in the 1990s, were

largely based upon survey data. For its lat-

est rankings, the NRC has rolled out a new

methodology, a decade in the making, that

represents the first attempt by the NRC to

use institutional, bibliographic, and sur-

vey data along with sophisticated statistical

analyses. The Berkeley campus continues

to do well in these NRC rankings, as does

our Department of Chemical and Biomo-

lecular Engineering (CBE).

What is striking to me, however, is that the

NRC rankings do not provide a numerical

metric or score for the quality of the doc-

toral students. There appears to be a tacit

assumption in the academic community

that student quality is tied to faculty quality.

Institutional quality then follows from fac-

ulty performance metrics, with no need to

acknowledge student quality.

It is not clear to me that this connection

is necessarily so, and indeed I can think

of several examples where student quality

either lags or leads faculty quality by a

significant margin. What helps sustain

Berkeley’s greatness is not contained in the

NRC categories, but should be: our superb

graduate students. This sentiment is captured

succinctly by the now-famous quote from

Nobel Laureate Y.T. Lee, “I came to Berkeley

in 1962 to pursue my graduate studies

because Berkeley had the best professors in

the world. I returned in 1974 as a professor

because we have the best students.”

When I was an associate dean in the Grad-

uate Division from 2000–05, I had the

privilege of engaging one cohort of Berkeley’s

Fulbright scholars, doctoral students who

had studied throughout the world as a result

of this highly competitive fellowship. I heard

inspiring work about such diverse topics as

gender in Javanese dance and the archeol-

ogy of African masks. These and a panoply

of other topics were brought to life by the

Fulbright emerging scholars, with compel-

ling analyses that connected their research

to societal issues of our modern world.

I now serve on an Academic Senate com-

mittee that provides outstanding teaching

awards for campus GSIs. These inspired

instructors have developed new labs,

designed field research, implemented mul-

timedia programs and illustrated principles

with insightful physical and mathematical

models.

CBE enjoys no less of an overabundance

of extraordinary emerging scholars. For

example, our applicant-to-admit ratio is

about ten-to-one, and one-third of our

incoming students have extramural

fellowships. A reading of the résumés of

admitted students reveals award-winning

poets, musicians and community service

volunteers, in addition to high academic

achievement.

CBE student excellence is also manifest

in their professional outcomes. Not only

do our graduates excel in their pursuit of

competitive faculty positions, they also

consistently work their way into leading

industrial positions, including chief techni-

cal officers, vice-presidents and founders of

hugely successful companies.

Berkeley’s NRC rankings, as well as those

of CBE, are certainly well-earned, but the

quality and achievements of our students

are perhaps better metrics of excellence in

research, teaching and public service.

by jeffrey a. reimer

On program rankings and having the best students

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering graduate student Katie Pfeiffer (right) demonstrates how to use an incubator as a GSI for the undergraduate Biochemical Engineering course. Pfeiffer was one of seven GSIs to win a teaching award in the department this year.


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Chemistry’s man for all seasons

At UC San Diego in 1982, a young chemistry

graduate student walked into his first class-

room as a teaching assistant. Just a few

weeks from the day he had arrived from

Manchester, England, he began to address

his students in his native Mancunian

accent. The awkward silence in the class-

room made him quickly realize that they

could not understand what he was saying.

It was the beginning of one of many adven-

tures for Berkeley professor and synthetic

chemist John Arnold, who has traveled far

from his working-class roots in the north of

England, yet maintains the down-to-earth,

no-fuss manner of a man who was support-

ing himself by age 16.

Born in 1959 in Chorley, now a suburb of

Manchester, Arnold moved with his family

at age 10 to Lancaster, about 40 miles to

the north. He left Bentham Grammar

School at 16, and instead of staying on for

his A levels (roughly the equivalent of the

junior and senior years of U.S. high school,

followed by the SATs), he started work in a

factory and enrolled in technical school.

“In 1975,” says Arnold, “I made 23 quid a

week, gave five to Mum for food, and taxes

took another five. I lived on the remainder.

Four days a week I worked at the Storey

Brother’s plastics factory in Lancaster. I

spent one full day, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and

one evening after work at the local techni-

cal school, the Lancaster and Morecambe

College of Further Education. My brother

studied there to be a mechanic, and my

sister to be a hairdresser.”

Storey Brothers and Co. had flourished

during the Victorian era as a cotton mill

that produced sailcloth and other fabrics.

By the time Arnold began working for the

company in 1975, it was making PVC plas-

tic sheeting for shelving material, notebook

covers and automobile seats. The factory

closed its doors in 1982.

“The old Storey Brothers factory was an

amazing place,” recalls Arnold, “a hot,

smelly, old-fashioned mill staffed by a cast

of characters right out of a British sitcom.

We measured our chemicals by the bucket.

I was responsible for running a small PVC

mill to determine the right amount of

pigments to use to match the color samples

provided by customers. It was not an exact

science, and to the chagrin of the managers,

sometimes I didn’t get it quite right.”

What Arnold did get right was his school-

work. He earned the highest marks in his

classes at tech school and was accepted

to the University of Salford in greater

Manchester. “But I couldn’t afford it on

my own,” says Arnold.

(above) This molecule was made by Joe Schmidt (now a chemistry professor at the University of Toledo, OH) when he was a grad student in the Arnold lab. It is an example of an unusual com-plex with an alkylidene ligand coordinated to both lithium and tantalum.

(left) Chemistry professor John Arnold with some tools of the trade—molecular models, a copy of the scientific journal Dalton Transactions (for which he is the Editor for the Americas), and a jar of beads of uranium glass, yellow-green glass that has been used since Roman times for decorative glassware.

J O H N A R N O L D A N D

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Instead, Arnold continued working at Storey

Brothers and attended tech school to earn

what was called the Higher National Certifi-

cate (similar to a two-year AA degree in the

United States). After two years, certificate

in hand, he took advantage of an arrange-

ment between Salford and Storey Brothers

that allowed him to earn his undergraduate

degree in applied chemistry in three more

years. “For two years I worked full-time at

the factory for half the year and attended

the University of Salford for the other half.

During the final year I attended Salford

fulltime and graduated at age 23.”

Living in Manchester, Arnold was able to

indulge his love of what Americans call

soccer, but for the rest of the world is foot-

ball. He lived just across the River Irwell

from the Cliff Ground, the training field for

the Manchester United football club. From

there he could jump on a bus to United’s

Old Trafford stadium.

“For five quid you could get a ticket for one

of the paddocks,” says Arnold, “which back

then didn’t have seats. You had to stand. It

was fantastic, walking up to Old Trafford

for a night game with thousands of fans,

seeing the bright green pitch under the

lights.” Manchester remains one the

meccas of football. Today the redesigned

Old Trafford seats 76,000 spectators.

In his final year at Salford, Arnold worked

in the campus’s radiochemistry lab, the

“hot block.” There he began working with

ruthenium 106, an interesting but unwanted

byproduct of nuclear materials reprocessing.

“As an undergraduate,” says Arnold, “I

worked on making radioactive ruthenium

tetraoxide, which is a highly volatile oxi-

dizing agent. Today there is no way that a

student would be allowed to work on such

a dangerous chemical.”

But he survived the experience and learned

something valuable in the process—he

didn’t want to return to industry. He wanted

to stay in academia and continue to work

on transition metal chemistry.

In 1986 Arnold completed his dissertation,

“Synthesis, structure, and reactivity of silyl

derivatives of tantalum and niobium.”

He landed a postdoc at Imperial College

in London with Geoffrey Wilkinson, who

had won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in

1973. Wilkinson had ties to UC Berkeley,

including his postdoc with Glenn Seaborg

from 1946–50. Wilkinson had also been

the postdoc advisor for Berkeley chemistry

professor Richard Andersen from 1974–76.

Arnold was accompanied by his girlfriend

Jenny, whom he had met at UC San Diego

in 1983. She had transferred to Berkeley

in 1984 and then began studying for her

Masters degree in art history at the University

of London. The two were married in San

Francisco in 1998 and now have two

children, Emily and William.

“Imperial College was in ‘South Ken,’ a

great London neighborhood,” says Arnold.

“For the first year we lived nearby in Chelsea,

in a basement flat on Oakley Street near

the Thames, then in a small house around

the corner for the second year.”

South Kensington was a far cry from the cities

and towns of the industrial north. Home of

many of London’s great museums and book-

shops, South Kensington was charming yet

just affordable on an Imperial College

salary, although since then it has become

a favorite of wealthy foreign expatriates.

For Arnold, one downside of the neigh-

borhood was its proximity to the stadium

of the Chelsea football club, a perennial

rival to his hometown team, Manchester

United. “There was a series of games in the

late ’60s when Chelsea beat United home

and away, none of which endeared me to

them,” he recalls.

Meanwhile, the chemistry research with

Wilkinson was going well. Arnold says of

his mentor, “He had this enormous enthu-

siasm for chemistry, and he gave me lots of

freedom. Total blue-sky research. He was a

Yorkshireman, very straightforward, and I

let him know on the first day that my goal

What came next was pure serendipity. As

Arnold tells it, “Salford had sent a student

off to graduate school at UC San Diego,

and he had been a success. A faculty mem-

ber at Salford got a letter from San Diego

saying, ‘Send us another one.’ When they

asked me if I wanted to go I said, ‘Sure!’

Then I immediately went to the library for

an atlas to find out where San Diego was.”

Arnold spent several weeks over the summer

waiting tables and washing dishes at the

motorway services near Burton-in-Kendall

on the M6, and, as the fall rolled around,

bought himself two suitcases and a one-way

ticket to the United States. He boarded a

train to London’s Gatwick airport, and from

there a DC-10 flew him to New York. It was

only the second time he had ever been on

an airplane.

In San Diego Arnold rented a room in a

converted garage and fell in love with the

town and its balmy weather. Although he

wanted to do transition metal chemistry,

his struggles to find an advisor weren’t

solved until the arrival in the fall of 1983

of a new assistant professor, Don Tilley.

Tilley had earned his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley

with Richard Andersen and had just

returned from a postdoc at ETH Zurich.

Arnold was Tilley’s first graduate student,

and together they set about building a lab.

“It was a lot of hands-on work,” Arnold

recalls. “Don was super bright and had

good ideas. We worked in the lab day and

night. By the third year I got the hang of it,

and we produced lots of papers.”

Tilley returned to Berkeley in 1994 as a

chemistry professor. Says Tilley of those

early years in San Diego, “John was great

to have as a first student—his training in

technical chemistry and his experience

in industry were quite valuable as we were

setting up the new labs. He was very

enthusiastic about inorganic synthesis and

exploring new systems. He also played an

important role in training newer students

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was to return to the U.S. after working with

him. He accepted that.

“Even though I landed a Royal Society fel-

lowship in 1988 and could have stayed on

at Imperial, I had already begun looking for

jobs in the U.S. I got some nice offers and

began at Berkeley in the summer of 1989.

I started in 204A Lewis, which has been a

lucky lab for its researchers, and with the

help of glassblower Tom Lawhead I was up

and running and making stuff my second

week here.”

Arnold has been making stuff ever since.

The focus of his earlier work in the ’90s

was on organometallic chemistry and

catalysis—focusing on understanding

the fundamental chemical principals that

formed the basis for catalytic processes

in general.

The Arnold lab’s recent work has expanded

into areas relating to energy and the envi-

ronment. They are working on developing

new fuel cell catalysts, are investigating

new reactivity with early transition metals

and actinides, and are attempting to use

nitrous oxide (N2O) in clean, catalytic

reactions.

Since 2000, Arnold has been the Associate

Editor for the Americas for Dalton Trans-actions, the Royal Society of Chemistry’s

flagship journal of inorganic chemistry.

“It’s been my honor to serve in this posi-

tion and to watch the journal grow in size

and stature,” says Arnold. “This job has

taught me a lot about how publishing

works, and it’s been interesting to be in on

the transformation from paper to electronic

publishing.”

Arnold has exhibited a deft touch not only

for journal editing and synthetic chemistry,

but for working with students as well. He

won departmental teaching awards in 1994

and 2007. It is through listening to his

students that Arnold became involved in

the efforts on campus to develop more

sustainable, “green” chemistry practices.

As the first director of the new Berkeley

Center for Green Chemistry, he is quick

to acknowledge his students. “The origin

of the center is not the result of top-down

decisions, but the bottom-up interest of our

students,” says Arnold. “Marty Mulvihill,

who was a joint student with Peidong Yang

and myself, was a major force through his

work in establishing the green chemistry

graduate seminar course, and Dean Rich

Mathies deserves a lot of credit for helping

to make the center happen.”

For Arnold, green chemistry is a philoso-

phy not so much about what to make, but

how to do it. He explains, “It’s about doing

chemistry properly from start to finish, from

using renewable inputs, to combining them

in ways that use less energy and produce

less toxic waste, to creating a product with

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A complex made by Stefan Minasian when he was a member of the Arnold group. He is now a postdoc with a joint position at Lawrence Berkeley and Los Alamos National Laboratories. It was the first example of an actinide metal bound to a group 13 element.

Arnold (third from left) in the quantitative inorganic lab class at Lancaster and Morecambe College of Further Education in 1977.

Arnold (fourth from left) at age 16 in 1975 in the factory at Storey Brothers in Manchester, England. The group is standing by a two-roll mill that they used to prepare pigment and stabilizer compounds as additives to PVC.

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a long life that can be recycled or biode-

graded naturally.”

For now the new green chemistry center is

attempting to pull itself up by its own boot-

straps. Says Arnold, “The big government

funding agencies and private foundations

often have in mind specific projects with

specific goals. They are less likely to part

with their money to fund general operating

expenses of a new center.” The center has

received start-up funding from a generous

private donor and a large grant from the

California Environmental Protection Agency.

So once again John Arnold finds himself

launched on a new adventure, although

one on a familiar trajectory, and one that

a scrappy kid from the north of England

could understand—leaving behind gritty

and dangerous chemical practices, striv-

ing to find the scientific principles to make

new stuff in new ways, and

struggling to cobble together

the funding to do so.

And at the end of a busy week,

after the courses have been

taught, the graduate students

advised, the journal articles

reviewed, the next phase of

the green chemistry center

planned, after he has shuttled

his own kids back and forth to

soccer practice, perhaps there

will be a chance to turn on the

telly, survey the bright green of

the football pitch at Old Traf-

ford, and catch up with the Red

Devils of Manchester United.

The Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry is a center under the Berkeley Institute of the Environment, and is the nation’s

first major academic program to advance green chemistry through interdis-

ciplinary scholarship. It consists of faculty, researchers, and students in the

College of Chemistry, School of Public Health, College of Engineering, College

of Natural Resources, Haas School of Business and Berkeley Law.

Every day, the U.S. produces or imports 74 billion pounds of chemical sub-

stances for use in products and industrial processes. These substances

ultimately enter Earth’s environment, and hundreds of chemicals are routinely

detected in people and ecosystems worldwide. While synthetic chemicals have

delivered critical advances in medicine and technology, many of these sub-

stances are known to be hazardous. Green chemistry can ensure that the next

generation of chemicals provides for society’s needs while also safeguarding

ecosystem integrity and human health.

Green Chemistry requires fundamentally new ways of thinking about chemical

design, health and environmental risk, as well as the public policies and eco-

nomic drivers of change. The BCGC is designing new curriculum, supporting

technological innovation, and engaging the public discourse to create the

knowledge, technologies and policies necessary for a sustainable future. The

center is committed to advancing safer chemistry by partnering with chemical

producers and users throughout the supply chain, government agencies and

non-profit organizations.

director

Prof. John ArnoldCollege of Chemistry

integrative sciences and

systems studies

Dr. Michael P. WilsonCenter for Occupational and

Environmental Health School of Public Health

business & economics

Prof. Chris RosenHaas School of Business

new chemistries

Prof. Robert BergmanCollege of Chemistry

health & environment

Dr. Megan SchwarzmanCenter for Occupational and

Environmental Health School of Public Health

policy & law

Prof. Alastair IlesSociety & Environment

College of Natural Resources

education & outreach

Dr. Martin MulvihillSchool of Public Health

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College undergrads Casey Finnerty, Ashley Scott and Amanda Polley work with BCGC’s Marty Mulvihill on new green chemistry lab modules for undergrad chemistry courses.

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or some people, the city of Pittsburgh still evokes a tough indus-

trial town that named its National Football League team after the

main occupation of its workforce—making steel. Douglas Clark,

chemical and biomolecular engineering professor, was born and raised

in the town of New Kensington, PA, 20 miles up the Allegheny River

from Pittsburgh.

During his life Clark has witnessed the transformation of Pittsburgh

from a blue-collar steel town to a city with a diverse economy based

on health care and technology. “Oddly enough,” he says, “in some

ways Pittsburgh isn’t so different from San Francisco—it’s a city

known for its bridges, with a distinctive skyline and a spectacular

geographic setting. And the coffee is getting better, too.”

Just as he has watched Pittsburgh’s transformation, Clark has wit-

nessed a revolution in chemical engineering—from a field focused

on the petrochemical industry to one that is being transformed

by biology. Here at Berkeley, that change has ultimately resulted

in a new name for the chemical engineering department, the

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

Clark has not merely been a witness to this transformation, he

has been an active participant in it since his days as a graduate

student at Caltech in the early 1980s. In the 24 years that Clark

has worked at Berkeley, his research interests have spanned a

breadth of topics that provide a good sample of how the field

of chemical engineering has changed. Says Clark, “Looking

back over the changes of the last two decades, I think it is

important to acknowledge this transformation by updating

the department’s name.”

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by michael barnes

What’s in a name?Douglas Clark on

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Clark graduated from high school in New Kensington in 1975

and headed to the University of Vermont—not on the strength of its

chemistry program, but on the strength of its hockey team. “It turns

out I was not destined to be a hockey star,” says Clark, “but I did

discover chemistry along the way.”

In a strange twist of fate, while at UVM Clark took a course on

military history from a professor named Elmer Gaden. Although

Clark did not know it at the time, Gaden was a pioneering biochemical

engineer who had worked at Pfizer on penicillin production and

had established the biochemical engineering program at Columbia

University in New York City.

In 1959, Gaden had become the first editor of the research journal

Biotechnology and Bioengineering. Clark would take over as the journal’s

editor in 1996, a position he still holds. (Clark interviewed Gaden

in 2009, and the video is available on Youtube: www.youtube.com,

search for “Elmer Gaden.”)

During two of his undergrad summers, Clark returned to

Pennsylvania to work at the University of Pittsburgh, where he

performed research in the lab of synthetic organic chemist Paul

Grieco. “That was excellent training, and closer to the mark than

professional hockey, but synthetic organic chemistry wasn’t exactly

my calling, either,” he says. He graduated with a B.S. in chemistry

from UVM in 1979 and began to look for grad schools.

Clark visited the major programs—chemistry at Harvard and

Berkeley, and chemical engineering at Caltech and Stanford. Clark’s

father was an engineer, and Clark liked the broad perspective of

engineering, with its emphasis on problem-solving skills and the

production of useful products. But the transition from chemistry to

chemical engineering would turn out to be tough.

“I was having a hard time making up my mind,” says Clark.

“What tipped the balance for me was a Time magazine article from

November 1978, that portrayed Caltech as a dynamic and exciting

place, which certainly proved to be true. But the magazine didn’t say

anything about the hard work.”

Caltech admitted Clark into its chemical engineering program in

the fall of 1979. The department was impressed with Clark’s under-

graduate work and his research experience. He was the first student

admitted to the chemical engineering graduate program without a

ChemE undergrad degree.

“At Caltech,” says Clark, “the preliminary exams came at the end

of the first year, so that gave me about nine months to get caught up.

There were times during that year when I would take a graduate level

course and then take the undergrad prerequisite afterwards, which

made for an interesting learning experience.”

Clark’s hard work paid off at the end of his first year with the

arrival of James (Jay) Bailey, whom Caltech had lured away from

The late Caltech biomolecular engineer Jay Bailey (left) and Berkeley biomolecular engineer Doug Clark, Bailey’s first graduate student at Caltech. Between them is sample of Bailey’s notes on Clark’s research.

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the University of Houston. “Jay Bailey,” says Clark, “was one of the

first chemical engineers to understand how important biology would

become.” In 1977, Bailey had completed Biochemical Engineering Fundamentals, the first biochemical engineering textbook in the

emerging field.

When the idea of working with Bailey

was suggested, Clark introduced himself

to Bailey by phone, and Bailey responded

by sending him a six-page handwritten

letter. “For some reason,” says Clark wryly,

“the Caltech faculty thought my undergrad

chemistry background might have included

biochemistry, and that would make me

a better candidate for working in the bio-

logical realm. They were wrong about the

background but in retrospect, I am grateful for the opportunity.”

Bailey accepted the arrangement sight unseen, and when he

arrived at Caltech in the spring of 1980, Clark became his first Caltech

graduate student. Says Clark, “It was a good match, and I’ll always

be grateful for the time I got to spend working with him. He was a

real innovator, and it was a shock to many of us when he died—far

too young—from cancer in 2001.”

Clark wrote his dissertation with Bailey on immobilized enzymes.

“Enzymes are nature’s catalysts,” he says. “Not all enzymes circulate

freely in fluids like blood or cell cytoplasm. Many enzymes are bound

to cell membranes, and these immobilized enzymes act in a manner

similar to heterogeneous catalysts.”

In the early 1980s, biochemical engineers were members of a

small and tight-knit group. Through Bailey, Clark first met Berkeley

chemical engineering graduate student Frances Arnold and her

dissertation advisor, Berkeley chemical engineering professor Harvey

Blanch. (Arnold later became a Caltech chemical engineering profes-

sor and married Bailey).

Clark completed his Ph.D. in 1983 and took a position as an

assistant professor at Cornell University that fall. “Back then,” says

Clark, “it was less common for chemical engineers to do postdocs after

grad school, so I went straight to Cornell. It was an excellent depart-

ment, and I made some good friends for life during my time there.

The winters were a little long, but pretty mild by Vermont standards.”

His academic career successfully launched, Clark once again

encountered Harvey Blanch, at a conference in Denmark in 1985. Over

dinner, Clark discussed his research at Cornell. Impressed, Blanch

invited Clark to give a seminar at Berkeley in February 1986. The

Berkeley chemical engineering department shared Blanch’s enthu-

siasm, and Clark was offered a job by the end of the visit.

“It was a tough decision,” says Clark. “Cornell had been good to

me, and I was happy there, but the Berkeley offer was just too tempting.”

Clark officially started in July, 1986, at the same time Charles Wilke,

Berkeley’s biochemical engineering pioneer, retired.

Clark’s research group has continued to work in the area of his

dissertation research, immobilized enzymes, but has also branched

out into broader research on enzymes, the identification of new ones,

and innovative uses of them in industrial and biomedical settings.

Clark recalls the event that first got him interested in what would

prove to be a fruitful area of research—enzymes and proteins found in

extremophiles, single-celled life forms that have adapted to extremes

of temperature and pressure. His curiosity was sparked by a paper in

the scientific journal Nature that generated a huge amount of interest,

but later sparked an equal amount of controversy.

In the 1983 paper, researchers claimed that they had isolated

an organism that survived temperatures as high as 250°C. Says

Clark, “At that time we knew that life existed in environments like

Yellowstone’s Old Faithful geyser and other hot springs. And we were

discovering life forms around underwater volcanic vents with chemi-

cally rich, but super-hot conditions. We knew that life could survive

up to around the boiling point of water, but this paper was a paradigm

shift. How could enzymes and proteins exist and function at these

temperatures? Researchers began to think about life in new ways.”

As it turns out, the results of the article were never reproduced,

and the paper remains a source of controversy. “For now,” says Clark,

“the record for high-temperature life remains about 120°C. But in a

broader sense the Nature paper was significant in that it made people

realize that life can exist in environments that we previously didn’t

think possible—deep underground in solid rock, and thousands of

feet below the ocean surface near ‘black smoker’ volcanic vents. Life

has adapted to extremes of hot and cold and pressure ranges that

are astonishing.”

The chemistry used by extremophiles in those circumstances

has proven to be very useful. The most famous and widespread com-

mercial application is the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a Nobel

Prize-winning technique that amplifies minute quantifies of DNA

so that it can be studied. Says Clark, “PCR typically employs Taq

polymerase from the thermophilic bacterium Thermus aquaticus. The

high thermostability of Taq polymerase allows it to generate a new

“ Looking back over the changes of the last two decades, I think it is important to acknowledge this transformation by updating the department’s name.”


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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT CBE NAME CHANGE

When did the name change become official?

The Department of Chemical Engineering at the

University of California, Berkeley was renamed the

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,

effective July 1, 2010.

Why did the department change its name?

The new name recognizes the department’s substantial

research and teaching activities in the areas of biochem-

ical and biomedical engineering, biotechnology, and

synthetic biology. In changing the name, the depart-

ment wants to signal to applicants, and to the general

public, that the department is the nexus for research

and teaching in the industrial applications of biology.

Will the degree name change?

The names of the undergraduate and graduate degrees

issued by the department, and their requirements, will

remain unchanged.

What’s the difference between biochemical and biomo-

lecular engineering?

Biochemical techniques have been used by chemical

engineers for decades. They were were critical for the

mass production of penicillin in World War II, the devel-

opment of other antibiotics and pharmaceuticals, and

the application of enzyme-based chemical processes.

Biomolecular engineering builds on these successes

with the new techniques based on the biotechnology

revolution of the 1980s. Many of the engineers who

helped create this revolution received their formative

education in Berkeley’s Department of Chemical

Engineering.

What sort of biomolecular research takes place in the

department?

Over the last several years, faculty research in the

department has spawned a variety of biologically-related

technologies, including new ways to synthesize biofuels

and anti-malarial drugs, stem cell techniques for fighting

neuro-degenerative diseases, microarrays of human

enzymes that mimic the functions of the liver and

replace animal testing, methods for producing hybrid-

omas and monoclonal antibody therapeutics, and

enzyme and surface science developments that have led

to practical products such as better laundry detergent

and safer contact lenses.

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copy of a DNA sequence following thermal melting of the original

DNA fragment. The high operating temperature is what enables the

whole process to work.”

Enzymes from extremophiles have important industrial appli-

cations, too. High temperatures and high pressures make some

processes run faster and more efficiently. The enzymes are more

robust and don’t break down as quickly during these processes, and

running at high temperatures can eliminate bacterial contamination.

“So there is tremendous interest in these extremophiles,” Clark

explains, “for the sorts of practical process innovations that chemical

engineers have always explored. But there is a fascinating side story

as well to extremophiles—exobiology. Some extremophiles on earth

grow in harsh conditions that may mimic the environments of other

planets. From extremophiles we might learn more about the origins

of life itself in the universe.”

The Clark research group is also using its expertise to help speed

the testing of drug candidates and reduce the need for animal testing.

In 2008, pharmaceutical companies in the United States spent over

$40 billion on research and development that resulted in fewer than

20 new drug approvals. Explains Clark, “Drug companies often invest

too much in pursuing a drug candidate before toxicology tests put

a halt to development. Although it seems counter-intuitive, when it

comes to screening potential new drugs, the mantra is to ‘fail early

and fail often’ to eliminate the expense of going down blind alleys.”

The human body, primarily the liver, contains a variety of

enzymes that are involved in the metabolism of the chemicals found

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in pharmaceuticals. The most important class of these metabolic

enzymes is the cytochromes P450, which are directly involved in the

initial clearance of drugs from the body.

For example, the conversion of the antihistamine loratadine

(Claritin) by P450 enzymes is required for its biological activity. Often,

however, drug metabolism can lead to undesirable biological conse-

quences. Notes Clark, “A well-known example of a toxic metabolic

response is the P450-catalyzed oxidation of the common analgesic

acetaminophen (Tylenol) to a compound which can cause liver failure.”

To help screen drug candidates and other compounds for toxicity,

Clark and his collaborators, including Jonathan Dordick of Rensselaer

Polytechnic Institute (RPI), have devised a testing process that involves

two different but complementary microarrays. The first component

is a microarray that contains human P450 isoforms. Thousands of

P450 enzyme samples are arranged in a precise grid pattern on a

single small glass slide. This array is used to generate biologically

active metabolites of the compound to be tested.

The second component consists of minute dots of human tissue

cells arranged in a complementary pattern on another slide. A solu-

tion of test compound is applied to the P450 slide, and then the two

slides are precisely aligned and sandwiched together. As the P450

enzymes react with the test compound, metabolites are produced that

may or may not kill the human tissue cells that they contact. Once

the metabolites have been produced and the cells have interacted

with them, the cell tissue slide is removed and the cells are stained to

determine the percentage of dead cells by using a microarray scanner.

In addition to helping to identify toxic side effects of pharma-

ceutical compounds, this testing procedure can also help screen

the thousands of cosmetic products that come to market every year,

without resorting to animal testing. Says Clark, “Animal testing is

In his lab in Tan Hall, Clark examines cultures of cells inside a new automated culture picking machine. Clark is demonstrating the old-fashioned technique for sampling cultures.


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extremely expensive, there are ethical issues in using animals, and

the European Union has banned animal testing of new cosmetics.”

Clark adds, “As we become more sophisticated at teasing apart

the subtle genetic differences between individual humans, and how

these differences influence the effectiveness of all sorts of therapeu-

tics, testing in rats and mice becomes less useful. In particular, animal

testing lacks the human genetic specificity that we need for develop-

ing personalized medicine.” Along with researchers from RPI in New

York, Clark has founded a company, Solidus Biosciences, to commer-

cialize human enzyme microarrays for drug and cosmetic screening

and to explore the emerging arena of personalized medicine.

“When I look back at how my lab’s research has evolved,” says

Clark, “I realize that the way many of my colleagues and I do research

now is vastly different from when I came to Berkeley 24 years ago. In

my mind, that merits changing the name of the department.

“The department has considered changing its name in the past,

but the faculty didn’t really think that adding ‘biochemical engineering’

to the title did justice to the profession. After all, biochemical tech-

niques like those used to produce penicillin have been part of the

profession for decades.

“But,” Clark continues, “the revolution of genetic engineering

has opened up a new world of biomolecular engineering. In our

department, for example, my colleague Jay Keasling has developed

alternative routes for cheaply producing anti-malarial drugs, and

several of us are working on developing next-generation biofuels.”

Although departments at Cornell and the University of

Pennsylvania also call themselves departments of chemical and

biomolecular engineering, Clark’s alma mater Caltech and chemical

engineering powerhouse MIT have not changed their names.

Clark ponders this a moment and replies, “Not all departments

are created equal, and not all departments evolve in the same way.

Regardless of what others are doing, we believe our new name best

represents how we have evolved, and what we currently are.

“Furthermore, the UC system alone has 10 campuses and five

medical schools. While Berkeley doesn’t have a medical school, it

does have plenty of students who are considering coming here to

study pre-med and other biology-related disciplines, not to mention

bioengineering.

“We want to lure some of those students,” adds Clark, “and to do

it we have to compete with programs with names like ‘bioengineering,’

‘molecular and cell biology,’ and here in the college, ‘chemical biology.’

We want to say to students, ‘Hey, if you are interested in biology and

engineering and want to make a difference in the world, come help us

find tests for the safety of chemotherapies, develop personalized medi-

cine, or find new enzymes that will make cellulosic biofuels a reality.”

Says Clark, “Sitting in a freshman biology class may be the next

Jay Bailey. When it comes time to pick an undergrad major, or later

a graduate school, we want that student to keep us in mind.”

These images of Clark’s MetaChip and DataChip toxicology assays display the arrays of cytochrome P450 enzymes produced by the liver and the corresponding arrays of minute 3D clusters of human cells (left). Potential drug candidates are placed on the MetaChip containing the enzymes, which convert the compound into metabolites just as the liver would. The MetaChip is then precisely aligned and placed in contact with the living cells on the DataChip. Toxic metabolites will kill some of the cells on the DataChip, which then appear red when stained and viewed under magnification (right).

(right) The image shows a variety of cellulases, candidates for converting the cellulosic content of biomass to fermentable sugars for biofuels production. There is a need for rapid, reliable and reproducible methods for evaluating and optimizing the efficiency of cellulases. The Clark group has developed a platform that produces active cellulases in high yields at high throughput.

Important insights into the growth

requirements and optimal culture

conditions of extremophiles (and

the apparatus required to grow

them), including microbes from

deep-sea environments where

temperatures and pressures reach

the highest extremes known to

support life.

A SAMPLING OF “GREATEST HITS”

FROM DOUGLAS CLARK AND HIS COLLABORATORS

Expanded utility and greater under-

standing of enzymes in processing

environments, especially nonaqueous

media, including methods to greatly

activate enzymes for use in organic

solvents.

The MetaChip (Metabolizing Enzyme

Toxicology Assay Chip), the DataChip

(Data Analysis Toxicology Assay Chip),

and the MesaPlate (Metabolizing

Enzyme Stability Assay Plate): new tech-

nologies for high-throughput in vitro

toxicology assays and lead optimization

in drug discovery.

Combinatorial biocatalysis,

a methodology that employs

enzymes and whole cells for

combinatorial biotransforma-

tions in the development

and optimization of new drug

candidates. Combinatorial

biocatalysis was the corner-

stone technology of the

drug- discovery company

EnzyMed, founded in 1994.

Unique proteins from the deep-sea vent microor-

ganism Methanocaldococcus jannaschii, one of

which has proven to be a versatile biomolecular

template for biometallic nanostructures, and pos-

sibly the assembly of protein shapes not found

in nature.

A protein-based biome-

chanical nanosensor,

based on FRET (fluo-

rescence resonance

energy transfer), which

can be incorporated

into materials and is

able to report deforma-

tion of the surrounding

structure.

Detailed quantitative analysis

of key metabolic processes in

mammalian cells, including

cancer cells, obtained through

a combination of flux analysis

and experimental monitoring

of intracellular reaction

networks.

The Clark lab is currently

working on the development

of biofuels from lignocellulosic

biomass, including several

approaches to improve the

enzymatic breakdown of bio-

mass into fermentable sugars

(biomass pretreatment, pro-

tein engineering and kinetic

modeling of cellulose hydro-

lysis), bioprospecting for

cellulases from extreme envi-

ronments, and developing new

microbes with greater toler-

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NEW NOTABLE& R E S E A R C H • V I E W SD I S C O V E R I E S • A W A R D S

Researchers expand yeast’s sugary diet to include plant fiberChemistry professor Jamie Cate and colleagues have taken genes from grass-eating fungi and stuffed them into yeast, creating strains that produce alcohol from tough plant material (cellulose) that normal yeast can’t digest. The feat could be a boon for the biofuels industry, which is struggling to make cellulosic ethanol—ethanol from plant fiber, not just cornstarch or sugar—economically feasible. The researchers hope to insert the same fungal genes into industrial strains of yeast that now are used to turn sugar into ethanol biofuel, in order to improve the efficiency of the fermentation process.

Six new isotopes of the superheavy elements discoveredA team of scientists at LBNL has detected six isotopes, never seen before, of the superheavy elements 104 through 114. Starting with the creation of a new isotope of the yet-to-be-named element 114, the researchers observed successive emissions of alpha particles that yielded the new isotopes. The group that found the new isotopes is led by chemistry professor Heino Nitsche, head of the Heavy Element Nuclear and Radiochemistry Group at LBNL. Chemistry graduate student Paul Ellison formally proposed and managed the experiment and was first author of the paper reporting the results.

Sauer garners award for lifetime of photosynthesis research

Ken Sauer, emeritus chemistry professor, has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Society of Photosynthesis Research. This award is presented once every three years to recognize exceptional career-long contribu-tions to understanding the process of photo-synthesis. Initiated in 2003, the award confers life membership in the society and recognizes meritorious work in photosynthesis research by an individual who is at least 60 years old.

Blanch wins SBE’s Bailey AwardThe Society for Biological Engineering has selected chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Harvey Blanch to receive the 2010 James E. Bailey Award for Outstanding Contributions in Biological engineering. Blanch is currently the Merck Professor of Biochemical Engineering at Berkeley (see pp. 11-16 for more on Bailey).

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A wiki for the biofuels research communityResearchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have created a technoeconomic model that should help accelerate the devel-opment of a next generation of clean, green biofuels that can compete with gasoline in economics as well as performance. This online, wiki-based model enables researchers to pursue the most promising strategies for cost-efficient biorefinery operations by simulating such critical factors as production costs and energy balances under different processing scenarios.

“While there have been earlier models for analyzing the production costs of biofuels that provided invaluable guidance to research, investment and policy endeavors, they usually relied on experimentally derived or assumed param-eters to estimate process performance values,” says corresponding author and CBE professor Harvey Blanch, the chief science and technology officer for JBEI. “As a result, these models could be used to study only a limited set of scenarios and could not address all possible parameter choices that could be of interest to the biofuels community.”

COLLEGE OF CHEMISTRY

For the first time ever, scientists watch an atom’s electrons moving in real timeAn international team of scientists led by groups from the College of Chemistry, LBNL and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) has used ultrashort flashes of laser light to directly observe the movement of an atom’s outer electrons for the first time. “With a simple system of krypton atoms, we demonstrated, for the first time, that we can measure transient absorption dynamics with attosecond pulses,” said chemistry professor Stephen Leone. “This revealed details of a type of electronic motion—coherent superposition—that can control properties in many systems. ”

Chemistry undergrads build their own websiteCollege of Chemistry undergraduates can now log into a website designed for them by their fellow undergrads. The site, a result of months of work by a dedicated group of student volunteers, can be seen at uchem.berkeley.edu. The website is the brain-child of Betty Wong, who graduated last year with a B.S. in chemical biology. Says Wong, “I developed the website as a way for chemistry and CBE students of all grade levels—freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors—to get in touch and stay in touch with each other.”

Doudna and Shokat elected to Institute of MedicineDepartment of Chemistry faculty members Jennifer Doudna and Kevin Shokat are among the 65 newly elected members to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), an independent, nonprofit orga-nization that works to provide unbiased and authoritative advice to improve health. Election to the IOM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and rec-ognizes individuals who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health care and public health.

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Bringing photosynthesis to lightBy the time she arrived in Berkeley, chemis-

try professor Naomi Ginsberg had learned

some things about cold places. Born and

raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia (about 400

miles northeast of Boston), Ginsberg, 32,

earned her B.A.Sc. in engineering at the

University of Toronto in 2000.

“The first two years of my engineering

degree gave me a broad background,” says

Ginsberg. “My initial interest was biomed,

but I graduated with an electrical engineering

focus and an emphasis on physics and optics.”

Her undergraduate summers were spent in

Winnipeg and Ottawa, where she learned

about nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)

imaging techniques and later studied

ultrafast spectroscopy.

But it was as a Ph.D. physics student at

Harvard that things really got chilly. In the

research group of physics professor Lene

Hau, Ginsberg studied Bose-Einstein con-

densates, ultracold clouds of atoms that

exist at temperatures just a few billionths

of a degree above absolute zero.

In an experiment that would have amazed

William Giauque (1895–1982), the Berke-

ley chemist who received the 1949 Nobel

Prize for his pioneering low-temperature

studies, the Hau group halted and stored a

light signal in a Bose-Einstein condensate

of sodium atoms and transferred the signal

into a second Bose-Einstein sodium cloud

160 microns away.

The American Institute of Physics listed

this feat as #1 in its Top Ten discoveries of

2007. Ginsberg was the lead author on the

paper that appeared on the cover of Nature

in February of that year. Some researchers

work for many years to get their first article

on the cover of Nature. Ginsberg achieved

that honor as a graduate student.

Although many scientists would have been

content to build on such an early success,

Ginsberg took a path less travelled. For

her postdoc, she switched from physics to

chemistry—and from ultracold systems

to living ones—and chose to work with

Berkeley chemist, Graham Fleming.

Fleming, the Melvin Calvin Distinguished

Professor of Chemical Biodynamics, is also

the campus’s research vice chancellor and a

senior faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley

National Laboratory. The Fleming group

develops ultrafast spectroscopic methods

to study natural photosynthetic complexes

and nanoscale systems like single-walled

carbon nanotubes.

When asked why she switched disciplines,

Ginsberg responds, “I think new science

happens when you merge different fields—

it gives you a big tool box of ideas. For me,

chemistry was a different vocabulary, and

it took some time to get comfortable with

it. I can recall the moment in my first year

when Graham told me, ‘Now you are begin-

ning to sound like a spectroscopist.’”

At the level of fundamental science, Gins-

berg is seeking a broad understanding

of how light and matter interact. But her

quest to understand what she calls the

“dynamics of very small things” is not just

blue-sky research. Understanding these

principles is critical for comprehending

the incredible efficiency of photosynthesis

and harnessing this knowledge to produce

more efficient forms of solar energy.

Asks Ginsberg, “What gives rise to the

remarkable efficiency of photosynthetic

light harvesting? How can the energy flow

be manipulated? How can this guide solar

energy technologies? I want to uncover the

underlying mechanisms of energy transfer

by studying both natural photosynthetic

systems and synthetic alternatives like

photovoltaic polymers and inorganic

nanostructures.”

Chromophores, the light-harvesting struc-

tures in plants and bacteria, are spaced less

than a nanometer apart. Photosynthesis

occurs so fast, and over such short distances,

that it remains stubbornly resistant to analysis.

“But by blending elements of super-resolution

microscopy and ultrafast spectroscopy,”

says Ginsberg, “I’d like to map the distri-

bution of traveling photoexcitations as a

function of energy, space and time.”

Ginsberg, who expresses a fondness for

plants—even as she dices and blends them

into a slurry for her research—has another

puzzle she’d like to solve. “If you look at

the arrangement of light-harvesting pig-

ments at a molecular level,” she says, “in

some bacteria they are highly ordered,

while in plants the configuration is more

random. Yet plants are more sophisticated.

Their photosystems have control and repair

mechanisms that bacteria lack.” Ginsberg

adds, “Plants are like Berkeley—sophis-

ticated, but not very orderly. I’m trying to

understand the underlying mechanisms.”

As Ginsberg sets up her new lab, she

doesn’t anticipate switching fields again

anytime soon. Understanding the funda-

mental principles of photosynthesis, and

helping bring about their practical applica-

tion, may keep her busy for many years.

C H E M I S T R Y W E L C O M E S N A O M I G I N S B E R G

born

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

undergrad B.A. Sc. Engineering, University of Toronto

graduate Ph.D. Physics, Harvard University

postdoc

UC Berkeley/LBNL, Graham Fleming

research Super-resolution microscopy/ ultrafast spectroscopy/photosynthesis

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’62Following graduation, Marshall

D. Nelson (B.S. Chem) worked

in electronics while an officer in

the U.S. Air Force. He earned an M.B.A.,

pursued graduate studies in finance and

spent the majority of his career in business

and investment. He currently serves as a

financial advisor for SWS in Tulsa, OK,

and he takes a keen interest in the analysis

of economic and business trends as they

interface with the evolving political scene.

’76After completing studies at

Berkeley, Yoshio Yamanaka

(Ph.D. ChemE with Wilke) held

positions with various British firms, includ-

ing ICI, Zeneca, and Croda International.

Since his retirement three years ago, he

has been working part-time as a consultant

for a Japanese think tank specializing in

chemistry and biotechnology, and closely

watches new developments in those areas

worldwide. He and his wife, Kuniko, live in

Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Yamanaka

wrote to Jeff Reimer recently to applaud the

choice of “Chemical and Biomolecular Engi-

neering” (CBE) as the new department name.

’77Lisa A. Johnson (B.S. Chem),

who earned a D.D.S. from

UCSF in 1981, writes that she

has been teaching math in the Hayward

Unified School District and working as a

realtor with RE/MAX in Union City, CA.

’79Paul Bigeleisen (M.S. Chem; Nuclear Physics) wrote to let us

know that his father, Jacob

Bigeleisen, passed away (see In Memoria

1943). Paul Bigeleisen mentioned that he

enjoyed his time at Cal but, following a spinal

cord injury, decided to become a physician.

He earned his M.D. from UC Davis and is

currently a practicing anesthesiologist and

a professor of anesthesiology and bioengi-

neering at the Universities of Pittsburgh

and Rochester, where he divides his time

between clincal care and research in robotics.

’82After 19 years at the University

of Minnesota, Jeffrey T. Roberts

(B.S. Chem) accepted the posi-

tions of professor and dean of the College

of Science at Purdue University in West

Lafayette, IN, as of fall 2009. He writes

that he loves the job and enjoys his new

colleagues in chemistry and in the other six

departments within the College of Science.

’83After more than 30 years’ living

and working in the U.S., Peter

Wai-Man Lee (B.S. ChemE) recently moved with his family to Hong

Kong, where he has taken the position of

Chief Technology Officer of Nano and

Advanced Materials Institute (NAMI), a

Hong Kong non-profit government-funded

application research company.

Phillip G. Mattingly (Pdoc Chem with Rapoport) has been a research fellow in the

diagnostics division of Abbott Laboratories

in Abbott Park, IL, since 1984.

’86Garry I. Parton (B.S. ChemE) is

vice president of Artsmart in

New York. He and his partner,

Paul Epstein, make their home in Manhattan.

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The Chun family discovered this banner on the way home from a Cal football game. Here Morrison (B.S. ’43, Chem) and Helen Chun point out the banner, which reads, “It has provided a wonderful education to me, my four children, and a grandchild.”

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’93Steven L. Russek (Ph.D. ChemE with Reimer and Stacy) has been

director of the Astronautics

Corporation of America in Milwaukee, WI,

since 2002, dealing with systems engineer-

ing and research and development.

’95Kimberly E. (Klinck) Kupiecki

(B.S. ChemE) and her husband,

David J. Kupiecki (B.S. ’93, ChemE), have two girls aged 9 and 6 and

have been living in the Midwest for three

years after having spent 16-plus years in the

Bay Area. She is senior vice president of

Edelman Public Relations.

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’01Matthew B. Avery (B.S. ChemE)

received his M.S. from Stanford

in 2004 and his J.D., summa

cum laude, from UC Hastings in May 2009,

graduating second in his class. In October

2009, he won the American Intellectual

Property Law Association’s Past President’s

Award, which recognized his achievements

in the study of intellectual property law and

his contributions to the academic literature.

He is now working at Baker Botts LLP in

Palo Alto as an associate in the firm’s intel-

lectual property group.

Devoted College of Chemistry alumnus volunteer Bruce Stangeland (Ph.D ’67, ChemE) poses under his banner, which reads, “A wide breadth of experiences outside the box.”

’02Craig R. Tewell (Ph.D. Chem with Somorjai) works as a mate-

rials scientist at Sandia National

Laboratories in Livermore, CA. He and his

wife, Elise, live in Castro Valley.

Victor Kin-man Tam (B.S. Chem) is an

assistant professor of chemistry at Foothill

College in Los Altos Hills, CA.

’03After six years in the Midwest,

Jennifer (Cruz) Rea (B.S. ChemE)

earned her doctorate from

Northwestern University. Back in the Bay

Area now, she is working at Genentech as

The “Thanks to Berkeley…”

PhotoBooth Project invites the Cal

community to join together to express

their pride and gratitude through portraits

and words. All members of the Cal com-

munity are invited to participate in Photo-

Booth events, which take place periodically

throughout The Campaign for Berkeley that

was launched publicly on September 19,

2008.

This project is a wonderful reflection of the

spirit and diversity of the Cal community—

the students, alumni, parents, faculty, staff,

and friends of Cal who are the University of

California, Berkeley.

We look forward to seeing more members

of the College of Chemistry community add

their “Thanks to Berkeley…”

To view the Photobooth Project in its

entirety, visit campaign.berkeley.edu

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Friends of the college

ARTHUR ABRAMSON

Arthur Abramson and his spouse estab-

lished the Eric Abramson Scholarship

Fund for the Department of Chemistry

in memory of their son, Eric, who died in

1973 while a Berkeley chemistry student.

We were notified by Shirley Greenbaum,

a long-time family friend and supporter of

the Scholarship Fund, that Arthur passed

away on September 29, 2010. A graduate

of Temple University, Arthur worked as a

certified public accountant, was a founding

partner of the firm of Margolis, Rose &

Abramson, and retired in 1996 as president

and treasurer of National ICEE Corp, a

frozen beverage company in Philadelphia.

He is survived by Frances, his wife of 63

years; two daughters; and three grandchildren.

The family has designated the Eric Abramson

Scholarship Fund for memorial gifts.

Alumni

’31Frederick W. Lorenz (B.S. Chem)

passed away on March 19, 2010.

He joined the UC Davis faculty

in 1938 and, in 1964, became the first chair

of the newly formed Department of Animal

Physiology. As an emeritus professor, he

studied human psychophysiology with

emphasis on biofeedback. Accomplished as

a painter and sculptor, he helped found the

Davis Art Center.

’33During WWII, Alman “Leon”

Heppel (B.S. Chem; Ph.D. ’37 Biochem) began work at the

National Institutes of Health. He received

his M.D. from the University of Rochester

in 1942, where he published research that

provided groundbreaking proof that sodium

In Memoriaman associate scientist in protein analytical

chemistry. She and her husband, Steven

Rea (College of Chemistry exchange stu-

dent from the University of Leeds, England,

2001–02 in the Majda lab), recently

welcomed the birth of their third son, Leo.

’06Since leaving Berkeley, Chithra

Krishnamurthy (B.S. Chem) has

been doing his graduate studies

at Caltech.

’07Hillary M. Peletier (Ph.D. Chem with Ellman) recently let us

know that she and her fiancé,

Vincent S. Chan (Ph.D. ’08, Chem with Bergman and Toste), have moved to

Evanston, IL, to take jobs with Abbott

Laboratories. Vince completed a postdoc

with Barry Trost at Stanford and is now a

process chemist in Abbott’s Pressure and

Catalysis Group, while Hillary is a medici-

nal chemist in the Neuroscience Group.

They plan to marry in 2011.

’08David I. Rabuka (Ph.D. Chem with Bertozzi) has been chief

scientific officer with Redwood

Bioscience in Burlingame, CA, since

August 2008.

’09Eric M. Bunnelle (Ph.D. Chem with Sarpong) recently took a

position with ExxonMobil

Research and Engineering, and he’s living

in New Jersey.

In January 2010, Amanda M. Comrie (B.S. ChemE) started work at Raytheon in Dallas,

TX, as a multi-disciplined engineer in their

Space and Airborne Systems division.

David P. Duberow (Ph.D. Chem with Mathies) currently holds the position of

lecturer in chemistry at California State

University, Sonoma.

Erik Gallegos-Westling (B.S. ChemE) and

his partner, Luma, live in Redwood City.

Erik works at ZeaChem as a process devel-

opment engineer. ZeaChem has developed

a cellulose-based biorefinery platform

to produce advanced ethanol, fuels and

chemicals.

Gabriella A. Lestari (B.S. ChemE) is doing

her graduate studies in chemical and

life science at King Abdullah University

of Science and Technology (KAUST) in

Thuwa, Saudi Arabia.

Melissa S. Molyneux (B.S. ChemBio) is a

first-year medical student at the University

of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix

Program.

Raja R. Narayan (B.S. ChemBio) started

medical school at UC Irvine in fall 2010.

Carl M. Schoellhammer (B.S. ChemE) is

pursuing a Ph.D. in chemical engineering

at MIT.

’10Yuria Anaga (B.S. ChemE) is

doing graduate studies in indus-

trial engineering at Tsinghua

University in Beijing, China.

Liliana De La Paz (B.S. ChemE) has been

awarded an NSF Graduate Research

Fellowship and has begun graduate stud-

ies in chemical engineering at Stanford

University.

Stanford is fortunate to have also gained

Armen Mekhdjian (B.S. ChemE) as a gradu-

ate student.

Francesco Pingitore (Pdoc ChemE with Keasling) works as an analytical chemist at

Codexis in Redwood City, CA.

Matthew T. Sheldon (Ph.D. Chem with Alivisatos) is doing postdoctoral research in

applied physics at Caltech.

Julie Tse (B.S. ChemBio), who moved to

New York City in August 2010 to start

optometry school, writes that the College

of Chemistry definitely conditioned her,

culturally and academically, to stay afloat

“here in the concrete jungle.”

Jonathan T. Wiegele (B.S. ChemE) has

taken a position with Clorox in Pleasanton,

CA, as a packaging development engineer.


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and potassium could pass through the cell

wall. At NIH during the 1950s, he devel-

oped techniques for synthesizing pieces of

RNA, which played a critical role in crack-

ing the genetic code by greatly enhancing

scientists’ ability to assemble its compo-

nents. In 1967, he joined the faculty of

Cornell University, where his research

focused, initially, on the functioning of the

cell wall and, subsequently, on ways to

inhibit the growth of cancer cells. An early

personal champion of women in science

and enthusiastic about art, literature, and

music, he was famous at Cornell for incor-

porating “identify the painting” quizzes

into his biochemistry lectures. He died on

April 9, 2010, predeceased by his wife of

62 years, Adelaide, and survived by three

sons and three grandchildren.

’38After graduating, William J.

Walsh (B.A. Chem) taught high

school in California and, during

WWII, served in the U.S. Navy. He pur-

sued graduate studies in chemistry at

Northwestern University, Cornell

University, and Columbia University,

where he was awarded a Ford Fellowship.

He earned an M.S. in chemistry from

Montana State University and joined the

San Mateo Junior College District in 1956,

serving as Dean of Men at the College of

San Mateo until 1968 when he became

director of student services at Cañada

College. After retiring in 1977, he lived in

Burlingame and traveled the world with

his wife, Donna. He passed away on April

10, 2010, survived by his wife, five chil-

dren, eleven grandchildren, and seven

great-grandchildren.

’40Gordon J. O’Donnell (B.S. Chem), who received his Ph.D.

from Iowa State College,

worked for many years at Shell Research

and, in retirement, taught at the College of

Holy Names in Oakland, CA. He passed

away on October 25, 2009.

’41Robert W. Routh (B.A. Chem) worked first at Standard Oil in

Richmond, CA, then at Cutter

Laboratories in Emeryville, as head of the

penicillin manufacturing division and,

later, as head of Cutter’s polio vaccine

manufacturing lab. In 1957, he joined the

Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, where he

worked for 27 years. He passed away on

April 18, 2010, survived by his wife, Laura,

two daughters, three grandchildren, and

nine great-grandchildren.

’42Samuel Aronoff (Ph.D. Chem with Calvin) taught briefly at

Boston University and the

University of Chicago and, in 1948, took a

permanent position in the botany depart-

ment of Iowa State University, where he

was instrumental in developing their

department of biochemistry. After 20

years, he left Ames to become the dean of

graduate studies at Boston College, then

moved to the new Simon Fraser University

in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where he was a

professor and dean of science. He died on

Feb. 2, 2010, at his home in Corvallis, OR,

predeceased by his wife, Edith, and survived

by three children and five grandchildren.

Confined to a detention

camp for Japanese and

Japanese-Americans

after the bombing of

Pearl Harbor, Harvey

Akio Itano (B.S. Chem)

was unable to attend his

own graduation ceremony. In recognition

of his academic record, which was the

highest in his class, UC President Robert

Gordon Sproul personally awarded him

the University Medal during his intern-

ment. While still at Berkeley, he had met

his future wife, Rose Sakemi (Attendee CNR), whose undergraduate studies were

interrupted by her internment but were

completed in Wisconsin. Among the first

to be released from detention, Itano earned

i n m e m o r i a m

his M.D. in 1945 from the St. Louis School

of Medicine and a Ph.D. in 1950 from

Caltech in physics and chemistry with

Linus Pauling. His research in collabora-

tion with Pauling and others, which used

electrophoresis to identify distinguishing

chemical characteristics in the hemo-

globin in red blood cells of patients with

sickle cell anemia, was published in the

journal Science in 1949. In recognition of

this work, he received the 1954 Eli Lilly

Award in Biological Chemistry. Pauling

later wrote that Itano’s research threw

much light on the problem of the nature

of the hereditary hemolytic anemias. Itano

joined the U.S. Public Health Service as

a senior assistant surgeon, ultimately

becoming chief of the Section on Chemical

Genetics, Laboratory of Molecular Biology,

of the National Institute of Arthritis and

Metabolic Diseases, and Medical Director

of USPHS in Bethesda, MD. He was

recruited to the faculty of the newly-formed

UC San Diego School of Medicine in 1970,

where he continued his work in sickle cell

disease and abnormal blood cells until

his retirement in 1988. Itano was the first

Japanese-American to become a member

of the National Academy of Sciences and

received numerous other awards and hon-

ors, including election to the American

Academy of Arts and Sciences. He passed

away on May 8, 2010, survived by his wife,

three sons, and four grandchildren.

Harvey M. Trowbridge (B.S. Chem) served

in the Army during WWII and made a

career as a chemist at the Shell Oil Refinery

in Martinez until his retirement in 1982.

He enjoyed travel and square dancing, was

a College of Chemistry supporter, and, in

honor of his late wife of 45 years, Lois,

volunteered for many years to drive cancer

patients to their treatments. He died on

April 23, 2010 at his home in Martinez,

survived by his second wife of 17 years,

Ramona, five children, three stepchildren,

seven grandchildren, and ten great-grand-

children.


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’49David S. Thayer (B.S. Chem)

worked as a chemical engineer

and strategic planner and

retired to Reno, NV. He passed away on

May 14, 2010, survived by his wife, Ruth,

two sons, a daughter, and one grandson.

’50Genia S. Albrecht (Solomon)

(Attendee Chem) earned her

Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1954

from the University of Washington in

Seattle and did postdoctoral work at

Harvard. In 1956, she moved to Ithaca

with her husband, Andreas C. Albrecht

(B.S. ’50, Chem), and took a hiatus from

her scientific work to raise a family. In the

1980s, she became a senior lecturer in bio-

chemistry at Cornell University and was

honored for her teaching. She died March

19, 2010, preceded in death by Andreas

and survived by their four children and six

grandchildren.

George “Jud” Payne (B.S. ’47; Ph.D. Chem with Rapoport) worked for Shell

Development Company for 37 years,

acquiring 38 patents. He passed away on

January 11, 2010, preceded in death by a

daughter and two sons, and survived by his

wife, Madge, their daughter, four grand-

children, and four great-grandchildren.

’51Donald E. Paul (M.S. Chem)

earned his Ph.D. at Washington

University in St. Louis, MO,

and an executive management degree from

Harvard Business School. He worked as a

research chemist and, most recently, had

his own market research consultancy service

in the Watertown, MA, area until his retire-

ment in 1985. The holder of two patents,

he authored various publications of interest

to combustion technology, including five on

free-radical kinetics. He was a member of

the American Chemical Society, American

Association for the Advancement of Science,

Academy of Arts and Sciences, the

American Association for the Advancement

of Science and the American Physical

Society. During his long career, he guided

many graduate and postdoctoral students

into careers in isotope chemistry. He is

survived by his wife of 65 years, Grace, and

their three sons.

After graduation, Daniel S. St. John (B.S. Chem) was employed at Shell Oil in Long

Beach and, during WWII, worked on

atom bomb components at Los Alamos.

He earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry

from the University of Wisconsin and

joined DuPont in Cleveland, OH, as a

research chemist. While with DuPont, he

was trained in reactor physics at Argonne

National Laboratory, where he partici-

pated in a project to calculate the energy

of the hydrogen bomb. Spending 17 years

in research at Argonne’s Theoretical

Physics Division, he then served for six

years as president of a DuPont-Battelle

subsidiary that studied holography.

From 1970 until his retirement in 1985,

he was laboratory director of DuPont’s

Explosives Department and, following

retirement, DuPont appointed him the

first departmental research fellow in their

Petrochemicals Department. He died on

February 2, 2010, predeceased by his wife,

Rosemary Rowlands, and survived by four

children.

’46Estella K. Mysels

(Katzenellenbogen) (B.S. ’42; Ph.D. Chem with Branch) served

as an assistant professor of chemistry at

USC during the 1950s, where she met and

married Karol Mysels, a tenured USC

chemistry professor. They collaborated on

research in colloid chemistry and pub-

lished numerous articles together. He

passed away in 1999, and Estella, a

supporter of the College of Chemistry,

remained active in community and political

work until her death on March 31, 2010.

’43Jacob Bigeleisen (Ph.D. Chem with G.N. Lewis), Distinguished

Professor Emeritus of Chemistry

at State University of New York at Stony

Brook, passed away on August 6, 2010.

His son, Paul Bigeleisen (see Class Notes 1979) notified us and shared some remem-

brances of his dad’s life. Trained as a furrier

by his father, Jacob Bigeleisen broke with

family tradition to attend college, earning his

chemistry degree from New York University.

He pursued graduate studies for two years

with Otto Redlich at Washington State

University and completed his doctorate with

G.N. Lewis at Berkeley. As a new Ph.D., he

joined the Manhattan Project, where his

focus was on isotope separation. With co-

worker Maria Meyer, he developed the

quantum mechanical theory of equilibrium

isotope exchange reactions, now known as

the Bigeleisen-Meyer equation. In the 1950s

he expanded this concept to non-equilibrium

statistics, formulating the “kinetic isotope

effect,” which continues to be used as an

analytical tool in materials science, bio-

chemistry, geoscience, space science and

pharmacology. Paul tells of Melvin Calvin

once saying to him, “Your dad helped me

win the Nobel Prize. I was way off base

until he explained my data using his

knowledge of isotope exchange reactions.”

From 1948 to 1968, Jacob conducted

research at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

He then spent ten years on the faculty of

the University of Rochester. From 1978, he

taught at SUNY Stony Brook, where he

served in numerous administrative roles

and retired as Distinguished Professor

Emeritus. He was active in both the ACS

(Division of Physical Chemistry) and the

APS (Division of Chemical Physics). Among

numerous honors, he received the first

ACS Award in Nuclear Chemistry and the

E. O. Lawrence Memorial Award from the

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. He was

elected to the National Academy of Sciences,

served as Chairman of the Chemistry

Division, and was a Fellow of the American

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Chemical Marketing Research Association,

and Sigma XI. He died on March 28, 2010,

survived by his longtime companion, Betsy

Mark, four children, and three grandchildren.

’53Upon completion of his degree,

Ervin K. “Ken” Hulet (Ph.D. Chem with Seaborg) joined the

newly-formed Lawrence Livermore National

Laboratory. He participated in nuclear tests

conducted in the South Pacific atoll of

Eniwetok, which unexpectedly produced

two new elements with the atomic num-

bers 99 and 100, eventually named einstei-

nium and fermium. On a year-long

Fulbright Fellowship in Oslo, Norway, he

laid the scientific groundwork for his

remaining career. He was appointed leader

of the Heavy Elements Group at Livermore

and led work on a new apparatus for per-

forming fast, automated chemistry on

nuclei, created at the super HILAC linear

accelerator at Berkeley, which led to the

much-publicized discovery of what was

then the heaviest atomic nucleus, mendele-

vium-258. His group became highly

respected for their carefully prepared

nuclear targets, resulting in fruitful collab-

orations such as searches for super-heavy

nuclei with the Joint Institute for Nuclear

Research in Dubna, USSR, and with the

GSI Laboratory in Darmstadt, Germany. In

1974, a collaboration between his

Livermore group and the Lawrence

Berkeley Laboratory discovered a new ele-

ment with the atomic number of 106. The

International Union of Pure and Applied

Chemistry eventually ratified the name his

team proposed, “seaborgium,” which,

Glenn Seaborg often remarked, was a

more significant honor than winning the

Nobel Prize. Hulet’s lab also discovered a

new form of nuclear fission not anticipated

by the theories of nuclear physics: bimodal

symmetric fission. When his wife, Betty Jo

“Joey,” was diagnosed with lung cancer in

1991, he retired from the Livermore Lab to

help her through treatment, but she passed

away only three months later. In recogni-

tion of his lifetime achievements in nuclear

chemistry, Hulet was given the American

Chemical Society Award for Nuclear

Chemistry in 1994. He died June 29, 2010,

survived by his son and daughter, four

grandchildren, two great-grandchildren,

and his companion of seventeen years,

Bobbette Cochran.

’60Love of sailing and boating

shaped the life of Girard J.

“Jerry” Foster (B.S. ChemE). He

served as an officer in the U.S. Navy (explo-

sive ordinance disposal) and graduated

from the U.S. Naval School of Underwater

Swimmers in Key West, FL. Together with

Shirley, his wife of 48 years, he sailed the

U.S. coasts, Great Lakes, Caribbean Sea,

Panama Canal, Mediterranean Sea, and on

a San Francisco-Tahiti race. He also shared

this love with many friends and family and

was dedicated to all aspects of boating cul-

ture, including preserving the history of

classic yachts. He passed away on April 21,

2010, survived by his wife.

’61Robert O. Hutchins (B.S. Chem) earned his M.S. in chemistry

from California State University

Long Beach and his Ph.D. from Purdue.

From 1985, he served on the faculty of

Drexel University’s chemistry department

in Philadelphia, PA, was head of the

department until 2000, and continued as

G. Sasin Professor of Chemistry until his

retirement in 2007. He received an

Outstanding LBSU Alumnus Award in

1987 and the Lindback Award for

Outstanding Teaching in 1980. He passed

away on Oct. 9, 2009, predeceased by his

wife, MaryGail Hutchins, an industry

chemist and adjunct faculty at Drexel; and

survived by two sons and two grandsons.

’62Eugene R. Marshalek (Ph.D. Chem with Rasmussen) did post-

doctoral work at the Niels Bohr

Institute in Copenhagen and at Brookhaven

National Laboratories. In 1965, he accepted

a position on the University of Notre Dame’s

physics faculty, where he taught for 37

years. A fellow of the American Physical

Society and a recipient of the Alexander

von Humboldt Award, he passed away on

October 19, 2009, survived by his wife,

Sonja, and two sons.

’63Malcolm F. Nicol (Ph.D. Chem),

a leader in high pressure chem-

istry, passed away on May 7,

2009. He taught at UCLA until 1999,

when he joined the physics and chemistry

faculty at the University of Nevada, Las

Vegas. As executive director of the UNLV

High Pressure Sciences and Engineering

Center, he led collaborations with shock

laboratories at Livermore, Los Alamos, and

Sandia National Laboratory. He was the

first to develop Raman spectroscopy in the

diamond cell, made significant contribu-

tions to the expansion of the oxygen phase

diagram, and pioneered the study of reac-

tion kinetics of organic materials in shock

experiments.

’65David O. Harris (Ph.D. Chem with Gwinn) spent his career on

the faculty of the UC Santa

Barbara chemistry department. He was

retired at the time his daughter, Diana

Thomas, notified us that he passed away

on August 24, 2010.

’82Jan M. Wouters (Ph.D. Chem with Cerny) passed away on

April 5, 2010. A researcher at

the Los Alamos National Laboratory, he co-

authored numerous articles on neutron

capture.

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d o n o r p r o f i l e


28Forty-four years ago, Nirmal (“Chat”)

Chatterjee applied for admission to the

Ph.D. program in Berkeley’s chemical

engineering department. The admissions

forms were sent via surface mail to him in

Kolkata (Calcutta), India, where he had

earned his undergraduate engineering

degree.

By the time Chatterjee received the appli-

cation forms, the Berkeley admissions

deadline had passed. He filled them out

and mailed them anyway. By the time

the completed application arrived back in

Berkeley, the admissions process had been

completed and all the incoming students

had been notified.

The late application landed on the desk of

C. Judson King, a young chemical engineer-

ing professor who would later become the

dean of the College of Chemistry and the

UC provost. King himself had arrived at

Berkeley just three years earlier and was

serving as admissions director for the

department. Something about the applica-

tion intrigued him. King kept the papers

on his desk for several weeks and finally

decided to admit one last Ph.D. student.

A few months later, Chatterjee arrived on

campus. It was the beginning of both a

long and successful career in the chemical

industry, and a long and devoted relation-

ship to the Berkeley campus and the

College of Chemistry.

Chatterjee was born in 1943 and raised

in Jamshedpur, in the eastern corner of

India about 150 miles west of Kolkata. His

father, an engineer who worked in local

industries, stressed the importance of

education to his son.

In 1959, when Chatterjee was 15, he moved

with his family to Kolkata, where he attended

Calcutta University. “I was surrounded by

very good professors and students,” he

says, “and I acquired a deep knowledge

of chemistry and chemical engineering.”

Chatterjee earned his B.S. in chemistry and

an M.S. in chemical technology.

Arriving in Berkeley, Chatterjee quickly

realized that things were done differently

N I R M A L C H A T T E R J E E

A long, devoted relationship to Berkeley

Chat and Ellen Chatterjee reconnect with Jud King at

a recent Dean’s Dinner at The Faculty Club.

in California than in India. But he got the

hang of it. Berkeley was, he says, “a hell of

a lot of hard work, a hell of a lot of stress,

followed by a great deal of fun.”

Part of that fun was meeting his wife-to-

be, Ellen, who had been the roommate

of his lab partner’s wife at the University

of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Like

many young people in the 1960s, Ellen, a

mid-westerner, had headed west after her

undergraduate years and was working in

San Francisco.

Ellen was introduced to Chat, the two hit it

off, and they married in 1970. Chatterjee

completed his Ph.D. the following year,

and the couple moved to Allentown, PA,

where he began working at Air Products

and Chemicals, a supplier of gases and

other specialty chemicals. After 33 years at

Air Products, Chatterjee retired in 2004 as

corporate vice president of global environ-

mental health and safety and engineering.

Although the couple has visited every

continent except Antarctica, their travels

often bring them back to Berkeley. Just a

year after joining Air Products, Chatterjee

began returning to Berkeley annually as a

company recruiter. He served as chair of

the College of Chemistry Advisory Board

from 1996 to 1998 and has sat on the

board ever since.

Chatterjee, along with other former students

of Jud King, have nearly completed a drive

to set up an endowed chair in King’s name.

“Without Jud’s decision 44 years ago,” he

says, “I would not be what I am today.”

Chatterjee recently told the college advisory

board the story of how he came to Berkeley.

“I am sure you all contribute to causes which

represent profound changes in your lives,”

he told the board. “Professor King changed

my life, and I ask you to join me in contrib-

uting to the chair, which will honor him.”

To make a gift to the C. Judson King Tribute

Fund, visit givetocal.berkeley.edu/chem or

contact Mindy Rex at 510/642.9506 or

[email protected]

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28%46%

26%

20%

3%

17%

5%

18%

60%77%

f i n a n c i a l s

a n n u a l r e p o r t

SOURCES OF PRIVATE FUNDS

Individuals $3.34 M 46%

Corporations/

Corporate Foundations $1.84 M 26%

Private Foundations/ $2.03 M 28%

Nonprofit Organizations

Total $7.21 M 100%

USES OF PRIVATE FUNDS

[OPERATING]

Research $3.15 M 60%

Student Support $0.29 M 5%

Unrestricted $0.94 M 18%

Capital $0.87 M 17%

Total $5.25 M 100%

USES OF PRIVATE FUNDS

[ENDOWMENT]

Chairs $1.52 M 77%

Student Support $0.39 M 20%

Unrestricted $0.05 M 3%

Research $0.00 M 0%

Capital $0.00 M 0%

Total $1.96 M 100%

2010of private giving

a s the year comes to a close, I have yet another opportunity to be encouraged and inspired by the

continued generosity of our many donors.

We faced a difficult year, but with your help, we were able to continue to advance the research and teaching

missions of the College while accomplishing many of the goals you learned about in previous issues of

Catalyst. This progress would not have been possible without your consistent and generous support.

We all know the future will hold many challenges. I also know that the College will continue to be sustained

by a remarkable group of donors and friends who care deeply about the strength and character of our great

institution. I am very grateful to you for being there when we need you most.

Cumulative Clubs

California

Benefactors

$1,000,000 and more

Anonymous

Norbert C. Brady

Dr. Nirmal and Mrs. Ellen

Chatterjee

Chen Yu-How

T. Z. and Irmgard Chu

Aldo DeBenedictis Estate

Dr. Melvin J. Heger-Horst Trust

Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard C.

Howe Jr.

Gunawan Jusuf

Ross McCollum Trust

Jean Mosher Pitzer

Pitzer Family Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. Warren G.

Schlinger

Ann E. Shiffler Estate

Prof. David H. Templeton

Dr. and Mrs. James R. Tretter

Robert Tsao

The Blue and Gold

Society

$500,000 to $999,999

Anonymous

Larry and Diane Bock

Chen He Tung

Dr. James O. Clayton Estate

Warren E. Clifford

Gus D. Dorough

Henry F. Frahm Estate

Richard M. and Lillian Lessler

Irma McCollum Trust

Dr. Reid T. Milner Trust

Beatrice Thomas Estate

Marie W. Woodward Estate

The 1868 Society

$100,000 to $499,999

Anonymous (5)

Mary Arnett

Usman Atmadjaja

Leo A. Berti Estate

Bud Blue

Thelma Buchanan Estate

Sunney I. Chan

Chng Heng Tiu

Mrs. Antonio T. Chong

Robin D. Clark and Mary

Mackiernan

Chester W. Clark Estate

Frank and Janice Delfino

Drs. Thomas J. and Laura J.

Dietsche

Dr. Sam H. Eletr

Drs. David S. Gee and

Caryn C. Q. Lum

William and Janet Gerhardt

Suhargo Gondokusumo

G. Douglas and Regina Gould

Prof. and Mrs. John E. Hearst

Prof. Darleane C. and

Dr. Marvin Hoffman

Robert and Yasuko Ikeda

Stephen T. Isaacs and

Kathryn Macbride

Prof. Harold and

Mrs. Mary Ella Johnston

Ed Kim

Kiong Yo Kian

Engr. Joseph L. Koo and

Helen C. Koo, M.D.

Prof. Daniel E. Koshland Jr.

Joseph M. and Dorothy K.

Kunkel

Lee Sheng Peng

Annie L. Li

Liem Sioe Liong

David Lieu M.D., M.B.A.

Wesley and Elizabeth Lindsay

Estate

Tony K. and Louisa Ling

Lie Shiong Tai

Prof. Bruce H. Mahan Estate

Mr. and Mrs. Alan C.

Mendelson

Dr. and Mrs. Joon S. Moon

Dr. Robert N. Noyce

S. M. “Jack” Olsen

Marjorie Pape Crandall Pearce

Jonathan S. Powell

Dr. Mochtar Riady

Milton H. and Ethel M. Ritchie

Klaus and Mary Ann Saegebarth

James A. Sanford

Patricia M. Schreter

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Scott Jr.

William H. Shiffler

Dr. Charles E. and

Mrs. Dorothy H. Stehr

Tan Keong Choon

Henry K. Tom

Mrs. Theodore Vermeulen

Doris H. Welles Estate

Eka Tjipta Widjaja

Prof. Charles R. Wilke Estate

Eugene T. C. Wu


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donors to the college The first three donor clubs listed—the

California Benefactors, the Blue and Gold Society and the 1868 Society—are cumulative clubs.

Donors’ lifetime giving to the College of Chemistry determines their club level. The remaining clubs

are annual—the club level shows each donor’s giving during the 2009–10 year.

Lewis Associates

$50,000 and more

Named for Gilbert Newton

Lewis, the college’s first dean.

Latimer Associates

$10,000-$49,000

Named for Wendell Latimer,

professor of chemistry.

Giauque Associates

$5,000-$9,999

Named for Nobel Laureate and

chemistry professor William F.

Giauque.

Seaborg Associates

$2,500-$4,999

Named for Nobel Laureate

and chemistry professor

Glenn Seaborg.

College of Chemistry Annual Donor Clubs

annual report ’10

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Annual Giving ClubsGifts received in 2009–10

The Lewis

Associates

$50,000 and more

Anonymous (2)


William L. Friend

Drs. David S. Gee and

Caryn C. Q. Lum

David Lieu, M.D., M.B.A.

Karl Malmquist Estate

Mr. and Mrs. Alan C.

Mendelson

Pitzer Family Foundation


Dr. and Mrs. James R. Tretter

The Latimer

Associates

$10,000 to $49,999

Prof. Paul A. Bartlett and Dr. Yumi Nakagawa

Carl P. Beitelshees

Sunney I. Chan

Dr. Nirmal and Mrs. Ellen

Chatterjee

Ronald L. Clendenen

Thomas and Martha De Jonghe

Drs. Thomas J. and Laura J.

Dietsche

Dimitrios and Nina Dimitrelis

Dean and Becky Draemel

Helen H. Farrell

George M. Fohlen

Kai-Ye Fung


Vic and Faye Gunther

David G. Karraker

Ed Kim

Edward F. Kleinman

Jan and Maria Leeman

Arturo Maimoni

Timothy and Roberta

Montgomery

Curtis Lee Munson

James A. Sanford

Dr. and Mrs. Warren G.

Schlinger

Patricia M. Schreter

Virginia and William Schultz

Dr. J. A. Trainham and Dr. L. D. Waters

The Giauque

Associates

$5,000 to $9,999

Dr. Francisco J. Barnes de Castro

Edwin D. Becker

Ardra C. Brodale

Tim and Valerie Bruemmer

Ruth and Mike Cheng

William A. Daniels

Pete Dragovich and Pei-Pei Kung

Matthew K. Fountain

Herbert Hooper

Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Kaldor

Stanley Kelly

Donald H. Mohr

Albert Narath

Joan Friedman Newmark and

Richard Newmark

Rodney and Jeanne Panos

Steven Sciamanna

Tonny and Fay Soesanto

Bruce E. and Susan J.

Stangeland

Dr. Charles E. and Mrs.

Dorothy H. Stehr

Barbara A. Tenenbaum

Rodney and Suzanne

Thompson

Ron and Lucy Wetzel

Steven and Mary Young

The Seaborg

Associates

$2,500 to $4,999

Anonymous

Ronald J. Banducci

David Bass

Prof. Robert and Ms. Wendy

Bergman

Norman Bonner

Robert A. Chinn

Clelland R. Downs

Rocky L. Freel and Nancy

Skilling

Eric Haas

Prof. Clayton Heathcock and

Ms. Cheri Hadley

John F. Heil

Richard W. Hyman

John Jost Jr.

Kiyoshi and Irene Katsumoto

Frederick Lam

Polam Lee

Virginia and Frank Lew

Gary and Irene Masada

Steven S. Moor

Herb Nelson

William R. Parrish

Prof. and Mrs. Norman E.

Phillips

Darwin and Donna Poulos

Ferenc Rosztoczy, Ph.D.

Klaus and Mary Ann Saegebarth

Georgieanna L. Scheuerman

Manesh and Margarita Shah

Karen and Scott Sibbett

Dr. Eric R. Sirkin

Mr. and Mrs. John R. Skinner

Clinton D. and Sharon Snyder

Linn Specht, M.D.

Kong-Heong Tan

George and Stephanie Tyson

Willard M. Welch

Kathleen M. Welsh, M.D.

Wilke Associates

$1,000-$2,499

Named for Charles Wilke, pro-

fessor of chemical engineering.

Calvin Club

$500-$999

Named for Nobel Laureate and

chemistry professor Melvin

Calvin.

Tobias Club

$250-$499

Named for chemical engineering

professor Charles Tobias.

Hildebrand Club

$100-$249

Named for chemistry professor

Joel Hildebrand.

The Wilke

Associates

$1,000 to $2,499

Drs. Juana V. and Andreas Acrivos

Keith Alexander

David L. Anderson

Myron Andrews

Anonymous

Daniel and Shelley Arenson

Kelly M. and Mark A. Aubart

Timothy A. Barbari

Richard Behrens

Prof. Harvey W. Blanch

M. Robert Blum

John and Sharon Brauman

R. R. Breckenfeld

Michelle Marie Brodale

Richard Brodzinsky

Marilee Brooks

David and Donna Brown

Michael J. Buckley

Frederick L. Burnett, III

John Bush

William H. Calkins

Prof. Joseph and Mrs. Susan

Cerny

Edmund Chambers

S. Kumar and Uma

Chandrasekaran

Ming-Chou Chen

Yuenyee M. Cheng

Karl O. Christe

J. Peter and Nancy L. Clark

Michael W. Clark

John W. Collette

Robert S. Crowder

Frank Delfino

Walter and Eleanor Dong

Michelle Christine Douskey

Walton Ellis

Tarric M. El-Sayed

Gail G. Engerholm

Steven and Terri Fantazia

George Fisk

Howard and Mina Fong

George Anders Fosselius

Shun C. Fung

Man K. Go

Wataru Goishi

Charles and Karen Goss


Elaine and Arnold Grossberg

Rika Hagiwara

The Halloran Family

Prof. Charles B. Harris

Barry P. Hart

Jessie Herr

Joel Hill

Victor Ho

William and Hoi-Ying Holman

David V. Horak

Michael H. Imbacuan

David R. and Karen W.

Johnson

Stephen and Elizabeth

Johnson

Prof. and Mrs. William L. Jolly

Gary and Patricia Kaiser

Dr. and Mrs. Max J. Kalm

Paul H. Kasai

David E. Kepler

Chung-Pai Kim

Dr. and Mrs. Fred Kirby

Kevin A. Klotter

Hiroaki Kobayashi

Janell Kobayashi

Henry F. Koopmann

LaRoc and Linda Kovar

Allen A. Kozinski

John M. Krochta

James A. Krom

James and Barbara Lago

Julian I. Landau

Rich Lawton

Peter W. Lee

Soo-Ying Lee

Prof. W. A. Lester Jr.

Mark Lewellyn

David A. Lightner

Robert and June Lindquist


Scott and Annette Lynn

Chin and Ann Ma

Xiaojun Ma and Xiaodong Wu

Jane and Michael MacDonald

Thomas and Gael Mallouk

Kao-Wen Mao

Prof. Samuel and Mrs. Lydia

Markowitz

Prof. Michael Marletta and

Ms. Margaret Gutowski

Dean Richard and

Mrs. Jo Anne Mathies

Michael J. McCormick, M.D.

Alice I. Eastman McKay

Larry and Debbie Meisner


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Calvin Huynh

g r e g m i l l e r is a

senior chemistry major.

He was born in San

Diego, where he

attended high school

and community college

before transferring to

Berkeley. He is working

with graduate student

Casey Brown in the

Bergman/Raymond

groups. He is applying

to graduate school in

chemistry and plans to

be a chemistry professor.

benefits of private giving

“ I am very grateful to have received the Heger-Horst award. The financial support has allowed me to participate worry-free in research in the College of Chemistry.”

Richard L. Merson

Thomas J. Meyers

Walter H. Moos and

Susan M. Miller

Lingfung Mok

Chair and Mrs. Daniel M.

Neumark

Richard D. Newman

Amy Ng and

Rodrigo Susperreguy

Fujio Okino

Ogbemi O. Omatete

Charles Joseph Ordonia

Chin-Tzu Peng

Llad Phillips

Jeanne Pimentel

Rene J. Prestwood

John A. Ragan

Frank and Annette Rahn

Andrew Ramelmeier

Prof. and Mrs. Kenneth N.

Raymond

Chair Jeffrey A. and Ms. Karen

B. Reimer

Shiyi Ren

John L. Robbins

Joel W. Rosenthal

Jonathan H. Rowell

David Sable

Marsha Sable

Michael and Lucille Schloemer

Bill Schriver

Gary P. Schwartz

Sher G. Singh

Mike Solomon and Ellen Lee

Mrs. Judith and Prof. Gabor

Somorjai

Thomas M. Stachelek

Donna R. Sterling

Ivan T. Stinson

Ms. Carolyn North and

Prof. Herbert L. Strauss

Prof. Andrew Streitwieser

Michael Joseph Sullivan and

Ellie Yi-Li Yieh

Kalpathi and Jayasree

Suryanarayanan

Jack D. Swanburg

Bruce Gerald Szczepankiewicz

Richard M. Teeter

annual report ’10

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Anne F. and Anson B. Thacher

Ms. Rosemary and

Prof. T. Don Tilley

Ravi Upadhye

Ernesto Valdes-Krieg

Michael G. Valentine

Dale E. Van Sickle

James P. Vokac and

Stacey T. Baba

Dr. Grier A. Wallace

Andrew Wang

Raymond Chiu and

Stephanie Wang

Mark Wegner and Mary Korn

Keith R. Westcott

Dr. Gene Westenbarger

Ron and Lucy Wetzel

Robert Wilhelm

Roger G. and Molly W.

Williams

Mark G. Wilson and

Deborah C. Dalzell

Gar Lok Woo

William Allen Wood

Dr. Frank X. Woolard

Prof. Peidong Yang and

Ms. Mei Wang

Ji Zhu and Wei Zhao

The Calvin Club

$500 to $999

Arthur and Frances Abramson

Carlo and Barbara Alesandrini

Stuart T. Anderson

Anonymous (6)

Evan and Mary Appelman

Prof. John Arnold and

Ms. Jennifer Shaw

Burke and Carole Baker

Karen Jernstedt and

Jim Barkovich

Michael L. Barry

Donald Boerth

Marvin and Judith Brafman

C. Hackett Bushweller

Michael F. Carolan

Bill and Crystal Casteel

David Chan

Vincent Chan

Michelle and Jeffrey Chang

Andrew Y. Cheng

Delano and Helen Chong

Ronald N. Clazie

Harold Cota

John E. Crider

Matthew Shane Croughan

Jed E. Davidow and

Marnie Harker

Thomas and Cynthia Delfino

Ron Dickenson

Gus D. Dorough

Rochelle and Robert Dreyfuss

William E. Dunn

Rudy Dyck

John G. Ekerdt

Victor and Louise Engleman

Mark R. Etzel

Nicholas A. Fedrick

Bruce A. Firestone

Prof. Graham Fleming and

Ms. Jean McKenzie

Stanley W. Fong

Megan E. Fox

Craig S. Frial

Philip R. Friedel

Friends of Eric Abramson

Scholarship Fund

Takashi Fujikawa

Frank P. Gay

Michael B. Gentzler

David L. Grier

Margaret Guo

Andrew Guzelian

Grant W. Haddix

Mr. and Mrs. SoonKap Hahn

Andrew Harautuneian

Marlin D. Harmony

Florence Pat Haseltine

Frank Hershkowitz

Duane Heyman

I. C. and Kimi Hisatsune

Richard J. Buss and

Pauline Ho

Judy C. Huang and

Ken A. Nishimura

Michael R. Hull

Yasuko Ikeda

Mark J. and Alice H. Isaacson

Adrienne Iwata

Dilip K. Joshi

Adele Kayser and Family

Jack Kelly

Prof. Sung-Hou and

Mrs. Rosalind Kim

Te Piao King

P. G. Kosky

Deanne C. Krenz

Santohk S. Labana

Frances Lee

Wei-Luo Lee

Prof. Yuan Tseh and

Mrs. Bernice Lee

Marc and Tsun-Tsun Levin

James W. Lewis and

Dale A. Roche

Wes Liang

Arnold A. Liebman

Richard M. Lim and

Terate B. Nalukas

Nelson Lin

Peter and Rachel Lipowicz

Feng-Quan Liu

Dick and Myra Lynch

Mary M. Mader

Prof. Bruce H. Mahan Estate

Jon Maienschein

Craig Markey

Paul and Ann McCaslin

Robert C. McIntosh

Peter M. McKinney

Alison McLean

Michael E. McManus

L. Curtis Mehlhaff

Marcia A. Middleton

Michael J. Miller

Paul E. Morrisroe

R. J. Nagle Jr.

Douglas James Ng

Prof. Heino Nitsche and

Ms. Martha Boccalini

David A. O’Brien

Kent Opheim

Henry and Mary Elizabeth

Padgett

Edward John Palkot

Yong Kwang Park

Garry Iain George Parton

John and Cheryl Petersen

David B. Phillips

Joan and Rich Phillips

donors to the college

Gurdeep S. Ranhotra

Elmer and Helen Reist

Mindy Rex and

John Dischinger

Szymon Sabala

Ryan and Janice Saiki

William Sailor, Ph.D.

Takayoshi Sasaki

Harry N. and Jane L. Scheiber

Dr. and Mrs. Francis J. Schmitz

Arnold and Janice Seidule

Drs. Daniel and Ximena Sessler

Stephen and Lila Shain

Jerry Richard Shuper

Gerald Smolinsky

Randy Snurr

Jeffrey P. Solar and

Rosalyn Furukawa

David F. Starks

James Stocking

James S. Symanski

Masato and Miyeko Tanabe

Michael J. Tauber

Greg O. Taylor

Huijun Tian

Curtis M. Tong

Michael W. Tsiang

Petra N. Turowski

Leslie N. Watson and

Gary Beers

Dr. Richard J. Wilcox

Charles L. Wilkins

Phillip A. Wilmarth and

Janis Shampay

Derek R. Witty

Katsumi Yamamoto

Sachio Yamamoto

Catherine Diep

Cecilia Lee Yu and Timothy Kar Yu

The Tobias Club

$250 to $499

Hugh Barnett

Bruce N. Bastian

James Beck

John Bedbrook and

Pamela Dunsmuir

Patrick Bengtsson and

Erin Bydalek

Stacey Bent and Bruce Clemens

Marina Berdichevsky

Carl M. Berke

Steven and Sandra Bernasek

William E. Bondinell

Marie T. Borin, Ph.D.

Richard W. Borry

Lawrence J. Bowerman

John J. Brodbeck

David Burge

Allan R. Champion

Jeanne C. Chang

Karen Chang

Shih-Ger (Ted) Chang

Stephen T. Chang

Shiuan Chen

Lung W. Chiao-Yap

Marina M. Chin

Leland J. Chinn

Maria T. Clark

Julian A. Codelli

Robert and Debora Couey

Calvin J. Curtis

Sheryl and Kenneth Dahl

Timothy and Suzanne Devitt

Dr. Lawrence H. Dubois

Victoria A. Edwards

Bruce A. Ellsworth

Aaron Eppler

John Fabera

Dwight A. Fine

Michael and Mary Flaugh

Girard (Jerry) Foster

Tim Frederick

Sabrina Fu and Philip Rous

Alvin S. Fuse

Peter Gates

Mary K. Gilles

Avery Goldstein

Ross A. Gould

Samuel L. Graham

Gail L. Gray

Joseph M. Greendorfer

Dr. Scott V. Gronert

William Guilford

Paul H. Gusciora

David J. Hart

Steven Leopold Hartford,

M.D., Ph.D.

Faraj Hasanayn

Derek J. Hei

Frank and Melanie Hernandez

Robert Hickman

Don Hildenbrand

Elvin L. and Donna I. Hoel

Richard and Patricia Hoff

Mei-Shel and Jin-Lon Hon

Richard Honnell

Yu Con Hoong

Larry E. Huber

John T. Hunt

William Y. Ja

Bob Jagow

Paul J. Jansen

Jack Jew

Eusebio Juaristi

James S. Kane

Edward L. King

James A. Klein

Robert Knott

Drucilla D. Knutsen

Dr. and Mrs. Romesh Kumar

Edward D. Lally

Stephen M. Lambert

Dr. Kai Lamottke

Lee and Masako Lanselle

Prof. Stephen R. Leone

Traci A. and Timothy A. Lewis

Michelle Kong and Jun Li

Luke Liang

Jon and Ren-Chih Lin

Maria S. Ling

Christopher A. Lipinski

Glenn Lipscomb

Thomas G. Lockwood

Prof. Jeffrey Long

Troy Ly

Patricia D. Mackenzie

Rajinder K. Mahendroo

Gregory S. Girolami and

Vera V. Mainz

Toby and Jason Massman

John M. McDonald

Juan R. McKinney

Kenneth E. Meeker

Prof. and Mrs. Howard C. Mel

John G. Mengshol

David W. Moreland

Arthur I. Morgan

Barbara and Dennis Morrell

Mike Moyer and

Margaret Chu-Moyer

Robert and Susan Mullen

Sean P. Mullen

Barry T. Murphey

Timothy J. Myers

Dr. and Mrs. Louie A. Nady

John Barry Nash

Harry T. (Tom) Nelson

Dr. David R. Nethaway

Allen Ng

Steve Ng and

Lynn Tangudtaisuk

Nancy Norem

Naomi Obinata

Miles Okino

Stephen ONeil

Robert J. Ouellette

Keith Pang

James Papanu

Richard C. Pilger Jr.

Bava Pillay

Craig and Janet Polson

Roland Quong

David Rabuka

Prof. Clayton Radke

Raghavan and Janaki Ramanan

Ronald Ratcliffe

Tim Revak

Larry Ricker

Gene Roberts

Mark and Regina Rodwell

Guido Rosati

Mark E. Rosen

Ola M. Saad

Larry Schick

Erika Schneider, Ph.D.

Alan and Gail Searcy

Frederic T. Selleck, Ph.D.

Dr. Susan Sharfstein and

Dr. Joseph Shiang

Donald and Carmen Shiosaki

Eric C. Shiue

Prof. Kevan Shokat

Ab Siadati, M.D.

Wade Napoleon Sisk

Joseph P. Smith

Shinji and Masuko Soneda

Andrew James Souers


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The Hildebrand

Club

$100 to $249

Raul E. Acosta

Sondra B. and Daniel L. Akins

David Gary Alberg and

Gretchen Hofmeister

Harry Alderson

Spiro Alexandratos

Dr. and Mrs. David Altman

Rex Altman

James and Jacqueline Ames

Phyllis and Larry Anderson

Anonymous (5)

Robert and Nancy Antonoplis

Edward and Florence Aoyagi

John D. Arenivar

Morris D. Argyle

Don W. Arnold

Lucienne Ash

Charles E. and Marianne

Auerbach

Bruce and Helene Ault

Steven C. Avanzino

Bruce J. Bader

Douglas J. Bamford

Robert J. Baseman

Craig P. Baskin

George H. Batchelder

Dr. David Beach and

Ms. Roxana Beach

Ronald L. Bedard

Norman Peter Belle

Robert and Jackie Bellerose

Julie Stewart

Christina M. Stuart

Janet Tamada

Jeffrey Tane

Jerome H. and Selma E.

Targovnik

David G. Taylor

Edmund Thelen

John F. Thompson

Ken Tokunaga

Rebecca C. Tong

Gail Godsey Trimble

Baylor B. and Linda M. Triplett

Constantine Tsonopoulos

Renée van de Griend

Jack Van Den Bogaerde

Lindy Vejar

Deane Stefan Walker

Lisa Wang

Sheldon A. Weber

R. B. Weisenmiller, Ph.D.

Robert B. Welch

Fred and Cristel Wemer

Heather D. Whitley

Richard F. Wormsbecher

Albert H. Wu

Fonda B. Wu

Priscilla Yang and

Nathanael Gray

Kenneth and Nicole Yi

Chisuk F. Yom

Robert D. Zimmerman

William T. Zimmerman

Paul Zittel

Scott C. Benson

Janet E. Bercovitz

Ryan Berger

Clayton G. Berling

Neeraj and Nidhi Bhatnagar

Richard N. Biagioni

Jacob Bigeleisen

Ryan Bise

Paul D. Bisio

Loring K. Bjornson

Todd A. Blumenkopf

Richard Boden

Jerome V. Boots

John and Claire Boursalian

James E. Boyden

Robert J. Breuer

William H. Brown

Edward Bruggemann

Lucinda F. Buhse and

Steven A. Kinsley

Carol J. Burns

Thomas and Eileen Busching

Charles Nicholas Buser

Holger Butenschoen

Roseanna M. Caldwell

James L. Caley

Mark Camenzind

Jonathan and Linda Carlson

Ronald M. Carn

Barbara Anne Carpenter

Rodolfo and Miriam Carty

Chris J. Carvalho

Ching-Jen Chang

Chu-An Chang

Donald F. Charles

Linda Chen

Philip and Cynthia Chen

Yong S. Chen

Zhan Chen and Mei Tang

Donald Cheung

Shannon I. Chi and

Zachary K. Sweeney

Collette Ching

Daniel Chinn

Melanie Chiu

Gerald N. Choi

Cheryl Chow

Gordon G. Chu

Yong-Hwee Chua

Janet Chuang

Michelle Claffey and

Stephane Caron

Mary E. Clifford

Jeffrey M. and Kerry L. Cogen

David Cohen

Martin Colaco

John Barrett Collins

Donald R. Colvin

F. Warren Colvin

Peter S. Connell

Morgan P. Conrad

Dr. Anthony Contreras

Mary M. Conway

David and Abbey Cook

John F. Cooper

Douglas Hensley Cortez

Tucker Coughlen

Evangeline G. Cruz

David L. Cullen

Bo Curry

Judith A. Cutino

Alan K. Darby

David C. Darwin

Drs. Cameron and Jean Dasch

Pravin K. Dattani

Paul and Jane Davis

Pedro de Andres

Kenneth E. De Bruin

Herbert H. De Friez

Andrew and Carol DeGraca

Stephen G. DiMagno

James R. Divine

Charles Do

Laurie J. Dockter

Denis and Donna Drapeau

Lois J. Durham

Doug Edwards

David J. Ellis

Prof. Jon and Mrs. Pam Ellman

Edith, Polly, and Diane Eskenasy

Stephen Falling

Nina Mauney Farjadi

Nassim Farrokhzad

Dr. Dr. Rüdiger Faust

Peter S. Fedkiw

J. L. Fick

Warren W. Flack

Stewart and Louise Fong

Bruce M. Foreman

David Forsyth

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Elsa (Ph.D. Candidate, M.C.B.) and Nelly Tretter enjoy the

remodeled Hildebrand Library and Student Learning Center

at a reception before the Dean’s Dinner.

Willard R. Foss

Elizabeth Francois

Loyd D. Frashier

Kevin and Barbara Fuller

Ethan C. Galloway

Terry Galloway

Jing Gao

Jose Garcia-Ramirez

Don Gartner and

Donelle Enritt

Steven and Hillary Garwin

John Gavenonis

Juris P. Germanas

Kevin R. Geurts and

Angela R. Smith

Dan Gezelter

Peter Giannousis

Marcus I. Gibson

Edward Gillan

Jack T. Gilmore

Will Glesener

Aaron Glimme

Miriam Gochin

Gary M. Goncher

Alex Goretsky

Harold and Margaret Granquist

Ronald W. Grant

Susan Graul

Dr. F. Richard Green, III

Laura Greenfield

Paul J. Gregory

David Grossman

Lara A. Gundel

Robert Gunther

Lucy B. Hagan

Kenneth and Carol Hamilton

Jeffrey H. Handono

John and Angela Harder

George L. Hardgrove Jr.

J. Ronald Hargreaves

B. Neal Harman

Edwin R. Harris

Everette Harris

Ian Harris

Robert E. Harris

Tom Harvey

Corinne D. Hausmann

Michal and Timothy Hawk

Dr. Auda K. Hays

James and Jeannine Healy

Dr. Scott J. Hecker

Sue Heinemann

Dr. and Mrs. Max J. Helix

Robert and Ellen Hempton

Robert W. Hermsen

Paul Hernandez

William T. Hicks

Marcus Hinkson

Toshiaki Hino

Eric Hintsa

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Hirotsu

Hansel Ho

Jason Ho

Lisa Hochrein

Lucas R. Hoffman

Rosa M. Hohman

Eleanor M. Holland

David Holtz

Seung Hong and Seog Kong

Chris Hovde

Helen Hoyt

Lewis Hsu

Zhengjie Hu and Wendy Ng

Mary Lee Hyde

Anthony T. Iavarone

Michael K. Ishii

William Ja

Thomas P. Jarvie

Ronald Jensen

John A. Jensvold

Russell D. Johnson Jr.

David M. Jonas

Patricia W. and Russell L. Jones

T. Keith Jones

S. L. Jung

Andreas V. Kadavanich

Yohji Kameoka

Richard B. Kaner

Eric Keim

Thomas Ross Kelly

Joshua Jahmil Kennedy-Smith

William B. Kezer

Ellen Kick

James Kilduff

John S. Killian

Judy E. Kim

Andrew Kindler

Todd Kindorf

John Kindsvater

Baldwin King

Mary Ann King

Kim Kinoshita

Paul and Tracy Klein

William and Elizabeth

Klemperer

Roland Koestner

Trudy Kong

Drs. Rebecca E. Taylor and

Anthony R. Kovscek

Kenneth W. Kraus

Shailaja Krishnamurthy

Paul J. Krusic

Ajay G. Kshatriya

James T. Kuwada

Sasha Kweskin

Hyuk S. Kwon

Justin Kwong

Cam-Mi La

Brian B. Laird

Zadig C. Lam

Arnold Lamb

Joseph R. Landolph Jr.

William C. Langworthy

Bart Larrenaga

William J. Lawrence

Joseph V. Lecce

Charles Michael Lederer

Chang Jae Lee

Christina J. Lee

James J. Lee

Wang-Thai Lee and Anna K. Fok

Alice Lee-Dutra

Charles and Tonya Lemmon

Richard S. Leonard

Cissy Leung

Keith Leung

Daniel Leva

Alan Levy

A. Lew

Norman and Yvonne Li

Dr. William G. Light

Bernard Joseph Lilly Jr.

Megan M. Lim

Chun K. Lin

Florence J. Lin, Ph.D.

Jack Lin

Jasper C. Lin

Joseph and Cathy Lin

Manfred Lindner

David Lindsay

Mika Lindvall

Benjamin T. Liu

Pamela W. Liu

Yan and Yvonne Liu

Lisa Lobree and

Cameron Abrams

Mark Loncar

John W. Lorimer

Brian and Serene Lovell

Cliff Lowe

George M. Lucier

Charles N. Ludvik

Tom Mac Phee

Marc Machbitz

Khorshed Madan

Karyl A. Maier

Doug Mandel

Nolan Mangelson

David W. M. Marr

Paul Martin

Con and Mary McCormick

Dr. William R. McDonell

James W. McFarland

Robert McKoon

Keith and Liz McLaughlin

John Mersch, III

Dr. Roger and Helen Metzler

Charles and Diane Meyer

Richard Michelman and

Karen Meyer

Ognjen Miljanic

George P. Miljanich

Richard R. Miller

Prof. and Mrs. William H.

Miller

William and Anita Miller

Christian J. Minot

Peter D. Mlynek

Daniel P. Morgan

Jim Muirhead

James B. Murdoch

Thomas F. Murphy

Tatsuhiko and Mihoko

Nakashige

Wesley C. Natzle

Jeff Nelson

Marshall Douglas Nelson

Madeline M. Netto

Thomas W. Newton

Goretti Ngao


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Tuan Nguyen

Wesley Nurss

James L. and Georgiana

Nygaard

Jodie M. Nygaard

John O’Connell

Prof. Joseph M. O’Connor

Patrick J. Orme

Steven H. Overbury

Thomas D. Padrick

Mr. and Mrs. Luisito E. Palad

Spyridon Papadakis

Rudolph Pariser

Christopher C. Parks

John E. Parmeter

Chris Parr

Patricia Dooley Parrish

Colonel Douglas A. Patterson

Chuck Paul

Chih-Yuan and Shiau-Shiau Pei

Mike L. Perry

Jaan Pesti

Leonidas Petrakis

Paul A. Petruzzelli

Co D. and Thuy T. Pham

Sundiep (Tehara) Phanse

Jason Ploeger

Matthew Plunkett

J. Kenneth Poggenburg

Jan Polissar

Max Y. Pong

Gary and Lily Poon

Dr. J. Winston Porter

Max and Stacey Pray

Elisabeth and Jonathan Price

Austin Prindle

Susan Puglia

Thomas Quick

Peter D. Quinn

David Rabb

Donald L. Raimondi

Tom and Betty Ransohoff

Rekha R. Rao

Edgar A. Rasquin

Sandra A. Rehling

Liane Reif-Lehrer and

Sherwin S. Lehrer

Manfred G. Reinecke

Dennis and Marta Reuter

Edgar and Rowena Reyes

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Jed Richardson

Alice and Rudolph Rico

Mark Roebuck

Gerry Rollefson

Leo Romm

Albert J. Rothman

Barney Rubin

David S. Rumschitzki

Scott Rychnovsky

David Sandford

Robert and Judith Santini

Chantima Savagatrup

Robert A. Scherrer and

Marilynn C. Scherrer

David P. Schmidt

Nick R. Schott

Peter Schubart

Barry Schwarz

Gretchen M. Schwenzer

Martin Seamons

Richard Searle

Timothy and Tamera Selchau

Paul Shain and Wendy Walfoort

George V. Shalimoff

Anita J. Shaw

Kathryn Shepler

George S. Sheppard

Albert E. Sherwood

Martin D. Shetlar

James S. Shirk

May-Feng Shiue

Hugh C. Silcox

Howard E. Simon

Robert Simpson

Mary F. Singleton

Michael Siu

Arthur C. Smith

Michael E. Smith

John E. Sohn

Deborah L. Solomon

Bruce Spencer

Harry and Margaret Spencer

Susan Chun and

Pete Spielmann

Virginia Stark

David Stern

Dr. Fred B. Stitt Estate

Elise C. Stone

Elaine B. Stoner

Frederick J. Strieter

Pieter Stroeve

“ The Saegebarth fellowship will help me use the results of my research with greenhouse gas sensors for education outreach in local K-12 schools.”

benefits of private givingv i r g i n i a t e i g e is

a second-year graduate

student in Professor

Ronald Cohen’s lab.

She was born in

Bloomington, IN, and

attended the University

of Indiana for her

undergraduate degree.

She is developing com-

pact sensor packages to

monitor several gases

that are controlled

through international

climate and air quality

agreements, including

carbon dioxide and

ozone. She wants to be

a professor of chemistry.

E. Thomas Strom

John P. Sullivan

Ted Sun; Sun Innovations, Inc.

Joseph J. Sweeney

Chris Tagge

Fred Tanaka

Francis Tanzella

Marc E. Tarrasch

Terre Terzakis

Klaus H. Theopold

Peter M. Thomson

James Thorne

Colin M. Tice

Jeffrey Tom

Paul Tong

Lora G. Toy

John A. Trimmer

Lisa and Eugene Tung

Han and Hera Tunggal

Noel H. Turner

David Uehling

Don E. Ugwu

Raymond T. Underberg

John P. Unik

Nikhil and Manisha Varaiya

Paul Verderber

Gil and Carmencita Villanueva

Matthew Volgraf

Gregory J. Wagner

Jennifer S. Wakita

Harold Walba

Bennet M. Wang

Cliff Wang

Kai Wang

David Watt

Donald K. Wedegaertner

Bruce and Shari Weiller

Berthold J. Weis

Peter H. Wendschuh

Greg Went

William C. Wernau

Carolyn A. Westerdahl

James and Mary White

Ieda Siqueira Wiarda

Richard C. Wilmer

Dr. Richard E. Wolf

Joseph L. Womack

Eric K. Wong

Harvey Wong

Patrick Wong

Sharon M. Wong

Mabel Lowe Woo

Annie Wu

Hao Xu

Terry T. Yamada

Elsa Yan

Bo Yang

Eric Pao Yan Yang

Zhen Yu Yang

David R. Yarkony

Marshall Iav Yeh

Benjamin King Fai Yeung

Anissa and Gary Yeung

Shirley Chao Yfantis

Steven Sibener and

Linda Young

Raymond K. Yu

Marsha Yuan

Yao Yue

Loette Zablackis

Richard and Susan Zare

Minxue Zheng

Chester A. Zimmerman

Rebecca Zuckerman

The Honor Roll

$99 and below

Jesse W. Adams

P. J. Alaimo

Paula Alba Green

Mazhar N. Ali

John M. Allegretti

Yuria Anaga

Anonymous (6)

David Arnosti

Zaid A. Astarabadi

Robert and Yadja Bacher

Leif M. Backlund

Mikael P. Backlund

Reha Bafrali

Jennifer L. Barnes

Joel M. Barnett

Edward M. Barrish

Elizabeth H. Bartky

Sarah C. Bell

Dean Bender

Mitchell M. Berman

Dhruv Bhatanagar

Yashodhan Bhawe

Janet F. Bickford

Thomas S. Bischof

Sarah Schofield Bittner

Gerry G. Bong

Justin and Andrea Bramwell

Mitchell C. Brenner

Anne Y. Brody

Edward M. Brooks

Elizabeth R. Burkhardt

John Bushweller

Kyle B. Caldwell

Wayne M. Camirand

Kenneth H. Campbell

Hans K. Carlson

John W. Carroz

Donald A. Cass

Allison G. Caster

Dr. Jeffrey J. Chalmers

Robert P. Chambers

Julia Chan

Erik Chandra

Caroline Chandra Tjin

Angela Y. Chang

Mary Pin Chang

Michelle M. Chang

Jonathan D. Chapple-Sokol

Alan William Chen

Mohammad Hadi and Jen Chen

Yingjie Chen

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. C.

Chew

Diana Chien

Eddie E. Chou

Wen Fei Chu

James L. Cole

Efren David Contreras Marta

Steven E. Copley

Virginia Cornish

Caitlin H. Couey

Jim G. Crump

Bernardo M. T. daCosta

Jarad Daniels

Jesse Dashe

Manoshi S. Datta

Charles F. Davis

Howard E. Davis Jr.

Frederick J. de Meyer

Laurie Robinson

deCastongrene

Diana M. DeGregorio

Francisco and Andrea Dias

Beatrice A. Dimpfl

Hong T. Dinh

Marcus H. Donaldson

Ronald P. Drucker

Kathleen L. Early

Marlene Jensen and

John W. Eastman

Philip M. Edwards

David Eisenberg

Alan S. Emanuel

Matthew T. Ensign

Felicia A. Etzkorn

Maria Fardis

Watson Fearing

H. G. Featherstonaugh

Erika Feller

Jere D. and Theresa D.

Fellmann

Carolina T. Fineman-Sotomayor

Tom and Iris Fink

Jack and Suzanne Finney

Dr. Mary F. Foltz

Reyes M. Fragoso

Janice D. Frazier

Renee R. Frontiera


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College of

Chemistry

seniors gather

on the plaza

in September

for their third

annual Senior

Class Dinner.

Han Fu

Wei Teik Gan

Jingyun Juliana Gao

Michael D. Gillespie

Michael and Hillary Gilson

Brian C. Gin

Gwen M. Ginley

David Glueck

Joshua E. Goldberger

Ming Gong

Beth and Timothy Grasel

Michael L. Greenfield

Douglas B. Grotjahn

Jolande K. Gumz

Joseph L. Haberfeld

Neil S. Hanabusa

Laurie A. Hart

Melissa Haryanto

Courtney James Hastings

John Hecht

William C. Hecker

Thomas and Sharla Heinzer

Bruce Henschel

Melissa Herbage

Gail Hernandez

Douglas M. Herr

Norman Hill

Paul V. Hinman

Louie and Delta T. Horton

David D. Hsu

Joan Budz Humphreys

Olivia Y. Hung

Peter Hurlimann

Maxine Hutchin

Calvin Huynh

Richard T. Ige

Jean-Pierre G. Jacks

Tuangporn Jackson

Janice S. Javier

Kyle Jensvold

Franklin and Rose Jin

Jon A. Johnsen

Audrey Johnson

Brian Johnston

Berardo Jurado

Anita E. Kalathil

Daniel Kamei

Steven C. Kaplan

Tim Karpishin

Jeffrey Kelterborn

Hassan Khan

Susan Sora Kim

Tae Kyung Kim

Matthew Cameron Kinne

Selene Koo

Nitzan Koppel

Gayane Koshkarayan

Mark H. Krackov

Georgina Garbutt Kratzer

Cynthia Krieger

James H. Krueger

Alexandre F. Kubicka

John and Elizabeth Kuhn

Albert C. Lai

John R. Lai

Peggy Lai

Diana F. Lam

Lisa H. Lam

Michelle C. Lam

Josef Landau and

Hanna Fogelman

John F. Lathrop

Theresa W. Lau

Warren Lau

Thu Alice Le

Marianne Asaro

Martin and Nailin Lee

Victoria Lee

Nicholas Leefer

Joshua Leonard

Eliza-Beth W. Lerch

Ping Sun James Leung

Christina Y. Lew

Andrew Liang

Thomas and Janet Lichterman

Zhen Lin

Eulanca Y. Liu

Tong Liu

James Long

Lawrence and Stephanie

Loomis-Price

Thomas J. Lowery

Ying Ying Lu

Henry S. Luftman

Matthew James Carl Lusich

Lena Luu

Richard A. MacPhail

Frank A. Mahler

Tom Maimone

Alvin W. Mao

Joseph J. Marlin

Andrew B. Martin

Andrew M. Mazzone

Christopher and Ellen

McBride

Barry and Donna McElmurry

Richard P. McGinnis

Anne E. McGuire

Michael J. McKelvy

Haig and Armine Mekhdjian

J. Hoyt Meyer

Adam D. Miller

Mark E. Mizianty

Timothy I. Moder

Carol (Mahon) Moenke

Wilson Mok

Jeffrey and Elizabeth Moreton

Astrid M. Mueller

Karl T. Mueller

Norbert Muller

William Murray

Matthew Myeng Kyun Na

John Nakanishi

Marcel W. Nathans, Ph.D.

Greg and Cindy Naylor

Nathan R. Neale

Randy P. Neisler

Diana and Steven Newman

Pui Shan Ng

Long H. Nguyen

Timothy O’Callaghan

Eugene H. O’Connor

Sarah Ollikkala Jones

Marjorie Olson

Robert M. Onorato

Mark F. Ornellas

William H. Orttung

Robin Padilla

Libbie S. Pelter

Rixin Peng

Eric S. Peterson

Anh-M. Phan

Joseph P. Phillips

John and Judi Pohl

Morgan Ponder

Geoffrey Prentice

Andrew D. Presley

Jesse Qi and Jimei Tian

Christina L. Quigley

Bob Rahardjo

Leila A. Ranis

Edward E. Ray

Richard A. Reinhardt

Barbara Reisner

Gordon and Sharon Renkes

Julius Rene Reyes

Matthew Aaron Richards

Keith W. Rickert

Gary E. Ritchey

Hank Rodeen

Glen Amos Rogers

Dobbie L. Roisen

Ara H. Rostomian

Jonathan J. Roybal

Eric P. Ruby

Wayne E. Sackett

Sanford A. Safron

Jeffrey S. Sasaki

Charles H. Schallhorn

William J. Scott, M.D.

Lynne, Steven, and Eric

Seaborg

Alan Sentman

Kamesh H. Shah

Priya S. Shah

Matthew Sheldon

Tae Soo Shin

Gary L. Shuck

Todd P. Silverstein

Harmeet Singh

Travis Smith

Shepard J. Smithline

Ferry and Melani Soendjojo

Jong Hwa Song

Joseph Sonnenberg

Gilbert A. St. John

Robert J. Stanley

Walter A. Stark Jr.

Steven and Gloria Stoltz

Diane Suen

Geary C. Sun

Andree Susanto

Jon T. Swanson

Robert and Margaret Switzer

Robert and Linda Swofford

Chi Hang T. Tai

Victor K. Tam

Iok I. Tang

Yun-Chen and Amy Tang

Vazken Tashinian

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Benjamin Ide

Wheeler Society

The following have commu-

nicated to us their intention

to include the College of

Chemistry or the University

of California, Berkeley, in

their estate plans through

some form of planned gift.

Raul E. Acosta

Dr. and Mrs. David Altman

Charles E. and Marianne

Auerbach

Jeremy J. Bartlett

Prof. Robert and Ms. Wendy

Bergman

Norbert C. Brady

Dr. Robert J. Carr

Sunney I. Chan

Dr. Nirmal and

Mrs. Ellen Chatterjee


Robin D. Clark and

Mary Mackiernan

Erna P. Clifford

Warren E. Clifford

Joyce Ekman Davis

Gus D. Dorough

Arthur K. Dunlop

Lois J. Durham

Martha Dutro

Dr. Darrell C. Feay

Warren W. Flack

Dr. Peter C. Foller

Kai-Ye Fung

Anna Gatti

Gay Chemists Support Fund



Ruth Groch

Susie Hahn

Benjamin Haile

Elizabeth S. Hall

Prof. Clayton Heathcock and

Mrs. Cheri Hadley

John F. Heil

Clinton and Joji Holzwarth

Richard W. Hyman

Nissen A. Jaffe

Anne C. Johnson

Prof. and Mrs. William L. Jolly

Dr. and Mrs. Fred Kirby

Dr. Paul A. and Mrs. Barbara W.

Kittle

Lance M. Krigbaum

Dr. Joe B. Lavigne


John M. McDonald

Robert A. Micheli

Prof. and Mrs. C. Bradley

Moore

Marjorie Pape Crandall Pearce

Gene Roberts

Glen A. Rogers

Michael S. Ross

Harry N. and Jane L. Scheiber

J. S. Paul Schwarz

Hugh C. Silcox

Henry B. Sinclair

Mr. and Mrs. John R. Skinner

Nora S. Smiriga

Frank B. Sprow

Bruce E. and Susan J.

Stangeland


Nancy P. Taylor

William Tolman

Dr. J. A. Trainham and

Dr. L. D. Waters

Rita Wieland

J. Michael Word

Robert D. Zimmerman

Tributes

Gifts have been received in

honor of:

Prof. Paul A. Bartlett

Prof. Robert G. Bergman

Prof. Harvey W. Blanch

Ms. Anna Chodos

Prof. Robert E. Connick

Prof. John E. Hearst

Prof. Clayton H. Heathcock

Prof. C. Judson King

Prof. Scott Lynn

Dean Richard A. Mathies

Prof. John M. Prausnitz

Prof. John O. Rasmussen

Junaedi T. Teh

Mansi Thakkar

Sigvor H. Thornton

Novy S. Tjokro

Ching Yin To

Raymond To

Paulina N. Tran

Rosalie Tran

Thanh Xuan Thi Tran

Dale Brian Trowbridge

Julie Tse

Richard Underwood

Tim Underwood

Ricardo Unikel

Mathias van Thiel

Vishal Vashistha

Joseph M. Victorino

Mary F. Vondrak

Jason N. Voogt

Huy K. Vu

Tiffany A. Vukasinovich

Shruti Waghray

Kiev K. Wan

Jack Wang

Clayton A. Webb

Brian M. Weiss

Scott P. West

Donald W. Whisenhunt Jr.

Ralph E. White

Todd Wightman

James Thor Williams

Valerie Williams

Betty K. Wong

Judi Wong

Steven Wong

Sussie Woo

Jennifer Betsy Wood

Adam and Shannon Woolley

Lilia G. and Edward Y. Wu

Yui Lun Wu

Alexander L. Xenakis

Chenxu Xu

Qiyao Yang

Jennifer R. Yen

Christine Yin

Donald G. Young

Adam J. Youngman

Frederick Zee

Tahani Zeid

Joyce G. Zhu

Qi Zuo


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donors to the collegeMr. Michael W. Rowell

Dr. David B. Sable

Prof. Gabor A. Somorjai


Prof. Ignacio Tinoco Jr.

Prof. K. Peter C. Vollhardt

Dr. Michael C. Williams

Gifts have been received in

memory of:

Mr. Samuel Abrahams

Mr. Eric B. Abramson

Mr. Edwin S. Anderson

Mr. Lawrence B. Anderson

Prof. Neil Bartlett

David and Betty Beach

Dr. Gary E. Brodale

Prof. Melvin Calvin

Prof. James Cason

Mrs. Minnie Cheng

Dr. Frances S. Connick

Prof. William G. Dauben

Mr. Isaac L. Eskenasy

Prof. Alan S. Foss

Prof. William D. Gwinn

Dr. Heinz Heinemann

Mrs. Nancy K. Hildenbrand

Ms. Margaret Jorgenson

Mr. Glen K. Kindler

Mrs. Rochelle Lester

Prof. Gilbert Newton Lewis

Prof. David N. Lyon

Ms. Kristen Malmquist

William H. McAdams

Mr. Charles F. McKay

Mr. Gregory K. Meisner

Dr. Jacklyn B. Melchior

Prof. Donald S. Noyce

Prof. Eugene E. Petersen

Dr. Paul B. Plouffe

Prof. Henry Rapoport

Dr. Charles B. Roland

Prof. Glenn T. Seaborg

Prof. Mitchel Shen

Mr. Tzong-Yann Shiue


Dr. Lieselotte K. Templeton

Prof. Charles W. Tobias

Prof. Theodore Vermeulen

Mrs. Cynthia Yieh

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Alumni

Association

Steering Team

Gordon G. Chu, B.S. ’03,

ChemE

Laurie J. Dockter, B.A. ’71,

Chem

Dean C. Draemel, M.S. ’75,

ChemE

Marissa Drouillard, B.S. ’00,

Chem

Mark W. Ellsworth, Ph.D. ’93,

Chem

Lara A. Gundel, Ph.D. ’75, Chem

Deanne C. Krenz, B.S. ’94,

Chem

Kirk Patrick Noblesa Lao,

B.S. ’09, ChemE

Lawrence B. Perry, B.S. ’56,

ChemE

Daisy Y. Quan, B.S. ’47, Chem

Steven F. Sciamanna, B.S. ’79,

Ph.D. ’86, ChemE

Krystine N. Yu, B.S. ’09, ChemE

Lucinda A. Vejar, B.S. ’85, Chem

Rebecca Zuckerman, Ph.D. ’00, Chem

Alumni Era

Volunteers

The following have volun-

teered their time to the

Alumni Association’s “era

groups.”

G. N. LEWIS ERA: 1945 AND EARLIER

George D. Gould, B.S. ’42, Chem

CUPOLA ERA: 1946–1963

Frank G. Delfino, B.S. ’51, ChemE

E. Kenneth Hulet, Ph.D. ’53,

Chem

Mary F. Singleton, M.S. ’60,

Chem

volunteers

YOUNG ALUMNI: 2000 AND BEYOND

Stephen Chan, B.S. ’01, ChemE

Marissa Drouillard, B.S. ’00,

Chem

Rebecca Zuckerman, Ph.D.

’00, Chem

SENIOR CLASS CAMPAIGN FOR 2010

Ernan Anguiano, B.S. ’11, ChemE

Doug Fung, B.S. ’11, ChemE

Anita Kalathil, B.S. ’10, ChemE

Baljit Kaur, B.S. ’11, ChemE

Kevin Ng, B.S. ’11, ChemE

Matthew A. Richards, B.S. ’10,

ChemE

Joe Thompson, B.S. ’11, ChemE

Kiev Wan, B.S. ’10, ChemE

Fundraising

Volunteers

The following assisted the

College in fundraising

efforts in 2009–10.

Dr. Andreas Acrivos

Keith Alexander, B.S. ’78,

Ph.D. ’83, ChemE

John Brauman, Ph.D. ’63,

Chem

Emory M. Chan, Ph.D. ’06,

Chem

Nirmal Chatterjee, Ph.D. ’71,

ChemE

Mike K. Cheng, B.S. ’77, ChemE

T.Z. Chu, B.S. ’58, Chem

Shelley Claridge, Ph.D. ’08,

Chem

J. Peter Clark, Ph.D. ’68, ChemE

William A. Daniels, B.S. ’56,

ChemE

Thomas G. DeJonghe, M.S.

’73, ChemE

Thomas J. Dietsche, Ph.D. ’72,

Chem


ChemE

THE FREE RADICALS CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE : 1964–1979

Mike K. Cheng, B.S. ’77, ChemE

Thomas G. DeJonghe, M.S.

’73, ChemE

Thomas J. Dietsche, Ph.D. ’72,

Chem


ChemE

David S. Gee, M.D., B.S. ’76,

Chem


Timothy L. Montgomery, B.S.

’73, ChemE

Virginia G. Schultz, B.S. ’66,

Chem


Ph.D. ‘86, ChemE

Bruce E. Stangeland, Ph.D. ’67,

ChemE

THE CHEMILLENNIUMS: 1980–1999

Marilee M. Brooks, M.S. ’88, ChemE

Paul V. Burke, B.S. ’81, ChemE

Joel D. Burley, Ph.D. ’91, Chem

Grace F. Chou, Ph.D. ’88,

ChemE

Daisy J. Du Bois, Ph.D. ’94,

Chem

Mark W. Ellsworth, Ph.D. ’93,

Chem

Maria S. Fardis, Ph.D. ’98,

Chem

Thomas R. Gadek, Ph.D. ’86,

Chem

Deanne C. Krenz, B.S. ’94,

Chem

Susan M. Miller, Ph.D. ’83,

Chem

Walter H. Moos, Ph.D. ’82,

Chem

Alyssa L. Roche, B.S. ’87,

ChemE


Ph.D. ’86, ChemE

Michael M. H. Yang, B.S. ’92,

ChemE

Sheila W. Yeh, B.S. ’80, Ph.D.

’85, Chem

Tarric El-Sayed, Ph.D. ’87,

ChemE

David S. Gee, B.S. ’76, Chem

William T. Gerhardt, B.S. ’60,

ChemE

George D. Gould, B.S. ’42,

Chem


Prof. John E. Hearst

Prof. Clayton H. Heathcock

John Hecht, Ph.D. ’99, ChemE

L. Louis Hegedus, Ph.D. ’72,

ChemE

Michael C. Kavanaugh, M.S.

’64, ChemE

Prof. C. Judson King

John M. Krochta, M.S. ’67,

ChemE

Christine M. Micheel, Ph.D.

’05, Chem

Timothy L. Montgomery, B.S.

’73, ChemE

Joon S. Moon, Ph.D. ’64,

ChemE

Prof. C. Bradley Moore, Ph.D.

’63, Chem

Curtis Munson, B.S. ’76,

Ph.D. ’85, ChemE

Pankaj K. Pande, B.S. ’79,

ChemE

Jeanne R. Pimentel

Bryce F. Sadtler, Ph.D. ’09,

Chem

Virginia G. Schultz, B.S. ’66,

Chem


Ph.D. ’86, ChemE

Farhang Shadman, M.S. ’69,

ChemE

Jane L. Scheiber

Bruce E. Stangeland, Ph.D.

’67, ChemE

Janet Tamada, Ph.D. ’89, ChemE

David H. Templeton, Ph.D. ’47,

Chem

Rodney Thompson, Ph.D. ’86,

ChemE

John H. Wang, B.S. ’00, Chem

Joshua Wittenburg, Ph.D. ’08,

Chem

Industrial Friends

Program

The College’s Industrial

Friends contribute $25,000

in annual support in the

form of unrestricted funds,

fellowships and scholar-

ships, start-up funds for

non-tenured faculty, sup-

port for facilities or research

funds for tenured faculty.

The following list includes

Industrial Friends in

2008–10.

Abbott Laboratories

Agilent Technologies

Amgen

Arkema

AstraZeneca

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Chevron Corporation

Clorox Company

CrystalGenomics

Dow Chemical Company

DuPont

Eli Lilly and Company

Genentech

Gilead Sciences

Halcyon Molecular

Hitachi

Hoffman-LaRoche

Honda R&D Americas

Johnson & Johnson

Lam Research Corporation

Merck

Micron Technology

Novartis

Robert Bosch Corporation

Roche Palo Alto

Schlumberger

Showa Denko K. K.

Sony Corporation

SpectraWatt

Toyobo America

Tyco Electronics

Gifts of $100,000

and more


Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

American Chemical Society,

Division of Organic

Chemistry

Amgen

Burroughs Wellcome

Camille and Henry Dreyfus

Foundation

Cancer Research Institute

Dow Chemical Company

Eli Lilly and Company

Genentech

Gilead Sciences

W.M. Keck Foundation

Gifts of $50,000 to

$99,000

AstraZeneca

Chevron Corporation

Micron Technology

Novartis

Robert Bosch Corporation

Sony Corporation

Gifts of $25,000 to

$49,000

Alternative Research & Development Foundation

Arkema


DuPont

Halcyon Molecular

Hoffmann-La Roche

Johnson & Johnson


Merck & Company

Roche Palo Alto

Showa Denko K. K.


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corporate, foundation and organizational gifts It is our pleasure to acknowledge the

many companies and other organizations that continue to invest in the college’s future. These

donations represent a major source of funding for our graduate, research and teaching programs.

Contributions for 2009–10 are listed below.

(center rear) David Kepler, Tony Kingsbury and Craig McDonald from Dow Chemical Company attend

the Western Regional AIChE conference held at UC Berkeley in April.

Gifts up to $24,999

Abbott Laboratories

Abcam

Ciba Vision Corporation

Clorox Company

Daiichi-Sankyo Company

Eastman Chemical Company

ExxonMobil

Hayden-McNeil Publishing

Jozef Stefan Institute

Newry Corporation

Organic Syntheses

Procter & Gamble Company

Royal Society of Chemistry

Matching Gifts

3M Foundation

A T & T Foundation

Abbott Laboratories Fund


Air Products & Chemicals

Allstate Insurance

Altria

Amgen Foundation

Arkema

BASF Corporation

Baxter Healthcare

Beckman Coulter

BGI Barclay’s Global Investors

Biogen Idec


Chevron Corporation

Cisco

Citrix

Clorox Company Foundation

Cognis Corporation

ConocoPhillips

Corning Inc. Foundation

Dow Chemical USA

eBay

Eli Lilly & Company

ExxonMobil Foundation

Fluor Corporation

Genentech

General Electric Foundation

Georgia Power

GlaxoSmithKline

Google

Hess Corporation

Hospira

J. M. Huber Corporation

IBM Corporation

IFF Foundation

Intel Foundation

Intuit

Johnson & Johnson

Johnson Controls Foundation


Life Technologies

Lockheed Martin

L’Oreal USA

Medtronic

Menasha Corporation

Foundation

Merck

Microsoft

Monsanto Fund

MRW & Associates

Northrop Grumman

Corporation

Novartis US Foundation

Novellus Systems

Pfizer

Pharmacia & Upjohn

Foundation

Pioneer Hi-Bred International

PNM Foundation

Procter & Gamble Fund

Raytheon Company

SanDisk

Science Applications Int’l

Shell Oil Company Foundation

Sun Microsystems

Tektronix Foundation

United Technologies

Valero Energy Corporation

Walt Disney Company

Foundation

Wells Fargo

Yahoo!

(right rear) Chevron’s Rebecca Brafman (G.S. ’00, ChemE) and Alyssa Roche (B.S. ’87, ChemE) attend the College’s annual Chevron lunch in March.

college advisory boardJohn H. Abeles, M.D.

MedVest

William Banholzer Dow Chemical Company

Paul F. Bryan Ph.D. ’85, ChemEChevron Corporation

Sunney I. Chan B.S. ’57, ChemE; Ph.D. ’61, ChemCaltech (emeritus)

Nirmal Chatterjee M.S. ’68, Ph.D. ’71, ChemE Air Products and Chemicals

Carl P. Decicco Bristol-Myers Squibb

Wayne L. Delker Clorox Company

Sam H. Eletr Ph.D. ’68, Chem Population Genetics

Stephen P. Fodor Post-doc ’91, ChemAffymetrix

Richard A. Gottscho Lam Research Corporation

Christopher A. Haskell Bayer Corporation

Victoria F. Haynes B.A. ’69, ChemRTI International

Herbert H. Hooper Ph.D. ’90, ChemEAmpersand Ventures

F. Emil Jacobs ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company

M. Ross Johnson B.S. ’67, Postdoc ’71, Chem Parion Sciences

Yuan T. Lee Ph.D. ’65, Chem Academia Sinica and UC Berkeley (emeritus)

Richard A. Lerner Scripps Research Institute

John H. Markels Ph.D. ’93, ChemE Merck & Company

Gary M. Masada B.A. ’66, Chem Chevron Corporation

Alan C. Mendelson Latham & Watkins, LLP

Terry J. Rosen Ph.D. ’85, ChemAmgen

Charles V. Shank UC Berkeley, LBNL (emeritus)

Darlene Solomon Agilent Technologies

James A. Trainham B.S. ’73, Ph.D. ’79, ChemERTI International

R. Stanley Williams M.S. ’76, Ph.D. ’78, Chem Hewlett-Packard Company

Steven D. Young Ph.D. ’82, ChemMerck & Company


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forms of givingbenefits for the college—and for the donors

Many different kinds of gifts can benefit both

you and the University. Some of them can

offer particular estate planning advantages,

including income for life. Our professional

staff would be pleased to discuss these gift

vehicles with you; however, the University

urges you also to consult your attorney or

financial advisor.

If you wish your gift to benefit the college,

any legal documents or instructions should

specify that the gift is for the College of

Chemistry (or the Department of Chemistry

or the Department of Chemical & Bio-

molecular Engineering) at the University

of California, Berkeley.

C A S H Checks should be made payable

to the UC Berkeley Foundation (UCBF),

with a notation designating the name of

the fund. Gifts to memorial funds should

be made payable to the specific fund.

Contributions may also be made with

your Visa or MasterCard credit card by

phone (510/642.9506), or online at

givetocal.berkeley.edu/chem/.

S E C U R I T I E S In most cases, gifts of

appreciated securities may be deducted at

full market value as of the date you make

the gift, and the donor does not have to pay

capital gains taxes. Gifts of appreciated

stock are most easily handled by the UC

Berkeley Foundation and should not be

sold prior to transfer. You or your broker

may contact Assistant Dean Mindy Rex in

the college (510/642.9506) or Ms. Sylvia

Worthington, Securities Steward in

University Relations (510/642.4123), for

further information. Stock can often be

transferred electronically. If you wish to

give a gift of depreciated stock, you should

first sell it and give the proceeds to the

Foundation. You can then use the loss to

offset any gains and also claim a charitable

deduction.

R E A L E S T A T E Gifts of real property may

be deeded to UC Berkeley for the benefit of

the College of Chemistry, providing signifi-

cant tax advantages to the donor in most

cases. It is also possible to deed a property

to the University and continue to occupy it

for life.

L I F E I N C O M E G I F T S A number of

options are available by which you may

transfer assets to a trust (to be managed

either by the University or a trustee of your

choosing) and receive income for yourself

and/or a designated beneficiary for life, as

well as immediate tax benefits. The college

ultimately receives the trust property.

B E Q U E S T S A fixed amount or a per-

centage of your estate may be designated

for the benefit of the College of Chemistry

in your will or living trust.

M A T C H I N G G I F T S Hundreds of

firms match their employees’ (and some-

times retirees’) contributions on a 1:1, 2:1

or even 3:1 basis. If your company has such

a policy, forms—hard copy or electronic—

to assure that your gift will be matched

can be obtained from your personnel or

employee relations office. Matching gifts

are added to your individual gift in

determining the donor club to which

you belong.

giving to the college of chemistry

college funds

T H E A N N U A L F U N D provides essen-

tial monies that can be used, at the discretion

of the dean or of the chairs, to meet needs

that are not supported by the state budget.

These unrestricted funds are particularly

valuable because of their flexibility. The

annual fund is vital for financing ongoing

programs and special projects.

E N D O W E D F U N D S provide a perma-

nent source of income to meet the needs

of faculty and students in perpetuity.

M E M O R I A L F U N D S commemorate

individuals while benefiting the college

and the departments of chemistry and

chemical & biomolecular engineering.

Donations may also be given to the annual

fund in memory or in honor of an individ-

ual, and the college will notify the family

that a contribution has been made.

archiveChemistry Professor Emeritus David Templeton and

his wife and colleague, Lilo, both recently passed away.

Over the decades, they kept a scrapbook of the many

visitors to their X-ray crystallography lab at LBNL. The

photos here are of David and Lilo and faculty members

from the mid-1960s.

THE ANNUAL REPORT OF PRIVATE GIVING

COLLEGE OF CHEMISTRY

2009–10

The preceding report acknowledges

all donors to the College of Chemistry

from July 1, 2009 through June 30,

2010. We have made every attempt

to include all donors accurately. We

apologize for any errors or omissions

and would appreciate hearing from

you with any comments or correc-

tions regarding this publication.

assistant dean

Mindy Rex

director of corporate and

annual programs

Nancy Johnsen Horton

director of major gifts and

alumni relations

Camille Olufson

development services manager

Dorothy Isaacson Read

For further information about giving to

the College of Chemistry, please contact

College Relations and Development

College of Chemistry #1460

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-1460

Phone: 510/642.9506

Fax: 510/642.4419

Email: [email protected]

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Upcoming Spring 2011 Alumni Events

Cupola Era Alumni Luncheon

Date TBA Watch for a mailing in late January/early February for informa-

tion on the Cupola Era alumni event. This era includes friends

and alumni from the graduating years 1946–63.

Cal Day

April 16 This annual campus-wide open house has something for every-

one! As the date draws closer, check out berkeley.edu/calday

for the complete list of events and programs.

CHEMillennium Era Alumni Event

April 16 While you are on campus for Cal Day, join with fellow class-

mates (graduating years 1980–99) for a Picnic on the Plaza!

Various activities, including a “Jumpy House,” will be available

for children; food will be provided by Top Dog.

Complimentary event. RSVP to [email protected]

Springfest

April 28 Celebrate with us at Jupiter’s, 2181 Shattuck Ave., as we

congratulate our 2011 graduating undergraduate and graduate

students!

This is a complimentary event, and reservations are not required.

+ Upcoming Seminars and Lectures

Go to the College of Chemistry’s website at chemistry.berkeley.edu and select

Seminars and Events to view the College’s seminar calendar.

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