We have just received word that Thomas Brunold has been selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow. These awards are intended to enhance the careers of the very best young faculty members in specified fields of science. Currently a total of 112 fellowships are awarded annually in seven fields: chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics. Twenty-six Sloan Fellows have won Nobel Prizes later in their careers, and hundreds have received other honors. This is an extraordinarily competitive award that involves nominations from the very best young scientists in the nation and it is a real honor for Thomas. On behalf of the entire Department, Congratulations Thomas!

It is with great pleasure that we announce that Professor Jim Skinner has been selected for the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes the most outstanding teachers on the Madison campus and it is a much sought-after and coveted award. This award is a recognition of the excellence and dedication that Jim brings to his teaching and we join in congratulating him on this honor. It is well-deserved. Congratulations Jim!

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April 1^st, 2003	April 15^th, 2003	May 6^th, 2003	May 20^th, 2003

Tuesday, February 18^th, 2003 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Pierre Wiltzius, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. “Colloidal Self-Assembly, Multi-Beam Interference Lithography, and Photonic Crystals”

Tuesday, February 18^th, 2003 - Physical Chemistry Student Seminar, 4:30 p.m., Room 8335 Chemistry Building. Troy Stich, Graduate Student. “Spectroscopic and computational studies of Coenzyme B12: Implications toward understanding enzymatic activation of the cobalt-carbon bond”

Wednesday, February 19^th, 2003 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Angela Wilks, University of Maryland.

Wednesday, February 19^th, 2003 - Lincoln Seminar Series, 12:00 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Dr. Jenny Xun, Acros Organics, Fisher Scientific.

Thursday, February 20^th, 2003 - Organic Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Margaret Schmitt, Graduate Student.

Thursday, February 20^th, 2003 - Molecular & Environmental Toxicology Seminar, 4:00 p.m., Room 125 McArdle Laboratory. Yafan Li, UW Madison. “Biology and Advances in the Treatment of Leukemia”

Monday, February 24^th, 2003 - Inorganic Seminar, 1:20 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Perry Frey, UW Madison.

Monday, February 24^th, 2003 - TCI Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 8335 Chemistry Building. S. Gray, Argonne National Lab.

Tuesday, February 25^th, 2003 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Leonard Mueller, University of California-Riverside. “From Correlation to Qubits: New Experiments in Solid State NMR”

Tuesday, February 25^th, 2003 - Organic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Bing Gong, State University of New York. “Self-Assembly and Folding of Unnatural Oligomers”

Wednesday, February 26^th, 2003 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Gabriela Weaver, Purdue.

Thursday, February 27^th, 2003 - Analytical Sciences Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Susan Reslewic, Graduate Student. “Haplotyping via Optical Mapping: Discerning Genomic Variation Through Single DNA Molecule Analysis”

Thursday, February 27^th, 2003 - Molecular & Environmental Toxicology Seminar, 4:00 p.m., Room 125 McArdle Laboratory. Dr. Michelle Cotroneo, UW Madison. “Mcs7: A Rat Mammary Carcinoma Susceptibility Locus With Allelic Imbalance”

Wednesday, March 5^th, 2003 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. David Robertson, University of Missouri.

Wednesday, March 5^th, 2003 - Lincoln Seminar Series, 12:00 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Jeff Johnson, Graduate Student.

Thursday, March 6^th, 2003 - Analytical Sciences McElvain Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor R. Graham Cooks, Purdue University. “Miniature Mass Spectrometers: Calculations of Ion Motion, Analytical Performance and Real-World Applications” or “Taming the 800 lb. Gorilla”

Tuesday, March 11^th, 2003 - Physical Chemistry Student Seminar, 4:30 p.m., Room 8335 Chemistry Building. Hunkyun Pak, Graduate Student. “Lattice constants controlled self-assembled patterns of paramagnetic dots on a liquid/liquid interface under strong magnetic field”

Tuesday, March 11^th, 2003 - Inorganic Seminar, 9:45 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Richard Holz, Utah State University.

Wednesday, March 12^th, 2003 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Michael Chan, Ohio State University.

Thursday, March 13^th, 2003 - Analytical Sciences Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Dr. Millicent Firestone, Argonne National Laboratory. “Biologically Inspired Materials: Towards Nanomachines”

Thursday, March 13^th and Friday March 14^th, 2003 - Willard Lectures, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Carlos Bustamante, UC-Berkeley.

Wednesday, March 19^th, 2003 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Matry Kirk, University of Mexico.

Tuesday, March 25^th, 2003 - Physical Chemistry Student Seminar, 4:30 p.m., Room 8335 Chemistry Building. Kent Meyer, Graduate Student. “Fully resonant 2D infrared four-wave mixing and its analogy to 2D NMR: Recent results with nickel carbonyl compounds”

Thursday, March 27^th, 2003 - Analytical Sciences Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Dalia Dhingra, Graduate Student.

Saturday, March 29^th, 2003 - Oxygen Symposium, 9:00 a.m., Room TBA, Chemistry Building. Speakers include: Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann.

Monday, March 31^st, 2003, - TCI Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 8335 Chemistry Building. J. Daniel Gezelter, University of Notre Dame.

Monday, March 31^st, 2003 - Inorganic Seminar, 1:20 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Andrei Yudin, University of Indiana.

Tuesday, April 1^st, 2003 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Huib Bakker, AMOLF Amsterdam, to be announced.

Tuesday, April 1^st, 2003 - Physical Chemistry Student Seminar, 4:30 p.m., Room 8335 Chemistry Building. Wayne Kontur, Graduate Student. “Urea effects on the kinetics of transcription initiation for RNA polymerase”

Thursday, April 3^rd, 2003 - Analytical Sciences Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor Robert Levis, Temple University. “Controlling Chemical Reactivity With Tailored Strong Field Laser Pulses”

Tuesday, April 8^th, 2003 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. David Vanden Bout, University of Texas, to be announced.

Tuesday, April 8^th, 2003 - Physical Chemistry Student Seminar, 4:30 p.m., Room 8335 Chemistry Building. Sam Glass, Graduate Student. “The role of temperature in collisions and reactions of HCl(g) with supercooled sulfuric acid”

Thursday, April 10^th, 2003 - Analytical Sciences Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Hua Yu, Graduate Student.

Friday, April 11^th, 2003 - Analytical Sciences Seminar, 1:20 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Shiping Fang, Graduate Student.

Tuesday, April 15^th, 2003 - Physical Chemistry McElvain Lecture, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Daniel Neumark, UC-Berkeley, to be announced.

Wednesday, April 16^th, 2003 - Inorganic Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Jonathan Wilker, Purdue University.

Thursday, April 17^th, 2003 - Analytical McElvain Sciences Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Dr. Anne L. Plant, NIST.

Friday, April 18^th, 2003 - Analytical Sciences Seminar, 1:20 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Kyubong Jo, Graduate Student.

Monday, April 21^st, 2003 - Macromolecules Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 8335 Chemistry Building. Christopher Bardeen, University of Illinois.

Monday, April 21^st, 2003 - Inorganic Seminar, 1:20 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Vincent Pecoraro, University of Michigan.

Tuesday, April 22^nd, 2003 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Tom Keyes, Boston University. “Instantaneous Normal Modes, The Potential Energy Landscape, And Dynamics In Supercooled Liquids”

Tuesday, April 22^th, 2003 - Physical Chemistry Student Seminar, 4:30 p.m., Room 8335 Chemistry Building. Lenny Sheps, Graduate Student. “Vibrationally driven bimolecular reactions in the liquid phase”

Thursday, April 24^th, 2003 - Analytical Sciences Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Jian Zhang, Graduate Student.

Monday, April 28^th, 2003, - TCI Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 8335 Chemistry Building. Carlos Simmerling, SUNY, Stony Brook.

Tuesday, April 29^th, 2003 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Robert Walker, University of Maryland, College Park. “Solvation at Surfaces: Profiling Interfacial solvent Polarity with Molecular Rulers.”

Tuesday, April 29^th, 2003 - Physical Chemistry Student Seminar, 4:30 p.m., Room 8335 Chemistry Building. Tingting Liu, Graduate Student. “Single-molecule fluorescence study of Cytoplasmic domain of Synaptotagmin I on solid supported planar lipid membrane”

Monday, April 30^th, 2003 - Inorganic Seminar, 1:20 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Ken Karlin, Johns Hopkins University.

Thursday, May 1^st, 2003 - Analytical Sciences Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Professor James Schauer, UW Madison- Engineering. "Chemical Analysis of Atmospheric Particulate Matter: Understanding the Origin and Impacts of Aerosols”

Monday, May 5^th, 2003 - Inorganic McElvain Seminar, 1:20 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Karl Christe.

Tuesday, May 6^th, 2003 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Wilma Olson, Rutgers. “DNA Mechanics and Gene Regulation”

Tuesday, May 6^th, 2003 - Physical Chemistry Student Seminar, 4:30 p.m., Room 8335 Chemistry Building. David Castro, Graduate Student. “Molecular beam studies of the collisions of n-alcohols with the NaOH/KOH eutectic mixture”

Tuesday, May 6^th, 2003 - Organic McElvain Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315, Chemistry Building. Dr. Andrea Cochran, Genentech.

Wednesday, May 7^th, 2003 - Lincoln Seminar Series, 12:00 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Shane Lamos, Graduate Student.

Thursday, May 8^th, 2003 - Analytical Sciences Seminar, 12:15 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Ting Zheng, Graduate Student.

Monday, May 12^th, 2003 - Ferry Lectures, 3:30 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Harold Scheraga, Cornell University. “The Throbin-Fibrinogen Reaction”

Monday, May 12^th, 2003 - Inorganic Seminar, 1:20 p.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Zhiping Zheng, University of Arizona.

Tuesday, May 13^th, 2003 - Ferry Lectures, 11:00 a.m., Room 1315 Chemistry Building. Harold Scheraga, Cornell University. “Calculation of Protein Structure by Global Optimization of Potential Energy”

Solution and crystal lattice effects on the photochemistry of 6-substituted cyclohexenones.

Short chains at surfaces and interfaces: A quantitative comparison between density-functional theories and Monte Carlo simulations.

Vibrational interactions of acetonitrile: Doubly vibrationally resonant IR-IR-visible four-wave-mixing spectroscopy (vol 117, pg 5675, 2002).

Evidence that the beta-peptide 14-Helix is Stabilized by beta(3)-residues with side-chain branching adjacent to the beta-carbon atom.

[Pd-30(CO)(26)(PEt3)(10)] and [Pd-54(CO)(40)(PEt3)(14)]: Generation of nanosized Pd-30- and Pd-54-core geometries containing interpenetrating cuboetahedral-based metal polyhedra.

Length scale of dynamic heterogeneity in supercooled D-sorbitol: Comparison to model predictions.

Theoretical modeling of the OH stretch infrared spectrum of carboxylic acid dimers based on first-principles anharmonic couplings.

Change in the temperature dependence of segmental dynamics in deeply supercooled polycarbonate.

Two ful-time sabbatical replacement positions (PhD/ABD) at Bradley University for 2003-2004 academic year, one in Biochemistry and one in any area of Chemistry. For more information see: http://bradley.edu/las/chm. Send application letter, vita, unofficial graduate and undergraduate transcripts, and three confidential letters of recommendation to: Search Committee Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Bradley University, Peoria, IL 61625. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the positions are filled.

Applications are invited for a tenure-stream position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto at Mississauga, beginning July 1, 2003. Applications are sought in the area of inorganic chemistry. The growth in Chemistry at UTM and the recent creation of a Centre for Applied Biosciences and Biotechnology (CABB) at UTM, provides a special opportunity for researchers working at the biological - chemical interface. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in chemistry or related discipline, a strong academic background, and a record of excellence in research. Candidates will be expected to develop a strong research program and to participate in the teaching of undergraduate and graduate courses. The salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. An attractive start-up package will be provided. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, a research plan, and a statement of teaching philosophy. Applicants should also ask three referees to send letters of recommendation under separate cover. All correspondence should be sent to: Prof. Peter M. Macdonald, Associate Chair, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, L5L 1C6. The deadline for submission is 15 March 2003, although the search will remain open until a successful candidate is found.

Professor Thomas Flood of The University of Southern California has an opening for a postdoctoral associate in my group, available immediately. The position involves research on one or more aspects of alkane coordination to transition metal complexes, activation of C-H and C-C bonds by such complexes, and investigation of paths to alkane oxygenation via the resulting metal alkyl intermediates. Some leading references can be found at the website given below. Applicants should be familiar with the usual techniques of organometallic chemistry and the spectroscopic characterization of organometallic compounds. Expertise in multinuclear NMR is especially valuable. The position is for one year, with a possible extension to a second year with mutual consent. Applicants should contact me as soon as possible, preferably by email. They should submit a CV and the names of at least two references to: Thomas C. Flood, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0744, Voice: (213) 740-7006, Fax: (213) 740-0930, E-mail: flood@usc.edu, web: http://chem.usc.edu/faculty/Flood.html.

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