Chemistry Newsletter - 01/19/1999

University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Chemistry Newsletter

Proposed Finance Committee and Department Meeting Dates

Spring 1999

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Department Committee - Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. In Room 8335.

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Finance Committee - Tuesday at 1:20 p.m. - In Room 1301.

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Organic Chemistry Cumulative Exam Schedule, 1999.

Thursdays, 7:30 p.m., room B317 Chemistry Building.

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Analytical Cume Dates for 1999.

Room 2311 Chemistry Building.

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Inorganic Cume Dates for 1999.

9:00 a.m., Room 2373 Chemistry Building.

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ATTENTION GRADUATE STUDENTS

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IMPORTANT DATES:

MINOR AGREEMENT FORMS: The Graduate School requires that the minor program be outlined in an agreement which is approved by the Department no later than halfway through completion of the sequence of minor courses. The minor requirement is expected to be completed by the end of the third year of graduate school. Minor agreement forms are available in Room 7315.

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1999 National Sea Grant College Program Funding Opportunities

We have just learned that the National Sea Grant Office (NSGO) intends to request proposals for five nationally competitive grant programs for fiscal year 1999, and that the projected time line for submitting preproposals and preparing full proposals will be quite short. The five draft announcements are for:

• Aquatic Nuisance Species Research and Outreach; and Improved Methods for Ballast Water Treatment Management
• Sea Grant Technology Program (formerly the NCIR Program)
• Sea Grant Industry Fellows Program
• Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship
• National Oyster Disease Research Program and Gulf Oyster Industry Initiative

The NSGO is presently in the process of publishing these funding announcements in the Federal Register. However, the drafts of these announcements and requests for proposals may be viewed on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Web site at www.oar.noaa.gov/admin/website.html . Sea Grant is also a partner in the interagency Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms Program (ECOHAB) - watch for an announcement for that program on the same NOAA Web page in the future. A link to that NOAA Web page is available on the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute's Grants and Awards Information Web page at www.seagrant.wisc.edu/grantinfo . We will post the official final announcements on our Web site - along with guidelines for submitting proposals for funding from these programs via UW Sea Grant - just as soon as we get the green light from the NSGO, which is expected in one to two weeks. *NOTE: Due to time constraints, we will not be mailing you a printed version of these funding announcements and genes. Instead, interested potential applicants Will need to go to our Grants and Awards Information Web page www.seagrant.wisc.edu/grantinfo to obtain this information.

ATTENTION: Effective January 11, 1999, the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute will move into its new home at: Goodnight Hall, 2^nd Floor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1975 Willow Drive, Madison, WI 53706-1103, New Fax Number: 608/262-0591, (all other phones numbers & email addresses remain the same).

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SEMINARS

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Thursday, January 21^st, 1999 - Biophotonics Cluster Hire Initiative Seminar, 2:00 p.m., Room 1111, New Biotechnology/Genetics Building, 425 Henry Mall. Clare M. Waterman-Storer, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "Dynamics at the Leading Edge: Interactions of Microtubules and Actin During Cell Motility and Contact Inhibition of Cell Movement"

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Thursday, January 28^th, 1999 - Analytical Sciences Seminar, 12:05 p.m., Room B371, Chemistry Building. Professor Michael Greenlief, University of Missouri-Columbia. "Reactions of Organic Molecules at the Germanium (001) Surface"

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Sunday, February 14^th, 1999 - Sixteenth Annual presentation of The Wonders of Physics, 1 and 4 p.m., 1330 Sterling Hall, 475 North Charter Street. Professor Clint Sprott. For free tickets call: 608-262-2927 or e-mail to: feeley@juno.physics.wisc.edu during the month of January.

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Saturday, February 20^th, 1999 - Sixteenth Annual presentation of The Wonders of Physics, 1 and 4 p.m., 1330 Sterling Hall, 475 North Charter Street. Professor Clint Sprott. For free tickets call: 608-262-2927 or e-mail to: feeley@juno.physics.wisc.edu during the month of January.

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Sunday, February 21^st, 1999 - Sixteenth Annual presentation of The Wonders of Physics, 1 and 4 p.m., 1330 Sterling Hall, 475 North Charter Street. Professor Clint Sprott. For free tickets call: 608-262-2927 or e-mail to: feeley@juno.physics.wisc.edu during the month of January.

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Recent Publications

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Sun JX; Seo DJ; O'Brien WL; Himpsel FJ; Ellis AB; Kuech TF

Chemical bonding and electronic properties of SeS2-treated GaAs(100)

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 1999, Vol 85, Iss 2, pp 969-977

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McGaff RW; Hayashi RK; Powell DR; Treichel PM

Synthesis and X-ray crystal structures of new trirhenium nonachloride chalcogenide clusters

POLYHEDRON 1998, Vol 17, Iss 25-26, pp 4425-4431

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Fisher BM; Schultz LW; Raines RT

Coulombic effects of remote subsites on the active site of ribonuclease A

BIOCHEMISTRY 1998, Vol 37, Iss 50, pp 17386-17401

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Ding YS; Rich DH; Ikeda RA

Substrates and inhibitors of human T-cell leukemia virus type I protease

BIOCHEMISTRY 1998, Vol 37, Iss 50, pp 17514-17518

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Zhang ZR; Becker JY; West RC

The electrochemistry of tetramesityldisilene, Mes(2)Si=SiMes(2)

CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS 1998, Vol , Iss 24, pp 2719-2720

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Holden HM; Thoden JB; Raushel FM

Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase: a tunnel runs through it

CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 1998, Vol 8, Iss 6, pp 679-685

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Ludwig R; Weinhold F

Quantum cluster equilibrium theory of liquids: Freezing of QCE/3-21G water to tetrakaidecahedral "Bucky-ice"

JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS 1999, Vol 110, Iss 1, pp 508-515

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Shew CY; Yethiraj A

Conformational properties of isolated polyelectrolytes in poor solvents

JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS 1999, Vol 110, Iss 1, pp 676-681

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Haaf M; Schmiedl A; Schmedake TA; Powell DR; Millevolte AJ; Denk M; West R

Synthesis and reactivity of a stable silylene

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 1998, Vol 120, Iss 49, pp 12714-12719

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Zimmerman HE; Ignatchenko A

Reversal of the stereochemistry of kinetic protonation by intramolecular proton delivery and a remarkable dependence of selectivity on donor concentration

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 1998, Vol 120, Iss 49, pp 12992-12993

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Copyright � 1998 Institute for Scientific Information

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For Industrial Positions, see the Chemistry Placement Newsletter at:

http://www.chem.wisc.edu/placement/7news.html

FACULTY POSITIONS/TEMPORARY FACULTY/ACADEMIC POSITIONS

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Director of Max T. Rogers NMR Facility at Michigan State University Applications and recommendations are invited for the position of Director of our all-University NMR facility. The director has the following responsibilities: to direct and assist in the operation, maintenance, and applications support of the facility's NMR spectrometers, currently consisting of six Varian machines: Innova 600, VXR 500, VXR 400 (solids), Innova 300, VXR 300, and Gemini 300; to supervise a professional staff who assist in day-to-day operations; to keep abreast of advances in the field in order to advise and educate faculty and students on NMR methodology; and to assist and advise the NMR oversight committee in setting usage policies and in preparing equipment proposals. Collaborative research opportunities exist and are encouraged. A Ph.D. in Chemistry, Biochemistry, or Physics is required. Excellent communications and interpersonal skills are essential. Salary is dependent upon experience. This position is an annual year appointment, based on the continuing appointment system. Applications will be reviewed beginning February 8, 1999, but the position will remain open until filled. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. Applicants should send a resume and three letters of reference to Dr. Katharine C. Hunt, Chairperson, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Ml 48824-1322.

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The City College of New York (CCNY) applications for a tenure-track appointment at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in the Department of Chemistry. The candidate must have a Ph.D. in organic chemistry, post-doctoral experience or its equivalent, and a demonstrated research record. The appointee will be expected to develop an externally-funded research program, to develop courses in his/her area of expertise, and to teach both undergraduate and graduate (M.A. and Ph.D.) students. Rank and salary will be commensurate with the appointee's experience and accomplishments. The applicant should send by 2/11/99 a curriculum vitae, an educational philosophy statement, a description of current and proposed research plans, selected reprints, and should arrange to have three confidential letters of recommendation sent on his/her behalf to: Prof. Stanley R. Radel, Chair, Department of Chemistry, The City College of The City University of New York, Convent Avenue at 138th Street. New York, NY 10031.

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POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AND/OR JOBS

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Dr. N. Rama Krishna at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. NMR Postdoctoral Position supported by a training grant available immediately at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Work involves NMR assignments and molecular modeling studies on peptides and small proteins. The facility includes NMR systems operating at 600 MHz (Bruker Avance 600 with 4 channels) and 500 MHz (Avance 500 with 3 channels), as well as SGI workstations for data processing by FELIX, and model building by Insight/X-PLOR/Quanta/CHARMm. The applicant must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, to qualify for the training grant support. Interested applicants should e-mail their resume, and arrange for two letters of recommendation to reach Dr. N. Rama Krishna at nrkrishna@bmg.bhs.uab.edu . Alternatively, they could be mailed to: Dr. N. Rama Krishna, CHSB-19 B31, 933 S. 19th St., UAB, Birmingham, AL 35294-2041.

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Professor J.V. Ortiz of the Department of Chemistry at Kansas State University invites applications for the position of Postdoctoral Fellow to work in his research group. A Ph.D. in Chemistry, Physics, or a related field is required, and previous experience in molecular electronic structure theory is needed. The Postdoctoral Fellow will be working in development and application of ab initio propagator methodology, details of which can be found at http://www.ksu.edu.chem/faculty/ortiz/group.html . The initial appointment will be for a period of one year, renewed annually consistent with funding and satisfactory performance, with a salary commensurate with experience. Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a list of publications and at least two letters of recommendation by December 31, 1998 to: Professor J.V. Ortiz, Department of Chemistry, 1 11 Willard Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-3701.

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Professor Ralf Warmuth of the Kansas State University Department of Chemistry invites applications for the position of Postdoctoral Fellow to work in his research group. A Ph.D. in Chemistry is required and previous experience in organic chemistry and organic spectroscopy is necessary. The Postdoctoral Fellow will be working in the area of peptide chemistry, details of which can be found at http://www.ksu.edu/chem/faculty/Warmuth.html . The initial appointment will be for a period of one year, renewed annually consistent with funding and satisfactory performance, with a salary commensurate with experience. Applicants should send a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a list of publications and the names, addresses and telephone numbers of three references to: Professor Ralf Warmuth, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, 111 Willard Hall, Manhattan, Kansas 66506-3701.

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DETAILS ARE AVAILABLE IN ROOM 1380.

NEXT NEWSLETTER IS ON JANUARY 25^th, 1999.