Chemistry Newsletter - 04/13/1998

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Department of Chemistry Newsletter

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Tami Raguse, a first-year organic student working with Sam Gellman, has received a National Science Foundation Fellowship. This three-year competitive Fellowship is a tribute to Tami's excellent record, which also earned her a WARF Fellowship during her first year. Congratulations Tami!!

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ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - CUMULATIVE EXAMINATION SCHEDULE

Room 1361, Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.

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INORGANIC CUMULATIVE EXAMINATION SCHEDULE

Exams are held on Saturdays beginning at 9:00 a.m., in Room 2373.

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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 minor courses. The minor requirement must be completed by the end of the third year of graduate school. Minor agreement forms are available in Room 1315.

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University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemistry Department Departmental Colloquia

1997-1998

First Fridays of the Month

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SEMINARS

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Tuesday, April 14^th, 1998 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room B371 Chemistry Building. Arup K. Chakraborty, University of California, Berkeley. "Interfacial Behavior of Random Heteropolymers"

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Tuesday, April 14^th, 1998 - Organic Chemistry Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1361 Chemistry Building. Professor Jeffery T. Davis, University of Maryland. "Self-Assembled Ionophores: Their Synthesis, Characterization, and Utility"

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Wednesday, April 15^th, 1998 - Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1361 Chemistry Building. Ekasith Somook, Graduate Student.

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Wednesday, April 15^th, 1998 - Genetics Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Auditorium Genetics/Biotech Building. Greg Gibson, Department of Biology, University of Michigan. "Quantitative Genetic Approaches to Developmental and Evolutionary Stability"

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Thursday, April 16^th, 1998 - Analytical Sciences Seminar, 12:05 p.m., Rom B371 Chemistry Building. Pat Thiel, Iowa State University.

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Thursday, April 16^th, 1998 - Chemical Engineering Seminar, 3:55 p.m., Room 1227 Engineering Hall. Professor Bamin Khomami, Washington University, St. Louis MO. "Viscoelastic Flow Instabilities"

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Tuesday, April 16^th & Wednesday, April 17^th, 1998 - "WILLARD LECTURE SERIES", Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room B371 Chemistry Building. Robert L. Baldwin, Stanford University. April 16^th Lecture: "Nature of Protein Folding Intermediates and Pathways" April 17^th Lecture: " - Helix Formation by Peptides: What Remains to be Found Out"

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Thursday, April 16^th, 1998 - Organic Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1361 Chemistry Building. Chutima Kongkittingam, Graduate Student.

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Monday, April 20^th, 1998 - "McElvain Seminar Speaker" - Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, 2:25 p.m., Room B371 Chemistry Building. Lawrence Que, University of Minnesota.

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Wednesday, April 22^nd, 1998 - Genetics Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Auditorium Genetics/Biotech Building. Trudy MacKay, Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University. "The Nature of Quantitative Genetics Variation: Lessons from Drosophila"

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Wednesday, April 22^nd, 1998 - "McElvain Seminar Speaker" - Organic Chemistry Seminar, 2:30 p.m., Room 1361 Chemistry Building. Professor Barry Trost, Stanford. "On the Invention of New Reactions for Synthetic Efficiency"

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Thursday, April 23^rd, 1998 - Analytical Sciences Seminar, 12:05 p.m., Room B371 Chemistry Building. Thomas Beebe, University of Utah.

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Thursday, April 23^rd, 1998 - Materials Science Seminar, 4:00 p.m., Room 3345 Engineering Hall. Dr. Alan Edelstein, Naval Research Lab.

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Friday, April 24^th, 1998 - "The James F. Crow Lectures Seminar", 3:30 p.m., 125 Biochemistry, "Reception following the lecture in the atrium of the Genetic/Biotechnology Center Building". Dr. Oliver Smithies, Excellence Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "From Starch Gels to Gene Targeting as the Crow Flies"

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Monday, April 27^th, 1998 - Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, 2:25 p.m., Room B371 Chemistry Building. Heather Carr, Graduate Student.

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Tuesday, April 28^th, 1998 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room B371 Chemistry Building. Nancy Levinger, Colorado State University. "Solvation Dynamics in Restricted Environments - or - How Solvent Molecules Move, or Don't, in Reverse Micelles"

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Wednesday, April 29^th, 1998 - Genetics Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Auditorium Genetics/Biotech Building. John Doebley, Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota. "The Evolution of Plant Form: Examples From Maize"

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Thursday, April 30^th, 1998 - Analytical Sciences Seminar, 12:05 p.m., Room B371 Chemistry Building. Paul Weiss, Penn State.

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Thursday, April 30^th, 1998 - Materials Science Seminar, 4:00 p.m., Room 3345 Engineering Hall. Dr. Paul Weiss, Penn State.

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Thursday, April 30^th, 1998 - Chemical Engineering Seminar, 3:55 p.m., Room 1227 Engineering Hall. Ms. Susan Jill Peter, Rice University. "In Situ Polymerizable Biodegradable Scaffolds for Bone Regeneration"

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Thursday, April 30^th, 1998 - Organic Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1361 Chemistry Building. Professor Hazel Holden, UW-Madison Enzyme Institute.

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Tuesday, May 5^th, 1998 - "AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY" - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room B371 Chemistry Building. Professor Frank S. Bates, University of Minnesota. "Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers as Macromolecular Surfactants"

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Group Leaders Wanted for Fun with Chemistry Camps!

The Institute for Chemical Education (ICE) will again be offering the Fun with Chemistry Camps (Chem Camps) this summer. The camps provide fun and exciting chemistry laboratory experience for middle school students. There are two identical sessions of the camp, each of which runs for five weekday afternoons. The dates for this year's camps are June 22-26 and July 6-10.

We need group leaders (graduate students, senior undergraduates) to provide support to 4 - 6 students in the laboratory. We typically need between 10 and 12 group leaders for each session. The time commitment is approximately 12:45-4:30 PM each day, and the pay is $250 per weekly session. If you are interested in working any or all of the sessions, please stop by room 1321 and tell Amy Huseth or Kathleen Shanks that you would like to sign up as a group leader for Chem Camp.

The positions usually fill up fast, so hurry if you're interested! May 1 is the last day to sign up and be guaranteed consideration for a position. Group Leaders are selected on a combination first-come-first-served/interview basis. Group Leaders will be informed if they have been selected by May 11. If you would like to have more information or if you have any questions, please call Amy or Kathleen at 2-2940.

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The BFGoodrich Collegiate Inventors Program

We are currently seeking entries for this year's challenge. The BFG-CIP recognizes and rewards full-time college students (undergraduate, graduate, and postdocs) and faculty whose innovations, discoveries and research are deemed the year's most outstanding. Up to six student/advisor teams are awarded cash prizes. Students may enter as individuals or teams. The invention, idea or process submitted must be an original idea and the work of a student or team with his or her advisor. Judging is based on originality, usefulness, and significance of the invention/discovery. An issued patent is not required to participate and this is not considered a public disclosure. However, participants are strongly encouraged to begin the process of protecting their discovery. THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR HELP. Please contact: Paul Kunce, Program Coordinator, The BFGoodrich Collegiate Inventors Program, (330) 849-6887, pkunce@invent.org., c/o Inventure Place, 221 S. Broadway Street, Akron, Ohio 44308-1505. This as a call for student entries. Deadline is June 2, 1998. You can also visit our website at: <http://www.invent.org/bfg/bfghome.html>.

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FACULTY POSITIONS/TEMPORARY FACULTY/ACADEMIC POSITIONS

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University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Communication Arts is taking applications from graduate students in other departments to teach Communication Arts 100, Introduction to Speech Composition, for the fall semester of academic year 1998-99. Students who wish to apply should send a resume and a letter of application that summarizes their teaching experience and explains their background in rhetoric, public speaking, and/or composition. In addition, applicants need to provide evidence of teaching effectiveness (formal evaluations being preferable, including quantitative data) and at least one letter of recommendation that speaks to the applicant's abilities as a teacher. Appointments will be at the 50-percent FTE level and will entail teaching two sections of Communication Arts 100. As a condition of employment, anyone who accepts a position in CA100 must be available for training sessions Monday through Friday of Welcome Week, August 24-28, 1998, as well as for weekly staff meetings, which are held from 3:30-5:30 every Monday during the semester. Applications may be submitted as late as July 1, 1998, but positions win be fulled beginning June 1 depending on student enrollment and section availability. Send complete applications to: Stephen Lucas, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706.

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University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Chemistry invites applications for a Lecturer for General Chemistry 103 for the 1998 eight-week summer session. Duties for this 75% appointment include lecturing, office hours, lab supervision and related duties. Ph.D. in Chemistry or related field and experience teaching some level of college chemistry is required. Interested applicants should submit a letter of application, CV, names and phone numbers of at least two references, and a brief statement of teaching interests and professional goals to: Professor John Moore, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706 by April 30, 1998.

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University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Chemistry invites applications for a Lecturer for General Chemistry 103, 104 or 109 for the 1998-99 fall semester, with the possibility for spring semester reappointment. Duties for this 60% appointment include lecturing, office hours, lab supervision and related duties. Ph.D. in Chemistry or related field preferred, but applicants who have completed all work but the dissertation will be considered. Experience teaching some level of college chemistry is required. Interested applicants should submit a letter of application, CV, names and phone numbers of at least three references, and a brief statement of teaching interests and professional goals to: Professor John Moore, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706 by April 30, 1998.

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University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Chemistry invites applications for a Lecturer for Organic Chemistry 341, 343 or 345 for the 1998-99 fall semester, with the possibility for spring semester reappointment. Duties for this 60% appointment include lecturing, office hours, lab supervision and related duties. Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry preferred, but applicants who have completed all work but the dissertation in Organic Chemistry will be considered. Experience teaching some level of college chemistry is required. Interested applicants should submit a letter of application, CV, names and phone numbers of at least three references, and a brief statement of teaching interests and professional goals to: Professor Hans Reich, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706 by April 30, 1998.

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University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Chemistry invites applications for a Lecturer for Analytical Chemistry 221, Introductory Analytical Chemistry, for the 1998-99 fall semester, with the possibility for spring semester reappointment. Duties for this 60% appointment include lecturing, office hours, lab supervision and related duties. Ph.D. in Chemistry preferred, but applicants who have completed all work but the dissertation in Chemistry will be considered. Experience teaching some level of college chemistry is required; experience teaching quantitative techniques for chemical analysis preferred. Interested applicants should submit a letter of application, CV, names and phone numbers of at least three references, and a brief statement of teaching interests and professional goals to: Professor Robert Hamers, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706 by April 30, 1998.

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POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AND/OR JOBS

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Assistant Professor Phil Cole of The Rockefeller University, is writing to ask your assistance in letting suitable candidates know that he will soon (3-6 months) have 1-2 positions available for postdoctoral fellows in his lab at Rockefeller. There are three current areas of study in the lab: 1) protein kinase mechanism, substrate selection, and inhibition (see JACS 1997, 11096; Biochemistry 1998, 165); 2) mechanism and inhibition of the melatonin rhythm enzyme (see J. Biol. Chem. 1998, 3045); and 3) protein engineering via 'expressed protein ligation that allows direct ligation of synthetic peptides to recombinant proteins (PNAS in press). Methods involve organic and peptide synthesis, molecular biology and protein chemistry, kinetics and other biophysical analyses. Our lab features state of the art facilities for all aspects of modern bioorganic chemistry. Please send info to: Phil Cole, Assistant Professor, Head of Lab, Lab of Bioorganic Chemistry, tel.# (212) 327-7241; Fax# (212) 327-7243, e-mail: cole@rockvax.rockefeller.edu.

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DETAILS ARE AVAILABLE IN ROOM 1380.

NEXT NEWSLETTER IS ON APRIL 20th, 1998.