Ladd Hall - Chemistry Department

Hershberger named Chairman Chemistry Department Dr. John Hershberger, associate professor, has been named chairman of the chemistry department effective February 1, 2002. He replaces Greg McCarthy, who has served as chair since 1993.

His research interests are in chemical reaction kinetics and dynamics, with emphasis on the study of elementary

He is also an excellent pianist.

Rasmussen receives NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award

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Dr. Seth C. Rasmussen was recently awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The CAREER program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers NSF’s most prestigious awards for new faculty members. This program recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. CAREER awardees are selected on the basis of creative, career-development plans that effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their institution.

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Dr. Hershberger earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1982, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in1986. He joined the NDSU faculty in 1989.

radical-radical and radical-molecule reactions of interest primarily in combustion chemistry. He is also interested in atmospheric chemistry and Dr. John Hershberger chemical vapor deposition processes. More information about his research can be found on the web. http://www.chem.ndsu.nodak.edu/faculty/ hershberger.html

Dr. Rasmussen’s proposal entitled “CAREER: Metallated Polythieno[3,4-b]pyrazines as Ordered Hybrid Materials” focuses on multidisciplinary approaches to research and education, with the unifying goal of preparing students to apply their abilities and knowledge to a range of problems and enabling them to identify similarities that overlap between traditional areas of science. Dr. Rasmussen’s research combines the areas of inorganic, organic, and polymer chemistry towards the development of new optical and electronic materials. In the area of education, Dr. Rasmussen strives to unify chemistry the

Dr. Seth Rasmussen

physical sciences through the history of chemistry. Chemical history most readily illustrates how problems can be overcome and techniques from other disciplines and can be added or applied to any class or subject within the chemical curriculum. In addition to funding the ongoing materials research in the Rasmussen laboratory, this $495K grant will also provide funding for teaching equipment to establish a Chemical History Laboratory class and will establish a Chemical History Lecture Series as part of the departmental seminar program. Dr. Rasmussen earned his B.S. at Washington State University in 1990, a Ph. D. from Clemson University in 1994, and joined the faculty at NDSU in 1999. Dr. Rasmussen is the third current chemistry faculty member to receive a CAREER award. Previous winners are Drs. Gregory Cook and Sanku Mallik.

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Administered with the Cooperative Education offices at the campuses.

Mission: The mission of the CATTT is to facilitate technology traineeships linking companies with students, faculty, and staff, and (2) education in technology transfer.

Technology Transfer Graduate Traineeships Students are awarded supplements to assistantships and receive training in intellectual property and technology transfer.

Dr. Greg McCarthy, Director of CATTT Program.

Programs

For further information and traineeship application guidelines, see the Center’s website: www.ndsu.edu/cattt

Center for Advanced Technology Transfer and Traineeships (CATTT)

Bridges to Advanced TechnologyBased Careers Industry co-funded traineeships for undergraduates and graduate students.

Or contact: Gregory J. McCarthy, Ph.D. Director (701)231-7193, [email protected]

Dr. Mahesh Jaseja joins the NMR facility Joining us in January 2002 as Assistant Professor in Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy is Dr. Mahesh Jaseja who will oversee the operation of our state-of-the art NMR facility here in the Chemistry Department at NDSU. He will carry out cutting-edge research in biomolecular structure and dynamics using NMR methods. Mahesh completed his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Rohtak, India, with emphasis on NMR spectroscopy of a class of natural products. Since that time, he has held multiple post-doctoral and

research fellow positions wherein he has gained substantial expertise using NMR spectroscopy to determine the structures of proteins and enzymes in solution. He will participate in a number of biomolecular structure studies in collaboration with several members of the NDSU Chemistry Faculty. These projects are financially supported by the National Institute of Health.

Jessica Nelson has been working in the NMR lab for 3½ years.

Dr. Jaseja was a post-doctoral fellow in the Chemistry/Microbiology Department at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana prior to his arrival at NDSU. Mahesh brings his wife, Premila and two daughters, Vanita and Reshma, 4th and 8th graders.

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Department of Chemistry North Dakota State University PO Box 5516 Fargo, ND 58105 www.chem.ndsu.nodak.edu Rose Overby, Editor Dr. Greg Cook, Advisor The 500 MHz NMR ready for action: The spectrometer console (which also houses the field gradient amplifier) is to the right of the magnet. The antivibration legs are in place.

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Center for Protease Research - NIH - COBRE 4.) Assist the target/delivery team in attaching known inhibitors to liposome based delivery systems.

Hikaru Hasegawa and Sandeep Ghorpe. First MMP compound.

CPR | Research Projects Project 1: Synthesis, Gregory Cook and Mukund Sibi 1.) Synthesize known inhibitors of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and serine proteases (SPs) and establish basic bioassay protocols. 2.) Develop new zinc binding functional groups for improved MMP inhibition. 3.) Develop improved synthetic methodology for the preparation of succinate based MMP inhibitors and synthesize inhibitors of urokinase and plasmin.

Project 2: Targeting/Delivery, Kenton Rodgers and Sanku Mallik 1.) Construct liposome-based delivery systems that will release their contents when Triggered by an MMP of choice. 2.) Address feasibility of Znˆ2+ extraction from the MMP active sites using model Znˆ2+ complexes. 3.) Construct pro-photodynamic agents (proPDAs) to be appended onto inhibitors in collaboration with the organic synthesis group. 4.) Fabricate polymerized liposomes with surface functionality and morphology complimentary to that of a chosen MMP as a recognition strategy. Project 3: Biopharmaceutics/Drug Design, Stefan Balaz 1.) Measure in vitro transport, binding, and protease inhibition of inhibitors synthesized in the Center.

2.) Describe individual steps in the protease inhibition in vitro in terms of structure and properties of inhibitors using computational methods and quantitative structure-time-activity relationships (QSTAR). 3.) Use QSTAR to design improved inhibitors. Project 4: in vitro Cellular Interactions, Inder Sehgal 1.) The Core will assay the cytotoxicity of proteinase antagonists, their ability to inhibit in vitro invasion and their potency against specific proteases. These tests will allow us to identify inhibitors, which are effective at reducing cell invasion and may selectively inhibit proteinases in one cell environment vs. others. 2.) The Core will progress to animal studies (Year 4) to assess in vivo efficacy of selected protease antagonists developed in the Center. For more information visit: www.ndsu.edu/cobre

Rasmussen Group By Don D. Kenning

The Rasmussen Group has received very good news in the last few months. Dr. Rasmussen was awarded an NSF CAREER award that will provide funding for the group for the next five years. This grant will help pay for supplies and salaries for the group. In December, graduate student Katsu Ogawa gave his Second Year Seminar entitled, “Special Properties of Cyclic Phosphines.” Also in December, Katsu published his first paper along with labmates Scott Rothstein and Karla Radke. The paper entitled “Synthesis of Secondary and Tertiary Aminothiophenes via PalladiumCatalyzed Amination,” was published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry (J. Chem-News

Org. Chem. 2001, 66, 9067-9070). In addition to this paper, Katsu is working on another publication and several publications are being written for the thienopyrazine project by Don Kenning, Kari Mitchell, and Daniel Sattler. In April, Dr. Rasmussen and seven members of the group will be attending the 223rd ACS National Meeting in Orlando to present our most recent research results. At this time, the Rasmussen group currently consists of six undergraduates and two graduate students. However, we will soon be losing seniors Kari Mitchell, Patrick Griffin, and Misty Tomchuk as they will be graduating in May. All are planning on attending graduate school in either 3

chemistry or materials and are currently visiting schools such as Purdue, Wisconsin, and Berkeley.

Misty Tomchuk, Karla Radke, Mandy Zimmerli, working together in the Rasmussen Lab. Spring 2002

North Dakota Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research

President Chapman visits Chemistry

North Dakota EPSCoR A State and Federal Partnership

Annual Visit of President Chapman to the Chemistry Department. At the faculty meeting.

North Dakota EPSCoR is a North Dakota University System program aimed at building an exemplary research infrastructure, developing human resources and increasing technology transfer from universities to the commercial sector. North Dakota EPSCoR is open to student and faculty at all state university system campuses and Tribally Controlled Community Colleges. www.ndsu.nodak.edu/epscor

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Dr. Mallik is using the personal response system in Chemistry 341 By: Dr. Jeffery Gerst Professor, Biological Sciences

Through contact with Dr. Gerst, chemistry assistant professor Dr. Mallik began an experiment in Chemistry 341 using the personal response system.

The Personal Response System (http://www.educue.com) is a handheld device similar to television remote control that provides a student-friendly

technological means to assist teachers and students in acquiring meaningful formative data in classes having large student enrollments. Students’ responses to questions are “private” so that there is no danger of being embarrassed. A student may indicate a “confidence level” for each of their answers. The tallied responses are displayed as bar graphs to provide “instant feedback” and a “real time” assessment of how well the students understand the concept or process under discussion. The data is also stored in comma-separated-values text files (csv files) for later analysis.

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The buildings of Ladd and Dunbar Hall lost some of its occupants who moved to the Tech Park – Dr. Greg McCarthy, Polymers & Coatings, ND EPSCoR, Boudjouk Labs and the Tallman Lab.

The students enjoy using the device and state that they “do more thinking” and “try harder to make sense of the subject matter.” Dr. Gerst obtained funding for the pilot study from the Student Technology Fee Advisory Committee. Chemicals being removed from Boudjouk Lab.

Mallik Lab

Joining the lab are Rahima Behabbour, Suad Nadi, Binita Chandra and Nihar Sarkar.

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Ryan Keddy

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From Chemistry... to Dakota Technologies, Inc. $500,000 Grant Awarded Nov, 15, 2001 on SBIR Phase II: Revitalizing Spectrofluorimeters with Cryogenic Fiber Optic Probes, Fluorescence Lifetime Capability, and Tunable Laser Sources $500,000 Awarded on May 1, 2002 on SBIR Phase II: Novel Multi-Wavelength TimeResolved Laser Induced Fluorescence Detector Dr. Greg Gillispie came to NDSU in 1983. He established Dakota Technologies, Inc. (DTI) in 1993. Dakota Technologies specializes in realtime chemical analysis. It is the world leader in the development and integration of chemical sensors into direct push soil probes and uniquely capable of providing continuous vertical profiles of subsurface chemical contamination. Since leaving NDSU Gillispie received a “1999 Small Business Innovation Research Tibbets Award” in Washington, D.C. He was one of 62 honorees from across the country. The Air Force award was in the amount of $100,000 for RealTime Fuel Leak Detector research. The Department of Energy award for $75,000 was for High Spatial Resolution Optical Sensors for DNAPLs research. Gillispie, with Andres Campiglia and Orven Swenson received a $498,000 two-year grant from the National Science Foundation to formally establish a Center for Applications of Laser and Spectroscopy. It will provide instrumentation resource sources and technical support to allow faculty to try out experiments not currently possible in their own laboratories. With Gillispie serving as director of the Center, the group developed a short course and curricular materials related to lasers and optics. Recent Developments at Dakota Technologies, Inc. Greetings to friends of the NDSU chemistry department from Dakota Technologies, Inc. The company has now grown to 18 staff members. Recent additions include Terri Zimmerman, Dr. Mark Pavicic, Travis Martin, and Karry Kyllo. After nine years as a consultant for Deloitte and Touche, Terri Zimmerman served as Vice-president of Finance and Chief Financial Officer at Great Plains Software from 1995-1999. The past two years, Terri was the Chief Financial Chem-News

Officer at Wamnet, a Twin Cities company that helps corporations manage their digital content via a global internet. We are delighted that Terri has decided to bring her outstanding business experience and insight to DTI. Terri is a native of Hannah, North Dakota and a graduate of UND. Mark Pavicic is a native of Fargo and a graduate of Fargo South. After receiving undergraduate degrees in math and physics at Iowa State, Mark earned an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer architecture from Columbia. He also has industrial experience at Texas Instruments, IBM, and Great Plains, as well as almost ten years as a professor at NDSU.

Tom Rudolph (BS Geosciences, 1999) with the latest batch of Northern Lights dye lasers manufactured at DTI.

Greg Gillispie and Paul Jarski (MS 2000 NDSU).

Many of you know Travis Martin, who received his M.S. degree under the direction of Professor Campiglia at the end of last summer. The fluorescence and laser experience he gained in the Campiglia group is being put to good use at DTI. Karry Kyllo is also a North Dakota native. Karry earned his B.S. degree in chemistry at Mayville State; he also has an associate’s degree in electronics and industrial experience at the Milton Young plant in the western part of the state and with Northwest Airlines. DTI’s technology activities have broadened considerably over the last two years. Although we continue to develop new methods and instrumentation to characterize chemical contamination in soil and groundwater, over the past two years we have been moving the company’s main focus toward applying our laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) technology for biomedical and laboratory purposes. NSF is currently funding two Phase II Small Business Innovation Research Projects and we recently completed an NIH project related to DNA sequencing. DTI and Varian, Inc. are collaboratively developing a laser accessory to Varian’s Cary Eclipse spectrofluorimeter. 5

Laser-induced fluorescence projects conducted by Travis Martin (MS Chemistry, 2001 NDSU) take advantage of his experience from the Campigia Laboratory.

Varian’s Optical Spectroscopy group is located in Melbourne, Australia, so some international travel is likely. We also have an industrially sponsored research contract related to biological aerosol sensing and monitoring. We encourage people to drop by and see our renovated and expanded facilities at 2201-A 12th St. N. Last year we had a large open shop area made over into three laboratories and four offices. And in preparation for new hires over the next year, DTI will assume an additional 5000 square feet of space in April, bring our total floor space to about 17,000 square feet.

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July 21-26, 2002 Roger Williams University Bristol, RI Dr. Mukund Sibi, Chair Department of Chemistry North Dakota State University Fargo, ND 58105 voice: 701-231-8251 or 701-231-9045 fax: 701-231-1057 http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/grc/

Dr. Christopher R. Schmid, Vice Chair Senior Research Scientist Chemical Process and Research Dev. Eli Lilly and Company Indianapolis, IN 46285-4813 Voice: 317-276-5155 fax: 317-433-5734 Sunday, July 21, 2002 Session 1 Catalysis Monday, July 22, 2002 Session 2 Process Chemistry Session 3 Organometallic Chemistry Session 4 Catalysis

Wenfang Sun’s Lab

Tuesday, July 23, 2002 Session 5 Radical Chemistry Session 6 Catalysis and Radical Chemistry Session 7 Catalysis Wednesday, July 24, 2002 Session 8 New Reactions Session 9 New Reactions Session 10 Synthesis Thursday, July 25, 2002 Session 11 New Reactions Session 12 New Reactions Session 13 Featured Speaker

Summer Professional Development Opportunities for Science Teachers June & July 2002

Under the Eisenhouser/Title II Funds, ND secondary science teachers are encouraged to participate in an early summer series of graduate-level science courses. Undergrads Krista Berge, Kary Martin and Danielle Dyk.

Dr. Sun was recently awarded her first two grants... one from the NDSU Research Foundation for her photosensitizer research, another one from NASA EPSCoR for her two-photon absorbing materials study. Dr. Fengqi Guo joined Dr. Sun’s group on March 1st. Dr. Guo obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2000 from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His expertise is in organic synthesis, photophysical and nonlinear optical characterizations. He will work on Dr. Sun’s Transition Metal Arylacetylene Complexes for Optical Limiting Application project. Three freshmen, Krista Berge, Danielle Dyk, and Kary Martin have worked in Dr. Sun’s lab since September 2001 under the URM program. Currently, they are synthesizing substituted pyrrole precursors for Chem-News

Post Doc Dr. Fengqi Guo from China.

pentaazadentate porphyrin-like rareearth complexes. Undergraduate student Gregory Rohde (junior) voluntarily works in Dr. Sun’s lab to conduct spectroscopic studies on platinum phenylacetylenes.

Dr. Denley Jacobson, Chemistry Department, will teach Chemistry 736, Mass Spectrometry and Chemistry 737, Gas Phase in Chemistry from June 10 - July 16, 2002. www.ndsu.edu/csme

Sibi Group

Hikaru Hasegawa, Tara Rheault, Mei Liu, Mona Aasmul, Shankar Manyem, Jake Zimmerman.

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Ruzhou Zhang, Hirofumi Matsunaga, Sandeep Ghorpade, Thangaiah Subramanian

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34th Great Lakes Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society June 2-4, 2002 Minneapolis www.chem.umn.edu/glrm Randy Baren, David Thweatt and Justin Meyer.

The Hershberger Lab... by John Hershberger

Symposia

General Sessions * Analytical Chemistry Plenary Session * Chemical Education * Ronald A. Hites, Indiana University * Inorganic Chemistry * Laura L. Kiessling, Univ of Wisconsin * Organic Chemistry * Mark A. Ratner, Northwestern Univ * Physical Chemistry * Samuel I. Stupp, Northwestern Univ Poster Session Environmental Chemistry Chemical Biology Chemistry of Nanostructured Materials Compututational Chemistry Undergraduate Research Symposium

For questions about the program, please contact: 612-625-4061 William B. Tolman, Program Chair University of Minnesota [email protected]

The Hershberger lab is actively involved in research on the kinetics of radical species in combustion chemistry. The group currently includes Dave Thweatt, postdoc, who does both experiments and calculations, Randy Baren, graduate student, who is currently writing his thesis and interviewing for jobs, April Metzger, sophomore, and Mark Erickson, junior. A new graduate student, Justin Meyer, just recently joined the group. Several projects are underway, including measurements on CCN, CCO, NCN, and SiH3 kinetics.

Interdisciplinary Laser & Optics Teaching Lab Open House Architecture, the College of Science and Mathematics, and the Central Administration. In addition, the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics, and Chemistry have contributed substantial amounts of faculty time and generous gifts or loans of instrumentation and components to meet the needs of the new laboratory.

Dr. Orven Swenson, principal investigator, with student, Feng Hong.

An open house for our new interdisciplinary laser and optics teaching lab located within the Physics Department was held on Wednesday, December 12th in South Engineering 112 Lab. The laboratory equipment was funded through a $74,000 NSF grant with matching University equipment funds from the College of Engineering and Chem-News

Using this new facility, we have implemented a new course, Optics for Scientists and Engineers, targeted to a wide cross section of students in computer engineering, electrical engineering, physics, chemistry, mechanical engineering, biology, agricultural engineering, etc. The goal is to provide upper level undergraduate and graduate students with the fundamentals necessary to enable them to successfully apply optics in their respective disciplines. We are completing our first semester of the course with 14 undergraduate 7

and 3 graduate students. The teaching laboratory is also well equipped for incorporation into courses such as fiber optics, spectroscopy, lasers, nonlinear optics, and imaging. Orven Swenson, associate professor of Physics is the principal investigator along with Andres Campiglia, assistant professor of chemistry; Floyd Patterson, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering; David Rodgers, professor of electrical and computer engineering.

Dr. Andres Campiglia with students. Spring 2002

Summer Research Experience NDSreU Offered for Undergraduates - 2002 This year the 10-week summer undergraduate research experience in Chemistry at NDSU is more popular than ever. Applications have been pouring in from all over the country to meet the March 1 deadline. This year well over 50 applications have been received. We plan to fill 17 or 18 positions, the most we have ever hosted to date. Most of these summer research

positions are being funded by a 3year grant from the National Science Foundation. The newly established National Institutes of Health COBRE center at NDSU will fund an additional four students. So, this summer will be an exciting and busy time for NDSU Chemistry. The program will start on May 28, 2002 and run through August 2, 2002.

Tallman visits DC for research

On March 5-6, 2002, Professor Dennis Tallman traveled to Washington, D.C. to express to Congress the need for increased and balanced federal investment in research and development. Professor Tallman joined with more than 200 scientists, engineers and business leaders who made visits on Capitol Hill as part of the seventh “Congressional Visits Day,” an annual event sponsored by the ScienceEngineering-Technology Work Group and the Coalition for Technology Partnerships. Professor Tallman’s visit was organized by the American Chemical Society (ACS), the largest scientific organization in the world with more than 163,000 professional chemists and chemical engineers. Three ACS teams, each team consisting of four members, participated in the event. Professor Tallman’s team (pictured above left to right) consisted of Brad Smith (ACS Staff), Ruth Hathaway of Missouri, Professor Tallman and Dr. Jodi Wesemann of California.

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The Cook Group

While visiting congressional offices, Professor Tallman’s team discussed the importance of the nation’s broad portfolio of investments in science, engineering and technology to promoting national security, prosperity and innovation. Most importantly, they provided a constituent perspective on the local and national impact of these programs and their significance to individual states such as North Dakota and to the nation. They also emphasized the need for significant, sustained increases in funding for fundamental research in the physical sciences, similar to the recent ncreases passed by congress for the health sciences. More than 50 percent of all industrial innovation and growth in the United States since World War II can be attributed to advances pioneered through scientific research, with publicly funded research and development of the vital foundation for today’s scientific and technological progress. Examples of scientific and technological advances that can be traced back to federally funded science, engineering and technology include global environmental monitoring, lasers, liquid crystal displays, and the internet. Says Professor Tallman, “I was pleased to have the opportunity to participate in this important event. I feel strongly that making our voices heard to our elected representatives in Washington is critical to ensure ongoing support of Federal research and development programs.”

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Nestor LoraCruz, Manivannan Ethirajan, Jason Hallman

The Cook Group continues to evolve. New graduate student, Jason Smart joined in December and has embarked on a project to synthesize new inhibitors of Matrix Metalloproteinases. This project is part of the 5-year multidisciplinary collaborative NIH COBRE center that was granted to Chemistry and Pharmacy last year. New undergraduate researcher, Jessica Goreham, is also working on new MMP inhibitors in conjunction with Postdoc Manivannan. Other group members who are working on the COBRE project are Postdoc Liangdong Sun, and Graduate Students Reza Hussain and Nestor LoraCruz. Brandon Gustafson is an undergraduate student who is working on new tandem reactions for the synthesis of new biological templates, and graduate student Jason Hallman, and undergraduate Scott Reule are advancing new selective chemistry mediated by indium metal.

Cobre Office Staff

Amy Scott and Nancie Hergert. Nancie has served Dr. Sibi for 3½ years as an office assistant. She has been instrumental in helping lighten the workload and we say thanks! Spring 2002

Chemistry Department Activities Supplemental Instruction Offered to Chemistry Students

Chemistry Labs get into Network Computing

Chemistry Graduation Candidates BS - Fall 2001 Jonathan Wegner, Willmar, MN

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MS - Fall 2001 Travis Martin, Anchorage, Alaska

Dr. Melvin Morris continues “Free Tutoring” to Chemistry students every day from 1-3:30 with no appointment necessary.

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BS - Spring 2002 Matthew Dewald, Bismarck, ND Patrick Griffin, Fargo, ND Justin Koehler, Upper Darby, PA Alisa Lockman, Champlin, MN Kari Mitchell, Rhame, ND Renee Peterson, Grandin, ND Scott Reule, Fargo, ND Christopher Taylor, Fergus Falls, MN Misty Tomchuk, Harwood, ND

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Rodgers Lab Horace Mann Elementary visit, “Chemiluminescience Experiment” with ChrisTaylor, Justin Koehler and Misty Tomchuk.

Harwood Elementary visit, “Disease Transmission Experiment” with Galen Sedo and Chris Taylor.

New Post-Doc Doug Linder.

Fargodome Fundraising - Home & Garden Show with Lindell Kemmet, Mandy Zimmerli (Fargodome events coordinator), Justin Koehler.

West Fargo High School visit experiment “Methanol Combustion” with Dan Sattler, Scott Rothstein and Galen Sedo. Chem-News

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Kent Rodgers, Doug Linder, Brent Roller, Gudrun-Lukat-Rodgers, Indrani Chakraborty, Lei Tang Spring 2002

North Dakota State Science & Engineering Fair The Southeastern ND Regional Science and Engineering Fair, sponsored by North Dakota State University and Society of Automotive Engineers was held at NDSU on March 12, 2002. The territory included the counties of Griggs, Steele, Barnes, Cass, Ranson, Richland and Sargent.

Nate Bosek, Sullivan Middle School.

McCarthy Lab working with Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering by Dean Grier

The McCarthy Lab has changed in its makeup and now also comprises staff who are working in NDSU’s new Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE). Dean Grier is now splitting his time 30% for the Chemistry Department, directing the MCL, and 70% for CNSE as an Assistant to the Director. His primary task for the first phase of the Center buildout is leading a team of faculty and staff who are conducting a survey of sensor-related technologies compatible with the two focus technologies the Center will be helping to develop (Nanoblock silicon microcircuit architectures and Fluidic Self Assembly manufacturing processes). Eric Jarabek, now a senior, has made Dean’s transition possible by taking over the bulk of the MCL operation and maintenance, as assistant director, including analysis (or supervision of analysis) for in-house and contract sample characterization. Renee Peterson, also now a senior, has been taking advantage of several teaching opportunities on campus, and as the senior undergraduate researcher, is leading a subcontract investigating the mineralogical composition and alteration of a series of coal Chem-News

combustion by-products produced for a variety of commercial applications by Consol Energy. Chrissy Bultema and Laura Mergen (a Concordia student who worked in the lab last summer on an REU project) have been performing library research for the sensor technology survey, and will also be working on the subcontract project that Renee is leading. Jordan Sand, who worked in the lab two years ago during Governor’s School, has been performing literature search and retrieval for the sensor technology survey, and running sample analyses. He has applied to the National Laboratories to work as a student researcher this summer.

renovation of Dunbar spaces for the construction of temporary CNSE cleanroom facilities. Steve has recently taken the full-time position of Special Projects and Logistics Manager. John Simon joined us at the beginning of the year, as Cleanroom and Equipment Manager for CNSE. As a former “Alien” (Alien Technology Corp. employee) from Silicon Valley, he has brought with him both extensive experience in semiconductor fabrication technology and facilities management, and apparently some Southern California heat to contribute to our mild winter.

In addition to Laura and Jordan, we have welcomed two more faces to the MCL space this year, Stephen Stockman and John Simon, both of whom are working for CNSE, and sharing temporary desk space in the MCL until more permanent facilities become available. Steve Stockman comes to us as a retired Lieutenant Colonel of the U.S. Army. He spent several months this fall working part-time with the sensor technology survey and planning 10

CNSE Staff: Stephen Stockman, Special Projects and Logistics Manager (L), and John Simon, Cleanroom and Equipment Manager. John joined us from Alien Technology, Inc., Morgan Hill ,CA. Photo taken in front of Alien’s new facility, whose design and construction was managed by John. Spring 2002

Contests will be such as: Chemistry Lab, Life Science Process Lab, Qualitative Analysis, Science Crime Busters, Water Quality. www. ndsu.nodak.edu/csme/olympiad

April 20, 2002 Dr. Don Scoby from NDSU (retired), Mike Burton, from Discovery Jr. High and Dick Swanson from West Fargo High School were the originators of the the Science Olympiad. Dick Swanson and his wife, Bonnie, are still actively involved. This is the 17th year for the Olympiad. The NDSU Science Olympiad is being held in the Bison Sports Arena on April 20, 2002. About 800 students participate from across the state of ND. The events will be for Division C schools (grades 9-12) and Division B Schools (grades 6-9) and run 9-3.

June 2 - July 20, 2002 The North Dakota Governor's School in Science and Mathematics is a summer residential program for students who have completed their sophomore or junior year in high school. If you have above average abilities and special aptitude and

interest in science or mathematics, the Governor's School may be for you. The Governor’s School is held annually on the campus of North Dakota State University. If you are chosen to attend the Governor’s School, you'll live in student residence halls on the NDSU campus and eat your meals in the student dining hall. Resident assistants help with the supervision of the student residence halls on the NDSU campus and eat meals in the student dining hall. The Governor’s School is free to students. You will be responsible for your own transportation to and from home, as well as for personal expenses such as snacks and laundry. http://govschl.ndsu.nodak.edu/ gs98.html

Campiglia Group by Adam Bystol

Travis Martin and Jen Whitcomb both defended their Masters Thesis in fall semester of 2001. Travis is currently working in Fargo for Dakota Technologies Inc. Jen is interviewing for several prospective jobs, giving preference to those located in the east coast.

Adam Bystol, Dr. Coicoechea, Marina Santos, Andrea Arruda, Dr. Campiglia and Shenjiang Yu.

During the past two years, our group has been heavily involved with the development of new experimental and instrumentation for absorption, excitation and multidimensional luminescence analysis at liquid nitrogen and helium temperatures. Our methods provide the unique capability to perform unambiguous isomer identification in complex mixtures of aromatics such as those encountered in environmental samples. As a result, three major proposals have been funded including an NSF-SBIR Phase II with Dakota Technologies Inc., an EPA-EPSCoR proposal and an NSF proposal (Analytical and Surface Chemistry). Chem-News

Two new members have joined our group this year. Shenjiang Yu is a first year graduate student who received his B.S. in chemistry from the Fudan University in Shanghai, China. When not occupied by classes and studying, Shenjiang has been learning the ropes studying the luminescence of dibenzopyrenes at low temperatures. Marina Santos joined our group this winter. Marina comes to us from Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. She received her B.S. in chemistry from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Santa Fe, Argentina. Marina plans to join the ranks of incoming graduate students this coming fall semester.

Societies Conference in Detroit, MI. The three of us gave oral presentations as well as mingled with our peers from around the world. It was interesting to listen to some stories about Dr. Campiglia’s graduate student life at the University of Florida. Andrea and I plan on defending our thesis this spring. Finally, but not least, we have had the pleasant visit of Professor Hector Goicoechea from the Department of Chemistry, College of Biochemistry, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina. He helped us with the application of chemometrics to luminescence data in environmental analysis.

Broberg Room continues to be used extensively by Chemistry majors

Andrea Arruda and myself presented posters on our research last October at the SD/ND Joint EPSCoR Biennial Conference. We also joined Dr. Campiglia in October at the 28th Annual Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy 11

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News from Chemistry Club By Kari Mitchell

For the members of the NDSU chemistry club, spring semester has turned out to be a busy time of year. Fundraising efforts have continued with exams sales and more Fargo Dome events. Community outreach projects are also on the agenda for this spring. Chem Club members gave demonstrations and orchestrated “hands on” activities at Harwood and Horace Elementary Schools on Feb. 28 and March 7, and will be at Yunker Farm on Apr. 20. The goal of these visits is to spark an interest in science in younger generations.

organization including: community activities, fundraising, communication, hosting of speakers, tours and field trips, involvement with the university, business meetings, and attendance of other scientific meetings. It is our hope that our increased activity this year will earn our student affiliate chapter a Commendable or Outstanding award for next year.

Chem Club also sponsored Dan Sattler as a contestant in the annual “Mr. NDSU” contest, which is produced by Alpha Gamma Delta. This contest benefits the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. From April 7-11, fifteen chemistry club members will be attending the National ACS Meeting in Orlando, FL. Every member going will be presenting a poster either on their research or on chemistry club activities. We are all looking forward to attending this meeting. While at the National Meeting, the chemistry club will also be accepting an Honorable Mention award for our last year’s activities. This award is based on many aspects of the

Yunker Farm “Frosty in Fargo” with Mandy Zimmerli and child.

Harwood Elementary School Visit, “Disease Transmission Experiment” with Renee Peterson, Scott Rothstein, Dan Sattler and Galen Sedo.

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