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Group News
Updated 7 August 2008
- Chunping Xie, now Technology & Business Development Manager at Milliken Materials Technologies (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., developed a new and important clarification method for polypropylene, Millad NX8000. This work at Milliken Corp has been recognized by a 2008 R&D Award from R&D Magazine, to be officially presented at a meeting in October 2008. Congratulations on this recognition of your hard work and scientific excellence, Chunping!!!
- Safo Aboaku successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "Organic Radicals as Potential Magnetic Materials and Bio-probes", on 9 July 2008. Wife Kate and son Kofi were present. The family is moving to Mississippi, where Safo will join the faculty of the University of Mississippi as a laboratory instructor. Congratulations, Safo!!!
- Hidenori Murata and wife Miho have announced the birth of daughter Riko in May 2008! Everyone is well. Congratulations Hidenori, Miho, and beautiful Riko!!
- Paul Serwinski sends word of a recent addition to his family, daughter Maja. He says that his job a MannKind Corp. remains very enjoyable and rewarding after three years there (time flies!), and that he has learned a lot about process development. He was recently promoted to senior scientist. Congratulations!!
- Lora Field has joined Axela, a biosensor company in Toronto. Congratulations on the new position, Lora!
- Jacqueline Ferrer sends word that she is continuing to work with Dr. Karl Hostetler at UCSD Medical School (Veterans' Medical Research Foundation). She is also teaching part time at Southwestern Community College. It sounds like things are going AOK!
- Yanbing Liu sends word that things are OK, and sends best wishes to all.
- Nibedita Sanyal sends word that she is working as a postdoctoral research associate in Knoxville, TN. She has been invited to be a session chair for a Carbohydrates section of the ACS meeting in Philadelphia this summer 2008. Congratulations on the recognition of your hard work, Nibedita.
- Martha Baskett seems to have settled in well for her new faculty job at University of Arkansas Montville. She has already has had a proposal funded by the Arkansas Space Grant Consortium (NASA link) for a project "Functionalized Cotton Smart Fabric: an Ammonia Detector Test Case." Good luck with the work, Martha!
- Ron Gurge visited UMass-Amherst this past fall, with colleagues from Collegium Pharmaceutical. He says hello to group members past and present.
- Professor Roald Hoffmann -- Nobel laureate in Chemistry, poet, and scholar -- visited briefly with the group during the schedule for his Mahoney Lecture in Chemistry here at UMass-Amherst on 15-16 November 2008. It was great to have so famous yet gracious a scientist drop by (PML was an undergraduate TA for him at Cornell, long ago).
- Jitapa Sumranjit (May) says hello from Thailand to all for the holiday season (she says Thailand is pretty hot this past end of year).
- Hidenori Murata sends word from Japan that he has been promoted. His work on the quasi-1D ferromagnet F4BImNN has been published in full detail in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (see the group publications site), and even featured on the Chemistry Department WWW site. Congratulations, Hidenori, on the well-deserved recognition of your hard work at UMass-Amherst and at Tokyo University of Science!
- For anyone else with
group news to share, please send it
to PML, and will be posted as we have time to do so. Thanks to everyone
above for their updates!
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