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Updated 6 September 2001
  • There has been a recent mini-invasion of the West Coast by former group members. Mark Kearley sends word of a West Coast mini-reunion of Andrew Ichimura (newly joining the faculty of San Francisco State University Chemistry Department), Masaki Minato (still a California beach guy at IPS Corp), and Mark (on sabbatical showing the molecular biologists at Stanford why they need to know more chemistry). Check out the pictures!
  • PML was an invited speaker for two minisymposia at the 2001 Northeast Regional Section Meeting of the American Chemical Society at the University of New Hampshire during 24-27 June 2001: Molecular Magnetic Systems, and Reactive & Unusual Molecules.  It was a good crowd of interested chemists at the meeting.  Hats off to UNH for a really enjoyable NERM 2001.
  • PML group member Lora Field also gave a talk at the 2001 Northeast Regional Section Meeting, in the section on Molecular Magnetic Systems.  She described her work on hybrid inorganic/organic coordination complexes with interesting magnetic behavior, entitled "The Synthesis and Structures of 5-(4-N-Tert-butyl-N-aminoxylphenyl)pyrimidine and Its Coordination Complexes with Mn(hfac)2 and Cu(hfac)2".  Hers are the first coordination complexes from our group that have been well and fully characterized for magnetic behavior! The group work on molecular magnetism had a strong showing at the meeting!!
  • PML group member Pamela Shields has received an honors grant in support of her work within the group.  She works on pharmacological anti-cancer agents that tend to form radicals easily.  Thanks for helping to support the group's research, Pamela!
  • PML group member Samantha Hoyo was the recipient of one of the first-time Bristol-Meyers Squibb research fellowships in support of organic chemistry undergraduate research.  Sam is workin on heterocyclic phenols with potential anticancer activity.  Congratulations Sam!  We hope the Bristol-Meyers Squibb will be able to support future work at UMass, like Sam's!
  • Frank Rossitto has joined Agion Technologies in Wakefield MA, a company that makes anti-microbials.  He reports that all is well with him, his wife, and their 17 month-old child.
  • The well-known Public Broadcasting Company show Nova made use of the PML group's 3-D pictures of carbon allotropes on its fascinating show "The Diamond Deception", which talked about the making of diamonds from graphite under high pressure and temperature. Go to the Nova archive site for this show, and scroll down to the section that asks you to "View a Diamond Crystal" or "View Graphite" or "View a Buckyball" to see the fruits of the groups work on Nova! Thanks, PBS, for using our pictures in such a great story.
  • PML's new book, Magnetic Properties of Organic Materials (Marcel Dekker) is selling well! Buy it! Help advance his retirement fund!