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Group News
Updated 2 August 2006
- Martha Baskett successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation on 24 May 2006. She returns to her position as visiting assistant professor at Transylvania University! Congratulations, Martha, upon your hard work and success!
- Susan Pasco (Gardner) is happy to announce the (somewhat speedy) birth of baby Samuel Edward Gardner on 28 May 2006. Note that this updated family picture includes Natick MA firemen/EMT's who were among the first to know of the arrival, let's just say, according to Susan. Susan also says she has now been working as Senior R&D Chemist at Nye Lubricants, Inc for the past couple of years. She says the job is interesting, the company family-friendly, and commute survivable. Congratulations, Susan!!!
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Hidenori Murata and his wife, Miho have returned to Tokyo after a year with us in Amherst, following a very enjoyabl bon voyage party. Hidenori accomplished much excellent work, including the first discovery by a member of our group of an organic radical that exhibits intermolecular ferromagnetic exchange interactions. Best of luck in your new position Hidenori! Enjoy the spring flowers in Tokyo! - A new EPR spectrometer has come to UMass-Amherst, thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation and matching funds from the University. PML was the main preparer of the grant that brought the machine here, as part of a team of several UMass-Amherst chemistry researchers. Check out this great machine!
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After more than 20 years of productivity in the Lederle Graduate Research Tower, the Lahti group was assigned to Goessmann 201/202, the best synthetic space in all of the Goessmann lab complex. Organic Chemistry in the modern department began in Goessmann, and our group returns the tradition there. See pictures of our move during the last week of February 2006, and our new lab area! -
Safo Aboaku and his wife Kate became the proud parents of a son, Kofi Aboaku, in February 2006. Congratulations and best wishes to them all. - Patrick Taylor successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation in January 2006. He has joined the group of Prof. Andrzej Rajca at University of Nebraska (Lincoln) as a postdoc. Thanks for the many years you gave to the educational environment at UMass-Amherst, Patrick!
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In October 2005, PML gave an invited talk at the International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, at Loutraki, Greece. - Hemali Rathnayake has won a best poster award at the Chemistry Department Posterfest for the second year running this year. Congratulations to her for showcasing her excellent work in the area of luminescent organic molecules for LED applications.
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Burak Esat has joined the chemistry faculty at Fatih University in Turkey as of 1 September 2005 as an associate professor. Best of luck with your academic career, and all the best to your family.
- Martha Baskett of our group has accepted a teaching position with Transylvania College, a liberal arts college in Lexington Kentucky ranked among the top liberal arts colleges in America. Good luck with the teaching, Martha!
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Nibedita (Ray) Sanyal gave birth to health baby boy Sonham this August 2005. Congratulations and best wishes to them all! - In August 2005, PML was invited to the Department of Physics at Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil, where he consulted with physicists there about magnetism, gave three lectures about molecular magnetism, and learned a bit about beautiful Brazil.
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Cesar Sierra is now an assistant professor at the Universidad Nacional en Bogota, teaching organic chemistry and working on building a research group.
- After six years at Gillette R&D, Ron Gurge has moved to Collegium Pharmaceutical, a small company in northern RI. He says that "the commute is good, people are nice and the project mix is diverse and interesting."
- Mark Kearley is moving from Sonoma State University in California, all the way across the country to Florida State University, where he will be a lab coordinator and instructor. The Kearley family will be closer to relatives, and Mark is very excited about teaching chemistry to Florida students.
- Paul Serwinski has joined MannKind Biopharmaceuticals in Danbury, CT, as of this past summer 2005. He will be doing chemical and medicinal chemistry R&D.
- In April 2005, Dr. Hidenori Murata (shown here in a picture with his wife, in Tokyo) joined the group as a postdoctoral research associated working on molecular magnetism, coming to us from the group of Professor Hiroyuki Nishide of Waseda University in Tokyo Japan.
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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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