Department of Chemistry, SCS, UIUC

Below are quotes from Chemical & Engineering News, "C&EN Talks with Margaret Kosal: Chemist applies her science and entrepreneurial know-how to solve real-world security problems," 82(50): 26 (2004).

"Margaret E. Kosal has packed a lot into 31 years. She holds a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she invented a new family of catalytically active organic zeolites. On the way to a postdoc position in France, she made a U-turn: With her research adviser Kenneth S. Suslick and two others, she founded in 2000 a high-tech sensor development company called ChemSensing."

"She has since pursued what she calls technical security problems, first as a postdoctoral fellow and adjunct professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and now as a science fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security & Cooperation. At both institutions, she has concentrated on what she calls "the intersection between emerging science and domestic and international policy issues."

His reminiscenes of his time at Illinois are posted on the Noyes Lab Centennial web site. http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/centennial/remin/chambers1.html

He passed away March 3, 2004 in Illinois. He is survived by 4 children and 6 grandchildren.

Michael T. Bowers (Flygare, W.)
Ph.D., 1966

UCSB CHEMIST BOWERS TO RECEIVE NATIONAL AWARD
FROM AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) - Michael T. Bowers, professor of chemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will receive a national award for his contributions to mass spectrometry at the annual conference of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) May 23 in Nashville, Tennessee.

According to the organization's award committee, "Bowers' work has advanced the prediction of gas-phase ion-molecule collisions from a qualitative to a quantitative level, has furnished the yardstick by which all such reaction rate constants are measured, and has stimulated development of new experimental methods."

Bowers, who has been on the UC Santa Barbara faculty since 1968, is a pioneer in mapping the three-dimensional shape of biological molecules. His special contribution has been in determining molecular conformations in solvent-free environments and how these relate to condensed phase structures.

The UCSB chemist has been the recipient of many major awards and honors during his academic career, including the 1998 International Mass Spectrometry Society's prestigious J.J. Thomson Gold Medal, the highest award given by specialists in the science of atomic measurement, and the 1996 Field and Franklin Award from the American chemical society, given for outstanding achievement in mass spectrometry. With the ASMS award, Bowers becomes only the fourth person worldwide to have won all three of mass spectrometry's top prizes.

Molly (Ph. D. 1989 with Bob Scott) and I are enjoying life in colorful Colorado with our sons Daniel (10) and Harry (7). The link (which will hopefully work) shows the two of us on top of Mt. Princeton.

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"I'm going to be appearing on Jeopardy! Wednesday night, so you should tune in to watch me try and embarrass myself with my poor knowledge of things European... On April 21, I had my Candidacy exam. For this we had to write up our research and then also generate two original scientific proposals, one of which cannot be directly in our field. Then we defend it in a meeting with our advisors and two other faculty members. That was about 3 straight weeks of writing and stress but I passed and dnow am officially in the program." To relax, Andy goes to see the Dodger whenever he gets a chance and plays intramural basketball. (from Campus Honors Program Notebook, July 2003)

She received a Carle CAIR Scholarship for students interested in sports medicine. (from Campus Honors Program Notebook, July 2003)

I have just been appointed (from 1st January 2003) as the new Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic affairs) of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia).

Timothy Felthouse rejoined Monsanto Company in St. Louis, MO, in December, 2001. In May 2003, he was appointed a Monsanto Fellow in recognition of his contributions to multiple Monsanto chemistry programs, especially in the area of catalysis.

Parenthetically, I would like to note that I participated in a symposium at the ACS meeting in New Orleans organized by James K. McCusker (PhD 92, Chemistry (Hendrickson)) now an Associate Professor at Michigan State University. A portion of my talk was entitled "Graduate Work with David N. Hendrickson in the 1970s at the University of Illinois-Urbana."

Also, by way of further background, note that I was previously employed by Monsanto Company (1980-93) and was employed by Huntsman Corporation from 1994 to 2001. From 1996 to 2001 the Huntsman Corporation position was in Austin, Texas. All positions with Monsanto were located in St. Louis, MO.

Since leaving U of I, I worked as an assistant professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz and then the University of North Carolina in Wilmington. In June 2002, I joined aaiPharma, a specialty pharmaceutical company in Wilmington, North Carolina, as a senior scientist. I worked on projects ranging from gastrointestinal drugs to pain medications. I have since been promoted to Associate Director, heading up research for the company.

Named Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota in 2003. Katherine (nee Dowd; Ph.D. 1990, Zimmerman) and I have 3 children, William (11), Matthew (9), and Allison (5). Thank goodness for those labs across the hall...

The SCS Alumni News (winter, 2003) as well as the ACS National Historic Landmark brochure brought back SO many memories of my days at Illinois and especially Noyes Lab.

After graduating from Hanover College (IN), I entered the University of Illinois in September of 1947 and received a Master's degree in chemistry in January, 1949.

I had a graduate teaching assistantship in general chemistry, so the photograph of Noyes 100 reminded me of the time I spent (in the last row) listening to Dr, Bailar and Dr. Moeller as they taught freshmen students. Over the years, I had periodically kept in touch with Dr. Bailar.

My career has been in academia and since 1970 (when we moved to New Jersey) I have been teaching general chemistry at Union County College in Cranford, NJ.

I continue to enjoy teaching and still give credit to the training and experience I had so long ago at Illinois.

He was the recipient of the Colorado State University Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, 2001-2002 and was promoted to Professor of Chemistry as of July, 2002. He was also appointed to serve as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education in the College of Natural Sciences at Colorado State University.

Dr. Kieft was made the Garrett W. Thiessen Chair of Chemistry at Monmouth College in the fall of 2002. He is also the head of the department.

We had a son, Dmitriy Stepanovich Kruglikov, on January 29, 2002. I moved in August to Geneva to start a four-year posting as Financial Management Officer at the U.S. Mission to the European Office of the U.N. and other International Organizations.

I completed a Ph.D. at the University of Colorado-Boulder under the direction of Randall Halcomb in January 2002, then joined the inflammatory diseases unit at Roche Bioscience in Palo Alto.