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Chemistry

Faculty Professional Activities

2007-2008

• Drs. Nalli and Franz were granted sabbatical leaves for the 07-08 academic year. Nalli spent the Fall 2007 semester on campus working on his radical chemistry research with students. Franz spent the entire year as a visiting scientist at the Upper Mississippi River Research Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
• Brad Seurer finished up his Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering from U. Mass.
• Dr. Nalli presented a paper at the National ACS Meeting in New Orleans in April. Also attending was chemistry student, Steve Klankowski, who presented a poster entitled "Creation of a Web Accessible NMR Spectral Database".

2006-2007

• Drs. Nalli and Franz were granted sabbatical leaves for next year. Nalli will spend the Fall 2007 semester on campus working on his radical chemistry research with students and writing external grant proposals. Franz will spend the entire year as a visiting scientist at the Upper Mississippi River Research Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
• Drs. Kopitzke and Engen took a contingent of WSU Chemistry Majors to the March 2007 National ACS Meeting in Chicago. Four of Dr. Kopitzke's students presented posters on their research, Grace Mbogo, Ross Haroldson, Sunzida Ferdous, and Eric Anderson. Dr. Engen's student, Matt Karpinsky, also presented his research at the meeting. Also attending the meeting from WSU were Dr. Lee and Kerry Butters.
• Drs. Nalli and Kopitzke attended the Council on Undergraduate Research's "CUR Dialogues - The Art of Grantsmanship" meeting in Washington, DC in March 2007.
• Dr. Nalli served on the review panel for the National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation Grants program May 4-5 at NSF headquarters in Arlington, Va.

2005-2006

• Tom Nalli presented a poster at the National Organic Symposium held in June 2005 at the University of Utah. Nalli received an ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Faculty Travel Award, which paid for some of his travel expenses to this meeting.

2004-2005

• Drs. Engen, Nalli, and Kopitzke attended the National ACS Meeting in San Diego held during March 2005. Dr. Kopitzke and his research student, Jen Zemke, both gave poster presentations within the Division of Polymer Chemistry. Dr. Nalli presented a poster on the WSU NMR grant project and another talk on the use of NMR in his organic courses at the "Hot Topics in Organic Chemistry" symposium. Dr. Nalli's research students, Desiree Bonsack, Amanda K. Meier, Tyler Morin, and Missy Jo Studler all gave posters on their research at the Undergraduate Research Poster Session. Dr. Engen's research student, Danielle Swaney presented a poster on her research to the Division of Environmental Chemistry. Here is a page with photos from the meeting.
• Mark Engen received a grant from Shimadzu which allowed the purchase of numerous new spectrometers including an FT-IR, 4 GCs, a GC-MS, and a UV-Vis.
• Sara Hein attended the the 10th Council on Undergraduate Research National Conference at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, June 23-26, 2004.
• Sara Hein attended the 18th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education at Iowa State University, July 18 - 22, 2004
• Tom Nalli received an Inter Faculty Organization Professional Improvement Grant for research  on the Synthesis of New Tetraphenylphosphonium Polymers.
• Rill Reuter coauthored the new Test Item File to Accompany "Chemistry for Changing Times", 10th ed.  by John W. Hill and Doris K. Kolb.
• Jamie Schneider taught in the WSU College for Kids Program in Summer 2004.

2003-2004

• Tom Nalli was the speaker at the November 2003 meeting of the La Crosse/Winona ACS Local Section. His talk was entitled "Using Visible Light to Start Cationic Polymerizations".
• Sara Hein taught a new course, "NMR Applications", during the fall semester.
• Jamie Schneider taught a new investigative science course for elementary teaching majors that is sponsored in part through a NOVA (NASA Opportunities for Visionary Academics) grant.
• Bob Kopitzke did research during the summer with chemistry major Jennifer Zemke. This research is being supported through the NSF-Funded "Research Site for Educators in Chemistry" program of the University of Minnesota.
• Sara Hein worked during summer 2003 on developing new NMR experiments in conjunction with our National Science Foundation Grant project.
• Jamie Schneider taught in the WSU College for Kids Program in July 2003.
• Charla Miertschin participated in the NSF Workshop on "NMR: Theory and Applications" which was held at the Center for NMR Spectroscopy, Washington State University, Pullman, WA in May, 2003
• Sara Hein attended the national meeting of the American Society of Pharmacognosy in Chapel Hill, NC, in July 2003.
• Tom Nalli attended the 2003 National Organic Symposium at Indiana University in June. Nalli received a Faculty Travel Award from the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry to attend this meeting.

2002-2003

• Jamie Schneider attended the 225th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society held March 23-28, 2003 in New Orleans. She presented a paper as part of the Division of Chemical Education's symposium on Chemistry for Nonmajors: Teaching in Never Never Land Technology and Laboratory-Based Approaches. The paper was entitled, "Building Community and Excitement through Chemistry Labs".
• Tom Nalli attended the 225th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society held March 23-28, 2003 in New Orleans. Nalli accompanied his research student, Jay Wackerly, who presented a paper on his research entitled, "Verification of the Mechanism for a Visible-Light-Initiated System for Cationic Polymerization".
• Tom Nalli attended the National Conference on Undergraduate Research held March12-16, 2003 at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
• Rill Reuter and Jamie Schneider served as Co-Directors of Research Paper Judging for the Regional Science Fair in March 2003.
• Sara Hein is the 2003 Chair of the La Crosse/Winona Local Section of the American Chemical Society.
• Jamie Schneider presented a talk entitled "Building Community and Excitement in the General Chemistry Lab" at the MnSCU Teaching and Learning Conference in St. Cloud, MN, in October 2002
• Charla Miertschin attended the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education in Bellingham, Washington in August 2002.
• Jamie Schneider taught in the WSU College for Kids Program in July 2002.
• Jeanne Franz and her research students, Perry Loken and Nick Taylor,.attended the 34th Great Lakes regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society in June 2002. Dr. Franz presented her and her students environmental chemistry research in a paper entitled, "The Efect of Different Water Quality Parameters on the Degradation Rate of Atrazine."
• Tom Nalli attended the Pittsburg Conference (PITTCON 2002) in New Orleans in March 2002.
• Bob Kopitzke attended the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society held in March 2002 in Orlando. Attending with Dr. Bob were his two senior undergraduate research students, Tim Steckler and Brad Seurer. Both students presented posters on their research at the meeting.