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I have decided to step down as the Dean ofthe College of Chemistry at the end of thiscalendar year. This was a difficult decisionto reach, but I ultimately concluded it wastime to return to my work as an active fac-ulty member. Having served the college inan administrative capacity for four and ahalf years—first as Chair of the Departmentof Chemistry, and then as Dean of theCollege—I am ready to focus again onresearch, teaching, and training graduatestudents and postdocs. I still find theseactivities to be an irresistible draw and asource of great personal satisfaction.

I am, however, very confident that the col-lege continues to thrive, and I am pleasedby all we have accomplished. Just in mytime as dean, the college has confrontedthe challenge of finding a way to retain 14outstanding faculty members in the faceof attractive outside offers—9 of them inchemistry, and 5 in chemical engineering.I am happy to say that 13 of these facultymembers have opted to remain at Berkeley,with one case still ongoing. This highlysuccessful retention effort was essential topreserving the excellence of our faculty, andit helps to solidify the college’s internationalpreeminence in the chemical sciences.

I am also very proud of the University’ssuccess in establishing the EnergyBiosciences Institute on our campus, andof the pivotal role the college played inthis collaborative effort with Lawrence

It is with some sadness that Iannounce that this will be myfinal Catalyst column.

CHARLES B. HARRISDean and Gilbert N. Lewis Professor

Berkeley National Laboratory and theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.I commend our faculty members whoworked so hard to help craft the winningproposal that ultimately secured thisunprecedented $500 million award forenergy research. More broadly, I am proudof the leadership the college continues toexert in research into many of society’smost pressing problems, including energy,the environment, and health.

As an administrator, I have gained an evendeeper respect for the numerous staffmembers who have assisted me in mywork. I have benefited greatly from thehelp and counsel of my senior staff mem-bers; they, along with their own excellentteams, have done a superb job overseeingthe major business of the college. I willleave my post as dean with the knowledgethat the staff’s role is central in sustainingthe college’s excellence and well-being.

Finally, I have taken great pleasure ingetting to know so many of the college’salumni and friends. Your deep commit-ment to the college, support of our pro-grams, and involvement in our activitieshave been an inspiration to me. One ofthe true joys of serving as dean has beenthe opportunity to interact with the largercollege community and to witness first-hand the loyalty and dedication that somany of you feel—and regularly express—towards our institution. I offer my deepestthanks for your many contributions, whichhelp to make our work both possible andgratifying.

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How best to respond to climate change is a hotly debated topic and was evenmore in the news after the announcement of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.Regardless of where you stand on the debate, there are many reasons that theUnited States and, for that matter, the world, would benefit from alternativesources of energy.

Berkeley has established itself as a hub foralternative energy research. The Departmentof Chemistry is a focal point in the overallinitiative. These efforts are centered onwhat we do best—basic science. Chemistryat Berkeley has long been a home to newand unexpected discoveries that come fromintellectually driven students. We hope toturn our students loose with their ever-present level of enthusiasm toward a newand targeted endpoint.

At Berkeley, much of the recent publicity(sometimes even more than the tree peoplegenerate) has surrounded the establishmentof the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI). Theinstitute is funded by BP to the tune of 50mil-lion dollars a year for the next 10 years. That’scorrect—500 million dollars will be broughtto bear on the development of biofuels.

A major goal will be to discover the sciencethat will make converting cellulose to use-able fuels a financially viable process. TheEBI is a joint venture of the Berkeley campus,the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory(LBNL) and the University of Illinois. Partner-ing with Illinois was a key part to winningthe international competition. Our collabora-tors there bring an expertise in crop scienceand related disciplines that is not representedat LBNL or on the Berkeley campus.

The EBI will involve new faculty positionsand, of course, students will engage in theresearch. So the proposed structure andmanagement of the EBI was vetted to therelevant campus oversight committees, andforums were held to allow individual Berkeleyfaculty members to express their concerns.And express those concerns they did!

As expected on our campus, a variety ofopinions was strongly voiced, but everyoneinvolved sought to ensure freedom of thefaculty and students to learn unfettered bythe restrictions that might have beenimposed by private industry. Many facultymembers in the college, and our depart-ment in particular, are involved in the EBI,including myself.

Biofuels are an important piece of our energyfuture, but they are only one part of theBerkeley effort. The Helios Project is anotherimportant piece. Spearheaded by the strongleadership of LBNL Director Steve Chu,the Helios Project is focused on the conver-sion of solar energy into carbon-neutralforms of energy with little or no negativeenvironmental impact. Nanoscience andsynthetic biology, rapidly expanding areasof science, will be brought to bear on thisproblem.

Berkeley chemists and chemical engineersare central to the Helios Project. Chemistry’sPaul Alivisatos co-directs Helios along withchemical engineering’s Jay Keasling. Thedevelopment of more efficient photovoltaics,new and efficient catalysts for splittingwater into hydrogen and oxygen, and newmethods for storing hydrogen will beaddressed. To make room for this expandedactivity, new buildings will be constructedfor both Helios and EBI offices and labs.

Berkeley’s Department of Chemistry is fullyengaged in trying to secure our energyfuture, while at the same time it is lookingfor solutions that will be good for our envi-ronment. I am confident that Berkeleychemists and chemical engineers will find

solutions to the significant problems ahead.We will be getting help from one of ournewest assistant professors,Michelle Chang,who introduces herself below. It is moreexciting than ever to be a chemist at Berkeley.

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Michelle Chang

As an undergraduate student at UC SanDiego, I became interested very early on inboth chemistry and biology. While lookingfor a laboratory to get hands-on experiencein scientific research, I was fortunate tomeet Don Helinski, who bravely accepted afreshman into his group. During my timethere, I worked on a project that was cen-tered on understanding horizontal genetransfer in microbial communities frommarine sediments. Ten years later, I amstill grateful for the opportunity that I hadto work with his group, an experience thatinspired me to continue in science andapply to graduate school.

After graduating from UCSD, I left Californiafor the first time and started my graduatestudies at MIT, where I was a joint studentwith Dan Nocera and JoAnne Stubbe. Thefocus of my thesis was to investigate thedetailed mechanisms of long-range proton-coupled electron transfer in ribonucleotide

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reductase, a complex and physiologicallyimportant enzyme.

After finishing my Ph.D., I then started mypostdoc with Jay Keasling here in the Collegeof Chemistry. The overall goal of my projectwas to engineer microbes, such as E. coli,to produce a semisynthetic precursor to anantimalarial drug that would be inexpensiveenough for developing nations. My experi-ences with Jay and his laboratory openedmy eyes to the opportunities of makingan impact at a societal level with basicacademic research.

I joined the faculty at Berkeley as an assistantprofessor in July 2007, and my group isinterested in studying the mechanisms ofenzymes that catalyze unique reactionsand applying this understanding to buildnew chemical functions into living cells.Our lab is combining the approaches ofenzymology and molecular and cell biology,as well as synthetic biology and metabolicengineering, to address problems inhuman health and renewable energy.

Our current efforts in bioenergy are focusedon two fronts. First, we are interested inexploring the specialized chemistry that

has evolved in microbial hosts to degradeand consume the biopolymers found inplant biomass, with the specific goal ofconverting lignin to useable liquid trans-portation fuels. In a second line of research,we are using genetically-engineered cellsas a framework to begin studying the com-plex network of metabolic reactions foundin vivo. Using fuel synthesis pathways as amodel, we seek to gain a deeper under-standing of how biochemical pathways areput together in cells.

Another part of my group is exploringhow carbonfluorine bonds can be madeenzymatically, with the goal of developingbiosynthetic methods to produce fluorinatedpharmaceuticals. The ability to selectivelysubstitute fluorine into molecules has beenfound to be essential for designing newdrugs, but remains a challenge using tradi-tional synthetic chemistry.

I’m really excited to be starting my inde-pendent career here at Berkeley and feelcompletely welcomed by students, faculty,and staff in the college.

College AwardsSeven College of Chemistry faculty membersand researchers are the recipients of AmericanChemical Society awards for 2008:

Jhih-Wei Chu Hewlett-PackardOutstanding Junior Faculty Award fundedby HP and sponsored by the ACS Divisionof Computers in Chemistry.

Graham Fleming Ahmed ZewailAward in Ultrafast Science and Technologysponsored by the Ahmed ZewailEndowment Fund established by NewportCorp.

Daniel Neumark Irving LangmuirAward in Chemical Physics sponsored byGE Global Research.

Kenneth Raymond ACS Award inInorganic Chemistry sponsored by AldrichChemical Company, Inc.

Frantisek Svec ACS Award inChromatography sponsored by SUPELCO,Inc.

Don Tilley Frederick Stanley KippingAward in Silicon Chemistry sponsored byDow Corning Corp.

Dean Toste Elias J. Corey Award forOutstanding Original Contribution inOrganic Synthesis by a Young Investigatorsponsored by the Pfizer Endowment Fund.

The recipients will be honored at the awardsceremony at the 235th ACS national meetingin April 2008 in New Orleans, LA.

Chemistry’s newest assistant professor, Michelle Chang, is busy setting up her new laboratory.

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The Honda SL100 was hardly a cutting-edge motorcycle; at just over 11horsepower, the 218-pound bike posted a 0–60 time of about 19 seconds.But it was mine, a 16th-birthday present from my brother. I rebuilt theengine, rejetted the carb, and brought the horsepower to almost 15.

But I had forgotten about the transmis-sion. About three miles up an almost drycreek bed (no pun intended) above thePacific Coast Highway, my rear wheelseized. The painful hours I spent pushingmy bike back to Oxnard in the summerheat were a hard lesson on how to thinkholistically about a system. In the ensuingweeks, I discovered, at great expense, thatthe extra horsepower I had carefully builtinto the engine simply overwhelmed thetransmission.

This issue of Catalyst tells us about thebiomedical research of my colleagues DaveSchaffer and Carolyn Bertozzi. I am hum-bled by the gifts these colleagues bring tothe Berkeley campus. Like my re-builtHonda engine, they are providing dramaticadditional horsepower for research in thelife sciences. Yet even as I admire thepotential of their work, I remember myfailed motorcycle transmission and I won-der if as researchers we think about ourheath care system in a holistic way.

Engineers are typically more aware of theneed for a good transmission than are otherresearchers. We understand that unless wecan make an invention practical enoughfor the marketplace, we will not have mucheffect on society. If a chemical engineerfinds a way to improve a catalytic processthat makes petrochemical refining cheaperand less polluting, we’re confident such arefinement will rapidly find its way intoproduction.

With biomedical discoveries I am not sosure. The conversion of discoveries intopractical applications has been complexand slow enough that a few years ago, theNational Institutes of Health created a new

JEFFREY A. REIMERChair, Department of ChemicalEngineering, Warren and KatharineSchlinger Distinguished Professor

initiative to emphasize “translational”research to help speed innovations from“bench to bedside.”

But I am still left with some naggingdoubts: from bench to whose bedside, andhow many bedsides are we talking about? Ihave no doubt that in the next several yearsthe work of Schaffer, Bertozzi and otherswho share their dedication will lead tobreakthroughs in treating cancer, tubercu-losis, Alzheimer’s disease, and many otherhuman maladies. What saddens me is agrowing sense that many thousands willsuffer and die because they will not haveaccess to these new treatments.

The World Health Organization reportsthat the United States spends more onhealth care per person than any othernation on the planet. In spite of these costs,a surprising number of U.S. citizens lacksany health care whatsoever (16 percent,according to the Census Bureau). Infantmortality rates (as reported by the UnitedNations) place the United States 33rd in theworld, behind countries such as Cuba, Brunei,Slovenia, Cyprus, and New Caledonia.

The U.S. health care system, the transmis-sion that connects biomedical research toour society, is broken. Whether you areconservative or liberal, polls show you arelikely to agree. Ultimately, this is not an

issue for just the uninsured—it is also aproblem for the research community. If thebenefits of biomedical research cannot fullyreach our citizens, they will begin to ques-tion why their tax dollars should support it.

I recently had the opportunity to spend ayear in Germany, and I can assure you thatother industrialized countries deal withhealth care access in very different ways.Their systems are not perfect, but if youwere to ask citizens of Canada, the UnitedKingdom, Germany or any of the othercountries of the European Union if theywould choose to swap their health care sys-tem for the U.S. version, the answer wouldalmost always be no.

I learned the hard way many years ago thatyou can’t neglect your transmission. Whatis the status of the transmission that con-nects Berkeley’s health research engine tothe public? It is a question that all of usshould ponder.

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Post ScriptDear Friends,We have just learned that Paul Plouffe, the department’s beloved writing instructor, diedsuddenly Sunday morning, November 11.For 24 years Paul was the soul of our chemical engineering program, leading each andevery student through ChE 185, Technical Communication for Chemical Engineers. Hiswarm and gentle personality graced Gilman Hall, and I know I speak for us all when Isay that we are in deep grief.

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Relaxing in his office, Gabor Somorjai pauses for a moment to reflect onhis 43-year career at Berkeley. “A profession is a vehicle,” says Somorjai,“to achieve what you want from life. People choose a profession for threereasons—power, security or independence. Power? I wasn’t interested inthat. Security? I never had any. Independence was my driving force.”

A long journey to home

It was Somorjai’s fierce pursuit of inde-pendence that led him to flee Budapestafter the Hungarian uprising against Sovietrule in 1956, to come to the United Statesto continue his education, and to turndown a lucrative promotion at IBM toreturn to academia to pursue his research.

“Success never came easy for me,” saysSomorjai. “But if you let hardship get thebetter of you, then you are out.” Born inBudapest in 1935, Somorjai grew up withsoldiers in the streets—first Nazis, andlater Soviets. He doesn’t waste time com-paring the two groups. “They were bothbad,” he says.

His father was a businessman, and underthe Soviets, he was labeled a “class enemy.”This status at first prevented the youngSomorjai from entering a university, but heplayed basketball and water polo, and hisathletic talents earned him an exception.His father encouraged him to study chemi-cal engineering, because he thought thathis son could find employment anywherein the world as a chemical engineer.

Somorjai started at the Technical Universityof Budapest as a chemical engineeringstudent in 1953. “It was the height of theStalinist terror. People were disappearingleft and right,” he says. In the fall of 1956,

in his senior year, the Hungarian uprisingbegan. Somorjai and his fellow students atthe university were active in the revolution.

But the Soviet tanks rolled into Budapeston November 4, and the crackdown began.“When the Russians began arresting people,I decided to leave the country. I was fourmonths from getting my diploma. I hid mymachine gun in my organic lab locker andheaded for the border.” He took with himtwo companions, his sister Marietta, and,after consulting with her parents, his girl-friend (and later wife), Judith Kaldor. Hewas 21, she was 18.

Somorjai was part of a mid-20th centuryHungarian diaspora that included the scien-tists Leo Szilard, Edward Teller and EugeneWigner, along with game theorist and com-puter pioneer John von Neuman, photogra-phers Robert Capa and Andre Kertesz, fin-ancier George Soros, Intel co-founder andCollege of Chemistry alumnus AndrewGrove, and Berkeley chemical engineeringprofessor Charles Tobias. It was Tobiaswho helped bring Somorjai to Berkeley asa graduate student.

“After the revolution was defeated, theengineers kept the trains moving to the westfor the refugees,” Somorjai recalls. “Butwith solders guarding the final crossing, wehad to leave the train 50 kilometers fromthe border. The local people hid us duringthe day, and we walked for four nights tothe border, where guides led us to an areawhere we could cross safely. I remember itwas late November 1956, cold and swampy.”

One of Somorjai’s first recollections of thewest was an Austrian Red Cross safehouse, where the refugees were given foodand hot drinks. Then it was on to Vienna,where he encountered fellow Hungarianémigré Cornelius Tobias, brother of CharlesTobias. Somorjai traveled to the UnitedStates with Judith, where they had beensponsored by refugee agencies. Their firsthome in the U.S. was Camp Kilmer, NJ.

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Judith and Gabor Somorjai on their wedding day in Berkeley, Sept. 2, 1957.Chemical engineering professor Charles Tobias was their best man.

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department (and from 1968–70 the headof the Berkeley Academic Senate), “and he,along with chemistry faculty membersGeorgePimentel and Robert Connick, helped keepthe education process undamaged on theBerkeley campus,” says Somorjai. Connicklater served as the Vice Chancellor, AcademicAffairs (1965-67) and as Vice Chancellor(1969-71).

It was at Berkeley in 1965 that Somorjaibegan his path-breaking work on thechemistry of surfaces. The development oflow energy electron diffraction in the 1950sand 1960s allowed researchers to studysurfaces at the molecular level. Somorjaiand his research group began developingvacuum systems for examining the surfaceproperties of model catalytic materialssuch as platinum single crystals.

Somorjai realized that the chemical proper-ties of a surface depend upon the nature ofthe surface itself as much as they do on thebulk properties of the material. At the atomiclevel, surfaces have varied structures, andthese structures induce varied chemistry.The planet Earth has large flat surfaces suchas salt flats, but it also has mountains andridges. The same is true for metal surfaces.“A smooth surface may be chemically inert,”says Somorjai, “but atoms on the surfaceusually restructure and move to new loca-tions because they have fewer neighborsthan atoms in the bulk and therefore arebound differently. The surface can alsohave steps, and kinks in the steps, and thatis where the chemistry appears. If you adddefects to a smooth surface, then it can


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The year 1957 was a good one for Somorjai.It started with a letter from Charles Tobias,letting him know that he had been accept-ed as a graduate student at Berkeley andhad been provided with a stipend of $800.Tobias’s letter starts, “First of all, let megreet you warmly on the occasion of yourarrival to this blessed country. I hope thatyou will be as little disappointed in yourexpectations as I am after 10 years of lifehere. Now let’s get down to business.” Otherletters followed to formalize the arrange-ment from College of Chemistry deanKenneth Pitzer and the Berkeley registrar.

Somorjai’s favorite class as a grad studentwas thermodynamics with Leo Brewer.“Brewer was an outstanding teacher with adeep knowledge of chemistry,” says Somorjai.“He made the subject come alive.” Eventhen Somorjai was fascinated by heteroge-neous catalysis and polymers. But no onein the Department of Chemistry was work-ing in these areas. Finally Richard Powell,a professor of inorganic chemistry, offeredhim a research job involving catalysis.

Somorjai completed his dissertation, entited“Small Angle X-Ray Study of MetallizedCatalysts,” with Powell in 1960 and joinedthe research staff at IBM in YorktownHeights, NY. In 1962, while he was workingfor IBM, he became a U.S. citizen.

It was at IBM that Somorjai’s independentstreak reasserted itself. Says Somorjai, “IBMwanted me to manage a new project, but Iwanted to continue to study surface chem-istry.” In 1964, he decided to quit IBM andreturn to Berkeley as a professor, eventhough it meant a 50 percent salary cut.

Somorjai returned to Berkeley just as theFree Speech Movement began, and as he putit, “All hell broke loose.” Powell, his disser-tation advisor, was the chair of the chemistry

break bonds. This concept became thefingerprint of my chemistry.”

Somorjai’s approach was to work with simplemetal surfaces and discover how chemicalreactions occur on them. He focused onplatinum metal surfaces, since platinumhas historically been the most importantcatalyst. Somorjai then moved on to morecomplex surfaces and nanoparticles ofdifferent shapes and sizes, similar to thoseused in industrial reactions. These methodshave led to more efficient and more selectivecatalysts and have been the key drivingforce in the application of surfaces foradvancement of microelectronics and harddisk drives, better understanding of lubri-cation and corrosion, and improvements inthe interfaces between medical implantsand the human body.

More recently Somorjai’s group developedscanning tunneling microscopy methods,and working with Berkeley physics profes-sor Ron Shen, they have developed sumfrequency generation surface vibrationspectroscopy to study surface reactionsunder real conditions without the need forplacing the surface in a vacuum chamber.

In addition to his colleagues and students,Somorjai credits his success, and the successof the College of Chemistry in general, toan often-overlooked asset—its machineand electronics shops. “If you look at thework of College of Chemistry Nobellaureates such as Melvin Calvin, GlennSeaborg and Y. T. Lee, their success wasbased on advances in instrumentation, andwe owe that to our shops,” says Somorjai.

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Somorjai was named University Professorby the UC Board of Regents in 2002, thehighest honor bestowed on a faculty mem-ber within the UC system. He is also aFaculty Senior Scientist in the MaterialsScience Division and Director of theSurface Science and Catalysis Program atthe Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Somorjai has won every major award thatcan be bestowed on a physical chemist bythe American Chemical Society. In 2002,he received the National Medal of Science,the nation’s highest award for lifetime sci-entific achievement. Earlier this year hewas awarded the Priestley Medal from theAmerican Chemical Society, the most pres-tigious honor bestowed on an Americanchemist. He also won the Wolf FoundationPrize in Chemistry. He was elected to theNational Academy of Sciences in 1979 andthe American Academy of Arts and Sciencesin 1983. He has seven honorary doctoratedegrees from universities around the world.

Somorjai has educated more than 120 Ph.D.students and almost 200 postdoctoral fel-lows, about 100 of whom hold faculty posi-


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a surface, and bones are porous surfaces,just like the zeolite catalysts used in thepetrochemical industry. Enzymes arenanoparticle catalysts, at a scale where sur-face effects dominate.”

Somorjai foresees that fighting globalwarming will require profound changes inchemistry and catalysis. He says that oilsupplies are dwindling, and natural gaswon’t last much longer. Coal is dirty, andcleaning it up will be a major challenge.Solar power has tremendous potential, butsolar energy is often produced far fromwhere it is needed.

“We need ways to convert energy from oneform to another,” says Somorjai, “and tostore excess energy in chemical bonds. Wewill have to use energy as cleanly and effi-ciently as possible. In a world of carbondioxide neutrality, we will need to rethinkall of our chemical processes.”

That process of rethinking will be easier,thanks to Somorjai’s decades of research.“I wanted to do something important,” hesays. “I put my stamp on the profession,and the profession allowed me to do every-thing I wanted to do in life.”

Somorjai recently celebrated his 50th wed-ding anniversary with Judith, the 18-year-old girl who walked out of Hungary withhim on a cold November day in 1956. Shefinished her undergraduate degree atVassar in New York and in 1975 earned herM.S. in computer science at Berkeley. Theyraised two children, and photos of his fourgrandchildren grace his office bookshelf.They all live in the San Francisco Bay Area,as does Somorjai’s sister Marietta, whoeventually came to the U.S. from Viennaand raised her family here. Says Somorjai,“Judith and I were married in the fall of1957. I was a first-year graduate student,and for our honeymoon we took a bus toLake Tahoe over the Labor Day weekend.”

Somorjai has returned to Europe manytimes, including to his native Hungary.“But for my family and me,” he says, “theBay Area is home. I look back now and seeall the things I was able to do because Itook the chance and came to Berkeley.”

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tions. Many more are leaders in industry.He is the author of three textbooks andover 1,000 scientific papers in the fields ofsurface chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis,and solid state chemistry.

“Professor Somorjai could be consideredthe father of modern surface chemistryand to have almost single-handedly set themolecular foundations of heterogeneouscatalysis,” says Francisco Zaera, a chem-istry professor at UC Riverside who con-ducted his doctoral research with Somorjaiin the early 1980s.

But Somorjai is not ready to rest on hislaurels. Says Somorjai, “I often ask poten-tial assistant professors the following ques-tions: ‘If you succeed, will you increaseknowledge by an order of magnitude? Ifyou had the best students and endlessmoney, what would you do?’ Many peoplecannot answer these questions.”

Somorjai would study biological surfaces,especially the brain. “The human brain is asurface, and it is folded to increase surfacearea without increasing head size,” hesays. “Evolution loves surfaces. The skin is

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This issue of Catalyst is the second in a series that focuseson human health.

Approximately two billion people have tuberculosis. Thevast majority of these cases are latent and not contagious.But estimates are that 10 percent or more of the infected,or about 200 million people, will become contagious atsome point in their lives if left untreated.

The havoc caused to the immune system by TB makes aninfected person more likely to get, and transmit, otherdiseases such as AIDS and malaria. To break the cycle oftransmission, new treatments are needed for TB, espe-cially for its drug-resistant forms which have appeared inevery region of the world.

In the Department of Chemistry, Carolyn Bertozzi andher research group are starting with fundamentals, usingthe latest advances in genetics and biochemistry to builda molecular-level understanding of TB virulence and howto block it.

The Bertozzi group is reaching out to collaborators—toUC Berkeley’s public health experts, to UCSF infectiousdisease specialists at San Francisco General Hospital, andto local biotechnology companies—to fight one of theworld’s greatest killers.

Meanwhile, in the Department of Chemical Engineering,David Schaffer is dealing with an emerging epidemic of avery different sort. Because we have been successful at

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combating heart disease, cancer and diabetes, moreAmericans are living longer. When coupled with theaging of the baby boom generation, millions are reachingthe age when they become increasingly susceptible toneurodegenerative diseases.

About five million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’sdisease, Parkinson’s disease, and amyotrophic lateral scle-rosis (ALS). According to the NIH National Institute onAging, about 5 percent of men and women ages 65 to 74have Alzheimer’s disease, but nearly 50 percent of thoseage 85 and older may have the disease. Because of thesedemographic factors, in coming decades there will be anepidemic of neurodegenerative diseases—diseases forwhich we have no cures.

Schaffer is using stem cell technologies and progenitorcells in the brain to learn to repair the neural pathwaysdestroyed by these illnesses. Working with multidiscipli-nary groups of researchers at Berkeley’s Helen WillsNeuroscience Institute and the Berkeley Stem CellCenter, Schaffer is adding his unique perspective as achemical engineer to find ways to harness the potential ofstem cell therapies.

The efforts of the Bertozzi and Schaffer research groupsare just two examples of how College of Chemistryresearchers continue to grapple with real-world problemsand hunt for solutions that will improve the well-being ofpeople all over the world.

Rays of hope

Above Cultured neural stem cells have been stained for a marker called nestin (green). These neural cells can divide indefinitely and have thepotential to remedy Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. Below An electron microscope reveals the details of Mycobacteriumtuberculosis. Each rod-shaped bacterium is about two microns (two thousandths of a millimeter) long.

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n the fall of 1999, Joseph Mougous, a new graduate studentin the research group of professor Carolyn Bertozzi, startedlooking for a research project. Mougous began by exploring

the genetic sequence of the tuberculosis (TB) bacterium that hadbeen published the previous year.

In the sequence he found something unexpected, somethingthat would eventually lead not only to his own dissertation, but alsoto a new research focus for the Bertozzi group—one that continuesto gain momentum eight years later.

Buried in the genetic code of the TB bacterium, Mougousfound genes for the production of a set of enzymes that were verysimilar to those in humans. The enzymes helped produce sulfatedglycolipids, molecules involved in cell-to-cell communication inhigher animals.

What were these genes doing in a bacterium, he wondered?Were they an integral part of the microbe’s genome, or were theyevolutionary baggage, bits of junk DNA? Did they help produce theunique characteristics of TB that make it so dangerous and difficultto treat?

The researchers who first published the TB genome in Naturemagazine (11 June 1998) had noted many unusual aspects of thebacterium. “Novel biosynthetic pathways generate cell-wall componentsand several of these may contribute to mycobacterial longevity,” theresearchers wrote. “…TB contains an additional layer that is excep-tionally rich in unusual lipids, glycolipids and polysaccharides.”

Starting from these genetic clues, Mougous and the Bertozzigroup began their search to understand the TB bacterium and to findnew ways to disrupt its lifecycle. The terms “glyco” and “saccharide” arehints that these complex organic molecules are built from simplersugars. For Bertozzi, understanding the chemistry of these sugar-based molecules, and the role they play in disease and health,including cancer and inflammatory disease, has become her life’s work.

Bertozzi is the T. Z. and Irmgard ChuDistinguished Professor ofChemistry and professor of molecular and cell biology at Berkeley.She obtained her undergraduate degree from Harvard University in1988 and her Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1993, both in chemistry.

After a postdoctoral appointment at UCSF, she returned toBerkeley as a faculty member in 1996. She is also an Investigator ofthe Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a faculty affiliate at QB3, and

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Unraveling

Top Carolyn Bertozzi takes abreak from her responsibilitiesas the director of the LBNLMolecular Foundry.

Middle A molecule of SL-1,a virulence factor in the cellwall of TB bacteria.

Bot tom Joseph Mougous,a former member of theBertozzi research group, isnow an assistant professor atthe University of Washington.

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the director of the Molecular Foundry, a nanoscience institute at theLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She has won numerousawards, including several campus teaching awards and aMacArthur Foundation “genius” award.

The inventor Thomas Edison once remarked, “Genius is 1 per-cent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” Edison would haveappreciated Bertozzi’s work ethic. She is a perpetual motionmachine, some weeks spending almost as much time in the air fly-ing to and from meetings as she does on the ground. Yet she stillholds together a research group of almost 50 people, includingundergraduates.

The Bertozzi group’s progress in unraveling the metabolicmysteries of the TB bacterium has been due to painstaking researchover the course of several years. “Back in 1999,” says Bertozzi, “weknew that sulfated glycans, or sugar-based molecules that containsulfur, play important roles in cell-to-cell communication in higheranimals. But we didn’t know much about the functions of these sul-fated glycans in bacteria in general, much less in TB specifically.”

TB is a uniquely human disease, and the organism that pro-duces it has been co-evolving with humans for thousands of years.The TB bacterium may have adapted to its host by mimickinghuman cell-to-cell signaling pathways. “If we could learn how TBmanipulates the immune system,” says Bertozzi, “we might be ableto identify new anti-TB drug candidates.”

Prior to the Bertozzi group’s work, only one TB sulfated glycolipidwas known—sulfolipid-1 (SL-1). Its biosynthetic machinery hadremained a mystery for over 40 years. After the group unraveledmany of the SL-1 biosynthetic pathways, Bertozzi, Mougous, andcollaborators in Berkeley’s molecular and cell biology and publichealth departments began to look for ways to block the productionof SL-1 and other sulfated molecules.

The sugar trehalose seemed like a good place to begin. It is oneof the fundamental building blocks of TB glycolipids like SL-1.Starting from trehalose, the TB bacterium synthesizes SL-1 byadding long lipid chains and a sulfate (SO

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2-) group.Trehalose is a disaccharide, composed of two glucose molecules.

In appearance, it is not that different from sucrose, the sugar wesprinkle on our cereal and put in our coffee. Sucrose is also a disaccha-ride, but it is composed of onemolecule of glucose and one of fructose.

“Most bacteria, plants, and insects synthesize trehalose,” saysBertozzi, “but higher order vertebrates, like humans, don’t. Wethought that if we found a drug candidate that interfered with trehalosebiosynthesis, it could reduce the virulence of TB without havingmuch of an effect on the person with TB who was taking it.”

Bertozzi’s original hunch was correct—too correct. Trehaloseis so important to the TB bacterium that it has evolved three redun-dant pathways to produce the sugar. Finding a drug that wouldblock all three pathways of the trehalose biosynthesis system wouldbe a very complex task. So Bertozzi set aside trehalose as a targetand kept looking for other ways to block the production of sulfatedglycolipids.

Bertozzi and colleagues have had more success by targetinganother way the TB bacterium uses sulfur-containingmetabolites forits self-defense. TB bacteria can survive for decades in a dormant stateinside macrophages, our immune system’s killer cells. Once theyengulf bacteria, macrophages launch a barrage of potent oxidants,including nitric oxide, to kill the invaders.

Says Bertozzi, “We know sulfur-containing metabolites helpprotect other organisms against oxidants, and we speculated that theenzymes involved in sulfur assimilation might be vital for survivalof TB during its latent phase inside macrophages.”

CysH is an enzyme essential for the TB bacterium to producesulfur-containing metabolites. Bertozzi had discovered that disruptionof CysH synthesis renders the TB bacterium incapable of producingcysteine and methionine, two sulfur-containing amino acids, aswell as a cofactor called mycothiol that the bacteria use to protectthemselves from oxidants. Disruption of CysH, Bertozzi found, alsoreduces the virulence of TB in mice.

“CysH helps protect the TB bacterium,” say Bertozzi, “so thatmakes it an interesting target. In the last several years, working withProfessor Lee Riley’s group in public health, we’ve been able to producea genetically altered ‘knock-out’ strain of TB that lacks the CysHaltogether, and we’ve found that this weakened version has potentialas a vaccine, at least in the mouse model of TB.”

The current vaccine for TB, the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin(BCG) vaccine, was developed in the 1930s in Europe. It is based onan attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis, the relative of the TBpathogen that usually infects cattle. The BCG vaccine is used mostly

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The role of glycans in understanding health and disease contin-ues to make news in scientific circles. Recent articles in the scientificliterature discuss the role of complex sugar-based molecules in HIV(Science, 28 Sept 2007), malaria (Chemical & Engineering News, 17Sept 2007) and even bone growth (ACS Chemistry of Materials, 16Oct 2007).

Research on glycans is blossoming—due in part to Bertozzi,her collaborators and the students they have trained. Bertozzi ispleased but not surprised. “I’ve been fortunate to have worked withgreat students and colleagues over the years, and to have gottensupport from visionary public and private funding sources. TB is aterrible disease. With more hard work and a little luck, in the nextseveral years we’ll make significant progress in the fight against it.”

to vaccinate children in developing countries where TB is endemic.It has a number of drawbacks, including the waning of protectiveimmunity over time, variable effectiveness in adults, and a poorsafety record in immunocompromised individuals.

“It’s hard to believe that the only vaccine currently being usedagainst TB was developed 70 years ago,” says Bertozzi. “There is adesperate need for a better TB vaccine, and we’re hoping our workwill help start the process of developing a new one.”

The potential of the Bertozzi group’s research recently caughtthe eye of a local biotech company, Gilead Sciences, of Foster City, CA.Gilead specializes in products to treat infectious diseases such asHIV and hepatitis. Its $499,500 gift will boost Bertozzi’s research.“The Gilead funds will allow us to hire a staff scientist who will providethe continuity necessary for an extended research project,” saysBertozzi. “It’s wonderful that a local biopharmaceutical companyhas the foresight to invest in this type of academic research.”

Michael Schelle (Ph.D. ’07, Chem), a recent graduate of theBertozzi group, has been appointed the staff scientist in charge of anew TB lab. Schelle is looking forward to extending the group’swork by examining lung samples from TB patients. “Up to now, wehave pretty much been confined to working with mouse and otheranimal tissues to study TB,” says Schelle. “The problem is that theanimal models may not be that helpful. TB is a human disease—inthe wild, mice don’t get TB.”

Although many drugs against TB are losing their effectiveness,Schelle explains that they are effective enough that the older invasivesurgical procedures—removing a lung or cutting away diseasedlung tissue—are almost never performed. That makes samples ofTB-infected human tissues very difficult to find.

Through collaboration with San Francisco General Hospital,the Bertozzi group is hoping to work with biopsy samples from TBpatients. Says Bertozzi, “In addition to providing indigent care, S.F.General is staffed by UCSF doctors who do amazing research ontrauma, AIDS, TB, and other illnesses. We are looking forward toworking with Phillip Hopewell, who is one of the best TB doctors inthe country.”

Bertozzi has been able to keep Schelle as a staff scientist. Butwhat became of Joseph Mougous, the grad student who first inter-ested the group in TB eight years ago? He is now back in his nativePacific Northwest as an assistant professor at the University ofWashington, where he continues to study cell-to-cell interactionsbetween microbes and their hosts. As a user of the MolecularFoundry at LBNL, he keeps in touch with Bertozzi.

Says Mougous, who earned his Ph.D. in molecular and cellbiology in 2004, “The Bertozzi lab was where I learned to lovemicrobiology and host-pathogen interactions. It was a great envi-ronment to learn in, one that really allowed me to explore interestingscientific questions without a lot of barriers.”

TB l i fecyc le : TB bacterium is engulfed by macrophage (1),but survives by entering dormant phase (2). Macrophagerecruits other immune system cells called leukocytes (3) tohelp counter infection, forming granuloma (4). Latent TB cansurvive for decades inside granuloma (5). For reasons not yetunderstood, TB can become active, releasing new bacteriumfrom granuloma and starting active infection (6).

Below: Bertozzi entertains her research group over pizza at anevening group meeting. Michael Schelle (center background),is a recent Ph.D. graduate from the group and will head thenew TB lab.

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What is tuberculosis?

Drug-resistant TB

• Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease causedby Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Thebacteria usually attack the lungs, butTB bacteria can attack any part ofthe body, including the kidney, spine,and brain.

• TB is spread through the air fromone person to another. The bacteriaare put into the air when a personwith active TB of the lungs or throatcoughs or sneezes. People nearbymay breathe in these bacteria andbecome infected.

• Not everyone infected with TB bacteriabecomes sick. People who havelatent TB infection do not feel sick,do not have any symptoms, andcannot spread TB to others.However, some people with latentTB infection eventually developactive TB.

• One-third of the world’s populationis infected with TB, although mostcases are latent.

• Approximately 10 percent of theinfected population will developactive TB in their lifetimes if leftuntreated.

• If not treated properly, TB can befatal. Once the leading cause ofdeath in the United States, TB stillkilled 1.6 million people worldwidein 2005.

• People with active TB can be treatedif they seek medical help. Even bet-ter, most people with latent TB infec-tion can take medicine so that theywill not develop active TB.

• Starting in the 1940s, scientists dis-covered the first of several medicinesnow used to treat TB. As a result, TBslowly began to decrease in the UnitedStates. But TB is still a problem; morethan 14,000 cases were reported in2005 in the United States.

• BCG is a vaccine for TB. This vaccineis not widely used in the UnitedStates, but is often given to infantsand small children in other countrieswhere TB is common. BCG does notalways protect people from getting TB.

• MDR-TB (multidrug-resistant tuber-culosis) is a form of TB that doesnot respond to the standard treat-ments and is defined as TB-resistantto the main first-line drugs. Thereare an estimated 424,000 new casesof MDR-TB worldwide every year.The cost of treating MDR-TB can be1,000 times more than the cost oftreating standard TB.

• XDR-TB (extensively drug-resistantTB) occurs when there is resistanceto all of the most effective anti-TBdrugs, and is defined as TB withMDR-TB resistance as well as resist-ance to many of the second-line drugs.

• There are an estimated 25,000 to30,000 new cases of XDR-TB everyyear. So far, 37 countries have con-firmed cases of XDR-TB. In theUnited States, 49 cases of XDR-TBwere reported between 1993 and2006.

• World Health Organization guide-lines stipulate that people withinfectious TB must postpone long-distance travel, while those withMDR-TB must postpone any air travel.

sources: world health organizationand centers for disease control andprevention

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he wonderful thing about stem cells is that they can developinto almost any type of cell that you could want. The problemwith stem cells is that if their growth is not well controlled,

they will develop into types of cells you don’t want.This is the conundrum facing chemical engineering professor

David Schaffer. He works on engineering brain cells called neuronsto replace those that have been damaged or destroyed by illnessessuch as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, or amyotrophiclateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease).

Says Schaffer, “Stem cells are immature cells that exist in variouslocations in our bodies. During our lives, these cells divide and developinto specialized tissues. If we get a disease that kills those specializedtissues, our stem cells have the potential to replace the lost cells.

“But,” he continues, “in order to engineer the right type of newtissue, we have to learn to control stem cells by learning how the body’ssignals regulate their growth and differentiation. That’s the hard part.”

At first, it may seem odd that a chemical engineer is workingwith stem cells. But for Schaffer, it is a logical development of therise of new industries such as microelectronics and biotechnology,and a reflection of the new roles chemical engineers play in them.

Chemical engineers have always been vital to the pharmaceuticalindustry, where they manage the production of drugs in large chemicalreactors. With the founding of Genentech, Chiron and other biotechcompanies, human insulin and human growth hormone began to beproduced in genetically modified yeast and bacterial cells. Chemicalengineers, who for decades had worked with microorganisms in theprocess of fermentation, brought their expertise to the productionof these new drugs.

“Working with stem cells takes this process one step further,”says Schaffer. “We can now genetically engineer single-celled bioreac-tors to produce useful drugs. But we still have to get the medicationsback inside the body. In many cases, it would be better if we couldput the cells inside the body and let them produce their drugs there.”

Schaffer cites the treatment of diabetes as an example. Duringthe early 20th century, researchers learned to treat diabetes withinsulin derived from the pancreases of slaughtered pigs. With theadvent of biotechnology in the 1980s, drug companies began to pro-duce human insulin. However, that insulin still has to be injectedback into the human body.

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RenewingDavid Schaffer is using stem cells toblunt the coming epidemic of neuro-degenerative disease

Above Schaffer in his new lab in Stanley Hall, where his group workswith researchers from several different fields to develop stem cell tech-nologies to help fight neurodegenerative diseases.

Below The human brain contains neural stem cells that create new neu-rons every day. These cells have the potential to differentiate into themajor cell types of the nervous system: neurons (not shown), astrocytes(red) and oligodendrocytes (green).

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“With stem cell therapies,” says Schaffer, “we have the potentialto create new insulin-producing cells to replace the damaged cellsinside the human pancreas. This is the ideal place for them becausethe body possesses regulatory mechanisms to check blood sugarlevels and make sure that insulin is produced in the right amounts.Ironically, as our technologies have gotten better, we have been usingthem to more closely mimic the original solutions of nature.”

Diseases of the brain are tougher. There are no medicationsthat can cure Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, or ALS. “Millions of Americanssuffer from neurodegenerative diseases,” says Schaffer, “and mostof them have Alzheimer’s. These diseases tend to strike people intheir 50s and 60s. With the aging of the baby boomers, we are at thebeginning of an epidemic of neurodegenerative diseases—anepidemic that we have no cures for.”

Although Schaffer approaches health issues from a chemicalengineering perspective, his original exposure to them came fromgrowing up in a medical family. Schaffer’s parents met in graduateschool at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. His father,from Minnesota, was working on a Ph.D. in biochemistry. Hismother was trained as an M.D. in El Salvador, came to the UnitedStates to study biochemistry, and went on to run clinical trials atNovartis. Schaffer’s sister is also a physician.

Schaffer graduated from Stanford University in 1993 andearned his Ph.D. in chemical engineering fromMIT in 1998. Whileat MIT he worked with professor Doug Lauffenburger on genetransfer, and he also studied molecular and cell biology. Schafferthen began a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Fred Gageat the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, CA, studyingthe role of neural stem cells in plasticity and adaptability of the adultcentral nervous system. Schaffer joined UC Berkeley’s chemicalengineering department as an assistant professor in 1999.

“The Gage lab at Salk was and is an incredible place to be,” saysSchaffer. “In the late ’90s, Gage was showing—contrary to theexisting neuroscience dogma—that animals, including humans, dogrow new brain cells after birth. The Gage lab also showed that miceraised in cages with lots of stimulation grew more new brain cellsthan mice housed in standard laboratory cages, and that exercisestimulates new brain cell growth.”

At Berkeley, Schaffer is combining his Ph.D. and postdocexperience by using the gene transfer techniques he first studied atMIT to regulate the development of neural stem cells that he

learned about at Salk. Says Schaffer, “A major research thrust of mylab is exploring the therapeutic potential of gene delivery, whichserves as an effective means to control stem cells. Viruses arenature’s professional gene carriers, and we are working with severaldifferent viruses to perfect the transfer of genetic information toneural stem cells.”

Schaffer and his colleagues are helping overcome one impedimentto gene therapy—the human immune response. The immune sys-tem is an amazingly complex and effective system for protecting ourbodies against bacteria, viruses, and the illnesses they cause. Yet insome cases, the immune response can get in theway of treating disease.

Schaffer has devised a technique to circumvent the immuneresponse to potential gene therapy vectors such as the adeno-associatedvirus (AAV), a common, though innocuous, resident of the body.Schaffer has created new versions of AAV that are good candidatesfor gene therapy vectors, particularly for delivery to stem cells.

In addition to the genetic and biological issues in working withneural stem cells, there is a physical problem—the stem cells need tostay put. They cannot regenerate the correct issues if they are floatingaround at random inside the brain. In a soon-to-be-published paper,Schaffer and co-authors describe a clever solution in the form of ascaffold, a three-dimensional equivalent to the dissolvable stitches thatare used in surgery. Schaffer has fabricated a hydrogel scaffold froma material called alginate, which occurs naturally in brown seaweed,and which is highly compatible with human nervous system tissue.Hydrogels are soft, flexible materials, such as contact lenses, thatcontain mostly water.

The alginate scaffolding is used to encapsulate the neural stemcells and anchor them in the proper location in the brain. Just asdissolvable stitches slowly disappear once they have done their jobof holding tissue together, the alginate hydrogels slowly dissolveonce the neural stem cells have implanted and have begun to func-tion. One issue is that the hydrogels on their own don’t dissolve fastenough. Schaffer and colleagues solved this problem by embeddingmicrocapsules of enzymes in the scaffold, enzymes that cause thehydrogel to disintegrate. “By controlling the amount of enzyme andits rate of release from the microspheres,” says Schaffer, “we cancontrol how fast the hydrogel scaffold degrades. Another possibilitywe are considering is adding chemical growth factors to the micro-spheres that will help regulate the stem cell development.”

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Schaffer’s multidisciplinary approach to his stem cell and genetherapy research permits him to wear many hats and to interact witha wide range of researchers. He has been affiliated with Berkeley’sHelen Wills Neuroscience Institute since he arrived on campus.The institute integrates neuroscience faculty across the university,with the broad goal of using the power of diverse research approachesto address central questions in neuroscience.

Schaffer is also the associate director of the Berkeley Stem CellCenter, a multidisciplinary group of biologists, physical scientists,and humanities and legal scholars committed to the study of thisnew technology. The Stem Cell Center coordinates world-classresearch in cell and developmental biology, chemistry, bioengineeringand chemical engineering on campus. Research activities are supportedby grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine,NIH, private foundations, and private philanthropic donations.

Along with colleagues Sanjay Kumar (bioengineering) andKevin Healy (biomaterials engineering), Schaffer has been awardeda $70,000 grant from the Chancellor’s Faculty Partnership Fund toenhance stem cell research. A researcher at LBNL, Schaffer is alsoaffiliated with QB3, and his lab is located in Stanley Hall.

In the United States, progress in stem cell research has beenslowed by restrictions in federal funding. Although federal researchfunding is allowed for some existing stem cell lines, many of thesecell lines have questionable properties or have become contaminatedwith material from animal cells, which would cause them to berejected by the human immune system.

In California, the voter-approved initiative, Proposition 71,authorized the allocation of $3 billion to support stem cell researchand the development of stem cell-based therapies through theCalifornia Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). CIRM hasbeen embroiled in legal battles since its inception, but the researchmoney has begun to flow. Schaffer and Berkeley recently won a $2.1million grant from CIRM to expand the research program at theBerkeley Stem Cell Center.

Not all stem cell therapies are controversial, Schaffer pointsout. “The bone marrow transplants that routinely save the lives ofchildren with leukemia rely on stem cells in the bone marrow toregenerate the immune system,” says Schaffer. “This therapy hasbeen available for decades and has saved thousands of lives.

“It’s been almost 20 years since the first baby was born in 1978by in vitro fertilization (IVF),” Schaffer adds. “Hundreds of thousandsof babies have been born by IVF in the United States alone sincethen. One consequence is that there are several hundred thousandfrozen embryos that were created for IVF but were never used andwill eventually be discarded. These could be used by stem cellresearchers to save lives.”

Schaffer cautions that new stem cell therapies are still manyyears away. “We are still in the research phase,” he says “We are stilllearning how stem cells grow and differentiate, and how to controlthat growth. It may be a decade or two before we understand stemcells well enough to create routine medical interventions for diseaseslike Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and ALS. The potential is tremendous,but so is the work we still have to do.”


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“In order to engineer the right type of newtissue, we have to learn to control stem cellsby learning how the body’s signals regulatetheir growth and differentiation.”

Above Schaffer is studying viruses to better understand how they insert geneticinformation into bacteria and animal cells. Genetic information carried by virusesmay be used to control stem cell differentiation.

Below The hippocampus is one of the two regions of the adult brain where stemcells actively divide and create new neurons. The tissue is stained for severalmarkers: NeuN (green) marks mature neurons, GFAP (red) marks astrocytes,and BrdU (blue) marks the stem cells. Over the course of several weeks, a frac-tion of these stem cells will stop dividing and turn into new neurons.

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Michelle Chang wins NewFaculty AwardMichelle Chang, the chemistry department’snewest assistant professor, has won aCamille and Henry Dreyfus FoundationNew Faculty Award. Designed to helpinitiate an independent research program,the award provides a new professor withan unrestricted research grant of $50,000.

Chang comes to the department from thelab of chemical engineering professor JayKeasling, where she was a postdoc from2004-07. Chang co-authored several of thegroup’s papers on using engineered bacteriato produce a class of compounds thatincludes the anti-malaria drug artemisininand anticancer drug taxol.

Chang’s interest in pharmaceuticals embracesorganofluorine chemistry, the source ofmany important drugs, including Prozac,Lipitor, and Cipro. Chang will be part of theBerkeley/LBNL Energy Biosciences Institute,where she will help develop bacteria to con-vert biomass to fuels.

Recent winners of the award in the chem-istry department include Matt Francis(2001), Dean Toste (2002), and ChrisChang (2004).

Iglesia receives HumboldtAward to conductresearch in GermanyChemical engineering professor EnriqueIglesia has received a 2007 HumboldtResearch Award from Germany’s Alexandervon Humboldt Foundation. The foundationwas established by the Federal Republic ofGermany in 1953 for the promotion of inter-national research collaboration. HumboldtAward winners—scientists and scholarswhose fundamental discoveries, newtheories, or insights have had a significantimpact on their own discipline and who areexpected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements—are invited to spendup to a year working with colleagues atresearch institutions in Germany. Iglesia,

Hoffman namedto President’sCommittee on theNational Medal ofScience

whose research focuses on heterogeneouscatalysis and chemical reaction engineering,will divide his time between the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin (with Professor H. J.Freund) and the Technischen UniversitätMünchen in Munich (with Professor J.Lercher). Iglesia will also receive a DoctorHonoris Causa from the UniversidadPolitecnica de Valencia, Spain, in November.

Chemistry professor Darleane Hoffman hasbeen named to the President’s Committeeon the National Medal of Science.

This committee of 12 scientists and engi-neers is appointed by the president of theUnited States to evaluate the nominees forthe National Medal of Science. The National

Medal of Science is the nation’s highestscientific honor, given for outstandingcontributions to knowledge in the physical,biological, mathematical, engineering,social and behavioral sciences. Hoffmanherself won the medal in 1997 for her workin nuclear chemistry. Other College ofChemistry faculty members who havereceived the National Medal of Science areMelvin Calvin, Harold Johnston, Y. T. Lee,George Pimentel, Kenneth Pitzer, GlennSeaborg, and Gabor Somorjai.

Hoffman was also recently honored with theJohn V. Atanasoff Discovery Award, presentedby her alma mater, Iowa State University,and given to an alumnus/a of Iowa Statewho has furthered scientific knowledge ofthe nation and the world.

The Atanasoff award is named after JohnAtanasoff, the inventor, along with graduatestudent Clifford Berry, of the world’s firstelectronic digital computer, built during1937 to 1942. The computer incorporatedseveral major innovations in computing,including the use of binary arithmetic,regenerative memory, parallel processing,and separation of memory and computingfunctions.

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Berkeley’s program in biochemical engi-neering grew up with—and indeed helpedto pioneer—the biotech industry and therevolution in molecular biology on whichit was based. As early as the 1960s, whenmost departments of chemical engineeringwere focused on educating students to gointo the petrochemical and chemicalindustries, professor Charles Wilke beganexploring the kinetics of microbial growthand gas-liquid mass transfer in biochemi-cal engineering.

The program grew with the addition ofprofessors Harvey Blanch in 1978, DouglasClark in 1986, Jay Keasling in 1992, DavidSchaffer in 1997, and most recentlyJhih-Wei Chu in 2006. The biochemicalengineering program continues to be oneof the largest in the country—producing

talented graduates for the biotech, pharma-ceutical and environmental industries.

This excellence did not escape the attentionof Merck & Co. and the Merck CompanyFoundation, which have been supportingthe program for more than 25 years. NowMerck has taken the next step and estab-lished The Merck Chair in BiochemicalEngineering.

One of the advocates for establishing thechair was John Markels (Ph.D. ’94, ChemE,with Professors Clayton Radke and ScottLynn), a member of the college’s advisoryboard. Currently Vice President for EMEAOperations and in charge of Merck’s man-ufacturing in Europe, the Middle East andAfrica, John had been working at Merckwhen he had an opportunity to come toBerkeley for his doctorate—at the compa-ny’s expense. He became acquainted withthe faculty in the biochemical engineeringprogram, and when he returned to Merck,he and his colleagues continued recruitingBerkeley’s students in the field.

In discussing the chair, Markels wrote,“Both the technical leaders in MerckManufacturing Division (Science andTechnology) and in Merck Research Labs(Early Development) who are responsiblefor the bio area see this as an importantopportunity both for UCB and for Merckgoing forward—as you know we also havea heavy interest today in vaccines and arapidly growing interest in therapeuticproteins and monoclonal antibodies, soour futures are linked.”

“Merck has a strong historical relationshipwith UC Berkeley which has been basedon strong faculty relationships and new

talent that has come to Merck,” said PhilipWoodrow, Executive Director for Scienceand Technology Development in the MerckManufacturing Division. “As we face thechallenges to explore, understand andapply learnings on the frontiers of chemicaland biological engineering research, welook to UC Berkeley as an institution forcontinuing and furthering our support.

“We felt that establishing a Merck Chair inBiochemical Engineering will support theteaching, research and scholarship of adistinguished senior faculty member inthe field of Biochemical Engineering inthe Department of Chemical Engineering,College of Chemistry, at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley,” said Woodrow.

The Merck Chair has been awarded toHarvey Blanch, who was honored on theoccasion of his 60th birthday by his graduatestudents and colleagues in the field at aspecial symposium at the 2006 AIChEconference. A large number of his studentsare employed at Merck. “We are pleased thatthe school and Regents of the University ofCalifornia have agreed to this initiative andhave named Professor Harvey Blanch asthe Merck Chair,” said Woodrow.

Added Markels, “I am absolutely thrilled toreinforce Merck’s commitment to biotechresearch and Berkeley through the Blanchchair, and I look forward to watching thefruits of Harvey’s team’s work develop asthis goes forward.”

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The Merck Chairin Biochemical Engineering

Lef t to R ight Chemical engineering’s Jeff Reimerand Harvey Blanch met with Merck’s PhilipWoodrow and Barry Garfinkle to discuss the newMerck chair, awarded to Blanch this fall.

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The Theodore Vermeulen Chairin Chemical Engineering

It was just 60 years ago that deanWendellLatimer recruited a young researcher fromthe Shell Development Company in SanFrancisco to develop a new chemical engi-neering program in the College of Chemistry.For the next 36 years, Theodore Vermeulengave unstintingly of his time and effort tobuild the chemical engineering department,to be of service to the university, and mostof all to support his colleagues and to mentorhis students.

And now those colleagues and students haveshown the same generosity of spirit by join-ing Ted’s family in establishing The TheodoreVermeulen Chair in Chemical Engineering.

Born in Los Angeles in 1916, Ted Vermeulenreceived his B.S. and M.S. from Caltech. In1942 he earned the first chemistry doctorateever awarded by UCLA, and he then workedat Shell until 1947.

At Berkeley, Ted inherited a fledgling chem-ical engineering curriculum that had beenintroduced in the College of Chemistry in1946 under the direction of professorPhillip Schutz, who passed away shortlythereafter. To the initial faculty of LeRoyBromley and Charles Wilke, Ted soon added

Don Hanson, Charles Tobias, and F. C.Williams. Under Ted’s guidance, the curricu-lum was quickly accredited, and a Divisionof Chemical Engineering was created in1951, with Ted as the first chairman. It wasone of the first such substantial universityprograms of its kind.

In 1953, following the customary rotationof the chairmanship, Ted left his formaladministrative role in the department, butnot his service. He was instrumental inestablishing the options program and jointdegrees with Materials Science and NuclearEngineering. He taught most of the under-graduate courses in the curriculum, and in

1980 he became the directorof the Sea Water ConversionLaboratory (later the WaterThermal and TechnologyCenter). Outside of the col-lege, Ted served on nearly allof the major committees ofthe Academic Senate, takingparticular pride in his workon the Muscatine SelectCommittee on Educationduring the period of studentunrest in the mid-1960s.

All the while, he maintained a vigorousresearch and teaching program, authoringmore than 90 publications and directing 97graduate students. His work, especially inion exchange, absorption, and other fixedbed operations, was widely recognized andearned him the William H. Walker Awardof the American Institute of Chemical

Engineers, among other honors. But it washis exceptional helpfulness as a humanbeing for which many of his students andcolleagues most remembered him.

Ted lost a brief and valiant struggle againstleukemia in 1983, but not before he hadlaid the foundations for the future growthand excellence of the department—a won-derful legacy to the university. At the timeof his passing, a number of his formerstudents and colleagues wished to createan additional legacy and established aspecial fund in his memory. His widow,Mary Dee Vermeulen, and her familyadded to the fund annually. Over the years,the income from that fund was used to rec-ognize outstanding undergraduates inchemical engineering with the TheodoreVermeulen Award and to provide summerresearch stipends.

In 2005, Mary Dee Vermeulen made a verygenerous gift to the memorial fund with thegoal of establishing The Theodore VermeulenChair in Chemical Engineering. Rallied byProfessor Emeritus C. Judson King andformer students Michael Kavanaugh (M.S.’64, ChemE) and Joon Moon (Ph.D. ’64,ChemE), who also provided a generous

challenge grant, Ted’s former students andcolleagues contributed the remainingfunds to fully endow the chair.

Professor Alexis T. Bell, who was chairmanof the department when Ted passed away,has been named the first holder of theTheodore Vermeulen Chair.

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Mary Dee Vermeulen celebrates with ( le f t to r ight )chemical engineering’s Jud King, chair Jeff Reimer,former Vermeulen student Joon Moon and Alex Bell.Bell has been named the first holder of theVermeulen Chair.

“Being an engineer, I like to think in terms of maximizing return and yield. Contributingto the Vermeulen Fund does both efficiently; it directly funds a person who will teachand influence our future generations, and it gives satisfaction to the donor by remindinghim of his own good fortune in getting such a good UC education with the help of out-standing faculty such as Professor Vermeulen.”

–Joon Moon, Ph.D. ’64, ChemE

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The Department of Energy has awarded a $125 million, five-year grant to LawrenceBerkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), UC Berkeley, and four other partners to developbetter biofuels in a new center to be known as the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI). Theestablishment of JBEI, concurrent with the founding of the new Energy BiosciencesInstitute (see Chair Marletta’s column on page 4), affirms the position of Berkeley and theBay Area as the nation’s center of alternative energy research.

JBEI draws on a wellspring of talent in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Itschief executive officer is Jay Keasling, the Hubbard Howe Jr. Distinguished Professorof Biochemical Engineering. Harvey Blanch, the Merck Professor of BiochemicalEngineering, is its chief science and technology officer.

Research at JBEI will center on improvements to current technology for producingethanol, in particular cellulosic technology for producing ethanol from biomass, andnew technologies for producing other biofuels.

The additional partners in JBEI are Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence LivermoreNational Laboratory, UC Davis, and Stanford University. JBEI will be headquartered inEmeryville in the East Bay, central to all partners. Initial work is taking place at the WestBerkeley Biocenter.

JBEI: Alternativeenergy researchthrives at Berkeley

Dow gives $2 million forsustainable products

With an initial $2 million gift announced,the University of California, Berkeley, willestablish a new program aimed at providingstudents educational and research opportu-nities in the area of sustainable productsand solutions.

Based at the Center for ResponsibleBusiness at the Haas School of Business,the Sustainable Products and Solutions(SPS) Program is being established inpartnership with the College of Chemistry.It is being financed initially with $2 millionin seed money from the Dow Chemical Co.Foundation. The foundation intends to pro-vide a total of $10 million over the next fiveyears and to help the program secure addi-tional foundation and corporate sponsors.

The program was the idea of Dow vicepresident David Kepler (B.S. ’75, ChemE).

The program will focus on sustainabilityissues involving society, science, engineering,the environment and finance. A requestfor proposals will be issued later this fallseeking research and education ideas,primarily from master’s degree-level anddoctoral students at UC Berkeley.

News related to the Sustainable Productsand Solutions Program will be posted athttp://www.haas.berkeley.edu/responsiblebusiness/.

$113,000,000

Hewlett Foundation givesunprecedented $113 millionfor endowed chairs

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundationhas bestowed on Berkeley the largest privategift in the campus’s history—$113 million.The extraordinary gift provides Berkeleywith a key source of funding to attract andsupport superior faculty and graduate stu-dents. Through a challenge grant, it willcreate 100 endowed chairs—permanentfunds designed both to keep Berkeleyprofessors’ salaries competitive with thoseat the best private schools and to recruittop graduate students. The challenge grantwill match other private donations dollar-for-dollar, resulting in $220 million innew endowments once the challenge ismet. An additional $3 million will be usedto support an enhanced infrastructure formanaging those endowed funds.

The Hewlett gift represents a turning pointin the financing of public higher education,providing endowment support to helpnarrow the funding gap between thenation’s preeminent public university andits private peers. Each year, an increasingnumber of Berkeley professors receivelucrative offers from elite private schools.The new endowed chairs will be valuableaids in retaining sought-after faculty mem-bers and in maintaining the high quality ofa Berkeley education.

“Berkeley is the crown jewel of publichigher education—not just in California,but in the country,” said Walter Hewlett,chairman of the board of the HewlettFoundation. “The foundation's grant repre-sents our vote of confidence in a truly greatinstitution.”

Chemical engineering profes-sor Doug Clark is the steeringcommittee faculty co-chair forthe Sustainable Products andSolutions Program.

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I would like to take this opportunity to thankDean Charles Harris for his continued sup-port of the Alumni Association. He has donea great job offering insightful suggestionsto the steering committee and fosteringenthusiasm. We really appreciate hisinvolvement in the events sponsored by theAlumni Association, and we wish him thebest as he returns to his full-time responsi-bilities as professor. I would also like toacknowledge my fellow steering committeemembers: G.V. Basbas, Bud Blue, GordonChu, Laurie (O’Connor) Dockter, MarissaDrouillard, Mark Ellsworth, Lara Gundel,Deanne Krenz, Larry Perry, Daisy Quan,Steve Sciamanna, and Lindy Vejar.

We have had several activities in the recentpast that I would like to share. On Cal Dayin April, chemistry lecturer MichelleDouskey and Lonnie Martin presented“Molecules, Materials & Us” in PimentelHall. Following their “explosive” demon-strations, there was a campus-sponsoredpanel discussion, titled “Curbing ClimateChange: Energy Initiatives that can Make aDifference.” Professors Jamie Doudna Cate(chemistry), Alex Farrell, Dan Kammen,and Chris Somerville were the speakers.

Our third annual Springfest was held at thePyramid Alehouse last May with more than60 graduating students and alumni inattendance. This was a great opportunity tocelebrate and offer congratulations to thegraduating students for their milestoneachievement. It was very festive, and DeanHarris expressed his pride in the studentsand the educational program that Cal pro-vides. I encouraged the new graduates to

Dear fellow alumni,stay in touch and become involved with thecollege.

We held our first “Fast Forward to YourFuture” in September. Aimed at assistingour current students—both undergradsand graduate students—with career plan-ning, this program drew on the expertiseand involvement of many of our alumni.The evening began with a résumé reviewby counselors from the career center, fol-lowed by an inspirational speech by DeanHarris. In an effort to encompass the inter-ests of all of our students in the College,three career-oriented alumni panel discus-sions were held. The Chemistry panelistsincluded Laurie Dockter (B.A. ’71, Chem),Chabot Junior College; Mark Ellsworth(Ph.D. ’93, Chem), Tyco Electronics; LaraGundel (Ph.D. ’75, Chem), LBNL; KimThomas (Ph.D. ’78, Chem), LANL; andAlex Trimble (Ph.D. ’02, Chem), Townsendand Townsend and CREW LLP. TheChemical Biology/Biotech panelists wereDavid Gee (B.S. ’76, Chem), KaiserPermanente; Lindy Vejar (B.S. ’85, Chem),Bio-Rad Laboratories; and myself, RebeccaZuckerman (Ph.D. ’00, Chem), Plexxikon.The Chemical Engineering panelists wereErin Mayfield (B.S. ’04, ChemE), Chevron;Curt Munson (Ph.D. ’85, ChemE), Chevron;Larry Perry (B.S. ’56, ChemE), CaliforniaHealth State Dept.; Alyssa Roche (B.S. ’87,ChemE), Chevron; and Steve Sciamanna(B.S.’78; Ph.D. ’85, ChemE), Chevron.

It was great to be able to share so muchexpertise and diversity with the college’sstudents. At the sushi reception that fol-lowed, many students commented on the

amazing talent of Cal alumni. Our alumniare a valuable resource, and we are thank-ful that these panelists offered their timeand involvement.

Most recently we celebrated Homecomingon Saturday, October 13. Our morning pro-gram was co-hosted with the College ofEngineering and included a complimenta-ry continental breakfast in the Stanley HallAtrium, followed by a panel discussiontitled “In Service to Society: Energy andHealth” with professors Jay Keasling(chemical engineering) and Dan Kammen(nuclear engineering). The presentationswere outstanding; those who were unableto attend can check out our home page atchemistry.berkeley.edu for the taped videoof the presentations.

Our “Free Radicals” and “CHEMillennium”Alumni and parents enjoyed their annualreception and brunch at The Faculty Clubafter the talks. It was a nice opportunity toreconnect with fellow alumni. Some of usthen went on to the Cal vs. Oregon Stategame, and although the outcome of thegame was disappointing, it was great to beamong the 63,000 attendees and cheer onour Bears!

Our AIChE Alumni Reception was held onNovember 6 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Andthe “Alumni of the G. N. Lewis Era” lunch-eon was held on Thursday, November 15, inthe Heyns Room at The Faculty Club.Chemical engineering professor HarveyBlanch entertained and enlightened thealumni with his presentation, “Where DoWe Go From Here? AlternativeTransportation Fuels Derived from Biomass.”

I want to thank all those alumni who haveparticipated in our events, especially inthe last six months. Your involvement isimportant to us, and I look forward toseeing many of you at our future events.We always welcome your thoughts andsuggestions for our programs.

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In the 1970s, Blum, a mountain climberwho had earned her Ph.D. in biophysicalchemistry with Ignacio Tinoco, split hertime between research and climbing.When President Reagan took office in1980, it became clear that the regulationof potentially harmful chemicals was noton the political agenda. Blum decided itwas a good time to set aside her research,heed the call of the hills, and depart for aten-month-long trek across the Himalayanmountain range. In the following decadesshe led treks to the Himalayas andAustralia’s Great Barrier Reef, traveledacross the United States giving speeches

and leadership seminars, designed a Nepalilanguage course still used by the StateDepartment, wrote two books, and raiseda daughter in her home near the top of theBerkeley hills.

Blum’s scientific curiosity and her concernabout the environment led her to attend aMarch 2006 meeting on the emergingfield of green chemistry. There she had aconversation with an executive director ofthe polyurethane foam industry, whobegan to sketch the structure of some ofthe chemicals used as flame retardants infoam cushions. Blum looked at the sketch

with a shock of recognition. “I felt like RipVan Winkle waking up after a 30-yearslumber,” she says. “One of the chemicalsin the sketch was tris—the same potentialcarcinogen that had been banned fromchildren’s sleepwear in the 1970s.

“What was I supposed to do,” Blumwondered, “just shrug my shoulders andtell them they should read my papers inScience from 30 years ago?” Blum, whoblazed trails as a pioneer of women’smountain climbing, instead decided to takea different route. “It’s pretty obvious thatjust doing the science on flame retardantsisn’t sufficient to affect policy decisions,”she says. “I wanted to use my knowledgeand love of chemistry to inform peopleabout these potentially toxic chemicals intheir furniture. I decided I wanted to beboth a scientist and a policy advisor.”

Dual roles for scientists are nothing new.Academic researchers have been called uponfor centuries to be scientists and educators.The Bayh-Dole legislation of 1980, namedfor U.S. Senators Birch Bayh and RobertDole, allowed universities to patent andlicense discoveries based on federally fundedresearch. Since Bayh-Dole, university tech-nology transfer and faculty start-ups haveskyrocketed, and faculty members areincreasingly asked to be both scientistsand entrepreneurs.

Says Blum, now a visiting scholar atBerkeley’s Center on Institutions andGovernance, “Public policy decisions areoften based on complicated science. Butin the name of objectivity, scientists havebacked away from being involved in thepolicy arena. But if scientists can comedown from the ivory tower to be businesspeople, then I think it’s even more impor-tant for them to come down to be policyadvisors. If scientists are too busy to provide

Arlene Blum calls it her “Rip Van Winkle” moment. It happened in March2006, almost 30 years after her research with Berkeley biochemist BruceAmes helped ban mutagenic fire-retardant chemicals from children’ssleepwear. In particular, their seminal papers in Science magazine in 1977-78 documented the toxicity of chlorinated and bromated versions of aphosphate compound called “tris.”

Down from the mountains,down from the ivory tower

MOUNTAINEER ARLENE BLUM FINDS A NEW CHALLENGE

Blum in 1976 with Mt. Everest in the background, from the 18,000 foot Kala Patar. Onthis American Bicentennial expedition, Blum would climb to camp IV on Everest at 24,500 feet,setting an altitude record for an American woman.

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their objective expertise, lobbyists arehappy to fill the vacuum.”

Long before Blum could come down fromthe ivory tower and her beloved mountains,she first had to learn to climb them. Sheearned her Ph.D. while simultaneouslydeveloping the skills to ascend Denali,Annapurna, and Everest, overcoming boththe physical challenges of the mountainsand the barriers she faced as a woman. Shebegan climbing as an undergraduate atReed College, in Portland, OR, in the early1960s. In her recent memoir, BreakingTrail, she speculates that she craved thefocus and camaraderie of climbing to highplaces. After a lonely year as a graduatestudent at MIT, where she was one of veryfew female students in a conservative andhostile environment, Blum happily switchedto Berkeley with the help of George Pimentel,who was then the chair of the Berkeleychemistry department.

Blum arrived in Berkeley in the fall of 1967and quickly joined the research group ofTinoco, a climber himself who had heardof her abilities and whose office walls werecovered with photos of the High Sierra. Bythe end of 1970 she had passed her Ph.D.qualifying exams and had climbed to the topof Denali in Alaska, the highest peak inNorth America, as deputy leader of the firstteam of women to attempt the summit.

The decade of the ’70s was a whirlwindof activity. Blum completed her Ph.D. atBerkeley in 1971, and after a 15-month-longround-the-world climbing trip, started apostdoctoral appointment at Stanford in1973. As part of the U.S. Bicentennialexpedition, she climbed to camp IV on Mt.Everest in 1976, setting an altitude recordfor an American woman of 24,500 feet. In1978 she led the first American and alsofirst women’s team to attempt Annapurna,

one of the most dangerous of the 8,000+meter peaks in the Himalayas. Two mem-bers of the team reached the summit, buttwo more died trying. Blum documented theexpedition in her first book, Annapurna: AWoman’s Place.

It was another death—the loss of her friendand climbing partner Bruce Carson in1975—that did the most to shape Blum’sfuture and eventually bring her down fromthe high mountains. While on a deceptivelyroutine climb to the top of an Indian peaknamed Trisul, Carson fell through the lipof a cornice at the summit. His body wasnever found.

Blum was devastated. When she returnedto California, she spotted on her bookshelfa copy of an account of the first expedition

to Trisul in 1907. In it she found an accuratedescription of the dangerous cornice that tookCarson’s life. “I was overwhelmed with regretand self-reproach,” Blum later wrote about theevent. From that day forward, Blum “wantedto do practical research that would have adirect positive impact on the world. My workwould be dedicated to the memory of BruceCarson. I learned the hard way that goodresearch saves lives.”

At Berkeley, Blum is working to involve morescientists, especially chemists, in public policyissues. She has also been providing scientificadvice on Assembly Bill 706. Sponsored bySan Francisco’s Mark Leno, the bill would bantwo classes of potentially toxic fire retardantsfrom furniture in California, unless the manu-facturer can prove their safety. Los AngelesTimes and SF Chronicle editorials endorsedthe bill, as did most of the state’s firefightersand environmental groups. Blum recentlypublished a commentary in Science magazineabout the fire retardants, and she is organiz-ing a series of meetings to bring togetherindustry, government, and academic expertsto discuss how to improve fire safety withoutrelying on potentially toxic chemicals.

California began regulating the flammabilityof furniture and other home furnishings inthe aftermath of the 1906 San Franciscoearthquake and fire. In the 1980s furnituremanufacturers began adding the fire-retardantpentaBDE (member of the family of poly-brominated diphenyl ethers) to foam cushionsto meet the California standards. In 2003,after reports showing the negative healtheffects of pentaBDE, the state backtracked andbanned the fire retardant. Eight other statesand the European Union also bannedpentaBDE. In 2004, the U.S. manufacturervoluntarily ceased production.

The replacements included chlorinated tris,one of the chemicals Blum and Ames had

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs),used extensively in fire retardants, are chemicallysimilar to known toxins such as polychlorinatedbiphenyls (PCBs), dioxins and furans.

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warned against in the 1970s. AB 706would ban tris and the other most toxic fireretardants, including PBDEs. “The irony,”says Blum, “is that there is no evidencethat California’s mandating the use of fireretardants has improved fire safety. Deathand injury from home fires have declinedin other states at about the same rate as inCalifornia, due mostly to better buildingcodes, smoke alarms, and a reduction insmoking. The new laws in California andother states requiring fire-safe cigarettes willalso help a lot to further reduce fire deaths.”

California’s very strict standards for firesafety in institutional furniture—furnitureused in hospitals, sports arenas and otherpublic places—are often met by using barriermaterials and other design advances without

resorting to potentially toxic fire retardants.The institutional standards, unlike thestandards for homes, require evaluation ofthe safety of the piece of furniture as a whole,not its individual components. This givesfurniture manufacturers the flexibility toincorporate fire safety into the design ofthe product, instead of relying on addingpossibly hazardous chemicals.

No one knows what the long-term healtheffects are from chronic exposure toPBDEs, tris and other toxic fire retardants.However, a Consumer Product SafetyCommission risk analysis suggests 1,200additional cases of cancer annually fromexposure to tris in furniture foam if it wereto be used nationally. According to the U.S.Department of Health and Human ServicesAgency for Toxic Substances and DiseaseRegistry, “Because PBDEs dissolve readilyin fat, they can accumulate in breast milkand may be transferred to babies andyoung children. Exposure to PBDEs in thewomb and through nursing has causedthyroid effects and neurobehavioral alter-ations in newborn animals.”

Scientists at the U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency found that “cats arehighly exposed to PBDEs; hence, pet catsmay serve as sentinels to better assesshuman exposure and adverse health out-comes related to low-level but chronic PBDEexposure.” (Environmental Science &Technology 15 August 2007). They suggestexposure to PBDEs may explain a newepidemic of feline hyperthyroidism. TheEPA study points out that “certain regions(such as the state of California) were moreproactive in incorporating flame-retardantmaterials to decrease risk of fire. This mayexplain the disproportionate increase ofhyperthyroid cats at California’s veterinaryteaching hospital in the 1980s.”

To gauge the extent of the problem forherself, Blum borrowed a portable x-rayfluorescence analyzer and invited acquain-tances and neighbors to bring their foam

furniture cushions to be tested. She detectedhigh levels of bromine in her own furnitureand in many of the foam cushions she tested.Says Blum, “House cats and human babiesshare similar environments and habits.Both are exposed to household dust, andsome of that gets ingested—cats lickthemselves, and babies mouth all sorts ofobjects. PBDEs are endocrine disruptors.The EPA study finds early evidence thatthey are related to this mysterious epidemicof hyperthyroid disease in cats. So what arethey doing to our kids? We need to find out.”

Blum has found her new mountain. Thesame drive that led her up some of theworld’s toughest peaks has motivated herto write, organize seminars, and give pre-sentations to policymakers. As she explainsin her commentary in Science (12 October2007), “Although smoking and fire deathsare rapidly decreasing in the United States,proposed new flammability regulationscould add tens of millions of additionalpounds of potentially toxic fire-retardantchemicals to bed clothing, pillows, andfoam within upholstered furniture. Fireretardant chemicals in our homes shouldnot pose a greater hazard to our health andenvironment than the risk of the fires theyare supposed to prevent.”

“Looking back,” says Blum, “I think theproblem is that the federal governmentdropped the ball three decades ago. Justthink how much we would know about thesafety of fire-retardant chemicals and alter-native technologies if the motivation andfunding had existed to study them duringthe last 30 years. But it’s not too late. Mytraining as a chemist at Berkeley is givingme the opportunity to help protect humanand environmental health. I’m very gratefuland I’m encouraging my daughter, a collegesophomore who wants to make the world abetter place, to major in chemistry. I am abig fan of green chemistry, and I’m moreexcited about chemistry now than I everhave been.”

Blum testing for traces of brominated fireretardants in furniture foam with an x-rayfluorescence analyzer.

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Chester A. Zimmerman (B.S.Chem) is enjoying retirementafter a 25-year career as a Naval

Engineering Officer and another 25-yearcareer with Lockheed in Sunnyvale. He iscurrently restoring Franklin classic carsand is active in efforts to bring plug-inhybrids to reality. He comments that heparticularly enjoyed the Catalyst profile onJohn Newman—“He is definitely on theright track!” Chester and his wife, Marlene,make their home in Los Altos, CA.

Donald J. Simkin (M.S. ChemE)retired from Boeing after 41years, having worked there

through its mergers with McDonnellDouglas and Rockwell. He was head of theSpace Shuttle program’s research anddevelopment, and he did rocket science forthe Apollo program. His name was recentlyadded toWho’s Who in Business & FinanceandWho’s Who in Science & Engineering. Inthe recent past, he cruised the Volga Riverin Russia and traveled in Poland, Hungary,and the Czech Republic to look at potentialchemical investments. He and his wife,Natalie, are residents of Laguna Niguel, CA.

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head of the chemistry department ofDrexel University in Philadelphia, PA,from 1985 to 2000. He received anOutstanding LBSU Alumnus Award in1987 and the Lindbach Award forOutstanding Teaching in 1980. He plans toretire in 2009.

John M. Malin (B.S. Chem),who received his Ph.D. in 1967from UC Davis, spent his career

with the American Chemical SocietyInternational Programs until his retire-ment in 2006. He now enjoys travel, timewith his grandchild, and the activities andfellow alums in his local chapter of theCalifornia Alumni Association near hishome in Arlington, VA.

Lester S. Andrews (Ph.D.Chem), who earned his doctor-ate with George Pimentel, was

thrilled to receive the 2007 GeorgePimentel Award for lifetime contributionsto the spectroscopy of matrix isolatedspecies, presented in July at the GordonResearch Conference on the Physics andChemistry of Matrix Isolated Species atBates College in Lewiston, Maine. He isthe author of over 700 research publica-tions, and he was recognized with theCoblentz Award in 1978 and the Ellis R.Lippincott Award in 2001.

Bernard J. Lilly (B.S. ChemE) retired inAugust 2006 after a very satisfying 21-yearcareer with ALZA Corporation (purchasedby Johnson & Johnson) in Palo Alto andMountain View, CA. His work centered onscaling bench-size batches of controlledrelease tablets to full commercial-sizedlots. Earlier, he had worked with StaufferChemical, Kaiser Cement, and his owndental arts lab. His wife, Elizabeth SullivanLilly (M.A. ’67, Art History), and he havelived in Los Altos for almost 33 years,raised three children, and are planning totake their four grandchildren to Europesoon. In retirement he has undertaken

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After a full career in productdevelopment at Procter &Gamble, Thomas M. McCarthy

(B.S. ChemE) now works as a consultanton environmental problems. In the pastten years, he has worked primarily inEurope as director and senior consultantwith Energy and EnvironmentalManagement of Dublin, Ireland (while liv-ing in Limal, Belgium, with his wife,Monica). He specializes in waste manage-ment issues, particularly the recovery ofenergy and useful materials from waste.

Manfred G. Reinecke (Ph.D.Chem) retired from a 42-yearcareer at Texas Christian

University in Fort Worth, TX, where he isnow Emeritus Professor and Cecil andIda Green Distinguished Emeritus Tutor.With an NIH grant, he is currently work-ing with postdocs on anti-HIV drugresearch. This year marks his 50th wed-ding anniversary with his wife, Marlene.They have three children and eight grand-children.

Robert O. Hutchins (B.S.Chem), who earned an M.S. atCalifornia State University Long

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On the occasion of his 95th birthday last June, E. Morse “Bud” Blue (B.S. Chem)received a certificate of appreciation from theCollege of Chemistry in recognition of his manyyears of service. Bud, a lecturer in the chemicalengineering department for 30 years, is a long-timeand very generous supporter of the college. In 1989-90, he received the California Alumni Association’sExcellence in Service Award (then called theCalifornia Alumni Citation). He was a leader of thefundraising effort for the G. N. Lewis EndowedChair and is a member of the college’s AlumniSteering Team. A retired manager of inventiondevelopment at Chevron, Bud regularly attendscollege events. He lives in Walnut Creek.

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and he recently added the production ofeight-inch wafers to that of six-inch wafers.He is currently addressing the challenge ofcontinuing to make high-quality productsthat are cost-competitive.

Paul V. Burke (B.S. ChemE)accepted a position this pastJuly with Siemens Water

Technologies in San Diego, CA, as theirDirector of Operations. The company’smain focus is gas scrubbers, adsorption,and biological treatment systems formunicipal markets.

Christopher A. Maines (Ph.D.Chem) lives in Silver Spring,MD, and has what some of us

might consider a dream job as a conserva-tion scientist with the National Gallery ofArt in Washington, DC. He will give aseminar in December in the college’s phys-ical chemistry seminar series on “ScientificAnalysis and Materials Research in theConservation of Works of Art.”

Donald E. Bierer (Postdoc Chem)and his wife, Xin Ma, bothtransferred to Germany as part

of the Bayer International delegate pro-gram. His wife works in Leverkusen withBayer AG, while he works at the Wuppertal

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Research Center. They make their home inDüsseldorf.

Axel Meyer (Postdoc Chem) hasbeen with Procter & Gamblesince 1994, starting in Brussels,

Belgium, developing new detergent tech-nologies. In the late 1990s, he spent twoyears in Newcastle, UK, followed by twoyears in the U.S. with P&G. Since 2002,he has been in Germany and is currentlyliving in Frankfurt. His daughter, Amalia,was born in February 2007.

Living in San Jose, CA, DavidG. Cohen (Ph.D. ChemE) andhis wife, Shelli Bodnar, have a

four-year-old daughter, Mia, who is fluentin Spanish and English, and a son, Reed,born last August. In 2006, David waselected to the Berryessa school board. Hisday job is doing computational fluiddynamics modeling in the systems engi-neering group of Novellus Systems.

Kristala Jones Prather (Ph.D.ChemE) and Neil S. Renninger(Ph.D. ’02, ChemE), both for-

merly of Jay Keasling’s research group,were honored by MIT’s Technology Reviewmagazine in its 2007 list of TR35, whichrecognizes 35 of the world’s top innovators

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consulting work and volunteered at hischurch and a children’s environmentalcenter, besides reading, gardening, hiking,bicycling, and doing all the cooking. Heinvites fellow alums to get in touch withhim at [email protected].

As a professor of biochemistryand molecular biology atThomas Jefferson University in

Philadelphia, Eric Wickstrom (Ph.D. Chem)studies the visualization and inhibition ofcancer gene activity. He and his colleaguesrecently founded GeneSeen to designnuclear medicine hybridization imagingagents for external genetic profiling of cancergene activity in tissues, and SecureImplantto design self-protecting medical implantswith permanently bonded antibiotics. Hiswife, Lois, repairs uncooperative computersand writes screenplays. They have fourgrandchildren, two in California and twoin Virginia.

Gabriel I. H. “Gabe” Kim (B.S.ChemE) has worked at NECsince graduation and was

recently named vice president of operationsand plant manager of their semiconductormanufacturing plant in Roseville, CA. Hesaw NEC through a transition from primarilymemory products to custom logic products,

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under the age of 35. Kristala is the Joseph R.Mares Assistant Professor of ChemicalEngineering at MIT; she was cited for herdevelopment of compounds using biologicalprocesses rather than chemical reactions—a technique that could avoid harsh solventsand toxic byproducts. Neil, who is co-founderand senior vice president of developmentat Amyris Biotechnologies in Emeryville,CA, was recognized for his role in engi-neering microbes to produce lower costanti-malarials and high-performing renew-able biofuels. Also among the TR35 groupthis year is Berkeley chemical engineeringassistant professor Rachel Segalman, whois developing thermoelectric materials toconvert heat to cheap electricity—forexample, harvesting the heat generated bya laptop to extend its battery life.

In May, Neha Harendra Parekh(B.S. ChemE) completed herM.B.A. at New York University’s

Stern School of Business, and she was pro-moted in April to the position of contractaccount manager for NeutrogenaCosmetics, part of Johnson & Johnson.

Neil S. Renninger (see 1999)

Daniel J. Fox (Ph.D. Chem)joined the faculty of SuffolkUniversity in Boston, MA, as an

assistant professor this fall, teachingorganic chemistry in the chemistry andbiochemistry department.

Salmaan H. Baxamusa (B.S.ChemE) wrote last August thathe and his wife, Andrea

Schmidt, were expecting their first child inSeptember. He is a graduate student inchemical engineering at MIT.

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Following graduation, Miles W.Carter (M.S. Chem) worked forSamsung in San Jose, CA,

doing research and development. This fallhe began his studies at the University ofWashington School of Law.

Dustin W. Demoin (M.S. Chem) receivedhis M.A. in teaching from TrinityUniversity this year and has begun teach-ing chemistry at John Marshall HighSchool in San Antonio, TX.

Vladislav Goldenberg (B.S. Chem andPhysics) has taken a position as a perform-ance engineer with Xcel Energy inMinneapolis, MN.

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Daniel J. Haxton (Ph.D. Chem) is currentlya postdoctoral research associate in JILAand the Department of Physics at theUniversity of Colorado in Boulder.

In July, Ernest W. Kovacs (Ph.D. Chem)started work as a chemist in the bio-sciences section of General Electric inNiskayuna, NY.

Samantha M. Pochert (B.S. ChemBio) tooka job in August as a research associate atFire Cause Analysis in Berkeley, CA. Sheand her husband, Yevgeniy Lushtak, maketheir home in Berkeley.

Marielle V. Saflor (B.S.ChemBio) has been workingwith Theravance, in South San

Francisco as a research associate in phar-maceutical sciences since last May.

Nerayo Petros Teclemariam (Ph.D. ChemE)accepted a position in September as amember of the technical staff in the sys-tems studies section of Sandia NationalLaboratories in Livermore, CA.

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FacultyJAMES C. SMART(Faculty 1974-77)

Former faculty member Jim Smart diedAugust 28, 2007, at the age of 62 of aheart attack following a prolonged battle withnon-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. After leavingBerkeley in 1977, he joined the newlyformed National Renewable EnergyLaboratory in Golden, CO, where he ledresearch on the development of chemicalapplications of solar energy and biomassutilization and served as group leader ofthe synthesis and catalysis group and prin-cipal investigator in the Department ofEnergy’s Division of Chemical Sciences.From 1980, he was also adjunct researchprofessor at the Colorado School of Mines.He returned to California in 1988 to join theJet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena astechnical group supervisor for electronicmaterials in the Electric Power SystemsSection. In 1991 he began work on intellec-tual property management, first at theTechnology Transfer Office of UCLA andlater at Caltech. He published more than30 papers on various aspects of chemistry.He is survived by his wife, Gretchen, andtwo sons.

AlumniJames T. Biggers (B.A. Chem)passed away on June 24, 2007.Predeceased by his wife, Mary

Ann, he was retired from PhillipsPetroleum and living in Fresno, CA.

Edmund G. Carbone, Sr. (B.A. Chem) wasborn in San Francisco and spent his adultyears in the heart of wine country north ofthe Bay. He and his wife, Ymelda “Peach”Fraser, raised four children and co-ownedand operated the Carbone Napa ValleyWinery, living in Napa and Yountville. Alifelong “Bear Booster,” in his later yearshe took satisfaction in gardening. Ed diedJuly 17, 2007, at the age of 94 and is sur-

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vived by his daughters, Judy, Carol, andMary, and his son, Edmund, eight grand-children, and ten great-grandchildren.

Herbert E. Carlson (B.S. Chem) started workfor Adhesive Products in Albany, CA, in1934 and retired in 1962 as chief chemist.For the next decade, he was a consultant tothe research and development departmentof the Union Lumber Company in FortBragg, CA. Following his 1973 retirement,he lived in Nevada City, CA, until his pass-ing on July 5, 2007. We are grateful for thesupport he gave to the College of Chemistry.

Scott E. Wood (Ph.D. Chem)started as a research assistant atMIT and went on to become

associate professor at Yale, working on theManhattan Project during World War II.From 1954 to 1980, he was on the facultyof the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)in Chicago, also serving IIT in manyadministrative capacities. While he was atIIT, Argonne National Labs recruited himas a research associate and a consultant,and he consulted for Exxon Nuclear andthe Aluminum Corporation of America, aswell. He co-authored two books, Thermo-dynamics—An Introduction and TheThermodynamics of Chemical Systems; wasassociate editor of the Journal of ChemicalPhysics, and was an abstractor and latersection editor of Chemical Abstracts, as wellas serving on the Advisory Board of HigherEducation for the state of Illinois. A residentof El Paso, TX, following his retirement, hepassed away on June 7, 2007, at the age of97, preceded in death by Marie, his wife of65 years, and survived by his son.

Stephen A. Bordi (B.S. Chem)passed away on April 9, 2007.

George R. Negishi (Ph.D.; B.S. ’30, Chem)was retired from Nippon Oil Co. and livingin Tokyo, Japan. A supporter of the Collegeof Chemistry, he stayed in touch with fellow

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alums, including Scott E. Wood (Ph.D. ’35,Chem). His wife, Ryoji, let us know thatGeorge passed away on September 13, 2006.

A San Francisco native, Virginia-Jane (Newman) Harris (formerlyGlaedell) (B.S. Chem) earned an

M.A. from San Francisco State College andworked at Shell Oil through WWII.Following the war, she taught high schoolchemistry and, in 1962, completed an M.A.and a teaching credential at Stanford. Shejoined the faculty of American River Collegeinitially as a chemistry professor and laterwas a math professor. As a single mother,she dedicated herself to her son, Thomas,and her students, and was an avid naturalistwho loved hiking, skiing, swimming,photography, and travel. After her retire-ment in 1984, she made her home inDiamond Springs, CA. Having broken thebarrier against female chemists herself,she would often invite a current femalegraduate student to join her at some of theG. N. Lewis Era Luncheons. She passedaway on July 22, 2007, at the age of 89,survived by her son, seven grandchildren,and seven great-grandchildren.

Saverio M. Cimino (B.S. Chem)retired from FMC Corporationin 2000 after 43 years of service.

He and his wife, Margaret, made theirhome in Southern Pines, NC, before hispassing on March 1, 2007.

A native San Franciscan,Maurice P. Stergios(B.A. Chem) was raised in Tahiti, thenreturned to San Francisco for high schooland to attend UC Berkeley. He worked as achemist for Aramco in Saudi Arabia butcame back to San Francisco in 1953 andopened the French restaurant “PlacePigalle.” He sold the restaurant in 1976,continuing to work as a consultant forrestaurateur Al Scoma. He passed awayon August 19, 2007, survived by his wife,Kathleen, and his stepdaughter, AndreaCannon.

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Robert H. Kimura (B.A. Chem)passed away on July 10, 2006.

William H. McNeely (B.S. Chem) earneda Ph.D. in Chemistry from Caltech anddid postdoctoral research at Ohio StateUniversity. In 1944, he went to work forKelco Company in San Diego (later a divisionof Merck), where, in 1969, he spearheadedresearch and development that led to thecommercial use of xanthan gum in a widearray of consumer products and industrial

’40applications, for which he received theNational Industrial Achievement Award. Hefounded Ara Chem in 1960 and collaboratedwith the Navy to develop a water-based oilspill dispersant that resulted in safer oil-spill cleanups. He retired in 1980 as Kelco’svice president of research and development,having written more than 50 scientificpapers and obtained more than 30 patents.As an environmentalist and owner of a150-acre ranch near La Mesa, CA, he tookpride in supporting responsible use of landand water resources. He also took up

research into issues relating to world cul-tures, religions, and the future of Americandemocracy, which led to the publication, in2005, of his book, Hi-Lites of Philosophyand Theology. He died on August 20, 2007,at the age of 92, survived by his wife, Rita,four daughters, two sons, four grandchil-dren, and five great-grandchildren.

Aldred J. Simmons (B.S. Chem), who waspresident and chairman of the Metals MiningCompany in Houston, TX, passed away onJuly 21, 2007. He is survived by his wife, Cora.

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Professor Daniel E. Koshland Jr.,(B.S. ’41, Chem) esteemed alum-nus of the College of Chemistry

and long time professor of molecular andcell biology, died on July 23, 2007, at the ageof 87, following a massive stroke. Koshland,who received his B.S. in chemistry in 1941,served on the college advisory board formany years.

“Dan Koshland was both a beloved alumnusand an invaluable member of the collegeadvisory board,” said Dean Charles Harris.“Personally, I will be forever indebted to Danfor his guidance and support all these years.Like so many of his friends and colleagues,I will simply miss him and all the goodthings he stood for. He was unique.”

An insightful scientist known for his work onproteins and enzymes, Koshland achievedthe status of scientific statesman during his10 years, from 1985-1995, as editor of Science.

In what Koshland described as “one of thehigh points of my life,” he spearheaded thelarge-scale reorganization of biology atBerkeley in the 1980s, pruning or mergingeleven small departments into three.

The reorganization, accompanied by a fund-raising campaign, placed UC Berkeley in aleadership role in the biological sciences. Inrecent years, Koshland guided the campus’s$400 million Health Sciences Initiative.Because of his vision, Stanley Hall, the newlaboratory facility for interdisciplinary bio-

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Koshland never forgot his roots in theCollege of Chemistry. In addition to hiswork with the advisory board, he recentlyestablished an endowment in the chemistrydepartment. He consistently attended theAlumni of the G. N. Lewis Era luncheonsand other events.

He was a recipient of the National Medalof Science in 1990, a Lasker Award forSpecial Achievement in Medical Science in1998 and the Welch Award in Chemistry in2006, in addition to the Berkeley Citation,the Berkeley Medal, the Clark Kerr Award,and the Alumnus of the Year award.

As a young man, Koshland enrolled inBerkeley. He immediately joined theManhattan Project group headed by GlennSeaborg to isolate plutonium for an atomicbomb, following Seaborg to the Universityof Chicago and eventually to Oak Ridge, TN.

At the University of Chicago, Koshland metMarian Elliott, whom he married in 1945.In 1946, he returned to Chicago andstayed to complete his Ph.D. in organicchemistry in 1949.

After two postdoctoral years at HarvardUniversity, the Koshlands moved to LongIsland to work at Brookhaven NationalLaboratory, where they remained until1965, when they were recruited to theBerkeley faculty.

Following Marian’sdeath in 1997,Koshland reconnectedwith Yvonne Cyr SanJule, whom he hadfirst met in 1940when they wereundergraduates. Theymarried in August2000.

Koshland is survivedby his second wife,Yvonne Koshland; twosons and three daugh-ters; and two sisters, Francis K. Geballe ofWoodside and Phyllis K. Friedman ofHillsborough. He also is survived by threestepchildren, nine grandchildren, 12 step-grandchildren, one great-grand-daughterand 17 step-great-grandchildren.

One of his daughters-in-law, CatherineKoshland, is UC Berkeley’s vice provost foracademic planning and facilities.

Donations in Koshland’s memory can bemade to the Marian Koshland ScienceMuseum, 500 Fifth Street, NW, WashingtonDC, 20001, or to the UC Berkeley Foundationto support bioscience and energy teachingand research. Write to the UC BerkeleyFoundation, Attention: Vice Chancellor-University Relations, 2080 Addison Street,#4200, Berkeley, CA 94720-4200.

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Glen F. Bailey (B.A. Chem)passed away on July 24, 2007.A resident of Richmond, CA, he

had worked for the U.S. Department ofAgriculture in Albany as a research chemist.

Lowell W. Bradford (B.S. Chem) passedaway on April 12, 2007. His agency, L.W.Bradford Forensic Scientist, in San Jose, CA,provided consulting in physical evidence.

Edward R. Brown (B.A. Chem)earned his J.D. at Loyola LawSchool in 1963 and practiced

real estate law with his own firm in Oxnard,CA. He passed away on January 1, 2007.

We have just learned from Mary Wahl thather husband, Arthur C. Wahl (Ph.D. Chem),passed away on March 6, 2006. While agraduate student at Berkeley, he workedwith Glenn Seaborg on the research thatled to the identification and naming ofplutonium. He also purified element 93,neptunium. From 1943 to 1946, he led theresearch in plutonium chemistry at LosAlamos, developing the purification proce-dures that were central to the success ofthe Manhattan Project and were used foryears afterward on an industrial scale.After the war, he was recruited to teach inthe chemistry department at WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis, where he led boththe inorganic and nuclear chemistrygroups for almost four decades. His twolong-standing interests were in oxidation-reduction chemistry and fission yields. In1991, he moved back to Los Alamos andcontinued to do research, publishing hislast fission compilation in 2005.

John W. Gofman, M.D. (Ph.D.Chem), renowned for hispioneering work in identifying

lipoproteins and their relationship tocholesterol levels and their effects onhuman health, passed away in SanFrancisco on August 15, 2007, at the age of

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88. He will also be remembered for hisrelentless research into the effects of low-level ionizing radiation in humans and hissuccessful efforts toforce the federal gov-ernment to drasticallyrevise standards forradiation exposure,limit nuclear tests, andcancel projects that usenuclear explosives for digging harbors andcanals. In his lifetime, he called for amoratorium on the licensing of newnuclear power plants until the publichealth consequences could be studied, andhe pressed doctors to reduce unnecessarilyhigh doses of x-rays. His Ph.D. researchwas done with Glenn Seaborg, after whichhe worked on the Manhattan Project dur-ing WWII. Gofman earned an M.D. in1946 from UC San Francisco and, in 1947,joined the Berkeley faculty in the Divisionof Medical Physics of the Department ofPhysics, where he formed the lipoproteinlaboratory in the Donner Laboratory.During the 1960s, at the urging of GlennSeaborg, then chair of the Atomic EnergyCommission, he started a biomedical divi-sion at the Livermore Radiation Lab (LRL)to study the effects of ionizing radiation onhuman health. He resumed his professor-ship at UC Berkeley in 1971, retiring fromthe University in 1973. He continued tochallenge the established view that there isa threshold below which radiation is safe,having founded in 1971 the Committee forNuclear Responsibility, a nonprofit educa-tional and research organization, which hechaired until his death. In 1992 hereceived the international Right LivelihoodAward “for his pioneering work in expos-ing the health effects of low-level radia-tion.” Predeceased by his wife, Helen, he issurvived by his son, John, and his long-time colleague and friend, Egan O’Connor.

Fred R. Stevenson (B.S. Chem) passedaway on July 22, 2007. He owned his own

company, Stevenson Equipment, in SantaRosa, CA, where he and his wife, Georgia,made their home.

James R. Wilson (B.S. Chem; Ph.D. ’52,Physics) passed away on August 14, 2007.He had worked at Lawrence LivermoreNational Laboratory as an astrophysicist.He and his wife, Demetra, made theirhome in Livermore, CA.

Robert R. Grinstead (B.S. Chem)died August 7, 2007, in Davis,CA, at the age of 84. Following

graduation, he spent three years in theArmy Signal Corps and then enrolled atCaltech, where he obtained a Ph.D. inchemistry and met and married his wife,Helen Stabler. The couple moved toWalnut Creek, where he started his 40-yearcareer at Dow Chemical Company, doingresearch in such diverse fields as miningand mineral processing technology, theremoval of nitrogen oxides from stackgases, the removal of magnesium from saltbrines, and the oxidation of vitamin C. Hepublished scholarly articles in a variety ofchemical and environmental journals, waseditor for 16 years of The Vortex, the publi-cation of the California section of the ACS,and received the California ACS’s PetersonAward for service to the Society. His life-long conviction that scientists were notexempt from the obligation to put effortand resources into solving problems facedby society led him to write a weekly syndi-cated newspaper column during the 60sand 70s and to serve as chairman of theCalifornia Friends (Quakers) Committeeon Legislation. Helen, his wife of 57 years,died in 2006; he is survived by two sons, adaughter, and two grandchildren.

Anne Marie (Anderson)Greensfelder (B.A. Chem),a fourth-generation San

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13, so she studied chemistry to better sup-port her mother and younger sister. Sheworked for Shell Development as anabstract writer in their chemical library inEmeryville, where she met her husband,Bernard S. Greensfelder (Ph.D. ’28, Chem),who passed away in 1968. She was politi-cally engaged, a lifelong environmentalistand a bird lover, and she wrote legislativealerts for the Golden Gate Audubon Society’snewsletter. Fascinated by outer space, shewould have liked to be on the first commer-cial space flight but was deterred by the $10million cost. She passed away February 28,2007, in Berkeley at the age of 81, survivedby a daughter, a son, and a stepson.

Robert L. Oswalt (M.S., B.S. ’44, Chem;Ph.D. ’61, Linguistics) will be rememberedfor his contributions to the preservation ofthe endangered languages, stories andsongs of Northern California’s PomoIndians. A nature lover, he and his wife of55 years lived at the edge of Tilden Park inKensington, CA, where he grew hundredsof species of plants. For decades, heworked on compiling dictionaries of threedistinct Pomo languages: Kashaya, Central,and Southern Pomo. Although he heldback their publication, hoping to perfectand publish them himself, linguists arenow expressing great interest in completingthe dictionaries for publication. The sonof an Army doctor, Oswalt lived in thePhilippines with his family before studyingchemistry at Berkeley and serving in theNavy during World War II. His Ph.D. inlinguistics was on the Pomo language andculture and, in 1964, he published KashayaTexts, containing stories he collected fromthe remaining native speakers of a Pomotribe on California’s Sonoma coast. He wasalso founder and president of the nonprofitCalifornia Indian Language Center. Hedied on May 22, 2007, survived by his wife,Esther, two sons, and a granddaughter.

Richard G. Breuer (B.S. Chem)passed away on August 11, 2007.He had retired from Kaiser

Aluminum and Chemical Corporation as asenior research associate, and he hadpatented a method for utilizing partially cal-cined alumina as a precipitation aid in theBayer process. He and his wife, Beverly,made their home in Lincoln, CA.

We learned from Manfred Lindner (Ph.D.’48, Chem) that Louis Werner (Ph.D. Chem)died from pancreatic cancer on May 20,2007, at age 88. He started graduate workat Berkeley in 1940, but with the advent ofWWII, he joined Burris Cunningham at theMetallurgical Laboratory at the Universityof Chicago, working under Glen Seaborgto isolate the new element number 94,plutonium. Werner and Cunninghamsucceeded in isolating and weighing thefirst visible quantity of the new element.He continued his work with plutonium atboth Oak Ridge, TN, and at the Hanfordfacility at Richland, WA. Returning toBerkeley in 1946 to work on his Ph.D. inChemistry, Werner isolated another newtransuranium element, curium, elementnumber 96. He subsequently becamedirector of fallout studies at the U.S.Radiological Defense Laboratory in SanFrancisco, but after ten years decided topursue peaceful uses of atomic energyand became the AEC’s representative tothe U.S. embassy in England, a post whichlasted several years. Upon return to theUnited States, his work included studiesof the impact of commercial nuclear powerplants and alternative energy sources.Survivors include two children, Craig andMelinda, and four grandchildren.

Stanley L. Miller (B.S. Chem),an emeritus professor of chem-istry and biochemistry at UC

San Diego, died on May 20, 2007, at theage of 77. He will be remembered for hisfamous laboratory experiments in 1952,

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Charles P. Nash (B.S. Chem)received his Ph.D. from UCLAin 1958 and joined the chemistry

faculty at UC Davis,where his expertise wasin physical chemistry.A member of theAmerican ChemicalSociety and theAmerican PhysicalSociety, he received UC Davis’sDistinguished Teaching Award in 1978. Inaddition to chairing the Davis Division ofthe UC Academic Senate for two terms, heled and served the campus in many admin-istrative capacities, even after his retirement.He was also on the board of directors forthe League of Women Voters of Davis,secretary of the Davis Chapter of Sigma Xiand treasurer of the UC Davis Emeriti

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Association. He passed away on July 15,2007, at the age of 75, predeceased by hisfirst wife, Lois Brown Nash, who died in1999, and survived by his second wife,Clinton Congdon Nash, three childrenfrom his first marriage, three stepchildren,and five grandchildren. He was a generoussupporter of the College of Chemistry anda regular attendee at college events.

Howard L. Petersen (B.S. Chem) passedaway on April 7, 2007. He started his owncompany, Petersen Scientific in Saratoga,CA, and continued to serve as its presidentand CEO until his death. He made hishome in Saratoga, CA, with his wife,Gloria.

L. E. “Skip” Scriven (B.S. ChemE), a long-time member of the college’s advisoryboard, passed away on August 3, 2007. Hislong and prolific career included pioneer-ing research in fluid mechanics, interfacialphenomena, coating processes, porousmedia and surfactant technologies. Heearned his Ph.D. degree from theUniversity of Delaware in 1956 and wentto work for Shell Development Companyin Emeryville, CA, as a research engineer.In 1959, he joined the faculty of theUniversity of Minnesota, eventually becom-ing Regents Professor of ChemicalEngineering and Materials Science in1988. Besides his research, his legacyincludes the outstanding mentoring ofmore than 100 graduate students, many ofwhom became leaders in their field. Heauthored more than 400 journal publica-tions and served as consultant and advisorto many major companies and organiza-tions, as well as receiving numerous hon-ors and distinctions from AIChE, ASEE,ACS, and the University of Minnesota.Elected to the National Academy ofEngineering in 1978, he served on severalnational committees setting priorities forchemical engineering and materials sci-ence research. He and his wife, Dorene,who survives him, lived in Minneapolis.

Donald J. Peterson (B.S.ChemE) passed away on August22, 2007. He had worked for

Coastal Oil in Westville, NJ, and made hishome in Cherry Hill, NJ.

Robert H. Iwamoto (B.A. Chemand Biochem) and his wife, Gene,were very engaged with the

College of Chemistry, supporting the HenryRapoport Chair and attending events. Heworked for SCM Corporation, and theymade their home in Palo Alto, CA. He diedof cancer on September 7, 2007. He is sur-vived by his wife; their son, who is a radiolo-gist; and two grandchildren.

Elizabeth M. Monty (B.S. Chem) passedaway on June 7, 2007. She and her hus-band, David, made their home in Sunland,CA.

Linda L. Saylor (B.A. Chem) lived in MillValley, CA, prior to her death on August27, 2007.

Larry R. Doyle (M.S. Chem)passed away on August 20,2007.

Robert P. Mandal (Ph.D. Chem)died on June 23, 2007, while onan expedition to the Amazon

jungle. During his interesting and variedcareer, he directed research and develop-ment at Aerojet General, AppliedTechnologies, Lockheed, Teledyne, Litton,Silicon Valley Group, Applied Materials,and ASML. Instrumental in developingtechnologies key to the defense and micro-electronics industries, he also played animportant role in developing the technologyused in the camera that took pictures ofthe surface of Mars. He co-authorednumerous patents and publications in thefield of microelectronics technology, andhe chaired many symposia and served asreferee for several professional journals.

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Andrew W. Raczkowski (Ph.D.Chem) passed away on August31, 2007. He had been the man-

ager of data communications and a prod-uct engineer for Western DigitalCorporation in Irvine, CA.

Robert M. Moore, Jr. (Ph.D.Chem), a long-standing supporterof the college, spent his career at

Ethyl Corporation in Baton Rouge, LA, andcontinued there when it became Albemarle.He passed away on January 7, 2007, sur-vived by his wife, Jennifer.

StaffViola T. “Teri” Doizaki served as administra-tive assistant to George Pimentel in the1960s and as Management ServicesOfficer for the Department of Chemistryfrom the mid-1980s to themid-1990s.We were sad-dened to learnthat shepassed awayon June 17,2007. Teri hadbeen workingwith JeannePimentel on the George Pimentel ArchiveProject at the time of her death.Remembered by all who knew her as akind, enthusiastic, generous person whosemission in life was to be of service to others,Teri will be greatly missed. She was livingin Albany, CA, prior to her passing, and issurvived by one sister and three brothers.

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a n n u a l r e p o r t

College of ChemistryUniversity of California, Berkeley

of private giving’06-’07

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Berkeley, with its outstandingstudents and depth andbreadth of excellence, iswidely recognized as one ofthe best places in the world todo chemistry and chemical

engineering. This fact helps us to attract and keep highly talentedfaculty members, but it is also the reason that other prestigiousinstitutions pursue our faculty, attempting to lure them to their ranks.

Elsewhere in this publication (see p. 3), I mention the large numberof faculty retention cases that we have had in the past severalyears. Our success in keeping so many individuals who receivedattractive outside offers highlights the crucial importance of havingthe financial resources available to mount a significant retentioneffort. Our ability to preserve and develop the excellence of ourfaculty depends in no small measure on you, our alumni andfriends—individuals, corporations and foundations—whosegenerous gifts help to support our students, fund research, reno-vate facilities, purchase equipment, and enrich the intellectual lifeof the college community.

Thanks in part to your generosity, talented faculty members in avariety of fields, ranging in age from their 30s to their 60s, haveopted to stay at Berkeley when they could have gone elsewhere.

They are here—continuing to design and teach new undergradu-ate courses, mentor graduate students and postdocs, and, ofcourse, conduct cutting-edge research in such areas as energy,health, and the environment.

Every gift is important, and to each of our donors, I extend warmestthanks. Gifts to the College of Chemistry totaled more than $6million in fiscal year ’06-’07, including $1.6 million in endow-ment that will provide a base of permanent funding for the future.

Among the most notable gifts were a commitment of $400,000from the Pitzer Family Foundation that will enable us to expandthe Pitzer Center and to upgrade its information technology; a giftfrom Professor Daniel Koshland, who shared his Welch Prizemoney with us shortly before he passed away; pledge payments forendowed professorships from Bard and Gene Howe, Larry andDiane Bock, and an anonymous donor; a bequest from JonathanPowell (B.S. ’37); a charitable remainder unitrust from WarrenClifford (B.S. ’51, M.S. ’52) and Erna Clifford; an anonymous giftfor an endowed graduate support fund; and a challenge grantfrom Zaiga and Joon Moon (Ph.D. ’64), completing the TheodoreVermeulen Chair in Chemical Engineering.

Also deserving special mention are the faculty members whoestablished endowed funds for graduate support this year. We now

message from the dean

U.C.

message from the dean

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have a total of 14 such faculty members who have made giftsthat will be matched dollar for dollar by the Chancellor, thusdoubling their initial value. These individuals “give at theoffice,” and they give again—testimony to our faculty’s ownfaith in the outstanding quality of the college.

About half of our private support is from foundations and cor-porations. Particularly generous commitments this year camefrom the American Cancer Society, Bristol-Myers Squibb, theBurroughs Wellcome Fund, the Camille and Henry DreyfusFoundation, Eli Lilly and Company, Gilead Sciences, the JaneCoffin Childs Memorial Fund, Lam Research, Novartis, andRohm and Haas.

As I say in my column at the front of this journal, I have beencontinually inspired as I’ve come to know the community ofalumni and friends who contribute so essentially to thecollege’s mission. Please know that all gifts, no matter theirsize, are deeply appreciated. Your investment in the collegeyields dividends to our students, our faculty, and our society,and for that we are truly grateful.

SOURCES OF PRIVATE FUNDS

Individuals $2.864 M 46.15%

Corporations/Corporate Foundations $2.208 M 35.58%

Private Foundations/ $1.134 M 18.27%Nonprofit Organizations

Total $6.206 M 100.00%

USES OF PRIVATE FUNDS [ENDOWMENT]

Chairs $1.116 M 68.91%

Student Support $0.264 M 16.32%

Unrestricted $0.233 M 14.37%

Instruction/Seminars $0.006 M 0.40%

Total $1.619 M 100.00%

USES OF PRIVATE FUNDS [OPERATING]

Research $2.781 M 60.62%

Student Support $0.722 M 15.74%

Unrestricted $0.596 M 12.99%

Capital $.401 M 8.75%

Instruction/Seminars $0.087 M 1.90%

Total $4.587 M 100.00%

46.15%35.58%

18.27%

16.32%

14.37%

12.99 %

8.75 %

15.74% 60.62%

68.91%

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The California

Benefactors

and the Dean’s

Associates

The California Benefactorscontribute $1 million ormore over their lifetimesand are members of boththe Dean’s Associates andthe College Council.

AnonymousNorbert C. and Florence M.Brady

Nirmal and Ellen L. ChatterjeeChen Yu-HowT. Z. and Irmgard ChuAldo DeBenedictis EstateDr. Melvin J. Heger-Horst TrustMr. and Mrs. Hubbard C.Howe, Jr.

Gunawan JusufRoss McCollum TrustJean Mosher PitzerPitzer Family FoundationWarren and KatharineSchlinger Foundation

Ann E. Shiffler EstateRobert Tsao

The Blue and

Gold Society

and the Dean’s

Associates

Blue and Gold Societymembers make cumulativegifts of $500,000 or more.They are also members ofboth the Dean’s Associatesand the College Council.

AnonymousLarry and Diane BockChen He TungDr. James O. Clayton EstateErna P. CliffordWarren E. CliffordDr. and Mrs. Gus D.Dorough, Jr.

Henry F. Frahm EstateRichard M. and Lillian LesslerIrma McCollum TrustDr. Reid T. Milner TrustBeatrice Thomas EstateMarie W. Woodward Estate

The 1868 Society

and the Dean’s

Associates

The college’s 1868 Society,named for the year in whichthe university was chartered,acknowledges individualswhose cumulative gifts tothe college are $100,000 ormore. They are also mem-bers of both the Dean’sAssociates and the CollegeCouncil.

Anonymous (2)Usman AtmadjajaLeo A. Berti Estate

Bud BlueThelma Buchanan EstateSunney I. ChanChng Heng TiuFannie L. ChongChester W. Clark EstateFrank and Janice DelfinoDr. Sam H. EletrWilliam and Janet GerhardtSuhargo GondokusumoG. Douglas and Regina GouldProf. and Mrs. John E. HearstRobert and Yasuko IkedaStephen T. Isaacs andKathryn Macbride

Harold and Mary EllaJohnston

Kiong Yo KianEngr. Joseph L. and Dr. HelenC. Koo

Prof. Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.Joseph M. Kunkel IILee Sheng PengAnnie L. LiLiem Sioe LiongWesley and Elizabeth LindsayEstate

Tony K. and Louisa LingLie Shiong TaiProf. Bruce H. Mahan EstateDr. and Mrs. Joon S. MoonDr. Robert N. NoyceS. M. “Jack” OlsenMarjorie Pape Crandall PearceJonathan S. PowellDr. Mochtar RiadyKlaus and Mary AnnSaegebarth

J. A. SanfordMr. and Mrs. John W. Scott, Jr.Patricia McAdams SchreterWilliam H. ShifflerDr. Charles E. StehrTan Keong ChoonHenry K. TomDr. and Mrs. James R. Tretter

Mrs. Theodore VermeulenDoris H. Welles EstateEka Tjipta WidjajaCharles R. Wilke EstateEugene T. C. Wu

The California

Associates and the

Dean’s Associates

The California Associatesmade commitments of$50,000 or more this yearto the college. They are alsomembers of both the Dean’sAssociates and the CollegeCouncil.

Anonymous (2)Larry and Diane BockErna CliffordWarren E. CliffordMr. and Mrs. Hubbard C.Howe, Jr.

Prof. Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.Dr. and Mrs. Joon S. MoonPitzer Family FoundationJonathan S. Powell

The Berkeley

Associates and the

Dean’s Associates

The Berkeley Associatesmade commitments of$10,000-$49,999 this yearand are members of boththe Dean’s Associates andthe College Council.

AnonymousDr. and Mrs. David AltmanAtkinson Family FoundationBud Blue


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donors to the collegeMembership in the Dean’s Associates is

accorded to donors of $5,000 or more. The College Council recognizes donors of $100 or more.

* New donor(s) in 2006–2007

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Robert J. CarrNirmal and Ellen L. ChatterjeeT. Z. and Irmgard ChuRobin D. Clark andMary Mackiernan

Nancy G. CurmeDr. and Mrs. Gus D.Dorough, Jr.

Jamie and Jennifer DoudnaCate*

William E. Fogle and MarilynWun-Fogle

Kai-Ye FungDrs. Thomas R. Gadek andKatherine Neldner

Gay Chemists Support FundWilliam and Janet GerhardtClayton Heathcock andCheri Hadley

Robert and Gene IwamotoDavid G. KarrakerEd KimEngr. Joseph L. and Dr. HelenC. Koo

Arturo MaimoniProf. Samuel and Mrs. LydiaMarkowitz

T. W. NewtonCarlos and Patricia NuilaNorman and Paula PhillipsEugene B. ReidFerenc E. RosztoczyJ. A. SanfordRichard Saykally andChris Read

Warren and KatharineSchlinger Foundation

Patricia McAdams SchreterHugh C. SilcoxJudith and Gabor SomorjaiDr. Charles E. StehrRichard M. TeeterDavid and LieselotteTempleton

Dr. J. A. Trainham andDr. L. D. Waters

Willard M. Welch

The Gold Sproul

Associates and the

Dean’s Associates

The Gold Sproul Associatesmade commitments of$5,000-$9,999 this yearand are members of both theDean’s Associates and theCollege Council.

Edwin D. BeckerArdra C. BrodaleWilliam A. DanielsTom and Marty De JongheFrank and Janice DelfinoDrs. Thomas J. Dietsche andLaura J. Dietsche

David and Wena DowsDr. and Mrs. Theodore H.Geballe

Victor W. Huang*Dr. and Mrs. Andrew KaldorAndrea L. KeatonLuisa T. MolinaAlbert NarathJoan Friedman Newmark andRichard Newmark

Christine G. PowellConstance M. RubenKaren and Scott SibbettMr. and Mrs. John R. SkinnerBarbara A. TenenbaumMichael G. Valentine

The Blue Sproul

Associates and the

College Council

The Blue Sproul Associatesmade commitments of$2,500-$4,999 this yearand are members of theCollege Council.

Robert and Wendy BergmanJohn H. BirelyTim and Valerie BruemmerFannie L. ChongPete Dragovich andPei-Pei Kung

Dr. Julianne Elward-BerryDrs. David S. Gee andCaryn C. Lum

Vic and Faye GuntherCharles B. HarrisH. Ross HawkinsJohn F. HeilMichael C. Kavanaugh andCarol R. James

Prof. and Mrs. C. Judson KingWilliam A. KleschickPolam and Marcia LeeVirginia and Frank LewMichael J. and Janet KimMcCormick

Tim MontgomeryHerb NelsonRodney and Jeanne PanosWilliam R. ParrishDarwin and Donna PoulosLanny ReplogleKlaus and Mary AnnSaegebarth

Drs. Steven Sciamanna andSandy J. Roadcap

Manesh and Margarita ShahClinton D. and Sharon SnyderKong-Heong TanNeil Tomson*George K. and Stephanie D.Tyson

Mrs. Theodore VermeulenAlex WernbergRita WielandStephen Worland

The Robert

Gordon Sproul

Associates and the

College Council

The Robert Gordon SproulAssociates made commit-ments of $1,000-$2,499this year and are membersof the College Council.

AnonymousArthur and Frances AbramsonProfs. Juana V. and AndreasAcrivos

Stuart and Sarah AdlerKeith and Elaine AlexanderLester AndrewsMyron and Barbara AndrewsRon and Sue BanducciDavid BassRichard BehrensWilliam and Inez BenjaminDr. Tom A. Bither, Jr., andMrs. Margaret V. Bither

M. Robert BlumRobert G. BrinkleyMichelle BrodaleDave and Donna BrownCharles BuseJohn B. Bush, Jr.William H. CalkinsJoseph and Susan CernyEdmund ChambersDavid C. K. ChanSunney I. ChanUma and KumarChandrasekaran

Cecil C. Chappelow

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The Robert Gordon SproulAssociates and the CollegeCouncil, continued

Margaret and Nai ChenTan-Jen and Li-Fong ChenRonald L. ClendenenRobert S. CrowderBruce Darling*Eric P. DarmstaedterThomas and Cynthia DelfinoWalter and Eleanor DongDavid and Klara DorseyClelland R. DownsDean C. DraemelDaisy Joe and Justin Du BoisDr. Victor H. EdwardsHelen M. ElliottGail G. EngerholmVirginia and Larry FaithSteven and Terri FantaziaHelene V. FattMichael and Mary FlaughDavid B. Fraser*Friends of Eric AbramsonScholarship Fund

Shun C. FungMan K. GoMr. and Mrs. Wataru GoishiEdward D. GoldbergCharles GossG. Douglas and Regina GouldElaine and Arnold GrossbergRonald Grzywinski*Margaret GwinnEric Haas*Dr. Barry Hart andMs. Kathleen McNutt-Hart

Jessie HerrJoel HillHerbert HooperIrma HrycykHsin-Yuan HuRichard W. HymanYasuko IkedaMark J. and Alice H. IsaacsonBala and Kumari IyerJohn Jost, Jr.Dr. Max J. KalmKiyoshi and Irene KatsumotoStanley Kelly

Mr. and Mrs. David E. Kepler IIHyunyong KimRonald and Coleen Kino*Mr. and Mrs. Fred KirbyKevin A. KlotterJanell KobayashiHenry F. KoopmannLaRoc and Linda KovarJames and Barbara LagoJulian I. LandauPeter W. LeePhilip M. LessnerMarc and Tsun-Tsun LevinDavid Lieu, M.D., M.B.A.David A. LightnerDr. and Mrs. Nelson LinRobert and June LindquistLiming M. LingerDick and Myra LynchScott and Annette LynnGary and Irene MasadaThomas A. Massaro, M.D.Richard and JoAnne MathiesLarry and Debbie MeisnerThomas J. MeyersDr. Michael J. MillerDrs. Walter H. Moos andSusan M. Miller

Merrill A. MuhsRoberta N. MulfordCurt Munson andHazel Olbrich

Charles and Clinton NashChin-Tzu PengDr. Donald D. PhillipsLlad PhillipsJeanne PimentelJacob J. PlattnerProf. and Mrs. John M.Prausnitz

Jack and Daisy Yep QuanJohn A. RaganR. Andrew RamelmeierGregor RiesserMilton H. RitchieJohn L. RobbinsScott RocklageSteve R. Roffler andBing-Mae Chen

David Sable

Marsha SableWilliam Sailor, Ph.D.Elmer E. SchallenbergGary P. SchwartzRonald E. SilvaEdward R. SimmonsSher G. SinghRobert and BettySmitherman*

Tonny Soesanto andFay Sampoerna

Jeffrey P. Solar andRosalyn Furukawa

Ellen Lee andMichael Solomon

Thomas M. Stachelek*Bruce E. and Susan J.Stangeland

Donna R. SterlingDr. Doris StoermerTherese W. Sze*Jerome H. and Selma E.Targovnik

Anne Friend ThacherCurtis TongConstantine TsonopoulosDale E. Van SickleRaymond VermeulenJames P. Vokac andStacey T. Baba

Andrew WangRaymond Chiu andStephanie Wang

Darsh T. WasanDavid WemmerRoger G. and Molly W.Williams

Arthur M. WinerGar Lok WooSteven D. YoungRobert Zahler

The Sather Gate

Club and the

College Council

The Sather Gate Club mem-bers made commitments of$500-$999 this year andalso belong to the CollegeCouncil.AnonymousCarlo and Barbara AlesandriniPaul and Nicole AlivisatosWard and Mary AlterDaniel and Shelley ArensonFrances ArnoldCharles E. and MarianneAuerbach

Burke and Carole BakerMichael L. BarryR. R. BreckenfeldRichard BrodzinskyMarilee BrooksSheldon Cao andVivian Wang*

Robert E. Challey*Andrew Y. ChengAndrew CheungGregory K. ChowJ. P. and Nancy L. ClarkBernard and Akiko Comrie*Fred F. CoonsTucker CoughlenPeter CukorSheryl and Kenneth DahlRobert and Rochelle DreyfussCarol DunbarArthur K. DunlopRudolph H. DyckJonathan and Caroline EarhartJohn G. EkerdtWalton EllisDr. and Mrs. Victor EnglemanDr. Robert J. FarinaMonte FaustDr. and Mrs. Howard L. FongStanley W. FongReyes M. FragosoLeif G. and Janet L. FredinPhilip R. FriedelJennifer Fujii


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donors to the college


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John A. and Rosie J. GaribaldiFrank P. GayMichael B. GentzlerBeth M. GraselTao Guo*Kenneth and Carol Hamilton*David R. HansenMarlin D. HarmonyScott HeckerMr. and Mrs. Allan P. HessDuane A. HeymanToshiaki HinoI. C. and Kimi HisatsuneWilliam and Hoi-Ying HolmanNicholas W. HornbergerErwin W. HornungDonald Hou*John T. HuntMark IiyamaDavid R. and Karen W.Johnson

Eileen M. JulianAlexis I. KaznoffGary and Patricia KaiserJack KellySung-Hou and Rosalind KimYesook KimGene KimuraT. P. KingEdward F. KleinmanDr. Aaron D. KossoyJessica Lam*Jan and Maria LeemanMark T. LewellynMr. and Mrs. Kwang-Chi LiangArnold A. LiebmanPeter and Rachel LipowiczWendell and Bi-Lan Long*Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. LooEd LouieMichael and Jane MacDonaldMary M. MaderProf. Bruce H. Mahan EstateJon Maienschein and Lisa ClineCraig MarkeyDr. Gerhard W. MatzenRobert C. McIntoshRobert K. MillarLingfung Mok


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benefits of private giving

THE FRANK DELFINO SCHOLARSHIP PRIZE andTHE JOHN AND LOUISE RASMUSSENSCHOLARSHIPBinh Nguyen is an undergraduate student studyingchemical and nuclear engineering. The Delfino prize andthe Rasmussen scholarship are helping him learn theskills he needs to help overcome the energy crisis andfight global warming.

“As far as I can tell,” he says, “solar energy is not readyfor wide application yet, and renewable fuels are stilldebatable. Of all the alternative energy sources, nuclearenergy seems to be the most applicable to fighting climatechange.”

After graduation, Nguyen plans on working hard to makenuclear energy cleaner so that in the future the UnitedStates will become energy independent, and so, he adds,“My children can enjoy cleaner energy and a greenerEarth without worrying about global warming.” Binh Nguyen

Mike Moyer andMargaret Chu-Moyer

Sean and Mary MullenDr. and Mrs. Louie NadyProf. and Mrs. John S.Newman

Richard NewmanAllen NgDouglas J. NgHeino Nitsche andMartha Boccalini

Nancy NoremDavid A. O’BrienMyongsook OhAnthony O’KeefeKiyoko T. Otsuki*Garry Iain George PartonJohn and Cheryl PetersenJack M. RademacherJanakiraman RamachandranGurdeep S. Ranhotra

Ronald RatcliffeJames R. Rice*June and Gene RobertsFritz and Karen SchaeferRobert A. ScherrerJohn M. Seelig andHelen P. Zelt Seelig

Mr. and Mrs. Arnold J. SeiduleDr. and Mrs. Stephen A. ShainGerald SmolinskyDavid F. StarksJulie StewartNeil C. StipanichJack D. SwanburgDr. James S. SymanskiRex TamJanet TamadaSheil E. TaylroJack ThomasJohn F. ThompsonDon and Rosemary Tilley

Dr. Andrew TrapaniAlain W. C. Tsang*Alexander and Laura Ur III*Ernesto Valdes-KriegDr. and Mrs. Emil J.Volcheck, Jr.

Min-Chi Von TrentiniSheldon A. WeberHuinian Xiao andBing Yuan Wei*

Brandon T. Weldon*Marjorie and Greg WentKeith R. WestcottRon and Lucy WetzelShara C. Williams*Phillip A. WilmarthKatsumi and Elby Yamamoto

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The Carillon Club

and the College

Council

The Carillon Club membersmade commitments of$250-$499 this year and aremembers of the CollegeCouncil.

Anonymous (3)Phillip A. ArmstrongRichard D. AschenbrennerKaren Jernstedt andJim Barkovich

Craig P. BaskinPatrick Bengtsson andErin Bydalek

Stacey F. Bent andBruce M. Clemens

Carl M. BerkeProf. Jacob BigeleisenTodd A. BlumenkopfMarie T. Borin, Ph.D.Richard W. BorryJohn and Claire Boursalian*Lawrence J. BowermanDavid BurgeJames D. BurkeC. Hackett BushwellerRoseanna M. Caldwell*Christopher and MichelleChang*

Michelle and Jeffrey ChangShih-Ger (Ted) ChangLeland J. ChinnJae Youn Cho*Dr. Ronald N. ClazieJohn W. CollettePeter S. ConnellJohn E. CriderDr. Matthew CroughanDrs. Cameron and Jean DaschChristopher DateoTimothy and Suzanne DevittRonald L. DickensonRichard Dionne*Charles DoMichael J. DomeniconiNoelle M. Drugan

Lawrence H. DuboisLois DurhamErnest Ehnisz, Jr.Judith ErbWilliam H. EustisDr. Patricia L. Falcone andFamily

Stephen FallingMilton FingerBruce A. Firestone, Ph.D.

Dr. George A. FiskTim FrederickD. S. (Pete) FullertonHubert GasteigerPeter GatesConrad E. GleasonDavid GodbeyJoe Goddard*Abraham GoldhaarVicki Grassian andMark Young

Ruth Grimes

Lara A. GundelPaul H. GuscioraTan-Ngoc Ha*SoonKap Hahn andSeung Hee Hahn

Robert N. HansonDr. and Mrs. FrankHernandez

Frank HershkowitzRobert G. Hickman

Dr. William HiguchiDon HildenbrandDr. Jonathan Z. HoDonna Hoel and Elvin L.Hoel*

Richard W. and Patricia A.Hoff

Richard HonnellZhengjie Hu and Wendy NgJudy C. Huang andKen A. Nishimura

Michael R. Hull

William Y. JaDavid Y. JacksonChao-Chung Jen*Jack JewSamuel Sheun Woo KamBrian D. KelleyEdward L. KingProf. Judith P. KlinmanDeanne C. KrenzCamey Ku

James T. KuwadaEmily and Lawrence Kwan*Howard Lacheen*Wilson LamSidney B. LangBart LarrenagaJames W. LewisDrs. Traci A. and Timothy A.Lewis

James C. Lilley*Bernard J. Lilly, Jr.Mingjun Liu


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Klara and David Dorsey present the Andrew Dorsey Award, commemorating their late son.Pictured left to right are professor Dirk Trauner, graduate student awardee Shelley Claridge,Klara Dorsey, graduate student awardee Kristine Nolin, Andrew’s sister, Sarah Dorsey,and David Dorsey.

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S. Randolph LongDonald and Vicki LucasDr. Patricia D. MackenzieRobert P. MandalEnrique and KatalinMannheim

Newton W. McCreadyKaren and Steven McDonaldMichael McKinneyKenneth E. MeekerRon MeekerRichard L. MersonDrake and Jayne M. MichnoMichael MilosDavid W. MorelandArthur MorganPaul MorrisroeDr. John B. NashWalter E. NervikDavid R. NethawayFelix G. Ngan and Lily M. LeeCamille and Jim OlufsonStephen ONeilKent OpheimRobert J. OuelletteHarlan and StanislavaOverholt, Jr.

Julie S. OxnerKeith and Suzanne PangDavid B. PhillipsRichard C. Pilger, Jr.Dr. J. Winston PorterFrank T. ProchaskaRoland QuongLarry RickerPatrick A. RodgersEsther H. RoseTom and Irene Rosko*Ola M. Saad*Harry N. and Jane L. ScheiberDr. and Mrs. Francis J.Schmitz

Erika Schneider, Ph.D.William J. Scott, M.D.Alan and Gail SearcyFrederic T. SelleckJohn L. ShaferChris Lee and Scott ShafferJerry R. ShuperJohn A. Smegal

Randy SnurrShinji and Masuko SonedaRonald and Maureen SoulisElaine Blatt StonerCarolyn North andHerbert Strauss

Frederick J. StrieterChris TaggeDr. and Mrs. Masato TanabeJeffrey TaneKen TokunagaChi Wing TsaoDavid UehlingTetsuo Uno*Renée van de GriendJack M. Van Den BogaerdeAnthony C. Waiss, Jr.Cynthia and Dennis Wakita*Deane S. WalkerThomas A. Watters, M.D.Mark WegnerR. B. Weisenmiller, Ph.D.Rushan Wen andQizhang Chao

Mr. and Mrs. AnthonyWetherbee

Ronald M. WexlerDr. Richard J. WilcoxJames T. WilliamsMr. and Mrs. Arthur T. WincekPaul WollenzienSachio YamamotoPaul Zittel

The Campanile

Club and the

College Council

The Campanile Club mem-bers made commitments of$100-$249 this year andbelong to the CollegeCouncil.

Anonymous (5)Frank Jay AckermanDr. Raul E. AcostaJeffrey and Tracy Adkins*Harry Alderson

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. AllenGregory AndersenAllan AndersonDr. Lawrence C. AndrewsRobert A. and Nancy H.Antonoplis

Dr. John D. ArenivarMorris and Stephanie ArgyleLucienne AshArnold C. Ashcraft, Jr.Kenton AtwoodJ. William AubrySteven C. AvanzinoLeif M. Backlund*Samuel D. BaderReha M. Bafrali*Douglas J. BamfordIan R. BartkyKeith F. BatesJohn Brennan and Jean BaumDavid and Pamela Baxter*David B. Beach, Ph.D.Brian and Lori Beaudoin*James R. BeckRay G. BedfordNorman Peter and Eva SomerBelle

David Berke*Patty and Bill BlantonRichard BodenConstantine G. BoojamraJerome V. BootsAlex Boozenny*Mr. and Mrs. Marvin BrafmanDavid E. Breen*Joanne Brenes*Robert J. BreuerPeter J. BrewerHarmon and Elizabeth BrownLeo D. BrownEdward BruggemannGina BuccellatoStacey B. T. BuiJoel D. BurleyFrederick L. BurnettGary P. BurnsKristina M. Burow*Charles N. Buser II*Elton and Miriam CairnsJames L. Caley

Mark CamenzindHerbert CarlsonMichael CarolanJoan Frisoli and Harry CartlandJohn and ElizabethCavanaugh*

Chu-An ChangWilliam and Joyce ChangVivian Chapman*Gloria ChengRita L. ChiaRick Chin andSandy Underwood

C. ChingRida Y. Chow*Zhi Liang and Lily Chu*Ellia CiammaichellaShelley ClaridgeDr. David L. ClarkKenneth E. CoatesJohn B. Collins, Ph.D.Kaizar H. ColombowalaF. Warren ColvinMichelle Coneybeare*Mary M. ConwayDouglas H. CortezCharles E. CoverdaleRobert F. CurlDavid C. DarwinPravin and Jyoti DattaniKenneth E. De BruinPaul and Camille DidasDenis and Donna DrapeauHoward DrossmanLoretta and Michael Du BoisPatricia W. Durbin-HeaveyDoug EdwardsTom and Donna Mae EllisAlfredo and Estela EspinosaDr. Mark R. EtzelIrving P. Everett, Jr.John FaberaEric FallonHeather FanPaul L. FeldmanKenneth G. FeltonDwight A. FineJay and Leslie FishmanWarren W. FlackBruce M. Foreman


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The Campanile Club and theCollege Council, continued

Paul Forney*Matthew K. FountainMary M. FoxElizabeth Green FrancoisMilton S. FrankLoyd FrashierCharles and Margaret FrazierAihua FuSabrina S. Fu andPhilip J. Rous

Kent FungEthan C. GallowayDr. Donald E. GarrettDon and Donelle GartnerTed C. GermrothJ. Daniel Gezelter*Randall F. Gibson*Jack and Judy GilmoreMike GoergerAvery GoldsteinGary M. GoncherJudson E. GoodrichMichael and Crystal GoodwinAlex Goretsky*Samuel L. GrahamHarold and MargaretGranquist*

Ronald W. GrantSusan GraulJoseph M. GreendorferLaura GreenfieldCharles E. “Ched” GrimshawRobert and HannahGrossman

David GuidryRobert R. GuntherRobert W. HandCurtis and Marilee Handley*Dr. and Mrs. John HarderGeorge L. Hardgrove, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. J. RonaldHargreaves

B. Neal HarmanIan HarrisDavid J. HartSteven L. HartfordMark A. Hartney

Thomas HarveyMichal and Timothy HawkAuda “Kay” HaysSusan HeinemannTana Woodward HendersonRobert W. HermsenLouis and Nellie HerringtonWilliam T. HicksOrville and Florence Hiepler*Charles HigdonEric HintsaJason HoNick Ho*James D. Hoefelmeyer*Bob and Lisa Holden

Stephen M. HoltonJin-Lon and Mei-Shel Hon*Chris HovdeRichard, Ann and BeverlyHovsepian

Limin HsuehChung-Hwa HuangLiXuan HuangDr. James L. HydeMary Lee HydeJolene M. Ignowski*Larry and Nadine Isaacs*Michael K. IshiiAdrienne IwataThomas and Mottlene Jarvis

Mila and José JavierJohn A. JensvoldAudrey JohnsonKyonggeun JohnsonRussell D. Johnson, Jr.Louis and Grace JonesPatricia A. JonesRussell L. and Patricia W.Jones

Dr. Shee Lup JungMargaret Noble Kain, Ph.D.James S. KaneChia Chen Chu KangMichael Karim*Jerome V. V. Kasper*Jack A. KeenanWilliam H. KeesomEric R. KeimEsayas Kelkile*Carl S. KellnerEllen KickJohn S. KillianAndrew KindlerBaldwin A. KingUwe Kirbach*Kathryn Barr KirtleyJames A. KleinWilliam and ElizabethKlemperer

James KlohrPeter KnappeRoland KoestnerTrudy KongTony Kovscek andRebecca Taylor

Mark H. Krackov*Shailaja KrishnamurthyShou S. KwongCam-Mi La*John R. LaiStephen M. LambertJoseph R. Landolph, Jr.Lee H. LatimerPhilip Lau and Quina ChangSilvanus S. LauChristina J. Lee*Chun-Yue LeeFourmun Lee*Mei Kim Carol Lee


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Graduate student Stavroula Hatzios mentors undergraduateZsofia Botyanski in the Bertozzi laboratory. Undergraduateresearch is funded in part through private gifts.

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Wei-Luo Lee*Wen Chin LeeNorman and Yvonne LeeAlice Lee-Dutra*Allen and Phyllis LefohnTheodore J. Leitereg*Prof. and Mrs. William A.Lester, Jr.

Cissy LeungTak and Maggie LeungAlan LevyA. LewJohn D. LeybaDr. William G. LightJames LimManfred LindnerGary Lipscomb IIBenjamin T. Liu*Pamela Liu*David and Judith LloydWai Leng Loh*Harold R. LohrLarry Loomis-PriceYing Y. Lu*Charles LudvikKa LumXuan Hung and Van Gia LyBjorn Christian LycheTom Mac PheeRaymond W. Mah*Christopher A. MainesChander Malhotra*Emma and Stephen MallonDoug MandelNolan MangelsonDavid and Kimchi Mao*Nicolas and Mari CarmenMariscal*

J. Hodge MarkgrafDavid and Debra MarlinLinda N. MarquezDavid W. M. MarrW. Paul MartinCarol MasinterToby (Horwitz) Massman*Alexander Mastroianni*Paul and Julia MathewsKevin McAleaCon and Mary McCormick


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donors to the collegeDr. William R. McDonellJames W. McFarlandRobert McKoonKevin L. McLarenHaig and Armine Mekhdjian*Jeanlynn and Arjen MetsCharles and Diane MeyerJ. Hoyt Meyer*Richard Michelman andKaren Meyer

Donald G. MillerSteven MillerWilliam G. MillerProf. and Mrs. William H.Miller

William M. MillerDavid MobleyDavid R. MonroeTerry MoodyLorna Morgan*Barbara and Dennis MorrellLester R. MorssEarl M. MortensenBob and Becky MortlockJim MuirheadThomas F. MurphyWilliam MurrayNate NealeHarry (Tom) NelsonEddie and Tibbie NgYu Sim NgJohn J. O’BrienJohn P. O’ConnellNicholas L. Ohler*Jon and Susan OkadaMiles S. OkinoAdam S. OlginJackie OrbonKenneth M. OttesonSemik and LaurieOungoulian*

James OziomekRoberto PabalanSpyridon PapadakisDr. Rudolph PariserJe Myeong and Sun Ok Park*John H. ParkerJohn E. ParmeterAra G. Paul*

Charles W. PaulDehua Pei*Winfield B. PerryDr. Eric C. PetersLeonidas PetrakisPaul A. PetruzzelliMatthew PlunkettMichael and Cathy Pollak*Max Y. PongMadhava Prasad*Kristala Jones PratherMax PrayElisabeth M. PriceSusan PugliaNicholas Pugliano and FamilyAbdur R. and Roksana Quazi*Peter D. QuinnDavid T. RabbTom and Betty RansohoffManfred G. ReineckeRichard A. ReinhardtJanice Reutt-RobeyJohn Dischinger andMindy Rex*

Jed L. RichardsonKeith RickertAlice RicoGregory A. Roberts*Gary L. Robison*Mark RoebuckDr. and Mrs. C. B. RolandGerry RollefsonMark E. RosenRobert and SandraRosenthal*

Barney RubinDavid S. RumschitzkiSteven RussekPhilip P. RussellEdna Kazuko SakaiNorma I. Santiago*Nick R. SchottWilliam and Virginia SchultzWilliam B. SchwabacherStephen E. SchwartzDr. Gretchen SchwenzerRichard SearleGeorge V. ShalimoffAnita J. Shaw

Ginton ShelefPi-teh ShenMr. and Mrs. Clayton C.Shepherd*

Albert E. SherwoodMartin D. ShetlarJames S. ShirkMary F. SingletonEric R. SirkinArthur C. SmithDr. John E. SohnKimania A. Stancil andNicole S. Love*

Bob SteiningerDavid SternWilliam and Rose StockNancy and Mark StoyerPieter StroeveJoseph and DorothySwintosky*

F.M.G. Tablas*Tellers FamilyWilliam Templeton*Joyce and Peter TengKlaus H. TheopoldPaul and Haviland ThompsonL. Karl J. Tong*Tracy TramMichael TrenaryJennifer A. TrippRobert L. TrompWilliam C. L. and MirandaTsang

Noel H. TurnerJohn P. UnikEllen and Robert Van Spyk*Sue and Bob VandenboschNikhil and Manisha Varaiya*David L. WaggerDiane Wakeham*Jennifer S. WakitaTimothy P. WalkerFrancis WangGloria WangLisa WangRobert WaterhouseDavid WattRobert F. WeimerDwight D. Weller

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The Campanile Club and theCollege Council, continued

William C. WernauRichard A. Whitbeck*Gary P. WiesehahnJay Wiesenfeld*Hans WijffelsRichard Q. WilliamsEarl WilsonDr. and Mrs. Curt WittigChung M. Wong*Connie WongEric K. WongJack WongPatrick M. Wong*Sharon M. WongBarbara WoodKevin D. and Virginia M.Woodburn*

Ronald WrightPriscilla L. Yang andNathanael S. Gray

Weidong and Diane Yang*Zhen-Yu YangGrace YapDonald G. YoungRaymond K. YuQing S. YuanQingqi Yue and Huaixia YaoFederico ZaragaFrederick ZeeC. A. ZimmermanRobert D. ZimmermanJohn ZinnRebecca ZuckermanRonald Zuckermann*

The Honor Roll

The Honor Roll acknowl-edges individuals who havecontributed up to $99 to thecollege.

Anonymous (2)Vladislav I. Afanasevich*Dr. Habib AminRay Amsinger

Lawrence and PhyllisAnderson

Kevin AustinRobert P. BacherBruce and Holly BaderEdward M. BarrishGeorge H. BatchelderCarolyn C. and Russell H. Batt*L. J. BeaufaitMarvin and Eleanor Beil*Dean R. BenderRick BertramHarald and Carol BiedermannLeland F. BlinmanLinda BlumPeter G. BoisvertJacklyn T. BortRebecca E. BrafmanSteven Bromberg*Edward M. Brooks*Mark A. Burlingame*Helen Cameron*Jonathan O. CarlsonJohn W. CarrozAda Woo and Joe CarsonArnold and Tina CavalliPak Ping ChanRossana Chan*Chellappah and RadaChanmugathas

Joan ChaoMr. and Mrs. Thomas J. C.Chew

Ara ChutjianDavid ClayDick T. CoJeffrey M. and Kerry L. CogenJames L. Cole*Paul A. CorneliusVirginia W. CornishGeorge J. and Thetis G. CritsUlysses S. Curry*Geoffrey and Gail DaffornJacob M. DavisGeorge S. DetreFaye F. Detsky-Weil andDavid H. Weil*

Stephen G. DiMagnoJames R. DouglassRonald P. Drucker

Michelle M. Eastlack*John W. and Marlene JensenEastman

David EichhornMark Elfield and KristinHomme*

Alan S. EmanuelChris M. EricksonLarisa FalveyMaria FardisPeter Fedkiw*Jere D. and Theresa D.Fellmann

Neil Fromer*John GavenonisWillis and Kathryn Gelston*David GlueckCynthia Gong*Andrew Goodwin*Michael L. GreenfieldMarjory and GeorgeGreenwald

Jondi GumzFanqing Guo*Neil S. HanabusaMichael R. Harper*Virginia-Jane HarrisJeanne and Robert HaushalterThomas and JacquelineHayes*

Hansel Ho*Lisa M. HochreinDavid HoltzVirginia H. Homme*Horace and Lois HopkinsLouisa Mae A. HortonWenyen HsuR. F. HumphreysRonald JensenFan Jiang and Jinfang Liao*Franklin JinAndreas V. KadavanichNandakumar and LekhaKalathil*

Thomas Ross Kelly*Indu KheterpalJason C. King*Sherman and Ming Ko*Selene KooDr. L. N. Kramer

Georgina Garbutt KratzerJohn and Hanna KrebsCindy KriegerRomesh KumarSamuel Kurita andMary A. Long*

Yatping KwanMartin and Nailin Lee*Colin W. LeesSuzanne Kam-Cee LeungElaina LinDavid LindsaySteven and Esther Lopez*Richard LukeRichard MacPhailTom MaimoneNorbert and Helmi MasonHelen and John Matthews*James Brozek andLinda McCrackin

Barry and Donna McElmurryT. Andrew Mobley*Rob MooreBarry T. MurpheyNorman T. NelsonCaroline NguyenWilliam C. OrrFakhruddin and FatemaPalida*

James and Donna Pappas*Christine K. Payne*George and Charlotte Peck*Dragutin PericJaan PestiRobert N. PikeJason PloegerJan PolissarCarol Ann and StevenPopeney

Steven PrattJesse Qi and Jimei TianChristina Lee QuigleyRonald A. ReimerGerald L. and Maureen J.Ritter

Stephanie Robertson*Mr. and Mrs. Robert K.Roderick*

Michael and Kay Rosen


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Charles J. Russell*Joel W. RussellWayne E. Sackett*Arutyun and Isabella SaryanAlexander SassiTerry Trosper SchaefferJoshua A. Schrier*

Alan Sentman*George S. SheppardKenneth and Myrtle KitShimota*

James N. Shoolery*Todd P. SilversteinSara and Bakthan SingaramJoseph SonnenbergCarla St. Laurent, M.D.Susan StantonElise C. StoneGerald E. StreitJames and Patricia StubbertWarren C. StuebenJohn P. Sullivan

Dr. Paul Suslov and Family*Alan Tam*Vazken TashinianSundiep K. TeharaGeorge L. TongSandor and MagdolnaTrajmar

Victor and Susan TsaiRicardo UnikelMathias Van ThielPaul VerderberMichael VertiDavid J. VieiraMary Conway VondrakAdam Z. Weber*Karen M. Webster*John B. Wheeler, Jr.Ralph E. WhiteDavid WhitmoreMikel Wiebenson*John J. M. Wiener*Hewitt G. WightThomas Winfield*

Nicolas D. Winter*Margaret A. WongAdam WoolleyDavid T. WuTerry T. YamadaLiub-Chii Yang ChenLaura Yee

Joel E. Yeo*Adam Youngman*John L. Zelinsky*Sally A. Zengel*Shengbo Zhu and Baoqi Ding

Current and

Former Faculty

and Staff Donors

Carlo and Barbara AlesandriniKeith and Elaine AlexanderPaul and Nicole AlivisatosWilliam and Inez Benjamin

Robert and Wendy BergmanBud BlueElton and Miriam CairnsHelen Cameron*Joseph and Susan CernyChristopher and MichelleChang*

Jamie and Jennifer DoudnaCate*

Elaine and Arnold GrossbergCharles B. HarrisClayton Heathcock and CheriHadley

Erwin W. HornungKiyoshi and Irene KatsumotoSung-Hou and Rosalind KimProf. and Mrs. C. Judson KingProf. Judith P. KlinmanProf. and Mrs. William A.Lester, Jr.

Scott and Annette LynnProf. Bruce H. Mahan EstateJ. Hodge MarkgrafProf. Samuel and Mrs. LydiaMarkowitz

Richard and JoAnne MathiesProf. and Mrs. William H.Miller

Arthur MorganProf. and Mrs. John S.Newman

Heino Nitsche andMartha Boccalini

Camille and Jim OlufsonNorman and Paula PhillipsProf. and Mrs. John M.Prausnitz

John Dischinger andMindy Rex*

Richard Saykally andChris Read

Fritz and Karen SchaeferHarry N. and Jane L. ScheiberJudith and Gabor SomorjaiCarolyn North andHerbert Strauss

Vazken TashinianDavid and LieselotteTempleton

Don and Rosemary TilleyDavid Wemmer


49Alumni and friends at the Dean’s Dinner spanned several eras. Pictured, left to right, areNancy Henderson, Edmund Chambers (B.A. ’39, Chem), Milton Ritchie (B.S. ’51, Chem) andDavid Lieu (B.S. ’75, Chem).

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Jeanne and Robert HaushalterMichal and Timothy HawkDr. and Mrs. FrankHernandez

Mr. and Mrs. Allan P. HessNick Ho*William and Hoi-Ying HolmanJin-Lon and Mei-Shel Hon*Irma HrycykWenyen HsuChung-Hwa HuangLarry and Nadine Isaacs*Bala and Kumari Iyer*Mila and Jose JavierChao-Chung Jen*Fan Jiang and Jinfang Liao*Louis and Grace JonesEileen M. JulianMargaret Noble Kain, Ph.D.Nandakumar and LekhaKalathil*

Ronald and Coleen Kino*Sherman and Ming Ko*Engr. Joseph L. and Dr. HelenC. Koo

LaRoc and Linda KovarShailaja KrishnamurthySamuel Kurita andMary A. Long*

Emily and Lawrence Kwan*Cam-Mi La*Philip Lau and Quina ChangWen Chin LeeNorman and Yvonne LeeTak and Maggie LeungMr. and Mrs. Kwang-Chi LiangLiming M. LingerPamela Liu*Wendell and Bi-Lan Long*Steven and Esther Lopez*Richard LukeXuan Hung and Van Gia LyChander Malhotra*Emma and Stephen MallonDavid and Kimchi Mao*David and Debra MarlinCarol MasinterPaul and Julia MathewsHelen and John Matthews*Con and Mary McCormick

James Brozek andLinda McCrackin

Larry and Debbie MeisnerHaig and Armine Mekhdjian*Eddie and Tibbie NgJon and Susan OkadaSemik and LaurieOungoulian*

Harlan and StanislavaOverholt, Jr.

Fakhruddin and FatemaPalida*

Keith and Suzanne PangJe Myeong and Sun Ok Park*George and Charlotte Peck*Michael and Cathy Pollak*Carol Ann and StevenPopeney

Jesse Qi and Jimei TianAbdur R. and Roksana Quazi*Janakiraman RamachandranMr. and Mrs. Robert K.Roderick*

Dr. and Mrs. C. B. RolandTom and Irene Rosko*Marsha SableNorma I. Santiago*Arutyun and Isabella SaryanJohn M. Seelig andHelen P. Zelt Seelig

Sara and Bakthan SingaramShinji and Masuko SonedaJames and Patricia StubbertJoyce and Peter TengAlexander and Laura Ur III*Ellen and Robert Van Spyk*Nikhil and Manisha Varaiya*Cynthia and Dennis Wakita*Jennifer S. WakitaHuinian Xiao andBing Yuan Wei*

Rushan Wen andQizhang Chao

Mr. and Mrs. AnthonyWetherbee

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur T. WincekThomas Winfield*Connie WongKevin D. and Virginia M.Woodburn*

Weidong and Diane Yang*

Parent Donors

Jeffrey and Tracy Adkins*Richard D. AschenbrennerLeif M. Backlund*David and Pamela Baxter*Brian and Lori Beaudoin*Linda BlumJohn and Claire Boursalian*Mr. and Mrs. Marvin BrafmanJoanne Brenes*Roseanna M. Caldwell*Sheldon Cao and Vivian Wang*John and ElizabethCavanaugh*

Pak Ping ChanWilliam and Joyce ChangChellappah and RadaChanmugathas

Vivian Chapman*Tan-Jen and Li-Fong ChenJae Youn Cho*Zhi Liang and Lily Chu*Bernard and Akiko Comrie*Michelle Coneybeare*Faye F. Detsky-Weil andDavid H. Weil*

Paul and Camille DidasCharles DoLoretta and Michael Du BoisCarol DunbarTom and Donna Mae EllisAlfredo and Estela EspinosaMonte FaustJay and Leslie FishmanMary M. FoxCharles and Margaret FrazierDon and Donelle GartnerWillis and Kathryn Gelston*Michael and Crystal GoodwinMarjory and George GreenwaldRuth GrimesRobert and HannahGrossman

Ronald Grzywinski*Jondi GumzSoonKap Hahn and SeungHee Hahn

Kenneth and Carol Hamilton*Curtis and Marilee Handley*


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donors to the collegeQingqi Yue and Huaixia YaoSally A. Zengel*Shengbo Zhu and Baoqi Ding

G. N. Lewis Era,

Classes through

1945

These donors represent aparticipation rate of 14.1percent for the G. N. LewisEra.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. AllenWard and Mary AlterDr. and Mrs. David AltmanKenton AtwoodJ. William AubryCharles E. and MarianneAuerbach

L. J. BeaufaitProf. Jacob BigeleisenDr. Tom A. Bither, Jr., andMrs. Margaret V. Bither

Leland F. BlinmanBud BlueJacklyn T. BortR. R. BreckenfeldRobert J. BreuerJames L. CaleyWilliam H. CalkinsHerbert CarlsonEdmund ChambersFred F. CoonsDr. and Mrs. Gus D.Dorough, Jr.

Arthur K. DunlopWilliam H. EustisMatthew K. FountainMilton S. FrankJohn A. and Rosie J. GaribaldiDr. and Mrs. Theodore H.Geballe

Edward D. GoldbergAbraham GoldhaarG. Douglas and Regina GouldVic and Faye GuntherVirginia-Jane Harris

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Dr. James L. HydeDr. Shee Lup JungJack A. KeenanEdward L. KingHenry F. KoopmannProf. Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.Georgina Garbutt KratzerNewton W. McCreadyArthur MorganT. W. NewtonDr. Rudolph PariserPaul A. PetruzzelliRobert N. PikeJonathan S. PowellJack and Daisy Yep QuanJack M. RademacherEugene B. ReidRichard A. ReinhardtJune and Gene RobertsJ. A. Sanford

Mr. and Mrs. John R. SkinnerDavid and LieselotteTempleton

Paul and Haviland ThompsonL. Karl J. Tong*John B. Wheeler, Jr.Rita WielandEarl WilsonC. A. Zimmerman

Cupola Era,

Classes of

1946–1963

These donors represent aparticipation rate of 12.9percent for the Cupola Era.

Frank Jay Ackerman*

Profs. Juana V. and AndreasAcrivos

Harry AldersonWard and Mary AlterAllan AndersonLawrence and PhyllisAnderson

Dr. Lawrence C. AndrewsMyron and Barbara AndrewsLucienne AshIan R. BartkyDavid BassGeorge H. BatchelderKeith F. BatesJames R. BeckEdwin D. BeckerRay G. BedfordJohn H. BirelyM. Robert BlumJerome V. BootsAlex Boozenny*

R. R. BreckenfeldDavid E. Breen*Edward M. Brooks*Harmon and Elizabeth BrownDavid BurgeJohn B. Bush, Jr.Elton and Miriam CairnsWilliam H. CalkinsRobert J. CarrJohn W. CarrozJoseph and Susan CernyDavid C. K. ChanSunney I. ChanMr. and Mrs. Thomas J. C.Chew

Leland J. ChinnT. Z. and Irmgard ChuDr. Ronald N. ClazieRonald L. ClendenenWarren E. Clifford


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THE LI FELLOWSHIPin Memory of Choh Hao LiMassoud Motamed was born and raised in Texas andattended Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He dis-covered chemistry while at SMU. He is now settled in theBay Area, and he is a graduate student and a member ofthe Richmond Sarpong group. He works on the synthesisof natural products and pharmaceutically important smallmolecules, especially nitrogen-containing heterocycles.

“It is really exciting to win the Li award as it is a greatfinancial benefit to our lab,” he says.

Choh Hao Li (Ph.D. ’38, Chem) directed the HormoneResearch Laboratory at Berkeley from 1950-67 and atUCSF from 1967-83.

Massoud Motamed

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Cupola Era donors, continued

John W. ColletteRobert S. CrowderRobert F. CurlWilliam A. DanielsPravin and Jyoti DattaniFrank and Janice DelfinoRonald L. DickensonWalter and Eleanor DongDr. and Mrs. Gus D.Dorough, Jr.

Clelland R. DownsDavid and Wena DowsArthur K. DunlopPatricia W. Durbin-HeaveyLois DurhamRudolph H. DyckJohn W. and Marlene JensenEastman

Helen M. ElliottWalton EllisAlan S. EmanuelWilliam H. EustisIrving P. Everett, Jr.John FaberaDwight A. FineMilton FingerBruce M. ForemanLoyd FrashierEthan C. GallowayDr. Donald E. GarrettPeter GatesFrank P. GayDr. and Mrs. Theodore H.Geballe

William and Janet GerhardtJack and Judy GilmoreConrad E. GleasonJoe Goddard*Mr. and Mrs. Wataru GoishiJudson E. GoodrichHarold and MargaretGranquist*

Ronald W. GrantJoseph M. GreendorferGeorge L. Hardgrove, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. J. RonaldHargreaves

B. Neal Harman

Raymond W. Mah*Arturo MaimoniRobert P. MandalW. Paul MartinDr. William R. McDonellJames W. McFarlandKenneth E. MeekerRichard L. MersonCharles and Diane MeyerRobert K. MillarDonald G. MillerArthur MorganEarl M. MortensenMerrill A. MuhsBarry T. MurpheyWilliam MurrayAlbert NarathCharles and Clinton NashHarry (Tom) NelsonWalter E. NervikDavid R. NethawayProf. and Mrs. John S.Newman

T. W. NewtonWilliam C. OrrRobert J. OuelletteChin-Tzu PengLeonidas PetrakisDr. Donald D. PhillipsLlad PhillipsRichard C. Pilger, Jr.Jan PolissarDr. J. Winston PorterMadhava Prasad*Jack and Daisy Yep QuanRoland QuongManfred G. ReineckeRichard A. ReinhardtLanny ReplogleGregor RiesserMilton H. RitchieGary L. Robison*Gerry RollefsonFerenc E. RosztoczyBarney RubinKlaus and Mary AnnSaegebarth

Elmer E. SchallenbergRobert A. Scherrer


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Marlin D. HarmonyJohn F. HeilRobert W. HermsenLouis and Nellie HerringtonRobert G. HickmanWilliam T. HicksDr. William HiguchiDon HildenbrandI. C. and Kimi HisatsuneRichard W. and Patricia A.Hoff

Richard Honnell

Horace and Lois HopkinsErwin W. HornungRichard W. HymanRobert and Gene IwamotoWilliam Y. JaFranklin JinRussell D. Johnson, Jr.John Jost, Jr.Dr. Max J. KalmSamuel Kam Sheun Woo

James S. KaneDavid G. KarrakerStanley KellyJohn S. KillianT. P. KingMr. and Mrs. Fred KirbyWilliam and ElizabethKlemperer

James KlohrMark H. Krackov*James T. KuwadaShou S. Kwong

John R. LaiSidney B. LangMartin and Nailin Lee*Virginia and Frank LewDavid A. LightnerJames LimManfred LindnerRobert and June LindquistHarold R. LohrDick and Myra Lynch

Rita Wieland (B.S. ’46, Chem) and Morton McDonald enjoy theDean’s Dinner.

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Dr. and Mrs. Francis J.Schmitz

William B. SchwabacherAlan and Gail SearcyRichard SearleMr. and Mrs. Arnold J. SeiduleManesh and Margarita ShahDr. and Mrs. Stephen A. ShainGeorge V. ShalimoffJames N. Shoolery*Hugh C. SilcoxMary F. SingletonArthur C. SmithGerald SmolinskyJudith and Gabor SomorjaiJoseph SonnenbergRonald and Maureen SoulisDr. Charles E. StehrJulie StewartFrederick J. StrieterJack D. SwanburgTherese W. Sze*Dr. and Mrs. Masato TanabeJerome H. and Selma E.Targovnik

Vazken TashinianRichard M. TeeterDavid and LieselotteTempleton

William Templeton*George L. TongSandor and MagdolnaTrajmar

Robert L. TrompNoel H. TurnerJohn P. UnikDale E. Van SickleMathias Van ThielSue and Bob VandenboschDr. and Mrs. Emil J.Volcheck, Jr.

Anthony C. Waiss, Jr.Sheldon A. WeberRichard A. Whitbeck*Rita WielandHewitt G. WightGar Lok WooSachio YamamotoJohn Zinn

Free Radicals,Classes of

1964–1979

These donors represent aparticipation rate of 10.2percent for the FreeRadicals Era.

Dr. Raul E. AcostaCarlo and Barbara AlesandriniDr. Habib AminRay AmsingerGregory AndersenLester AndrewsArnold C. Ashcraft, Jr.Steven C. AvanzinoRobert P. BacherBruce and Holly BaderSamuel D. BaderBurke and Carole BakerRon and Sue BanducciKaren Jernstedt andJim Barkovich

Edward M. BarrishMichael L. BarryCraig P. BaskinCarolyn C. and Russell H.Batt*

Richard BehrensDean R. BenderPatrick Bengtsson andErin Bydalek

Carl M. BerkeRick BertramPatty and Bill BlantonRichard BodenPeter G. BoisvertLawrence J. BowermanRobert G. BrinkleyLeo D. BrownJames D. BurkeFrederick L. BurnettGary P. BurnsCharles BuseC. Hackett BushwellerJonathan O. CarlsonRobert E. Challey*Uma and KumarChandrasekaran

Shih-Ger (Ted) ChangCecil C. ChappelowNirmal and Ellen L. ChatterjeeAndrew CheungRita L. ChiaGregory K. ChowAra ChutjianJ. P. and Nancy L. ClarkRobin D. Clark andMary Mackiernan

David ClayDr. Ronald N. ClazieKenneth E. CoatesJohn B. Collins, Ph.D.Kaizar H. ColombowalaF. Warren ColvinPeter S. ConnellMary M. ConwayDouglas H. CortezTucker CoughlenCharles E. CoverdaleJohn E. CriderPeter CukorGeoffrey and Gail DaffornDrs. Cameron and Jean DaschKenneth E. De BruinTom and Marty De JongheThomas and Cynthia DelfinoGeorge S. DetreTimothy and Suzanne DevittDrs. Thomas J. Dietsche andLaura J. Dietsche

Michael J. DomeniconiJames R. DouglassDean C. DraemelRobert and Rochelle DreyfussRonald P. DruckerJonathan and Caroline EarhartDr. Victor H. EdwardsErnest Ehnisz, Jr.Dr. Julianne Elward-BerryGail G. EngerholmDr. and Mrs. Victor EnglemanJudith ErbChris M. EricksonVirginia and Larry FaithStephen FallingSteven and Terri FantaziaDr. Robert J. Farina

Peter Fedkiw*Jere D. and Theresa D.Fellmann

Kenneth G. FeltonBruce A. Firestone, Ph.D.Dr. George A. FiskMichael and Mary FlaughDr. and Mrs. Howard L. FongPaul Forney*Philip R. FriedelD. S. (Pete) FullertonKai-Ye FungShun C. FungDrs. David S. Gee andCaryn C. Lum

Ted C. GermrothMan K. GoMike GoergerCharles E. “Ched” GrimshawLara A. GundelRobert R. GuntherRobert W. HandDavid R. HansenRobert N. HansonDr. and Mrs. John HarderIan HarrisDavid J. HartSteven L. HartfordThomas HarveyH. Ross HawkinsAuda “Kay” HaysJohn F. HeilJessie HerrDuane A. HeymanRobert G. HickmanHansel Ho*Donna Hoel and Elvin L.Hoel*

Bob and Lisa HoldenStephen M. HoltonDavid HoltzNicholas W. HornbergerLimin HsuehVictor W. Huang*R. F. HumphreysJohn T. HuntMark IiyamaMichael K. IshiiAdrienne Iwata


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Free Radicals Era donors,continued

Thomas and Mottlene JarvisJack JewDavid R. and Karen W.Johnson

Kyonggeun JohnsonRussell L. and Patricia W.Jones

Gary and Patricia KaiserDr. and Mrs. Andrew KaldorJerome V. V. Kasper*Kiyoshi and Irene KatsumotoMichael C. Kavanaugh andCarol R. James

William H. KeesomJack KellyThomas Ross Kelly*Mr. and Mrs. David E. Kepler IIHyunyong KimGene KimuraBaldwin A. KingKathryn Barr KirtleyWilliam A. KleschickTrudy KongDr. Aaron D. KossoyDr. L. N. KramerCamey KuRomesh KumarYatping KwanWilson LamJoseph R. Landolph, Jr.Lee H. LatimerSilvanus S. LauPolam and Marcia LeeColin W. LeesAllen and Phyllis LefohnTheodore J. Leitereg*Alan LevyA. LewMark T. LewellynJames W. LewisArnold A. LiebmanDr. William G. LightBernard J. Lilly, Jr.David LindsayDavid and Judith LloydMr. and Mrs. Henry H. LooDonald and Vicki LucasCharles Ludvik

Bjorn Christian LycheNolan MangelsonCraig MarkeyGary and Irene MasadaThomas A. Massaro, M.D.Barry and Donna McElmurryRobert McKoonThomas J. MeyersDrake and Jayne M. MichnoDr. Michael J. MillerSteven MillerWilliam G. MillerLuisa T. MolinaDavid R. Monroe

Tim MontgomeryTerry MoodyDr. and Mrs. Joon S. MoonBarbara and Dennis MorrellPaul MorrisroeLester R. MorssJim MuirheadCurt Munson andHazel Olbrich

Thomas F. MurphyDr. and Mrs. Louie NadyDr. John B. NashNorman T. NelsonRichard Newman

Joan Friedman Newmark andRichard Newmark

Allen NgDouglas J. NgYu Sim NgFelix G. Ngan and Lily M. LeeNancy NoremCarlos and Patricia NuilaJohn P. O’ConnellMyongsook OhStephen ONeilKent OpheimKenneth M. OttesonJames Oziomek


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THE KOO LIU SIOK-HAN AWARD andTHE STANLEY G. THOMPSON MEMORIAL AWARDPaul Hernandez grew up in Chula Vista,south of San Diego. He had no plans tostudy chemistry at Berkeley until he tookintroductory chemistry and was hooked bythe passion of his teachers.

Hernandez is working as an undergraduatein the research group of Dirk Trauner. TheTrauner group focuses on the total synthesisof complex natural products and rationallydesigned molecular probes and their appli-cation to biological problems, especially inneuroscience.

Hernandez was a co-author on a paper aboutusing a synthetic technique called cycloaddi-tion to help synthesize a class of chemicalsfirst discovered in Caribbean corals.

“These awards have eased my financial wor-ries,” says Hernandez, “and have allowedme to focus on my studies and research year’round.”

Paul Hernandez

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Rodney and Jeanne PanosJohn H. ParkerWilliam R. ParrishAra G. Paul*Dragutin PericWinfield B. PerryDavid B. PhillipsMax Y. PongDr. J. Winston PorterSteven PrattElisabeth M. PriceFrank T. ProchaskaDavid T. RabbRonald RatcliffeRonald A. ReimerLarry RickerGerald L. and Maureen J.Ritter

Scott RocklageEsther H. RoseJoel W. RussellNick R. SchottWilliam and Virginia SchultzGary P. SchwartzStephen E. SchwartzDr. Gretchen SchwenzerDrs. Steven Sciamanna andSandy J. Roadcap

William J. Scott, M.D.John L. ShaferGinton ShelefPi-teh ShenAlbert E. SherwoodMartin D. ShetlarJames S. ShirkJerry R. ShuperKaren and Scott SibbettRonald E. SilvaSher G. SinghClinton D. and Sharon SnyderThomas M. Stachelek*Bruce E. and Susan J.Stangeland

Susan StantonDavid F. StarksBob SteiningerDonna R. SterlingNeil C. StipanichElaine Blatt StonerGerald E. Streit

Pieter StroeveF.M.G. Tablas*Kong-Heong TanAnne Friend ThacherJack ThomasKen TokunagaCurtis TongDr. J. A. Trainham andDr. L. D. Waters

Michael TrenaryAlain W. C. Tsang*Chi Wing TsaoConstantine TsonopoulosGeorge K. and Stephanie D.Tyson

Ernesto Valdes-KriegJack M. Van Den BogaerdeDavid J. VieiraJames P. Vokac andStacey T. Baba

Mary Conway VondrakAndrew WangFrancis WangDarsh T. WasanRobert WaterhouseDavid WattThomas A. Watters, M.D.Mark WegnerRobert F. WeimerR. B. Weisenmiller, Ph.D.Willard M. WelchDwight D. WellerDavid WemmerWilliam C. WernauAlex WernbergRon and Lucy WetzelRalph E. WhiteGary P. WiesehahnJay Wiesenfeld*Hans WijffelsRichard Q. WilliamsRoger G. and Molly W.Williams

Arthur M. WinerPaul WollenzienMargaret A. WongRonald WrightTerry T. YamadaKatsumi and Elby YamamotoDonald G. Young

Raymond K. YuRobert ZahlerFederico ZaragaFrederick ZeeRobert D. ZimmermanPaul Zittel

CHEMillenniums,

Classes of

1980–1999

These donors representa participation rate of 5.5percent for theCHEMillennium Era.

Stuart and Sarah AdlerKeith and Elaine AlexanderPaul and Nicole AlivisatosRobert A. and Nancy H.Antonoplis

Dr. John D. ArenivarDaniel and Shelley ArensonPhillip A. ArmstrongFrances ArnoldKevin AustinReha M. Bafrali*Douglas J. BamfordJohn Brennan and Jean BaumDavid B. Beach, Ph.D.Norman Peter and Eva SomerBelle

Stacey F. Bent andBruce M. Clemens

Todd A. BlumenkopfConstantine G. BoojamraMarie T. Borin, Ph.D.Richard W. BorryPeter J. BrewerRichard BrodzinskySteven Bromberg*Marilee BrooksDave and Donna BrownTim and Valerie BruemmerEdward BruggemannGina BuccellatoStacey B. T. BuiJoel D. Burley

Mark A. Burlingame*Kristina M. Burow*Mark CamenzindMichael CarolanAda Woo and Joe CarsonJoan Frisoli and Harry CartlandChu-An ChangMichelle and Jeffrey ChangJoan ChaoAndrew Y. ChengGloria ChengRick Chin andSandy Underwood

C. ChingDr. David L. ClarkJeffrey M. and Kerry L. CogenJames L. Cole*Paul A. CorneliusVirginia W. CornishDr. Matthew CroughanDavid C. DarwinChristopher DateoThomas and Cynthia DelfinoDrs. Thomas J. Dietsche andLaura J. Dietsche

Stephen G. DiMagnoRichard Dionne*Pete Dragovich andPei-Pei Kung

Denis and Donna DrapeauHoward DrossmanDaisy Joe and Justin Du BoisLawrence H. DuboisDoug EdwardsDavid EichhornDr. Mark R. EtzelEric FallonHeather FanMaria FardisPaul L. FeldmanWarren W. FlackWilliam E. Fogle andMarilyn Wun-Fogle

Stanley W. FongReyes M. FragosoElizabeth Green FrancoisTim FrederickLeif G. and Janet L. FredinSabrina S. Fu and Philip J. RousJennifer Fujii


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CHEMillenniums Era donors,continued

Kent FungDrs. Thomas R. Gadek andKatherine Neldner

Hubert GasteigerMichael B. GentzlerJ. Daniel Gezelter*David GlueckDavid GodbeyAvery GoldsteinGary M. GoncherAndrew Goodwin*Charles GossSamuel L. GrahamBeth M. GraselVicki Grassian and Mark YoungSusan GraulLaura GreenfieldMichael L. GreenfieldDavid GuidryTao Guo*Paul H. GuscioraTan-Ngoc Ha*Neil S. HanabusaDr. Barry Hart andMs. Kathleen McNutt-Hart

Mark A. HartneyScott HeckerTana Woodward HendersonFrank HershkowitzCharles HigdonJoel HillToshiaki HinoEric HintsaHerbert HooperDonald Hou*Chris HovdeHsin-Yuan HuZhengjie Hu and Wendy NgJudy C. Huang andKen A. Nishimura

LiXuan HuangMichael R. HullMary Lee HydeMark J. and Alice H. IsaacsonDavid Y. JacksonRonald JensenJohn A. Jensvold

Audrey JohnsonPatricia A. JonesAndreas V. KadavanichMichael Karim*Andrea L. KeatonEric R. KeimEsayas Kelkile*Brian D. KelleyCarl S. KellnerIndu KheterpalEllen KickEd KimYesook KimAndrew KindlerJason C. King*James A. KleinEdward F. KleinmanKevin A. KlotterPeter KnappeJanell KobayashiRoland KoestnerTony Kovscek andRebecca Taylor

Deanne C. KrenzCindy KriegerStephen M. LambertBart LarrenagaChristina J. Lee*Fourmun Lee*Mei Kim Carol LeePeter W. LeeJan and Maria LeemanPhilip M. LessnerCissy LeungSuzanne Kam-Cee LeungMarc and Tsun-Tsun LevinDrs. Traci A. and Timothy A.Lewis

John D. LeybaDavid Lieu, M.D., M.B.A.Dr. and Mrs. Nelson LinPeter and Rachel LipowiczGary Lipscomb IIMingjun LiuWai Leng Loh*S. Randolph LongLarry Loomis-PriceEd LouieKa LumTom Mac Phee

Michael and Jane MacDonaldDr. Patricia D. MackenzieRichard MacPhailMary M. MaderJon Maienschein and Lisa ClineChristopher A. MainesDoug MandelLinda N. MarquezDavid W. M. MarrToby (Horwitz) Massman*Kevin McAleaMichael J. and Janet KimMcCormick

Karen and Steven McDonaldMichael McKinneyKevin L. McLarenRon MeekerJeanlynn and Arjen MetsJ. Hoyt Meyer*Richard Michelman andKaren Meyer

Drs. Walter H. Moos andSusan M. Miller

William M. MillerDavid MobleyT. Andrew Mobley*Lingfung MokRob MooreDavid W. MorelandBob and Becky MortlockMike Moyer andMargaret Chu-Moyer

Roberta N. MulfordSean and Mary MullenCurt Munson andHazel Olbrich

Herb NelsonCaroline NguyenDavid A. O’BrienAnthony O’KeefeMiles S. OkinoAdam S. OlginJackie OrbonJulie S. OxnerRoberto PabalanSpyridon PapadakisJohn E. ParmeterGarry Iain George PartonCharles W. PaulDehua Pei*

Jaan PestiDr. Eric C. PetersJohn and Cheryl PetersenMatthew PlunkettDarwin and Donna PoulosKristala Jones PratherMax PraySusan PugliaNicholas Pugliano and FamilyChristina Lee QuigleyPeter D. QuinnJohn A. RaganR. Andrew RamelmeierGurdeep S. RanhotraTom and Betty RansohoffJanice Reutt-RobeyJed L. RichardsonKeith RickertAlice RicoJohn L. RobbinsStephanie Robertson*Patrick A. RodgersMark RoebuckSteve R. Roffler andBing-Mae Chen

Mark E. RosenDavid S. RumschitzkiSteven RussekCharles J. Russell*Philip P. RussellWilliam Sailor, Ph.D.Edna Kazuko SakaiAlexander SassiErika Schneider, Ph.D.Drs. Steven Sciamanna andSandy J. Roadcap

Chris Lee and Scott ShafferAnita J. ShawGeorge S. SheppardTodd P. SilversteinEric R. SirkinJohn A. SmegalRandy SnurrTonny Soesanto andFay Sampoerna

Dr. John E. SohnJeffrey P. Solar andRosalyn Furukawa

Ellen Lee andMichael Solomon


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Carla St. Laurent, M.D.David SternDr. Doris StoermerNancy and Mark StoyerWarren C. StuebenJohn P. SullivanChris TaggeRex TamJanet TamadaJeffrey TaneKlaus H. TheopoldJohn F. ThompsonDon and Rosemary TilleyTracy TramDr. Andrew TrapaniVictor and Susan TsaiDavid UehlingRicardo UnikelTetsuo Uno*Michael G. ValentineRenée van de GriendPaul VerderberMichael VertiMin-Chi Von TrentiniDavid L. Wagger


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Diane Wakeham*Deane S. WalkerTimothy P. WalkerGloria WangLisa WangRaymond Chiu andStephanie Wang

Marjorie and Greg WentRonald M. WexlerDavid WhitmoreGary P. WiesehahnDr. Richard J. WilcoxJames T. WilliamsPhillip A. WilmarthDr. and Mrs. Curt WittigChung M. Wong*Eric K. WongJack WongPatrick M. Wong*Sharon M. WongAdam WoolleyStephen WorlandDavid T. WuLiub-Chii Yang ChenPriscilla L. Yang andNathanael S. Gray

Zhen-Yu YangGrace YapLaura YeeSteven D. YoungQing S. YuanJohn L. Zelinsky*Ronald Zuckermann*

Young Alumni,

2000 and Beyond

These donors represent aparticipation rate of 2.7 per-cent for the Young Alumni.

Vladislav I. Afanasevich*Morris and Stephanie ArgyleRebecca E. BrafmanCharles N. Buser II*Rossana Chan*Rida Y. Chow*Ellia CiammaichellaDick T. CoJacob M. Davis

Michelle M. Eastlack*Aihua FuJohn GavenonisCynthia Gong*Alex Goretsky*Fanqing Guo*Eric Haas*Michael R. Harper*Jason HoDr. Jonathan Z. HoLisa M. HochreinJames D. Hoefelmeyer*Jolene M. Ignowski*Uwe Kirbach*Selene KooHoward Lacheen*Jessica Lam*Chun-Yue LeeWei-Luo Lee*Alice Lee-Dutra*Benjamin T. Liu*Ying Y. Lu*Tom MaimoneMichael MilosNate NealeJohn J. O’BrienNicholas L. Ohler*Christine K. Payne*Jason PloegerJames R. Rice*Gregory A. Roberts*Ola M. Saad*Wayne E. Sackett*Joshua A. Schrier*Alan Sentman*Alan Tam*Sundiep K. TeharaTellers FamilyJennifer A. TrippAdam Z. Weber*Karen M. Webster*Brandon T. Weldon*John J. M. Wiener*Shara C. Williams*Nicolas D. Winter*Joel E. Yeo*Adam Youngman*Rebecca Zuckerman

Greg and Cristina Pitzer, Joan Arsenault and Ann Pitzer were guests at the Dean’s Dinner, wherethe Pitzer Family Foundation’s gift to Theoretical Chemistry was recognized.

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The Abramson Fund was established by family and friends of Eric Abramson, a graduate studentwho died in 1973. The fund has grown over the years and now supports two fellows per year.


THE ERIC B. ABRAMSON SCHOLARSHIPGabriela Schlau-Cohen was raised near Philadelphia,PA, in the same area as the Eric B. Abramson family.Schlau-Cohen attended Brown University as anundergraduate and graduated with a Sc.B. degree inchemical physics.

At Berkeley, she is a member of Graham Fleming’sresearch group. The Fleming group is well knownfor studying the interactions between chromo-phores and the nanoscale engineering principles ofnatural photosynthetic light harvesting systems.

These processes are ultrafast and require the use offemtosecond spectroscopy, where one femtosecond(10-15 seconds) is one millionth of one billionth of asecond.

“The Abramson award,” says Schlau-Cohen, “bothhelps fund our research and personally provides animportant boost to my career.” Gabriela Schlau-Cohen


THE ERIC B. ABRAMSON SCHOLARSHIPLynelle Takihashi is a second-year chemistry graduate student in the StephenLeone group. As a physics undergraduate at Berkeley, she showed an early inter-est in multidisciplinary research by working with the Richard Saykally group inthe chemistry department on the spectroscopy of small water clusters.

She currently is working with the Advanced Light Source at LBNL on usingspectrometry to image cell surfaces.

“The Eric B. Abramson award came as a great surprise for me,” says Takihashi,“and I am grateful for the honor. The award built my confidence as a new mem-ber of the chemistry department, and it has allowed me to charge forward withmy studies and research.”

Lynelle Takihashi

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Benjamin Ide

Wheeler Society

The Benjamin Ide WheelerSociety recognizes donorswho have communicated tous their intention to includethe College of Chemistry orthe University of California,Berkeley, in their estateplans through some form ofplanned gift.

Dr. Raul E. AcostaDr. and Mrs. David AltmanCharles E. and MarianneAuerbach

William and Inez BenjaminRobert and Wendy BergmanBud BlueNorbert C. and Florence M.Brady

Robert J. CarrSunney I. ChanNirmal and Ellen L. ChatterjeeT. Z. and Irmgard ChuRobin D. Clark andMary Mackiernan

Erna P. CliffordWarren E. CliffordJoyce Ekman DavisDr. and Mrs. Gus D.Dorough, Jr.

Arthur K. DunlopLois DurhamMartha DutroWarren W. FlackDr. Peter C. FollerKai-Ye FungAnna GattiWilliam and Janet GerhardtG. Douglas and Regina GouldRuth GrochSusie HahnBenjamin HaileElizabeth S. HallClayton Heathcock andCheri Hadley

John F. Heil

Clinton and Joji HolzwarthMr. and Mrs. Hubbard C.Howe, Jr.

Richard W. HymanErnest JacobsonNissen A. JaffeAnne C. JohnsonProf. and Mrs. William L. JollyDr. Paul A. and Barbara W.Kittle

Lance M. KrigbaumDr. Joe B. LavigneRichard M. and Lillian LesslerTony K. and Louisa LingProf. and Mrs. David N. LyonJohn M. McDonaldJacklyn MelchiorRobert A. MicheliProf. and Mrs. C. BradleyMoore

Marjorie Pape Crandall PearceJune and Gene RobertsMichael S. RossHarry N. and Jane L. ScheiberJ. S. Paul SchwarzHugh C. SilcoxHenry B. SinclairMr. and Mrs. John R. SkinnerNora S. SmirigaFrank B. SprowBruce E. and Susan J.Stangeland

Prof. and Mrs. AndrewStreitwieser, Jr.

Nancy P. TaylorWilliam TolmanDr. J. A. Trainham andDr. L. D. Waters

Rita WielandJ. Michael M. WordRobert D. Zimmerman

Tributes

Gifts have been received inhonor of:

Prof. Paul A. BartlettProf. Harvey W. BlanchE. Morse “Bud” BlueSamuel W. CalvertDr. Michael D. Grimes, DPMProf. Clayton H. HeathcockProf. Harold S. JohnstonChristopher PopeneyProf. John M. PrausnitzProf. John O. RasmussenProf. Kenneth N. RaymondDavid B. SableProf. Herbert L. StraussProf. Andrew Streitwieser, Jr.

Gifts have been received inmemory of:

Peggy AbrahamsSamuel AbrahamsEric B. AbramsonDr. Giulia AdessoDr. Benjamin P. C. BoussertProf. Leo BrewerDr. Gary E. BrodaleTodd A. BrooksProf. Melvin CalvinProf. James CasonAntonio T. ChongDr. Jason L. ChoyProf. Burris B. CunninghamDr. Henry G. CurmeLouis R. Damskey, Jr.Prof. William G. DaubenAndrew DorseyDr. A. B. FalconeProf. Irving FattMargaret M. FuchsDorothy GoergerProf. William D. GwinnProf. Donald N. HansonVernon HaugenDr. Heinz HeinemannNancy K. Hildenbrand

Dr. Robert M. IkedaMargaret JorgensonDr. Michael J. KeatonLiu Siok-Han KooDr. Frank Howard KratzerJohn LaNotteProf. Wendell M. LatimerMartha LoweProf. Bruce H. MahanKristen MalmquistWilliam H. McAdamsGregory K. MeisnerDr. Aly MohamedProf. Donald S. NoyceProf. Chester T. O’KonskiHenry H. OtsukiProf. Eugene E. PetersenProf. George C. PimentelProf. Kenneth S. PitzerJonathan S. PowellProf. Henry RapoportDr. Steven J. RodgersDr. Samuel RubenDr. Stan RysNart SavanapridiProf. Glenn T. SeaborgHelen L. SeaborgDr. Ashraf ShalabyProf. Mitchel ShenClayton Conner ShepherdEugene F. SmithCharles and Irene SoulisProf. Alexander S. K. SunDr. Tamara W. SuslovDr. Stanley G. ThompsonProf. Charles W. TobiasDr. Himanshu B. VakilProf. Theodore VermeulenProf. Charles R. Wilke


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2005–2006 Donors

Who Increased

Their Support by

10% or more in

2006–2007

Keith and Elaine AlexanderWard and Mary AlterDr. and Mrs. David AltmanDr. Habib AminMyron and Barbara AndrewsDaniel and Shelley ArensonPhillip A. ArmstrongDavid BassCarl M. BerkeJohn H. BirelyDr. Tom A. Bither, Jr., andMrs. Margaret V. Bither

Bud BlueM. Robert BlumConstantine G. BoojamraMarie T. Borin, Ph.D.Mr. and Mrs. Marvin BrafmanR. R. BreckenfeldRobert J. BreuerArdra C. BrodaleDave and Donna BrownTim and Valerie BruemmerCharles BuseJames L. CaleyWilliam and Joyce ChangMargaret and Nai ChenTan-Jen and Li-Fong ChenGregory K. ChowT.Z. and Irmgard ChuShelley ClaridgeRobin D. Clark andMary Mackiernan

Tucker CoughlenDavid C. DarwinClelland R. DownsCarol DunbarArthur K. DunlopErnest Ehnisz, Jr.Dr. Julianne Elward-BerryAlan S. EmanuelDr. Mark R. EtzelWilliam H. EustisJohn FaberaDr. Patricia L. Falcone andFamily

Maria FardisDr. Robert J. FarinaKenneth G. Felton

Bruce A. Firestone, Ph.D.Michael and Mary FlaughWilliam E. Fogle andMarilyn Wun-Fogle

Dr. and Mrs. Howard L. FongMatthew K. FountainReyes M. FragosoCharles and Margaret FrazierPhilip R. FriedelFriends of Eric AbramsonScholarship Fund

Aihua FuKent FungMichael B. GentzlerIndu KheterpalGary M. GoncherG. Douglas and Regina GouldBeth M. GraselMichael L. GreenfieldVirginia-Jane HarrisClayton Heathcock andCheri Hadley

Jessie HerrLouis and Nellie HerringtonDr. Jonathan Z. HoHerbert HooperIrma HrycykZhengjie Hu and Wendy NgMichael R. HullAdrienne IwataWilliam Y. JaAudrey JohnsonRussell D. Johnson, Jr.Dr. and Mrs. Andrew KaldorDr. Max J. KalmAndrea L. KeatonStanley KellyT. P. KingWilliam A. KleschickProf. Judith P. KlinmanJanell KobayashiRoland KoestnerDr. Aaron D. KossoyRomesh KumarJames and Barbara LagoMei Kim Carol LeeJames W. LewisJohn D. LeybaDavid A. LightnerElaina LinS. Randolph LongDick and Myra LynchMichael and Jane MacDonaldProf. Bruce H. Mahan EstateArturo Maimoni

Prof. Samuel and Mrs. LydiaMarkowitz

Gary and Irene MasadaPaul and Julia MathewsMichael J. and Janet KimMcCormick

Karen and Steven McDonaldMichael McKinneyKenneth E. MeekerCharles and Diane MeyerDonald G. MillerMichael MilosMerrill A. MuhsDr. and Mrs. Louie NadyAlbert NarathNate NealeHerb NelsonWalter E. NervikDavid R. NethawayProf. and Mrs. John S.Newman

Joan Friedman Newmark andRichard Newmark

T. W. NewtonAllen NgDouglas J. NgYu Sim NgFelix G. Ngan and Lily M. LeeCaroline NguyenHeino Nitsche andMartha Boccalini

Nancy NoremJohn J. O’BrienKent OpheimRobert J. OuelletteHarlan and StanislavaOverholt, Jr.

Rodney and Jeanne PanosWilliam R. ParrishLeonidas PetrakisDavid B. PhillipsNorman and Paula PhillipsJonathan S. PowellProf. and Mrs. John M.Prausnitz

Jack M. RademacherLanny ReplogleJed L. RichardsonJohn L. RobbinsJune and Gene RobertsScott RocklageKlaus and Mary AnnSaegebarth

Elmer E. SchallenbergDr. and Mrs. Francis J.Schmitz

Nick R. SchottStephen E. SchwartzDrs. Steven Sciamanna andSandy J. Roadcap

Anita J. ShawAlbert E. SherwoodMartin D. ShetlarHugh C. SilcoxSher G. SinghMary F. SingletonRandy SnurrJeffrey P. Solar andRosalyn Furukawa

Judith and Gabor SomorjaiJulie StewartElise C. StoneElaine Blatt StonerDr. James S. SymanskiRex TamKong-Heong TanVazken TashinianSheila E. TaylorRichard M. TeeterBarbara A. TenenbaumAnne Friend ThacherJack ThomasCurtis TongGeorge L. TongDr. J. A. Trainham andDr. L. D. Waters

David UehlingRicardo UnikelRenée van de GriendDale E. Van SickleMathias van ThielRaymond VermeulenJames P. Vokac andStacey T. Baba

Anthony C. Waiss, Jr.Jennifer S. WakitaMark WegnerRobert F. WeimerR. B. Weisenmiller, Ph.D.Willard M. WelchShara C. Williams*Phillip A. WilmarthMr. and Mrs. Arthur T. WincekConnie WongEric K. WongJack WongStephen WorlandLiub-Chii Yang ChenLaura YeeQingqi Yue and Huaixia Yao


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Alumni

Association

Steering Team

Gilbert T. Basbas, B.S. ’04,ChemE

Bud Blue, B.S. ’34, ChemGordon G. Chu, B.S. ’03,ChemE

Laurie J. Dockter, B.A. ’71,Chem

Marissa Drouillard, B.S. ’00,Chem

Mark W. Ellsworth, Ph.D. ’93,Chem

Samuel J. Gillette, Ph.D. ’00,Chem

Lara A. Gundel, Ph.D. ’75,Chem

Deanne C. Krenz, B.S. ’94,Chem

Lawrence B. Perry, B.S. ’56,ChemE

Daisy Y. Quan, B.S. ’47, ChemSteven F. Sciamanna, B.S. ’79,Ph.D. ’86, ChemE

Rebecca Zuckerman, Ph.D’00, Chem

Alumni Era

Volunteers

The following have volun-teered their time in theAlumni Association’s “eragroups.”

G. N. LEWIS ERA: 1945 ANDEARLIER

Bud Blue, B.S. ’34, ChemG. Douglas Gould, B.S. ’42,Chem

CUPOLA ERA: 1946-1963

Frank G. Delfino, B.S. ’51,ChemE

E. Kenneth Hulet, Ph.D. ’53,Chem

David N. Lyon, Ph.D. ’48, ChemMary F. Singleton, M.S. ’59,Chem

THE FREE RADICALS:1964–1979

Laurie J. Dockter, B.A. ’71, ChemRobert P. Hohmann, B.S. ’78,ChemE

Curtis L. Munson, B.S. ’76;Ph.D. ’85, ChemE

Carolyn M. Orelli, B.S. ’70,Chem

Steven F. Sciamanna, B.S. ’79;Ph.D. ’86, ChemE

Bruce E. Stangeland, Ph.D.’67, ChemE

THE CHEMILLENNIUMS:1980–1999

Marilee M. Brooks, M.S. ’88,ChemE

Paul V. Burke, B.S. ’81, ChemEJoel D. Burley, Ph.D. ’91,Chem

Grace F. Chou, Ph.D. ’88,ChemE

Daisy J. Du Bois, Ph.D. ’94,Chem

Mark W. Ellsworth, Ph.D. ’93,Chem

Maria S. Fardis, Ph.D. ’98,Chem

Thomas R. Gadek, Ph.D. ’86,Chem

Deanne C. Krenz, B.S. ’94,Chem

Susan M. Miller, Ph.D. ’83,Chem

Walter H. Moos, Ph.D. ’82,Chem

Alyssa L. Roche, B.S. ’87,ChemE

Steven F. Sciamanna, B.S. ’79,Ph.D. ’86, ChemE

Michael M. H. Yang, B.S. ’92,ChemE

Sheila W. Yeh, B.S. ’80, Ph.D.’86, Chem

YOUNG ALUMNI: 2000 ANDBEYOND

Stephen Chan, B.S. ’01, ChemEMarissa Drouillard, B.S. ’00,Chem

Samuel J. Gillette, Ph.D. ’00,Chem

Rebecca Zuckerman, Ph.D.’00, Chem

Fundraising

Volunteers

The following assisted theCollege in fundraisingefforts in 2006–07.

Andreas AcrivosRichard C. AtkinsonTom A. Bither, Jr., B.S. ’39Bud Blue, B.S. ’34, ChemT. Z. Chu, B.S. ’58, ChemWilliam A. Daniels, B.S. ’56,ChemE

Kai-Ye Fung, B.S. ’79, ChemEWilliam Gerhardt, B.S. ’60,ChemE

G. Douglas Gould, B.S. ’42,Chem

John E. HearstL. Louis Hegedus, Ph.D. ’72,ChemE

Michael C. Kavanaugh, M.S.’64, ChemE

C. Judson KingVirginia Lew, B.S. ’61, ChemRobert Lindquist, Ph.D. ’55,Chem

Robert E. Lundin, Ph.D. ’55,Chem

John H. Markels, Ph.D. ’94,ChemE

Mario J. Molina, Ph.D. ’72,Chem

Joon S. Moon, Ph.D. ’64,ChemE

Jeanne R. PimentelDaisy Quan, B.S. ’47, ChemMilton H. Ritchie, B.S. ’51,Chem

Steven F. Sciamanna, B.S. ’79,Ph.D. ’86, ChemE

Farhang Shadman, M.S. ’69,Ph.D. ’72, ChemE

David H. Templeton, Ph.D.’47, Chem


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volunteers2006-07collegeadvisoryboardJohn H. AbelesMedVest Inc.

Richard C. AlkireM.S. ’65; Ph.D. ’68, ChemEUniversity of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign

William BanholzerDow Chemical Company

Larry BockLux Capital

Nirmal “Chat” ChatterjeeM.S. ’68, Ph.D. ’71, ChemEAir Products and Chemicals(retired)

Carl P. DeciccoBristol-Myers Squibb

Sam H. EletrPh.D. ’68, ChemPopulation Genetics

Stephen P. FodorPost-doc ’91, ChemAffymetrix Inc.

Robert H. GrubbsCalifornia Institute ofTechnology

Victoria F. HaynesB.A. ’69, ChemRTI International

F. Emil JacobsExxonMobil Research andEngineering Company

M. Ross JohnsonPost-doc ’71,ChemParion Sciences, Inc.

Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.B.S. ’41, ChemUC Berkeley

Yuan Tseh LeePh.D. ’65, ChemAcademia Sinica andUC Berkeley

Richard A. LernerScripps Research Institute

Richard M. LevyPh.D. ’65, ChemVarian Medical Systems

John H. MarkelsPh.D. ’94, ChemEMerck & Company

Gary M. MasadaB.A. ’66, ChemChevron Information Technology

Alan MendelsonLatham & Watkins, LLP

Mario J. MolinaPh.D. ’72, ChemUC San Diego

JoAnne StubbePh.D. ’71, ChemMassachusetts Institute ofTechnology

James A. TrainhamB.S. ’73, Ph.D. ’79, ChemEPPG Industries

R. Stanley WilliamsM.S. ’76, Ph.D. ’78, ChemHewlett Packard

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Industrial Friends

Program

Membership in the Collegeof Chemistry IndustrialFriends Program is open toany firm, regardless of sizeor location. Support cancome in the form of unre-stricted funds, departmentalfellowship funds, start-upfunds for non-tenured faculty,support for facilities or sup-port of research of tenuredfaculty.

INDUSTRIAL FRIENDS OFTHE COLLEGE OF CHEMISTRY

Annual contributions of$30,000 or more ($50,000for support of the researchof tenured faculty) that ben-efit the Department ofChemistry and theDepartment of ChemicalEngineering, or the Collegeof Chemistry.

Arkema Inc.Chevron CorporationDow Chemical CompanyMerckRoche Palo AltoRohm and Haas CompanyTyco Electronics

INDUSTRIAL FRIENDS OFTHE DEPARTMENT OFCHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Annual contributions of$15,000 or more ($50,000for the support of a tenuredfaculty member) that bene-fit the Department ofChemical Engineering.

3MAlcon ResearchCiba Vision CorporationCooperVision, Inc.Ford Motor CompanyKLA TencorLam Research CorporationRobert Bosch CorporationSemiconductor ResearchCorporation

Tokyo Electron, Ltd.

INDUSTRIAL FRIENDS OFTHE DEPARTMENT OFCHEMISTRY

Annual contributions of$15,000 or more ($50,000for the support of a tenuredfaculty member) that bene-fit the Department ofChemistry

Abbott LaboratoriesAmgen, Inc.AstraZenecaBoehringer Ingelheim PharmaBristol-Myers SquibbCrystalGenomicsDuPontElan PharmaceuticalsEli Lilly and CompanyGilead

GlaxoSmithKlineNovartis Institutes forBiomedical Research, Inc.

NuvoMetrix, Inc.Pfizer Inc.SchlumbergerTheravance

Gifts of $100,000

and more

American Cancer SocietyBristol-Myers SquibbBurroughs Wellcome FundCamille and Henry DreyfusFoundation

Eli Lilly and CompanyGilead SciencesJane Coffin Childs MemorialFund

Lam ResearchNovartis Institutes forBiomedical Research, Inc.

Gifts of $50,000 to

$99,000

American Heart AssociationBoehringer Ingelheim PharmaChevron CorporationCiba Vision CorporationCrystalGenomicsDuPontGlaxoSmithKlineRobert Bosch CorporationRohm and Haas CompanyTyco Electronics

Gifts of $25,000 to

$49,000

3MAbbott LaboratoriesAmerican Chemical Society,Division of OrganicChemistry

American Chemical Society,Petroleum Research Fund

Amgen, Inc.Arkema Inc.CooperVision, Inc.Dow Chemical CompanyFord Motor CompanyGenentech Inc.Max Kade FoundationMerckRoche Palo AltoSchlumbergerSemiconductor ResearchCorporation

Tokyo Electron Ltd.

Gifts up to $24,999

BP InternationalDainippon Sumitomo PharmaCompany, Ltd.

ExxonMobilHoltzbrinck PublishingHoldings

Johnson Matthey Inc.Ono Pharmaceutical Co. LtdOnWafer Technologies, Inc.Organic Syntheses, Inc.Pfizer Inc.Philip Morris U.S.A.Procter & Gamble Company


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corporate, foundation andorganizational gifts It is our pleasure to acknowledge the

many companies and other organizations that continue to invest in the college’s future. These

donations represent a major source of funding for our graduate, research and teaching programs.

Contributions for 2006–07 are listed below.

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Royal Society of ChemistrySangamo Biosciences IncSpringer-Verlag New YorkStatoilTheravance, Inc.

Matching Gifts

3M Foundation, Inc.A T & T FoundationAdvanced Micro DevicesAEP Service CorporationAgilent TechnologiesAir Products & Chemicals Inc.Allstate InsuranceAltria Inc.Amgen FoundationApplera CorporationAutodesk Inc.Avon ProductsBeckman CoulterBoeing CompanyBP Amoco Foundation, Inc.Bridgestone/Firestone TrustFund

Bristol-Myers SquibbChevron CorporationClorox Company FoundationConocoPhillipsDow Chemical USAEli Lilly and CompanyFoundation

Elsevier FoundationExxonMobil FoundationFidelity FoundationFluor CorporationGenCorp Foundation Inc.GenentechGeneral Electric FoundationGeneral Motors FoundationGeorgia PowerGlaxoSmithKlineHess CorporationHospiraIBM CorporationIFF Foundation

Illinois Tool WorksFoundation

Intel FoundationJohnson & JohnsonJohnson Controls FoundationLockheed MartinLongs DrugsLyondell Chemical Co.MedtronicMenasha Corp FoundationMerckMonsanto FundNational Starch


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Lam Research staff visit the college to discuss partnership opportunities. From left to right, EdwinSum (B.S. ’78, ChemE), Product Development Program director Keith Alexander (Ph.D. ’83, ChemE),Thalia Kong (B.S. ’95, ChemE), Eric Hudson (Ph.D. ’93, Chem), dean Charles Harris, chemicalengineering chair Jeff Reimer and Rick Gottscho.

Northrop Grumman CorpOSIsoftPepsiCoPfizer Inc.Pharmacia & UpjohnFoundation

Pioneer Hi-Bred InternationalPNM FoundationRaytheon CompanySan Diego Gas & ElectricSchering-Plough CorporationShell Oil CompanyFoundation

SpansionState FarmSun MicrosystemsTakedaTektronix FoundationValero Energy CorporationWalt Disney Company FoundationWashington Group FoundationWells FargoWyeth (American Home ProductsCorporation)

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forms of giving

benefits for the college — and for the donors

Many different kinds of gifts can benefit bothyou and the University. Some of them canoffer particular estate planning advantages,including income for life. Our professionalstaff would be pleased to discuss these giftvehicles with you; however, the Universityurges you also to consult your attorney orfinancial advisor.

If you wish your gift to benefit the college,any legal documents or instructions shouldspecify that the gift is for the College ofChemistry (or the Department of Chemistryor the Department of Chemical Engineering)at the University of California, Berkeley.

CA SH Checks should be made payableto the UC Berkeley Foundation (UCBF),with a notation designating the name ofthe fund. Gifts to memorial funds shouldbe made payable to the specific fund.Contributions may also be made with yourVisa or MasterCard credit card by phone(510/642.8782), or online athttp://chemistry.berkeley.edu/givetochem.

S ECUR I T I E S In most cases, gifts ofappreciated securities may be deducted atfull market value as of the date you makethe gift, and the donor does not have to paycapital gains taxes. Gifts of appreciatedstock are most easily handled by the UCBerkeley Foundation and should not besold prior to transfer. You or your brokermay contact Assistant Dean Jane Scheiberin the college (510/642.8782) or Ms. SylviaWorthington, Securities Steward inUniversity Relations (510/642.4123), forfurther information. Stock can often betransferred electronically. If you wish togive a gift of depreciated stock, you shouldfirst sell it and give the proceeds to the

Foundation. You can then use the loss tooffset any gains and also claim a charitablededuction.

R EA L E S TAT E Gifts of real property maybe deeded to UC Berkeley for the benefit ofthe College of Chemistry, providing signifi-cant tax advantages to the donor in mostcases. It is also possible to deed a propertyto the University and continue to occupy itfor life.

L I F E INCOME G I F T S A number ofoptions are available by which you maytransfer assets to a trust (to be managedeither by the University or a trustee of yourchoosing) and receive income for yourselfand/or a designated beneficiary for life, aswell as immediate tax benefits. The collegeultimately receives the trust property.

B EQUES T S A fixed amount or a per-centage of your estate may be designatedfor the benefit of the College of Chemistryin your will or living trust.

MATCH ING G I F T S Hundreds offirms match their employees’ (and some-times retirees’) contributions on a 1:1, 2:1or even 3:1 basis. If your company has sucha policy, forms—hard copy or electronic—to assure that your gift will be matchedcan be obtained from your personnel oremployee relations office. Matching giftsare added to your individual gift indetermining the donor club to whichyou belong.

I R A ROL LOVER S Until December 31,2007, you can transfer a gift from yourIRA account directly to the UC BerkeleyFoundation without first paying taxes—if you will be 70 1/2 or older by that date.For further information, contact JaneScheiber at 510/642.8782.

giving to the college of chemistry

college funds

THE ANNUAL FUND provides essen-tial monies that can be used, at the discretionof the dean or of the chairs, to meet needsthat are not supported by the state budget.These unrestricted funds are particularlyvaluable because of their flexibility. Theannual fund is vital for financing ongoingprograms and special projects.

ENDOWED FUNDS provide a perma-nent source of income to meet the needsof faculty and students in perpetuity.

MEMOR I A L FUNDS commemorateindividuals while benefiting the Collegeand the Departments of Chemistry andChemical Engineering. Memorial fundsinclude those honoring Samuel Abrahams,Eric Abramson, Leo A. Berti, DonaldBlakely, Benjamin Boussert, Gary E.Brodale, Charles J. Busso, Melvin Calvin,Cynthia Ann Chan, William Dauben,Shirley DeBuhr, A. B. Falcone, Irving Fatt,William Gwinn, Heinz Heinemann, JoelHildebrand, Bruce Howard, Frederick“Fritz” Jensen, Margaret Jorgenson, G. N.Lewis, Bruce Mahan, Kristin Malmquist,Earl Muetterties, Eugene E. Petersen,George Pimentel, Kenneth S. Pitzer,William H. and Mary Rees, Samuel Ruben,Erich O. and Elly Saegebarth, Glenn T.Seaborg, Mitchel Shen,Vincent JamesStarr, Stanley G. Thompson, CharlesWilke, and Theodore Vermeulen.Donations may also be given to the annualfund in memory or in honor of an individ-ual, and the college will notify the familythat a contribution has been made.

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THE REPORT OF PRIVATE GIVINGCOLLEGE OF CHEMISTRY 2006–2007

The preceding report acknowledges alldonors to the College of Chemistryfrom July 1, 2006 through June 30,2007. We have made every attempt toinclude all donors accurately. We apol-ogize for any errors or omissions andwould appreciate hearing from youwith any comments or correctionsregarding the publication.

assistant deanJane Scheiber

editorMichael Barnes

director of developmentMindy Rex

director of annual giving andcorporate and foundation relations

Nancy Johnsen Horton

development services managerDorothy Isaacson Read

For further information about giving to theCollege of Chemistry, please contact

College RelationsCollege of Chemistry #1460University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley, CA 94720-1460Phone: 510/642.8782Fax: 510/642.4419Email: [email protected]

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With th is le t te r, da ted January 8 , 1957 ,chemical engineering’s Charles Tobias welcomes GaborSomorjai to UC Berkeley. Somorjai, a student leader inthe 1956 Hungarian Revolution, had escaped to thewest just a few months earlier with his sister, Marietta,and his girlfriend (and later wife), Judith Kaldor.

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Cupola Era Alumni LuncheonFebruary/March

Watch for a separate mailing with details of this event.

Cal DayApril 12 This annual campus-wide open house has something for

everyone! As the date draws near, check outBerkeley.edu/calday for a complete listing of the events.

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+ Update!The campus now has an online calendar networkwhich will make it easier to find events of your spe-cial interest! Go to events.berkeley.edu to view thewide array of programs and events on campus.And remember, College of Chemistry events can befound at chemistry.berkeley.edu – select Seminarsand Events.

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