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COLLEGE OF CHEMISTRY • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
John Arnold and the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry Doug Clark on Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering The Department of Chemistry welcomes Naomi Ginsberg
This ain’t no fooling around
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ON THE COVER
The cover image shows chem-
istry professor and Nobel
Laureate Y. T. Lee, circa 1980,
in the foreground. In the yel-
low shirt is graduate student
Daniel Neumark, now the
chair of the chemistry depart-
ment. Also shown in the photo are Alec Wodtke
(left), the director of the Max Planck Institute for
Biophysical Chemistry, and Gary Robinson (rear),
the founder and chief business officer for Celek
Pharmaceuticals.
Recently, a barely legible photocopy of this photo was
discovered in the Neumark lab. Pursuing a hunch,
the Catalyst editor sent the image to LBNL photog-
rapher Roy Kaltschmidt. He searched through the
lab’s photo archives and found the original negative.
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4 CHEMISTRY NEWS
5 CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR
ENGINEERING NEWS
6 FACULTY PROFILE
10 What’s in a name?
18 NEW & NOTABLE
20 NEW FACULTY PROFILE
22 CLASS NOTES
24 IN MEMORIAM
28 DONOR PROFILE
29 ANNUAL REPORT
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d e a n ’ s d e s k
As the fall semester comes to a close, I am
happy to report on another successful year
in the College of Chemistry. Most notably,
the high placement of our two departments
in the recent National Research Council
national rankings of graduate programs
was a tremendous endorsement of our
research excellence. Well done, Chemistry
and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering!
We have also continued to make significant
progress on our renewal of the undergradu-
ate teaching laboratories and infrastructure.
Over the summer, our excellent facilities
and shops personnel performed a major
overhaul of one of our Chem 4 labs in
Latimer Hall—the bright, clean, and effi-
cient space is already being used to full
capacity by our undergraduate majors.
Thanks to our many generous donors,
especially alumni, we now have resources
to initiate this next important phase of the
lab renewal project.
In other news, the Berkeley Center for
Green Chemistry has now been officially
launched. Under the auspices of the
Berkeley Institute for the Environment,
and directed by chemistry professor John
Arnold, the center focuses on an interdis-
ciplinary approach to sustainable chemical
practices, together with the School of Public
Health, the College of Natural Resources,
and the Haas School of Business. Our
emphasis is on multidisciplinary research
and instruction at the undergraduate and
graduate levels in the principles and prac-
tice of green chemistry and chemical
sustainability. (For more information about
the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry,
please see p. 9.)
Sustaining excellence
RICHARD A. MATHIESDean and Gilbert N. Lewis Professor
I am also delighted to announce that we
have hired three outstanding new assis-
tant professors in the college—physical
chemists Tanja Cuk and Naomi Ginsberg,
whose labs are in Hildebrand Hall, and
biochemist David Savage, who has a joint
appointment with the Department of
Molecular and Cell Biology. These newly
hired faculty members represent the
college’s commitment to maintaining the
strongest physical chemistry program in
the world, as well as encouraging the inter-
disciplinary fields of biochemistry and
chemical biology.
I want to recognize faculty members Judith
Klinman, Sung-Hou Kim and William
Lester, who retired this year, but will con-
tinue their research and instructional
activities in the college as professors of the
graduate school.
I wish you all the best in 2011, and I hope
you will stay connected with and support
our great College of Chemistry in the
coming year.
The labs in Lewis Hall glow at dusk on a summer night. In the background is Stanley Hall.
As the new chair of the Department of
Chemistry, the first question that I have
to answer (for myself, my family and my
colleagues) is why am I doing this?
In my case, I feel a deep loyalty and sense
of obligation to the department in which
I have spent almost my entire adult life,
starting from 1978 when I was a Ph.D.
student with Yuan Lee and continuing in
1986 when I joined the faculty as an assis-
tant professor. The Berkeley chemistry
department is a unique and special place,
and as chair, it’s my job to keep it that way.
How special is our department? In the
recent National Research Council rankings,
we are the top-ranked chemistry department
in the “R” ranking scheme by a comfortable
margin and ranked third in the “S” ranking
scheme (which takes no account of the fact
that we grant more doctoral degrees than
any department in the country).
This high ranking is gratifying, to say the
least, especially in light of the bad press
that California and its university system
have been receiving in recent years, and
it reflects the efforts of previous chairs to
recruit the world’s best faculty and to retain
them in the face of lucrative offers from
our competitors. Our ranking also reflects
our close ties with Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory, with which we have
a highly mutually beneficial relationship.
How do we insure that we remain in this
lofty position? The demographics of our
department reveal considerable challenges
and opportunities in the coming years. If
we look at the age distribution of our fac-
ulty in 10-year intervals, the largest group
(36 percent) is in the 60+ age range. This
group includes many colleagues who are
considered the core of the department.
As our most senior colleagues retire, we will
need to engage in aggressive recruiting at
both the junior and senior levels to maintain
our quality. Mike Marletta made significant
progress toward this goal, particularly in
his last year as chair, when he hired three
junior faculty: Naomi Ginsberg, Tanja Cuk,
and David Savage. I plan to continue in this
vein. We currently have a junior search under
c h e m i s t r y n e w s
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DANIEL M. NEUMARKChair, Department of Chemistry, Joel B. Hildebrand Distinguished Professor
way as well as a senior recruiting effort, and
I hope to be able to hire at least two new
faculty members per year during my tenure.
A second challenge we face as a depart-
ment is space and facilities. When I visit
other chemistry departments in the U.S.,
I am struck by how many of them are in
new buildings with top-notch laboratory
and office space. Our facilities are clearly
showing their age, and to be competitive in
faculty recruiting and retention, we need to
undertake systematic renovations of exist-
ing space and formulate a coherent plan for
new space. I look forward to working with
Dean Mathies to push ahead on this front.
To all who ask, I am very much aware of
the challenges ahead, but I am enjoying my
new job and I look forward to the opportu-
nities that lie ahead.
by daniel m. neumark
Berkeley’s chemistry department retains its top position in the “R” ranking of the National Research Council. This ranking places higher weight on the size of the doctoral program than the alternative “S” ranking.
Having fun, meeting challenges: Keeping Berkeley chemistry the best
R ranking low R ranking high
University of California-Berkeley 1 2
Harvard University 2 8
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2 8
California Institute of Technology 2 9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3 13
Stanford University 4 14
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 4 14
Northwestern University 2 17
Penn State University 4 17
Yale University 6 24
nrc graduate chemistry rankings
Note: Rankings are estimated to fall within the range determined by the low
to high estimates.
Source: National Research Council
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JEFFREY A. REIMERChair, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Warren and Katharine Schlinger Distinguished Professor
The academic world is abuzz this season
because the National Research Council
(NRC) has released its new findings on the
quality of doctoral programs in the United
States.
Previous NRC findings, published first in
the 1980s, then again in the 1990s, were
largely based upon survey data. For its lat-
est rankings, the NRC has rolled out a new
methodology, a decade in the making, that
represents the first attempt by the NRC to
use institutional, bibliographic, and sur-
vey data along with sophisticated statistical
analyses. The Berkeley campus continues
to do well in these NRC rankings, as does
our Department of Chemical and Biomo-
lecular Engineering (CBE).
What is striking to me, however, is that the
NRC rankings do not provide a numerical
metric or score for the quality of the doc-
toral students. There appears to be a tacit
assumption in the academic community
that student quality is tied to faculty quality.
Institutional quality then follows from fac-
ulty performance metrics, with no need to
acknowledge student quality.
It is not clear to me that this connection
is necessarily so, and indeed I can think
of several examples where student quality
either lags or leads faculty quality by a
significant margin. What helps sustain
Berkeley’s greatness is not contained in the
NRC categories, but should be: our superb
graduate students. This sentiment is captured
succinctly by the now-famous quote from
Nobel Laureate Y.T. Lee, “I came to Berkeley
in 1962 to pursue my graduate studies
because Berkeley had the best professors in
the world. I returned in 1974 as a professor
because we have the best students.”
When I was an associate dean in the Grad-
uate Division from 2000–05, I had the
privilege of engaging one cohort of Berkeley’s
Fulbright scholars, doctoral students who
had studied throughout the world as a result
of this highly competitive fellowship. I heard
inspiring work about such diverse topics as
gender in Javanese dance and the archeol-
ogy of African masks. These and a panoply
of other topics were brought to life by the
Fulbright emerging scholars, with compel-
ling analyses that connected their research
to societal issues of our modern world.
I now serve on an Academic Senate com-
mittee that provides outstanding teaching
awards for campus GSIs. These inspired
instructors have developed new labs,
designed field research, implemented mul-
timedia programs and illustrated principles
with insightful physical and mathematical
models.
CBE enjoys no less of an overabundance
of extraordinary emerging scholars. For
example, our applicant-to-admit ratio is
about ten-to-one, and one-third of our
incoming students have extramural
fellowships. A reading of the résumés of
admitted students reveals award-winning
poets, musicians and community service
volunteers, in addition to high academic
achievement.
CBE student excellence is also manifest
in their professional outcomes. Not only
do our graduates excel in their pursuit of
competitive faculty positions, they also
consistently work their way into leading
industrial positions, including chief techni-
cal officers, vice-presidents and founders of
hugely successful companies.
Berkeley’s NRC rankings, as well as those
of CBE, are certainly well-earned, but the
quality and achievements of our students
are perhaps better metrics of excellence in
research, teaching and public service.
by jeffrey a. reimer
On program rankings and having the best students
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering graduate student Katie Pfeiffer (right) demonstrates how to use an incubator as a GSI for the undergraduate Biochemical Engineering course. Pfeiffer was one of seven GSIs to win a teaching award in the department this year.
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Chemistry’s man for all seasons
At UC San Diego in 1982, a young chemistry
graduate student walked into his first class-
room as a teaching assistant. Just a few
weeks from the day he had arrived from
Manchester, England, he began to address
his students in his native Mancunian
accent. The awkward silence in the class-
room made him quickly realize that they
could not understand what he was saying.
It was the beginning of one of many adven-
tures for Berkeley professor and synthetic
chemist John Arnold, who has traveled far
from his working-class roots in the north of
England, yet maintains the down-to-earth,
no-fuss manner of a man who was support-
ing himself by age 16.
Born in 1959 in Chorley, now a suburb of
Manchester, Arnold moved with his family
at age 10 to Lancaster, about 40 miles to
the north. He left Bentham Grammar
School at 16, and instead of staying on for
his A levels (roughly the equivalent of the
junior and senior years of U.S. high school,
followed by the SATs), he started work in a
factory and enrolled in technical school.
“In 1975,” says Arnold, “I made 23 quid a
week, gave five to Mum for food, and taxes
took another five. I lived on the remainder.
Four days a week I worked at the Storey
Brother’s plastics factory in Lancaster. I
spent one full day, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and
one evening after work at the local techni-
cal school, the Lancaster and Morecambe
College of Further Education. My brother
studied there to be a mechanic, and my
sister to be a hairdresser.”
Storey Brothers and Co. had flourished
during the Victorian era as a cotton mill
that produced sailcloth and other fabrics.
By the time Arnold began working for the
company in 1975, it was making PVC plas-
tic sheeting for shelving material, notebook
covers and automobile seats. The factory
closed its doors in 1982.
“The old Storey Brothers factory was an
amazing place,” recalls Arnold, “a hot,
smelly, old-fashioned mill staffed by a cast
of characters right out of a British sitcom.
We measured our chemicals by the bucket.
I was responsible for running a small PVC
mill to determine the right amount of
pigments to use to match the color samples
provided by customers. It was not an exact
science, and to the chagrin of the managers,
sometimes I didn’t get it quite right.”
What Arnold did get right was his school-
work. He earned the highest marks in his
classes at tech school and was accepted
to the University of Salford in greater
Manchester. “But I couldn’t afford it on
my own,” says Arnold.
(above) This molecule was made by Joe Schmidt (now a chemistry professor at the University of Toledo, OH) when he was a grad student in the Arnold lab. It is an example of an unusual com-plex with an alkylidene ligand coordinated to both lithium and tantalum.
(left) Chemistry professor John Arnold with some tools of the trade—molecular models, a copy of the scientific journal Dalton Transactions (for which he is the Editor for the Americas), and a jar of beads of uranium glass, yellow-green glass that has been used since Roman times for decorative glassware.
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Instead, Arnold continued working at Storey
Brothers and attended tech school to earn
what was called the Higher National Certifi-
cate (similar to a two-year AA degree in the
United States). After two years, certificate
in hand, he took advantage of an arrange-
ment between Salford and Storey Brothers
that allowed him to earn his undergraduate
degree in applied chemistry in three more
years. “For two years I worked full-time at
the factory for half the year and attended
the University of Salford for the other half.
During the final year I attended Salford
fulltime and graduated at age 23.”
Living in Manchester, Arnold was able to
indulge his love of what Americans call
soccer, but for the rest of the world is foot-
ball. He lived just across the River Irwell
from the Cliff Ground, the training field for
the Manchester United football club. From
there he could jump on a bus to United’s
Old Trafford stadium.
“For five quid you could get a ticket for one
of the paddocks,” says Arnold, “which back
then didn’t have seats. You had to stand. It
was fantastic, walking up to Old Trafford
for a night game with thousands of fans,
seeing the bright green pitch under the
lights.” Manchester remains one the
meccas of football. Today the redesigned
Old Trafford seats 76,000 spectators.
In his final year at Salford, Arnold worked
in the campus’s radiochemistry lab, the
“hot block.” There he began working with
ruthenium 106, an interesting but unwanted
byproduct of nuclear materials reprocessing.
“As an undergraduate,” says Arnold, “I
worked on making radioactive ruthenium
tetraoxide, which is a highly volatile oxi-
dizing agent. Today there is no way that a
student would be allowed to work on such
a dangerous chemical.”
But he survived the experience and learned
something valuable in the process—he
didn’t want to return to industry. He wanted
to stay in academia and continue to work
on transition metal chemistry.
In 1986 Arnold completed his dissertation,
“Synthesis, structure, and reactivity of silyl
derivatives of tantalum and niobium.”
He landed a postdoc at Imperial College
in London with Geoffrey Wilkinson, who
had won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in
1973. Wilkinson had ties to UC Berkeley,
including his postdoc with Glenn Seaborg
from 1946–50. Wilkinson had also been
the postdoc advisor for Berkeley chemistry
professor Richard Andersen from 1974–76.
Arnold was accompanied by his girlfriend
Jenny, whom he had met at UC San Diego
in 1983. She had transferred to Berkeley
in 1984 and then began studying for her
Masters degree in art history at the University
of London. The two were married in San
Francisco in 1998 and now have two
children, Emily and William.
“Imperial College was in ‘South Ken,’ a
great London neighborhood,” says Arnold.
“For the first year we lived nearby in Chelsea,
in a basement flat on Oakley Street near
the Thames, then in a small house around
the corner for the second year.”
South Kensington was a far cry from the cities
and towns of the industrial north. Home of
many of London’s great museums and book-
shops, South Kensington was charming yet
just affordable on an Imperial College
salary, although since then it has become
a favorite of wealthy foreign expatriates.
For Arnold, one downside of the neigh-
borhood was its proximity to the stadium
of the Chelsea football club, a perennial
rival to his hometown team, Manchester
United. “There was a series of games in the
late ’60s when Chelsea beat United home
and away, none of which endeared me to
them,” he recalls.
Meanwhile, the chemistry research with
Wilkinson was going well. Arnold says of
his mentor, “He had this enormous enthu-
siasm for chemistry, and he gave me lots of
freedom. Total blue-sky research. He was a
Yorkshireman, very straightforward, and I
let him know on the first day that my goal
What came next was pure serendipity. As
Arnold tells it, “Salford had sent a student
off to graduate school at UC San Diego,
and he had been a success. A faculty mem-
ber at Salford got a letter from San Diego
saying, ‘Send us another one.’ When they
asked me if I wanted to go I said, ‘Sure!’
Then I immediately went to the library for
an atlas to find out where San Diego was.”
Arnold spent several weeks over the summer
waiting tables and washing dishes at the
motorway services near Burton-in-Kendall
on the M6, and, as the fall rolled around,
bought himself two suitcases and a one-way
ticket to the United States. He boarded a
train to London’s Gatwick airport, and from
there a DC-10 flew him to New York. It was
only the second time he had ever been on
an airplane.
In San Diego Arnold rented a room in a
converted garage and fell in love with the
town and its balmy weather. Although he
wanted to do transition metal chemistry,
his struggles to find an advisor weren’t
solved until the arrival in the fall of 1983
of a new assistant professor, Don Tilley.
Tilley had earned his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley
with Richard Andersen and had just
returned from a postdoc at ETH Zurich.
Arnold was Tilley’s first graduate student,
and together they set about building a lab.
“It was a lot of hands-on work,” Arnold
recalls. “Don was super bright and had
good ideas. We worked in the lab day and
night. By the third year I got the hang of it,
and we produced lots of papers.”
Tilley returned to Berkeley in 1994 as a
chemistry professor. Says Tilley of those
early years in San Diego, “John was great
to have as a first student—his training in
technical chemistry and his experience
in industry were quite valuable as we were
setting up the new labs. He was very
enthusiastic about inorganic synthesis and
exploring new systems. He also played an
important role in training newer students
as they came along.”
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was to return to the U.S. after working with
him. He accepted that.
“Even though I landed a Royal Society fel-
lowship in 1988 and could have stayed on
at Imperial, I had already begun looking for
jobs in the U.S. I got some nice offers and
began at Berkeley in the summer of 1989.
I started in 204A Lewis, which has been a
lucky lab for its researchers, and with the
help of glassblower Tom Lawhead I was up
and running and making stuff my second
week here.”
Arnold has been making stuff ever since.
The focus of his earlier work in the ’90s
was on organometallic chemistry and
catalysis—focusing on understanding
the fundamental chemical principals that
formed the basis for catalytic processes
in general.
The Arnold lab’s recent work has expanded
into areas relating to energy and the envi-
ronment. They are working on developing
new fuel cell catalysts, are investigating
new reactivity with early transition metals
and actinides, and are attempting to use
nitrous oxide (N2O) in clean, catalytic
reactions.
Since 2000, Arnold has been the Associate
Editor for the Americas for Dalton Trans-actions, the Royal Society of Chemistry’s
flagship journal of inorganic chemistry.
“It’s been my honor to serve in this posi-
tion and to watch the journal grow in size
and stature,” says Arnold. “This job has
taught me a lot about how publishing
works, and it’s been interesting to be in on
the transformation from paper to electronic
publishing.”
Arnold has exhibited a deft touch not only
for journal editing and synthetic chemistry,
but for working with students as well. He
won departmental teaching awards in 1994
and 2007. It is through listening to his
students that Arnold became involved in
the efforts on campus to develop more
sustainable, “green” chemistry practices.
As the first director of the new Berkeley
Center for Green Chemistry, he is quick
to acknowledge his students. “The origin
of the center is not the result of top-down
decisions, but the bottom-up interest of our
students,” says Arnold. “Marty Mulvihill,
who was a joint student with Peidong Yang
and myself, was a major force through his
work in establishing the green chemistry
graduate seminar course, and Dean Rich
Mathies deserves a lot of credit for helping
to make the center happen.”
For Arnold, green chemistry is a philoso-
phy not so much about what to make, but
how to do it. He explains, “It’s about doing
chemistry properly from start to finish, from
using renewable inputs, to combining them
in ways that use less energy and produce
less toxic waste, to creating a product with
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A complex made by Stefan Minasian when he was a member of the Arnold group. He is now a postdoc with a joint position at Lawrence Berkeley and Los Alamos National Laboratories. It was the first example of an actinide metal bound to a group 13 element.
Arnold (third from left) in the quantitative inorganic lab class at Lancaster and Morecambe College of Further Education in 1977.
Arnold (fourth from left) at age 16 in 1975 in the factory at Storey Brothers in Manchester, England. The group is standing by a two-roll mill that they used to prepare pigment and stabilizer compounds as additives to PVC.
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a long life that can be recycled or biode-
graded naturally.”
For now the new green chemistry center is
attempting to pull itself up by its own boot-
straps. Says Arnold, “The big government
funding agencies and private foundations
often have in mind specific projects with
specific goals. They are less likely to part
with their money to fund general operating
expenses of a new center.” The center has
received start-up funding from a generous
private donor and a large grant from the
California Environmental Protection Agency.
So once again John Arnold finds himself
launched on a new adventure, although
one on a familiar trajectory, and one that
a scrappy kid from the north of England
could understand—leaving behind gritty
and dangerous chemical practices, striv-
ing to find the scientific principles to make
new stuff in new ways, and
struggling to cobble together
the funding to do so.
And at the end of a busy week,
after the courses have been
taught, the graduate students
advised, the journal articles
reviewed, the next phase of
the green chemistry center
planned, after he has shuttled
his own kids back and forth to
soccer practice, perhaps there
will be a chance to turn on the
telly, survey the bright green of
the football pitch at Old Traf-
ford, and catch up with the Red
Devils of Manchester United.
The Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry is a center under the Berkeley Institute of the Environment, and is the nation’s
first major academic program to advance green chemistry through interdis-
ciplinary scholarship. It consists of faculty, researchers, and students in the
College of Chemistry, School of Public Health, College of Engineering, College
of Natural Resources, Haas School of Business and Berkeley Law.
Every day, the U.S. produces or imports 74 billion pounds of chemical sub-
stances for use in products and industrial processes. These substances
ultimately enter Earth’s environment, and hundreds of chemicals are routinely
detected in people and ecosystems worldwide. While synthetic chemicals have
delivered critical advances in medicine and technology, many of these sub-
stances are known to be hazardous. Green chemistry can ensure that the next
generation of chemicals provides for society’s needs while also safeguarding
ecosystem integrity and human health.
Green Chemistry requires fundamentally new ways of thinking about chemical
design, health and environmental risk, as well as the public policies and eco-
nomic drivers of change. The BCGC is designing new curriculum, supporting
technological innovation, and engaging the public discourse to create the
knowledge, technologies and policies necessary for a sustainable future. The
center is committed to advancing safer chemistry by partnering with chemical
producers and users throughout the supply chain, government agencies and
non-profit organizations.
director
Prof. John ArnoldCollege of Chemistry
integrative sciences and
systems studies
Dr. Michael P. WilsonCenter for Occupational and
Environmental Health School of Public Health
business & economics
Prof. Chris RosenHaas School of Business
new chemistries
Prof. Robert BergmanCollege of Chemistry
health & environment
Dr. Megan SchwarzmanCenter for Occupational and
Environmental Health School of Public Health
policy & law
Prof. Alastair IlesSociety & Environment
College of Natural Resources
education & outreach
Dr. Martin MulvihillSchool of Public Health
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College undergrads Casey Finnerty, Ashley Scott and Amanda Polley work with BCGC’s Marty Mulvihill on new green chemistry lab modules for undergrad chemistry courses.
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or some people, the city of Pittsburgh still evokes a tough indus-
trial town that named its National Football League team after the
main occupation of its workforce—making steel. Douglas Clark,
chemical and biomolecular engineering professor, was born and raised
in the town of New Kensington, PA, 20 miles up the Allegheny River
from Pittsburgh.
During his life Clark has witnessed the transformation of Pittsburgh
from a blue-collar steel town to a city with a diverse economy based
on health care and technology. “Oddly enough,” he says, “in some
ways Pittsburgh isn’t so different from San Francisco—it’s a city
known for its bridges, with a distinctive skyline and a spectacular
geographic setting. And the coffee is getting better, too.”
Just as he has watched Pittsburgh’s transformation, Clark has wit-
nessed a revolution in chemical engineering—from a field focused
on the petrochemical industry to one that is being transformed
by biology. Here at Berkeley, that change has ultimately resulted
in a new name for the chemical engineering department, the
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
Clark has not merely been a witness to this transformation, he
has been an active participant in it since his days as a graduate
student at Caltech in the early 1980s. In the 24 years that Clark
has worked at Berkeley, his research interests have spanned a
breadth of topics that provide a good sample of how the field
of chemical engineering has changed. Says Clark, “Looking
back over the changes of the last two decades, I think it is
important to acknowledge this transformation by updating
the department’s name.”
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What’s in a name?Douglas Clark on
biomolecular engineering
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College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
Clark graduated from high school in New Kensington in 1975
and headed to the University of Vermont—not on the strength of its
chemistry program, but on the strength of its hockey team. “It turns
out I was not destined to be a hockey star,” says Clark, “but I did
discover chemistry along the way.”
In a strange twist of fate, while at UVM Clark took a course on
military history from a professor named Elmer Gaden. Although
Clark did not know it at the time, Gaden was a pioneering biochemical
engineer who had worked at Pfizer on penicillin production and
had established the biochemical engineering program at Columbia
University in New York City.
In 1959, Gaden had become the first editor of the research journal
Biotechnology and Bioengineering. Clark would take over as the journal’s
editor in 1996, a position he still holds. (Clark interviewed Gaden
in 2009, and the video is available on Youtube: www.youtube.com,
search for “Elmer Gaden.”)
During two of his undergrad summers, Clark returned to
Pennsylvania to work at the University of Pittsburgh, where he
performed research in the lab of synthetic organic chemist Paul
Grieco. “That was excellent training, and closer to the mark than
professional hockey, but synthetic organic chemistry wasn’t exactly
my calling, either,” he says. He graduated with a B.S. in chemistry
from UVM in 1979 and began to look for grad schools.
Clark visited the major programs—chemistry at Harvard and
Berkeley, and chemical engineering at Caltech and Stanford. Clark’s
father was an engineer, and Clark liked the broad perspective of
engineering, with its emphasis on problem-solving skills and the
production of useful products. But the transition from chemistry to
chemical engineering would turn out to be tough.
“I was having a hard time making up my mind,” says Clark.
“What tipped the balance for me was a Time magazine article from
November 1978, that portrayed Caltech as a dynamic and exciting
place, which certainly proved to be true. But the magazine didn’t say
anything about the hard work.”
Caltech admitted Clark into its chemical engineering program in
the fall of 1979. The department was impressed with Clark’s under-
graduate work and his research experience. He was the first student
admitted to the chemical engineering graduate program without a
ChemE undergrad degree.
“At Caltech,” says Clark, “the preliminary exams came at the end
of the first year, so that gave me about nine months to get caught up.
There were times during that year when I would take a graduate level
course and then take the undergrad prerequisite afterwards, which
made for an interesting learning experience.”
Clark’s hard work paid off at the end of his first year with the
arrival of James (Jay) Bailey, whom Caltech had lured away from
The late Caltech biomolecular engineer Jay Bailey (left) and Berkeley biomolecular engineer Doug Clark, Bailey’s first graduate student at Caltech. Between them is sample of Bailey’s notes on Clark’s research.
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the University of Houston. “Jay Bailey,” says Clark, “was one of the
first chemical engineers to understand how important biology would
become.” In 1977, Bailey had completed Biochemical Engineering Fundamentals, the first biochemical engineering textbook in the
emerging field.
When the idea of working with Bailey
was suggested, Clark introduced himself
to Bailey by phone, and Bailey responded
by sending him a six-page handwritten
letter. “For some reason,” says Clark wryly,
“the Caltech faculty thought my undergrad
chemistry background might have included
biochemistry, and that would make me
a better candidate for working in the bio-
logical realm. They were wrong about the
background but in retrospect, I am grateful for the opportunity.”
Bailey accepted the arrangement sight unseen, and when he
arrived at Caltech in the spring of 1980, Clark became his first Caltech
graduate student. Says Clark, “It was a good match, and I’ll always
be grateful for the time I got to spend working with him. He was a
real innovator, and it was a shock to many of us when he died—far
too young—from cancer in 2001.”
Clark wrote his dissertation with Bailey on immobilized enzymes.
“Enzymes are nature’s catalysts,” he says. “Not all enzymes circulate
freely in fluids like blood or cell cytoplasm. Many enzymes are bound
to cell membranes, and these immobilized enzymes act in a manner
similar to heterogeneous catalysts.”
In the early 1980s, biochemical engineers were members of a
small and tight-knit group. Through Bailey, Clark first met Berkeley
chemical engineering graduate student Frances Arnold and her
dissertation advisor, Berkeley chemical engineering professor Harvey
Blanch. (Arnold later became a Caltech chemical engineering profes-
sor and married Bailey).
Clark completed his Ph.D. in 1983 and took a position as an
assistant professor at Cornell University that fall. “Back then,” says
Clark, “it was less common for chemical engineers to do postdocs after
grad school, so I went straight to Cornell. It was an excellent depart-
ment, and I made some good friends for life during my time there.
The winters were a little long, but pretty mild by Vermont standards.”
His academic career successfully launched, Clark once again
encountered Harvey Blanch, at a conference in Denmark in 1985. Over
dinner, Clark discussed his research at Cornell. Impressed, Blanch
invited Clark to give a seminar at Berkeley in February 1986. The
Berkeley chemical engineering department shared Blanch’s enthu-
siasm, and Clark was offered a job by the end of the visit.
“It was a tough decision,” says Clark. “Cornell had been good to
me, and I was happy there, but the Berkeley offer was just too tempting.”
Clark officially started in July, 1986, at the same time Charles Wilke,
Berkeley’s biochemical engineering pioneer, retired.
Clark’s research group has continued to work in the area of his
dissertation research, immobilized enzymes, but has also branched
out into broader research on enzymes, the identification of new ones,
and innovative uses of them in industrial and biomedical settings.
Clark recalls the event that first got him interested in what would
prove to be a fruitful area of research—enzymes and proteins found in
extremophiles, single-celled life forms that have adapted to extremes
of temperature and pressure. His curiosity was sparked by a paper in
the scientific journal Nature that generated a huge amount of interest,
but later sparked an equal amount of controversy.
In the 1983 paper, researchers claimed that they had isolated
an organism that survived temperatures as high as 250°C. Says
Clark, “At that time we knew that life existed in environments like
Yellowstone’s Old Faithful geyser and other hot springs. And we were
discovering life forms around underwater volcanic vents with chemi-
cally rich, but super-hot conditions. We knew that life could survive
up to around the boiling point of water, but this paper was a paradigm
shift. How could enzymes and proteins exist and function at these
temperatures? Researchers began to think about life in new ways.”
As it turns out, the results of the article were never reproduced,
and the paper remains a source of controversy. “For now,” says Clark,
“the record for high-temperature life remains about 120°C. But in a
broader sense the Nature paper was significant in that it made people
realize that life can exist in environments that we previously didn’t
think possible—deep underground in solid rock, and thousands of
feet below the ocean surface near ‘black smoker’ volcanic vents. Life
has adapted to extremes of hot and cold and pressure ranges that
are astonishing.”
The chemistry used by extremophiles in those circumstances
has proven to be very useful. The most famous and widespread com-
mercial application is the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a Nobel
Prize-winning technique that amplifies minute quantifies of DNA
so that it can be studied. Says Clark, “PCR typically employs Taq
polymerase from the thermophilic bacterium Thermus aquaticus. The
high thermostability of Taq polymerase allows it to generate a new
“ Looking back over the changes of the last two decades, I think it is important to acknowledge this transformation by updating the department’s name.”
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT CBE NAME CHANGE
When did the name change become official?
The Department of Chemical Engineering at the
University of California, Berkeley was renamed the
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
effective July 1, 2010.
Why did the department change its name?
The new name recognizes the department’s substantial
research and teaching activities in the areas of biochem-
ical and biomedical engineering, biotechnology, and
synthetic biology. In changing the name, the depart-
ment wants to signal to applicants, and to the general
public, that the department is the nexus for research
and teaching in the industrial applications of biology.
Will the degree name change?
The names of the undergraduate and graduate degrees
issued by the department, and their requirements, will
remain unchanged.
What’s the difference between biochemical and biomo-
lecular engineering?
Biochemical techniques have been used by chemical
engineers for decades. They were were critical for the
mass production of penicillin in World War II, the devel-
opment of other antibiotics and pharmaceuticals, and
the application of enzyme-based chemical processes.
Biomolecular engineering builds on these successes
with the new techniques based on the biotechnology
revolution of the 1980s. Many of the engineers who
helped create this revolution received their formative
education in Berkeley’s Department of Chemical
Engineering.
What sort of biomolecular research takes place in the
department?
Over the last several years, faculty research in the
department has spawned a variety of biologically-related
technologies, including new ways to synthesize biofuels
and anti-malarial drugs, stem cell techniques for fighting
neuro-degenerative diseases, microarrays of human
enzymes that mimic the functions of the liver and
replace animal testing, methods for producing hybrid-
omas and monoclonal antibody therapeutics, and
enzyme and surface science developments that have led
to practical products such as better laundry detergent
and safer contact lenses.
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copy of a DNA sequence following thermal melting of the original
DNA fragment. The high operating temperature is what enables the
whole process to work.”
Enzymes from extremophiles have important industrial appli-
cations, too. High temperatures and high pressures make some
processes run faster and more efficiently. The enzymes are more
robust and don’t break down as quickly during these processes, and
running at high temperatures can eliminate bacterial contamination.
“So there is tremendous interest in these extremophiles,” Clark
explains, “for the sorts of practical process innovations that chemical
engineers have always explored. But there is a fascinating side story
as well to extremophiles—exobiology. Some extremophiles on earth
grow in harsh conditions that may mimic the environments of other
planets. From extremophiles we might learn more about the origins
of life itself in the universe.”
The Clark research group is also using its expertise to help speed
the testing of drug candidates and reduce the need for animal testing.
In 2008, pharmaceutical companies in the United States spent over
$40 billion on research and development that resulted in fewer than
20 new drug approvals. Explains Clark, “Drug companies often invest
too much in pursuing a drug candidate before toxicology tests put
a halt to development. Although it seems counter-intuitive, when it
comes to screening potential new drugs, the mantra is to ‘fail early
and fail often’ to eliminate the expense of going down blind alleys.”
The human body, primarily the liver, contains a variety of
enzymes that are involved in the metabolism of the chemicals found
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in pharmaceuticals. The most important class of these metabolic
enzymes is the cytochromes P450, which are directly involved in the
initial clearance of drugs from the body.
For example, the conversion of the antihistamine loratadine
(Claritin) by P450 enzymes is required for its biological activity. Often,
however, drug metabolism can lead to undesirable biological conse-
quences. Notes Clark, “A well-known example of a toxic metabolic
response is the P450-catalyzed oxidation of the common analgesic
acetaminophen (Tylenol) to a compound which can cause liver failure.”
To help screen drug candidates and other compounds for toxicity,
Clark and his collaborators, including Jonathan Dordick of Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute (RPI), have devised a testing process that involves
two different but complementary microarrays. The first component
is a microarray that contains human P450 isoforms. Thousands of
P450 enzyme samples are arranged in a precise grid pattern on a
single small glass slide. This array is used to generate biologically
active metabolites of the compound to be tested.
The second component consists of minute dots of human tissue
cells arranged in a complementary pattern on another slide. A solu-
tion of test compound is applied to the P450 slide, and then the two
slides are precisely aligned and sandwiched together. As the P450
enzymes react with the test compound, metabolites are produced that
may or may not kill the human tissue cells that they contact. Once
the metabolites have been produced and the cells have interacted
with them, the cell tissue slide is removed and the cells are stained to
determine the percentage of dead cells by using a microarray scanner.
In addition to helping to identify toxic side effects of pharma-
ceutical compounds, this testing procedure can also help screen
the thousands of cosmetic products that come to market every year,
without resorting to animal testing. Says Clark, “Animal testing is
In his lab in Tan Hall, Clark examines cultures of cells inside a new automated culture picking machine. Clark is demonstrating the old-fashioned technique for sampling cultures.
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extremely expensive, there are ethical issues in using animals, and
the European Union has banned animal testing of new cosmetics.”
Clark adds, “As we become more sophisticated at teasing apart
the subtle genetic differences between individual humans, and how
these differences influence the effectiveness of all sorts of therapeu-
tics, testing in rats and mice becomes less useful. In particular, animal
testing lacks the human genetic specificity that we need for develop-
ing personalized medicine.” Along with researchers from RPI in New
York, Clark has founded a company, Solidus Biosciences, to commer-
cialize human enzyme microarrays for drug and cosmetic screening
and to explore the emerging arena of personalized medicine.
“When I look back at how my lab’s research has evolved,” says
Clark, “I realize that the way many of my colleagues and I do research
now is vastly different from when I came to Berkeley 24 years ago. In
my mind, that merits changing the name of the department.
“The department has considered changing its name in the past,
but the faculty didn’t really think that adding ‘biochemical engineering’
to the title did justice to the profession. After all, biochemical tech-
niques like those used to produce penicillin have been part of the
profession for decades.
“But,” Clark continues, “the revolution of genetic engineering
has opened up a new world of biomolecular engineering. In our
department, for example, my colleague Jay Keasling has developed
alternative routes for cheaply producing anti-malarial drugs, and
several of us are working on developing next-generation biofuels.”
Although departments at Cornell and the University of
Pennsylvania also call themselves departments of chemical and
biomolecular engineering, Clark’s alma mater Caltech and chemical
engineering powerhouse MIT have not changed their names.
Clark ponders this a moment and replies, “Not all departments
are created equal, and not all departments evolve in the same way.
Regardless of what others are doing, we believe our new name best
represents how we have evolved, and what we currently are.
“Furthermore, the UC system alone has 10 campuses and five
medical schools. While Berkeley doesn’t have a medical school, it
does have plenty of students who are considering coming here to
study pre-med and other biology-related disciplines, not to mention
bioengineering.
“We want to lure some of those students,” adds Clark, “and to do
it we have to compete with programs with names like ‘bioengineering,’
‘molecular and cell biology,’ and here in the college, ‘chemical biology.’
We want to say to students, ‘Hey, if you are interested in biology and
engineering and want to make a difference in the world, come help us
find tests for the safety of chemotherapies, develop personalized medi-
cine, or find new enzymes that will make cellulosic biofuels a reality.”
Says Clark, “Sitting in a freshman biology class may be the next
Jay Bailey. When it comes time to pick an undergrad major, or later
a graduate school, we want that student to keep us in mind.”
These images of Clark’s MetaChip and DataChip toxicology assays display the arrays of cytochrome P450 enzymes produced by the liver and the corresponding arrays of minute 3D clusters of human cells (left). Potential drug candidates are placed on the MetaChip containing the enzymes, which convert the compound into metabolites just as the liver would. The MetaChip is then precisely aligned and placed in contact with the living cells on the DataChip. Toxic metabolites will kill some of the cells on the DataChip, which then appear red when stained and viewed under magnification (right).
(right) The image shows a variety of cellulases, candidates for converting the cellulosic content of biomass to fermentable sugars for biofuels production. There is a need for rapid, reliable and reproducible methods for evaluating and optimizing the efficiency of cellulases. The Clark group has developed a platform that produces active cellulases in high yields at high throughput.
Important insights into the growth
requirements and optimal culture
conditions of extremophiles (and
the apparatus required to grow
them), including microbes from
deep-sea environments where
temperatures and pressures reach
the highest extremes known to
support life.
A SAMPLING OF “GREATEST HITS”
FROM DOUGLAS CLARK AND HIS COLLABORATORS
Expanded utility and greater under-
standing of enzymes in processing
environments, especially nonaqueous
media, including methods to greatly
activate enzymes for use in organic
solvents.
The MetaChip (Metabolizing Enzyme
Toxicology Assay Chip), the DataChip
(Data Analysis Toxicology Assay Chip),
and the MesaPlate (Metabolizing
Enzyme Stability Assay Plate): new tech-
nologies for high-throughput in vitro
toxicology assays and lead optimization
in drug discovery.
Combinatorial biocatalysis,
a methodology that employs
enzymes and whole cells for
combinatorial biotransforma-
tions in the development
and optimization of new drug
candidates. Combinatorial
biocatalysis was the corner-
stone technology of the
drug- discovery company
EnzyMed, founded in 1994.
Unique proteins from the deep-sea vent microor-
ganism Methanocaldococcus jannaschii, one of
which has proven to be a versatile biomolecular
template for biometallic nanostructures, and pos-
sibly the assembly of protein shapes not found
in nature.
A protein-based biome-
chanical nanosensor,
based on FRET (fluo-
rescence resonance
energy transfer), which
can be incorporated
into materials and is
able to report deforma-
tion of the surrounding
structure.
Detailed quantitative analysis
of key metabolic processes in
mammalian cells, including
cancer cells, obtained through
a combination of flux analysis
and experimental monitoring
of intracellular reaction
networks.
The Clark lab is currently
working on the development
of biofuels from lignocellulosic
biomass, including several
approaches to improve the
enzymatic breakdown of bio-
mass into fermentable sugars
(biomass pretreatment, pro-
tein engineering and kinetic
modeling of cellulose hydro-
lysis), bioprospecting for
cellulases from extreme envi-
ronments, and developing new
microbes with greater toler-
ance of biofuels.
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NEW NOTABLE& R E S E A R C H • V I E W SD I S C O V E R I E S • A W A R D S
Researchers expand yeast’s sugary diet to include plant fiberChemistry professor Jamie Cate and colleagues have taken genes from grass-eating fungi and stuffed them into yeast, creating strains that produce alcohol from tough plant material (cellulose) that normal yeast can’t digest. The feat could be a boon for the biofuels industry, which is struggling to make cellulosic ethanol—ethanol from plant fiber, not just cornstarch or sugar—economically feasible. The researchers hope to insert the same fungal genes into industrial strains of yeast that now are used to turn sugar into ethanol biofuel, in order to improve the efficiency of the fermentation process.
Six new isotopes of the superheavy elements discoveredA team of scientists at LBNL has detected six isotopes, never seen before, of the superheavy elements 104 through 114. Starting with the creation of a new isotope of the yet-to-be-named element 114, the researchers observed successive emissions of alpha particles that yielded the new isotopes. The group that found the new isotopes is led by chemistry professor Heino Nitsche, head of the Heavy Element Nuclear and Radiochemistry Group at LBNL. Chemistry graduate student Paul Ellison formally proposed and managed the experiment and was first author of the paper reporting the results.
Sauer garners award for lifetime of photosynthesis research
Ken Sauer, emeritus chemistry professor, has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Society of Photosynthesis Research. This award is presented once every three years to recognize exceptional career-long contribu-tions to understanding the process of photo-synthesis. Initiated in 2003, the award confers life membership in the society and recognizes meritorious work in photosynthesis research by an individual who is at least 60 years old.
Blanch wins SBE’s Bailey AwardThe Society for Biological Engineering has selected chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Harvey Blanch to receive the 2010 James E. Bailey Award for Outstanding Contributions in Biological engineering. Blanch is currently the Merck Professor of Biochemical Engineering at Berkeley (see pp. 11-16 for more on Bailey).
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A wiki for the biofuels research communityResearchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have created a technoeconomic model that should help accelerate the devel-opment of a next generation of clean, green biofuels that can compete with gasoline in economics as well as performance. This online, wiki-based model enables researchers to pursue the most promising strategies for cost-efficient biorefinery operations by simulating such critical factors as production costs and energy balances under different processing scenarios.
“While there have been earlier models for analyzing the production costs of biofuels that provided invaluable guidance to research, investment and policy endeavors, they usually relied on experimentally derived or assumed param-eters to estimate process performance values,” says corresponding author and CBE professor Harvey Blanch, the chief science and technology officer for JBEI. “As a result, these models could be used to study only a limited set of scenarios and could not address all possible parameter choices that could be of interest to the biofuels community.”
COLLEGE OF CHEMISTRY
For the first time ever, scientists watch an atom’s electrons moving in real timeAn international team of scientists led by groups from the College of Chemistry, LBNL and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) has used ultrashort flashes of laser light to directly observe the movement of an atom’s outer electrons for the first time. “With a simple system of krypton atoms, we demonstrated, for the first time, that we can measure transient absorption dynamics with attosecond pulses,” said chemistry professor Stephen Leone. “This revealed details of a type of electronic motion—coherent superposition—that can control properties in many systems. ”
Chemistry undergrads build their own websiteCollege of Chemistry undergraduates can now log into a website designed for them by their fellow undergrads. The site, a result of months of work by a dedicated group of student volunteers, can be seen at uchem.berkeley.edu. The website is the brain-child of Betty Wong, who graduated last year with a B.S. in chemical biology. Says Wong, “I developed the website as a way for chemistry and CBE students of all grade levels—freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors—to get in touch and stay in touch with each other.”
Doudna and Shokat elected to Institute of MedicineDepartment of Chemistry faculty members Jennifer Doudna and Kevin Shokat are among the 65 newly elected members to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), an independent, nonprofit orga-nization that works to provide unbiased and authoritative advice to improve health. Election to the IOM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and rec-ognizes individuals who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health care and public health.
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Bringing photosynthesis to lightBy the time she arrived in Berkeley, chemis-
try professor Naomi Ginsberg had learned
some things about cold places. Born and
raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia (about 400
miles northeast of Boston), Ginsberg, 32,
earned her B.A.Sc. in engineering at the
University of Toronto in 2000.
“The first two years of my engineering
degree gave me a broad background,” says
Ginsberg. “My initial interest was biomed,
but I graduated with an electrical engineering
focus and an emphasis on physics and optics.”
Her undergraduate summers were spent in
Winnipeg and Ottawa, where she learned
about nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
imaging techniques and later studied
ultrafast spectroscopy.
But it was as a Ph.D. physics student at
Harvard that things really got chilly. In the
research group of physics professor Lene
Hau, Ginsberg studied Bose-Einstein con-
densates, ultracold clouds of atoms that
exist at temperatures just a few billionths
of a degree above absolute zero.
In an experiment that would have amazed
William Giauque (1895–1982), the Berke-
ley chemist who received the 1949 Nobel
Prize for his pioneering low-temperature
studies, the Hau group halted and stored a
light signal in a Bose-Einstein condensate
of sodium atoms and transferred the signal
into a second Bose-Einstein sodium cloud
160 microns away.
The American Institute of Physics listed
this feat as #1 in its Top Ten discoveries of
2007. Ginsberg was the lead author on the
paper that appeared on the cover of Nature
in February of that year. Some researchers
work for many years to get their first article
on the cover of Nature. Ginsberg achieved
that honor as a graduate student.
Although many scientists would have been
content to build on such an early success,
Ginsberg took a path less travelled. For
her postdoc, she switched from physics to
chemistry—and from ultracold systems
to living ones—and chose to work with
Berkeley chemist, Graham Fleming.
Fleming, the Melvin Calvin Distinguished
Professor of Chemical Biodynamics, is also
the campus’s research vice chancellor and a
senior faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory. The Fleming group
develops ultrafast spectroscopic methods
to study natural photosynthetic complexes
and nanoscale systems like single-walled
carbon nanotubes.
When asked why she switched disciplines,
Ginsberg responds, “I think new science
happens when you merge different fields—
it gives you a big tool box of ideas. For me,
chemistry was a different vocabulary, and
it took some time to get comfortable with
it. I can recall the moment in my first year
when Graham told me, ‘Now you are begin-
ning to sound like a spectroscopist.’”
At the level of fundamental science, Gins-
berg is seeking a broad understanding
of how light and matter interact. But her
quest to understand what she calls the
“dynamics of very small things” is not just
blue-sky research. Understanding these
principles is critical for comprehending
the incredible efficiency of photosynthesis
and harnessing this knowledge to produce
more efficient forms of solar energy.
Asks Ginsberg, “What gives rise to the
remarkable efficiency of photosynthetic
light harvesting? How can the energy flow
be manipulated? How can this guide solar
energy technologies? I want to uncover the
underlying mechanisms of energy transfer
by studying both natural photosynthetic
systems and synthetic alternatives like
photovoltaic polymers and inorganic
nanostructures.”
Chromophores, the light-harvesting struc-
tures in plants and bacteria, are spaced less
than a nanometer apart. Photosynthesis
occurs so fast, and over such short distances,
that it remains stubbornly resistant to analysis.
“But by blending elements of super-resolution
microscopy and ultrafast spectroscopy,”
says Ginsberg, “I’d like to map the distri-
bution of traveling photoexcitations as a
function of energy, space and time.”
Ginsberg, who expresses a fondness for
plants—even as she dices and blends them
into a slurry for her research—has another
puzzle she’d like to solve. “If you look at
the arrangement of light-harvesting pig-
ments at a molecular level,” she says, “in
some bacteria they are highly ordered,
while in plants the configuration is more
random. Yet plants are more sophisticated.
Their photosystems have control and repair
mechanisms that bacteria lack.” Ginsberg
adds, “Plants are like Berkeley—sophis-
ticated, but not very orderly. I’m trying to
understand the underlying mechanisms.”
As Ginsberg sets up her new lab, she
doesn’t anticipate switching fields again
anytime soon. Understanding the funda-
mental principles of photosynthesis, and
helping bring about their practical applica-
tion, may keep her busy for many years.
C H E M I S T R Y W E L C O M E S N A O M I G I N S B E R G
born
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
undergrad B.A. Sc. Engineering, University of Toronto
graduate Ph.D. Physics, Harvard University
postdoc
UC Berkeley/LBNL, Graham Fleming
research Super-resolution microscopy/ ultrafast spectroscopy/photosynthesis
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’62Following graduation, Marshall
D. Nelson (B.S. Chem) worked
in electronics while an officer in
the U.S. Air Force. He earned an M.B.A.,
pursued graduate studies in finance and
spent the majority of his career in business
and investment. He currently serves as a
financial advisor for SWS in Tulsa, OK,
and he takes a keen interest in the analysis
of economic and business trends as they
interface with the evolving political scene.
’76After completing studies at
Berkeley, Yoshio Yamanaka
(Ph.D. ChemE with Wilke) held
positions with various British firms, includ-
ing ICI, Zeneca, and Croda International.
Since his retirement three years ago, he
has been working part-time as a consultant
for a Japanese think tank specializing in
chemistry and biotechnology, and closely
watches new developments in those areas
worldwide. He and his wife, Kuniko, live in
Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Yamanaka
wrote to Jeff Reimer recently to applaud the
choice of “Chemical and Biomolecular Engi-
neering” (CBE) as the new department name.
’77Lisa A. Johnson (B.S. Chem),
who earned a D.D.S. from
UCSF in 1981, writes that she
has been teaching math in the Hayward
Unified School District and working as a
realtor with RE/MAX in Union City, CA.
’79Paul Bigeleisen (M.S. Chem; Nuclear Physics) wrote to let us
know that his father, Jacob
Bigeleisen, passed away (see In Memoria
1943). Paul Bigeleisen mentioned that he
enjoyed his time at Cal but, following a spinal
cord injury, decided to become a physician.
He earned his M.D. from UC Davis and is
currently a practicing anesthesiologist and
a professor of anesthesiology and bioengi-
neering at the Universities of Pittsburgh
and Rochester, where he divides his time
between clincal care and research in robotics.
’82After 19 years at the University
of Minnesota, Jeffrey T. Roberts
(B.S. Chem) accepted the posi-
tions of professor and dean of the College
of Science at Purdue University in West
Lafayette, IN, as of fall 2009. He writes
that he loves the job and enjoys his new
colleagues in chemistry and in the other six
departments within the College of Science.
’83After more than 30 years’ living
and working in the U.S., Peter
Wai-Man Lee (B.S. ChemE) recently moved with his family to Hong
Kong, where he has taken the position of
Chief Technology Officer of Nano and
Advanced Materials Institute (NAMI), a
Hong Kong non-profit government-funded
application research company.
Phillip G. Mattingly (Pdoc Chem with Rapoport) has been a research fellow in the
diagnostics division of Abbott Laboratories
in Abbott Park, IL, since 1984.
’86Garry I. Parton (B.S. ChemE) is
vice president of Artsmart in
New York. He and his partner,
Paul Epstein, make their home in Manhattan.
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The Chun family discovered this banner on the way home from a Cal football game. Here Morrison (B.S. ’43, Chem) and Helen Chun point out the banner, which reads, “It has provided a wonderful education to me, my four children, and a grandchild.”
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’93Steven L. Russek (Ph.D. ChemE with Reimer and Stacy) has been
director of the Astronautics
Corporation of America in Milwaukee, WI,
since 2002, dealing with systems engineer-
ing and research and development.
’95Kimberly E. (Klinck) Kupiecki
(B.S. ChemE) and her husband,
David J. Kupiecki (B.S. ’93, ChemE), have two girls aged 9 and 6 and
have been living in the Midwest for three
years after having spent 16-plus years in the
Bay Area. She is senior vice president of
Edelman Public Relations.
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’01Matthew B. Avery (B.S. ChemE)
received his M.S. from Stanford
in 2004 and his J.D., summa
cum laude, from UC Hastings in May 2009,
graduating second in his class. In October
2009, he won the American Intellectual
Property Law Association’s Past President’s
Award, which recognized his achievements
in the study of intellectual property law and
his contributions to the academic literature.
He is now working at Baker Botts LLP in
Palo Alto as an associate in the firm’s intel-
lectual property group.
Devoted College of Chemistry alumnus volunteer Bruce Stangeland (Ph.D ’67, ChemE) poses under his banner, which reads, “A wide breadth of experiences outside the box.”
’02Craig R. Tewell (Ph.D. Chem with Somorjai) works as a mate-
rials scientist at Sandia National
Laboratories in Livermore, CA. He and his
wife, Elise, live in Castro Valley.
Victor Kin-man Tam (B.S. Chem) is an
assistant professor of chemistry at Foothill
College in Los Altos Hills, CA.
’03After six years in the Midwest,
Jennifer (Cruz) Rea (B.S. ChemE)
earned her doctorate from
Northwestern University. Back in the Bay
Area now, she is working at Genentech as
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their pride and gratitude through portraits
and words. All members of the Cal com-
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Booth events, which take place periodically
throughout The Campaign for Berkeley that
was launched publicly on September 19,
2008.
This project is a wonderful reflection of the
spirit and diversity of the Cal community—
the students, alumni, parents, faculty, staff,
and friends of Cal who are the University of
California, Berkeley.
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Friends of the college
ARTHUR ABRAMSON
Arthur Abramson and his spouse estab-
lished the Eric Abramson Scholarship
Fund for the Department of Chemistry
in memory of their son, Eric, who died in
1973 while a Berkeley chemistry student.
We were notified by Shirley Greenbaum,
a long-time family friend and supporter of
the Scholarship Fund, that Arthur passed
away on September 29, 2010. A graduate
of Temple University, Arthur worked as a
certified public accountant, was a founding
partner of the firm of Margolis, Rose &
Abramson, and retired in 1996 as president
and treasurer of National ICEE Corp, a
frozen beverage company in Philadelphia.
He is survived by Frances, his wife of 63
years; two daughters; and three grandchildren.
The family has designated the Eric Abramson
Scholarship Fund for memorial gifts.
Alumni
’31Frederick W. Lorenz (B.S. Chem)
passed away on March 19, 2010.
He joined the UC Davis faculty
in 1938 and, in 1964, became the first chair
of the newly formed Department of Animal
Physiology. As an emeritus professor, he
studied human psychophysiology with
emphasis on biofeedback. Accomplished as
a painter and sculptor, he helped found the
Davis Art Center.
’33During WWII, Alman “Leon”
Heppel (B.S. Chem; Ph.D. ’37 Biochem) began work at the
National Institutes of Health. He received
his M.D. from the University of Rochester
in 1942, where he published research that
provided groundbreaking proof that sodium
In Memoriaman associate scientist in protein analytical
chemistry. She and her husband, Steven
Rea (College of Chemistry exchange stu-
dent from the University of Leeds, England,
2001–02 in the Majda lab), recently
welcomed the birth of their third son, Leo.
’06Since leaving Berkeley, Chithra
Krishnamurthy (B.S. Chem) has
been doing his graduate studies
at Caltech.
’07Hillary M. Peletier (Ph.D. Chem with Ellman) recently let us
know that she and her fiancé,
Vincent S. Chan (Ph.D. ’08, Chem with Bergman and Toste), have moved to
Evanston, IL, to take jobs with Abbott
Laboratories. Vince completed a postdoc
with Barry Trost at Stanford and is now a
process chemist in Abbott’s Pressure and
Catalysis Group, while Hillary is a medici-
nal chemist in the Neuroscience Group.
They plan to marry in 2011.
’08David I. Rabuka (Ph.D. Chem with Bertozzi) has been chief
scientific officer with Redwood
Bioscience in Burlingame, CA, since
August 2008.
’09Eric M. Bunnelle (Ph.D. Chem with Sarpong) recently took a
position with ExxonMobil
Research and Engineering, and he’s living
in New Jersey.
In January 2010, Amanda M. Comrie (B.S. ChemE) started work at Raytheon in Dallas,
TX, as a multi-disciplined engineer in their
Space and Airborne Systems division.
David P. Duberow (Ph.D. Chem with Mathies) currently holds the position of
lecturer in chemistry at California State
University, Sonoma.
Erik Gallegos-Westling (B.S. ChemE) and
his partner, Luma, live in Redwood City.
Erik works at ZeaChem as a process devel-
opment engineer. ZeaChem has developed
a cellulose-based biorefinery platform
to produce advanced ethanol, fuels and
chemicals.
Gabriella A. Lestari (B.S. ChemE) is doing
her graduate studies in chemical and
life science at King Abdullah University
of Science and Technology (KAUST) in
Thuwa, Saudi Arabia.
Melissa S. Molyneux (B.S. ChemBio) is a
first-year medical student at the University
of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix
Program.
Raja R. Narayan (B.S. ChemBio) started
medical school at UC Irvine in fall 2010.
Carl M. Schoellhammer (B.S. ChemE) is
pursuing a Ph.D. in chemical engineering
at MIT.
’10Yuria Anaga (B.S. ChemE) is
doing graduate studies in indus-
trial engineering at Tsinghua
University in Beijing, China.
Liliana De La Paz (B.S. ChemE) has been
awarded an NSF Graduate Research
Fellowship and has begun graduate stud-
ies in chemical engineering at Stanford
University.
Stanford is fortunate to have also gained
Armen Mekhdjian (B.S. ChemE) as a gradu-
ate student.
Francesco Pingitore (Pdoc ChemE with Keasling) works as an analytical chemist at
Codexis in Redwood City, CA.
Matthew T. Sheldon (Ph.D. Chem with Alivisatos) is doing postdoctoral research in
applied physics at Caltech.
Julie Tse (B.S. ChemBio), who moved to
New York City in August 2010 to start
optometry school, writes that the College
of Chemistry definitely conditioned her,
culturally and academically, to stay afloat
“here in the concrete jungle.”
Jonathan T. Wiegele (B.S. ChemE) has
taken a position with Clorox in Pleasanton,
CA, as a packaging development engineer.
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and potassium could pass through the cell
wall. At NIH during the 1950s, he devel-
oped techniques for synthesizing pieces of
RNA, which played a critical role in crack-
ing the genetic code by greatly enhancing
scientists’ ability to assemble its compo-
nents. In 1967, he joined the faculty of
Cornell University, where his research
focused, initially, on the functioning of the
cell wall and, subsequently, on ways to
inhibit the growth of cancer cells. An early
personal champion of women in science
and enthusiastic about art, literature, and
music, he was famous at Cornell for incor-
porating “identify the painting” quizzes
into his biochemistry lectures. He died on
April 9, 2010, predeceased by his wife of
62 years, Adelaide, and survived by three
sons and three grandchildren.
’38After graduating, William J.
Walsh (B.A. Chem) taught high
school in California and, during
WWII, served in the U.S. Navy. He pur-
sued graduate studies in chemistry at
Northwestern University, Cornell
University, and Columbia University,
where he was awarded a Ford Fellowship.
He earned an M.S. in chemistry from
Montana State University and joined the
San Mateo Junior College District in 1956,
serving as Dean of Men at the College of
San Mateo until 1968 when he became
director of student services at Cañada
College. After retiring in 1977, he lived in
Burlingame and traveled the world with
his wife, Donna. He passed away on April
10, 2010, survived by his wife, five chil-
dren, eleven grandchildren, and seven
great-grandchildren.
’40Gordon J. O’Donnell (B.S. Chem), who received his Ph.D.
from Iowa State College,
worked for many years at Shell Research
and, in retirement, taught at the College of
Holy Names in Oakland, CA. He passed
away on October 25, 2009.
’41Robert W. Routh (B.A. Chem) worked first at Standard Oil in
Richmond, CA, then at Cutter
Laboratories in Emeryville, as head of the
penicillin manufacturing division and,
later, as head of Cutter’s polio vaccine
manufacturing lab. In 1957, he joined the
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, where he
worked for 27 years. He passed away on
April 18, 2010, survived by his wife, Laura,
two daughters, three grandchildren, and
nine great-grandchildren.
’42Samuel Aronoff (Ph.D. Chem with Calvin) taught briefly at
Boston University and the
University of Chicago and, in 1948, took a
permanent position in the botany depart-
ment of Iowa State University, where he
was instrumental in developing their
department of biochemistry. After 20
years, he left Ames to become the dean of
graduate studies at Boston College, then
moved to the new Simon Fraser University
in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where he was a
professor and dean of science. He died on
Feb. 2, 2010, at his home in Corvallis, OR,
predeceased by his wife, Edith, and survived
by three children and five grandchildren.
Confined to a detention
camp for Japanese and
Japanese-Americans
after the bombing of
Pearl Harbor, Harvey
Akio Itano (B.S. Chem)
was unable to attend his
own graduation ceremony. In recognition
of his academic record, which was the
highest in his class, UC President Robert
Gordon Sproul personally awarded him
the University Medal during his intern-
ment. While still at Berkeley, he had met
his future wife, Rose Sakemi (Attendee CNR), whose undergraduate studies were
interrupted by her internment but were
completed in Wisconsin. Among the first
to be released from detention, Itano earned
i n m e m o r i a m
his M.D. in 1945 from the St. Louis School
of Medicine and a Ph.D. in 1950 from
Caltech in physics and chemistry with
Linus Pauling. His research in collabora-
tion with Pauling and others, which used
electrophoresis to identify distinguishing
chemical characteristics in the hemo-
globin in red blood cells of patients with
sickle cell anemia, was published in the
journal Science in 1949. In recognition of
this work, he received the 1954 Eli Lilly
Award in Biological Chemistry. Pauling
later wrote that Itano’s research threw
much light on the problem of the nature
of the hereditary hemolytic anemias. Itano
joined the U.S. Public Health Service as
a senior assistant surgeon, ultimately
becoming chief of the Section on Chemical
Genetics, Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
of the National Institute of Arthritis and
Metabolic Diseases, and Medical Director
of USPHS in Bethesda, MD. He was
recruited to the faculty of the newly-formed
UC San Diego School of Medicine in 1970,
where he continued his work in sickle cell
disease and abnormal blood cells until
his retirement in 1988. Itano was the first
Japanese-American to become a member
of the National Academy of Sciences and
received numerous other awards and hon-
ors, including election to the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. He passed
away on May 8, 2010, survived by his wife,
three sons, and four grandchildren.
Harvey M. Trowbridge (B.S. Chem) served
in the Army during WWII and made a
career as a chemist at the Shell Oil Refinery
in Martinez until his retirement in 1982.
He enjoyed travel and square dancing, was
a College of Chemistry supporter, and, in
honor of his late wife of 45 years, Lois,
volunteered for many years to drive cancer
patients to their treatments. He died on
April 23, 2010 at his home in Martinez,
survived by his second wife of 17 years,
Ramona, five children, three stepchildren,
seven grandchildren, and ten great-grand-
children.
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’49David S. Thayer (B.S. Chem)
worked as a chemical engineer
and strategic planner and
retired to Reno, NV. He passed away on
May 14, 2010, survived by his wife, Ruth,
two sons, a daughter, and one grandson.
’50Genia S. Albrecht (Solomon)
(Attendee Chem) earned her
Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1954
from the University of Washington in
Seattle and did postdoctoral work at
Harvard. In 1956, she moved to Ithaca
with her husband, Andreas C. Albrecht
(B.S. ’50, Chem), and took a hiatus from
her scientific work to raise a family. In the
1980s, she became a senior lecturer in bio-
chemistry at Cornell University and was
honored for her teaching. She died March
19, 2010, preceded in death by Andreas
and survived by their four children and six
grandchildren.
George “Jud” Payne (B.S. ’47; Ph.D. Chem with Rapoport) worked for Shell
Development Company for 37 years,
acquiring 38 patents. He passed away on
January 11, 2010, preceded in death by a
daughter and two sons, and survived by his
wife, Madge, their daughter, four grand-
children, and four great-grandchildren.
’51Donald E. Paul (M.S. Chem)
earned his Ph.D. at Washington
University in St. Louis, MO,
and an executive management degree from
Harvard Business School. He worked as a
research chemist and, most recently, had
his own market research consultancy service
in the Watertown, MA, area until his retire-
ment in 1985. The holder of two patents,
he authored various publications of interest
to combustion technology, including five on
free-radical kinetics. He was a member of
the American Chemical Society, American
Association for the Advancement of Science,
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science and the American Physical
Society. During his long career, he guided
many graduate and postdoctoral students
into careers in isotope chemistry. He is
survived by his wife of 65 years, Grace, and
their three sons.
After graduation, Daniel S. St. John (B.S. Chem) was employed at Shell Oil in Long
Beach and, during WWII, worked on
atom bomb components at Los Alamos.
He earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry
from the University of Wisconsin and
joined DuPont in Cleveland, OH, as a
research chemist. While with DuPont, he
was trained in reactor physics at Argonne
National Laboratory, where he partici-
pated in a project to calculate the energy
of the hydrogen bomb. Spending 17 years
in research at Argonne’s Theoretical
Physics Division, he then served for six
years as president of a DuPont-Battelle
subsidiary that studied holography.
From 1970 until his retirement in 1985,
he was laboratory director of DuPont’s
Explosives Department and, following
retirement, DuPont appointed him the
first departmental research fellow in their
Petrochemicals Department. He died on
February 2, 2010, predeceased by his wife,
Rosemary Rowlands, and survived by four
children.
’46Estella K. Mysels
(Katzenellenbogen) (B.S. ’42; Ph.D. Chem with Branch) served
as an assistant professor of chemistry at
USC during the 1950s, where she met and
married Karol Mysels, a tenured USC
chemistry professor. They collaborated on
research in colloid chemistry and pub-
lished numerous articles together. He
passed away in 1999, and Estella, a
supporter of the College of Chemistry,
remained active in community and political
work until her death on March 31, 2010.
’43Jacob Bigeleisen (Ph.D. Chem with G.N. Lewis), Distinguished
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
at State University of New York at Stony
Brook, passed away on August 6, 2010.
His son, Paul Bigeleisen (see Class Notes 1979) notified us and shared some remem-
brances of his dad’s life. Trained as a furrier
by his father, Jacob Bigeleisen broke with
family tradition to attend college, earning his
chemistry degree from New York University.
He pursued graduate studies for two years
with Otto Redlich at Washington State
University and completed his doctorate with
G.N. Lewis at Berkeley. As a new Ph.D., he
joined the Manhattan Project, where his
focus was on isotope separation. With co-
worker Maria Meyer, he developed the
quantum mechanical theory of equilibrium
isotope exchange reactions, now known as
the Bigeleisen-Meyer equation. In the 1950s
he expanded this concept to non-equilibrium
statistics, formulating the “kinetic isotope
effect,” which continues to be used as an
analytical tool in materials science, bio-
chemistry, geoscience, space science and
pharmacology. Paul tells of Melvin Calvin
once saying to him, “Your dad helped me
win the Nobel Prize. I was way off base
until he explained my data using his
knowledge of isotope exchange reactions.”
From 1948 to 1968, Jacob conducted
research at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
He then spent ten years on the faculty of
the University of Rochester. From 1978, he
taught at SUNY Stony Brook, where he
served in numerous administrative roles
and retired as Distinguished Professor
Emeritus. He was active in both the ACS
(Division of Physical Chemistry) and the
APS (Division of Chemical Physics). Among
numerous honors, he received the first
ACS Award in Nuclear Chemistry and the
E. O. Lawrence Memorial Award from the
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. He was
elected to the National Academy of Sciences,
served as Chairman of the Chemistry
Division, and was a Fellow of the American
i n m e m o r i a m
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Chemical Marketing Research Association,
and Sigma XI. He died on March 28, 2010,
survived by his longtime companion, Betsy
Mark, four children, and three grandchildren.
’53Upon completion of his degree,
Ervin K. “Ken” Hulet (Ph.D. Chem with Seaborg) joined the
newly-formed Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory. He participated in nuclear tests
conducted in the South Pacific atoll of
Eniwetok, which unexpectedly produced
two new elements with the atomic num-
bers 99 and 100, eventually named einstei-
nium and fermium. On a year-long
Fulbright Fellowship in Oslo, Norway, he
laid the scientific groundwork for his
remaining career. He was appointed leader
of the Heavy Elements Group at Livermore
and led work on a new apparatus for per-
forming fast, automated chemistry on
nuclei, created at the super HILAC linear
accelerator at Berkeley, which led to the
much-publicized discovery of what was
then the heaviest atomic nucleus, mendele-
vium-258. His group became highly
respected for their carefully prepared
nuclear targets, resulting in fruitful collab-
orations such as searches for super-heavy
nuclei with the Joint Institute for Nuclear
Research in Dubna, USSR, and with the
GSI Laboratory in Darmstadt, Germany. In
1974, a collaboration between his
Livermore group and the Lawrence
Berkeley Laboratory discovered a new ele-
ment with the atomic number of 106. The
International Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry eventually ratified the name his
team proposed, “seaborgium,” which,
Glenn Seaborg often remarked, was a
more significant honor than winning the
Nobel Prize. Hulet’s lab also discovered a
new form of nuclear fission not anticipated
by the theories of nuclear physics: bimodal
symmetric fission. When his wife, Betty Jo
“Joey,” was diagnosed with lung cancer in
1991, he retired from the Livermore Lab to
help her through treatment, but she passed
away only three months later. In recogni-
tion of his lifetime achievements in nuclear
chemistry, Hulet was given the American
Chemical Society Award for Nuclear
Chemistry in 1994. He died June 29, 2010,
survived by his son and daughter, four
grandchildren, two great-grandchildren,
and his companion of seventeen years,
Bobbette Cochran.
’60Love of sailing and boating
shaped the life of Girard J.
“Jerry” Foster (B.S. ChemE). He
served as an officer in the U.S. Navy (explo-
sive ordinance disposal) and graduated
from the U.S. Naval School of Underwater
Swimmers in Key West, FL. Together with
Shirley, his wife of 48 years, he sailed the
U.S. coasts, Great Lakes, Caribbean Sea,
Panama Canal, Mediterranean Sea, and on
a San Francisco-Tahiti race. He also shared
this love with many friends and family and
was dedicated to all aspects of boating cul-
ture, including preserving the history of
classic yachts. He passed away on April 21,
2010, survived by his wife.
’61Robert O. Hutchins (B.S. Chem) earned his M.S. in chemistry
from California State University
Long Beach and his Ph.D. from Purdue.
From 1985, he served on the faculty of
Drexel University’s chemistry department
in Philadelphia, PA, was head of the
department until 2000, and continued as
G. Sasin Professor of Chemistry until his
retirement in 2007. He received an
Outstanding LBSU Alumnus Award in
1987 and the Lindback Award for
Outstanding Teaching in 1980. He passed
away on Oct. 9, 2009, predeceased by his
wife, MaryGail Hutchins, an industry
chemist and adjunct faculty at Drexel; and
survived by two sons and two grandsons.
’62Eugene R. Marshalek (Ph.D. Chem with Rasmussen) did post-
doctoral work at the Niels Bohr
Institute in Copenhagen and at Brookhaven
National Laboratories. In 1965, he accepted
a position on the University of Notre Dame’s
physics faculty, where he taught for 37
years. A fellow of the American Physical
Society and a recipient of the Alexander
von Humboldt Award, he passed away on
October 19, 2009, survived by his wife,
Sonja, and two sons.
’63Malcolm F. Nicol (Ph.D. Chem),
a leader in high pressure chem-
istry, passed away on May 7,
2009. He taught at UCLA until 1999,
when he joined the physics and chemistry
faculty at the University of Nevada, Las
Vegas. As executive director of the UNLV
High Pressure Sciences and Engineering
Center, he led collaborations with shock
laboratories at Livermore, Los Alamos, and
Sandia National Laboratory. He was the
first to develop Raman spectroscopy in the
diamond cell, made significant contribu-
tions to the expansion of the oxygen phase
diagram, and pioneered the study of reac-
tion kinetics of organic materials in shock
experiments.
’65David O. Harris (Ph.D. Chem with Gwinn) spent his career on
the faculty of the UC Santa
Barbara chemistry department. He was
retired at the time his daughter, Diana
Thomas, notified us that he passed away
on August 24, 2010.
’82Jan M. Wouters (Ph.D. Chem with Cerny) passed away on
April 5, 2010. A researcher at
the Los Alamos National Laboratory, he co-
authored numerous articles on neutron
capture.
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College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
28Forty-four years ago, Nirmal (“Chat”)
Chatterjee applied for admission to the
Ph.D. program in Berkeley’s chemical
engineering department. The admissions
forms were sent via surface mail to him in
Kolkata (Calcutta), India, where he had
earned his undergraduate engineering
degree.
By the time Chatterjee received the appli-
cation forms, the Berkeley admissions
deadline had passed. He filled them out
and mailed them anyway. By the time
the completed application arrived back in
Berkeley, the admissions process had been
completed and all the incoming students
had been notified.
The late application landed on the desk of
C. Judson King, a young chemical engineer-
ing professor who would later become the
dean of the College of Chemistry and the
UC provost. King himself had arrived at
Berkeley just three years earlier and was
serving as admissions director for the
department. Something about the applica-
tion intrigued him. King kept the papers
on his desk for several weeks and finally
decided to admit one last Ph.D. student.
A few months later, Chatterjee arrived on
campus. It was the beginning of both a
long and successful career in the chemical
industry, and a long and devoted relation-
ship to the Berkeley campus and the
College of Chemistry.
Chatterjee was born in 1943 and raised
in Jamshedpur, in the eastern corner of
India about 150 miles west of Kolkata. His
father, an engineer who worked in local
industries, stressed the importance of
education to his son.
In 1959, when Chatterjee was 15, he moved
with his family to Kolkata, where he attended
Calcutta University. “I was surrounded by
very good professors and students,” he
says, “and I acquired a deep knowledge
of chemistry and chemical engineering.”
Chatterjee earned his B.S. in chemistry and
an M.S. in chemical technology.
Arriving in Berkeley, Chatterjee quickly
realized that things were done differently
N I R M A L C H A T T E R J E E
A long, devoted relationship to Berkeley
Chat and Ellen Chatterjee reconnect with Jud King at
a recent Dean’s Dinner at The Faculty Club.
in California than in India. But he got the
hang of it. Berkeley was, he says, “a hell of
a lot of hard work, a hell of a lot of stress,
followed by a great deal of fun.”
Part of that fun was meeting his wife-to-
be, Ellen, who had been the roommate
of his lab partner’s wife at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Like
many young people in the 1960s, Ellen, a
mid-westerner, had headed west after her
undergraduate years and was working in
San Francisco.
Ellen was introduced to Chat, the two hit it
off, and they married in 1970. Chatterjee
completed his Ph.D. the following year,
and the couple moved to Allentown, PA,
where he began working at Air Products
and Chemicals, a supplier of gases and
other specialty chemicals. After 33 years at
Air Products, Chatterjee retired in 2004 as
corporate vice president of global environ-
mental health and safety and engineering.
Although the couple has visited every
continent except Antarctica, their travels
often bring them back to Berkeley. Just a
year after joining Air Products, Chatterjee
began returning to Berkeley annually as a
company recruiter. He served as chair of
the College of Chemistry Advisory Board
from 1996 to 1998 and has sat on the
board ever since.
Chatterjee, along with other former students
of Jud King, have nearly completed a drive
to set up an endowed chair in King’s name.
“Without Jud’s decision 44 years ago,” he
says, “I would not be what I am today.”
Chatterjee recently told the college advisory
board the story of how he came to Berkeley.
“I am sure you all contribute to causes which
represent profound changes in your lives,”
he told the board. “Professor King changed
my life, and I ask you to join me in contrib-
uting to the chair, which will honor him.”
To make a gift to the C. Judson King Tribute
Fund, visit givetocal.berkeley.edu/chem or
contact Mindy Rex at 510/642.9506 or
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3%
17%
5%
18%
60%77%
f i n a n c i a l s
a n n u a l r e p o r t
SOURCES OF PRIVATE FUNDS
Individuals $3.34 M 46%
Corporations/
Corporate Foundations $1.84 M 26%
Private Foundations/ $2.03 M 28%
Nonprofit Organizations
Total $7.21 M 100%
USES OF PRIVATE FUNDS
[OPERATING]
Research $3.15 M 60%
Student Support $0.29 M 5%
Unrestricted $0.94 M 18%
Capital $0.87 M 17%
Total $5.25 M 100%
USES OF PRIVATE FUNDS
[ENDOWMENT]
Chairs $1.52 M 77%
Student Support $0.39 M 20%
Unrestricted $0.05 M 3%
Research $0.00 M 0%
Capital $0.00 M 0%
Total $1.96 M 100%
2010of private giving
a s the year comes to a close, I have yet another opportunity to be encouraged and inspired by the
continued generosity of our many donors.
We faced a difficult year, but with your help, we were able to continue to advance the research and teaching
missions of the College while accomplishing many of the goals you learned about in previous issues of
Catalyst. This progress would not have been possible without your consistent and generous support.
We all know the future will hold many challenges. I also know that the College will continue to be sustained
by a remarkable group of donors and friends who care deeply about the strength and character of our great
institution. I am very grateful to you for being there when we need you most.
Cumulative Clubs
California
Benefactors
$1,000,000 and more
Anonymous
Norbert C. Brady
Dr. Nirmal and Mrs. Ellen
Chatterjee
Chen Yu-How
T. Z. and Irmgard Chu
Aldo DeBenedictis Estate
Dr. Melvin J. Heger-Horst Trust
Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard C.
Howe Jr.
Gunawan Jusuf
Ross McCollum Trust
Jean Mosher Pitzer
Pitzer Family Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. Warren G.
Schlinger
Ann E. Shiffler Estate
Prof. David H. Templeton
Dr. and Mrs. James R. Tretter
Robert Tsao
The Blue and Gold
Society
$500,000 to $999,999
Anonymous
Larry and Diane Bock
Chen He Tung
Dr. James O. Clayton Estate
Warren E. Clifford
Gus D. Dorough
Henry F. Frahm Estate
Richard M. and Lillian Lessler
Irma McCollum Trust
Dr. Reid T. Milner Trust
Beatrice Thomas Estate
Marie W. Woodward Estate
The 1868 Society
$100,000 to $499,999
Anonymous (5)
Mary Arnett
Usman Atmadjaja
Leo A. Berti Estate
Bud Blue
Thelma Buchanan Estate
Sunney I. Chan
Chng Heng Tiu
Mrs. Antonio T. Chong
Robin D. Clark and Mary
Mackiernan
Chester W. Clark Estate
Frank and Janice Delfino
Drs. Thomas J. and Laura J.
Dietsche
Dr. Sam H. Eletr
Drs. David S. Gee and
Caryn C. Q. Lum
William and Janet Gerhardt
Suhargo Gondokusumo
G. Douglas and Regina Gould
Prof. and Mrs. John E. Hearst
Prof. Darleane C. and
Dr. Marvin Hoffman
Robert and Yasuko Ikeda
Stephen T. Isaacs and
Kathryn Macbride
Prof. Harold and
Mrs. Mary Ella Johnston
Ed Kim
Kiong Yo Kian
Engr. Joseph L. Koo and
Helen C. Koo, M.D.
Prof. Daniel E. Koshland Jr.
Joseph M. and Dorothy K.
Kunkel
Lee Sheng Peng
Annie L. Li
Liem Sioe Liong
David Lieu M.D., M.B.A.
Wesley and Elizabeth Lindsay
Estate
Tony K. and Louisa Ling
Lie Shiong Tai
Prof. Bruce H. Mahan Estate
Mr. and Mrs. Alan C.
Mendelson
Dr. and Mrs. Joon S. Moon
Dr. Robert N. Noyce
S. M. “Jack” Olsen
Marjorie Pape Crandall Pearce
Jonathan S. Powell
Dr. Mochtar Riady
Milton H. and Ethel M. Ritchie
Klaus and Mary Ann Saegebarth
James A. Sanford
Patricia M. Schreter
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Scott Jr.
William H. Shiffler
Dr. Charles E. and
Mrs. Dorothy H. Stehr
Tan Keong Choon
Henry K. Tom
Mrs. Theodore Vermeulen
Doris H. Welles Estate
Eka Tjipta Widjaja
Prof. Charles R. Wilke Estate
Eugene T. C. Wu
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donors to the college The first three donor clubs listed—the
California Benefactors, the Blue and Gold Society and the 1868 Society—are cumulative clubs.
Donors’ lifetime giving to the College of Chemistry determines their club level. The remaining clubs
are annual—the club level shows each donor’s giving during the 2009–10 year.
Lewis Associates
$50,000 and more
Named for Gilbert Newton
Lewis, the college’s first dean.
Latimer Associates
$10,000-$49,000
Named for Wendell Latimer,
professor of chemistry.
Giauque Associates
$5,000-$9,999
Named for Nobel Laureate and
chemistry professor William F.
Giauque.
Seaborg Associates
$2,500-$4,999
Named for Nobel Laureate
and chemistry professor
Glenn Seaborg.
College of Chemistry Annual Donor Clubs
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Annual Giving ClubsGifts received in 2009–10
The Lewis
Associates
$50,000 and more
Anonymous (2)
T. Z. and Irmgard Chu
William L. Friend
Drs. David S. Gee and
Caryn C. Q. Lum
David Lieu, M.D., M.B.A.
Karl Malmquist Estate
Mr. and Mrs. Alan C.
Mendelson
Pitzer Family Foundation
Prof. David H. Templeton
Dr. and Mrs. James R. Tretter
The Latimer
Associates
$10,000 to $49,999
Prof. Paul A. Bartlett and Dr. Yumi Nakagawa
Carl P. Beitelshees
Sunney I. Chan
Dr. Nirmal and Mrs. Ellen
Chatterjee
Ronald L. Clendenen
Thomas and Martha De Jonghe
Drs. Thomas J. and Laura J.
Dietsche
Dimitrios and Nina Dimitrelis
Dean and Becky Draemel
Helen H. Farrell
George M. Fohlen
Kai-Ye Fung
William and Janet Gerhardt
Vic and Faye Gunther
David G. Karraker
Ed Kim
Edward F. Kleinman
Jan and Maria Leeman
Arturo Maimoni
Timothy and Roberta
Montgomery
Curtis Lee Munson
James A. Sanford
Dr. and Mrs. Warren G.
Schlinger
Patricia M. Schreter
Virginia and William Schultz
Dr. J. A. Trainham and Dr. L. D. Waters
The Giauque
Associates
$5,000 to $9,999
Dr. Francisco J. Barnes de Castro
Edwin D. Becker
Ardra C. Brodale
Tim and Valerie Bruemmer
Ruth and Mike Cheng
William A. Daniels
Pete Dragovich and Pei-Pei Kung
Matthew K. Fountain
Herbert Hooper
Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Kaldor
Stanley Kelly
Donald H. Mohr
Albert Narath
Joan Friedman Newmark and
Richard Newmark
Rodney and Jeanne Panos
Steven Sciamanna
Tonny and Fay Soesanto
Bruce E. and Susan J.
Stangeland
Dr. Charles E. and Mrs.
Dorothy H. Stehr
Barbara A. Tenenbaum
Rodney and Suzanne
Thompson
Ron and Lucy Wetzel
Steven and Mary Young
The Seaborg
Associates
$2,500 to $4,999
Anonymous
Ronald J. Banducci
David Bass
Prof. Robert and Ms. Wendy
Bergman
Norman Bonner
Robert A. Chinn
Clelland R. Downs
Rocky L. Freel and Nancy
Skilling
Eric Haas
Prof. Clayton Heathcock and
Ms. Cheri Hadley
John F. Heil
Richard W. Hyman
John Jost Jr.
Kiyoshi and Irene Katsumoto
Frederick Lam
Polam Lee
Virginia and Frank Lew
Gary and Irene Masada
Steven S. Moor
Herb Nelson
William R. Parrish
Prof. and Mrs. Norman E.
Phillips
Darwin and Donna Poulos
Ferenc Rosztoczy, Ph.D.
Klaus and Mary Ann Saegebarth
Georgieanna L. Scheuerman
Manesh and Margarita Shah
Karen and Scott Sibbett
Dr. Eric R. Sirkin
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Skinner
Clinton D. and Sharon Snyder
Linn Specht, M.D.
Kong-Heong Tan
George and Stephanie Tyson
Willard M. Welch
Kathleen M. Welsh, M.D.
Wilke Associates
$1,000-$2,499
Named for Charles Wilke, pro-
fessor of chemical engineering.
Calvin Club
$500-$999
Named for Nobel Laureate and
chemistry professor Melvin
Calvin.
Tobias Club
$250-$499
Named for chemical engineering
professor Charles Tobias.
Hildebrand Club
$100-$249
Named for chemistry professor
Joel Hildebrand.
The Wilke
Associates
$1,000 to $2,499
Drs. Juana V. and Andreas Acrivos
Keith Alexander
David L. Anderson
Myron Andrews
Anonymous
Daniel and Shelley Arenson
Kelly M. and Mark A. Aubart
Timothy A. Barbari
Richard Behrens
Prof. Harvey W. Blanch
M. Robert Blum
John and Sharon Brauman
R. R. Breckenfeld
Michelle Marie Brodale
Richard Brodzinsky
Marilee Brooks
David and Donna Brown
Michael J. Buckley
Frederick L. Burnett, III
John Bush
William H. Calkins
Prof. Joseph and Mrs. Susan
Cerny
Edmund Chambers
S. Kumar and Uma
Chandrasekaran
Ming-Chou Chen
Yuenyee M. Cheng
Karl O. Christe
J. Peter and Nancy L. Clark
Michael W. Clark
John W. Collette
Robert S. Crowder
Frank Delfino
Walter and Eleanor Dong
Michelle Christine Douskey
Walton Ellis
Tarric M. El-Sayed
Gail G. Engerholm
Steven and Terri Fantazia
George Fisk
Howard and Mina Fong
George Anders Fosselius
Shun C. Fung
Man K. Go
Wataru Goishi
Charles and Karen Goss
G. Douglas and Regina Gould
Elaine and Arnold Grossberg
Rika Hagiwara
The Halloran Family
Prof. Charles B. Harris
Barry P. Hart
Jessie Herr
Joel Hill
Victor Ho
William and Hoi-Ying Holman
David V. Horak
Michael H. Imbacuan
David R. and Karen W.
Johnson
Stephen and Elizabeth
Johnson
Prof. and Mrs. William L. Jolly
Gary and Patricia Kaiser
Dr. and Mrs. Max J. Kalm
Paul H. Kasai
David E. Kepler
Chung-Pai Kim
Dr. and Mrs. Fred Kirby
Kevin A. Klotter
Hiroaki Kobayashi
Janell Kobayashi
Henry F. Koopmann
LaRoc and Linda Kovar
Allen A. Kozinski
John M. Krochta
James A. Krom
James and Barbara Lago
Julian I. Landau
Rich Lawton
Peter W. Lee
Soo-Ying Lee
Prof. W. A. Lester Jr.
Mark Lewellyn
David A. Lightner
Robert and June Lindquist
Tony K. and Louisa Ling
Scott and Annette Lynn
Chin and Ann Ma
Xiaojun Ma and Xiaodong Wu
Jane and Michael MacDonald
Thomas and Gael Mallouk
Kao-Wen Mao
Prof. Samuel and Mrs. Lydia
Markowitz
Prof. Michael Marletta and
Ms. Margaret Gutowski
Dean Richard and
Mrs. Jo Anne Mathies
Michael J. McCormick, M.D.
Alice I. Eastman McKay
Larry and Debbie Meisner
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Calvin Huynh
g r e g m i l l e r is a
senior chemistry major.
He was born in San
Diego, where he
attended high school
and community college
before transferring to
Berkeley. He is working
with graduate student
Casey Brown in the
Bergman/Raymond
groups. He is applying
to graduate school in
chemistry and plans to
be a chemistry professor.
benefits of private giving
“ I am very grateful to have received the Heger-Horst award. The financial support has allowed me to participate worry-free in research in the College of Chemistry.”
Richard L. Merson
Thomas J. Meyers
Walter H. Moos and
Susan M. Miller
Lingfung Mok
Chair and Mrs. Daniel M.
Neumark
Richard D. Newman
Amy Ng and
Rodrigo Susperreguy
Fujio Okino
Ogbemi O. Omatete
Charles Joseph Ordonia
Chin-Tzu Peng
Llad Phillips
Jeanne Pimentel
Rene J. Prestwood
John A. Ragan
Frank and Annette Rahn
Andrew Ramelmeier
Prof. and Mrs. Kenneth N.
Raymond
Chair Jeffrey A. and Ms. Karen
B. Reimer
Shiyi Ren
John L. Robbins
Joel W. Rosenthal
Jonathan H. Rowell
David Sable
Marsha Sable
Michael and Lucille Schloemer
Bill Schriver
Gary P. Schwartz
Sher G. Singh
Mike Solomon and Ellen Lee
Mrs. Judith and Prof. Gabor
Somorjai
Thomas M. Stachelek
Donna R. Sterling
Ivan T. Stinson
Ms. Carolyn North and
Prof. Herbert L. Strauss
Prof. Andrew Streitwieser
Michael Joseph Sullivan and
Ellie Yi-Li Yieh
Kalpathi and Jayasree
Suryanarayanan
Jack D. Swanburg
Bruce Gerald Szczepankiewicz
Richard M. Teeter
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Anne F. and Anson B. Thacher
Ms. Rosemary and
Prof. T. Don Tilley
Ravi Upadhye
Ernesto Valdes-Krieg
Michael G. Valentine
Dale E. Van Sickle
James P. Vokac and
Stacey T. Baba
Dr. Grier A. Wallace
Andrew Wang
Raymond Chiu and
Stephanie Wang
Mark Wegner and Mary Korn
Keith R. Westcott
Dr. Gene Westenbarger
Ron and Lucy Wetzel
Robert Wilhelm
Roger G. and Molly W.
Williams
Mark G. Wilson and
Deborah C. Dalzell
Gar Lok Woo
William Allen Wood
Dr. Frank X. Woolard
Prof. Peidong Yang and
Ms. Mei Wang
Ji Zhu and Wei Zhao
The Calvin Club
$500 to $999
Arthur and Frances Abramson
Carlo and Barbara Alesandrini
Stuart T. Anderson
Anonymous (6)
Evan and Mary Appelman
Prof. John Arnold and
Ms. Jennifer Shaw
Burke and Carole Baker
Karen Jernstedt and
Jim Barkovich
Michael L. Barry
Donald Boerth
Marvin and Judith Brafman
C. Hackett Bushweller
Michael F. Carolan
Bill and Crystal Casteel
David Chan
Vincent Chan
Michelle and Jeffrey Chang
Andrew Y. Cheng
Delano and Helen Chong
Ronald N. Clazie
Harold Cota
John E. Crider
Matthew Shane Croughan
Jed E. Davidow and
Marnie Harker
Thomas and Cynthia Delfino
Ron Dickenson
Gus D. Dorough
Rochelle and Robert Dreyfuss
William E. Dunn
Rudy Dyck
John G. Ekerdt
Victor and Louise Engleman
Mark R. Etzel
Nicholas A. Fedrick
Bruce A. Firestone
Prof. Graham Fleming and
Ms. Jean McKenzie
Stanley W. Fong
Megan E. Fox
Craig S. Frial
Philip R. Friedel
Friends of Eric Abramson
Scholarship Fund
Takashi Fujikawa
Frank P. Gay
Michael B. Gentzler
David L. Grier
Margaret Guo
Andrew Guzelian
Grant W. Haddix
Mr. and Mrs. SoonKap Hahn
Andrew Harautuneian
Marlin D. Harmony
Florence Pat Haseltine
Frank Hershkowitz
Duane Heyman
I. C. and Kimi Hisatsune
Richard J. Buss and
Pauline Ho
Judy C. Huang and
Ken A. Nishimura
Michael R. Hull
Yasuko Ikeda
Mark J. and Alice H. Isaacson
Adrienne Iwata
Dilip K. Joshi
Adele Kayser and Family
Jack Kelly
Prof. Sung-Hou and
Mrs. Rosalind Kim
Te Piao King
P. G. Kosky
Deanne C. Krenz
Santohk S. Labana
Frances Lee
Wei-Luo Lee
Prof. Yuan Tseh and
Mrs. Bernice Lee
Marc and Tsun-Tsun Levin
James W. Lewis and
Dale A. Roche
Wes Liang
Arnold A. Liebman
Richard M. Lim and
Terate B. Nalukas
Nelson Lin
Peter and Rachel Lipowicz
Feng-Quan Liu
Dick and Myra Lynch
Mary M. Mader
Prof. Bruce H. Mahan Estate
Jon Maienschein
Craig Markey
Paul and Ann McCaslin
Robert C. McIntosh
Peter M. McKinney
Alison McLean
Michael E. McManus
L. Curtis Mehlhaff
Marcia A. Middleton
Michael J. Miller
Paul E. Morrisroe
R. J. Nagle Jr.
Douglas James Ng
Prof. Heino Nitsche and
Ms. Martha Boccalini
David A. O’Brien
Kent Opheim
Henry and Mary Elizabeth
Padgett
Edward John Palkot
Yong Kwang Park
Garry Iain George Parton
John and Cheryl Petersen
David B. Phillips
Joan and Rich Phillips
donors to the college
Gurdeep S. Ranhotra
Elmer and Helen Reist
Mindy Rex and
John Dischinger
Szymon Sabala
Ryan and Janice Saiki
William Sailor, Ph.D.
Takayoshi Sasaki
Harry N. and Jane L. Scheiber
Dr. and Mrs. Francis J. Schmitz
Arnold and Janice Seidule
Drs. Daniel and Ximena Sessler
Stephen and Lila Shain
Jerry Richard Shuper
Gerald Smolinsky
Randy Snurr
Jeffrey P. Solar and
Rosalyn Furukawa
David F. Starks
James Stocking
James S. Symanski
Masato and Miyeko Tanabe
Michael J. Tauber
Greg O. Taylor
Huijun Tian
Curtis M. Tong
Michael W. Tsiang
Petra N. Turowski
Leslie N. Watson and
Gary Beers
Dr. Richard J. Wilcox
Charles L. Wilkins
Phillip A. Wilmarth and
Janis Shampay
Derek R. Witty
Katsumi Yamamoto
Sachio Yamamoto
Catherine Diep
Cecilia Lee Yu and Timothy Kar Yu
The Tobias Club
$250 to $499
Hugh Barnett
Bruce N. Bastian
James Beck
John Bedbrook and
Pamela Dunsmuir
Patrick Bengtsson and
Erin Bydalek
Stacey Bent and Bruce Clemens
Marina Berdichevsky
Carl M. Berke
Steven and Sandra Bernasek
William E. Bondinell
Marie T. Borin, Ph.D.
Richard W. Borry
Lawrence J. Bowerman
John J. Brodbeck
David Burge
Allan R. Champion
Jeanne C. Chang
Karen Chang
Shih-Ger (Ted) Chang
Stephen T. Chang
Shiuan Chen
Lung W. Chiao-Yap
Marina M. Chin
Leland J. Chinn
Maria T. Clark
Julian A. Codelli
Robert and Debora Couey
Calvin J. Curtis
Sheryl and Kenneth Dahl
Timothy and Suzanne Devitt
Dr. Lawrence H. Dubois
Victoria A. Edwards
Bruce A. Ellsworth
Aaron Eppler
John Fabera
Dwight A. Fine
Michael and Mary Flaugh
Girard (Jerry) Foster
Tim Frederick
Sabrina Fu and Philip Rous
Alvin S. Fuse
Peter Gates
Mary K. Gilles
Avery Goldstein
Ross A. Gould
Samuel L. Graham
Gail L. Gray
Joseph M. Greendorfer
Dr. Scott V. Gronert
William Guilford
Paul H. Gusciora
David J. Hart
Steven Leopold Hartford,
M.D., Ph.D.
Faraj Hasanayn
Derek J. Hei
Frank and Melanie Hernandez
Robert Hickman
Don Hildenbrand
Elvin L. and Donna I. Hoel
Richard and Patricia Hoff
Mei-Shel and Jin-Lon Hon
Richard Honnell
Yu Con Hoong
Larry E. Huber
John T. Hunt
William Y. Ja
Bob Jagow
Paul J. Jansen
Jack Jew
Eusebio Juaristi
James S. Kane
Edward L. King
James A. Klein
Robert Knott
Drucilla D. Knutsen
Dr. and Mrs. Romesh Kumar
Edward D. Lally
Stephen M. Lambert
Dr. Kai Lamottke
Lee and Masako Lanselle
Prof. Stephen R. Leone
Traci A. and Timothy A. Lewis
Michelle Kong and Jun Li
Luke Liang
Jon and Ren-Chih Lin
Maria S. Ling
Christopher A. Lipinski
Glenn Lipscomb
Thomas G. Lockwood
Prof. Jeffrey Long
Troy Ly
Patricia D. Mackenzie
Rajinder K. Mahendroo
Gregory S. Girolami and
Vera V. Mainz
Toby and Jason Massman
John M. McDonald
Juan R. McKinney
Kenneth E. Meeker
Prof. and Mrs. Howard C. Mel
John G. Mengshol
David W. Moreland
Arthur I. Morgan
Barbara and Dennis Morrell
Mike Moyer and
Margaret Chu-Moyer
Robert and Susan Mullen
Sean P. Mullen
Barry T. Murphey
Timothy J. Myers
Dr. and Mrs. Louie A. Nady
John Barry Nash
Harry T. (Tom) Nelson
Dr. David R. Nethaway
Allen Ng
Steve Ng and
Lynn Tangudtaisuk
Nancy Norem
Naomi Obinata
Miles Okino
Stephen ONeil
Robert J. Ouellette
Keith Pang
James Papanu
Richard C. Pilger Jr.
Bava Pillay
Craig and Janet Polson
Roland Quong
David Rabuka
Prof. Clayton Radke
Raghavan and Janaki Ramanan
Ronald Ratcliffe
Tim Revak
Larry Ricker
Gene Roberts
Mark and Regina Rodwell
Guido Rosati
Mark E. Rosen
Ola M. Saad
Larry Schick
Erika Schneider, Ph.D.
Alan and Gail Searcy
Frederic T. Selleck, Ph.D.
Dr. Susan Sharfstein and
Dr. Joseph Shiang
Donald and Carmen Shiosaki
Eric C. Shiue
Prof. Kevan Shokat
Ab Siadati, M.D.
Wade Napoleon Sisk
Joseph P. Smith
Shinji and Masuko Soneda
Andrew James Souers
College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
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donors to the college
The Hildebrand
Club
$100 to $249
Raul E. Acosta
Sondra B. and Daniel L. Akins
David Gary Alberg and
Gretchen Hofmeister
Harry Alderson
Spiro Alexandratos
Dr. and Mrs. David Altman
Rex Altman
James and Jacqueline Ames
Phyllis and Larry Anderson
Anonymous (5)
Robert and Nancy Antonoplis
Edward and Florence Aoyagi
John D. Arenivar
Morris D. Argyle
Don W. Arnold
Lucienne Ash
Charles E. and Marianne
Auerbach
Bruce and Helene Ault
Steven C. Avanzino
Bruce J. Bader
Douglas J. Bamford
Robert J. Baseman
Craig P. Baskin
George H. Batchelder
Dr. David Beach and
Ms. Roxana Beach
Ronald L. Bedard
Norman Peter Belle
Robert and Jackie Bellerose
Julie Stewart
Christina M. Stuart
Janet Tamada
Jeffrey Tane
Jerome H. and Selma E.
Targovnik
David G. Taylor
Edmund Thelen
John F. Thompson
Ken Tokunaga
Rebecca C. Tong
Gail Godsey Trimble
Baylor B. and Linda M. Triplett
Constantine Tsonopoulos
Renée van de Griend
Jack Van Den Bogaerde
Lindy Vejar
Deane Stefan Walker
Lisa Wang
Sheldon A. Weber
R. B. Weisenmiller, Ph.D.
Robert B. Welch
Fred and Cristel Wemer
Heather D. Whitley
Richard F. Wormsbecher
Albert H. Wu
Fonda B. Wu
Priscilla Yang and
Nathanael Gray
Kenneth and Nicole Yi
Chisuk F. Yom
Robert D. Zimmerman
William T. Zimmerman
Paul Zittel
Scott C. Benson
Janet E. Bercovitz
Ryan Berger
Clayton G. Berling
Neeraj and Nidhi Bhatnagar
Richard N. Biagioni
Jacob Bigeleisen
Ryan Bise
Paul D. Bisio
Loring K. Bjornson
Todd A. Blumenkopf
Richard Boden
Jerome V. Boots
John and Claire Boursalian
James E. Boyden
Robert J. Breuer
William H. Brown
Edward Bruggemann
Lucinda F. Buhse and
Steven A. Kinsley
Carol J. Burns
Thomas and Eileen Busching
Charles Nicholas Buser
Holger Butenschoen
Roseanna M. Caldwell
James L. Caley
Mark Camenzind
Jonathan and Linda Carlson
Ronald M. Carn
Barbara Anne Carpenter
Rodolfo and Miriam Carty
Chris J. Carvalho
Ching-Jen Chang
Chu-An Chang
Donald F. Charles
Linda Chen
Philip and Cynthia Chen
Yong S. Chen
Zhan Chen and Mei Tang
Donald Cheung
Shannon I. Chi and
Zachary K. Sweeney
Collette Ching
Daniel Chinn
Melanie Chiu
Gerald N. Choi
Cheryl Chow
Gordon G. Chu
Yong-Hwee Chua
Janet Chuang
Michelle Claffey and
Stephane Caron
Mary E. Clifford
Jeffrey M. and Kerry L. Cogen
David Cohen
Martin Colaco
John Barrett Collins
Donald R. Colvin
F. Warren Colvin
Peter S. Connell
Morgan P. Conrad
Dr. Anthony Contreras
Mary M. Conway
David and Abbey Cook
John F. Cooper
Douglas Hensley Cortez
Tucker Coughlen
Evangeline G. Cruz
David L. Cullen
Bo Curry
Judith A. Cutino
Alan K. Darby
David C. Darwin
Drs. Cameron and Jean Dasch
Pravin K. Dattani
Paul and Jane Davis
Pedro de Andres
Kenneth E. De Bruin
Herbert H. De Friez
Andrew and Carol DeGraca
Stephen G. DiMagno
James R. Divine
Charles Do
Laurie J. Dockter
Denis and Donna Drapeau
Lois J. Durham
Doug Edwards
David J. Ellis
Prof. Jon and Mrs. Pam Ellman
Edith, Polly, and Diane Eskenasy
Stephen Falling
Nina Mauney Farjadi
Nassim Farrokhzad
Dr. Dr. Rüdiger Faust
Peter S. Fedkiw
J. L. Fick
Warren W. Flack
Stewart and Louise Fong
Bruce M. Foreman
David Forsyth
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Elsa (Ph.D. Candidate, M.C.B.) and Nelly Tretter enjoy the
remodeled Hildebrand Library and Student Learning Center
at a reception before the Dean’s Dinner.
Willard R. Foss
Elizabeth Francois
Loyd D. Frashier
Kevin and Barbara Fuller
Ethan C. Galloway
Terry Galloway
Jing Gao
Jose Garcia-Ramirez
Don Gartner and
Donelle Enritt
Steven and Hillary Garwin
John Gavenonis
Juris P. Germanas
Kevin R. Geurts and
Angela R. Smith
Dan Gezelter
Peter Giannousis
Marcus I. Gibson
Edward Gillan
Jack T. Gilmore
Will Glesener
Aaron Glimme
Miriam Gochin
Gary M. Goncher
Alex Goretsky
Harold and Margaret Granquist
Ronald W. Grant
Susan Graul
Dr. F. Richard Green, III
Laura Greenfield
Paul J. Gregory
David Grossman
Lara A. Gundel
Robert Gunther
Lucy B. Hagan
Kenneth and Carol Hamilton
Jeffrey H. Handono
John and Angela Harder
George L. Hardgrove Jr.
J. Ronald Hargreaves
B. Neal Harman
Edwin R. Harris
Everette Harris
Ian Harris
Robert E. Harris
Tom Harvey
Corinne D. Hausmann
Michal and Timothy Hawk
Dr. Auda K. Hays
James and Jeannine Healy
Dr. Scott J. Hecker
Sue Heinemann
Dr. and Mrs. Max J. Helix
Robert and Ellen Hempton
Robert W. Hermsen
Paul Hernandez
William T. Hicks
Marcus Hinkson
Toshiaki Hino
Eric Hintsa
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Hirotsu
Hansel Ho
Jason Ho
Lisa Hochrein
Lucas R. Hoffman
Rosa M. Hohman
Eleanor M. Holland
David Holtz
Seung Hong and Seog Kong
Chris Hovde
Helen Hoyt
Lewis Hsu
Zhengjie Hu and Wendy Ng
Mary Lee Hyde
Anthony T. Iavarone
Michael K. Ishii
William Ja
Thomas P. Jarvie
Ronald Jensen
John A. Jensvold
Russell D. Johnson Jr.
David M. Jonas
Patricia W. and Russell L. Jones
T. Keith Jones
S. L. Jung
Andreas V. Kadavanich
Yohji Kameoka
Richard B. Kaner
Eric Keim
Thomas Ross Kelly
Joshua Jahmil Kennedy-Smith
William B. Kezer
Ellen Kick
James Kilduff
John S. Killian
Judy E. Kim
Andrew Kindler
Todd Kindorf
John Kindsvater
Baldwin King
Mary Ann King
Kim Kinoshita
Paul and Tracy Klein
William and Elizabeth
Klemperer
Roland Koestner
Trudy Kong
Drs. Rebecca E. Taylor and
Anthony R. Kovscek
Kenneth W. Kraus
Shailaja Krishnamurthy
Paul J. Krusic
Ajay G. Kshatriya
James T. Kuwada
Sasha Kweskin
Hyuk S. Kwon
Justin Kwong
Cam-Mi La
Brian B. Laird
Zadig C. Lam
Arnold Lamb
Joseph R. Landolph Jr.
William C. Langworthy
Bart Larrenaga
William J. Lawrence
Joseph V. Lecce
Charles Michael Lederer
Chang Jae Lee
Christina J. Lee
James J. Lee
Wang-Thai Lee and Anna K. Fok
Alice Lee-Dutra
Charles and Tonya Lemmon
Richard S. Leonard
Cissy Leung
Keith Leung
Daniel Leva
Alan Levy
A. Lew
Norman and Yvonne Li
Dr. William G. Light
Bernard Joseph Lilly Jr.
Megan M. Lim
Chun K. Lin
Florence J. Lin, Ph.D.
Jack Lin
Jasper C. Lin
Joseph and Cathy Lin
Manfred Lindner
David Lindsay
Mika Lindvall
Benjamin T. Liu
Pamela W. Liu
Yan and Yvonne Liu
Lisa Lobree and
Cameron Abrams
Mark Loncar
John W. Lorimer
Brian and Serene Lovell
Cliff Lowe
George M. Lucier
Charles N. Ludvik
Tom Mac Phee
Marc Machbitz
Khorshed Madan
Karyl A. Maier
Doug Mandel
Nolan Mangelson
David W. M. Marr
Paul Martin
Con and Mary McCormick
Dr. William R. McDonell
James W. McFarland
Robert McKoon
Keith and Liz McLaughlin
John Mersch, III
Dr. Roger and Helen Metzler
Charles and Diane Meyer
Richard Michelman and
Karen Meyer
Ognjen Miljanic
George P. Miljanich
Richard R. Miller
Prof. and Mrs. William H.
Miller
William and Anita Miller
Christian J. Minot
Peter D. Mlynek
Daniel P. Morgan
Jim Muirhead
James B. Murdoch
Thomas F. Murphy
Tatsuhiko and Mihoko
Nakashige
Wesley C. Natzle
Jeff Nelson
Marshall Douglas Nelson
Madeline M. Netto
Thomas W. Newton
Goretti Ngao
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donors to the college
Tuan Nguyen
Wesley Nurss
James L. and Georgiana
Nygaard
Jodie M. Nygaard
John O’Connell
Prof. Joseph M. O’Connor
Patrick J. Orme
Steven H. Overbury
Thomas D. Padrick
Mr. and Mrs. Luisito E. Palad
Spyridon Papadakis
Rudolph Pariser
Christopher C. Parks
John E. Parmeter
Chris Parr
Patricia Dooley Parrish
Colonel Douglas A. Patterson
Chuck Paul
Chih-Yuan and Shiau-Shiau Pei
Mike L. Perry
Jaan Pesti
Leonidas Petrakis
Paul A. Petruzzelli
Co D. and Thuy T. Pham
Sundiep (Tehara) Phanse
Jason Ploeger
Matthew Plunkett
J. Kenneth Poggenburg
Jan Polissar
Max Y. Pong
Gary and Lily Poon
Dr. J. Winston Porter
Max and Stacey Pray
Elisabeth and Jonathan Price
Austin Prindle
Susan Puglia
Thomas Quick
Peter D. Quinn
David Rabb
Donald L. Raimondi
Tom and Betty Ransohoff
Rekha R. Rao
Edgar A. Rasquin
Sandra A. Rehling
Liane Reif-Lehrer and
Sherwin S. Lehrer
Manfred G. Reinecke
Dennis and Marta Reuter
Edgar and Rowena Reyes
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Jed Richardson
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Mark Roebuck
Gerry Rollefson
Leo Romm
Albert J. Rothman
Barney Rubin
David S. Rumschitzki
Scott Rychnovsky
David Sandford
Robert and Judith Santini
Chantima Savagatrup
Robert A. Scherrer and
Marilynn C. Scherrer
David P. Schmidt
Nick R. Schott
Peter Schubart
Barry Schwarz
Gretchen M. Schwenzer
Martin Seamons
Richard Searle
Timothy and Tamera Selchau
Paul Shain and Wendy Walfoort
George V. Shalimoff
Anita J. Shaw
Kathryn Shepler
George S. Sheppard
Albert E. Sherwood
Martin D. Shetlar
James S. Shirk
May-Feng Shiue
Hugh C. Silcox
Howard E. Simon
Robert Simpson
Mary F. Singleton
Michael Siu
Arthur C. Smith
Michael E. Smith
John E. Sohn
Deborah L. Solomon
Bruce Spencer
Harry and Margaret Spencer
Susan Chun and
Pete Spielmann
Virginia Stark
David Stern
Dr. Fred B. Stitt Estate
Elise C. Stone
Elaine B. Stoner
Frederick J. Strieter
Pieter Stroeve
“ The Saegebarth fellowship will help me use the results of my research with greenhouse gas sensors for education outreach in local K-12 schools.”
benefits of private givingv i r g i n i a t e i g e is
a second-year graduate
student in Professor
Ronald Cohen’s lab.
She was born in
Bloomington, IN, and
attended the University
of Indiana for her
undergraduate degree.
She is developing com-
pact sensor packages to
monitor several gases
that are controlled
through international
climate and air quality
agreements, including
carbon dioxide and
ozone. She wants to be
a professor of chemistry.
E. Thomas Strom
John P. Sullivan
Ted Sun; Sun Innovations, Inc.
Joseph J. Sweeney
Chris Tagge
Fred Tanaka
Francis Tanzella
Marc E. Tarrasch
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Peter M. Thomson
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John P. Unik
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Paul Verderber
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Matthew Volgraf
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Jennifer S. Wakita
Harold Walba
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Cliff Wang
Kai Wang
David Watt
Donald K. Wedegaertner
Bruce and Shari Weiller
Berthold J. Weis
Peter H. Wendschuh
Greg Went
William C. Wernau
Carolyn A. Westerdahl
James and Mary White
Ieda Siqueira Wiarda
Richard C. Wilmer
Dr. Richard E. Wolf
Joseph L. Womack
Eric K. Wong
Harvey Wong
Patrick Wong
Sharon M. Wong
Mabel Lowe Woo
Annie Wu
Hao Xu
Terry T. Yamada
Elsa Yan
Bo Yang
Eric Pao Yan Yang
Zhen Yu Yang
David R. Yarkony
Marshall Iav Yeh
Benjamin King Fai Yeung
Anissa and Gary Yeung
Shirley Chao Yfantis
Steven Sibener and
Linda Young
Raymond K. Yu
Marsha Yuan
Yao Yue
Loette Zablackis
Richard and Susan Zare
Minxue Zheng
Chester A. Zimmerman
Rebecca Zuckerman
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Elizabeth H. Bartky
Sarah C. Bell
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Thomas S. Bischof
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John Bushweller
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Caroline Chandra Tjin
Angela Y. Chang
Mary Pin Chang
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Yingjie Chen
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Chew
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deCastongrene
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John W. Eastman
Philip M. Edwards
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Erika Feller
Jere D. and Theresa D.
Fellmann
Carolina T. Fineman-Sotomayor
Tom and Iris Fink
Jack and Suzanne Finney
Dr. Mary F. Foltz
Reyes M. Fragoso
Janice D. Frazier
Renee R. Frontiera
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donors to the college
College of
Chemistry
seniors gather
on the plaza
in September
for their third
annual Senior
Class Dinner.
Han Fu
Wei Teik Gan
Jingyun Juliana Gao
Michael D. Gillespie
Michael and Hillary Gilson
Brian C. Gin
Gwen M. Ginley
David Glueck
Joshua E. Goldberger
Ming Gong
Beth and Timothy Grasel
Michael L. Greenfield
Douglas B. Grotjahn
Jolande K. Gumz
Joseph L. Haberfeld
Neil S. Hanabusa
Laurie A. Hart
Melissa Haryanto
Courtney James Hastings
John Hecht
William C. Hecker
Thomas and Sharla Heinzer
Bruce Henschel
Melissa Herbage
Gail Hernandez
Douglas M. Herr
Norman Hill
Paul V. Hinman
Louie and Delta T. Horton
David D. Hsu
Joan Budz Humphreys
Olivia Y. Hung
Peter Hurlimann
Maxine Hutchin
Calvin Huynh
Richard T. Ige
Jean-Pierre G. Jacks
Tuangporn Jackson
Janice S. Javier
Kyle Jensvold
Franklin and Rose Jin
Jon A. Johnsen
Audrey Johnson
Brian Johnston
Berardo Jurado
Anita E. Kalathil
Daniel Kamei
Steven C. Kaplan
Tim Karpishin
Jeffrey Kelterborn
Hassan Khan
Susan Sora Kim
Tae Kyung Kim
Matthew Cameron Kinne
Selene Koo
Nitzan Koppel
Gayane Koshkarayan
Mark H. Krackov
Georgina Garbutt Kratzer
Cynthia Krieger
James H. Krueger
Alexandre F. Kubicka
John and Elizabeth Kuhn
Albert C. Lai
John R. Lai
Peggy Lai
Diana F. Lam
Lisa H. Lam
Michelle C. Lam
Josef Landau and
Hanna Fogelman
John F. Lathrop
Theresa W. Lau
Warren Lau
Thu Alice Le
Marianne Asaro
Martin and Nailin Lee
Victoria Lee
Nicholas Leefer
Joshua Leonard
Eliza-Beth W. Lerch
Ping Sun James Leung
Christina Y. Lew
Andrew Liang
Thomas and Janet Lichterman
Zhen Lin
Eulanca Y. Liu
Tong Liu
James Long
Lawrence and Stephanie
Loomis-Price
Thomas J. Lowery
Ying Ying Lu
Henry S. Luftman
Matthew James Carl Lusich
Lena Luu
Richard A. MacPhail
Frank A. Mahler
Tom Maimone
Alvin W. Mao
Joseph J. Marlin
Andrew B. Martin
Andrew M. Mazzone
Christopher and Ellen
McBride
Barry and Donna McElmurry
Richard P. McGinnis
Anne E. McGuire
Michael J. McKelvy
Haig and Armine Mekhdjian
J. Hoyt Meyer
Adam D. Miller
Mark E. Mizianty
Timothy I. Moder
Carol (Mahon) Moenke
Wilson Mok
Jeffrey and Elizabeth Moreton
Astrid M. Mueller
Karl T. Mueller
Norbert Muller
William Murray
Matthew Myeng Kyun Na
John Nakanishi
Marcel W. Nathans, Ph.D.
Greg and Cindy Naylor
Nathan R. Neale
Randy P. Neisler
Diana and Steven Newman
Pui Shan Ng
Long H. Nguyen
Timothy O’Callaghan
Eugene H. O’Connor
Sarah Ollikkala Jones
Marjorie Olson
Robert M. Onorato
Mark F. Ornellas
William H. Orttung
Robin Padilla
Libbie S. Pelter
Rixin Peng
Eric S. Peterson
Anh-M. Phan
Joseph P. Phillips
John and Judi Pohl
Morgan Ponder
Geoffrey Prentice
Andrew D. Presley
Jesse Qi and Jimei Tian
Christina L. Quigley
Bob Rahardjo
Leila A. Ranis
Edward E. Ray
Richard A. Reinhardt
Barbara Reisner
Gordon and Sharon Renkes
Julius Rene Reyes
Matthew Aaron Richards
Keith W. Rickert
Gary E. Ritchey
Hank Rodeen
Glen Amos Rogers
Dobbie L. Roisen
Ara H. Rostomian
Jonathan J. Roybal
Eric P. Ruby
Wayne E. Sackett
Sanford A. Safron
Jeffrey S. Sasaki
Charles H. Schallhorn
William J. Scott, M.D.
Lynne, Steven, and Eric
Seaborg
Alan Sentman
Kamesh H. Shah
Priya S. Shah
Matthew Sheldon
Tae Soo Shin
Gary L. Shuck
Todd P. Silverstein
Harmeet Singh
Travis Smith
Shepard J. Smithline
Ferry and Melani Soendjojo
Jong Hwa Song
Joseph Sonnenberg
Gilbert A. St. John
Robert J. Stanley
Walter A. Stark Jr.
Steven and Gloria Stoltz
Diane Suen
Geary C. Sun
Andree Susanto
Jon T. Swanson
Robert and Margaret Switzer
Robert and Linda Swofford
Chi Hang T. Tai
Victor K. Tam
Iok I. Tang
Yun-Chen and Amy Tang
Vazken Tashinian
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Benjamin Ide
Wheeler Society
The following have commu-
nicated to us their intention
to include the College of
Chemistry or the University
of California, Berkeley, in
their estate plans through
some form of planned gift.
Raul E. Acosta
Dr. and Mrs. David Altman
Charles E. and Marianne
Auerbach
Jeremy J. Bartlett
Prof. Robert and Ms. Wendy
Bergman
Norbert C. Brady
Dr. Robert J. Carr
Sunney I. Chan
Dr. Nirmal and
Mrs. Ellen Chatterjee
T. Z. and Irmgard Chu
Robin D. Clark and
Mary Mackiernan
Erna P. Clifford
Warren E. Clifford
Joyce Ekman Davis
Gus D. Dorough
Arthur K. Dunlop
Lois J. Durham
Martha Dutro
Dr. Darrell C. Feay
Warren W. Flack
Dr. Peter C. Foller
Kai-Ye Fung
Anna Gatti
Gay Chemists Support Fund
William and Janet Gerhardt
G. Douglas and Regina Gould
Ruth Groch
Susie Hahn
Benjamin Haile
Elizabeth S. Hall
Prof. Clayton Heathcock and
Mrs. Cheri Hadley
John F. Heil
Clinton and Joji Holzwarth
Richard W. Hyman
Nissen A. Jaffe
Anne C. Johnson
Prof. and Mrs. William L. Jolly
Dr. and Mrs. Fred Kirby
Dr. Paul A. and Mrs. Barbara W.
Kittle
Lance M. Krigbaum
Dr. Joe B. Lavigne
Tony K. and Louisa Ling
John M. McDonald
Robert A. Micheli
Prof. and Mrs. C. Bradley
Moore
Marjorie Pape Crandall Pearce
Gene Roberts
Glen A. Rogers
Michael S. Ross
Harry N. and Jane L. Scheiber
J. S. Paul Schwarz
Hugh C. Silcox
Henry B. Sinclair
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Skinner
Nora S. Smiriga
Frank B. Sprow
Bruce E. and Susan J.
Stangeland
Prof. Andrew Streitwieser
Nancy P. Taylor
William Tolman
Dr. J. A. Trainham and
Dr. L. D. Waters
Rita Wieland
J. Michael Word
Robert D. Zimmerman
Tributes
Gifts have been received in
honor of:
Prof. Paul A. Bartlett
Prof. Robert G. Bergman
Prof. Harvey W. Blanch
Ms. Anna Chodos
Prof. Robert E. Connick
Prof. John E. Hearst
Prof. Clayton H. Heathcock
Prof. C. Judson King
Prof. Scott Lynn
Dean Richard A. Mathies
Prof. John M. Prausnitz
Prof. John O. Rasmussen
Junaedi T. Teh
Mansi Thakkar
Sigvor H. Thornton
Novy S. Tjokro
Ching Yin To
Raymond To
Paulina N. Tran
Rosalie Tran
Thanh Xuan Thi Tran
Dale Brian Trowbridge
Julie Tse
Richard Underwood
Tim Underwood
Ricardo Unikel
Mathias van Thiel
Vishal Vashistha
Joseph M. Victorino
Mary F. Vondrak
Jason N. Voogt
Huy K. Vu
Tiffany A. Vukasinovich
Shruti Waghray
Kiev K. Wan
Jack Wang
Clayton A. Webb
Brian M. Weiss
Scott P. West
Donald W. Whisenhunt Jr.
Ralph E. White
Todd Wightman
James Thor Williams
Valerie Williams
Betty K. Wong
Judi Wong
Steven Wong
Sussie Woo
Jennifer Betsy Wood
Adam and Shannon Woolley
Lilia G. and Edward Y. Wu
Yui Lun Wu
Alexander L. Xenakis
Chenxu Xu
Qiyao Yang
Jennifer R. Yen
Christine Yin
Donald G. Young
Adam J. Youngman
Frederick Zee
Tahani Zeid
Joyce G. Zhu
Qi Zuo
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donors to the collegeMr. Michael W. Rowell
Dr. David B. Sable
Prof. Gabor A. Somorjai
Prof. Andrew Streitwieser
Prof. Ignacio Tinoco Jr.
Prof. K. Peter C. Vollhardt
Dr. Michael C. Williams
Gifts have been received in
memory of:
Mr. Samuel Abrahams
Mr. Eric B. Abramson
Mr. Edwin S. Anderson
Mr. Lawrence B. Anderson
Prof. Neil Bartlett
David and Betty Beach
Dr. Gary E. Brodale
Prof. Melvin Calvin
Prof. James Cason
Mrs. Minnie Cheng
Dr. Frances S. Connick
Prof. William G. Dauben
Mr. Isaac L. Eskenasy
Prof. Alan S. Foss
Prof. William D. Gwinn
Dr. Heinz Heinemann
Mrs. Nancy K. Hildenbrand
Ms. Margaret Jorgenson
Mr. Glen K. Kindler
Mrs. Rochelle Lester
Prof. Gilbert Newton Lewis
Prof. David N. Lyon
Ms. Kristen Malmquist
William H. McAdams
Mr. Charles F. McKay
Mr. Gregory K. Meisner
Dr. Jacklyn B. Melchior
Prof. Donald S. Noyce
Prof. Eugene E. Petersen
Dr. Paul B. Plouffe
Prof. Henry Rapoport
Dr. Charles B. Roland
Prof. Glenn T. Seaborg
Prof. Mitchel Shen
Mr. Tzong-Yann Shiue
Prof. David H. Templeton
Dr. Lieselotte K. Templeton
Prof. Charles W. Tobias
Prof. Theodore Vermeulen
Mrs. Cynthia Yieh
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Alumni
Association
Steering Team
Gordon G. Chu, B.S. ’03,
ChemE
Laurie J. Dockter, B.A. ’71,
Chem
Dean C. Draemel, M.S. ’75,
ChemE
Marissa Drouillard, B.S. ’00,
Chem
Mark W. Ellsworth, Ph.D. ’93,
Chem
Lara A. Gundel, Ph.D. ’75, Chem
Deanne C. Krenz, B.S. ’94,
Chem
Kirk Patrick Noblesa Lao,
B.S. ’09, ChemE
Lawrence B. Perry, B.S. ’56,
ChemE
Daisy Y. Quan, B.S. ’47, Chem
Steven F. Sciamanna, B.S. ’79,
Ph.D. ’86, ChemE
Krystine N. Yu, B.S. ’09, ChemE
Lucinda A. Vejar, B.S. ’85, Chem
Rebecca Zuckerman, Ph.D. ’00, Chem
Alumni Era
Volunteers
The following have volun-
teered their time to the
Alumni Association’s “era
groups.”
G. N. LEWIS ERA: 1945 AND EARLIER
George D. Gould, B.S. ’42, Chem
CUPOLA ERA: 1946–1963
Frank G. Delfino, B.S. ’51, ChemE
E. Kenneth Hulet, Ph.D. ’53,
Chem
Mary F. Singleton, M.S. ’60,
Chem
volunteers
YOUNG ALUMNI: 2000 AND BEYOND
Stephen Chan, B.S. ’01, ChemE
Marissa Drouillard, B.S. ’00,
Chem
Rebecca Zuckerman, Ph.D.
’00, Chem
SENIOR CLASS CAMPAIGN FOR 2010
Ernan Anguiano, B.S. ’11, ChemE
Doug Fung, B.S. ’11, ChemE
Anita Kalathil, B.S. ’10, ChemE
Baljit Kaur, B.S. ’11, ChemE
Kevin Ng, B.S. ’11, ChemE
Matthew A. Richards, B.S. ’10,
ChemE
Joe Thompson, B.S. ’11, ChemE
Kiev Wan, B.S. ’10, ChemE
Fundraising
Volunteers
The following assisted the
College in fundraising
efforts in 2009–10.
Dr. Andreas Acrivos
Keith Alexander, B.S. ’78,
Ph.D. ’83, ChemE
John Brauman, Ph.D. ’63,
Chem
Emory M. Chan, Ph.D. ’06,
Chem
Nirmal Chatterjee, Ph.D. ’71,
ChemE
Mike K. Cheng, B.S. ’77, ChemE
T.Z. Chu, B.S. ’58, Chem
Shelley Claridge, Ph.D. ’08,
Chem
J. Peter Clark, Ph.D. ’68, ChemE
William A. Daniels, B.S. ’56,
ChemE
Thomas G. DeJonghe, M.S.
’73, ChemE
Thomas J. Dietsche, Ph.D. ’72,
Chem
Dean C. Draemel, M.S. ’75,
ChemE
THE FREE RADICALS CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE : 1964–1979
Mike K. Cheng, B.S. ’77, ChemE
Thomas G. DeJonghe, M.S.
’73, ChemE
Thomas J. Dietsche, Ph.D. ’72,
Chem
Dean C. Draemel, M.S. ’75,
ChemE
David S. Gee, M.D., B.S. ’76,
Chem
Lara A. Gundel, Ph.D. ’75, Chem
Timothy L. Montgomery, B.S.
’73, ChemE
Virginia G. Schultz, B.S. ’66,
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, ChemE
Joel 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.
’85, Chem
Tarric El-Sayed, Ph.D. ’87,
ChemE
David S. Gee, B.S. ’76, Chem
William T. Gerhardt, B.S. ’60,
ChemE
George D. Gould, B.S. ’42,
Chem
Lara A. Gundel, Ph.D. ’75, Chem
Prof. John E. Hearst
Prof. Clayton H. Heathcock
John Hecht, Ph.D. ’99, ChemE
L. Louis Hegedus, Ph.D. ’72,
ChemE
Michael C. Kavanaugh, M.S.
’64, ChemE
Prof. C. Judson King
John M. Krochta, M.S. ’67,
ChemE
Christine M. Micheel, Ph.D.
’05, Chem
Timothy L. Montgomery, B.S.
’73, ChemE
Joon S. Moon, Ph.D. ’64,
ChemE
Prof. C. Bradley Moore, Ph.D.
’63, Chem
Curtis Munson, B.S. ’76,
Ph.D. ’85, ChemE
Pankaj K. Pande, B.S. ’79,
ChemE
Jeanne R. Pimentel
Bryce F. Sadtler, Ph.D. ’09,
Chem
Virginia G. Schultz, B.S. ’66,
Chem
Steven F. Sciamanna, B.S. ’79,
Ph.D. ’86, ChemE
Farhang Shadman, M.S. ’69,
ChemE
Jane L. Scheiber
Bruce E. Stangeland, Ph.D.
’67, ChemE
Janet Tamada, Ph.D. ’89, ChemE
David H. Templeton, Ph.D. ’47,
Chem
Rodney Thompson, Ph.D. ’86,
ChemE
John H. Wang, B.S. ’00, Chem
Joshua Wittenburg, Ph.D. ’08,
Chem
Industrial Friends
Program
The College’s Industrial
Friends contribute $25,000
in annual support in the
form of unrestricted funds,
fellowships and scholar-
ships, start-up funds for
non-tenured faculty, sup-
port for facilities or research
funds for tenured faculty.
The following list includes
Industrial Friends in
2008–10.
Abbott Laboratories
Agilent Technologies
Amgen
Arkema
AstraZeneca
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Chevron Corporation
Clorox Company
CrystalGenomics
Dow Chemical Company
DuPont
Eli Lilly and Company
Genentech
Gilead Sciences
Halcyon Molecular
Hitachi
Hoffman-LaRoche
Honda R&D Americas
Johnson & Johnson
Lam Research Corporation
Merck
Micron Technology
Novartis
Robert Bosch Corporation
Roche Palo Alto
Schlumberger
Showa Denko K. K.
Sony Corporation
SpectraWatt
Toyobo America
Tyco Electronics
Gifts of $100,000
and more
Agilent Technologies
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
American Chemical Society,
Division of Organic
Chemistry
Amgen
Burroughs Wellcome
Camille and Henry Dreyfus
Foundation
Cancer Research Institute
Dow Chemical Company
Eli Lilly and Company
Genentech
Gilead Sciences
W.M. Keck Foundation
Gifts of $50,000 to
$99,000
AstraZeneca
Chevron Corporation
Micron Technology
Novartis
Robert Bosch Corporation
Sony Corporation
Gifts of $25,000 to
$49,000
Alternative Research & Development Foundation
Arkema
Bristol-Myers Squibb
DuPont
Halcyon Molecular
Hoffmann-La Roche
Johnson & Johnson
Lam Research Corporation
Merck & Company
Roche Palo Alto
Showa Denko K. K.
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corporate, foundation and organizational 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 2009–10 are listed below.
(center rear) David Kepler, Tony Kingsbury and Craig McDonald from Dow Chemical Company attend
the Western Regional AIChE conference held at UC Berkeley in April.
Gifts up to $24,999
Abbott Laboratories
Abcam
Ciba Vision Corporation
Clorox Company
Daiichi-Sankyo Company
Eastman Chemical Company
ExxonMobil
Hayden-McNeil Publishing
Jozef Stefan Institute
Newry Corporation
Organic Syntheses
Procter & Gamble Company
Royal Society of Chemistry
Matching Gifts
3M Foundation
A T & T Foundation
Abbott Laboratories Fund
Agilent Technologies
Air Products & Chemicals
Allstate Insurance
Altria
Amgen Foundation
Arkema
BASF Corporation
Baxter Healthcare
Beckman Coulter
BGI Barclay’s Global Investors
Biogen Idec
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Chevron Corporation
Cisco
Citrix
Clorox Company Foundation
Cognis Corporation
ConocoPhillips
Corning Inc. Foundation
Dow Chemical USA
eBay
Eli Lilly & Company
ExxonMobil Foundation
Fluor Corporation
Genentech
General Electric Foundation
Georgia Power
GlaxoSmithKline
Hess Corporation
Hospira
J. M. Huber Corporation
IBM Corporation
IFF Foundation
Intel Foundation
Intuit
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson Controls Foundation
Lam Research Corporation
Life Technologies
Lockheed Martin
L’Oreal USA
Medtronic
Menasha Corporation
Foundation
Merck
Microsoft
Monsanto Fund
MRW & Associates
Northrop Grumman
Corporation
Novartis US Foundation
Novellus Systems
Pfizer
Pharmacia & Upjohn
Foundation
Pioneer Hi-Bred International
PNM Foundation
Procter & Gamble Fund
Raytheon Company
SanDisk
Science Applications Int’l
Shell Oil Company Foundation
Sun Microsystems
Tektronix Foundation
United Technologies
Valero Energy Corporation
Walt Disney Company
Foundation
Wells Fargo
Yahoo!
(right rear) Chevron’s Rebecca Brafman (G.S. ’00, ChemE) and Alyssa Roche (B.S. ’87, ChemE) attend the College’s annual Chevron lunch in March.
college advisory boardJohn H. Abeles, M.D.
MedVest
William Banholzer Dow Chemical Company
Paul F. Bryan Ph.D. ’85, ChemEChevron Corporation
Sunney I. Chan B.S. ’57, ChemE; Ph.D. ’61, ChemCaltech (emeritus)
Nirmal Chatterjee M.S. ’68, Ph.D. ’71, ChemE Air Products and Chemicals
Carl P. Decicco Bristol-Myers Squibb
Wayne L. Delker Clorox Company
Sam H. Eletr Ph.D. ’68, Chem Population Genetics
Stephen P. Fodor Post-doc ’91, ChemAffymetrix
Richard A. Gottscho Lam Research Corporation
Christopher A. Haskell Bayer Corporation
Victoria F. Haynes B.A. ’69, ChemRTI International
Herbert H. Hooper Ph.D. ’90, ChemEAmpersand Ventures
F. Emil Jacobs ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
M. Ross Johnson B.S. ’67, Postdoc ’71, Chem Parion Sciences
Yuan T. Lee Ph.D. ’65, Chem Academia Sinica and UC Berkeley (emeritus)
Richard A. Lerner Scripps Research Institute
John H. Markels Ph.D. ’93, ChemE Merck & Company
Gary M. Masada B.A. ’66, Chem Chevron Corporation
Alan C. Mendelson Latham & Watkins, LLP
Terry J. Rosen Ph.D. ’85, ChemAmgen
Charles V. Shank UC Berkeley, LBNL (emeritus)
Darlene Solomon Agilent Technologies
James A. Trainham B.S. ’73, Ph.D. ’79, ChemERTI International
R. Stanley Williams M.S. ’76, Ph.D. ’78, Chem Hewlett-Packard Company
Steven D. Young Ph.D. ’82, ChemMerck & Company
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forms of givingbenefits for the college—and for the donors
Many different kinds of gifts can benefit both
you and the University. Some of them can
offer particular estate planning advantages,
including income for life. Our professional
staff would be pleased to discuss these gift
vehicles with you; however, the University
urges you also to consult your attorney or
financial advisor.
If you wish your gift to benefit the college,
any legal documents or instructions should
specify that the gift is for the College of
Chemistry (or the Department of Chemistry
or the Department of Chemical & Bio-
molecular Engineering) at the University
of California, Berkeley.
C A S H Checks should be made payable
to the UC Berkeley Foundation (UCBF),
with a notation designating the name of
the fund. Gifts to memorial funds should
be made payable to the specific fund.
Contributions may also be made with
your Visa or MasterCard credit card by
phone (510/642.9506), or online at
givetocal.berkeley.edu/chem/.
S E C U R I T I E S In most cases, gifts of
appreciated securities may be deducted at
full market value as of the date you make
the gift, and the donor does not have to pay
capital gains taxes. Gifts of appreciated
stock are most easily handled by the UC
Berkeley Foundation and should not be
sold prior to transfer. You or your broker
may contact Assistant Dean Mindy Rex in
the college (510/642.9506) or Ms. Sylvia
Worthington, Securities Steward in
University Relations (510/642.4123), for
further information. Stock can often be
transferred electronically. If you wish to
give a gift of depreciated stock, you should
first sell it and give the proceeds to the
Foundation. You can then use the loss to
offset any gains and also claim a charitable
deduction.
R E A L E S T A T E Gifts of real property may
be deeded to UC Berkeley for the benefit of
the College of Chemistry, providing signifi-
cant tax advantages to the donor in most
cases. It is also possible to deed a property
to the University and continue to occupy it
for life.
L I F E I N C O M E G I F T S A number of
options are available by which you may
transfer assets to a trust (to be managed
either by the University or a trustee of your
choosing) and receive income for yourself
and/or a designated beneficiary for life, as
well as immediate tax benefits. The college
ultimately receives the trust property.
B E Q U E S T S A fixed amount or a per-
centage of your estate may be designated
for the benefit of the College of Chemistry
in your will or living trust.
M A T C H I N G G I F T S Hundreds of
firms match their employees’ (and some-
times retirees’) contributions on a 1:1, 2:1
or even 3:1 basis. If your company has such
a policy, forms—hard copy or electronic—
to assure that your gift will be matched
can be obtained from your personnel or
employee relations office. Matching gifts
are added to your individual gift in
determining the donor club to which
you belong.
giving to the college of chemistry
college funds
T H E A N N U A L F U N D provides essen-
tial monies that can be used, at the discretion
of the dean or of the chairs, to meet needs
that are not supported by the state budget.
These unrestricted funds are particularly
valuable because of their flexibility. The
annual fund is vital for financing ongoing
programs and special projects.
E N D O W E D F U N D S provide a perma-
nent source of income to meet the needs
of faculty and students in perpetuity.
M E M O R I A L F U N D S commemorate
individuals while benefiting the college
and the departments of chemistry and
chemical & biomolecular engineering.
Donations may also be given to the annual
fund in memory or in honor of an individ-
ual, and the college will notify the family
that a contribution has been made.
archiveChemistry Professor Emeritus David Templeton and
his wife and colleague, Lilo, both recently passed away.
Over the decades, they kept a scrapbook of the many
visitors to their X-ray crystallography lab at LBNL. The
photos here are of David and Lilo and faculty members
from the mid-1960s.
THE ANNUAL REPORT OF PRIVATE GIVING
COLLEGE OF CHEMISTRY
2009–10
The preceding report acknowledges
all donors to the College of Chemistry
from July 1, 2009 through June 30,
2010. We have made every attempt
to include all donors accurately. We
apologize for any errors or omissions
and would appreciate hearing from
you with any comments or correc-
tions regarding this publication.
assistant dean
Mindy Rex
director of corporate and
annual programs
Nancy Johnsen Horton
director of major gifts and
alumni relations
Camille Olufson
development services manager
Dorothy Isaacson Read
For further information about giving to
the College of Chemistry, please contact
College Relations and Development
College of Chemistry #1460
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1460
Phone: 510/642.9506
Fax: 510/642.4419
Email: [email protected]
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Upcoming Spring 2011 Alumni Events
Cupola Era Alumni Luncheon
Date TBA Watch for a mailing in late January/early February for informa-
tion on the Cupola Era alumni event. This era includes friends
and alumni from the graduating years 1946–63.
Cal Day
April 16 This annual campus-wide open house has something for every-
one! As the date draws closer, check out berkeley.edu/calday
for the complete list of events and programs.
CHEMillennium Era Alumni Event
April 16 While you are on campus for Cal Day, join with fellow class-
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for children; food will be provided by Top Dog.
Complimentary event. RSVP to [email protected]
Springfest
April 28 Celebrate with us at Jupiter’s, 2181 Shattuck Ave., as we
congratulate our 2011 graduating undergraduate and graduate
students!
This is a complimentary event, and reservations are not required.
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