Union's Chemistry Department
was well-represented at the 216th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in
Boston recently.
Janet Anderson, professor of chemistry,
presented a talk on “Using Mathematica to teach the applications of group theory in
chemistry.”
Mary Carroll, associate professor of
chemistry, presented a talk titled “Use of Instrumentation in a one-term,
laboratory-based, general chemistry course.” Tara Morcone '99,
and Julia Barkin '00, were co-authors.
Morcone also gave a poster presentation on
“Sol-gel-derived sensor for sulfite based on immobilized methylene blue,”
research performed under Carroll's direction. Kristen Slawinski, '99,
was co-author on the poster as were collaborators from the research group of Prof. F. V.
Bright at SUNY Buffalo.
Michael Hagerman, assistant professor of
chemistry, and Samuel Salamone '00, presented a poster on their
summer project “Surface and intergallery polymerization of aniline and
ortho-substituted aniline monomers on Cu(II)-exchanged hectorite.” Co-author was Charity
McManaman '99.
Thomas Werner, professor of chemistry,
gave a talk titled “Water project: a 'real-world' problem for the quant
lab.” Peter Tobiessen, professor of biology, Karen Lou,
visiting assistant professor of chemistry, and Alexandros Polemeropoulos '98,
were co-authors.
In addition, the 1997-98 Chemistry Club officers (Louis
Carrazzone '98, Allison Ciolino '98, George Lombardo '98, and McManaman)
along with advisors Carroll and Hagerman prepared a poster on “Student Affiliate
activities and chapter successes at Union College (1997-98),” which was presented by Kellie
Forrestall '99, Morcone and Salamone.