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year term as Chairman of the Department, Wwfi «;,;§’:fligfrgg%gsg fellows. His research is supported by grants
effective July 1, 1987. Dave received his g’fi‘w‘;w§§g,% from the National Seience Foundation and the
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Like all my predecessors in this position, have recently created the “Chemistry Endow- coming year. The success of these new
I have aspirations for this Department which ment Fund” with a long—term view of using research programs will depend on the in—
reflect my confidence that we possess both the the interest to support programs of this type. itiative ofthe investigators, on a steady supply
facult and the students necessar to develo The raduate ro ram thrives but re uires of 00d raduate students, and on access to
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1 solid undergraduate and graduate programs additional increases in teaching assistant modern instrumentation. The instrumenta-
in chemistry. At the undergraduate level, we stipends in order to continue to attract the best tion in the Department has undergone some
must continue to emphasize that a career in students. Although the University added a dramatic improvements in the last year with
chemistry can be rewarding. We hope to at— substantial increment to these stipends last the availability of funds through a state bond
tract potential majors in chemistry through a year, still more is needed to raise our stipends issue. We have acquired two new high field
generous, anonymous gift which led to an to a level competitive with other institutions. NMR spectrometers: a Gemini 200 MHz and
Undergraduate Scholarship Fund handled ex- In the future, we hope to use endowment Varian 4-00 MHz instruments. The former in-
clusively by the faculty. We have already funds to supplement graduate student stipends strument is a routine “hands-on” NMR
made several awards to talented under— and provide much needed summer support for which is available to investigators on a “sign-
graduates, and we hope to use some of these graduate students. up” basis. In addition, we have also acquired
funds to encourage undergraduate research Under the able leadership of Bob Guthrie, a LAMMA, a laser actuated microprobe mass
participation this coming summer. We are ac- the Department has hired five energetic and analyzer used for elemental analysis at the
tively seeking extramural support for such productive young faculty members, and we cellular level. A high power laser “burns” a
undergraduate research programs, and we would like to hire two additional faculty in the 1-2 micron diameter hole in thin slices of