Volume 8 December 1993 No. 1
Publisher: Department of Chemistry Udo H. Brinker, Professor and Chair Editor: Clifford E. Myers, Professor Co-Editor and Production: Annie Cron, Department Secretary Mailing Address: Department of Chemistry Binghamton University (SUNY) P.O. Box 6000 Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 Telephone: (607) 777-2517 Department Office (607) 777-2229 Editor
The last issue of this publication appeared in June of 1987, so we have some catching up to do. The plan for this issue is to focus on developments in and around the department in the past six years. We plan a spring issue which will emphasize news from our readers. We even provide a form for you to use in organizing your information. As Lois Mackey said in the last issue, ". . . the news content of our Alumni Newsletter is defined by your willingness to communicate with the department (the editor, faculty, Mrs. Cron, and the staff). Your including news of others who received degrees from this department is particularly appreciated. Some persons enjoy communicating about their professional, non-professional, and family interests; others do not. To those who have never written to us or sent in the form in the back of the Newsletter, we say: 'Please try it; you'll like it - and so will we'."
We're instituting a new feature with this issue, "A Conversation with . . ." The first interview was with Martin A. Paul who was the very first faculty member in chemistry at Triple Cities College of Syracuse University - the precursor (to use a good chemistry term) of Harpur College and Binghamton University. Future interviews are planned with C. Max Hull, Bruce McDuffie, and Stanley K. Madan. One nice thing about our being a young institution is that many of our academic forebears are still with us to share their recollections of our formative years.
Inside you will find a message from department chair Udo Brinker, news of faculty and staff comings and goings, new curricular programs, new ways of approaching established programs, new research directions in the department, and other things we hope will be of interest to you. Let us know whether we have come close to the mark.
This preamble would not be complete without a big "Thank you!" to Lois Mackey for her service as Newsletter editor for so long. Annie Cron is still on board to keep us on the straight and narrow. CEM
A Conversation with Martin Paul
In April of 1988 Dr. Udo H. Brinker joined us as Professor of Chemistry. Professor Brinker received his Diplom Chemiker and Dr. rer. nat. degrees from the University of Cologne and, following a postdoctoral position at the University of Florida, returned to the Ruhr-University in Bochum, where he finished his Habilitation and was appointed Privatdozent and, later, Professor. His area of research is physical organic chemistry, with emphasis on reactions of carbenes. Recently he and his coworkers have been studying reactions in confined media such as cyclodextrins and zeolites. He is the editor of the book series, "Advances in Carbene Chemistry".
Dr. M. Stanley Whittingham became Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Institute for Materials Research in the fall of 1988. He earned his B.A. and D. Phil. degrees at Oxford in the area of solid state inorganic chemistry. Following a postdoctoral position in materials science at Stanford, he joined Exxon Research and Engineering where he was head of solid state research for several years. Immediately before joining our faculty Dr. Whittingham was director of physical sciences at Schlumberger-Doll Research. He is principal editor of the journal, Solid State Ionics. His research interests lie in the area of new materials and their potential applications in the energy area. The principal focus is on layered compounds and their intercalation products and on oxides with large channels which can accommodate "guest" ions.
Dr. Taeboem Oh also joined the faculty in 1988 as Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Dr. Oh did his undergraduate studies at Juniata College and his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia, and came to Binghamton after a postdoctoral stint at the University of California at Irvine. His research activities center on organic synthesis related to natural products.
Dr. Richard A. Hartwick was appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry in 1990. His undergraduate studies were at Barrington College, and his M.S. and Ph.D. were completed at the University of Rhode Island. He was a NATO/NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Edinburgh University before joining the faculty at Rutgers in 1979. His research in analytical chemistry is in separations science, and his group employs both capillary electrophoresis and high performance liquid chromatography.
The most recent addition to the faculty (1993) is Dr. Wayne E. Jones, Jr., Assistant Professor of Chemistry. After undergraduate studies at St. Michael's College, he pursued his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His postdoctoral research was at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests lie in the areas of inorganic photochemistry and electron transfer. He was co-author of the cover article of the March 15, 1993, issue of Chemical and Engineering News.
Keith Innes retired in 1990; he and Ruth are on campus from time to time. Their address: 304 Robin Lane, Vestal, NY 13850.
Gilbert Janauer had a bicycle accident in July, 1988, was in a coma for several months, and has only partially recovered. He is on disability sick leave. Marianne's address: 1524 Drexel Drive, Vestal, NY. 13850. (continued on page 8)
Alistair Lees succeeded Bruce Norcross as department chair in 1990. In the spring of 1992 he resigned as chair and took leave to become Dean of the Faculty of Science of Lancashire Polytechnic (now University of Central Lancashire) in Preston, England. Udo Brinker was elected to replace Alistair as chair. Despite the challenges and perquisites of his new position, Alistair has decided to return to Binghamton and will be resuming his teaching and research here in January. We are delighted to welcome him back.
John Eisch has received a Research Prize for Senior U. S. Scientists from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany, a prize which is awarded to U. S. scientists who have attained international recognition for their accomplishments. The awards were established in recognition of the aid provided to Germany by the Marshall Plan. For six months during three years John will be engaged in collaborative research with German colleagues at the University of Munich and at the Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung.
Stan Whittingham was awarded a JSPS Fellowship by the Japanese Government in 1993. These fellowships are awarded to eminent scientists to enhance scientific exchange and to increase understanding of the Japanese science system. He spent April and May based at the University of Tokyo, but travelled around Japan giving seminars and interacting with chemists and physicists at national and private universities, the National Research Institutes in Osaka, Okasaki, and Tsukuba, and in industry.
Peter Harrington left in 1987 to take a position in industry.
Richard Rava resigned in 1988 to join the staff at MIT: Spectroscopy Laboratory, Room 6-014, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Dan Konowalow was on leave from 1987 to 1989 at Edwards Air Force Base in California and in 1989 accepted a permanent position there. Marcy Rosenkrantz is also at Edwards. Their address: 5020 West Avenue, K-8, Lancaster, CA 93536.
Jim Dix spent the 1988-89 academic year at the UC-San Francisco where he gained experience in doing spectroscopy under a microscope using biological cells.
Alistair Lees spent the spring semester of 1989 at Cambridge University in England.
In 1989-90 David Doetschman set up the U. K. Centre for Applications of Pulsed EPR at University College, London.
During 1990-91, Cliff Myers was a Visiting Professor in the Institute for Physical Chemistry of the University of Vienna for a semester and went on to Uppsala University in Sweden for the second semester.
Gene Stevens spent the spring semester of 1991 in London where he was engaged in writing at the Library of the Royal Institute of Chemistry and in research at Cranfield Institute of Technology. He also made several lab visits and gave numerous lectures.
Olivier Martin spent the 1991-92 academic year at the CNRS Laboratory for Plant Polysaccharide Research located at the University of Grenoble in France.
Michael Starzak was a Fulbright Lecturer during 1991-92 at Wroclaw Technical University in Poland.
John Eisch spent much of the spring semester of 1992 visiting laboratories and giving lectures in Germany and other countries of Europe.
Susan Hastie was on leave during the fall of 1992. She prepared a number of manuscripts for publication and trained several new students in her group. Her twin daughters were born in June, 1993.
When I joined the Chemistry Department in April of 1988, our departmental faculty strength for the upcoming academic year was at 18. Before their separation from State service, I enjoyed, on a few occasions, an opportunity to talk with Keith Innes (before his illness), Gil Janauer (before his accident), Bruce McDuffie and Stan Madan (before their full retirement). The loss of these four in such a brief period of time certainly did hurt the department, leaving us with only 14 teaching faculty. Since then, we have hired Richard A. Hartwick (Analytical) in 1990 and Wayne Jones (Inorganic) in 1993. I am still struggling with the Administration to bring our number of faculty up to where we were when I joined this department. In order to keep the strength of this department, we feel we have to number about 20.
We have had quite a turn-over in our professional staff over the last five years: NMR Specialist - Richard Lefferts (now at Stony Brook) was replaced by Chris Tsiao, who has since been replaced (August of this year) by Jürgen Schulte. Departmental Typist - In August Ellen Mooney began working in the Personnel Office, having been offered a promotional position to Secretary I. She has been replaced by Pat Kellam. Research Secretary - Joyce Scotto resigned this summer when her husband retired from IBM. They have sold their home and moved to Rhode Island to enjoy their sailboat. Her position has been filled by Kathleen Stanley. Administrative Assistant - Jean Farley joined the staff in April of 1991, replacing Sue Prakash. Technical Specialist - Mary Bridge was appointed in 1988 to provide technical and logistic support in the organic instructional labs. She had previously worked on two externally funded research projects in the department. Electronics Instrumentation Specialist - In addition to Jon Stickles, we have created a new position for a second Instrumentation Specialist. Bob Gonzales, formerly of IBM, joined us on June 1 of this year.
For a Chemistry Department of this size to effectively conduct its various research programs, it is absolutely necessary to have excellent professional staff, and we are very lucky to have them on board; I value their services very highly. Now, if we could only just get a professional glassblower on the staff!
During the last few years the Chemistry Department was able to bring in annually over one-million dollars in research grants. In 1992-93, however, and again this year, we have experienced losses which reflect the tough climate out there to successfully acquire funding. Because we are going through these fiscal hard times, right now contributions from alumni to the Chemistry Department are especially welcome (through Binghamton University Foundation).
Since 1987 we have successfully added major new research equipment to our existing fleet of instruments. Most recently, due to the efforts of Mark Poliks (an adjunct colleague from IBM/Endicott), we were able to receive from IBM/Fishkill a 300 MHz Bruker/IBM instrument which, for the first time, enables us to do solid state NMR spectroscopy. In addition, an FT infrared instrument was purchased. A new powder X-ray machine was brought in by the Materials Research Center. In addition, 15 new computers which will be used for molecular modeling have been installed in the Chemistry Department. Science II Rooms 134 and 135 (the former Student Lounge) have been converted into one of the campus computer pods. This computer pod, housing 24 MacIntosh and 24 IBM PC's, is used mainly by the Chemistry and Physics Departments, but is also open to the general public during regular building hours.
The last few years we have experienced a dramatic, steady increase of students in the lower division courses - especially in 107-108 (intro chem) and 231-332 (organic chem). Actually, right now CHEM 107 is being taught in the Watters Theater because no lecture hall on campus will accommodate a class with 550 students! Richard Quest and his staff have managed to service more than 1200 students in the chemistry department laboratory courses this Fall semester.
In the Summer of 1992, and again in 1993, we successfully ran a six-weeks Young Scholars Research Program, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. We had fifteen 11th graders from all over the United States doing research with faculty in Chemistry, Biology, and Physics. We have applied for a renewal of this program for 1994 and 1995, and hope to be able to run the same exciting program on a larger scale, enrolling 20 students each summer.
I am happy and grateful that Cliff Myers has put so much effort into resurrecting the Chemistry Newsletter and hope that it will stimulate renewed transactions between the department and its alumni and friends. We anticipate plenty of feedback from you out there, so that we will be able to produce another letter next spring or summer. UHB
The past few years have seen a remarkable upsurge in the use of computers in the undergraduate program. The Computer Center installed a new "Pod" in Science II, in rooms behind the tower elevators. One room has two dozen Apple Macs and the other two dozen IBM PCs, with both sets connected to a UNIX server. These new facilities are being used in several courses and are available for general use during the hours the building is open. In addition two recent grants, one (joint with Biology) from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (about $12k), and the other from NSF with matching funds from the university (total about $50k), are making possible the introduction of molecular modeling at all levels of the undergraduate curriculum.
Through Stan Whittingham's leadership there is now in place an optional materials emphasis within every degree program of the department, both undergraduate and graduate. A similar emphasis in biophysical chemistry is in process of being approved to be effective in the fall of 1994. Also in the approval process for 1994 is a minor in chemistry.
Jim Dix has developed a new one-credit "Freshman Seminar" course which is targeted for, but not limited to, students with AP credit in chemistry. Students are introduced to the breadth of chemistry, the traditional areas plus materials, biophysical, and bioorganic chemistry. A tour of research facilities is included.
In the years 1989-93 the department has awarded 94 bachelor's degrees, 31 BA (22 men and 9 women) and 63 BS (33 men and 30 women). Half or more of our majors continue to go on to medical or dental school, and about a quarter pursue graduate study in chemistry. The remaining graduates enter the job market.
Enrollment in the graduate program in the department has remained fairly level over the past five years, the total number ranging between 50 and 60. The university has provided assistantship support for 25-30 of these, and many of the remainder have been supported on research grants. We have an increasing number of overseas students supported by their governments, by private foundations, or by other agencies. We continue to have part-time graduate students from industry.
In the years 1989-93 the department awarded 33 master's degrees: 14 MA (10 men and 4 women), 17 MS (10 men, 7 women), and 2 MAT (both women). During the same period 32 PhD degrees were completed (24 men and 8 women). Some master's recipients have continued graduate study here and elsewhere, some are in industrial positions, and both MATs are teaching in high schools. A number of the PhDs have gone on to post-doctoral positions while most of the rest are in industry. We reached a milestone in 1992 when our 100th PhD was awarded!
Martin A. Paul was the first chemistry faculty member at Triple Cities College of Syracuse University in 1946 which became Harpur College of SUNY in 1950. A native of New York City, he was an undergraduate at City College and a graduate student at Columbia. He was a faculty member at City College prior to World War II and was involved in explosives research during the war. He retired from Harpur in 1965 to become Executive Secretary for Chemistry and Chemical Technology of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council. He and his wife Genevieve, who were married in 1935, live on Long Island. This interview was recorded on Saturday, August 21, 1993, at the Paul's home: 1772 Horatio Ave., Merrick, NY 11566.
CEM You grew up in New York City and rode the subways to City College?
MAP Yes
CEM They must have liked you because, when you went to graduate school at Columbia, you were able to support yourself by teaching at City College.
MAP Yes. It was several years before I actually began teaching classes on my own; I was called a laboratory assistant for the first couple of years. I think the initial salary was $1000 for a year (but $1000 in those days went a long way, not any mean amount). I immediately went to Columbia University for graduate work. I think I took 3 courses at Columbia that summer and completed them. When I got back and started my own teaching, I took a couple more on the side; Columbia being conveniently near, it was possible to do that. I earned my M.A. degree in one year. Then I realized that I wanted to, and should if I wanted to stay in that line, study for a Ph.D degree. I discussed it with Professor Louis P. Hammett.
CEM Is he the one that you worked with?...
MAP Yes. One of the first courses I took there was with him. I read up the work he had been doing and applied to him to take me on as a Ph.D. candidate. So that's how I got to be a professional scientist.
CEM Well you continued an association with him after that?
MAP It happened so. When the war came on, an explosives research laboratory was started at Bruceton, in Pennsylvania [near Pittsburgh] on the grounds of the U. S. Bureau of Mines experimental station there. A partially excavated coal mine was available for experimental tests. The co-directors were Professor Hammett and Professor George B. Kistiakowski of Harvard University. I applied for an interview and received an appointment as a research supervisor, on classified research.
When the war came to an end I didn't wish to go back to City [College] where would we live and where would the children go to school? I sought another job. Glenn Bartle [Dean of Triple Cities College and later President of Harpur] heard of me and asked me if I would come for an interview he was starting a new college and didn't have a chemistry professor yet. So I went to see him I liked him very much he was different from me in his approach to life. He was a geologist and geologists are gamblers - so he was taking a gamble on a new college. He very much needed someone in chemistry because he didn't yet have anybody there except local volunteers who had time but didn't have experience. At first I was not enthusiastic and went off to think it over. When I didn't reply right away, he got in touch with me and said, "What's the matter?" So I saw he really did want me. I had met several of the faculty and so I thought, let's try it.
At that time Triple Cities College was a new branch of Syracuse University. We had plenty of students about 1000, which was very good for a new institution. The first headquarters were in the former home of George F. Johnson, founder of the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Corporation. Added wooden floors extended out in the distance. Four years later the State University took us over from Syracuse and made us a part of the system. Around that time I recruited a woman named Marcelle Schubert; she had a doctor's degree from Columbia and was an organic Chemist. A little later, as we kept growing, Ken Waldock joined the staff; he was a very able young man. So there were three of us and we were able to enlarge the curriculum somewhat. That's how the Chemistry Department grew.
CEM When you were beginning, you were all by yourself. How much did you try to do before you got additional staff? (continued on next page)
MAP I did have a laboratory assistant a local young man named Tom Battaglini who had just graduated from Cornell. He was very interested in being helpful, so I engaged him to help me set up a laboratory.
CEM You were teaching General Chemistry...?
MAP We were just teaching the first year. All the students were freshmen, most of them veterans of World War II and utilizing the "GI Bill of Rights". Then we began having sophomores and, bit by bit, began adding more advanced courses. I think it was 1950 when we were ready to have a Chemistry major program. We never had trouble getting enough students to fill the classes we were prepared to offer. That would take us just past 1950. Max Hull came down to us [in 1953] when Plattsburgh [Champlain College of the Associated Colleges of Upper New York] was closed down. We had some really experienced people on the faculty by then and were able to enlarge our program. It was all still undergraduate but we could give four years of chemistry, and the quality of the education was high enough so, if they majored in Chemistry, they didn't have any difficulty getting into graduate school. Stan Madan was perhaps the next one to join our staff.
CEM My recollection is that it was McDuffie in '58 and Madan in '60. The labs, I understand, were in Quonset Huts out back of Colonial Hall? Did you have to set those up or were they set up for you?
MAP They were already set up I don't know how that came about but somebody knew we wanted to give chemistry somehow so typical laboratory benches had been installed.
CEM Now, Joe Berman came sometime during the late '50s or early '60s, I know he died in '63. He was there when I interviewed in the spring and he died by summer.
MAP I know, that was very sad, he developed some kind of cancer and it killed him.
CEM How much were you involved in planning the science building on the new campus [Science I]?
MAP I had something to do with it. I received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1957-58, and I was away for a year at UCLA. My colleagues pitched in; they knew what they wanted to do. One of the obvious things I insisted on was that every chemistry lab have two doors. The original plans had only one door at the end of each big laboratory. So I demanded that we have two doors in every laboratory. Another thing that I demanded was that we have an elevator - that we would have facilities for bringing things up from the basement heavy equipment and whatnot.
The campus has become so grand! I remember the first year buildings were started on the main campus, and Bartle wanted to make something of it. So we had a meeting of some sort, but there was MUD! We were walking around in the mud! But it really was the beginning of something, and where would Binghamton be without it? I think it saved the economy of Binghamton for one thing. But more than that, those people up there in the Southern Tier, they have access now to a first rate college and university, and it's become an important part of the culture of the area.
CEM In the 50s, early on, the students came largely from the Triple Cities area and then later started to come more from downstate.
MAP We had a very alert Admissions Director he started scouting around high schools on Long Island. It turned out to be a good thing to do. If you weren't rich and were not going to Yale, you could go to one of the local colleges. But if you were a little bit beyond that if you had a little bit more money - then it would be nice to go away. So our Admissions Director began talking it up, and we began getting lots of students from Long Island. I don't know how it is now.
CEM New York City, Westchester County, Long Island, Rockland County we're still drawing heavily. Do you remember any students particularly from those early years?
MAP Yes, there was one young man a local student, a veteran, named DiPietro. He did very well in my class; he would argue with me which I appreciated. He went to Cornell and received his doctorate with Frank Long. Then I think he got a job with IBM. So he was one of our first students that went to graduate school and got a Doctor's degree.
CEM You were involved in developing the graduate program, as well, teaching courses, making plans, drawing up organization, etc.
MAP Yes, in fact one of the courses gave me great satisfaction the very last one I gave, a course in quantum chemistry. I decided I ought to learn some quantum chemistry, because I hadn't learned that in school. Some very brilliant students were in the class, including Dorothea Mueller [a faculty member]. The students were "right there" it was a great challenge to work up a good course in general quantum chemistry. At the time quantum chemistry was a new field; there was a lot of research being done but it hadn't been organized yet. So I very much enjoyed the course.
This was the last year, as it turned out, that I was there. During that year the Westheimer survey of chemistry was started the chemistry people at the National Academy of Sciences decided there ought to be a review of the status of chemical research. Similar studies had been done in other fields, but the chemists had always felt sort of putupon and that they needed to get some publicity for their very real achievements and to provide a stimulus to needed support. So Frank [Westheimer of Harvard University] was appointed chairman of a very distinguished committee I think there were about 15 members from all over the country. He called me up saying he wanted an Executive Secretary for the committee and would I be interested in it. I could do it part time. So I did that all during my last year at Binghamton. I went down [to Washington] about once a week, in fact Gen and I leased an apartment there so we could stay overnight if need be, and it worked out very well. The report was well received and Frank got a lot of acclaim for it. It was the first time it had been done a general survey of chemistry. It took all areas of chemistry into consideration, showed their relationships and what kinds of research support would be needed.
CEM - How much were you involved in the campus-wide development of the graduate program?
MAP - Well I really didn't get involved in that, although I should have liked to, because this Westheimer Committee came up, and that took a whole year. There was a lot of work to do. We met every month or so, and I would collect what was discussed. When it came to writing the final report, I got together with Frank. We conned a number of people into writing the different chapters, but for a few chapters we couldn't find anybody, and we had to do it ourselves to finish the report.
The Academy had been getting along with part-time staff people in the chemistry section, and was looking for somebody who would just take charge. I was offered the position if I were interested. The experience I had had working on the report was an example of the staff work the Academy needed. Gen and I thought it over for a while; since our children were out of high school by that time, it wasn't necessary to keep the home fires burning. So I took the job, and we luckily found an apartment within walking distance of the Academy. I stayed there nine years and enjoyed it very much.
CEM - During that time weren't you also involved in some larger issues and activities in science. I've seen your name on some IUPAC [International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry] reports and things of that sort.
MAP - Liaison with IUPAC was part of my responsibility because a U.S. national committee that maintains liaison with IUPAC is housed at the Academy. I was ex officio secretary of that committee. I got to be the Academy's "factotum" for relationships with the IUPAC. I was both going to and serving Academy committees, getting ready for IUPAC meetings, held every two years. During the same year (every second year), there is also scientific congress which convenes in some city or other. One year (1971) we decided we would offer to be the hosts both for the biennial meeting of the scientific committee organization and for the congress at which research papers are presented. So we held the business meetings in Washington and the congress in Boston. There was a lot of work in putting that together!
CEM - So you left NAS/NRC in 1974. Was that when you moved here to Merrick?
MAP - Yes. My daughter [Harriet Jonquiere] called up and said, "If you're thinking about retiring any time soon, the house next door is coming up for sale, and we'd like it very much if somebody congenial bought it." So we came up to look at it and made a
deal. It was a lucky opportunity that stimulated me all the more to think I had done all I could in the job. It's worked out ever so nicely. She [Harriet] had children growing up then, and it's been a second home for them. Now her daughter lives here in Merrick and has a little baby, our great grandchild. My other daughter [Dorothy Jones] lives in Indiana, where she and her husband teach biology at St. Joseph's College.
CEM - Well, that about winds it up. I will carry your greetings to everybody that I can think of, particularly the people in our department who remember you. Thank you very much.
Nancy Gray Minturn's husband took early retirement (IBM) and they have moved: P.O. Box 3387, Saratoga, CA 95070. She was followed as administrative assistant by Sue Prakash. Since 1991 Jean Farley has filled the position.
Ellen Mooney, one of our secretaries, has moved to the personnel office. Ellen has been replaced temporarily by Pat Kellam.
Joyce Scotto, research secretary, has gone home to Rhode Island. Her husband took an early retirement incentive from IBM. Their address: 660 Pt. Judith Road, C-3, Narragansett, RI 02882. Kathleen Stanley has filled Joyce's position.
Mary Bridge now works in the instructional organic laboratory program after having been on the research staff in the department for some time.
The high field NMR, acquired in 1987, has had several caretakers beginning with Rick Lefferts. He was followed by Cris Tsiao. Jürgen Schulte recently arrived from Germany to fill the position.
We have added a new research support position: equipment repair specialist, which is currently filled by Robert Gonzales, formerly with IBM-Endicott.
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