October 23, 1998: Volume 44, Number 7

Chemists Flock to ACS Meeting

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.

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