Recent News and Events
Archive: 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003
2005
The Department is pleased to welcome Aurora Clark, who joined the department in August 2005. A Washington state native, Professor Clark received her BS in Chemistry from Central Washington University in 1999. She subsequently obtained her Ph.D. at Indiana University under the tutelage of Ernest Davidson (theoretical) and Jeff Zaleski (bioinorganic) in 2003. From 2003 to 2005 she was a Directors postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she worked with Richard Martin and Jeff Hay.
The Clark research group has the following interests:
- Materials science
- photoresponsive polymers used in information storage devices
- nuclear materials
- Reaction mechanisms
- photochemically induced reactivity of organic, transition metal, and actinide complexes
- crossing of states with different total spin along a reaction coordinate
To learn more about Prof. Clark's research click here.
Congratulations to Prof. Sue Clark, who was named
one of five WSU Women of Distinction for 2005 by the university’s Commission on the Status of Women. Great Job!
Congratulations to Rosara Payne, a chemistry doctoral
candidate in Sue Clark’s lab, has been selected to attend a four-day summer school on actinide science at Karlsruhe, Germany. Payne received her bachelors degree from WSU in 2000. She currently studies environmental radiochemistry and is developing methods to locate and further analyze uranium and/or plutonium in soils.The summer school is sponsored by the Institute of Transuranium Elements, one of seven institutes of the European Union’s Joint Research Center. Funding for travel expenses is provided by WSU.
The Undergraduate ACS affiliate (Chemistry Club) was pictured in the ACS student affi liates magazine, IN Chemistry, in a “Faculty Advisor Spotlight” article. Their advisor, Pat Meier, was identifi ed in the caption. The picture was taken at the Palouse Science Center when the Club did a National Chemistry Week demonstration there. Davis and other Club members
Our alumni! 1971 chemistry alumnus Kelly R. O’Keefe, M.D., Ph.D. was named chief scientist by CliniComp, Intl., a provider of electronic, hospital/clinician documentation and patient monitoring
systems based in San Diego.
Prof. Kerry Hipps had a Canadian Summer! He gave invited lectures on 2-dimensional self-assembly and on single molecule spectroscopy at the regional American Physical Society meeting in Victoria and at the Canadian Chemical Society Meeting in Saskatoon. He was also keynote speaker at the Symposium on Molecular Imaging and Characterization in Montreal. To learn more about the Hipps research group click here.
Faculty Impact- Prof. James Hurst was a panelist at a DOE-sponsored workshop titled “Basic Research Needs for Effective Solar Energy Utilization” held in mid- April in Washington, D.C. About 80 scientists worldwide participated in this exercise to identify crucial areas in basic research that will support development of solar energy. The meeting report may form the basis for new Congressional funding in this area.
Prof. Patrick Meier participated in the WSU Cancer Prevention and Research Center member retreat in Coeur d’Alene in early March and went to Washington, D. C. to review prostate cancer grant proposals for the Department of Defense in April.
Professor Aurora Clark
Professor Sue Clark
