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AlumnI NEws
Rebecca Zuckerman
Chair,
College Alumni
Association
Dear Fellow Alum,
It’s graduation time, one of the
most festive times for the college.
And in honor of newly graduating
students, we have been distributing
“College of Chemistry” mugs with a
complimentary coffee certificate to
the college’s “Coffee Lab.” This was
done last year as well and has been
very well received. There’s nothing
like a little caffeine to assist one through those last finals,
and the mug serves as a favorable reminder of all the fun
and dedicated times that the college years have afforded.
Several recent events provided both fun and fantastic
networking opportunities for alumni.
The second annual Young Alumni and Graduating
Student Reception was held on April 27. This year’s event
was a huge success with many newly graduating students
being congratulated by faculty and recent alums while
enjoying a delectable selection of sushi. This is an exciting
time of year for those receiving their degrees after many
years of hard work and dedication, and I am thrilled that
we were able to recognize and celebrate their achievements
together.
The Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum 2005 took place
on April 30. Organized by the Berkeley Nanotechnology
Club and sponsored by the Colleges of Chemistry,
Engineering, and Letters & Science, and the Schools of
Business and Law, this forum brought together people
from the campus and community with a common interest
in all things super-small. The talks and poster sessions
SHOW AND
TELL. College
lecturer Mark
Kubinec (Ph.D.
’94, Chem)
prepares to dazzle
the Cal Day crowd.
NEW-TIMERS: Graduating students mug with the College Mug,
left. Eugene Rosa (B.S. ’59, Chem) attended his first Cupola Era
event in March with his daughter, right.
were stimulating, and Stephen Chu, who is the Director
of LBNL and a Nobel laureate in physics, gave the keynote
address.
We have had many others events this past year, including
Cal Day, which was held on April 16 and is a campuswide
open house for newly admitted students and their
parents and the general community. The event was a great
success. Lecturer Mark Kubinec and Lonnie Martin gave
a demonstration lecture on “Molecules, Materials and Us”
that included explosive, illuminating demonstrations and
examples of ChemQuizzes. I highly recommend that you
consider bringing your children or grandchildren to this
event next year. Mark and Lonnie have a way of intriguing
the scientist in all of us! After this lecture, Associate Dean
Herbert L. Strauss gave a welcome presentation to new
and prospective students of the College of Chemistry and
their parents, followed by an informal question and
answer session. Prior to the lectures, students from AXE
and AIChE and our undergraduate advisors were available
in the Latimer lobby to answer questions pertaining to the
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ANNUAL GATHERING. Jim Leonard (B.S. ’44, Chem), Geza
Ronay (B.A. ’44, Chem) and Bill Benjamin, a former faculty
member, attended the G. N. Lewis Era event in November.
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