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Chemistry at Rochester 

75th Anniversary of Graduate Education 

Hutchison Hall, 

River Campus 

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River Campus 

Chemistry Faculty at Kampmeier Event 2005 

The University of Rochester 

Chemistry Department, October 2007

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University of Rochester 

Department of Chemistry, RC 270216 

Rochester, NY 14627-0216 

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Table of Contents 

Introduction from the Chair 4 

1861-1867 Chester Dewey, Chair 5 

1867-1908 Samuel A. Lattimore, Chair 6 

1908-1938 Victor J. Chambers, Chair 7 

1938-1955 W. Albert Noyes, Jr., Chair 9 

1955-1964 Edwin O. Wiig, Chair 13 

1964-1966 D. Stanley Tarbell, Chair 16 

1966-1970 William H. Saunders, Chair 19 

1970-1975 Jacob Bigeleisen, Chair 21 

1975-1979 Jack A. Kampmeier, Chair 24 

1979-1983 Andrew S. Kende, Chair 27 

1983-1988 John R. Huizenga, Chair 29 

1988-1991 David G. Whitten, Chair 32 

1991-1994 Richard S. Eisenberg, Chair 34 

1994-1995 George L. McLendon, Chair 37 

1995-1997 David G. Whitten, Chair 39 

1997-2000 James M. Farrar, Chair 41 

2000-2003 William D. Jones, Chair 43 

2003-present Robert K. Boeckman, Jr., Chair 45 

Chemistry Faculty over the Years 49 

Faculty Awards, 1986-2007 50 

Acknowledgments 53 

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In t r o d u c t io n f r o m t h e Ch a ir 

W e l c o m e 

back to Rochester 

on this, the 75th 

Anniversary of 

first doctoral 

degrees awarded 

in chemistry at 

the University of 

Rochester. 

Since 1850, 

chemical education 

at Rochester has enjoyed a rich and fruitful history. 

Generations of students have gone through our programs. 

Since 1932, more than 800 graduates have earned their 

doctorates in chemistry in the College of Arts, Sciences 

and Engineering at the University of Rochester. Many 

have gone on to become respected leaders in academia, 

industry and government. All have been influenced by 

their formative years as graduate students at Rochester. 

A comparable number of postdoctoral alumni 

have also received advanced education at Rochester 

and contributed greatly to the quality of our graduate 

and undergraduate program by mentoring students and 

participating in research. 

The study of chemistry has become ever more 

complex, educational practices in the academy have 

evolved, and the College too has been transformed to 

the major research institution that it is today. Since first 

authorizing the award of Ph.D.s in Chemistry in 1927, the 

College has developed 24 doctoral programs covering a 

range of fields from the natural sciences, mathematics and 

engineering to the social sciences and humanities. 

Our educational programs are continually crafted 

to provide transformative opportunities for our graduate 

students. Our goal is to promote the acquisition of 

scientific knowledge through experience, strong 

mentoring, rigorous training, and outstanding intellectual 

and physical resources, preparing students with the tools 

for scholarship, inquiry and success in their chosen fields. 

With this commemorative booklet we salute the 

students, chairmen and professors who have been vital 

to the history of the Department of Chemistry. Our 

Department and the discipline of chemistry have changed 

in ways that its founders could have only dreamed of in 

1927. By connecting with our past and recognizing the 

many contributions of those who have come before us, 

we strengthen our foundation and our legacy as a premier 

chemistry department for the future. 

Robert K. Boeckman, Jr. 

Marshall D. Gates, Jr. Professor of Chemistry and Chair 

Fi r s t University of 

Ro c h e s t e r Ca m p u s 

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1861 Chester Dewey, Chair 

1867 

Mid-19t h Ce n t u r y Cl a s s r o o m 

I m p o r t a n t Ac c o m p l i s h m e n t s a n d Ha p p e n i n g s 

• Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy; received four honorary degrees in divinity 

• Was the first University scientist: a chemist, botanist, geologist, meteorologist, and clergyman 

• Scientific studies expanded in 1862, when Dewey recommended that the University acquire a 

cabinet of minerals and fossils from a young Rochester naturalist, Henry A. Ward. 

• Recorded temperature, barometric pressure, precipitation, winds, storms, comets, meteors, and 

auroras; his weather sheets are archived in Rush Rhees Library and cover more than 30 years 

• A leader among professional educators in Rochester and a consistent exponent of the university 

idea. Outspoken fund-raiser for the early University 

• In 1930, a building, Dewey Hall was named in his honor and housed Biology, Botany, and Geology 

• Dr. Charles A. Dewey (class of 1861), his son, left a fortune to the University in memory of his father 

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1867 

Samuel A. Lattimore, Chair 

1908 

An d e r s o n Ha l l, Ho m e of Ch e m i s t r y De p a r t m e n t fr o m 1861-1887 


• His appointment prompted the establishment of a separate department of chemistry at the University 

• At the University taught Chemistry, as well as Geology, Zoology, and Physics 

• Established the first chemistry laboratory in the basement of Anderson Hall, used by students as well as 

Rochester physicians, pharmacists, mechanics, and farmers 

• In 1887, established a building exclusively for Chemistry 

• Chemist to the Board of Water Commissioners of Rochester and to the New York State Board of Health 

• Acting President of the University for two years 

• Established the Rochester Microscopical Society in 1879; In 1881 became the first president of the society 

• His importance to the University is commemorated by Lattimore Hall, a building that up until 1972 was 

devoted to teaching and research in chemistry on the River Campus. Today Lattimore Hall houses the 

Deans’ offices, as well as various humanities departments. 

• Several institutions conferred honorary degrees on Lattimore; he was a charter member of the American 

Chemical Society and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

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1908 

Victor J. Chambers, Chair 

1938 

Re y n o l d s Me m o r i a l Ha l l, Ho m e of Ch e m i s t r y De p a r t m e n t fr o m 1887-1930 


• Victor Chambers’ chairmanship lasted for three decades. 

• In 1925 became the first Charles F. Houghton Professor of Chemistry, a professorship he held until 1939 

• Collaborated with Ralph Helmkamp to start the Ph.D. Program in the Chemistry Department in 1927 

• Dean of Graduate Studies for six years 

• Promoted introduction of Ph.D. programs throughout the University 

• In 1916, Victor J. Chambers set wheels in motion to secure a charter for Rochester from Sigma Xi, an honor 

society which recognizes superior achievement in science. 

• Recruited D. Stanley Tarbell 

• In 1927, under President Rhees, ground was broken for the River Campus on the banks of the Genesee River 

• After his death, the Victor J. Chambers Lectureship was established in his honor 

• Victor J. Chambers is also remembered by a residence hall bearing his name in Hill Court on the River 

Campus. 

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1908 Victor J. Chambers 

1938 

An d e r s o n Ha l l, c i r c a 1900 

Vi c t o r Ch a m b e r s , 1930s 

Ear l y 20t h Ce n t u r y La b o r a t o r y 

Ra l p h W. He l m k a m p 

D o c t o r a l De g r e e s Aw a r d e d 

Bernhard Ernst Landow 1932 Line 

Linus Montague Webb 1932 Chambers 

Casselman B. Hess 1934 Chambers 

Robert E. DeRight 1935 Wiig 

William Orlin Kenyon 1935 Chambers 

Chester M. White 1935 Sunier 

Paul W. Aradine 1936 Line 

Clark Hall Dale 1936 Helmkamp 

Ethel Louetta French 1936 Chambers 

Willard A. Payne 1936 Chambers 

Victor Stanley Chambers 1938 Chambers 

Ellsworth McSweeney 1938 Chambers 

Charles Eugene Sunderlin 1938 Chambers 

Th e Fi r s t Do c t o r a t e s 

The first chemistry doctoral degrees, also representing the first Ph.D.s granted from the College, were conferred 

in June 1932 to Linus M. Webb and Bernard E. Landow. Furthermore, the first female doctoral graduate at the 

College, Ethel L. French (Ph.D. ‘36), was also from Chemistry. 

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1938 W. Albert Noyes, Jr., Chair 

1955 

Ri v e r Ca m p u s fr o m th e Ge n e s e e 


• From the 1940’s through the mid-50’s, propelled the Chemistry Department from a liberal arts chemistry 

program into a nationally recognized modern research department 

• Raised the visibility of the University to that of an institution with a national reputation in chemical 

education 

• Considered the father of modern gas-phase photochemistry; world leader in the field of photochemistry 

• Recruited Marshall D. Gates, Jr., first to work on the Journal of the American Chemical Society for which Noyes 

was editor-in-chief, and later as instructor and professor. 

• In 1950, Marshall D. Gates, Jr. created the first laboratory preparation of morphine, a landmark achievement 

in chemical synthesis. This discovery, helped raise the Department of Chemistry and the University’s 

reputation to national and international prominence. 

• Together, Virgil Boekelheide and Marshall Gates in synthetic organic chemistry, and D. Stanley Tarbell who 

bridged both mechanism and synthesis, built a major research operation in organic chemistry 

• Similarly, W. Albert Noyes, A. B. F. Duncan, Winston Walters, and Edwin Wiig established a major research 

operation in physical chemistry 

• Hired William H. Saunders in physical organic chemistry 

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1938 W. Albert Noyes, Jr. 

1955 

Ma r s h a l l D. Ga t e s, Jr., 1953 

W. Al b e r t No y e s , Jr., c i r c a 1950 

I m p o r t a n t Ac c o m p l i s h m e n t s a n d Ha p p e n i n g s (c o n t .) 

• Boekelheide, Tarbell, and Gates were subsequently elected to the National Academy of Science for work done 

in Rochester 

• Named Charles F. Houghton Professor of Chemistry in 1939, a chair he held until 1960 

• First American President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry since World War II 

• Vice President and member of the executive committee of the U.S. National Commission for the United Nations 

Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 

• Elected President of the American Chemical Society in 1947 

• Won the highest American award in chemistry--the Priestley Medal in 1954, his father also won in 1935 

• Editor of Chemical Reviews from 1939 to 1949 

• Received the King’s Medal from the British Empire in 1948 

• Honorary member of the Society Chimique de France, Officer of the French Legion of Honor, honorary member 

of the Royal Society of Physics and Chemistry of Spain and the Chemical Society of Belgium 

• Served as Dean of the Graduate School, 1952-1956; served as Dean of the College, 1956-1961 

• During this period, the University of Rochester became a research university. In 1955, the Colleges for Men and 

Women were merged into what is now the College. 

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1955 


Eugene Joseph Agnello 1950 Boekelheide 

Cameron Ainsworth 1949 Boekelheide 

Gordon Ainslie Allen 1949 Gunning 

Albert Edward Anderson 1953 Boekelheide 

Frank Jervey Ball 1944 McPhee 

William Thomas Barry 1951 Walters 

Howard Dean Batha 1954 Walters 

John Caleb Bill 1951 Tarbell 

David A. Bittker 1953 Walters 

Joseph F. Bunnett 1945 Tarbell 

Elizabeth H. Burkey 1940 Unknown 

Wade Lee Callender 1951 Wiig 

David Bennett Camp 1949 Helmkamp 

Albert A. Caretto 1954 Wiig 

Lloyd Hillyard Conover 1950 Tarbell 

Nathan Allen Coward 1954 Noyes 

Louis Elwood Craig 1948 Tarbell 

Wallace Davis 1947 Noyes 

James Warner Drenan 1949 Hill 

Bruce Dropesky 1953 Wiig 

Jean-Thomas Henri Dubois 1951 Noyes 

Victor R. Ells 1939 Noyes 

Paul Edward Fanta 1946 Tarbell 

Richard Walter Fink 1953 Wiig 

John H. Fletcher 1942 Cairns 

Hans Richard Frank 1947 Tarbell 

Peter Edgar Frankenburg 1953 Friess 

David K. Fukushima 1946 Tarbell 

Walter George Gall 1953 Boekelheide 

George Gantz 1940 Walters 

John Carl Godfrey 1954 Boekelheide 

Martin Goldman 1953 Boekelheide 

Robert Gomer 1949 Noyes 

Charles Webster Gould 1940 Chambers 

Robert J. Grabenstetter 1941 Wiig 

Harold John Groh 1952 Noyes 

William Benton Guenther 1954 Walters 

Thomas Joel Hall 1953 Tarbell 

Donald Philip Harnish 1948 Boekelheide 

Clarence George Heininger 1954 Wiig 

Frederick C. Henriques 1940 Duncan 

Donald S. Herr 1940 Noyes 

Clifford E. Herrick 1944 Wiig 

Arthur Hermann Herz 1954 Tarbell 

Joseph William Hickey 1942 Wiig 

H. Peter Hirschler 1950 Tarbell 

Lawrence John Edward Hofer 1941 Wiig 

Philip Hoffman 1954 Tarbell 

Robert Sehon Holdsworth 1947 Duncan 

Jerome J. Howland 1943 Noyes 

Roy Edward Hunt 1947 Noyes 

Everett Ramon Johnson 1949 Walters 

Arvo John Juhola 1947 Wiig 

Walter Edward Kaskan 1949 Duncan 

Hikmet Raouf Kazimi 1954 Tarbell 

Henry Marcell Kissman 1950 Tarbell 

Erwin Klingsberg 1944 McPhee 

Charles H. Klute 1942 Walters 

Kenneth Otto Kutschke 1951 Noyes 

William Enberg Langeland 1950 Boekelheide 

Clifford Everett Larrabee 1949 Boekelheide 

Martha Harriet Lawson 1944 Duncan 

Laurence C. Liberatore 1941 Wiig 

Eddie Gustave Lindstrom 1944 Tarbell/McPhee 

William Joseph Linn 1953 Boekelheide 

Robert H. Linnell 1950 Noyes 

Ta-kong Liu 1949 Duncan 

Chu-tsin Liu 1952 Boekelheide 

James P. Lodge 1951 Boekelheide 

James Edgar Longfield 1951 Walters 

George William Luckey 1950 Noyes 

John J. Madison 1946 Flagg 

Sherwin Paul Malchick 1952 Gates 

Frank Basil Marcotte 1951 Noyes 

Robert Bruce Martin 1953 Noyes 

Michael Martin-Smith 1955 Gates 

Max S. Matheson 1940 Noyes 

Marvin Anthony McCall 1951 Tarbell 

Karl H. Meng 1939 Chambers 

George Moe 1950 Duncan 

Stewart Robert Montgomery 1955 Helmkamp 

Cu t l e r Un i o n, t h e Wo m e n 's Co l l e g e in th e 1950s 

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1955 

D o c t o r a l De g r e e s Aw a r d e d (c o n t .) 

Norman L. Morse 1943 Kincaid 

Kurt Herbert Mueller 1949 Walters 

Robert Gilman Nelb 1949 Walters 

Dan Neuberger 1953 Duncan 

Paul Noble 1950 Tarbell 

Elbert Dickerson Nostrand 1954 Duncan 

William Ralph Nummy 1950 Tarbell 

Eduard Ott 1952 Tarbell 

Joseph D. Overman 1945 Kincaid 

Gerald George Palmer 1948 Wiig 

Mark Clements Paulson 1943 Tarbell 

Harry Milton Peek 1950 Hill 

Frank Cook Pennington 1951 Boekelheide 

John Christos Petropoulos 1952 Tarbell 

Ellis Rex Pinson 1951 Friess 

John Thomas Plati 1940 Strain 

Donald Gray Powell 1952 Tarbell 

Warren Addison Reckhow 1950 Tarbell 

Edward McCreery Roberts 1955 Boekelheide 

Seymour Rothchild 1948 Boekelheide 

Yoshio Sato 1947 Tarbell 

William Martin Schilling 1949 Boekelheide 

George P. Scott 1949 Tarbell 

George Frederic Sheats 1955 Noyes 

Zachary D. Sheldon 1948 Noyes 

Albert Louis Sieg 1954 Boekelheide 

Lewis Oliver Smith 1947 Boekelheide 

Stanton Burgess Smith 1948 Wiig 

Richard Frederick Smith 1953 Tarbell 

Albert Herman Soloway 1951 Friess 

Charles Marvin Stevens 1953 Tarbell 

Alexander Napier Strachan 1954 Noyes 

K. Nolen Tanner 1950 Duncan 

Helen Thayer 1942 Helmkamp 

Robert J. Thompson 1946 Duncan 

Charles W. Todd 1943 Tarbell 

Charles W. Todd 1943 Tarbell 

Don W. Vanas 1946 Walters 

James Robert Vaughan 1944 Tarbell 

Gerald Keith Vick 1955 Boekelheide 

Paul Wagner 1952 Duncan 

Genevieve Dwyer Wagner 1952 Wiig 

Bernard Wargotz 1954 Tarbell 

Clay Weaver 1941 Tarbell 

William Gatewood Webb 1954 Gates 

Joseph Weinstock 1952 Boekelheide 

Leonard Weisler 1939 Helmkamp 

Russel E. Wellman 1955 Walters 

Joseph Edward Wilson 1942 Noyes 

James W. Wilson 1942 Tarbell 

Harold F. Wilson 1950 Tarbell 

V. P. Wystrach 1944 Tarbell 

J. William Zabor 1940 Noyes 

Leo Zeftel 1951 Tarbell 

C. Richard Zobel 1954 Duncan 

Virgil C. Bo e k e l h e i d e, c i r c a 1950 

Al b e r t B. F. Du n c a n 

Fr a n k P. Bu f f 

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1955 

Edwin O. Wiig, Chair 

1964 

La t t i m o r e Ha l l (l e f t), Ho m e of th e Ch e m i s t r y De p a r t m e n t fr o m 1930-1972 


• Wiig’s fields of research and expertise were photochemistry and reaction kinetics 

• Received highest award the chemical industry could bestow on chemistry teachers: The Chemical 

Manufacturer’s Association “Responsible Care” National Catalyst Award for Excellence in Teaching; one of 

only six chemistry teachers in the country to receive this award, 

• Hired Jack A. Kampmeier, who received the same award much later (1999) 

• Hired Marshall Blann in nuclear chemistry; David J. Wilson in physical chemistry 

• In 1961 W. Albert Noyes was appointed Distinguished Senior Professor 

• In 1961 D. Stanley Tarbell became the Charles F. Houghton Professor of Chemistry until 1967 

• Ethel French received the rank of full professor, the first woman ever to achieve that position in the 

Chemistry Department. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University, was the first 

woman to serve as chair of the Rochester chapter of the ACS, and before the merger of the Colleges for Men 

and Women in 1955, she headed the chemistry classes for women on the old Prince Street campus. 

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1955 Edwin O. Wiig 

1964 

Che m i s t r y De p a r t m e n t c i r c a 1955; Fi r s t Ro w : R. Bu r n s , G. Br o o k e r , C. We i c k, B. As t i l l, M.N. Da s, G. Vi c k, W. Co n w a y , Y. Pe r r o n, 

W. Co o p e r , C. Dickinson; Sec o n d Row : J. Ho g e s t y n , A. DeWal d, G. Sh e a t s , B. Wa r g o t z , D. Pl a n t , E. Ro b e r t s , H. Al-Ka z i m i, D. Ca m- 

e r o n , C. Ed d y , H. Ge s s e r, R. Po r t e r , J. Sc h u t t , R. Br o u t , T. Ro h r , D. Ri c h e y, W. Gu e n t h e r; Thi r d Ro w : W.A. No y e s , Jr., R. He l m k a m p , 

J. Ru t h e r f o r d, A. Si e g, J. Go d f r e y , A. Bo n d , F. Bu f f , M. Ga t e s, D.S. Ta r b e l l, W. Sa u n d e r s , J. Ja c k, C. Cl a u s , G. Ro b i n s o n, B. Ha l d a r, 

W. Fe e l y; Fou r t h Ro w : J. Su l l i v a n, D. Br o a d r i b b, J. Ru y s s e n, R. Ba c h e m , R. Ho l r o y d , G. Ca s t e l l i o n, A. Du n c a n , E. Wiig, H. Vo g t , J. 

Ros s , W. Wa l t e r s, H. Ok a b e, L. Da i g n a u l t, C. Wh i t e m a n, G. McMil l a n, R. We l l m a n, J. DeWaa r d, E. Jo l l e y, W. Lo v e t t , W. Li n e 


Donald Robert Arnold 1962 Gates 

Lawrence Elnathan Benjamin 1959 Saunders 

Joseph William Brauner 1963 Wilson 

Thomas Harland Brownlee 1961 Saunders 

Donald P. Cameron 1957 Tarbell 

Stephen Edward Cantor 1964 Tarbell 

Edward Alan Caress 1963 Saunders 

Virginia Bayard Fonda Caress 1964 Wiig 

Gerard Leo Carges 1959 Saunders 

Philippe Yvon Carignan 1959 Gates 

Robert Wilson Carr 1963 Walters 

George Augustus Castellion 1956 Noyes 

Mildred Yuhua Chang 1959 Boekelheide 

Walter Donald Conway 1956 Tarbell 

Walter Cooper 1957 Walters 

Sheldon E. Cremer 1961 Tarbell 

Louis G. Daignault 1957 Walters 

Clifford L. Dickinson 1956 Gates 

James M. Dwyer 1963 Wiig 

Clifford Otis Eddy 1959 Gates 

David Holmes Edison 1959 Saunders 

Kenneth E. Fahrenholtz 1960 Boekelheide 

Wayne Edmund Feely 1957 Boekelheide 

Kay Thomas Finley 1963 Saunders 

Harold Robert Gerberich 1960 Walters 

Ellis Robert Glazier 1957 Gates 

Kenneth Frederick Greenough 1960 Duncan 

Rodger Wentworth Griffin 1961 Boekelheide 

Robert Daulton Guthrie 1963 Gates 

Ernest Royal Hanna 1959 Boekelheide 

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1955 Edwin O. Wiig 

1964 

D o c t o r a l De g r e e s Aw a r d e d (c o n t .) 

William Paul Hauser 1961 Walters 

Julian Phillip Heicklen 1958 Noyes 

Gonzalo J. Hernandez 1962 Duncan 

Richard Allan Holroyd 1956 Noyes 

Edward H. House 1960 Duncan 

K. Robert Huffman 1959 Tarbell 

Narl Chow Hung 1963 Wilson 

Hidehiko Ishikawa 1962 Noyes 

Alexander Lawrence Johnson 1964 Tarbell 

Henry X. Kaempfen 1961 Boekelheide 

Stephan Maria Eduard Kellner 1960 Walters 

Francis William Kent 1958 Tarbell 

Richard Norris Knowles 1961 Boekelheide 

William Gerald Kofron 1961 Boekelheide 

Martin Paul Kunstman 1961 Tarbell 

Salvatore Russell La Paglia 1961 Duncan 

William Lee Lehn 1958 Boekelheide 

Norman A. Leister 1958 Tarbell 

Edward John Longosz 1960 Tarbell 

Frederick C. Loveless 1958 Tarbell 

William Edwin Lovett 1956 Tarbell 

Dean W. Maurer 1959 Wiig 

Garnett Ramsay McMillan 1958 Noyes 

James Green McNally 1959 Tarbell 

Joe Victor Michael 1963 Noyes 

Judith Lake Michael 1963 Noyes 

Christopher Jan Michejda 1964 Tarbell 

Thomas Alfred Montzka 1962 Gates 

Glenn C. Morrison 1958 Boekelheide 

Edmond Murad 1960 Noyes 

Roger Paul Napier 1964 Autrey 

Hideo Okabe 1957 Noyes 

Norman Padnos 1963 Noyes 

Robert Harold Paine 1960 Saunders 

Charles Stedman Parmenter 1963 Noyes 

Richard E. Partch 1963 Gates 

Ivan Pascal 1957 Tarbell 

John Frederick Paulson 1958 Wiig 

Thomas J. Perun 1963 Tarbell 

William Howard Pirkle 1964 Gates 

Raymond Paul Porter 1958 Noyes 

John A. Price 1957 Tarbell 

Willis Dale Richey 1958 Bond 

Bimal Chorone Roquitte 1961 Walters 

Andre Rosowsky 1961 Tarbell 

John M. Rutherford 1959 Tarbell 

Roland Pierre Franz Scharrer 1961 Boekelheide 

Keith Edward Schmude 1959 Wiig 

Eugene J. Sehm 1958 Tarbell 

David Randal. Sexsmith 1959 Gates 

Marvin S. Shepard 1958 Gates 

Theodore Small 1959 Boekelheide 

Esther Louise Sprenkel 1959 Raymond 

Suzanne Stokes 1957 Duncan 

Samuel Stuart Stradling 1963 Tarbell 

Robert Carleton Taber 1959 Tarbell 

Everett Albert Thiele 1961 Wilson 

James Stuart Todd 1961 Tarbell 

Judith Conners Ware 1957 Saunders 

William Romaine Ware 1957 Wiig 

Percy Warrick 1960 Saunders 

Charles F. Weick 1959 Wiig 

George Robert Wenzinger 1960 Boekelheide 

Richard Lowell West 1961 Tarbell 

Donald L. Whitcomb 1957 Duncan 

Richard Anderson Williams 1956 Saunders 

Kenneth Irvine Harvey Williams 1959 Tarbell 

Richard J. Windgassen 1958 Boekelheide 

Sanford Tyler Young 1962 Tarbell 

Ahmad Mostafa Zahra 1964 Noyes 

Maria Dorotea Zupan 1963 Walters 

Ae r i a l Vi e w of Ri v e r Ca m p u s , 1960s 

Ka m p m e i e r Gr o u p, m i d-60s 

W. D. Wa l t e r s ‡ 

‡ Deceased while on UR faculty, 1968 

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1964 

D. Stanley Tarbell, Chair 

1966 

Po r t i c o of Ru s h Rh e e s Li b r a r y 


• Credited with determining the structure of fumagillin, an antibiotic used in treating amoebic dysentery and 

other parasitic diseases 

• Contributions to physical organic chemistry included elucidation of addition reactions to olefins, 

determination of intermediates in the Claisen rearrangement of allyl aryl ethers, and quantitative 

comparison of the behavior of organo sulfur versus organo oxygen compounds. He discovered new 

categories of organic compounds, including mixed carboxylic-carbonic anhydrides, and delineated their 

chemistry. Contributed substantially to the methodology of organic synthesis. 

• Held the Charles F. Houghton Professor of Chemistry from 1961-1981 

• By 1964, had supervised the study of 67 students who completed their Ph.D.s in Chemistry, as well as some 

40 post-doctoral fellows 

• Member of the National Academy of Sciences 

• Served on the National Council of the ACS 

• Awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship twice 

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1964 D. Stanley Tarbell 

1966 

Ro b e r t Kreilick, Ea r l y 60s Joh n Mu e n t e r, 1970 


Do w n t o w n Ro c h e s t e r, 1960s 

• Established a long-range planning committee, headed by William Saunders, to chart the future of the 

Department; recommended that the Department move in a biological direction; enabled Chemistry to be 

primed and ready to apply for and receive the NSF Center for Excellence Grant 

• During his tenure, the Department received an NSF Center for Excellence Grant. The grant included funds 

for new faculty and equipment, as well as partial support for a new building, later called Hutchison Hall. A 

substantial bequest from Charles Force Hutchison, class of 1898, provided the bulk of the funding. 

• Recruited Henry Sobell in biological chemistry 

• Era was a growth period for science all over the country; also very optimistic period for the University 

• Many Rochester Ph.D. graduates from this era later became professors at major universities and performed 

major research, including William Pirkle, Robert Guthrie, Charles Parmenter, Steven Weinreb, William Ware, 

Richard Partch, and Donald Arnold. Others became renowned in industry, such as Edward Grabowski and 

John Zabriskie. 

• Began plan for the construction of Hutchison Hall 

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1964 D. Stanley Tarbell 

1966 

Kei j i Mo r o k u m a 

Et h e l L. Fr e n c h , 1962, 

1st Fe m a l e Ph.D. ‘36 

M. Ga t e s, J. Zabriskie, R. Au t r e y, 

Mid-1960s 


Hen r y So b e l l 

Robert Theodore Anselmi 1965 Gates 

William Lawrence Armstrong 1966 Autrey 

Susan Starr Black 1966 Duncan 

Edward Michael Boghosian 1966 Saunders 

David Philip Brust 1965 Tarbell 

David Alan Buckley 1965 Tarbell 

George Francis Cohoe 1965 Walters 

Hugh Alan Ewart 1966 Blann 

Richard Perlee Geer 1965 Kampmeier 

Edward Joseph John Grabowski 1966 Autrey 

Jean-Pierre Hazan 1965 Blann 

Ronald Lawrence Heidke 1965 Saunders 

Elaine Helen Hoffmeister 1966 Tarbell 

David Arthur Klein 1966 Gates 

Victor Allen Landeryou 1965 Autrey 

Ronald Allyn Lovett 1966 Buff 

John Reindel Owen 1965 Saunders 

James Edward Smith 1965 Buff 

Frederick Christopher Tahk 1965 Autrey 

Steven M. Weinreb 1966 Gates 

John Lansing Zabriskie 1965 Gates 

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1966 

William H. Saunders, Chair 

1970 

Rus h Rh e e s Li b r a r y 


• Due to turnover in the department and subsequent hiring of key faculty, the Chemistry Department was 

elevated to a research facility of national repute 

• Leading researcher in physical organic chemistry; in particular, isotope effects to elucidate the mechanistic 

details of chemical reactions 

• Wrote follow-up request for the NSF Center of Excellence grant awarded under Tarbell 

• Richard Schlessinger became a distinguished contributor to the field of synthetic organic chemistry 

• In 1968, Marshall Gates was named the Charles F. Houghton Professor of Chemistry, a chair he held until 1981 

• Henry Sobell made important contributions to the then new field of structural biology 

• Elliott W. Montroll (joint appointment with Physics in 1966) elected to the National Academy of Science in 1969 

• Recruited Jacob Bigeleisen in isotope chemistry, a National Academy of Science Fellow (elected 1966); John 

Huizenga from Argonne National Lab, a nuclear chemist and subsequently a National Academy of Science Fellow 

(elected 1976), recommended by Marshall Blann 

• Recruited Andrew Kende, in synthetic organic synthesis, who graduated approximately 50 Ph.D.s of the current 

800+ total, recommended by Marshall Gates; hired Thomas Krugh in biophysical chemistry and Keiji Morokuma 

in theoretical chemistry 

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1966 William H. Saunders 

1970 

Ri c h a r d Sc h l e s s i n g e r, Ea r l y 1970s ‡ Joh n Hu i z e n g a , Ar g o n n e Na t ’l La b, 1967 


Thomas A. Ashe 1967 Saunders 

Winifred May Austin 1969 Walters 

Roger C. Baetzold 1967 Wilson 

David Scott Bailey 1969 Saunders 

Wilfred William Bowman 1968 Blann 

Gary Wayne Byers 1969 Kampmeier 

Robert Wilson Cairns 1970 Wilson 

Robert Brent Caton 1968 Duncan 

Gwendyline Yuan-yu Teng Chen 1967 Kampmeier 

Agnes Shen Cheung 1970 Wilson 

Chi-lin Chow 1967 Tarbell 

George W Clark 1970 Kampmeier 

David B. Clarke 1970 Gates 

Ted Arie Doron 1970 Blann 

Richard A. Dybas 1970 Gates 

Paul F. Endres 1968 Wilson 

William George Espersen 1970 Kreilick 

Ted R. Evans 1967 Kampmeier 

Richard Michael Fantazier 1967 Kampmeier 

James Richard Fehlner 1970 Colebrook 

Irving Nathan Feit 1970 Saunders 

G. Frederick Hatch 1969 Nieman 

Edward Cummings Hayward 1968 Tarbell 

James Robert Hazen 1969 Tarbell 

Michael Anthony Insalaco 1970 Tarbell 

Margaret Anne Karlsson 1967 Walters 

Arthur Katz 1969 Saunders 

Dieter August Knecht 1968 Walters 

Richard Michael Kopchik 1968 Kampmeier 

Peter William Kopf 1970 Kreilick 

Philip Lee Kumler 1968 Gates 

Frank Michael Lanzafame 1969 Blann 

Frederick Dunbar Lewis 1968 Saunders 

David Jerome Locker 1970 Wilson 

Eva Gruber Lovett 1967 Autrey 

Warren J. Lyman 1969 Blann 

Don Hyde Miller 1968 Saunders 

Mary Ellen Neubert 1968 Gates 

Ernest Richard Novak 1967 Tarbell 

Young Rang Lee Park 1970 Wilson 

Timothy Ellis Pierce 1968 Blann 

Gerald Salvatore Ponticello 1969 Schlessinger 

Ignatius Salvatore Ponticello 1969 Schlessinger 

Jack Lester Richards 1970 Tarbell 

Alan Barry Rubin 1967 Kampmeier 

William Lewis Schreiber 1970 Gates 

Peter William Scullard 1967 Autrey 

William Edward Smyser 1967 Wilson 

Peter Michael Stacy 1967 Walters 

Charlotte Tay Tahk 1969 Wilson 

Anne H. Turner 1968 Colebrook 

Noel H. Turner 1968 Walters 

Avittathur R. Venkitaraman 1969 Walters 

James Joseph Vieceli 1970 Buff 

Philip Gilbert Webb 1969 Kampmeier 

Lan Wei 1967 Tarbell 

Rodger Fairfax Whitlock 1970 Duncan 

David J. Williams 1967 Kreilick 

Gary Lee Workman 1969 Duncan 

‡ Deceased while on UR faculty, December 1997 

20

1970 

Jacob Bigeleisen, Chair 

1975 

In t e r f a i t h Ch a p e l bu i l t on Ri v e r ca m p u s in 1970 


• In 1975, the American Council of Education ranked the Chemistry Department as one of the strongest in the 

nation 

• In 1971, Board of Trustees named the new chemistry/biology building, Hutchison Hall, in honor of alumnus 

Charles Force Hutchison, who served as a University trustee for nearly 40 years and who was a pioneer in the 

development of emulsions at the Eastman Kodak Company 

• In 1972, the Department moved from Lattimore Hall to Hutchison Hall 

• During his tenure, Jack Kampmeier, Robert Kreilick, and John Muenter initiated a new integrated advanced 

laboratory for B.A. and B.S. undergraduate chemistry majors, preparing students for research in their senior 

years 

• In 1975, hired Douglas Turner who started a program in biophysical chemistry with specific interests in fast 

kinetics in solution as studied by a laser-driven temperature jump method and in fluorescent-detected 

circular dichroism as a probe of biological structure 

21

1970 Jacob Bigeleisen 

1975 

Cha r l e s F. Hu t c h i s o n an d 

UR Pr e s i d e n t W. Al l e n Wa l l i s, 1971 

Hut c h i s o n Ha l l, 2007 


• In 1973 was named the Tracy H. Harris Professor of Chemistry, a chair he held until 1978 

• Henry Sobell, Douglas Turner, and Thomas Krugh became the nucleus of a program in biological chemistry 

and nucleic acids, now a core component of the Department 

• Began a series of Departmental Visiting Distinguished Lecturers; started the Dreyfus lecture series with 

visits by Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman, and the Hutchison lecture series with visits by Professor Earl 

Muetterties from Berkeley and Nobelist Max Perutz of Cambridge University 

• Modernized the committee, staff, and administrative structures, which are still in place today 

• Recruited senior-level faculty member, Richard Eisenberg from Brown University, marking a major 

commitment to inorganic chemistry, now one of the Department’s main strengths 

• Hired theoretical chemist Thomas F. George, who subsequently went on to become Chancellor of the 

University of Missouri, St. Louis 

• Elliott W. Montroll (joint appointment with Physics) elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science in 1973 

22

1970 Jacob Bigeleisen 

1975 

Th o m a s Kr u g h , 1980 Ri c h a r d Ei s e n b e r g, 1975 Do u g l a s Tu r n e r, 1977 Th o m a s Ge o r g e, 1976 


Wesley Earl Bentz 1971 Colebrook 

Mitchell Harvey Berger 1975 Schlessinger 

Zayn Bilkadi 1973 Bigeleisen 

John Keith Borchardt 1972 Saunders 

John Stephen Boyno 1972 Huizenga 

Karen Hill Brown 1972 Saunders 

Woon-chun Chan 1973 Huizenga 

Chiu-Shan Chang 1971 Harbison 

Joseph Yung-chang Chu 1972 Kende 

Constance Kalbach Cline 1971 Blann 

Dimitrios C. Constantinides 1975 Kende 

Russell A. Cormier 1972 Friedrich 

Mary Sue Finn Davis 1975 Kreilick 

Arthur Wellwood Dimock 1972 Saunders 

Robert George Eilerman 1974 Kende 

Donald Michael Eshelman 1973 Bilgeleisen 

Rocco Anthony Fiato 1973 Friedrich 

David Lawrence Frank 1971 Gates 

Robert James Greenhouse 1973 Kende 

James V. Griepenburg 1971 Saunders 

David Michael Haaland 1972 Nieman 

Ronald Thomas Hargreaves 1975 Saunders 

Duane Earl Harrington 1972 Gates 

John Kenneth Haynes 1971 Kampmeier 

Walter King Hensley 1973 Huizenga 

James T. Hepinstall 1971 Kampmeier 

Jacob Matthew Hoffman 1971 Schlessinger 

Frank H. Hund 1971 Colebrook 

Maralyn Michele Itzkowitz 1972 Nordmeyer 

Robert B. Jordan 1972 Kampmeier 

Mehmet Kildir 1974 Huizenga 

Chang-kyu Kim 1974 Gates 

Steven Jeffrey Lee 1973 Kende 

Ying-wei. Lin 1973 Morokuma 

Maria Shew-Jane Su Liu 1972 Kampmeier 

Alice Louis Cox Mignerey 1975 Blann 

Frederick Charles Montgomery 1972 Saunders 

Stephen Lee Nickol 1971 Kampmeier 

Catherine Abbie Norris 1972 Nordmeyer 

John F. O’Connor 1971 Tarbell 

Kumarappan Ramanathan 1974 Harbinson 

David Eugene Rearick 1971 Gates 

Jeffrey Elliot Richman 1974 Schlessinger 

Gary Trott Rizzo 1974 Huizenga 

Frank Lewis Roe 1972 Saunders 

Frank J. Romano 1975 Saunders 

Arthur George Schultz 1971 Schlessinger 

Gary B. Schuster 1971 Friedrich 

John Joseph Snyder 1975 Dalton 

Samuel Joseph Tremont 1975 Dalton 

Louis Cajetan Vaz 1972 Huizenga 

Jeffrey William Whittaker 1974 Harbinson 

Wuu-yong Wu 1974 Gates 

Margaret May-som Shaw Wu 1975 Dalton 

Michael Louis. Yarchak 1972 Saunders 

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1975 

Jack A. Kampmeier, Chair 

1979 

Wi l s o n Co m m o n s Bu i l t on Ri v e r Ca m p u s in 1976 


• In a 1977 NSF survey, the Chemistry Department’s faculty was ranked 11th in the nation in terms of federal 

funding 

• Coupled with the initiative developed under Bigeleisen’s tenure for chemistry majors, substantially changed 

non-major’s sequences in chemistry; together, these two initiatives completely overhauled and modernized 

the undergraduate chemistry curriculum and routinely provided IR spectrometers and gas chromatographs 

in the organic sections of the laboratories 

• Key player in the college initiative, “The Rochester Plan,” which created bridges between the College and 

Medical School, connecting the Department to Medical School science departments for undergraduate 

education 

• Actively sought to recruit more female faculty members 

• Instituted fellowship support for a female graduate student and an annual chemistry student award using 

the Samuel and Ellen Lattimore Fund, as well as other funds 

• Introduced the four percent internal overhead on research grants to support the departmental 

infrastructure 

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1975 Jack A. Kampmeier 

1979 

Me m o r i a l Ar t Ga l l e r y, 

f o u n d e d 1913, e x p a n d e d 1936, 1968, 1988 

Do o r w a y on Qu a d 


• Established the Chemistry Alumni Research Fund in 1977 

• In 1978 John Huizenga was named the Tracy H. Harris Professor of Chemistry, a chair he held until 1991 

• Completed the funding the Department obtained from NSF and placed orders for a 500-MHz NMR and a 

new ESR spectrometer 

• Started two major drives to acquire lasers for experimental physical chemistry and a contemporary GC-mass 

spectrometer 

• Actively sought to increase the ties between the Chemistry Department and industry to facilitate job 

placement for students 

• Later served as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences for Graduate Studies, and subsequently 

as Dean of the College 

• Hired George McLendon and James Farrar 

• Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, 1979 

• Significantly increased the number of postdoctoral fellows in the Department by securing College funds for 

Postdoctoral Teacing Fellows 

25

1975 Jack A. Kampmeier 

1979 

Jam e s Fa r r a r, 1978 

Lo u i s Fr i e d r i c h 

Ge o r g e McLe n d o n , 1979 

Sc h r ö d e r, Hu i z e n g a , a n d Hi l s c h e r, 1978 


Richard Mark Boden 1979 Gates 

Chien-Hong Cheng 1979 Eisenberg 

Yu-chih Chen Chiao 1976 Krugh 

Wen-bin Chiao 1977 Saunders 

Dennis Patrick Curran 1979 Kende 

Richard Edward Davis 1976 Muenter 

Nedie Lim De Vera 1976 Friedrich 

Michael DeBergalis 1979 Dalton 

Barbara Louise Fabricant 1977 Muenter 

M. William Johnson 1979 Huizenga 

Sheena Brown Kaldor 1979 Saunders 

Gerard Robert Kieczykowski 1978 Schlessinger 

Roy Alan Leckonby 1976 Friedrich 

Lanny Steven Liebeskind 1977 Kende 

Kenneth Milo Mack 1978 Muenter 

Chung-rei Mao 1977 Kreilick 

Paul Joseph Milazzo 1979 Ceasar 

John Eugene Mills 1978 Kende 

Paul C. Naegely 1979 Kende 

John Oakey Noell 1978 Morokuma 

Sharon Eileen Normandin 1979 Schlessinger 

Martha Liudmila Quesada 1979 Schlessinger 

Christian Gough Reinhardt 1978 Krugh 

Paul Fenton Richardson 1978 Kreilick 

David N. Ridge 1976 Kende 

Thomas Craig Sandreczki 1979 Kreilick 

Michael W. Schoonover 1979 Eisenberg 

Linda Sue Schwab 1978 Gates 

Peter Michael Serpentino 1978 Krugh 

Ming Shen 1977 Dalton 

Douglas Kent Simpson 1978 Dalton 

John A. Sofranko 1979 Kampmeier/Eisenberg 

Bruce George Stokes 1977 Dalton 

Yuh-geng Tsay 1977 Kende 

Mary Prislopski Zimmerman 1976 Gates 

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1979 

Andrew S. Kende, Chair 

1983 

Sun d i a l, Do n a t e d b y th e me n’s Cl a s s of ‘52 


• Significant contributor to the science of organic chemistry; focused on pericyclic reactions and total synthesis 

whose research involved more than 50 graduate students and a similar number of postdoctoral fellows 

• Held the Charles F. Houghton Professorship in Chemistry from 1981-2000 

• Female graduate students in chemistry won numerous fellowships, and 6 out of 25 in the entering graduate 

program were female 

• Introduced short courses on electrochemistry and polymer chemistry, with lecturers from industry; well 

attended by faculty, students, and approximately 60 people from local corporations and colleges 

• Chemistry Department hosted Third Conference on Cooperative Advances in Science and Technology, 

cohosted by Eastman Kodak Company and the University in 1981; sponsored by the Council for Chemical 

Research, an organization of approximately 40 companies and 130 departments of chemistry and chemical 

engineering; 240 participants 

• Hired numerous senior-level faculty, including Robert Boeckman, David Whitten, and Shaul Mukamel 

• Hired William Jones in inorganic chemistry, and Joseph Dinnocenzo in organic chemistry 

27

1979 Andrew S. Kende 

1983 

Wi l l i a m D. Jo n e s, 

Jos e p h Di n n o c e n z o, 

Sha u l Mu k a m e l , 

Ro b e r t K. Bo e c k m a n , Jr., 

e a r l y 80s 

e a r l y 80s 

e a r l y 80s 

l a t e 80s 


Diane DePrisco Albergo 1981 Turner 

Robert Whitehill. Atcher 1980 Huizenga 

Mark Wallace Bailey 1982 McLendon 

Kendall Lee Belsley 1982 Sceats 

Robert Michael Bilotta 1980 Farrar 

Robert Arthur Bourque 1980 Kende 

David Whitney Callahan 1982 Muenter 

Ling-I Shirley Chen 1982 McLendon 

Seung Hoon Cheon 1983 Boeckman 

Robert L. DeLeon 1981 Muenter 

Thomas P. Demuth 1980 Kende 

Thomas Gregory Dewey 1980 Turner 

Barbara Jo Fisher 1983 Eisenberg 

Pawel Fludzinski 1982 Kende 

Mark A. Hamilton 1980 Friedrich 

Stephen Herbert Harris 1980 Kampmeier 

Arden Diane Hoover 1981 Huizenga 

Gregory Cullen Hurst 1983 Kreilick 

Louis V. Isganitis 1981 Sceats 

Margaret Logan King 1982 Kende 

Kenneth Allen Kraft 1982 Kreilick 

Clifford P. Kubiak 1980 Eisenberg 

Jerry W. Kuper 1982 Sceats 

Patrick Yuk-Sun Lam 1980 Friedrich 

Kuan Rong Lee 1981 Krugh 

Jui-Teng Lin 1980 George 

Alan Harvey Lipkus 1982 Sceats 

Eric Wilson Lobenstine 1981 Turner 

Anibal Lopes 1981 Schlessinger 

Dennis Paul Lorah 1983 Kende 

Donald Benton MacMillen 1980 Montroll 

James Michael McNally 1981 Kreilick 

David James Miller 1980 Saunders 

Deborah Scribner Miller 1981 McLendon 

Richard Allen Nugent 1983 Schlessinger 

Mathew Petersheim 1982 Turner 

James B. Philip 1980 Kampmeier 

Denise Ann Podolski 1983 Sceats 

Andrew J. Poss 1983 Schlessinger 

Frederick Preuninger 1981 Farrar 

George Joseph Quallich 1980 Schlessinger 

James Patrick Rizzi 1981 Kende 

Michael Richard Roberts 1980 Schlessinger 

Joseph Peter Sabatucci 1983 Boeckman 

Richard Owens Schultz 1983 Kreilick 

James A. Schultz 1983 Schlessinger 

Michele C. Smith 1980 McLendon 

Susan Adella Stanton 1983 Godleski 

Yu-Tai Tao 1981 Saunders 

Laura Ellen Tubbs 1982 Huizenga 

Richard Sanborn Valpey 1982 Godleski 

Bryan Clark Whitmore 1983 Eisenberg 

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1983 

John R. Huizenga, Chair 

1988 

Fr a t e r n i t y Qu a d wi t h Wi l s o n Co m m o n s 


• In 1982-1983, the National Academy of Sciences evaluated and released a series of reports about 

graduate education. The reports noted that the Chemistry Department was the most improved University 

department since 1970, that the ranking of Chemistry’s effectiveness was in the 86th percentile, and the 

ranking of Chemistry’s faculty was in the 82nd percentile of all research doctoral programs in the United 

States. 

• By reorganizing teaching space, lab research space increased by 30%, and Departmental service and 

instrumentation space by over 20% 

• New equipment and instrumentation included a 500-MHz and two 300-MHz NMR spectrometers, a GC 

mass spectrometer, a Mattson Sirius 100 Fourier Transform IR spectrometer, an x-ray diffractometer, 

VAX computers, a single-photon counting system, large 4-liquid scintillator for neutron multiplicity 

measurements, and extensive laser equipment 

• Launched the departmental initiative to apply for one of the first National Science Foundation sponsored 

Science and Technology Centers, the Center for Photoinduced Charge Transfer. Responsible for laying the 

foundation for the successful application, site visit, negotiations between the University and the NSF, and 

establishment of the Center. 

29

1983 John R. Huizenga 

1988 

R. J. Dw a y n e Mi l l e r, 

Ea r l y 90s 

Th o m a s Ri z z o, 

e a r l y 90s 

W. Ud o Sc h r ö d e r, 

e a r l y 90s 

Jos h u a Go o d m a n , 

An n e My e r s Ke l l e y, 

e a r l y 80s 

l a t e 80s 


• The combination of Chemistry and Physics Ph.D.s awarded during 1984-1988 made up 37% of Ph.D. degrees 

awarded by the College 

• Chemistry faculty ranked 7th compared to all United States universities in the amount of federal research 

funds per faculty member 

• With Biology and Physics, Chemistry ran the first of many NSF-sponsored 5-week Honors Workshops for 

Science Teachers in the Greater Rochester area 

• In 1987, George McLendon received the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry 

• From 1983-1997 David Whitten held the C.E. Kenneth Mees Professorship in Chemistry 

• Faculty voted to restructure the first two years of undergraduate chemistry courses 

• Appoints W. Udo Schröder in nuclear chemistry, whose association with the Department began in 1973, to 

Professor of Chemistry 

• Hired Thomas Rizzo in laser spectroscopy, Anne Myers in Raman spectroscopy, R. J. Dwayne Miller 

and Joshua Goodman, later one of the founding members of the Science and Technology Center for 

Photoinduced Charge Transfer 

30

1983 John R. Huizenga 

1988 


Alan Dale Adams 1987 Schlessinger 

Thomas Richard Alessi 1986 Boeckman 

Mary Tedd Allen 1988 Whitten 

Theodros Asberom 1984 Boeckman 

Carol Ann Backer 1988 Whitten 

Thomas E. Barta 1987 Boeckman 

Steven Miles Bass 1984 Muenter 

Franco. Battaglia 1985 George 

Hans Phillip Beutelman 1987 Saunders 

Prudence K. Bradley 1988 Eisenberg 

Michael Alan Butler 1986 Huizenga 

Toni L. Ceckler 1985 Kreilick 

Andre B. Charette 1987 Boeckman 

Jen Chen 1984 Kende 

Richard Lee Chinn 1988 Boeckman 

Lynn Collins-Gold 1988 Whitten 

Karen Taylor Conklin 1987 McLendon 

William Russel Creasy 1986 Farrar 

Robert Alan Curtis 1984 Farrar 

Romualdo T. De Souza 1987 Huizenga 

Antonet Margaret De Souza 1988 Perry 

Donald M. Demko 1984 Boeckman 

Brent Richard Dohner 1985 Saunders 

Robert Philip Duttweiler 1987 Jones 

William Lee Ebenstein 1985 Muenter 

Frank Hallock Ebetino 1984 Kende 

Kimberly Gail Estep 1987 Boeckman 

Frank James Feher 1984 Jones 

Christopher John Flann 1984 Boeckman 

Cesar Vitorio Franco 1985 McLendon 

Edward Mason Gordon 1987 Eisenberg 

Deborah Diane Graves 1987 Schlessinger 

Steven Paul Greiner 1987 Kreilick 

Thomas Frederick Guarr 1984 McLendon 

Kurt Blaine Gundlach 1986 Godleski 

Catherine Harrison 1984 Turner 

Deborah Jean Heacock 1984 Godleski 

Debra Kay Heckendorn 1987 Boeckman 

Thomas Allen Henderson 1986 Kreilick 

David R. Hickey 1984 Turner 

Paul Francis Jackson 1987 Boeckman 

Young Sik Kim 1988 George 

Kevin Koch 1988 Kende 

Walter Philip Kosar 1987 Jones 

John Peter Kosky 1985 Huizenga 

Amanda Jane Kunin 1986 Eisenberg 

Michael Leon Lamos 1986 Turner 

Harold Bert Levene 1985 Perry 

Michael Joseph Luzzio 1986 Kende 

Edmond Magner 1988 McLendon 

John A. Maguire 1986 Jones 

Mark Edward McGuire 1986 McLendon 

Joseph Edward Moryl 1984 Farrar 

Thomas W. Nalli 1987 Kampmeier 

Katherine Norwood O’Brien 1987 Eisenberg 

Kathleen M. Poss 1985 Boeckman 

Michael A. Poss 1985 Schlessinger 

Joan Christine Potenza 1985 Boeckman 

Diana Garcia Prichard 1988 Muenter 

Jill Short Rogalskyj 1988 McLendon 

David Leonard Rowlands 1988 Kreilick 

Pauline J. Sanfilippo 1984 Kende 

David George Sanford 1986 Krugh 

Dong Myung Shin 1987 Whitten 

Shelley Lynne Shostak 1986 Muenter 

Kenneth Paul Simolo 1985 McLendon 

Cynthia Anne Smith 1988 Kende 

David Michael Sonnenfroh 1985 Farrar 

Massimo Sparpaglione 1988 Mukamel 

Steven Strauch 1984 McLendon 

Brian Reid Suddaby 1986 Whitten 

Jayaram Ragupathy Tagat 1984 Boeckman 

James Rocco Tata 1987 Schlessinger 

Christopher Allan Teleha 1987 Kende 

Ronald Rudolph Valente 1988 Borch 

Edwin Bernard Villhauer 1986 Godleski 

Matthew E. Voss 1986 Boeckman 

David Lee Waldman 1988 Huizenga 

George Terrance Walker 1985 Krugh 

Alison Patricia Williams 1988 Turner 

Jeffery L. Wood 1986 Schlessinger 

Carrie Woodcock 1984 Eisenberg 

David Juergen Wustrow 1985 Kende 

Yi Jing Yan 1988 Mukamel 

Mt. Ho p e Ce m e t a r y Ad j a c e n t t o Ca m p u s 

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1988 

David G. Whitten, Chair 

1991 

Do w n t o w n Ro c h e s t e r, 2005 


• In 1989, hosted the First Annual Charles A. Dana Foundation Symposium 

• Founding Director and driving force for the establishment of the NSF-sponsored Science and Technology 

Center for Photoinduced Charge Transfer, a collaborative effort between the Department, Eastman Kodak, and 

Xerox. It was awarded in 1989 as one of eleven centers, the only one in chemistry in the US, and the first such 

center in New York State. NSF funding renewed in 1991 for an additional five years of support at $9,600,000. 

• In 1990, hosted the First Annual Symposium of the Center for Photoinduced Charge Transfer, where 33 papers 

and 35 posters were presented to 160 participants from around the world 

• Shaul Mukamel becomes associate editor for Chemical Physics Letters in 1990, a position he holds to this day 

• Grants from the Dana and Pew Foundations enabled new initiatives in undergraduate education 

• Established new outreach programs to secondary school chemistry education 

• The Department was one of the top ten chemistry departments in the country in the amount of federal 

research funds per faculty member 

• In 1991, was awarded the ACS Award in Colloid or Surface Chemistry for his work in monolayer assemblies 

• Recruited Esther Conwell and Samir Farid as research professors; hired Eric Kool, whose appointment was the 

first in bioorganic chemistry, and complemented the program in biophysical chemistry 

32

1988 David G. Whitten 

1991 

Sc h r ö d e r La b, e a r l y 90s Sam i r Fa r i d Est h e r Co n w e l l , 


e l e c t e d t o th e Na t i o n a l 

Ac a d e m y of Sc i e n c e s, 1990 

Timothy Edward Banach 1989 Dinnocenzo 

David Clifford Barber 1989 Whitten 

Judith A. Bose 1991 Borch 

Valerie L. Chandler 1989 Jones 

Xiaohong Ci 1989 Whitten 

J. Robinson Cowdery-Corvan 1991 Whitten 

John W. Dankwardt 1991 Schlessinger 

Paul P. Deutsch 1989 Eisenberg 

Robert Joseph DeVita 1989 Kende 

Karen Ann Dittrich 1989 Krugh 

Lingzhen Dong 1991 Jones 

Carmen G. H. Duarte 1991 Bryant 

Thomas C. Eisenschmid 1989 Eisenberg 

Mingxin Fan 1989 Jones 

Yue Fang 1991 Boeckman 

Yasuhiro Fujii 1991 Kende 

Laura Lynn Genberg 1990 Miller 

Luis Alfredo Gomez-Jahn 1990 Miller 

Jonathan Grad 1990 Bryant 

Richard A. Hake 1991 McLendon 

Anna Marie Helms 1990 McLendon 

Edward T. Hessell 1991 Jones 

Grace C. Hsu 1991 Jones 

Edwin J. Iwanowicz 1989 Schlessinger 

John Allen Jaeger 1990 Turner 

Katy Pat Johansson 1991 McLendon 

Jeffrey J. Kasinski 1989 Miller 

Boklye Kim 1991 Kreilick 

Kurt W. Kramarz 1991 Eisenberg 

Joseph Alexander La Villa 1990 Goodman 

Cathy Coolbaugh Lester 1990 Bryant 

Tong-Zhou Liu 1990 Kampmeier 

Carl E. Longfellow 1989 Turner 

Jose Serafin Mendoza-Torres 1990 Kende 

Scott Carson Miller 1990 Kende 

Lixing Min 1991 Miller 

Clara Elena Mota 1991 Kende 

Scott Godfrey Nelson 1991 Boeckman 

Ronald Charles Newbold 1989 Kende 

Kenneth John O’Connor 1989 Boeckman 

Suzanne Freeman O’Handley 1991 Krugh 

Michael Patrick O’Neil 1989 McLendon 

Kelli J. Pardue 1989 McLendon 

Scott L. Richardson 1989 Schlessinger 

Robert George Rowland 1989 Dinnocenzo 

John SantaLucia 1991 Turner 

Meihua Shen 1990 Farrar 

Dane Mark Springer 1989 Boeckman 

Lesley Ann Stolz 1991 Boeckman 

Scott David Swanson 1989 Bryant 

Derek J. Von Langen 1991 Schlessinger 

Wei-Dong Wang 1990 Eisenberg 

Charles Harry Weidner 1989 Boeckman 

Jay L. Wile 1989 Schröder 

Linfeng Xie 1990 Saunders 

Suk Kyoon Yoon 1990 Boeckman 

Qipan Zhang 1991 McLendon 

Juan A. Zuleta 1991 Eisenberg 

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1991 

Richard S. Eisenberg, Chair 

1994 

Hut c h i s o n Ha l l fr o m th e Ge n e s e e Ri v e r 


• In 1991, the Department received $5,770,000 in external Federal research support, placing it in the top ten 

departments nationally in terms of Federal funding per faculty member 

• During a period of budget cutbacks at the University, obtained major funding for the Chemistry 

Department: $500,000 from the Kresge Foundation, $500,000 from the NSF, and $1.2 million in gifts and 

pledges from Merck and other donors 

• In 1991-1992, more than 70% of the entering freshmen class took Chemistry courses 

• Chemistry Department instructed more undergraduates in experimental physical science than any other 

department; was key provider of science laboratories for first-year students 

• In collaboration with James Farrar and John Muenter, started new Venture initiative for first-year chemistrylinked 

courses with the theme of Energy and the Environment; the next series theme was Chemistry and 

Life. Limited enrollment to 40 students. 

34

1991 Richard S. Eisenberg 

1994 

Er i c Ko o l, 

l a t e 80s 

Ae r i a l vi e w of Wi l s o n Co m m o n s 


Gui l l e r m o Ba z a n 

• Implemented an updated upper-level laboratory program that involved new instrumentation and 

equipment 

• Renovated laboratory facilities, including more than 2,000 square feet of new laboratory space. 

• In 1992, 20 Ph.D. degrees were awarded in Chemistry, representing 20% of the doctorates awarded by the 

College 

• Department achieved a 40% increase in Chemistry majors 

• In 1991 George McLendon was named Tracy H. Harris Chair of Chemistry, a chair he held until 1995 

• In 1993, was Chairman of the Inorganic Division of the ACS. 

• Subsequently, in 2001, was appointed editor-in-chief for the journal Inorganic Chemistry, a position he 

continues to hold to this day 

• Received the ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry in 2003 

• Was Associate Dean of the College under Jack Kampmeier 

35

1991 Richard S. Eisenberg 

1994 

Che m i s t r y Fa c u l t y in 1991 


Aloke Raj Banerjee 1994 Turner 

Philip Charles Bevilacqua 1993 Turner 

Joanne McDonald Bevilacqua 1994 Eisenberg 

Benjamin Eric Blass 1994 Kende 

Wayne Brian Bosma 1992 Mukamel 

Robert M. Chin 1994 Jones 

Xiaopei Ci 1992 Myers 

Sharon M. Dankwardt 1992 Schlessinger 

Edward James Dix 1994 Goodman 

Stephen George Donnelly 1994 Farrar 

Linda M. Eckel 1994 Krugh 

Matthew A. Fountain 1994 Krugh 

Kristin M. Fries 1992 Borch 

Christian Mathias Haugen 1994 Whitten 

Liyan He 1993 Turner 

Michael Scott Herman 1992 Goodman 

Christine L. Hoaglin 1993 Jones 

Yong Hsu 1994 Whitten 

Cynthia L. Jackson 1993 Bryant 

Shyam Babu Karki 1994 Dinnocenzo 

Matthew Alan Kellett 1992 Whitten 

Joseph Layton Kent 1994 Boeckman 

Sonja Komar-Panicucci 1994 McLendon 

Joseph M. Lanzafame 1992 Miller 

David Scott Lawrence 1994 Whitten 

Jeffrey Wade Leon 1994 Whitten 

Bulang Li 1992 Myers 

Sue Lin 1992 Saunders 

Xin Luo 1992 Rizzo 

Frances Markel 1992 Myers 

Adam Edward Peritz 1993 Turner 

Christophe Perthuisot 1994 Jones 

Lynn Marie Richard 1993 Miller 

Wanda G. Richard 1994 Whitten 

Jon-Marc Rodier 1994 Myers 

Glen P. Rosini 1992 Jones 

James Paul Schmidt 1993 Borch 

Anthony D. Selmeczy 1993 Jones 

Faisal A. Shafiq 1994 Eisenberg 

Thomas Richard Simpson 1994 Dinnocenzo 

Susan Patricia Spooner 1993 Whitten 

Linghong Sun 1993 Muenter 

David Francis Varley 1993 Farrar 

Amy Elizabeth Walter 1994 Turner 

Hong Xiang Wang 1993 Mukamel 

Tzyy-Schiuan Yang 1994 Myers 

Dawei Zhou 1993 Kreilick 

36

1994 George L. McLendon, Chair 

1995 

Hut c h i s o n Ha l l 


• McLendon played critical role as member of the University Presidential Search Committee, whose work 

culminated in selecting Thomas Jackson as President of the University 

• Joseph Dinnocenzo led a complete revamping of the organic laboratory curriculum for pre-med and nonscience 

majors 

• After 19 years at the University, where he became extremely well known in the field of biological electron 

transfer, McLendon went on to Princeton (and subsequently became the dean of faculty of Arts & Sciences 

at Duke University), and the Chairmanship returned to David G. Whitten 

• In 1995, Rochester participated in one of four major consortium grants funded by the NSF to develop 

and implement systemic changes in the undergraduate chemistry curriculum; the multi-year, $1.5 million 

consortium project centered at City College involved the development and propagation of Peer-led 

Workshops. Jack Kampmeier and Vicki Roth, Director of Learning Assistance Services, introduced the 

Workshops in sophomore organic chemistry. 

37

1994 George L. McLendon 

1995 

Me l i o r a, "e v e r be t t e r", 

c h o s e n in 1851 a s of f i c i a l University mo t t o 


De w e y Ha l l, n a m e d af t e r th e fi r s t ch a i r 

o f th e De p a r t m e n t 

Donald Joe Anderson, Jr. 1995 Eisenberg 

Charles Wadsworth Bailey 1995 Krugh 

Shawn Patrick. Baldwin 1995 Schröder 

Carl Emery Bonner, Jr. 1995 Miller 

Scott Raymond Breining 1995 Boeckman 

Huijuan Chen 1995 Whitten 

Hui-Ling Chiu 1995 Miller 

Brian P. Cleary 1995 Eisenberg 

David Alan Conlon 1995 Dinnocenzo 

Scott David Cummings 1995 Eisenberg 

John C. Deak 1995 Miller 

Michal Ilana Freedhoff 1995 McLendon 

Xiaoqi Jiao 1995 Bryant 

Kristen Marie Kulinowski 1995 Myers 

Yu-Jang Li 1995 Schlessinger 

Kun Liu 1995 Kende 

Rhonda Annette Musselman 1995 Boeckman 

Andrew William Myers 1995 Jones 

Michael J. Neeb 1995 Boeckman 

Thomas F. Oliver 1995 Borch 

Tiecheng Qiao 1995 McLendon 

Julie M. Rehm 1995 McLendon 

Paul Tod Rieger 1995 Miller 

Suong Thao Tran 1995 McLendon 

Kristen Beth VanderVeen 1995 McLendon 

Shaohui Wang 1995 Kool 

Robert Thomas Witkowski 1995 McLendon 

38

1995 David G. Whitten, Chair 

1997 

Th e Re g e n e r a t i v e Amplifier, 

Ce n t e r f o r Ph o t o i n d u c e d Ch a r g e Tr a n s f e r 


• The University started its “Renaissance Plan” 

• Broadened the number of industrial collaborators of the Science and Technology Center for Photoinduced 

Charge Transfer; included Bell Labs and hired Lewis Rothberg, world leader in organic electronics 

• The Center for Photoinduced Charge Transfer occupied approximately 4500 square feet of laboratory 

and office space and included a variety of specialized instrumentation including picosecond adsorption/ 

resonance Raman spectrometer, an ultra-fast scanning electrochemical apparatus, a monolayer system and 

an ultra-high vacuum apparatus 

• Due to previous University budget restraints, the Chemistry Department had been rebuilding from 1995 

and continues to do so today 

• In 1996 Richard Eisenberg was named Tracy H. Harris Professor of Chemistry 

• After 14 years at Rochester, went on to Los Alamos National Laboratory, and subsequently became editorin-chief 

of Langmuir, Chief Technical Officer of QTL Biosystems, and is now professor and co-director of the 

Center for Biomedical Engineering at the University of New Mexico 

39

1995 David G. Whitten 

1997 

Le w i s Ro t h b e r g 

Be n j a m i n Mi l l e r an d 

To d d Kr a u s s 

Mul t i-us e Tr a i l al o n g Ge n e s e e Ri v e r 


Carl P. Bergstrom 1997 Schlessinger 

Liaohai Chen 1997 Whitten 

Michael A. Carpenter 1996 Farrar 

Kevin W. Gillman 1997 Schlessinger 

Vineet Gupta 1997 Kool 

Liping Hong 1996 Borch 

Deanna C. Hurum 1996 Kreilick 

James Kim 1997 Turner 

Michelle Ann Laci 1997 Boeckman 

Yi Li 1997 Turner 

Jiwen Liu 1996 Borch 

Yugang Liu 1997 Boeckman 

Jeffrey A. McDowell 1996 Turner 

Yi-Jun Miao 1997 Bazan 

Anthony Joseph Midey, Jr. 1997 Farrar 

Joseph J. Mullins 1996 Boeckman 

Mitchell W. Mutz 1997 McLendon 

Thomas R. R. Pettus 1996 Schlessinger 

Lisa Marie Reeder 1996 Boeckman 

Michael Robert Reeder 1996 Boeckman 

Squire Rumney, IV 1997 Kool 

Kevin Ryan 1996 Kool 

Rebecca Dawn Fisher Settle 1996 Rizzo 

Stephen M. Shaw 1996 Boeckman 

Xuedong Song 1996 Whitten 

Tracy Vivlemore 1997 Kool 

Douglas D. Wick 1996 Jones 

Stephen Todd Wrobleski 1996 Boeckman 

Ming Wu 1996 Turner 

Xinhe Wu 1997 Schlessinger 

Thomas A. Zona 1996 Goodman 

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1997 

James M. Farrar, Chair 

2000 

Ca r l s o n Li b r a r y 


• Acquired a 500-MHz NMR spectrometer with help from Eastman Kodak Company 

• Invested a major effort in developing a vision for Chemistry in Rochester in the 21st century 

• After eleven years, in 2000, NSF funding ended for the Science and Technology Center for Photoinduced 

Charge Transfer. However, it continues as a vigorous research center at the University under its Director 

Joseph Dinnocenzo. 

• Despite a University-wide cutback in faculty, developed a strategic plan for hiring new faculty members 

• Recruited Todd Krauss, who now spearheads efforts in material science and nanotechnology 

• Recruited Patrick Holland in inorganic chemistry, one of Rochester’s traditional strengths 

• Department received a large bequest from Alan Ewart, Ph.D. alumnus in nuclear chemistry, which allowed 

Chemistry to establish a fellowship fund for excellent graduate students 

• Institutionalized the Peer-led Team Learning Workshop Program 

• Completed Central Instrumentation Facility construction in basement of Hutchison Hall; houses high-field 

NMR and mass spectrometers 

• In 1997 Robert Boeckman and Andrew Kende were appointed associate editors to the Journal of Organic 

Chemistry; Boeckman continues to serve until the present day. Kende completed his term in 2002. 

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1997 James M. Farrar 

2000 

To d d D. Kr a u s s Ka r a L. Br e n Pa t r i c k L. Ho l l a n d 


Do o r of Ru s h Rh e e s Li b r a r y 

Dileep Kumar Agnihotri 1998 Schröder 

Xiaoying Chen 2000 Turner 

Andrea Cuppoletti 2000 Goodman 

Sarah L. Daubendiek 1998 Kool 

Amy Marie Diegelman 1999 Kool 

Brian Lee Edelbach 1999 Jones 

Carolee Flader 1999 Borch 

Kevin Michael Guckian 2000 Kool 

Vinita Gupta 1999 Kelley 

Shelby Lynn Hatch 1999 McLendon 

Marina Antonina Hauck 1999 Whitten 

Robert Dale Hubbard 2000 Miller 

Rachel Jakubiak 2000 Rothberg 

Bryan Klekota, II 2000 Miller 

Rip Andrew Lee 1999 Bazan 

James Ian Lee 1999 Farrar 

Susan Troutman Lee 1999 Farrar 

Mark Lilichenko 1999 Kelley 

Dongyu Liu 1998 Kool 

Caren L. Freel Meyers 1999 Borch 

Susan Millar Oldham 1999 Eisenberg 

Pamela Lynne Paris 1998 Kool 

Louis Augustino Profenno 1998 Turner 

Michelle Lee Renak 1999 Bazan 

Jonathan Scot Rogers 2000 Bazan 

Terrence L. Smalley 1999 Kende 

Caroline Kowal Sperry 1999 Bazan 

David Charles Sperry 1999 Farrar 

Darren G. Stoub 1998 Goodman 

Sergei Tretiak 1998 Mukamel 

David Anthony Vicic 1999 Jones 

Tianbing Xia 1999 Turner 

Yanzheng Xu 1999 Kool 

Wei Min Zhang 1999 Mukamel 

Hong Zhang 2000 Krugh 

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2000 

William D. Jones, Chair 

2003 

University Ba n n e r in Wi n t e r 


• Richard Eisenberg awarded the ACS Award for Distinguished Service in Inorganic Chemistry 

• Home to three editorial offices for ACS journals: the central office for Inorganic Chemistry and associate 

editorial offices for The Journal of the American Chemical Society, and The Journal of Organic Chemistry 

• Research Professor Esther Conwell was named one of the “50 Most Important Women in Science” in the 

November 2002 issue of Discover. Her work has greatly increased our understanding of how charge flows in 

semiconductors and other materials. 

• Hired Alison Frontier and Nabi Magomedov in organic synthesis; Misha Ovchinnikov in the theory of 

reaction dynamics; Man Kit Ng whose focus is in organic materials 

• The University celebrated its sesquicentennial in 2000 

• Named Charles F. Houghton Professor of Chemistry in 2000 

• From 2000-2003 Shaul Mukamel held the C.E. Kenneth Mees Professorship in Chemistry; in 2001 became 

advisory editor for Chemical Physics 

• Jones received the ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry in 2003 for his work in catalysis 

• In 2003 William Jones was appointed associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a 

position he continues until the present day 

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2000 William D. Jones 

2003 

Nab i Ma g o m e d o v ‡ 

Ma n Kit Ng 

Mi s h a Ovc h i n n i k o v 

Al i s o n J. Fr o n t i e r 


Paul Albietz, Jr. 2001 Eisenberg 

Antonio J. del Moral Barbosa, Jr. 2001 Boeckman 

Thomas Woodford Barnes 2001 Turner 

Debra Jean Boehmler 2002 Boeckman 

Jessica Lynne Childs 2003 Turner 

Tammy Jo Clark 2001 Boeckman 

Christine M. L. Cuppoletti 2002 Rothberg 

Matthew David Disney 2002 Turner 

Jason G. Gillmore 2003 Dinnocenzo 

Xin Guo 2002 Calter 

Elizabeth Forenza Karan 2002 Bren 

Charles Karan, Jr. 2002 Miller 

Bradley Mark Kraft 2002 Jones 

David H. Mathews 2001 Turner 

James E. McGarrah 2002 Eisenberg 

Elizabeth S. Richards O’Grady 2003 Farrar 

Robert K. Orr 2003 Calter 

Stephen Scott Oster 2003 Jones 

Kirti M. Patel 2003 Bren 

Jo E. Roe 2002 Anbar 

Piero Lucio Ruggiero 2003 Boeckman 

Brandy S. Russell 2003 Bren 

Susan J. Schroeder 2002 Turner 

Robert Peter Udal 2002 Boeckman 

Nina Verdal 2003 Kelley 

Jing Zhang 2001 Boeckman 

Linghao Zhong 2003 Bren 

Cheng Zhu 2001 Calter 

‡ Deceased while on UR faculty , February 2006 

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2003 

Robert K. Boeckman, Jr., Chair 

Hut c h i s o n Ha l l fr o m Wi l s o n Bo u l e v a r d, 2002 


• In 2003, was named the Marshall D. Gates, Jr. Chair in Chemistry in honor or Marshall D. Gates, who was a 

member of the faculty from 1949 to 1981; in 2006, received the ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award. 

• Acquired 500-MHz, 400-MHz, and 300-MHz NMR spectrometers, and single molecule/confocal microscope 

• Oversaw an external strategic review of the Department to determine the best path for growth 

• Raised more than $2.5 million in endowed funds from alumni 

• During an austere period of Federal grant support, established an environment in which faculty raised 

substantial research funding, resulting in the steady growth of grants per year; faculty now receive more 

than $4 million in grants per year 

• Assisted in developing strategic plans, including the role of the Chemistry Department, for the energy, 

nanobiology, and neuroscience initiatives 

• Initiated lectureship and professorship in honor of Andrew Kende 

• Peer-led Workshop Educational fund in honor of Jack Kampmeier was established in 2005 

• Since 1995, the Department has experienced a 40% turnover in faculty, mainly due to retirements and new 

hires. Since 2000, the Department has hired seven assistant professors, and as of 2003, the Department has 

successfully retained senior faculty 

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2003 


Har r y A. St e r n 

Da v i d W. McCa m a n t 

Br a d l e y L. Ni l s s o n 

Chi n g W. Ta n g 


• Newsweek and The Washington Monthly both named UR among the nation’s top 25 universities 

• Initiated the formation of a cluster system of research in the Department 

• Currently, the Department’s strengths include inorganic/organometallic chemistry while the more 

traditional strengths of organic synthesis, biological chemistry, and physical and nuclear chemistry continue 

to flourish 

• Hired Harry Stern in computational chemistry, Bradley Nilsson in organic chemistry, and David McCamant in 

experimental physical chemistry 

• Doris Johns Cherry Professor Ching Tang, whose primary appointment is in Chemical Engineering, is jointly 

appointed to Chemistry and Physics after a distinguished career at Kodak, where he was a pioneer in 

organic electronics, including solar cells and OLEDs 

• Goal: From 1975 until the mid-1990’s, the Chemistry graduate program grew and peaked at 140 graduate 

students and 40 postdocs. Today, the Department has approximately 100 graduate students and postdocs. 

The goal is to have 120 graduate students and 40 postdocs. 

• Goal: Currently, raising funds for the Gates and Kende chairs, in synthetic organic chemistry and ultimately 

for at least one additional chair in physical chemistry or inorganic chemistry 

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2003 


Ch e m is t r y Fa c u l t y, 2003 

Bac k Ro w : T. Kr a u s s, U. Sc h r ö d e r, 

J. Mu e n t e r, A. Ke n d e, W. Sa u n d e r s, 

R. Kreilick 

Fr o n t Ro w : E. Co n w e l l , R. 

Eis e n b e r g, D. Tu r n e r, R. Bo e c k m a n , 

M.-K. Ng, W. Jo n e s 

Bio l o g i c a l ch e m i s t r y 

Clu s t e r Re t r e a t, 2006 


Kevin Bucholtz 2005 Miller 

Gang Chen 2005 Turner 

Jeremy Alan Cody 2004 Boeckman 

Christina Goudreau Collison 2004 Boeckman 

Nathan A. Eckert 2005 Holland 

Jason Allan Kellogg 2005 Bren 

Xiaorong Liu 2004 Boeckman 

Joseph Edward Pero 2005 Boeckman 

Todd Robert Ryder 2006 Boeckman 

Javier Vela-Becerra 2005 Holland 

Andrew James Vetter 2005 Jones 

Xin Wen 2004 Bren 

Jianguang Zhou 2005 Magomedov 

Brent Matthew Znosko 2004 Turner 

Patrick Caruana 2007 Frontier 

Ke Chen 2006 Boeckman 

Shenghua Duan 2006 Turner 

Megan Hahn 2006 Krauss 

Wei He 2007 Frontier 

Libai Huang 2006 Krauss 

Gabriel Kapur 2006 Boeckman 

Ravinder Kaur 2007 Bren 

Li Liu 2007 Farrar 

Brian McNaughton 2007 Rothberg 

Shanlin Pan 2006 Rothberg 

Ryan Phillips 2006 Calter 

Xinyi Song 2006 Boeckman 

Yuchen Tang 2006 Magomedov 

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Bau s c h an d Lo m b Ha l l, Bu i l t in 1930 t o ho u s e 

Opt i c s an d Ph y s i c s 

Go e r g e n Ha l l, Co m p l e t e d in 2007 t o ho u s e th e 

In s t i t u t e of Op t i c s & Biomedical En g i n e e r i n g 

Research in chemistry, and science in general, has become increasingly interdisciplinary. While each of the traditional 

areas of chemistry at the University of Rochester--organic, inorganic, and physical--continues to evolve 

in new directions, our faculty are also experts in other disciplines. A number of Chemistry faculty have joint appointments 

with other departments. As such, over the years several graduate students from other departments 

have been mentored and advised by Chemistry faculty. 

Stu d e n t s f r o m Ot h e r De p a r t m e n t s Me n t o r e d b y Ch e m i s t r y Fa c u l t y f o r t h e Ph.D. 

Elizabeth Jane Wesley Physics 2007 Rothberg 

Yong Zhang Chemical Engineering 2007 Rothberg 

Neelaabh Shankar Biochemistry 2007 Turner 

Yufeng Li Optics/ECE 2006 Dinnocenzo 

Jinghui Lu Chemical Engineering 2006 Rothberg 

Steven Konezny Physics 2005 Rothberg 

Blanton Tolbert Biochemistry 2006 Turner 

Lea Vacca Biophysics 2006 Bren 

Ravindra Venkatramani Physics 2005 Mukamel 

Yanting Wang Physics 2003 Dellago 

Aaron Peer Optics 2003 Dinnocenzo 

Michael R. Armstrong Physics 2001 Miller 

Gami Dadusc Physics 2000 Miller 

Gregory Goodno Physics 1999 Miller 

Vinita Gupta Physics 1999 Myers-Kelley 

Sabrina Jyotsna Diol Physics 1997 Miller 

Samuel Woodley Biophysics 1997 Krugh 

Stephen P. Palese Physics 1995 Miller 

Jun Qian Physics 1995 Farrar 

Xiangdong Wang Physics 1995 Miller 

Ningjun Wang Physics 1994 Mukamel 

Daniel S. Franchi Physics 1988 Mukamel 

Sue James Physics 1988 Mukamel 

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Bac k Ro w : W. D. Wa l t e r s, E. Fr e n c h , 

D. S. Ta r b e l l, A. B. F. Du n c a n , E. 

Wiig, R. He l m k a m p , J. Fl a g g 

Fr o n t Ro w : J. Kincaid, W. No y e s , 

V. Ch a m b e r s , W. Li n e 


Sta n d i n g : M. Ca l t e r, J. 

Din n o c e n z o, J. Ka m p m e i e r, 

J. Hu i z e n g a , J. Mu e n t e r, T. 

Kr u g h , D. Tu r n e r, U. Sc h r ö d e r, 

J. Fa r r a r, S. Mu k a m e l 

Se a t e d: R. Bo e c k m a n , A. Ke n d e, 

W. Jo n e s, R. Ei s e n b e r g, M. 

Ga t e s 

C h e m i s t r y Fa c u l t y o v e r t h e Ye a r s 

Ariel Anbar 

Robert L. Autrey 

Bernard Baker 

Guillermo C. Bazan 

Jacob Bigeleisen 

H. Marshall Blann 

Robert K. Boeckman 

Virgil C. Boekelheide 

Arthur Bond 

Richard F. Borch 

David M. Braitsch 

Kara L. Bren 

Robert G. Bryant 

Frank P. Buff 

T. L. Cairns 

Michael A Calter 

Gerald P. Ceasar 

Victor J. Chambers 

L. D. Colebrook 

Esther M. Conwell 

Michael Czarniecki 

J. Christopher Dalton 

Christoph Dellago 

Joseph P. Dinnocenzo 

A. B. F. Duncan 

Richard Eisenberg 

Samir Farid 

James M. Farrar 

J. F. Flagg 

Ethel French 

Louis E. Friedrich 

S. L. Friess 

Alison J. Frontier 

Howard S. Gardner 

Marshall Gates 

Thomas F. George 

Stephen A. Godleski 

Joshua L. Goodman 

H. Gunning 

David Ham 

Kenneth G. Harbison 

Ralph W. Helmkamp 

Terrell L. Hill 

Patrick Holland 

John R. Huizenga 

William D. Jones 

Jack Kampmeier 

Anne Myers Kelley 

Andrew S. Kende 

John F. Kincaid 

Eric T. Kool 

Todd D. Krauss 

Robert W. Kreilick 

Thomas R. Krugh 

Willard R. Line 

Nabi A. Magomedov 

David W. McCamant 

George L. McLendon 

Waren D. McPhee 

Benjamin Miller 

R. J. Dwayne Miller 

Elliott W. Montroll 

Keiji Morokuma 

John S. Muenter 

Shaul Mukamel 

Man Kit Ng 

George C. Nieman 

Bradley L. Nilsson 

Francis Nordmeyer 

William Albert Noyes 

Misha Ovchinnikov 

David S. Perry 

Davis Raymond, Jr. 

Thomas R. Rizzo 

Lewis J. Rothberg 

William H Saunders 

Mark G. Sceats 

Richard H. Schlessinger 

Wolf Udo Schröder 

Henry Sobell 

William H. Strain 

Arthur A. Sunier 

Ching W. Tang 

D. Stanley Tarbell 

Douglas H. Turner 

Winston D. Walters 

David G. Whitten 

Edwin O. Wiig 

David J. Wilson 

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Fa c u l t y Aw a r d s , Th e Pa s t 25 y e a r s 

James M. Farrar 1982 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1981-1983) 

David G. Whitten 1982 National Science Foundation Research Award for Special Creativity 

Fellowship Award of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 

Thomas F. George 1982 University of Rochester Mentor 

Joseph P. Dinnocenzo 1983 Camille Henry Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award 

Thomas George 1983 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 

James M. Farrar 1984 University of Rochester Mentor 

William D. Jones 1984 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship 

David G. Whitten 1984 Humboldt Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 

Shaul Mukamel 1985 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award 

William D. Jones 1985 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award 

Thomas R. Krugh 1985 Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professorship 

Andrew S. Kende 1985 Fellowship Award of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science 

Andrew S. Kende 1986 American Chemical Society Rochester Section Award 

John S. Muenter 1986 Fellow of the American Physical Society 

Thomas R. Rizzo 1986 Camille & Henry Dreyfus Distinguished New Faculty Grant 

Joseph P. Dinnocenzo 1986 Rohm and Haas Faculty Fellow 

James M. Farrar 1987 Fellow of the American Physical Society 

William D. Jones 1987 Exxon Education Foundation Award 

George L. McLendon 1987 ACS Award in Pure Chemistry 

R. J. Dwayne Miller 1987 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award 

Shaul Mukamel 1987 Fellow of the American Physical Society 

Anne B. Myers 1987 Camille & Henry Dreyfus Distinguished New Faculty Grant 

Joseph P. Dinnocenzo 1988 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship 

William D. Jones 1988 John S. Guggenheim Fellowship 

Fulbright Fellowship 

Royal Society of London Visiting Scholar Fellowship 

George L. McLendon 1988 University of Rochester Bridging Fellowship (to Biochemistry) 

R. J. Dwayne Miller 1988 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship 

Anne B. Myers 1988 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship 

Anne B. Myers 1989 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship 

NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award 

George L. McLendon 1989 ACS Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry 

Esther M. Conwell 1990 Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences 

Joshua L. Goodman 1990 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award 

Shaul Mukamel 1990 Fellow of the Optical Society of America 

Samir Farid 1990 Eastman Kodak’s C.E.K. Mees Award 

John R. Huizenga 1991 Leroy Randle Grumman Medal for Outstanding Scientific Achievement 

Anne B. Myers 1991 Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from UC Riverside Alumni 

Thomas R. Rizzo 1991 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship 

David G. Whitten 1991 ACS Award in Colloid or Surface Chemistry 

Guillermo Bazan 1992 Camille & Henry Dreyfus Distinguished New Faculty Grant 

Robert K. Boeckman, Jr. 1992 Alexander Von Humboldt Stiftung, Senior Faculty Research Prize 

Esther M. Conwell 1992 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 

Esther M. Conwell 1992 Honorary D. Sc., Brooklyn College, 1992 

Joseph P. Dinnocenzo 1992 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award 

Joshua L. Goodman 1992 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship 

John R. Huizenga 1992 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 

Eric T. Kool 1992 Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research 

Young Investigator Award, Arnold & Mabel Beckman Foundation 

George L. McLendon 1992 ACS Akron Section Award 

R.J. Dwayne Miller 1992 John S. Guggenheim Fellowship 

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Anne B. Myers 1992 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award 

Paul J. Flory Sabbatical Fellowship, IBM 

Thomas R. Rizzo 1992 Coblentz Prize for Spectroscopy 

Douglas H. Turner 1992 John S. Guggenheim Fellowship 

Esther M. Conwell 1993 New York Academy of Sciences 

Richard Eisenberg 1993 Chair, Division of Inorganic Chemistry, ACS 

Eric T. Kool 1993 Camille & Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award 

Thomas R. Rizzo 1993 UR Student Association Teacher of the Year Award 1992-93 

Douglas H. Turner 1993 John S. Guggenheim Fellow; American Cancer Society Fellow 

Eric T. Kool 1994 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship 

Cynamid Faculty Award from American Cyanamid Company 

Guillermo Bazan 1995 NSF CAREER Award 

Samir Farid 1995 Inter-American Photochemical Society Award 

Guillermo Bazan 1996 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship 

Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award 

Robert K. Boeckman, Jr. 1996 Marshall Gates Distinguished Faculty Scholar 

James M. Farrar 1996 Marshall Gates Distinguished Faculty Scholar 

Shaul Mukamel 1996 John S. Guggenheim Fellowship 

Lewis J. Rothberg 1996 Fellow of the American Physical Society 

W. Udo Schröder 1996 Fellow of the American Physical Society 

Esther M. Conwell 1997 Thomas A. Edison Medal of the IEEE 

Richard Eisenberg 1997 Lady Davis Fellow, Hebrew University 

Thomas R. Krugh 1997 Goergen Teaching Award for Distinguished Achievement and 

Artistry in Undergraduate Education 

Benjamin L. Miller 1997 Research Innovation Award 

Shaul Mukamel 1997 Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists 

John S. Guggenheim Fellow 

David G. Whitten 1997 Inter-American Photochemical Society Award 

Anne B. Myers 1998 Agnes Fay Morgan Award 

Jack A. Kampmeier 1999 Chemical Manufacturers Assoc. Catalyst Award 

Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in 

Undergraduate Teaching 

Thomas R. Krugh 1999 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 

Douglas H. Turner 1999 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 

Eric T. Kool 2000 ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award 

Pfizer Award for Enzyme Chemistry 

Thomas R. Krugh 2000 Students Association Professor of the Year in Natural Sciences 

Todd D. Krauss 2001 Research Corporation Research Innovation Award 

Benjamin L. Miller 2001 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award 

Robert K. Boeckman, Jr. 2001 Chair the Organic Division of the American Chemical Society 

Ariel Anbar 2002 Donath Medal of the Geological Society of America 

Esther M. Conwell 2002 Discover Magazine’s “50 Most Important Women in Science” 

Alison J. Frontier 2002 Research Innovation Award, Research Corporation 

Patrick L. Holland 2002 NSF CAREER Award 

Nabi Magomedov 2002 Research Corporation Research Innovation Award 

W. Udo Schröder 2002 Who’s Who Among American Teachers Award 

Kara L. Bren 2003 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship 

Joseph P. Dinnocenzo 2003 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers Award 

Richard Eisenberg 2003 American Chemical Society Award of Distinguished Service of Inorganic Chemistry 

Rochester ACS Section Award 

Patrick L. Holland 2003 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship 

William D. Jones 2003 ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry 

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Fa c u l t y Aw a r d s , Th e Pa s t 25 y e a r s (c o n t in u e d ) 

Andrew S. Kende 2003 ACS Arthur Cope Senior Scholar 

Todd D. Krauss 2003 NYSTAR James T. Watson Young Investigator Award 

Todd D. Krauss 2003 Army Young Investigator Award 

Nabi Magomedov 2003 Research Innovation Award, Research Corporation 

Shaul Mukamel 2003 Optical Society of America Ellis R. Lippincott Award 

Kara Bren 2004 Paul Saltman Memorial Lecturer 

Alison J. Frontier 2004 NSF CAREER Award 

Todd D. Krauss 2004 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship 

Robert Kreilick 2004 Goergen Award for Curriculum Achievement in Undergraduate Education 

Thomas R. Krugh 2004 Student’s Association Professor of the Year in Natural Sciences 

Nabi Magomedov 2004 Amgen New Faculty Award 

John Muenter 2004 Goergen Award for Curriculum Achievement in Undergraduate Education 

Harry A. Stern 2004 Camille & Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award 


Esther M. Conwell 2005 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Senior Mentor Award 

Richard S. Eisenberg 2005 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 

James M. Farrar 2005 Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in 

Undergraduate Teaching 

Todd D. Krauss 2005 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award 

Man Kit Ng 2005 NYSTAR James D. Watson Investigator Award 


Esther M. Conwell 2006 Susan B. Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award 

Robert K. Boeckman, Jr. 2006 ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award 

James M. Farrar 2006 University Dean’s Award for Meritorious Service in Ph.D. Defenses 

Professor of the Year in Natural Sciences by the Students Association 

Joseph P. Dinnocenzo 2006 Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching 

Who’s Who Among American Teachers Award 

Kara L. Bren 2006 ACS PROGRESS Project Award 

Ching W. Tang 2006 Elected Member of National Academy of Engineering 

Ching W. Tang 2007 Daniel E. Noble Award, IEEE 

Misha Ovchinnikov 2007 NSF Career Award 

Richard Eisenberg 2007 ACS Cleveland Section Morley Medal 

Esther M. Conwell 2007 ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences 

Ri v e r Ca m p u s an d Ro c h e s t e r 

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Ac k n ow l e d g m e n t s 

We gratefully acknowledge the faculty and staff who participated in assisting us with compiling this history. Special 

thanks to Lois H. Gresh, Technical Communications Director for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math at the University 

of Rochester, for her diligent research, writing expertise, and vision for the booklet. We also thank the University 

of Rochester librarians, Nancy M. Martin and Melissa Mead of the Rare Books and Special Collections Department at 

Rush Rhees Library for their invaluable assistance, and use of their archives and collections. This project could not have 

been completed without the efforts of Chemistry Librarian, Susan Cardinal at Carlson Library, who is responsible for 

the Index of Chemistry doctoral theses. We thank Department Chair, Robert K. Boeckman, Jr. and Administrative Chair, 

Kenneth Simolo for their support of this project. We are also grateful to Dana Rittenhouse of the University Deans’ Office, 

the 75th Anniversary Event Committee Chair, James M. Farrar, and committee members Robert K. Boeckman, Jr., 

William D. Jones, Richard Eisenberg, Jack A. Kampmeier and Karen S. Dean for their contributions. Photos were provided 

courtesy of the Rare Books and Special Collections Department at Rush Rhees Library, the University of Rochester Public 

Relations Department, the Monroe County Library System, and photographers, Richard Baker, Ria Casartelli, Matt Beyers, 

Hiatt Zhao (B.S. ’06), Sheridan Vincent, and Professor Thomas R. Krugh. And finally, we wish to acknowledge John 

Bertola (Class of ’09) for his talent, dedication, and hard work as Layout Editor. 

Heartfelt thanks to you all. 

Debra Haring 

Development Administrator and Editor 

Ri v e r Ca m p u s Ba n n e r 

Fi r ew o r k s o v e r th e Ge n e s e e Ri v e r 

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