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closely with both Debra Haring, now in the Dean’s Office,
and Lory Hedges, Debra’s replacement in the department.
What has been especially fun over the past two years, is
getting to know the undergraduate chemistry majors and
watching their progress towards graduation. This spring, Terri
received the Sandra Beach Memorial award for outstanding
service to the Department. Terri and her husband travel
two or three times each year back to the west coast where
their children reside in either California or Washington.
Our Graduate Studies Coordinator, ROBIN COOLEY, has
now been with the Department for six years. She continues
to coordinate the recruitment and admission of new graduate
students, as well as assisting current students as they progress
through their studies toward the doctoral degree. Each year,
Robin organizes the Department’s main recruitment activity,
Visitation Weekend, which always draws a large number of
prospective graduate students. This past year, the attendees had
a great time getting to know one another at “Casino Night,”
followed by another day of touring Chemistry’s facilities,
meeting with faculty, and socializing with our current graduate
students in Rochester. Once visitation is over, Robin begins
the tasks of preparing for the busy week of Orientation for
the incoming graduate students. Recruitment efforts were
very successful and Chemistry welcomed a new class of
sixteen first-year students for the 2010-2011 academic year.
LORY HEDGES is our newest addition in the department,
starting in the Development Admin and Alumni Relations
position in February. She is supporting the faculty on grant
and award submissions as well as coordinating Alumni
Relations in all its various forms. She is busy learning the
ropes of all the events and tasks that go through the office as
well as on several sections of the website. She is grateful to
Debra Haring and all the department folks who have been
helping her. Lory comes to the Chemistry Department from
having her own business as a technical grant writer. Her
educational background is in industrial engineering with
a BSIE from Purdue University. She spent many years at
Bausch & Lomb in the manufacturing area, implementing
new products and processes. She and her partner, Paul Taylor,
have just purchased a home in the UR area and Lory walks to
Hutchison Hall. They both love to travel and especially enjoy
day trips in the area. Lory enjoys cooking and gardening, is
an avid quilter, and volunteers in the Compeer Quilting Bee.
MARGUERITE WESTON, Assistant to Faculty, has been with
the Department of Chemistry for fifteen years. She coordinates
the Chemistry Seminar Program and produces the online
seminar schedule each month. Marguerite also coordinates
select special events, assists with various projects, and provides
support to numerous faculty members. Marguerite assists
Professor Thomas Krugh with
the many administrative details
of Chemistry’s National Science
Foundation supported annual
summer research program
for undergraduates (REU),
including preparation of the
competitive renewal proposals
for each three-year period and
annual reports. The Department
was again awarded a threeyear
renewal by NSF for its REU Program which attracts
approximately 125 applications each year from undergraduates
across the nation and the University of Rochester.
ELLY YORK, who joined the Chemistry Department in
November of 2006, works as a teaching assistant in the
undergraduate laboratories and is the sole TA for the summer
sessions of the general chemistry laboratory. Elly also assists
with safety inspections in the Department, as well as working
part time in the Chemistry stockroom. Elly is a graduate
of Alfred University and has clinical work experience,
having previously worked in several veterinary clinics prior
to coming to UR. She also recently completed a Master’s
degree in education and was married last year. Elly and
Brandon have just bought their first house. Congratulations!
NEWS FROM THE EDITORIAL
OFFICES OF JOURNALS OF THE
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY:
KIRSTIN CAMPBELL oversees the staff of Inorganic
Chemistry as Coordinating Editor. Out of 44 journals in their
category, Inorganic Chemistry is once again the most-cited
journal in inorganic chemistry with a record 79,450 total
citations in 2009 and an impact factor of 4.657, its highest
ever. The Rochester office, the main office of the journal,
overseen by Editor-in-Chief Richard Eisenberg, handled over
2,553 manuscripts in 2009. IC is one of the few ACS journals
featuring issues with a changing cover, being published twice a
month. Inorganic Chemistry is in preparatory stages of kicking
off the 50-year celebration of the journal in 2011. On a personal
note, Kirstin has been busy at home, enjoying and working
with three new additions to her equine family. April 2009
produced a percheron colt named Willie Just Do-It (Willie),
and the following April his younger full brother Rorschach
(Norman) arrived. In July 2010, an Oldenburg filly named
Senona made her appearance into the world. Percheron are an
imported French draft breed, and aren’t very common in the
US. Oldenburg are an imported German warmblood breed,