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Alumni News continued Rocky Houston, BS Bio- Kimberly Corkery, BS, "I am investigating a combinachemistry, is Associate Chem- 1989 ist with Star Biochemicals in Woody H. Jackson, BA Torrance. (MD, UC Davis), has completed Illarlinez, BS an internship in surgery at Hur h y a i*rnislq&llnor, tington Memorial Hospital an" is practicing medicine at a - clinic in Belize, Central Arca. Martha Speckman, (PharmD, UC San Francis a pharmacist at Mills-Pen Hospitals in Burlingame a f a completing a residency at Moses H. Cone Memorial Hosp' tal in Greensboro, N.C. Louie Wollenberger, MS Biochemistry, has completed Pasadena City Cu~~ege, teachhis PhD in Biochemistry at Lund ing Freshman Chemistry. "I University in Lund, Sweden. His relate my career to the poten- PhD thesis was titled, "Isolation tial energy profile for an exoand Characterization of the thermic reaction, where my MS Chloroplast Grana Margins." reports that she and her husband are building a home in Roanoke, Va. She and Dr. Dennis Anjo have just published a paper dealing with Kimberly's work as an undergraduate at CSULB. Sharon M. McKelvey, BS Biochemistry, is a thirdyear medical student at the College of Osteopathic Medicine in Los Angeles. "I am doing rotations at HarborLJCLA, San Bernardino County, Downey Community and Drew/ UCLA Hospitals. I will probably go into family practice or pediatrics. In 1993-94 I received the Kiwanis Service Award and a Teaching Assistance Award." John Do MoNoy, BA, is a third-year law student at Peptorial library of cyclic peptides for the determination of labile peptide substrates for liver proteases. This work is related to radioimmunotherapy involving certain kinds of cancer, including lymphatic and breast cancer." Martin Rocha, BS Biochemistry, entered medical school this fall at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. Shan H. Young, BS Biochemistry, received her Master's in Public Health degree from Loma Linda U this year. 1993 Alec Greer, MS, is a PhD student at the U of Wyoming in ~aramie and has successfully passed all his cumulative examinations. He spent the sum- 1990 Sany Engstrom, BS, MS, 1994, Nutritional Science, is a marketing analyst with the title of New Products Marketing 'Supervisor with Carl Karcher Enterprises in Anaheim. Rong J. Guan, MS Bio- chemistry (MD, Peoples Re- public of China), is a medical resident at St. Luke's Hospital, Columbia University in New York City. "Our older son, Patrick, is going to school this summer, and our younger son, Alex, is 6 months old. Both Ping and I will finish our residence training next year. We are plan- ning to move back to Boston where Ping will open a private practice. I will continue my clin- ical training and basic research at Brigham and Women's Hospi- tal and at Dana Farber Cancer Institute as a Fellow in Gastro- enterology. My main focus is to study gastrointestinal cancers." externship in orth I in Affiliated ~alculations on '0, oxidations ~Joann Dao Hong, BS lIarie Laibinis, BA, is a : - duate student at the U of Mark Murray, BS Bio- fourth-year medical student, also at St. Louis U. uated from Cleveland Chiropractic School. James Peterson, BS, is a PhD candidate, working with Dr. Claude Meares at UC Davis. Derrick Myers, Biochemistry, is a medical student at Howard U Medical School. i
Robert Rzasa, BS, and Rhonda Cunningham were mar- ried on June 19 in Long Beach. Robert is a third-year PhD student in synthetic organic chemistry at Texas A&M U. Jeffrey M. Whitaker, BS Biochemistry, began the MS program in Biochemistry at San Francisco State U where he is a Teaching Associate. Philip K. Zlaket, BS Biochemistry (Certificate in Hazardous Materials and Transport, Fuller ton College), is Operations Manager with HoltraChem Group, Inc., in Anaheim, a company special- izing in the manufacture and distribution of industrial hazardous materials. His responsi- bilities include writing and tracking of MSDs, truck and trailer maintenance for all Western States, technical writing for ISO-9000, training of HoltraChem employees in the appropriate hazardous materials regulations. 1994 Nina Bao, MS, is a chemist with Pyramid Co. in Costa Mesa. Delina Brassard, BS Biochemistry, works as a pharmacy technician with CVS Pharmacy in Bristol, Conn., and is applying to pharmacy school. Kristina Gaus, BS Bio- chemistry, is employed as a Quality Control Associate with Pharmingen in San Diego. Victor Mandapat, BS Biochemistry, is an MS student in the Biological Sciences Program at UC Irvine. Darren McDa~iel, BS Biology, Chemistry Minor, is an MS student in Health and Physical Education at Syracuse University, studying exercise endocrinology. Judith Ramillan09 BS REPORTS FROM FACULTY AND STAFF ~iochemistry, is employed by twtinud from page sive. We have a great view of it Dep Corp., Dominguez Hills. from the department office. Mean- Ken Nakayama: This past while, Hardfact Hill has been alacademic year has given me fur- most demolished for a heating and 1995 ther experience in teaching the air-conditioning facility at the bot- Oren Beske, BS Bio- non-majors course in organic tom of the hill. 1 had the opportuchemistry, will enter a PhD chemistry. This course has differ- nity to participate in many exciting program in Biochemistry at UC ent challenges from the majors events on campus this year, in- Sari Francisco this fall. He and sequence, probably the most im- cluding the Concerts in the Grove portant being the lack of a suitable series, the Blues Festival, two Charles of the textbook. 1 have also tried to in- wonderful musical events in the Veterans Administration Hos~i- clude more biochemical examples new Carpenter Performing Arts tal, Long Beach, have pub- and to cover peptides and nucleic Center, and the first Homecoming lished a paper, "Fate of ]ysos- acids in some detail. I am also in the Pyramid. Hope to see some omes transported to the den- very excited about Chem 420. of you at one of our many events which will be taught for the first on campus in the future. drites a colchcine-induced time in fall 1995. It is an advanced mechanism," in Brain Re- lab course which will complete the Nail Senozan: Henry Po and search, 669, (1 995) 125-1 29. organic chemistry sequence, and I I got our Chemistry 11 1 B lab book Dana Gilchrist, MS Bio. am looking forward to teaching it published by Hayden-McNeil Pubchemistry, teaches science at with Dr. Stuart Berryhill. In terms lishing. Jerry Devore and I have a of my students, MS candidate, paper titled, "Carbon monoxide the UC Irvine Farm ''I Hossein Razavi. very competently poisoning and some surprising am creating a hands-on physi- defended his thesis in June. He is aspects of the equilibrium between cal science program for third- doing very well in the PhD pro- hemoglobin, carbon monoxide and to-sixth graders." gram in Chemistry at the Universi- oxygen," accepted by J. Chem. Educ. Eric ~ ~ BA, is ~ ty of Arizona. ~ Patrick Middleton. ~ b ~ ~ my other MS candidate, is also with McDonnell Dou- enjoying success as a synthetic glas in Huntington Beach. chemist at ICN. He hopes to file John Hecht, BS Chemi- his thesis this fall. cal Engineering, Chemistry Minor, is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley and has passed his preliminary examination. Jeffrey Kaplan, BA, BS Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, leaves his job with Quanterra to begin his ~ medical studies at the U of Angie Taylor, Chemistry Secretary Oklahoma Medical School this fall. May Ly, BA, is a chemist with Quanterra in Santa Ana. Hossein Razavi, MS, has successfully passed his preliminary oral examination for the PhD in Organic Chemistry at the U of Arizona. Hossein's research is being conducted in collaboration with Professor Polt. Jon Spencer, BS, works as a quality control chemist with the ARC0 refinery in Wilmington, Calif. Josephine Nguyen, Stockroom Clerk Josephine Nguyen (our new Stockroom employee): I received my bachelor's degree in Chemistry in 1993 from UC Santa Barbara. While at UCSB I was employed as a student lab assistant. Following graduation, I was promoted to the position of Lab Techician 111. A similar position and a chance to be closer to home brought me to CSULB. Jeannette Santage: I wish I could tell you that we have a new science complex, but I can't. This year we saw the opening of the Pyramid sports complex on campus . . . very unique and impres- Angie L. Taylor (our new secretary): I'm a 1974 high school graduate with four children - Jimmy (16), Johnny (14). Summer (12), and Melissa (1 1). One of my more interesting life experienceswas being employed with Pan American World Airlines as a stewardess, where I saw the beauty of several continents. My favorite sites were Switzerland and the island of Bermuda. 1 have an Associate of Arts degree, with a longterm goal of becoming an elementary education teacher. Working in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department is nothing less than a great adventure. Each day brings excitement and new challenges!
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