June 2005
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June 2005 |
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| DEPARTMENT NEWS | HONORS, AWARDS & PATENTS | SEMINARS AND TALKS | RECENT PUBLICATIONS | ANNOUNCEMENTS |
Dr. Jack D. Davies (William Daly) has accepted a position at Nycoa Corp, Manchester NH. He will be developing Nycoa's Specialty Nylon market and products. Don't worry, he is not becoming a Yankee. He will probably be moving back to Louisiana. His job function will be mainly commercial with lots of travel, so Louisiana will be a good home base.
News from a former graduate student
Courtney Brown joined the graduate program from Xavier University, New Orleans, and graduated with the MS degree in August 2002. She is currently an Assistant Scientist II in the Infectious Diseases and Tumor Biology group, Schering-Plough Research Institute.
She writes: "Just recently, my group won the highest award in Schering-Plough's Research Institute , and I never knew that I would be a part of such an achievement." Congratulations Courtney!
courtney.brown@spcorp.com
2005-2006 Coates Research Awards
Congratulations to Chemistry winners of the Coates Awards. Our students did particularly well. Join me in congratulating them and I hope the success inspires even more applicants and nominators to seek awards for our students next year.
Vijay Gottumukkala, Graca Vicente Alex Monteil, George Stanley
Celinah Mwakwari, Kevin M Smith Catherine Situma, Steven A. Soper
Coates Dissertation Award for 2005
Robin W Macaluso, Julia Chan Sibel Turksen, Paul Russo
Isiah M. Warner
Marquette University, Madison, Wisconsin, “Separations and Fluorescence: Is There More of a Connection than Simple Detection?”, May 23, 2005.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, “Transformation of Louisiana State University: The Best University in the Country for African Americans to earn PhDs in Chemistry”, May 24, 2005.
CIRTL Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, “Transformation of Louisiana State University: The Best University in the Country for African Americans to earn PhDs in Chemistry”, May 24, 2005.
Isiah M. Warner
A. Yvette Glenn, Chanel A. Fortier, Ivy V.
Jack, Xaiofeng Zhu and Isiah M. Warner, "Chiral Recognition of Propranolol
with b-Cyclodextrin
in the Presence of 1- and 2-Butanol", Journal of Inclusion Phenomena
and Macrocyclic Chemistry
Rodriguez-Caceres, M. I.; Agbaria, R. A.;
Warner, I. M. Fluorescence of Metal-Ligand Complexes of Mono- and Di-Substituted
Naphthalene Derivatives. Journal of Fluorescence
Randall Hall
Hall, Randall. "Simulation of electronic and geometric degrees of freedom using a kink-based path integral formulation: application to molecular systems", J. Chem. Phys., 122, 164112-1-164112-8, 2005
Safety Reminder
Please remember to remove your gloves when leaving the laboratory. Gloves should not be worn when moving through the hallways or when using the elevators. Any surfaces you touch can become accidentally contaminated and pose a risk to others.
Fiscal Year 2005-2006 Holiday Schedule
Independence Day - July 4 (M)
Labor Day - September 5 (M)
Thanksgiving - November 24 (Th), 25 (F)
Christmas and New Year's - December 23 (F), 26 (M), 27 (T), 28 (W), 29 (Th), 30 (F) and January 2, 2006 (M)
Martin Luther King Day - January 16 (M)
Mardi Gras - February 28 (T)
Easter – April 14 (F)
Leaving the University
Faculty, staff and student employees (especially graduating students) leaving the University are reminded to update their mailing addresses. Home addresses can be updated in three ways:
1. E-mail Payroll at payroll@lsu.edu
2. Complete and submit to the Payroll Office a Change of Address form located at the following web address: http://www.fas.lsu.edu/acctServices/pay/forms/as481.pdf
3. Update address information via PAWS under Personal Preferences/Directory Information or by using the following link: http://appl008.lsu.edu/pwsdefault.nsf/diruadr?openagent
International employees who need a social security number and would like a ride to the Social Security Office to apply may e-mail the International Cultural Center at ICC@lsu.edu to request transportation assistance.
For Reimbursement of Meals for any speakers, visitors, grad students, etc., you must provide itemized receipt in order to get reimbursed. If you should happen to have lunch at Chimes or the Faculty Club, you must ask for an itemized receipt. Accounting has advised us that they will no longer honor any receipt that is not itemized. This is a state law requirement.
We are anticipating a smooth fiscal year-end closing. One thing that will attribute to this is the purchase of direct charges using the LaCarte purchasing card. All direct charges are to be purchased with the LaCarte card beginning June 1, 2005 and it will be your responsibility to get receipts for your credit card purchases. If you have any questions concerning this, please feel free to contact Kelly Small at 578-3360 or Genell Bodoin at 578-3692.
To the faculty: Please come by and introduce the new post docs, grad students or visiting professors to our office staff. We will be glad to help in getting an account established in our OOTS system and give them a brief training session on using the OOTS system.
Do you have information that you would like us to include in the next newsletter?
Please e-mail us. The deadline for inclusion in the monthly newsletter is the 20th of each month.