THE IOTAN

November, 1999 No. 76

Greetings from the 1999 - 2002 National Council

Iota Sigma Pi

National Honor Society for Women in Chemistry

President

Susan S. Marine

(The following is the acceptance speech given when Susan Marine was installed as National President at the 26th National ISP Triennial convention.)

Thank you for bestowing on me the honor of being President of Iota Sigma Pi for the next three years. As we approach the end of our first century of fellowship and promoting women in chemistry and sciences closely related to chemistry, our theme of Reach Out! seems most appropriate.

The honors many of our members have rightfully achieved serve as glowing beacons that not only mark our past but also light our way to the future. The mission of Iota Sigma Pi, as defined in our mission statement, is to promote professional development and personal growth of women in chemistry and related fields through recognition, public outreach, and the formation of supportive networks. As President, I alone cannot accomplish this mission. My role is to encourage and stimulate members to diligently pursue our objectives.

The committees that convened during the 1999 national convention have provided direction toward these objectives through their recommendations and motions, including the following: A new chapter position called Membership Affairs Coordinator has been formed to increase recruitment of new members. A Chapter Revitalization Award (CPR) will be given triennially to recognize chapters that are newly activated or reactivated during the triennium. A Centennial Activities Coordinator will coordinate chapter and national activities to celebrate ISP's centennial anniversary. To increase the visibility of Iota Sigma Pi, a poster will be designed and distributed, our web site will be updated and expanded by the web master and a committee of helpers, and chapters are encouraged to inform the news media, including the Iotan and C&E News, of accomplishments of their members.

It is up to us (Indeed, it is one of the things we can and should do.) to be sure that the accomplishments of our colleagues are duly registered in the minds of as many others as possible. That knowledge often Reaches Out further than we know and may help encourage new and talented young women into this exciting field we have chosen.

It is up to us to hold these beacons high and to Reach Out, to reflect the lights of others for all to see what women can achieve. Join with me in this endeavor as we complete the first century of Iota Sigma Pi.

Vice-President

Donna Nelson

I am an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, OK. I am a native Oklahoman who obtained my Ph. D. at the University of Texas at Austin, did my Post-Doctorate at Purdue University with H.C. Brown, and came back to Oklahoma in 1983 to accept a faculty position for research and teaching in Organic Chemistry. I have one child; he is a senior in high school this year, and intends to be a scientist.

It is certainly an honor being elected National Vice President of Iota Sigma Pi. I look forward to getting to know many of you as I take on the duties of that office. When I attended the National Convention in Portland, OR, it was great to present two papers on my research to so many intelligent, energetic, and impressive women. I gathered a great many new ideas and perspectives. I thoroughly recommend it for all women in chemistry.

Susan S. Marine

National President

These and many other recommendations require that we Reach Out to others in our chapters to promote their careers, Reach Out to our local chemistry organizations with joint activities and meetings, and Reach Out nationally to promote women in chemistry.

The beacons raised by our predecessors and our current models were not lit and did not shine without a lot of hard work, initiative, encouragement, and mentoring. Singing the praises of those who excel and achieve shines the light of their beacons brighter on all of us.

In 1997 I had the opportunity to take a class of college students to Europe to study the history and foundations of chemistry. One of the most memorable tours was of Marie Curie's laboratory in Paris. Marie Curie stands out as a beacon due to her outstanding achievements in chemistry at a time when women were not expected or allowed to work in the physical sciences. It was very enlightening for both the male and female students in our group to learn about her accomplishments, but it was only through the knowledge of the adversities she had overcome that their minds were opened and they truly understood the extent of what she had accomplished.

In this issue...

Supplies and Information 3

Editors 5

Member News 5

National Council 7

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Editor

Sharon Vercellotti

As Editor of The Iotan, I view my role as an agent for communication. I would like to continue to increase member communication. We have recently added a Science Feature Editor, Dawn Norman, to include articles of scientific interest to the membership. Our other Feature Editors are Chris Rener, Gretchen Shearer and Margaret Workman. Please contact these editors with your ideas and articles. Send your Member News to me. Your activities and honors are important for all Iotans to know. The email addresses are elsewhere in this issue. Thank you for allowing me to continue as Editor. The position has allowed me to fully appreciate the outstanding membership of Iota Sigma Pi. I look forward to receiving your news.

Historian

Anne T. Sherren

Greetings from your National Historian. Best wishes to all Iotans for success in your personal and professional lives. I hope that we will have a good triennium as Iotans.

The National Historian has two big duties: (1) to store the archives of the society. I need your help. Please send me pictures and information about members and chapters. If you have copies of old Histories or old Iotans that you no longer want, please send them to me. I will reserve the right to keep them if we need them to fill in gaps in the Archives. (2) To compile and prepare The Centennial History of Iota Sigma Pi. If you have pictures that you feel will be suitable for the Centennial History, please send them to me. This will be a busy triennium as all of us we are preparing for the Centennial Celebration. As my committee and I update the chapter histories we will be contacting the chapters and individuals to see if we missed something. Thanks to all of you who have sent me materials I needed. I do get copies of the National Vice-President's Chapter Activities reports. I always like getting copies of the chapter newsletters. It is interesting to see what you are doing. I know that 3 chapters use e-mail to distribute their news. If you have a special interest in doing compiling, editing, or writing, please contact me.

Let us all work together for a better Iota Sigma Pi!

Records Chair

Patricia Fish

Greetings to Iotans all over the world! It was great seeing many of my old friends and making

1999-2002 National Council: Front Row - Anne Sherren, Sue Marine, Kathryn Louie, Christine Hermann. Back Row - Linda Brazdil, Janet Clark, Kathryn Thomasson, Donna Nelson, Lily Ng, Patricia Fish, Sharon Vercellotti

Secretary

Janet Clark

I have thoroughly enjoyed the time I have spent on a local level with Iota Sigma Pi both in the Plutonium Chapter, where I was initiated, and in the Chlorine Chapter where I currently reside. I look forward enthusiastically to serving as National Secretary. I was honored to be nominated and elected to National Council and will aspire to give back to the organization what it has given me. I have held several offices in the past and recognize the importance of communication between the chapters and National Council. Efficient and timely communications on important decisions, new developments and deadlines concerning chapter operations will help maintain chapter vitality and familiarity. I look forward to helping maintain the infrastructure of our organization and work to continue the excellence as we move forward to our Centennial Celebration.

Please feel free to contact me with questions, problems or comments. I also encourage you to use email for communications between your chapter and with National Council. Electronic communication is extremely convenient and economical. Chapter officers can expect to receive a mailing containing initiation material from me in September. Initiation forms are available electronically as well. I am easily reached by email, fax or phone and can read most email attachments.

It was wonderful to meet many new friends at the convention and I look forward to communicating with many more of you as well during this next Triennium.

Treasurer

Kathryn Louie

It was a pleasure to meet many of you at the 26th Triennium in Portland. I am pleased to be able to serve as your National Treasurer for the next three years. I would like to take this opportunity to report that ISP is financially healthy. This fiscal health is due in large part to the generosity of the membership and to the outstanding job of our former treasurer. I will continue with and build on what she has accomplished.

My main tasks as National Treasurer will be handling the dues of each member and sending rebates to each chapter. Please send your chapter financial reports to me by October to receive your rebates. When you pay your dues, please consider supporting the two categories you will find on your does notice. The first category is the Awards Fund. It is important that this fund continue to grow so that ISP can continue to recognize the accomplishments of its many outstanding women chemists. The second category is the Centennial Fund. The next triennial convention will be in 2002, which will also be the year of our centennial. This fund will be used to help in our having a spectacular celebration during the convention. We also are asking for volunteers from our members who have fundraising experience to help in a concerted effort to raise funds to help celebrate this milestone. We would like to mark this occasion with special activities at both the local and national levels.

I look forward to working with each of you during the next three years. Please do not hesitate to contact me.

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new friends at the Triennial Convention in Portland.

I am pleased to be serving as National Records Chair for the 1999-2002 triennium. Your records are kept on a Gateway P5-90 Pentium Computer using MS Office Access database.

Is Your Address or Phone Number

Changing?

I would like to continue keeping the chapter records as current as possible so that all active members are included in the mailing of The Iotan. Let me know of any errors in the 1999 Directory or any changes in your address, phone number or area code, e-mail address, or chapter affiliation.

Do You Need a Chapter Directory?

Telephone [(715) 268-4632, May-October or (941) 466-8381, October-May] or e-mail (lapafish@hotmail.com) if you would like a directory of your chapter members whose dues are current and a set of mailing labels for sending the directory to your chapter members.

Do You Need Mailing Labels?

If you are trying to boost attendance at chapter events or other scientific meetings or if you want to network with Iotans in your geographic area, lists of active members in given zip code areas can be generated. Zip code lists of members who became inactive sometime in the last few years can also be generated.

Deceased Members

Please let me know whenever a member of ISP passes away. Entry of a death date into the computer stops the generation on mailing labels.

I hope to be of great assistance in making your job in the chapter easier in the 1999-2002 Triennium.

Coordinator of

Members-at-Large

Kathryn Thomasson

I am pleased to be able to serve you as the Members at Large Coordinator. I will do my best to follow the inspiring examples of my predecessors, and I'm very grateful that Bonnie Gordon is willing to mentor me through the transition. I believe it is important to maintain communications among the MAL's and other Iotans. The newsletter will be critical for this, and I am planning on continuing the quarterly format that Bonnie has established. I also welcome emails, letters and phone calls; lets network! We can establish a springboard for your sharing your news with everyone.

The MALs will continue to sponsor the MAL Scholarship for a woman returning to college and majoring in chemistry after a significant interrup

tion of her studies. Our goal is to create enough capital so that by using only the interest the award can be given and we wish to increase the value of the award we give each year. We have seen many wonderful women win this award in the past nine years and we would not only like to continue to recognize and encourage their achievements, but also to increase the compensation because all our applicants have really earned it!

Director for

Professional Awards

Christine K. F. Hermann

I am looking forward to serving as the National Director for Professional Awards for the next triennium.

In this capacity, I will be soliciting nominations for the professional awards of National Honorary Member, the Award for Professional Excellence, and the Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award. All three of these awards are awarded to outstanding women. The National Honorary Member is awarded once every three years, during a convention year. This award is for exceptional and significant achievement in chemistry or a related field as to merit international recognition. The Award for Professional Excellence is also awarded once every three years, during a convention year. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to chemistry or a related field and will be judged on significance of accomplishments in academic, governmental, or industrial chemistry, in education, in administration, or in a combination of these areas. The Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award is awarded annually and recognizes research achievement in chemistry or biochemistry. The deadline for nominations for each of these awards has been changed to January 15 of the year that the award is given.

I will be updating the mailing list for soliciting nominations and will put this list on a database. I need volunteers to serve as part of the judging committee for these awards. If you are interested in serving in this capacity, please contact me.

Director for

Student Awards

Lily Ng

As I start my second term as Director for Student Awards, I wish to thank all the Iotans who have served on the Student Awards Committees in the last three years. I also wish to thank the nominators and nominees for all their efforts. The nominees have been all outstanding and the Award Committees have often wish that we have more awards to give out.

Sources of Iota Sigma Pi

Supplies and Information

Supplies

The publicity pamphlets, "Membership Information", "National Awards", History, Constitution and Bylaws, The Iotan, Speakers Bureau

Supplies Coordinator - Jeanne M. Buccigross 3891 Stillwell Rd.

Hamilton, OH 45013

Membership Application

National Secretary

Initiation

Report of Initiation Forms

National Secretary

Forming a Chapter

Procedural information and application forms

National Vice President

Rules and Regulations, Charter Certificates

National Historian

Financial Reports

Financial Report Forms

National Treasurer

Awards criteria and nominations forms

Director for Professional Awards

Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award

National Honorary Member

Award for Professional Excellence

Director for Student Awards

National Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Chemistry

Anna Louise Hoffman Graduate Research Achievement Award

Gladys Anderson Emerson Scholarship

Dues

Dues statements and payments

National Treasurer

Chapter Operations

Changes in the Chapter Officers list

Forms for reporting local elected officers

National Vice President

Address Labels and Membership List

Change of address and member death

Records Chair

Historical Information

National Historian

Handbooks

New editions when published

Individual handbooks for newly created offices

(all others receive handbooks from predecessors) National Secretary

***

See National Council listings elsewhere in The Iotan for officers' names and addresss.

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For this second term, I hope to increase the visibility of the Gladys Anderson Emerson Scholarship. This scholarship of $1000 is awarded to an Iotan majoring in chemistry or biochemistry, having attained junior standing and must have at least one full term of work to complete as of August following the announcement (April 15). Therefore, a senior graduating in the December after the announcement date will qualify. Since the nomination has to be made by a member of Iota Sigma Pi, I urge each Iotan to nominate an outstanding student. Please continue to nominate students for the Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Chemistry and the Anna Louise Hoffman Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Research as well. These awards attract nominations from all the excellent universities and colleges in the nation and being nominated is already an honor. However, we do not wish to overlook any qualified student.

Lastly, I would like to thank all the contributors to the Awards Fund. It is support like this that strengthens our organization and helps us recognize and encourage our younger future colleagues. Please make a contribution to the Awards Fund if you can. The awards do make a significant impact in the students lives. Thank you!

Immediate Past

President

Linda C. Brazdil

I first want to thank all of you for your support during the past Triennium. I enjoyed getting to know many more of you personally. I am thankful for the opportunity I had to serve you and
work with you to advance the goals of Iota Sigma Pi. I particularly want to thank the members of National Council for their hard work and dedication. I also want to thank those who headed special task forces and worked on the Iota Sigma Pi web page. Without your help, we would not have accomplished nearly as much as we did these past three years.

I also want to express my gratitude to the members of the Promethium Chapter for hosting our Convention in Portland. It was a tremendously successful and enjoyable meeting. Everyone who worked on the organization and implementation of the Convention did a wonderful job. It takes a large amount of time and effort to organize the facilities, events, and arrangements for the Convention, and we owe all the those who worked on it a debt of gratitude.

My primary duty in this next Triennium is to chair the Nominations Committee. I will be seeking nominees for the 2002-2005 National Council. Please contact me if you are interested in becoming a member of National Council or know someone who you think would make a good member of National Council. I have served on National Council for the past nine years, and I have found it to be a challenging and rewarding experience. It is a wonderful opportunity to meet fellow Iota Sigma Pi members and work to advance women in chemistry and related fields.

This Triennium will be an exciting time as we look toward the celebration of the 100th Anniversary of our organization. As we look forward to our Centennial Celebration, let us commit ourselves to continue to work together to advance women scientists in the 21st century. We each

need to do only a small part, because together our many small parts will add up to produce a large impact.

NOTICE

1999 Membership

Directory Corrections

Some issues of the directory were mailed with two pages printed upside down (pages 24 and 49). Included in this newsletter are these two pages printed on a label. If your issue is one of those printed wrong, place the labels on the appropriate pages.

Another error occurred on page 57. The first state listed `MONTANA' should read `MISSOURI'. Please make this correction in your directory. We apologize for this oversight.

Call for Iota Sigma Pi Award Nominations

Anna Louise Hoffman Award for

Outstanding Achievement in

Graduate Research

Undergraduate Award for Excellence

in Chemistry

Gladys Anderson Emerson

Scholarship

Nominations are due February 1 annually and recipients are notified by April 15.

For more information on student awards contact the National Director for Student Awards, Dr. Lily Ng, or see the Awards Brochure.

Notice of Change of Name or Address

Attach mailing address here or write new name and

address in this space

New Address

Name Chapter

Address

City, State, Zip

Effective Date

New position, School, or Employer

Please mail to Iota Sigma Pi Records Chair

Pat Fish

May-Oct 1213 South Shore Court Oct-May 16588 Bear Cub Ct.

Amery, WI 54001-5102 Fort Myers, FL 33908-4323

Do you want to

Become a Speaker?

Iota Sigma Pi's Speakers Bureau listings are being updated. If you would like to be included, please contact Chris Hermann (see page 7 for address). Speakers are listed with their topics of expertise. The Speaker's Bureau can be distributed in your community and is on the ISP web site. This program promotes visibility for women scientists and ISP.

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We want to hear from you!

Send us your news.

Next deadline - December 15

Mary Hindman (Np), long time resident of Houston, Texas and an active member of the Neptunium chapter, passed away on September 7, 1999. Mary was born on St. Patrick's Day, 1927. She graduated from Rice University with a BA in Chemistry in early 1946, and was awarded the MS in Chemistry and Texas Teacher's Certificate by the University of Houston in 1971. During her early work career she was employed as a research chemist, analytical chemist petroleum engineer, surveying assistant, school teacher, and also as a fashion model in several communities in two States.

The Neptunium chapter plans to set up an award in Mary's memory (Mary M. Hindman Award) to an outstanding undergraduate woman in chemistry. The chapter is currently taking donations towards this monetary award.

Fen Lewis (F), was presented the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching in Washington. Fen teaches at Strongsville High School in Strongsville, Ohio.

Thank you to the Promethium Chapter for hosting the

26th National Triennial Convention

Job Openings

Four (4) tenure-track appointments at the Asst Prof level are open at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. The beginning date is August 2000. SLU is looking for 2 organic chemists (one in polymers), 1 biochemist, and 1 physical chemist. For more information, you either may contact Dr. Linda Munchausen at 504-549-2160, fax 504-549-5126, or go to the following web site http://www.selu.edu/Administration/Depts/HumanResources/hrojobfa.htm. Interviewing may begin in February or early March. This advertisement also appears in C&E News.

Front Row - Carole Gatz, Bernice Gilmore, J.P. "Perky" Kilbourn. Back Row - Shanru Wang, Sue Eggling, Mary Francis Zimmerman, Angela Hoffman, Martha Thompson, Sue Kohlhepp

The Iotan

Editor Sharon V. Vercellotti - v-labs@wild.net

Feature Editors

Member Spotlight: Chris Rener - rener@carthage.edu

Industrial Chemist: Gretchen Shearer - gshearer@mccrone.com

Member Outreach: Margaret Workman - mworkman@wppost.depaul.edu

Science: Dawn Norman - dawn319@juno.com

Manuscripts for publication in The Iotan may be submitted to the Editor at the address listed elsewhere in this newsletter. Suggestions for articles for the Special Editors are appreciated. Feature articles and book reviews are acceptable. Documents should be on floppy disk, or emailed, typed, double spaced, and no longer than two pages.

Deadlines for consideration for the November, February, and May issues, respectively, are September 15, December 15 and March 15. Manuscripts will not be returned and are subject to editing. Publication is based on editorial assessment of reader interest and space available.

Letters to the Editor are encouraged and may be published. Letters should be no longer than 250 words.

Memorial Service

by Bernice Gilmore (O)

Toni Hockman (MAL) conducted a memorial service during the recent convention. In the last triennium, sixteen members of ISP died. We honored their passage with a minute of silence.

Dorothy E. Barker (Hg)

Pauline G. Berg (MAL)

Veronica C. Blasquez (Sm)

Doris Doeden (Hg)

Helen M. Dyer (Cm)

Margaret A. Eaton (MAL)

Frances L. Hyslop (MAL)

Margaret A. Ohlson (O)

Vera Conard Patterson (MAL)

Gertrude Anne Van Rheim (S)

Zana G. Skidmore (MAL)

Elizabeth K. Smith (O)

Elaine Spencer (Pm)

Sandra Jean Springer (Ra)

Emma D. Stecher (V)

Elizabeth Yearick (MAL)

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1999 Professional Awardees Honored at Convention

The three winners of the 1999 Iota Sigma Pi professional awards were honored at the Triennial Convention in Portland. Barry and Vercellotti received their award and gave a presentation on her work to the convention. Makri was presented her award earlier.

Dr. Bridgette A. Barry

National Honorary Member

Dr. Bridgette A. Barry received an A.B. in Chemistry with High Honors from Oberlin College in 1978 and a Ph.D., in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984. From 1985-88 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Michigan State University. Dr. Barry accepted a faculty appointment as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry in the College of Biological Science at the University of Minnesota in 1988 where she is still employed. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 1994 and to Professor in 1999.

Dr. Barry's research on the photochemistry of biological molecules and resonance Raman microscopy began with her Ph.D. dissertation on the vertebrate visual pigments. Since that time she has worked to elucidate the mechanisms of biological energy coupling, particularly how electrochemical gradients are generated and utilized in cell membranes. The broad spectrum of techniques comrnonly used in her laboratory include purification, isolation and reconstitution of membrane proteins, site directed mutations and isotopic labeling of proteins and pigments, EPR, FT-IR, and fluorescence spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. She and her collaborators have applied these techniques to the light driven reactions of photosynthesis, most recently the photosystem II reaction center enzymes and cofactors. Dr. Barry also studies transport proteins, most recently lactose permiase, in the hopes of understanding more about the mechanism of chemiosmotic coupling in cell membranes.

Dr. Barry's research group is diverse as well. She currently has four postdoctoral associates, three graduate students, one rotation student and one undergraduate research student. Dr. Barry teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses. Her graduate courses include parts of a spectroscopy course and a membrane course. Dr. Barry designed a new syllabus for the undergraduate majors Biochemistry course and plans to participate in the development of a new physical biochemistry course for undergraduate students. Dr. Barry has been named the 1999 National Honorary Member of lota Sigma Pi. This is the highest honor bestowed by ISP.

Sharon Vercellotti

Award for Professional

Excellence

Sharon Vergez Vercellotti is President of V-LABS, INC., Covington, LA, a consulting, manufacturing, and analytical laboratory, specializing in carbohydrates and polysaccharides. She received a B.S. in chemistry from Louisiana State University and a M.Sc. in chemistry from The Ohio State University. She is author of ten scientific journal articles and one book chapter.

Sharon has been Editor of The Iotan since 1997, and has redesigned many of the ISP publications, including the masthead for The Iotan, National Council Cards, Membership Information, National Awards, and Speakers Bureau brochures, and the 1999 Triennial Directory. Sharon joined the Chlorine Chapter of ISP in 1962 as an undergraduate, and served as its vice-president from 1991-95 and president 1995-97. During her term, she instituted the program "Super Science Saturday" with an ISP Minigrant. It has been held three years at the Louisiana Children's Museum in New Orleans where children enjoyed all the hands-on experiments. She also led an Iota Sigma

Pi teacher-in-service program in Orleans and St. Tammany Parishes with demonstrations and supplies for hands-on experiments with funding from the local ACS Section and from member's Exxon grants.

Sharon Vercellotti is a member of the Sigma Xi, honorary research society, the American Chemical Society Carbohydrate Division, has served as Secretary of the ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses since 1995, President of the American Association of University Women of Louisiana, and Vice President of Board of Directors for the Louisiana Alliance for Biotechnology. She served as a member of the advisory committee the National Science Foundation's Industrial Innovation Interface (III) for five years from 1989-1994. She is listed in Marquis "Who's Who in Science and Engineering," 1992-9, First - Fifth Edition.

Since her founding of V-LABS in 1979, Ms. Vercellotti has served continuously as a mentor to a number of high school and college students at her laboratory. Many of the students have pursued studies and careers in the sciences. V-LABS' first Ph.D. student in chemistry graduated in 1990. She has also given numerous demonstrations for local students and has participated in judging many local, regional, and state science fairs. Ms. Vercellotti and her husband John have two children, Ellen and Paul. Her hobbies are reading, gardening and cooking.

Nancy Makri

Agnes Fay Morgan

Research Award

The 1999 Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award was presented to Professor Nancy Makri of the University of Illinois. Dr. Makri earned a B.S. in 1985 from the University of Athens and a Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of California at Berkeley. She followed her formal education with a

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two year fellowship at Harvard. In the spring of 1992, she accepted a faculty position at the University of Illinois where she is currently a Professor of Chemistry.

Dr. Makri has been presented with a number of awards and honors, including the prestigious National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1993, the Annual Medal of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science in 1995 and a Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award in 1997 among others before being named an Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award recipient.

Author of over 50 publications, Dr. Makri is well known for her research in Theoretical Quantum Dynamics. She has specialized in the theoretical understanding of quantum mechanical processes in large molecules and in condensed phases. The Schroedinger Equation can only be solved exactly for small molecules. Dr. Makri and her group have developed new theoretical descriptions and simulation methods to overcome this limitation. These methods to study proton and electron transfer reactions and relaxation processes in biological systems.

Dr. Makri was nominated for the Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award specifically for her work with photosynthesis and the charge transfer reactions which occur in photosynthetic systems. These systems are not well characterized, and Dr. Makri's work has contributed substantially to an understanding of them. Dr. Makri was unable to attend the Triennial Convention because of a conflict with a theoretical chemistry meeting at which she was a speaker. Her award was presented for us at the conference by one of the conference organizers.

IOTA SIGMA PI

NATIONAL COUNCIL 1999 - 2002

President

Susan S. Marine

Miami University Middletown

4200 East University Blvd.

Middletown, OH 45042-3497

(513)422-1683 (h)

(513)727-3372 (w)

(513)727-3462 (fax)

mariness@muohio.edu

Vice President

Donna J. Nelson

Dept of Chemistry

University of Oklahoma

Norman, OK 73019

(405)325-2288 (w)

(405)325-6111 (fax)

DJNelson@chemdept.ou.edu

Secretary

Janet R. Clark

Exxon Research & Development Labs

P.O. Box 2226

Baton Rouge, LA 70821

(225)769-2089 (h)

(225)359-8551 (w)

(225)359-1138 (fax)

jrclark@erenj.com

Treasurer

Kathryn Louie

Dept. Of Pediatrics

Children's Nutrition Research Center

1100 Bates, Room 7060

MC 5-1000

Houston, TX 77030-2600

(713)799-8429 (h)

(713)798-7160 (w)

(713)798-7119 (fax)

louie@bcm.tmc.edu

Records Chair

Patricia A. Fish

May-Oct 1213 South Shore Court

Amery, WI 54001-5102

(715)268-4632

Oct-May 16588 Bear Cub Ct.

Fort Myers, FL 33908-4323

(941)466-8381

lapafish@hotmail.com

Editor

Sharon V. Vercellotti

V-LABS, INC.

423 N. Theard Street

Covington, LA 70433

(504)893-0533 (w) (h)

(504)893-0517 (fax)

v-labs@wild.net

Historian

Anne T. Sherren

North Central College

P.O. Box 3063

Naperville, IL 60566-7063

(630)637-5193-(w)

(630)637-5121-fax

ats@noctrl.edu

Coordinator of Members-at-Large

Kathryn A. Thomasson

University of North Dakota

Chemistry Dept. Box 9024

Grand Forks, ND 58202-9024

(701)777-3199 (w)

(701)777-2331 (fax)

Kathryn.thomasson@mail.chem.und.nodak.edu

Director for Professional Awards

Christine K. F. Hermann

Box 694, Dept of Chemistry & Physics

Radford University

Radford, VA 24142

(540) 639-6705 (h)

(540)831-5413 (w)

(540)831-6615 (fax)

chermann@runet.edu

Director for Student Awards

Lily Ng

Department of Chemistry

Cleveland State University

Cleveland, OH 44115

(216)687-2467 (w)

(216)687-9298 (fax)

l.ng@popmail.csuohio.edu

Immediate Past President

Linda C. Brazdil

Illinois Mathematics & Science Academy

Office of Research and Evaluation

1500 W. Sullivan Road

Aurora IL 60506-1000

(630)907-5069 (w)

(630)907-5918 (fax)

brazdil@imsa.edu

Many Thanks!

by Sharon Vercellotti (Cl, Editor)

I would like to thank all who traded their delegate hats to become reporters during the Triennial Convention in Portland.

Janet Clark (Cl-R)

Bernice Gilmore (O-L)

Rebecca Hanson (Nb-S)

Christine Hermann (Ag-R)

Kathryn Louie (Np-R)

Catherine Miller (F-R)

Stacy O'Reilly (Co-R)

Sara Paisner (H-S)

Christine Rener (AuI-R)

Julie Teetsov (Te-S)

Kathryn Thomasson (MAL-R)

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COVINGTON LA 70433

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News about you makes this publication interesting for other Iotans. Sharon V. Vercellotti, Editor

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