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Iota Sigma Pi Speakers Bureau

        Iota Sigma Pi is a national honor society for women that promotes professional development and personal growth of women in chemistry and related fields through recognition, public outreach, and the formation of supportive networks. The Iota Sigma Pi Speakers’ Bureau was set up to promote professional interactions between women in chemistry. The participants in the Speakers Bureau have expressed an interest in giving talks on various aspects of chemistry. Please contact the speaker directly for more information.
        The National Iota Sigma Pi is not responsible for any costs incurred by an individual while participating as a speaker for the Speakers Bureau. All financial reimbursements are handled with the host institution or group.

 


Jennifer K. Bachman
The University of the South
735 University Avenue
Sewanee, TN   37383-1000 
931-598-3237 (office) 
931-598-1145 (fax) 
email 
Topics: Drugs of Abuse, A Day in the Life of a Forensic Drug Chemist, What Does a Chemist Actually Do?

Linda C. Brazdil, Ph.D.
Prairie Crossing Charter School
1571 Jones Point Road

Grayslake, IL  60030-3536 
Phone:  847-543-9722
Fax:  847-543-9744
email 

Topics: Kinetics of an Aromatic Iodination Reaction Which Does Not Use Heavy Metals; Oxidation Catalysis (or General Catalysis); Careers in Chemistry; Science Education

Jeannette E. Brown
122 Brookside Lane
Hillsborough, NJ 08844-4816
email
Topics: Careers in Chemistry; Science Education; Minorities in Science; History of Minority Women Chemists

Jeanne Buccigross, Ph.D.
College of Mount St. Joseph
Department of Chemistry
5701 Delhi Road
Cincinnati, OH 45233-1670
513-244-4718 (office)
513-244-4222 (fax)
email
Topics:
  Teaching and Doing Research at a Small College; The Chemistry and Art of Natural Dyes

Mary K. Carroll, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Union College
Schenectady, NY  12308
518-388-6336 (office)
518-388-6795 (fax)
email 

Topics:  Aerogel-Platform Optical Sensors for Oxygen Gas; Laboratory Experiments in Forensic Chemistry for Non-Science Majors; Establishing and Maintaining a Research Program at an Undergraduate Institution.
Web page:  http://www.union.edu/PUBLIC/CHMDEPT/faculty/carroll/carroll.html

Kathleen Cox, Ph.D..
Schering-Plough Research Institute
2015 Galloping Hill Road, K-15-3-2800
Kenilworth, NJ 07033-0539
908-740-5179 (office)
908-740-2916 (fax)
email  
Topics: The Role of LC/MS/MS in Drug Metabolism in the Pharmaceutical Industry; Development of Drugs in the Pharmaceutical Industry: From Molecules to Medicine

Clara D. Craver
P. O. Box 265
French Village, MO 63036-0265
573-358-2589
Topics: Real World Applications of Infrared Spectroscopy on Molecules; FT-IR Spectroscopy; Challenges and Pleasures of a Woman Chemist--1945 Forward

Dr. Gillian Eggleston
SRRC - USDA - ARS
1100 Robert E. Lee Blvd
New Orleans, LA 70179
504-286-4446 (office)
email
Topics: Food Chemistry Research in Africa; Sugar Chemistry; Chemistry in the Sugar Factory and Refinery

Prof. Robin L. Garrell
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569
310-825-2496
310-206-2061 (fax)
email

Topics: Digital Microfluidics for Proteomics and Array-based Chemistry ;  Strategies for Success as a Women Chemist; Nanotechnology and Art Conservation.

Deborah A. Hess, Ph.D.
Evans Texas, Specialists in Materials Characterization
425 Round Rock West Drive, Suite 100
Round Rock, TX 78681
512-671-9500
512-671-9501 (fax)
email
Topics: Surface science/analytical chemistry, Working in a large public corporation vs. small private business, Women in chemistry

Angela Hoffman, Ph.D.
University of Portland
Department of Chemistry and Physics
5000 N. Willamette Blvd
Portland, OR 97203
503-943-7173 (office)
email
Topics:  Mentoring research students and colleagues; Taxol, research, activity, etc.; Natural products with antibiotic, anticancer or antimalarial activity

Molly E. Hoke, Ph.D. 
Wyeth Research 
CN-8000
Room 2001 
Princeton, NJ 08543 
732-274-4172
732-274-4505 (fax)
email

Topics: Process Improvement Chemistry in an Industrial Setting

Allyn C. Howlett
Wake Forest University

Dept Physiol. Pharmacol.
Medical Center Blvd.
Winston-Salem, NC 27517
919-201-4044 (cell)
email
Topics: Research Topics:  Drugs of Abuse--the Cannabinoid Receptor
Career topics:  Pharmacology: the Biology underlying Drug Design

Dr. Donna A. Iannotti
Senior Scientist
Midwest Research Institute
Florida Division
1470 Treeland Blvd, SE
Palm Bay, FL  32909
Office:  321-723-4547 ext 327
email

Topics:  Biochemistry, agricultural chemistry, green methods of insect and plant pathogen control, bioremediation, science and the public, scientific urban myths, women in chemistry

Sherri S. Joubert
364 Wilton Drive
Baton Rouge, LA 70815 -6565
email

Topics : The D-Word: Debt Management & Elimination (Including the Evil of Payday Loans), The C-Word: Credit Improvement & Management, The R-Word: Retirement Planning, The B-Words: Budgeting and Bill Paying; The S-Word: Savings, The E-Word: Estate Planning, The F-Word: Fees Charged by Broker/Dealers and the Difference Between A Broker, A Fee-Based Planner, and A Fee-Only Planner; and The I-Word: Investing. 

Susan Kauzlarich, Ph. D.
Chemistry Department
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA 95616
530-752-4756
email
Topics: solid state inorganic chemistry: "Exploitation of the Zintl Concept for the Synthesis of New Materials" and "Synthesis and Characterization of Si and Ge Nanoparticles"

Dr. Susan Sonchik Marine
Miami University Middletown
4200 East University Boulevard
Middletown, OH 45042-3497
513-727-3372 (work)
email 

Topics: Multidimensional Gas Chromatography ; Solid Phase Microextraction (SPME); Chemical Technology: College Education to Meet the Needs of Industry

Dr. C. J. Menendez-Botet
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr
Department of Clinical Chemistry
1275 York Avenue
New York, NY 10021-6007
212-639-5977
212-717-3397 (fax)
Topics: OSHA Chemical Hygiene Plan (Occupational Exposure to Hazardous Chemicals); Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens; Estrogen and Progesterone Receptor Protein in Patients with Breast Cancer

Cheryl K. Rofer
125 San Juan
Los Alamos, NM 87544
505-661-0722
email
Topics: environmental cleanup; women in chemistry; science in undergraduate education; environmental issues in Eastern Europe

Dr. Judith Faye Rubinson
Department of Chemistry
Georgetown University
Box 571227
Washington, DC 20057- 1227
202-687-2066 (office)
202-687-6209 (fax)
email
Topics: Biochemical and Biomedical Applications of Conducting Polymer Electrodes

Kathryn Sandberg, PhD
Professor, Departments of Medicine & Physiology
Director, Center for the Study of Sex Differences in Health, Aging and Disease
Georgetown University
Suite 232 Bldg D
4000 Reservoir Road, NW
Washington, DC 20057-0001
(202) 687-4179 (office)
(202) 687 -7278 (fax)
email

http://csd.georgetown.edu/sandberg   
Topics: Drugs N' Rock and Roll but what about Sex?
(the influence of one's sex on drug action)

Dr. Barbara Sawrey
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UCSD
La Jolla, CA 92093-0303
858-534-6479 (office)
858-534-7687 (fax)
email
Topics: Mixing and Matching Paradigms from Science and Education Research

Jill R. Scott, Ph.D.
Idaho National Laboratory
Science and Technology
Chemical Sciences
2525 Fremont Ave.
P.O. Box 1625
Idaho Falls, Idaho 83415-2208
208-526-0429 (office)
208-526-8541 (fax )
email
Topics: 1) Search for biosignatures associated with minerals using laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry and optical spectroscopy. 2) Instrument development: Lessons learned from modeling and practical experience.

Dr. Anne T. Sherren
North Central College
555 Foxworth Blvd
Lombard, IL 60148
email
Topics: Items Related to Chemical Education--especially Use of Real Life Samples for Student Experiments

Edlyn S. Simmons
Section Head
Business Information Services
The Procter & Gamble Company
5299 Spring Grove Ave.
Cincinnati, Ohio 45217
513-627-5664 (phone)
513-627-6854 (fax)
email
(Home) 5528 Brewer Rd, Mason, OH 45040
(Home Phone): 513 398-3660.
 (Home email address)
edlyns@earthlink.net .
Topics: patent information; patent law; careers for chemists in information science and patent law

Melissa Strait
614 W. Superior 
Alma College 
Alma, MI 48801 
989-463-7223 (office)

email
Topics:   Porosity in meteorites, Meteorites in Antarctica, Service learning in the chemistry research lab, Environmental problems in Central Michigan

Claire Tessier
Department of Chemistry
University of Akron
Akron, OH 44325-3601
330-972-5304 (office)
email
Topics: Metal-silicon chemistry; Organosilicon chemistry; Project SEED (sponsored by the ACS); Inorganic Backbone Polymers

Theresa Thewes, Ph. D.
Chemistry Department
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Edinboro, PA 16444
814-732-2516 (office)
email
Topics: Chemistry Outreach; Important Roles of Chemists; National Chemistry Week; Constructivist and Collaborative Teaching Strategies

Dr. Kathryn Thomasson
University of North Dakota
Chemistry Department
Abbott Hall Room 236
151 Cornell Street Stop 9024
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9024

701-777-3199 (office)
email
Topics: Computer Simulations of Protein-Protein Interactions and Protein-DNA Interactions; Glycolytic Enzyme/Actin Interactions; Calculations of Peptide and Protein UV Circular Dichroism

Dr. Sheri Tonn
Dean of Information Resources
Department of Chemistry
Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma, WA 98447
253-535-7505 (office)
email
Topics: Academic Administration: An Oxymoron?; The Estuarine Environment: Science and Public Policy; Coral Reef Chemistry - A Photographic Tour

Marcy Hamby Towns
Ball State University
Chemistry Department
Cooper Hall
Muncie, IN 47306
765-285-8075 (office)
765-285-2351 (fax)
email
Topics: Science Education (Chemistry Education); Cooperative Learning

Adrienne Tymiak, Ph.D.
Bristol-Meyers Squibb
P. O. Box 4000
Princeton, NJ 08543-400
609-252-5370
email
Topics: trends in pharmaceutical chemistry; chemical diversity; NMR of resin-bound compounds

Jean B. Umland
13518 Queensbury
Houston, TX 77079
713-461-6270
Topics: textbook writing

Dr. Lidia M. Vallarino
Chemistry Department
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA 23284-2006
804-828-7515 (office)
804-828-8599 (fax)
email 
Topics: Lanthanide Complexes with Biomedical Applications

Dr. Rebecca Wade
European Media Laboratory 
Villa Bosch, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, D-69118 Heidelberg, Germany
+49-6221-533-247 (office)
+49-6221-533-298 (fax)
email
website: http://www.eml.org/english/homes/rebecca/index_html
Topics: theoretical/computational biophysics; molecular modeling, simulation and design (applied to proteins)

Catherine Woytowicz
The George Washington University 
Department of Chemistry 
725 - 21st St., NW  Room 107A 
Washington, DC  20052 
202-994-5637 (office) 
email 
Topics: organic synthetic chemistry, forensic chemistry, innovative teaching methods for organic chemistry, how Congress uses scientific information to make informed decisions, how the US State Department uses science in decision making, support for women in graduate school; chemical warfare issues
 

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