Dr Christopher D Spilling came to St Louis in August 1989 to join the faculty of the Chemistry Department at the University of Missouri–St Louis as Assistant Professor. Prior to that he spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University with Professor Tony Barrett. At UM–St Louis, he was promoted to Associate Professor […]
In current events, the St Louis Section has added to its trove in 2009. Arindam Roy’s energy, organizing skills, and recruitment of other officers created a continual series of meetings and special events that benefited younger—and not-so-younger—chemists throughout the year. The YCC brought home the 2009 ChemLuminary Award for Best New Local Section Younger Chemists
Richard C Larock is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Iowa State University. He received his BS degree summa cum laude in 1967 from the University of California at Davis and his PhD from Purdue University in 1972, under the direction of Professor Herbert C Brown, the 1979 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. In 1971, he was
Daryle H Busch was born in the small town of Carterville, IL, population 2800. Upon graduation from high school in 1946, he enlisted and served in the US Army for about 2 years, most of the time as chief clerk for the Surgeon General, Far East Command, in MacArthur’s headquarters in Tokyo. After his honorable discharge,
Dr Shelley D Minteer received her BS in Chemistry at Western Illinois University in 1995. She then went to University of Iowa to work on her PhD in Analytical Chemistry under the direction of Dr Johna Leddy. Her graduate work focused on magnetic field effects on electrochemical systems with specific emphasis on magnetically modified electrodes
Professor George Gokel received his B S in Chemistry from Tulane University (New Orleans, LA) in 1968, and his Ph D in Chemistry from the University of Southern California with I. K. Ugi in 1971. He did a postdoctoral fellowship with D J Cram at UCLA, 1972-1974. He served on the faculty at Penn State, Maryland, Miami, and Washington University
Dr William L Neumann received a BS in Chemistry from the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1983 and a PhD in 1988 from UM–St Louis where he worked with Professor Mike Sworin on synthetic methodologies directed at preparing antitumor cyclopentanoid natural products. After a nine-month post-doctoral appointment in radiopharmaceutical chemistry at Mallinckrodt Medical, he
Jay A Switzer is the Donald L Castleman Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Missouri–Rolla (UMR). He is also a senior investigator in the Materials Research Center at UMR. Switzer’s training in chemistry began in his early teens, when he produced pyrotechnics in his basement laboratory in Cincinnati. He received his B S in Chemistry
James S Chickos was born in Buffalo, NY, of Greek parents. He received his BS in chemistry at the University of Buffalo, now SUNY–Buffalo, and his Ph D in organic chemistry from Cornell University with Donald G Farnum. After postdoctoral fellowships, first at Princeton with Kurt Mislow and then at Wisconsin–Madison with Bob West he joined
Born in rural Missouri and raised on a farm, he pursued undergraduate studies in chemistry and mathematics at Southwest Missouri State University. He undertook graduate studies in chemistry at the University of Illinois, where he worked with Galen Stucky. Upon completing his doctoral degree, he took a position as assistant professor at the University of
