Chemistry Alumni News
Spring 2008
seniors' graduate school plans
Julie Leibold: Ph. D. program in Geochemistry at Colorado School of
Mines.
Jonathan Luetke: Pharmacy program at UW Madison.
Sarah Schettle: Physician Assistant program at UW LaCrosse.
Matt Dodge '03 returned in April to give a seminar, "Total
Synthesis of Annonaceous Acetogenins Via
Pd(0)-Mediated Asymmetric Double Cycloetherification." Once he
finishes his Ph.D. in organic chemistry
at UW Madison he plans to work for SAFC in Madison.
Mike Garvey and Sarah Kieper drove up from UW Milwaukee for the
seminar. They have joined research
groups in physical (MG) and analytical (SK) chemistry, and are also
planning a summer wedding.
Spring 2007
Scott VanderWielen, Kim Johnson, Mike Garvey, Cathy Polster, Autumn
Krug, and Alexsia Richards
gathered after the graduation ceremony. Cole Anholzer missed the
photo opportunity.
Also graduating this semester: Angie Nichols, Amber Schultz,
Jessica Seefeldt.
Dana Hatch '03 attended the graduation. She works for Ray-O-Vac
in Madison, who recently sent her to China to help start a new plant.
Graduate School plans:
Angie Nichols will be going to UW Madison.
Autumn Krug deferred her admission to UW Madison to work at Aldrich.
Mike Garvey and Sarah Kieper '05 are going to UW Milwaukee.
Brooke Koshel '06 will be going to Purdue.
New Jobs:
Cole Anholzer works at Cambridge Major Laboratories in Germantown.
Kim Johnson works at Johnson Brass & Machine Foundry in Saukville.
Alyssa Ladwig is student-teaching 7th grade science in Lomira.
Alexsia Richards and Scott VanderWielen are working at PPD
(Pharmaceutical
Product Development) in Madison.
Amber Schultz is a chemist at Hydrite Chemical in Oshkosh.
Catherine Polster and Jessica Seefeldt are at Covance in Madison.
Catherine works in the pharmaceutical analysis department.
Eric and Christine Kiefer have a new son, Zachary.
Michael DuPrey was in town recently. He graduated from UW
Milwaukee and is now an
instructor of mathematics and chemistry at Gateway Technical College.
Fall 2006
Jenny Dahl '02 presented a Department Seminar on her PhD
research at University of Oregon.
She and her husband Bart Dahl '01 are finishing up their graduate work
and moving to Texas.
Brooke Koshel '06 is working at Bemis in Oshkosh, studying food
packaging films.
Melissa Beighley '05 is starting her second year of biochemistry
graduate school at Utah.
Last year she received awards for
teaching assistant of the year, and the outstanding freshman
graduate
student in biochemistry/microbiology! She has joined Scott
Ensign's lab and works
primarily with a bacterial enzyme used in a
short chain hydrocarbon oxidation pathway.
Heather Adams '04 works in Madison, providing technical support for
Gilson pipettes.
Fall 2005
Missy Beighley '05 started a Ph.D. program in Biochemistry at Utah
State.
Mark Soboleski '00 had to interrupt his Ph.D. research at Tulane
University when
Hurricane
Katrina shut down the city of New Orleans.
He left New Orleans before the storm
arrived, and luckily did not lose any important samples.
His advisor recommended spending some time at a lab in Galveston until
Tulane reopens, but Hurricane Rita delayed that plan as well.
Eric Kiefer '02 and his wife Christine welcomed a baby girl, Mia
Jeanine, on October 4.
On October 7, 2005, Dr.
Joe Prohaska '68, now a professor of biochemistry at University of
Minnesota-Duluth,
presented the first Department Seminar of the academic year, on
"Biochemical Functions of Copper."
Tom Clark '99 is a post-doctoral
scholar in Professor Stephen Buchwald's lab at MIT. This fall
he is starting to search for a more permanent job.
Matt Dodge '03 and Misty Gebauer were married on May 7th in Baraboo,
WI.
He is currently in his second year in graduate school at UW Madison,
working in Steven Burke's lab.
Jason Otto '01 received a Master's degree last spring in Forensic
Chemistry from the University of Central Oklahoma.
He is now a quality control chemist at the Milwaukee Water Works
Linnwood Plant.
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