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Quyen Ke Ton (B.S. Chem) has been admitted to the master’s degree program in physical therapy at California State University, Sacramento. He and his wife, Phuc Tran, live in Elk Grove, CA. He writes, “Go Bears!” Ye Grace Chen (B.S. Chem Bio), following her undergraduate studies with Julie Leary, has started a Ph.D. program in chemical biology at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge.
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Jessica Lynn DeFreese (Ph.D. ChemE), who studied with Alex Katz while at Berkeley, is now a research investigator in Process Research and Development at BristolMyers Squibb in New Brunswick, NJ. She and Mark Perri (see 2004) were married March 3, 2006, in Las Vegas. She reports that many College of Chemistry alumni were able to join them for the celebration. She and Mark live in Hightstown, NJ. 30
Matthew “Matt” Law (Ph.D. Chem), who received his Ph.D. with Peidong Yang, is now a postdoctoral researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO. He makes his home in Boulder, CO.
Andrew Scott Lemoff (Ph.D. Chem) is employed as a scientist at PPD, an international contract research organization that specializes in clinical trial management. Lemoff, who received his B.A. in chemistry from Boston University in 1999, did his graduate studies with Evan Williams. He lives in Madison, WI. Mikko Pentti Matias Möttönen (Postdoc. Chem), whose research director at Berkeley was Birgitta Whaley, received his Dr. Tech. degree from Helsinki University of Technology in 2005 and is now a postdoctoral researcher there. He is conducting research on Bose-Einstein condensation, quantum computing, and superconducting circuits. He makes his home in Helsinki, Finland. Jodie Nygaard (B.S. ChemE) is an engineer at Malcolm Pine, an environmental engineering consulting company. Based at its Irvine, CA, office, she works primarily on water treatment projects. Steven John O’Malley (Postdoc. Chem) relocated to New York City following his postdoctoral work with Jonathan Ellman at Berkeley. (He had received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 2004 from Columbia University in New York.) After spending a semester teaching chemistry at John Jay College, he was recently appointed a chemistry teacher at Stuyvesant High School in lower Manhattan, and he writes that teaching is “the most challenging and rewarding career” he’s ever had. Joseph Chunho Sum (B.S. ChemE and MSE) is working at Genentech as an associate engineer, providing automation IT in the Biochemical Technology division. He lives in San Bruno, CA.
A m e r i c a n C h e m i c a l S o c i e t y Ev e n t Elmer Reist (Ph.D. ’55, Chem) and Masato (Ph.D. ’51, Chem) and Miyeko Tanabe chat during the ACS reception.
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Tim Joseph Biegeleisen (M.S. Chem), who studied with Richard Saykally while at Berkeley, has joined Baxter Bioscience in Los Angeles, CA, as an analyst in chem-
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A m e r i c a n C h e m i c a l S o c i e t y Ev e n t Alumni and friends join together at the College’s ACS reception held at The City Club of San Francisco during the 2006 ACS National Meeting.
istry. Biegeleisen received his B.A. in ’02 from Cornell University. He makes his home in Los Angeles. Kate S. Carroll (Postdoc. Chem) is an assistant professor of chemistry at the Life Sciences Institute of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Carroll, who received her Ph.D. from Stanford in 2002, worked with Carolyn Bertozzi (Ph.D. ’93 Chem) while at UC Berkeley.