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approach into a facile, transferable strategy for selecting and evolving novel chemical species.” Driggers works with Ensemble Discovery in Cambridge, MA.
Joshua N. Leonard (Ph.D. ChemE) is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.
Zev Gartner (B.S. Chem) received his Ph.D. in 2004 from Harvard University. He then worked for a short period as a research consultant for a start-up company in Cambridge, MA, followed by a half year of world travel and, in 2005, began postdoctoral work at Berkeley with Professor Carolyn Bertozzi (Ph.D. ’93 Chem). He received the 2005 Prize for a Young Chemist at the Beijing meeting of IUPAC (the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry).
Mostafa E. Ashpari (B.S. ChemE) reports that one of his recent achievements has been to ‘school’ Tom Chao (B.S. ’07 ChemE) in basketball . . .
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Arneh Babakhani (B.S. Chem) lives in San Diego with his wife, Daniela, and is a graduate student at UCSD, studying physical and computational chemistry under Professor Andy McCammon. He is currently exploring different methods in the modeling of membrane phenomena and mesoscale biology. In his spare time, he takes pictures, snowboards, runs, dives and is “trying to write the mother of all guitar solos!” More at www.arneh.net.
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Michael J. Milos (B.S. ChemE) took a position as a commercial analyst in BP’s Carson, CA, office in December 2006. In 2005, Angus C. Lam (B.S. ChemE) moved to Tucson, AZ, where he is stationed at DavisMonthan Air Force Base. A captain in the Air Force, he is a bioenvironmental engineer, doing industrial hygiene; environmental surveillance; and wartime chemical biological, radiological, and nuclear medical readiness and health risk assessment. Currently deployed in the United Arab Emirates for Operation Iraqi Freedom until fall 2007, he is, in his words, “enjoying the action!”
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Gregory I. Ball (B.S. ChemBio) will be a graduate student in geochemistry and marine chemistry at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, this fall. Anton Bashkirtsev (B.S. ChemE) will be attending medical school at Rosalind Franklin University’s Chicago Medical School.
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Michaeleen C. Doucleff (Ph.D. Chem) will do postdoctoral research with Dr. Marius Clore at the National Institutes of Health. Mary J. Franklin (B.S. Chem) begins graduate school in chemistry at Columbia University this fall. Jeffrey Hua (B.S. ChemE) has accepted a position with Samsung Austin Semiconductor in Austin, TX, as a process engineer. Michael E. Kallen (B.S. ChemBio) will attend medical school next year. Tsz Na “Gina” Ko (B.S. Chem) is looking forward to starting pharmacy school at UC San Francisco next fall. Irena E. Kozarev (B.S. Chem) will enter University of the Pacific’s Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy in August.
Daniel E. Bost (B.S. ChemE) is headed for Austin, TX, to do graduate studies, and he expects that “good times will ensue.”
Shadi M. Lanham (B.S. ChemBio) was recently certified with Alameda County as an emergency medical technician.
Ravi A. Chandra (Ph.D. Chem), son of S. Kumar Chandrasekaran (M.S. ’65, Ph.D. ’71 ChemE), starts medical school at Johns Hopkins in August.
Laura Lati (B.S. ChemE) starts work this August as a process engineer in the process and construction unit of Air Liquide, a global leader in gas production, based in Houston, TX. Working in design and optimization of gas production plants, she will spend her first two years in their ALLEX program (Air Liquide Leading Engineering eXcellence), in which she will rotate through their North American sites as well as within the different business units of the company.
Tom Chao (B.S. ChemE) starts work as an associate process engineer with Valero in June. Patrick C. Chen (B.S. ChemE and Mat Sci & Eng) will be working as a process engineer for Fluor Daniel starting in June. Charlene Choi (B.S. ChemE and Mat Sci & Eng) has taken a position as a strategic consultant analyst with VeriSign and starts work this July.
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Philip W. Leonard (Ph.D. Chem) has already started postdoctoral research at the Chemistry, Materials, Life Sciences division of Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
Constantyn E. Gieskes (B.S. ChemE) will be moving to Houston, TX, to work for a start-up company, NorthernStar Natural Gas, as a project engineer. NorthernStar currently has two projects to provide the west coast of the U.S. with natural gas, bringing it in the form of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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