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Chemistry Alumni
Mary Good
Mary has been successful in variety of arenas. After receiving her Ph.D. Mary served in education as a faculty member at Louisiana State University – New Orleans for 25 years. She then worked in industry at Allied Signal rising to the level of senior vice-president of technology. She served in government under three presidents including four years as the undersecretary for technology in the Department of Commerce. She is currently the Donaghey University Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Arkansas - Little Rock. Mary has served on many boards and in a variety of other capacities including President of the American Chemical Society. She has received a number of awards including the Priestly medal from the American Chemical Society, the highest award given by the association.
The Chemical Heritage Foundation has prepared a video dealing with Mary's career that can be found at http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/women-in-chemistry/mary-good.aspx?utm_source=university&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wic
Bob Hankins
After completing his Ph.D. at the University of Missouri, Bob worked for two years at Oak Ridge. He then joined the faculty at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, LA. He remained at McNeese throughout his career first as faculty member, then department chair, dean, and finally Vice-President and Provost. Bob is currently retired in Lake Charles and visits Arkansas to visit his brother and his good friends, Mary Good and Ann Butler.
Bob and Ann Halter Butler
Ann Butler was raised in Conway when her name was Ann Halter and her dad was a local banker. She was a chemistry student and married another ASTC chemistry student named Bob Butler. Bob worked as a chemist for Mallinckrodt Chemical Coin El Dorado. When that plant closed, Bob and Ann moved to another plant in St. Louis until Bob decided he no longer wanted to be a chemist. At this point they moved to Florida where Bob opened a boat repair shop and Ann taught chemistry. After Bob had a stroke they returned to Arkansas and Bob soon died. Ann currently resides in Scotland, AR. Ann has a son, Les Butler, who is currently on the chemistry faculty at LSU. He received a B.S. from UA-Fayetteville, a Ph.D. at Illinois and did a post-doc at Cal Tech. He joined the LSU faculty in 1983. She also has a daughter who is a pediatrician and a granddaughter who has a Ph.D. in physics and works at Los Alamos.
Dennis Faulk
Dennis taught chemistry for a number of years at Central Missouri State University. He and his wife, Emily, Are currently retired in Hot Springs Village where they enjoy playing golf.
Jim Howard
For the 1st 2 years, after graduation, He taught high school chemistry, in Texas and Arkansas. Since 1966, He has worked for the same company, as an Analytical Chemist. Like UCA, in these 41 years, the company has changed names several times, but it is still located in Louisville, Ky. and now is known as Sud-Chemie. He has worked in many areas of analytical chemistry. Including classic "wet" chemistry, physical measurements (surface area and pore volume), gas chromatography, X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. For the last 20 years, He has worked with X-ray diffraction. His titles have been Chemist, Analytical Chemist, Senior Analytical Chemist, Group Leader, and now Senior Research Scientist.
Jim Has been married 43 years to Sharon Asbury Howard. (She attended ASTC, one year) They had 3 children. Two sons, 37 and 34, there was also one daughter, who is deceased.
John David Richardson
John David taught in the public schools in northeast Arkansas for many years and is currently retired.
Karen Shewbart
I received an MS in Chemistry from UALR (GIT) in 1969 and then moved to Texas and went to work for Dow in analytical services. After 7 years I moved to Environmental Services for Dow and ultimately became the Environmental Manager for Dow's Texas Operations. I moved to Urethane Manufacturing for 3 years managing isocyanate and Polyol manufacturing and then to to Epoxy Manufacturing in 1990 and was responsible for all of Dow's $250 Million dollar Epoxy business. In 1996 I became the Global Training Manager responsible for Uniting Dow and Union Carbide folks under one standard system. I retired in June, 2001 and has become a golfer full time. In 2004 I won the Executive Women's Golf Association Houston Championship, went on and won the state of Texas tournament in San Antonio, and placed Second in Nashville at the Nationals. I spend lots of time with the grand daughters, traveling (with golf clubs) and playing lots of golf. I have been on the Governor's Commission on Education, the Governors Commission on Environmental Policy and other state boards. In December, 2002 I gave the Commencement address at the Univ. of Texas in Austin. Karen is Currently Chair or the Univ. of Texas in Austin, College of Natural Science, Advisory Board.
Cecil Ritter
Cecil and his wife, Ann, began teaching in the Crossett Public Schools after graduation. Cecil taught chemistry and physics and also completed an MSE degree at UCA. In 1995 he moved to the UAM Technical Campus Crossett as an instructor and retired from there in 2002. Cecil serves on the city water commission and on several committees concerned with school and educational improvement.
Cecil and Ann have two children, Beth and Daniel, as well as seven grandchildren. Cecil says, "I have only fond memories of my time at UCA and in the chemistry department. It prepared me well for a career which I enjoyed very much as interacting with the brightest kids in the district helped keep me young! I often run into former graduates and am always interested to discuss 'old times' with them as well as their successes. "
Bill Shewbart
I did graduate work at the Univ. of Arkansas in Little Rock for 1 1/2 years. I went to work for Dow Badische in 1969 doing Pilot Plant R&D Nylon chemistry and transferred to Dow Chemical Hydrocarbon Process research in 1971 where I worked with Hydrocarbon catalysts, and light hydrocarbon processes. In 1981 I changed to Urethanes Research. and worked with Proplyene and Butylene oxide chemistry, catalysts for polymerization or Oxides. I moved to the safety area for R&D in 1985 and became North American R&D Safety Director in 1988. In 1990 I became Global Reactive Chemical Manager for Dow. Promoted programs for safe handling of chemicals and investigated Chemical reactivity incidents. Since retiring from Dow in Sept 1994 at age 50, traveling with wife, golfing, and grand kids keep me busy. We have 2 children and have been married 38 years now. My Son Andrew lives in Taipei, Taiwan and owns 3 schools teaching English to Chinese children, mainly elementary age kids. He is completely fluent in Chinese. My Daughter lives here in Houston( near us) is married and has 2 granddaughters 4 and 1 1/2. She is a CPA. I try to see the grand kids as often as possible.
Bill Shipp
Bill received a doctorate in health physics from Purdue University. He served in a variety of positions at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago before transferring to the Hanover Labs in Washington where he currently works.
Jim Irving
Jim taught chemistry in the public schools in Pulaski County for many years. He is currently on the faculty at Pulaski Technical College.
Gary Canada
Gary graduated in the summer of 1969 with a major in biology and a minor in chemistry. He was active in the ACS Student Affiliate. After graduation his first job was teaching 7th and 8th grade math in Wrangell, Alaska where they commuted by boat to work. After one year there he and his wife (Hanna Boles who also graduated from UCA in 1969) moved back to England, Ark. where he taught chemistry, biology, physics and coached at England Academy until 1973. He retired from teaching and went to work at the Bank of England as a teller. He became president of the bank in 1989. Gary and Hanna have three children and seven grandchildren.
Marvin Tanner
After graduation Marvin taught in the public schools for a few years and then took over the family dairy farming business. He currently resides in the Heritage Nursing Home in Conway.
Pat Cowger Finkenbinder
Pat returned to Dardanelle after graduation and went to work in the lab for a chicken feed company. That company was ultimately bought out by Tyson. She then transferred to a supervisor position in the Tyson processing plant in Russellville.
Gary White
Gary received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin. He worked for Exxon and Nalco in the United States before accepting a position as chief oil field chemist for ARAMCO in Saudi Arabi. After travels over much of the world Gary returned to Conway where he taught chemistry at Conway High School and also served as an adjunct faculty member in chemistry at UCA. He is currently retired.
Richard Thompson
Richard went to work for the Ecology and Pollution Department of the State of Arkansas. Although the name of this branch of state government has changed several times over the years, Richard has remained employed there.
George Dilbeck
George (Gay) received a Ph.D. at Oklahoma State University. He was employed with EPA in Las Vegas for a number of years. He has recently moved to Alabama where he works in nuclear monitoring and cleanup for EPA. George died in his sleep in December of 2010.
Patsy (Yeats) Baynard
After graduation from UCA Patsy received a Ph.D. in Nuclear Chemistry from the University of Arkansas in 1973. She then completed a reactor engineering program through the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory in 1977. She received an MBA from Florida Institute of Technology in 1979 and completed the Tuck Executive Program at Dartmouth in 1981.
Patsy has held a number of technical and managerial positions in government and industry primarily in the area of energy beginning with Nuclear Power. In the fall of 2010 she was employed by Wind Energy Transmission. This is a startup electric utility doing project development on electric power transmission facilities to support bringing the wind energy resources in West Texas to load centers. She started the company and has run it for the past 15 months, reporting to the Board of Directors. She is responsible for getting projects through the regulatory process, permitted, engineered, real estate, construction and ultimate operation. She spent three years working for St. Petersburg College in the 1990's building a new college campus focused on distance learning, running the campus for the first year and then going on to do their institutional effectiveness work. She left to pursue an opportunity to do consulting in nuclear for the Department of Defense.
She has two sons. William is at the University of Florida working on his PhD in Mathematics. Robert is at the University of South Florida working on a Masters in Media Studies and does consulting in technical writing and editing.
John Mitchell
John worked for the Ecology and Pollution Department. He retired a few year ago.
Joe Barnes
Joe lives in Vilonia and is currently retired from the Arkansas Crime Lab.
Don Riddle
Don lives in Vilonia and works at the Arkansas Crime Lab.
Scotty Cook
Scotty received an MD from UAMS. He has practiced medicine and has also held a variety of faculty positions in medical schools including UAMS.
C.C. Garner
C.C. received an M.D. degree from UAMS and when last heard from was practicing in Florida.
Gary Dallas
Gary obtained a position with the Arkansas State Crime Lab where he has been head of the drug section for a number of years.
Carl Harris
Carl received a Ph.D. in nuclear chemistry from UA-Fayetteville. He was the training officer at the Arkansas Nuclear Reactor facility in Russellville for a number of years. Currently he is on the chemistry faculty at Arkansas Tech University.
He and his wife, Mira, live in Russelvile and he continues to play guitar and banjo in a band.
Jerry Wilson
Jerry worked as a musician after graduation, then joined the Navy and became a pilot. After his tour of duty Jerry became a pilot for a commercial airline.
Richard Daily
Richard received an MD from UAMS and when last heard of was practicing medicine in Harrison.
David Matchett
David obtained a position with the Arkansas Department of Ecology and Pollution and has been employed there for a number of years.
Ron Shephard
I graduated from UCA in 1975. I went to graduate school at the University of Utah, and finished my PhD in 1980 in Physical Chemistry. I was a postdoc at Battelle Columbus Laboratories in Columbus, Ohio for a year, and then I was hired as staff there in 1981. I moved from there in November 1981 to Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, Illinois, and I have been here since that time. Argonne is a Department of Energy laboratory, and our research group here studies combustion chemistry. We have both experimentalists and theoreticians in our group. I am a theoretician and I do mostly method development in electronic structure theory, but I sometimes do some applications and work in other areas of physical chemistry such as potential energy surface fitting, vibrational wave function calculations, or chemical kinetics. I also publish some applied mathematics and numerical methods work from time to time about things like data compression and eigenvalue calculations. Here is a link to our research group:
My wife and I have a son who is currently a senior in high school. My hobbies include playing pool in local leagues and in tournaments. I sometimes play in pool tournaments when I travel for work. Here is a link to some pictures from the tournaments I've played inhttp://www.azbilliards.com/thepros/2000showplayer2005.cfm? playernum=1879
I also referee some of the professional and amateur tournaments. Here are a couple of links to some stuff that I have written about pool and physics:
John Alred
John was a physics major, but he took six semesters of chemistry and worked many hours as a chemistry lab assistant and stockroom clerk. After graduating from UCA John received an M.S. in physics from UT-Austin and a Ph.D. from Baylor. He joined NASA JSC in 1981 for several years, then taught at Texas A&M and Univ. Houston while being a consultant to NASA. After the aerospace depression of the 1990's, he worked a couple of years as a generic engineering/science consultant before being hired by Lockheed Martin in 1996 to work on a project in Denver. He transferred to LM in Houston working on the International Space Station. That led to a job at Boeing supporting ISS on space environmental effects on materials. After seven years, he rejoined NASA in 2006. His job now consists of three parts and threatens to add another with the new Lunar/Mars programs. He says, "All in all, it has been fun, however non-linear the path has been."
John is married and has three sons. "The oldest is in college and plans to be a doctor; the middle son wants to major in biomedical engineering; and the youngest wants to be rich (lawyer). So, within two years, I will have three kids incollege at the same time - what was I thinking!!"
Bob Beaton
Bob received a masters degree from ASU-Jonesboro and then received an MD from UAMS.
William Deese
After graduating from UCA in 1976 Bill attended graduate school for five years in Fayetteville (Ph.D, 1982), . He has taught at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana since the fall of 1981 where he is now the C. W. Ray Johnson Professor of Chemistry in the College of Engineering and Science. Since the late eighties, his research interests have been mainly in chemical and science education. He spends summers conducting professional development institutes for middle school and high school science teachers. For exercise he enjoys playing basketball and juggling. He has been married to Evelyn "Archer", whom he met in Dr. Manion's organic class, since 1979. They have one daughter, Nicole who shares his passion for juggling. Bill won the 2010 Helen M. Free Award for Public Outreach which recognizes outstanding achievements in the field of public outreach by a member of the ACS . This award was made at the Fall, 2010 ACS meeting in Boston.
Mike Houchens
Mike obtained a position in the laboratory for Maybelline in Lonoke and he currently has overall responsibility for quality control at the plant.
Elizabeth Howard
Elizabeth also obtained a position in the laboratory at Maybelline.
Alan Irby
Alan has been employed by Abbott Laboratories for the past 25 years working in North Carolina, Texas and New Orleans. He currently is part of international supply chain management for Hospira, the hospital products division of Abbott in Lake Forest, IL. His children are grown and he and his wife of 27 years enjoy living in the Chicago area. He remembers New Orleans fondly and visits there frequently. He hopes to retire to the Hot Springs area.
Jim Justus
Jim obtained an MD at UAMS and practiced for several years. He became seriously ill and died several years ago.
Gerhard Laule
Gerhard Laule teaches chemistry at Seminole State College, where he has been since January, 1988. He received my M.S. from the University of Arkansas Graduate Institute of Technology in 1986 and then spent a year working on his doctorate in Physical Chemistry at the University of Oregon. As a faculty member at SSC, he has served as chair of the Math/Science/Engineering division and has continued graduate work at Oklahoma State University in Inorganic Chemistry and Chemical Education. Currently He devotes most of his time to teaching Gen Chem I and II and Intro Chem as well as serving as an Adjunct Chemistry Instructor at Oklahoma Baptist University where he teaches the Nursing Chem labs. Hobbies include competitive bicycling racing, hiking, camping etc. Check out his web site at www.gerhardl.phpwebhosting.com.
Laquetta Moore Purkiss
Laquetta and her husband,David, live in Lubbock, TX where they are both employed by Texas Tech University. Laquetta is responsible for laboratory classes in general and organic chemistry.
John Shore
John received a PhD from the University of Arkansas - Fayetteville. He has been employed in the chemistry industry.
Ricky Stamps
After receiving an M.S. degree from the University of Alabama in 1981, Ricky went to work in Texaco's research labs in Port Arthur, TX where he worked in industrial lubricant and grease development. He transferred to Shell's Westhollow Technology Center in 1988. He is currently a Senior Chemist, Lubricants with Shell's global technology organization, Shell Global Solutions, where he is a team leader supporting industrial, transport and aviation greases. He also serves informally as the building computer geek. His work with a global unit has allowed him to travel extensively. Ricky and his wife live in Katy, Texas and have three sons (two in college and one in high school). Ricky's hobbies include building computers, refurbishing vintage hi-fi speakers, and playing an occasional game of casino black jack.
James Duke
I graduated from the University of Arkansas School of Medicine in 1981 and practiced Emergency Medicine until I entered a 3-yr Residency in Anesthesiology at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, TX in 1989. I moved to Colorado in 1992 and I'm currently an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Associate Director of Anesthesiology, Denver Health Medical Center. My responsibilities include educating medical students and supervising residents in anesthesiology in the operating room. I am the editor of two anesthesia textbooks, "Anesthesia Secrets" currently in third edition, and "Anesthesia Pearls." I have just been accepted into the Executive MBA program in Health Administration at the University of Colorado.
I have been married to Renee for over 10 years and serve at the beck and call of 2 cats, Desi and Audrey. I enjoy roaring through the Colorado mountains on my Harley Davidson Road King and I'm taking 2-step country dance lessons at the Grizzly Rose, recently named the Country Music Association Honky Tonk of the Year! I ski a little, garden a lot, read all the time and try to get a nap in every day, though sometimes this doesn't work out. I have the fondest of memories of my times in the UCA Chemistry department and if I had to do it again, I would.
Jim Fraser
After graduation in '77 , Jim worked briefly as a lab tech in a private waste water lab in Little Rock and in quality control at Maybelline. He worked in R&D at Reynolds Metals for five years until they relocated and then two years for a petroleum refinery in Shreveport, LA. He returned to Arkansas, to work for AP&L as a chemist in the lab at the nuclear plant in Russellville. He moved from there to the corporate tech support group in Little Rock after a couple of years and was there 6 years until Entergy relocated that group to New Orleans. He began work in 1992 for Calgon selling water treatment chemicals to power plants. Calgon has since merged with Nalco for whom he is currently involved with water treatment in a variety of industries. In1996 he received a MS in Operations Management form the University of Arkansas. Jim and his wife, Debby, live in the middle of 200 wooded acres outside of Batesville where he is an avid bow hunter with an emphasis in turkeys. His children, Ryan and Lana Lawrence, live in Vilonia along with his 4 grandchildren.
Steve Graham
Gerald Hook
After graduation Gerald obtained employment in the chemical industry in the St. Louis area where he has been very active in the local ACS section.
Bill McKelvey
Bill taught school at Heber Springs for one year before going to the State Crime Lab, where he was a Chemist for two years. In 1981, he moved to Russellville and joined the staff at Arkansas Nuclear One as a chemist. At Nuclear One he has served as Chemistry Supervisor, a Chemistry Superintendent and Industrial Safety Superintendent. He has been the Employee Concerns Coordinator since 2004. He describes this as kind of a camp counselor, complaint department and whistleblower office all rolled up into one.
Bill's wife, Shelia, is a 1980 graduate of UCA, with a degree in early childhood education. They have been married for 28 years and have two sons. Tim is a senior education major at UCA (and is going to be a great football coach). Philip is a freshman at the University of Arkansas majoring in business.
Susan Rongey
Eddie Shiller
Eddie went to work for Alcoa in Benton upon graduation.
Tim Thomas
Rusty Degges
Tom Ezell
After serving in the military Tom returned to UCA to take a teacher training program.
William (Bobby) Floyd
Bobby's goal when he came to UCA was to return to Nashville and work in the concrete manufacturing plant there. He did so and had been there ever since. His son, Tyler,entered UCA in the fall of 2007.
Mike Jones
Jay Kemper
Jay has held chemist positions at the Arkansas Crime Lab and at the Plant Board.
Rosalyn Riding
Rosalyn taught high school chemistry northeast part of the state for a number of years.
Becky Stewart
Becky completed dental school and is currently practicing dentistry.
Carol Wiedower
Joe Allison
Joe received a PhD degree in inorganic chemistry from Purdue University in 1983. He then obtained a job with Conoco (now Phillips-Conoco) where he has held a number of positions and is currently the Director of Catalysts Development for the Gas-To-Liquids R&D Department. Joe was selected as the outstanding chemist in Oklahoma in 2008 and was recently promoted to research fellow at Conoco-Phillips which provides him with wide latitude in the choice of projects on which he works. In 2010 Joe was named as an ACS fellow at the Fall National Meeting in Boston. He also was recognized as a 2010 outstanding alumnus by the Chemistry Department at Purdue University where he earned his Ph.D. degree.
Chet Barber
Chet is currently employed as a pharmacist.
Richard Davis
Laura Hollenbeck Allison
After grauating as the 1979 top overall UCA graduate Laura attended Purdue University on an NSF predoctoral scholarship in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy. After receiving an M.S. degree in Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy in 1981 Laura worked at BioAnalytical Systems as a Research Chemist from 1981 to 1983. Since 1983 she and Joe have lived in Ponca City, Oklahoma in 1983 where she is a Senior Scientist in the Analytical Services Department specializing in Mass Spectrometry for Conoco (now ConocoPhillips). Joe and Laura have two children: Brent, 22, at Oklahoma State University majoring in Finance; and Tara, 19, at Hendrix College (yes, ironically she is in Conway) majoring in English/Anthropology.
Charles Stotts
Charles worked in Huntsville, AL for a number of years for a company that manufactured solid rocket fuels. He is currently employed in a more mundane plant in Fort Smith and enjoys a piece of land he bought on the Mulberry river.
Richard Walser
Richard taught in the public schools for several years and has been active in the Arkansas National Guard. Most recently he is the manager of Ricks Armory in Little Rock.
Slaton Fry
After graduating from UCA in 1980, Slaton spent a short time with Phillips Petroleum and then returned to graduate school at the University of Arkansas and completed a Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry under Dr. Norbert Pienta in 1985. He then worked for Halliburton Services and finally Eastman Chemical in Batesville, AR for 16 years before leaving to work for UAMS Arkansas BioVentures biotechnology incubator and to return to school for an MBA at UALR. He also worked for Safe Foods Corporation as the Director of Operations. Slaton returned to Batesville and currently works for FutureFuels (formerly Eastman).
He married Diann Curiel in 1984 and they have two children, Evan and Elise
David Purkiss
David went to graduate school at Texas Tech University and is currently the instrumentation specialist in the Chemistry Department there. His primary responsibility is the operation and upkeep on NMR spectrometers used in the department.
Randy Solomon
Randy received his masters degree from UALR. He currently works in environmental chemistry in the Dallas, TX area where he lives with his wife and three sons.
Randy Tucker
Randal (Randy) Tucker, graduated in 1980 and then worked for Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville, OK for a short while before returning to the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1982 in order to pursue a PhD in Chemistry. He did his research on snake venom components and the venom of the Brown Recluse spider. He received his PhD in Chemistry with specialization in Biochemistry and then went to the LSU Eye Center in New Orleans for postdoctoral training. He returned to Arkansas where he worked for the Arkansas Department of Health and the Arkansas State Crime Lab as a mass spectroscopists in the areas of environmental chemistry and toxicology. He helped to establish the first forensic DNA laboratory while at the Arkansas State Crime Lab after receiving training at Life Codes in Stamford, Connecticut, Applied Biosystems in San Franscisco, and Promega, in Madison, Wisconsin. He now works for the US Food and Drug Administration in Jefferson Arkansas where he uses both high and low resolution mass spectroscopic techniques for the analysis of ultra trace levels of chlorinated organic toxins in foods. You can contact Randy at firstname.lastname@example.com and email@example.com .
Craig Cummins
Craig received an MD from UAMS and is currently a family practice physician in the
Bannister-Lieblong Clinic in Conway.
Teresa Madley
I am the Chemistry Superintendent over the Chemistry department at Arkansas Nuclear ONe. There are 31 in the department including Supervisors, Specialists and Chemists. I have been at ANO for 24 years. I began work at ANO in 1981 as a Chemist two weeks after graduating from UCA with a B.S. in Chemistry. I have also held the positions of Chemistry Specialist and Site Human Performance Lead at ANO. I have two children, Lauren (age 21) and Justin (age 18). Lauren is a senior at Arkansas Tech University and Justin will be a freshman at ATU in the fall 2005. My daughter is majoring in pre-med and music and my son plans to major in biology.
Dan Meatheny
Dan is employed at Entergy, Arkansas Nuclear One. He originally chose the job because it was close to his girl friend and has been there ever since. He and his girl friend, Kim, are now married and and have one son, Kyle. They recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with a trip to Egypt and Kenya. At Nuclear One Dan is in charge of the steam generators. Specifically he tests for possible breakdown in the Inconel tubing with which they are plumbed and which are under 2250 psi of pressure.
Ray Schichtl
After graduate school at GIT (UALR) Ray got a job with an electronics manufacturing firm in Maumelle. Ray currently lives in Conway.
Jim Whitaker
Jim attended graduated school in chemistry at the University of Oregon.
Mark Woods
Mark started his career as a research chemist with Phillps Petroleum Company in 1980. He worked in Phillips' Research and Development Division until 1989 on a variety of technologies from solar cells to chemicals to plastics. In 1990 Mark moved to management and became Global Quality Assurance Manager for Phillip's Ryton® plastic resin and Operation Director of Plastics Technical Center. In 1995, Mark became the commercial manager for Phillips' Ethylene Business and participated in the merger of the Chevron and Phillips chemical businesses in 2000. Mark was responsible for $2 billion in annual sales as the Ethylene Director which was about 30% of Chevron Phillips Chemical Companies annual revenue.
Mark left Chevron Phillips Chemical Company in January of 2003 to become Director of Business Development for Old World Industries. Old World is best known for its consumer products such as PEAK® antifreeze, Mr. Clean® Windshield wash & wiper blades, and Splitfire® sparkplugs. He is currently Executive Vice President of a subsidiary, Ventum Energy, which was formed in late 2004 to reduce the exposure of Old World to the volatility of energy costs.
Mark and his wife, Denise, have been married for almost 20 years and have three sons, Stephen (17), Daniel (15), and Philip (13). They live just north of Houston in Spring, TX. The boys keep Denise on the run making sure they get to all their activities and stay up on their school work. The boys enjoy sports and music. Stephen is #1 and Daniel is #8 on the high school golf team and Philip is 1st chair violin in the junior high orchestra. Mark enjoys golfing, hunting and fishing with the family.
Ray Black
Ray went to law school and currently practices in Little Rock.
Gary Gibson
Gary worked at the crime lab for a time, then went to pharmacy school.
John Gilliom
After receiving an M.S. in mathematics from Ohio State University John attended seminary and is currently involved in work with his church.
Bob Lashlee
Bob has received a degree in engineering and is currently retired from the air force. He currently resides in Colorado and works as a private consultant for the aerospace industry.
Brad Lemay
Brad went to medical school at UAMS
Danny Reese
Danny completed medical school at UAMS on a Navy scholarship. After several years as a navy physician during which he completed a residency in anesthesiology Danny joined the faculty at the University of Kentucky medical school where he served as Chief of Staff. He is currently employed full-time at the VA Hospital in Lexington.
Cathy Bates
Cathy completed a degree program in Physical Therapy and she currently resides in Conway.
Gary Skiles
Gary did graduated work in chemistry at the University of Dallas and currently works in industry in the Dallas area.
Lessie Spurrier
Lessie is an owner of a private testing laboratory in Little Rock.
Tim Tipton
Michael Woods
Michael practices obstetrics in Conway.
Randall Black
Randall graduated first in his medical school class and currently practices medicine in northwest Arkansas.
Clark Davis
I graduated with a PhD in synthetic organic chemistry from Texas A&M in 1989 working under Kenn Harding. My employment history has included stints with Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Union Carbide and I am now working for Dow Chemical following the Union Carbide-Dow merger. My wife Karen and I recently relocated to the San Francisco area when I took a position with Dow Agrosciences in their Pittsburg California facility.
Larry Eoff
Larry completed his Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry at the University of Arkansas under Dr. Norbert Pienta in 1989. He has been employed by Halliburton Energy Services in Duncan, OK for 15 years (with two years in Houston with a chemical company from 1994-96). "Work at Halliburton has been very good and has allowed me travel all over the world, which I have really enjoyed." Larry and his wife, Jessica, two sons, Jeremy (15) and Jared (12). He stays active, playing softball in the summers and more recently playing golf, which Jessica has taken up also. . You can contact Larry at Larry's e-mail
Michael Joaquin Jessup
Joaquin went to med school at UAMS and then did a residency in Wichita, Kansas. He is currently practicing ob-gyn in Cape Girardeau, MO
Deanna King Hopson
Deanna received her M.D. degree from UAMS in 1988 and completed residency in Family Medicine at the AHEC Fort Smith Residency Program. She worked in the ER of Howard Memorial Hospital at Nashville, AR and later at a rural clinic in Stephens, AR . She was a Faculty Physician at the AHEC South Arkansas Family Medicine Residency Program for 7 years in El Dorado, AR. Since December 2004, she has been serving uninsured patients at the Interfaith Clinic in El Dorado. Deanna and her husband, Rodney, have four children, Audra Claire, Benjamin, Nicole, and Hannah.
Luke Setzler
Luke lives in Conway and is an air traffic controller at the Little Rock Airport.
Bill Williams
Bill attended medical school at the University of Mississippi from 1985-'89. Following graduation, He did an Ob-Gyn residency at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa from 1989-'93. He moved to Searcy in July 1993 and continues his practice there.
Bill married Ruth Taylor, a 1985 graduate from the UCA Dept. of Physicial Therapy. Bill and Ruth have five children: Benjamin, Meredith, Stephanie, Emma, and Daniel.
Tom Anderson
Tom completed a Juris Doctorate with honors at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's William H. Bowen School of Law in 1995. He entered the Arkansas Air National Guard shortly after graduation from UCA and in October, 2008 was appointed as commander of the 188th Fighter Wing stationed in Fort Smith. The 188th recently changed from Lockeed Martin F-16 fighters to Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II ground attack and close air support aircraft. The 188th is scheduled to be deployed to Afgahanistan in 2010.
Hoang Bui
Hoang attended medical school at UAMS.
Laura Donaldson
Laura taught in the Mayflower and Conway public schools. She and her family currently live in Alaska.
Kelli Rutledge
Kelli accepted a position in sales with Waters Associates.
Gary Sherwood
Gary and his brother, Edwin currently operate the emergency medicine for White County Hospital in Searcy.
Steve Wampler
Steve attended medical school at UAMS.
Troy Harpole
Brooks Lawrence
Brooks received his M.D. degree from UAMS in 1990 and did a residency in family practice at the US Air Force Regional Hospital at Eglin AFB in Florida. After serving in the US Air Force from 1990 to 96 he returned to Conway where he currently has a private practice as a family physician.
He is married to his high school sweetheart, Pam Berry, and they have four children: Benjamin, Caleb, Anna, and Elizabeth.
Joe Massey
Joe is married to Karen Buddenberg (B.S. '86). He received M.S.and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Arkansas in agronomy, specializing in the environmental chemistry of pesticides. From 1995 to 2000, He worked as a research chemist at DuPont Crop Protection in Wilmington, DE. and is currently an associate professor at Mississippi State University (20% teaching, 80% research). He teaches graduate-level courses in Herbicide Physiology & Biochemistry and the Environmental Fate of Herbicides and serve as the program coordinator for MSU's Environmental Science program which involves teaching Introduction to Environmental Science to undergraduates. His research investigates the environmental fates of pesticides, emphasizing water-quality issues. Karen works as a CPA at a local hospital.
Mike Miller
Jerry Palmer
Jerry received an M.S. in analytical chemistry from the University of Alabama and is currently employed at Arkansas Eastman in Batesville.
Maria Skinner
Lisa Sparkman
Lisa worked at the Arkansas State Crime Lab in a variety of capacities including trace analysis.
Marc Anderson
Marc graduated from pharmacy school in 1990. He served in the Arkansas Air National Guard from 1990-98 where he was an F-16 fighter pilor from 1993-98. Marc currently lives in Conway where he is a pharmacist for Kroger.
Marc and his wife, Jill, have two children, Mallory and Madeline.
Gary Fuller
After finishing at UCA,Gary completed a master degree at UA/GIT. While in graduate school,he worked for American Interplex part time for a couple of years. running their special testing. He worked for a few years at UAMS doing NMR/MRI research and then went to work managing the information systems for the UAMS Pathology Dept. In 1999 he moved to Florida to install a system for Y2K at Memorial Healthcare (www.mhs.net) , and as a bonus to the project, got married.
About 3 years ago he started brewing beer, got into the whole brewing competition circuit, and now holds certification as a Beer Judge.
Steve McKim
Steve completed his Ph.D. degree in chemistry at the University of Kansas and currently is on the faculty at Central State University in Oklahoma.
Alao Serifat
Mona Churchwell
Mona went to work for NCTR in Pine Bluff.
Terri Claiborne
Cindy Gierach
Cindy attended medical school at UAMS.
Donna Short
Donna has a position in pharmaceutical sales in Memphis.
Mike Stage
Mike worked for the Arkansas State Plant Board for 3 years after graduating from UCA. He went to the State Crime lab for 5 years, then came back to the plant board where he is currently employed.
Anders Amelin
Anders returned to Sweden.
Shelly Catlett Bradley
Shelly worked at UCA as manager of the chemistry storeroom for several years. She is currently director of laboratories at Hendrix. Shelly was featured in Chemical and Engineering News (June 28, 2010, pp. 14-20) in an article that highlights CPT's emphasis on safety in its new (2008) guidelines. The article includes a picture and interview of Shelly as well as a summary of how Hendrix College has incorporated safety into their chemistry curriculum. The article can be found at http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/88/8826cover.html.
Shelly gave a talk at the spring, 2010 ACS meeting in a division of Chemical Health and Safety (CHAS) symposium about what she is doing at Hendrix to comply with the new safety guidelines. As a result she was invited to submit a paper for a special issue of the CHAS journal highlighting undergraduate safety sometime in the winter of 2010.
Brian Clark
Brian completed a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry at the University of Tennessee in 1995. He was chosen the top graduating analytical student. He went to work at Alcon Laboratories (world's largest ophthalmic pharmaceutical company). Where he was promoted to the level of Assistant Director of Analytical Development. In 2006 became the Director of Analytical Sciences with United Therapeutics (Biopharmaceutical company), located in Research Triangle Park, NC.
Brian is married (wife's name is Summer) and they have a son, Matthew. His wife is attending Duke University in their Masters program in Nursing. Eventually she will be a pediatric nurse.
Sandra Coles
Sandra began her career in the QA lab of ConAgra Frozen Foods in Batesville. She was responsible for nutritional testing of finished food products and ingredients as well as quality control testing for the on-site chicken feed mill. She was promoted to Senior Chemist and made was responsible for coordinating the pesticide testing and wastewater analysis programs in the lab. In 2001, Sandra left ConAgra and went to work for Entergy, Incorporated as the Chemistry Supervisor at the Independence Plant in Newark, Arkansas. In May of 2005, Sandra moved to The Woodlands, Texas to work in the Environmental Services group for Entergy Fossil. In her role there, she serves as the Federal Issues Lead for Water Media and is the Water Lead for Texas Environmental Support. Her job includes working with the Water Leads from Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana Environmental Support offices to coordinate NPDES permitting and compliance and Toxic Release Inventory reporting for 29 fossil fueled power plants and 2 hydroelectric dams.
Brad Griffin
Tony Jones
Louis Poposki
Louis is employed by the Arkansas State Department of Health.
Susan (Arrowood) Kadlubar
Lora Burge
Brenda Cook
Jeffrey Howard
Jeffrey attended medical school at UAMS.
Terry Lipsmeyer
Terry is employed by the Arkansas State Department of Health. He is currently working on a Masters in Public Health at UAMS
Kathy Wilson
Cindy Willingham
Cindy attended medical school at UAMS.
Russell Everett
After completing his Ph.D. degree at the University of Arkansas in 1996 Russell held postdoctoral research positions at the University of Hawaii (1996-1998) and the University of Kansas (1998-2000). He then joined Cedra, a pharmaceutical contract research organization based in Austin, TX. In 2004 he moved back home to Greenbrier and is now president of his own CRO business, BerTek, Inc.
Russell and his wife, Timsey, have three children: Kassidy, Brandy and Wesley.
Jill Jennings
Jill completed a degree in Veterinary Medicine at Oklahoma State University. She currently teaches in the Marshall Public Schools.
Brett Krepps
Brett received an M.S. in chemical engineering in 1994. Two years later he applied to medical school and received his M.D. from UAMS in 2000. He completed a residency in orthopedic medicine at the University of Kansas Medical School in 2005. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and practices orthopedic surgery in Indiana.
Brett and his wife, Joanne, have two sons, Evan and Aiden. He says, "All-in-all, it's all worked out okay for me...so far."
Susan Kuzma Kelso
After graduating in May 1992, Susan joined Eastman Kodak Co. in clinical chemistry & sales. She was a diagnostic & laboratory sales representative and sold blood chemistry analyzers to veterinarians, physicians and small hospitals. In August 1994, She married and relocated to NW Arkansas where she worked for the City of Bentonville Wastewater Treatment Plant as laboratory manager before going to Beaver Water District as a laboratory technician. She has since joined the "Wal*Mart Community". Her employer, Design Accents, is a supplier to WalMart. Her job duties have included domestic and import experience, sales & analysis, category management, and brand and product development for our wide assortment of products. She and her husband, Jerry, have two sons, ages 7 & 3 and have just recently moved Sherwood to be closer to family and friends. You can contact Susan at Susan's e-mail
Roger Smithson
Upon graduation from UCA Roger took a position with Buckman Laboratories. Buckman Laboratories is a specialty chemical company based out of Memphis, TN with a focus in the pulp and paper industry. His primary chemical focus has been microbiocides and polymers that aid in the papermaking process. His first position in Buckman was as a district sales representative. He is currently the southern sales director over a sales force of 60 people.
Roger and his wife, Michelle live in Greenbrier with their two daughters (Shali and Sofie).
Justin Dodds
Jonathan Paladino
Jonathan completed a Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the University of Missouri at Rolla. He then attended medical school at UAMS.
Chris Abrams
Marcus Babbs
Becky Weston Edwards
Becky received a Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi in February of 1998 and began work at Eastman Chemical Company, Arkansas site, as an analytical chemist in March 1998 where she is still employed. Becky is married to Matthew Edwards and they have two children: Wendell Adam (July, 1999) and Weston Andrew (April 2004).
At work, I am currently responsible for many of the chromatographic techniques in the analytical lab. Since I have been with Eastman, I have supervised the liquid chromatography lab, but in the last year, I have also gained responsibility for the ion chromatographs, supercritical fluid chromatographs, and the gel permeation chromatographs.
Matt and I have a house on my family's farm in Izard County. Between church, community and farm activities, we stay very busy! At church I play the piano and lead the choir, and Matt teaches Sunday School and serves as a deacon. Matt runs the Mt. Pleasant summer baseball/softball program in addition to coaching two baseball teams. Wendell plays t-ball and soccer, and Weston thinks he should be able to play too. I spend most of my time at the games keeping him off the field! We have also ventured into the cattle business so we get to "rodeo" every now and then when it's time to work the cattle.
Cheryl Fossler
Sam Mackintosh
Larry Mathys
Steve Puyear
Crissy Rhodes (Chaparro)
Crissy completed an MS in chemistry at Duke. After working for a while she returned to graduate school at North Carolina State University where she finished a PHD in biophysical chemistry in 2007. Crissy and her husband, David Chaparro, have two daughters, Isabel and Sofia. They live in Raleigh, NC where he is employed as a construction engineer and Crissy works for a pharmaceutical company.
Craig Sharp
Tiffny Stewart
Tiffny received her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from U.C.A. in 2003 and began working for Conway Therapy Services. She has plans to specialize in Women's Health Physical Therapy. She and her husband, Brian, have two children, Sydney Alena and Zachary Aaron. Brian and Tiffny live in Oxford, Mississippi where Brian works as a pharmaceutical sales rep for UCB Pharma and she currently stays at home with the children. They are assisting in the formation of Grace Bible Church of Oxford.
Teddy Townsend
Teddy is currently the Environmental, Health and Safety Coordinator for Bryce Corporation in Searcy, Arkansas. His work involves maintaining compliance with various EPA, DOT and OSHA regulations, Radiation Safety, Food Safety and Security. He is married to Linda (Johnston) Townsend, who graduated from UCA in 1997 and teaches Elementary Music at Pangburn Public Schools.
Derek Boahene
Derek graduated first in his class in medicine at Meharry in Nashville, TN. Following that he did a a 5 -year surgical residency in otolaryngology head and neck surgery followed by fellowship training in Facial plastic and recostructive surgery which covers cosmetic surgery of the face as well as reconstruction of congenital and acquired defects in the head and neck region. Some of the surgeries he performs include repair of cleft lip and palate, distraction osteogenesis (growing new bone by distraction) minimally invasive appraoches to removing tumors of the anterior base of the brain, microvascular tissue transfer (transfering tissue from one part of the body to another with suturing of hair-thin blood vessels and nerves), cosmetic surgery of the aging face etc. His family has grown to 5..his wife Ruth, a daughter and 2 twin boys. He just joined Johns Hopkins Univeristy Hospital as an assistant professor. "Besides my clinical practice, I am active in teaching medical students, residents and Fellows the art and science of facial plastic and reconstructiove surgery. I am also actively involved in tissue engineering research. I recently won the top honors in facial plastic surgery in the country for attaining the highest score in our specialty board exam."
Jody Buckholtz
Jody did graduate work at UALR and is currently on the faculty at Northeast Oklahoma in Talequah.
Darrin Gainer
Darrin currently teaches chemistry at Greenbriar High School. He has done graduate work in chemistry at UALR.
Blane Graves
Trey Heath
Trey went to graduate school at the University of Illinois where he graduated with an M.S. Degree in chemistry. He is currently working in the St. Louis area.
Holly Jennings
Larry Mathys
Tom Noor
Cheryl Redden
Jim Sanders
Brian Taylor
Brian completed a PhD from the University of Tennesse in computational/physical chemistry in 2000. His doctoral research focused on theoretical investigations of rotationally inelastic He + LiH collisions; these collisions may have played an important role in the colling processes that allowed primordial molecular clouds in the early universe to condense and form stars. While at Tennessee Brian received the Chemistry Department's Outstanding Teaching Award in 1998, a Departmental Research Merit award in 1999, and the Eugene John Barber Fellowship in Chemistry in 1999. In 1999 he was also selected as the Outstanding Teaching Assistant by the Student Affiliate Chapter. While completing his dissertation, he gained teaching experience at Maryville College.
He became a tenured Associate Professor of Chemistry at The University of Texas at Tyler teaching General Chemistry and Physical Chemistry and maintaining a research group involving undergraduate students. He also served as faculty advisor for the UT-Tyler Student Affiliates Chapter, which has received several national citations for excellence. In 2005, Brian received the University of Texas Chancellor's Council Teaching Award, the highest recognition for outstanding undergraduate teaching available to faculty serving in the UT system.
Brian and his wife, who he met at UCA, have two boys. Brian was found dead in his home on November 3, 2008.
Shandy Campbell
Bobby Brock
Chris Dietrich
Chris graduated from Southern College of Optometry in May of 2001. After briefly practicing in Conway he purchased a private practice in Mtn.View, AR and has been in solo private practice since. His office is on the courthouse square in Mtn. Chris and his wife, Kalah, have two children, Eli Gibson and Mabry Grace.
Cindy Hopp
Alex Lovelace-Chandler
Alex completed an MS in Chemistry at the University of Missouri - Columbia and is pursuing a doctorate in education there.
Patrick Rainey
Patrick completed his Ph.D. in chemistry at Texas A & M. He is currently employed with a laboratory in North Carolina.
Philip Rice
Philip is employed as a chemist by Georgia Pacific Resins in Crossett, AR.
Philip Shewmaker
Kevin Williams
Kevin completed a degree in chemical engineering at the University of Arkansas and is currently employed by Tokusen in Conway."
Neal Yowell
Neal received an MS in Environmental Science from the University of Colorado. He has been employed as an environmental chemist for Colorado Springs Utilities since 1997. He works in the inorganic section and has completed method development for low level mercury detection using cold-vapor atomic fluorescence. He has two beautiful daughters, Katarina and Isabella.
Bobby Brock
Rusty Cutts
Rusty received an M.A. in inorganic/polymer chemistry in 2000 from the University of Virginia. He began work with Ana-Lab Corp, an environmental testing company, in Kilgore, TX doing pH/conductivity measurement, and similar tests; what most environmental labs call "classical chemistry". In 2001, while still at Ana-Lab, he moved to the metals analysis group where he analyzed water and soil samples that had been digested with acids and heat. The digested samples were usually analyzed for mineral and/or heavy metal content using ICP-AES and ICP-MS. In 2003 he became Special Projects/Classical Chemistry Supervisor at Ana-Lab. This job involved assisting lab technicians with problem solving and training new techs and examining methods in the literature and converting them to laboratory SOPs. In addition he helped customers develop new methods to suit their needs or to modify existing methods in the literature.
In 2006 Rusty moved to Siemens Corporation in Bartlesville OK. Siemens manufactures process gas chromatographs in Bartlesville and he currently works in the methods development group determining what types of columns or applications will meet customer needs. Rusty met his wife, Heather, (UCA Biology) in an organic chemistry lab. They have two sons, Charlie and Calvin.
Sheri Dobbs
Sheri went to medical school at UAMS. She is currently working as a physician in Alabama and is expecting her first child.
Ann Gains
Lea Horton
Lea completed an M.S. degree at Emory University. She is currently teaching and serving as Assistant to the Chair in the Biology Department at UCA.
Chris Larson
Chris worked with Young Life after graduation and then went to medical school at UAMS.
Jason Skinner
Jason has completed his medical training at UAMS and is now employed as an ER physician at Conway Regional Hospital.
Theodore Couch
Donnie Golden
Donnie enrolled in culinary school in Charlotte, North Carolina. He married Missy Snodgrass. They are currently at California State University, Fresno where Donnie is employed by the University.
Missy Snodgrass Golden
Missy married another 1998 alum, Donnie Golden, that same year. She completed her Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry under Marcetta Darensbourg at Texas A&M. She spent two years working with Prof. Bernadette Donovan-Merkert at UNC Charlotte, as an NSF-funded teaching/postdoctoral appointment. In Fall 2006 she began a position as tenured-track assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at California State University, Fresno.
Ronnie Hefley
Ronnie completed an MS in Chemistry at Youngstown State University.
Michael Julian
After receiving his Ph.D. from Texas A&M Michael held one year teaching positions first at Univ. of Arkansas-Fort Smith and then at Cal. State - Stanislaus. He is currently (2008) in a two year position at Rhodes College in Memphis where he will be teaching organic and directing undergraduate research. Michael and his wife are expecting their second child in January of 2009.
Eddie Spicer
Lori Stacks
After working for a time at the Arkansas State Crime Lab, Lori entered Pharmacy School.
Suat-Nee Tan
Suat-Nee returned to China where she was employed as a chemist. She returned to school there and completed an MBA degree.
Greg Taylor
Brittnaie Bell
Brittnaie is currently a graduate student in chemistry at the University of South Carolina. She previously taught high school chemistry in Dallas.
Beverly Boyer
Amy Lasater
Tony Luistro
Tony went to medical school at UAMS
Aaron Kuperman
Aaron received his M.D. from UAMS and then completed a residency in internal medicine. He is currently practicing in Pine Bluff.
William Parsons
I've been working at the Arkansas Regional Laboratory (on the NCTR campus) for seven years now. I currently work in food sanitation and decomposition, performing fluorometric analysis for histamine. My wife and I are currently living in North Little Rock.
Charity Billingsley
Charity is in graduate school in chemistry at the University of South Carolina. She is defending her thesis on Nov. 17, 2005 and expects to graduate on Dec. 12.
Michael Johnson
Michael is teaching high school chemistry in the Little Rock area.
Scott Miller
Scott is working on a Ph.D. in boichemistry at the University of Texas - Austin.
Andrea Phelps Hamilton
After graduating from UCA Andrea completed a Ph.D. at Texas A&M in August, 2005. She worked under the direction of Dr. Donald J. Darensbourg and studied the copolymerization of epoxides and CO2 to produce polycarbonates and the copolymerization of aziridines and CO to produce poly-b-peptides. The work involved organometallic synthesis of metal-based catalysts and kinetic and mechanistic studies utilizing in situ ReactIR.
Upon completion of her Ph.D. she accepted up a job with BASF in their PDP program. The PDP program involves working at two different plant sites for nine months apiece, and after this time getting a permanent position. She ultimately was located with BASF in Charlotte, NC.
Andrea married Patrick Hamilton, who she met in the chemistry department at Texas A&M. They were married on October 15th, 2005 in Conway, AR at St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Upon completion of his Ph.D. Patrick also obtained a position with BASF. In September, 2010 Andrea resigned her position with BASF to be a full-time mother to her young son, Owen. She hopes one day to teach at the high school or college level.
Pamela Seamans
Taimur Shaikh
After I graduated from UCA, I got married to Marcy Major, spent a year at the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health, and continued working with YoungLife. I was employed at CTEH as an analytical chemist but I also worked on GIS projects and emergency response. I then moved to Lexington, KY in July of 2001 to work on my Ph.D. in main group chemistry with Dr. David Atwood at the University of Kentucky. My primary focus has been heavier group 15 chemistry with principle focus on the synthesis of arsenic dithiolate systems with a perview towards biological mimics and future drug use. I hope to defend in August or September of 2006. My wife and I have a son and I am still involved with YoungLife.
Micah Abrams
Micah received his Ph.D. dissertation from the Georgia Institute of Technology and did postdoctoral work with Dr. T. Daniel Crawford at Virginia Tech. He joined the UCA chemistry faculty as a theoretical chemist beginning in the fall, 2006.
Nick Alsbrook
Michael Arvin
Michael is currently a graduate student at the University of Arizona
Ryan Dossey
Ryan completed a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry at the University of Arkansas and is currently employed by Rineco Chemical Industries in Haskell, Arkansas.
Kim Flora
Jody May
Jody is an Arkansas native, growing up in the Marche Community in North Little Rock. After graduating from UCA with his chemistry BS (December 2000), Jody took a brief internship at Tokusen USA in Conway, AR (Spring 2001) then enrolled at Texas A&M joining the analytical chemistry research group of Prof. David Russell. Jody's dissertation work involved designing and constructing several analytical instruments based on the ion mobility and mass spectrometry techniques. Jody completed his Ph.D. at Texas A&M in the summer of 2009 and accepted a postdoctoral position at Vanderbilt working with Prof. John McLean (who presented a seminar at UCA in the spring of 2009). In 2011, Jody was appointed to the Research Faculty in the Vanderbilt Department of Chemistry where he continues to design and construct new instrumentation and mentor the next generation of analytical scientists in the McLean Laboratory. Jody presented a seminar at UCA in the fall of 2013.
Jody met his wife, Stacy Sherrod, while at Texas A&M. Stacy is a researcher in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Vanderbilt where she works on microfluidics and artificial organ constructs. They were married in 2009 and currently live in Nashville, TN with their daughter, Natalie.
Brendan McAuley
Brendan is completing his Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Missouri - Rolla.
Robert Pemberton
Michelle Settle
Michelle has completed the coursework for a Ph.D. in pharmacology at UT-Memphis. She will be doing an internship in Knoxville.
McLane Simpson
McLane received his M.D. degree from UAMS in 2005. He is currently a Family Practice Resident in Texarkana. Upon completion of his residency he will begin a practice in Arkadlephia. McLane and his wife, Laura, have two children: Gavin and Laney.
Lisa Sullinger
Brandi Thompson
Raymond Dinnan
Since working at the Arkansas State Department of Health, R-2 is now with the Texas Department of State Health Services. He is also currently enrolled in a masters program in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University. He is accomplishing all of this in spite of suffering from keratoconus which has dramatically affected his vision to the point that he was recently declared legally blind.
Amy Dixon
Gary Dobbs
Gary is a graduate student at Georgia Tech University. Gary recently gave a seminar at UCA. His work at Georgia Tech has been supported by a natural gas hydrates consortium. He has designed and build an apparatus to use IR spectroscopy to study these natural gas hydrates on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico.
Vincent Dunlap
Vincent has completed his Ph.D at the University of Rochester. He is currently a faculty member at Henderson State University where he teaches physical chemistry.
Michelle McGowan
Jeremy Moix
Jeremy received his PhD from Georgia Tech in 2007. He did post-doctoral research at postdoc at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel until 2010 and has been on a post-doctoral appointment at MIT since that time.
David Nutt
David graduated with a Master's Degree in College Student Personnel Administration from Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, MO and has been employed for the past two years by Arizona State University.
Gary Myrick
Krista Reynolds
James Rucker
James is enrolled in the PhD program in chemistry at Lousiana State University.
Shane Sparks
Shane is enrolled in medical school at UAMS.
David St. John
In 2005 I joined Labcorp in their Occupational Testing Section. We perform testing of Drugs of abuse for the DOT and other contracts. I work in the confirmation lab as a GC/MS Analyst, However my main duty is maintaining 18 instruments with ages ranging form the early 80's to this year's new model. Our sample volume has more than doubled in the last year and I have been asked to assist in designing the confirmation lab at our new site in Southaven MS.
Jason Thessing
Jason expects to complete his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville in the spring of 2007.
"I am currently working for a materials chemist that specializes in semiconductor nanocrystal synthesis. My current research efforts are mostly focused on crystallization theory. I am working on improving the gibbs thompson equation that describes Ostwald Ripening. My research has led to the development of a variation of the gibbs thompson equation that takes into account crystal concentration and explains nearest neighbor effects (diffusion sphere). The major selling point of my research is that we are able to probe the formation and dissolution of crystals in the ultra small size range (i.e. 1-5nm)".
Jason plans to obtain a position in industry upon graduation. He hopes to work in the area of nanotechnology.
Nathan Twaddle
Nathan is a bioanalytical chemist with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's National Center for Toxicological Research located in Jefferson, AR. He received a full-time position with the NCTR in March 2002 (after an internship with them beginning February 2000). His primary duties are to perform method development, sample preparation, and sample analysis using liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry. His laboratory works primarily small molecules and pharmaceutical drugs and other genetic and developmental toxicants.
Lindsay Lewis
Carson (Alex) McDonald
After working for his family in the rental property business in Dallas for 3 years, Alex moved back to Central Arkansas in June 2006. He took a job at the L'Oreal plant in North Little Rock as an Analytical Chemist. In December, 2006 he moved to the Lipsticks & Nail Enamel Division and took the position of Quality Assurance Technologist. In this role, he handles final release of finshed goods, oversees all component testing, and acts as the liason between the FDA and the production division.
Candice Means
Candice is enrolled in pharmacy school at UAMS.
Devin Brannon
Daniel Edwards
Stacey Lelievre
Warren Lieblong
Pamela Lockyer
Pamela is employed in a laboratory at UAMS.
Julie Maris
Jeanette Morin
Jeanette and her four children moved to northern Virginia. She is currently teaching junior high science at St. Ambrose Catholic School there. She plans to take the MCAT in August, 2006 with plans to attend medical school beginning Fall, 2007.
Kristin Parkhill Dooley
Kristin received a Ph.D. in physical chemistry at Texas A&M University in 2009. After a year's post-doc at Arkansas State University she joined the UCA chemistry faculty as a temporary instructor in the fall of 2010. In Fall, 2012 Kristin accepted a permanent, tenure-track position in the UCA Chemistry Department where she will teach physical chemistry and freshman chemistry courses. Her research is in the area of laser spectroscopy.
She is married to Todd Dooley and they have two daughters.
Charity Washam
After graduating from UCA, Charity spent one year working at UAMS in the Endocrinology department as a Research Technician. Then she attended the University of South Carolina, where she graduated with a Ph.D. in Biochemistry in December of 2005. Her work at USC was done under Dr. James Sodetz. The laboratory focused on the structure and function of the terminal complement components. They used cloning, protein expression and purification, and functional assays as well as protein crystallography to determine the nature of the interactions of these proteins. Charity did her Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) under Dr. Malak Kotb. Dr. Kotb's laboratory is focused on studying the genetics of susceptibility to diseases. Her primary project was to determine the genetic factors that are involved in host resistance to two different pathogens, *Francisella tularensis Live Vaccine Strain* and Cowpox virus. She is currently working at UTHSC for Dr. Maria Gomes-Solecki, who developed an oral vaccine for Lyme's Disease while in New York. Charity will be following the same model to develop a vaccine for Avian Flu. She lives in Memphis, TN, is married and currently has no children.
Misty Williams
Upon graduation Misty enrolled in medical school at UAMS.
Josh Brown
Josh graduated with his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis in May 2010. Upon graduating he and his family moved to Searcy, AR where he will serve as an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy at Harding University. He will be teaching Medicinal Chemistry and conduct research into the design and synthesis of novel antibacterial agents.
Erin Beth Davis
Upon graduation from UCA Erin Beth attended pharmacy school at UAMS.
Melissa Choate
Melissa works as an Analytical Chemist at the L'Oreal (Maybelline) manufacturing plant in North Little Rock. Her lab uses HPLC, UV-VIS, and AA (Atomic Absorption) to test liquid, powder, and solid make-up for the amount of preservatives and OTC products.
Blake Richardson
Blake attended pharmacy school at UAMS.
Amber Rochelle
Ryan Thurman
After working for a short time at the Arkansas State Crime Lab Ryan entered graduate study in biochemistry at the University of Arkansas - Fayetteville. His research group uses NMR to determined the three dimensional structure of proteins. They also use a large number of biophysical techniques to characterize proteins. The aim of the project is understanding mutations in fibroblast growth factor receptors that are linked to tumor growth and craniofacial disorders. The project has expanded to include the interactions of the intrinsically disordered juxtamembrane of fibroblast growth factor receptors. He hopes to complete the program and be in search of a job by the Summer of 2010. .
Regan West
Regan is employed at the Arkansas State Crime Lab where she says "I work in the drug section at the crime lab. We analyze evidence for controlled substances. The main ones are marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamine, plus several kinds of abused prescription drugs. About 60% of our time is spent doing paperwork, sampling the evidence, and taking notes. To do the analysis, we run the samples on GC-MS and use TLC as a confirmatory test. We use IR mainly to tell cocaine HCl from its base form, because the legal charge is different for the different forms. Most of the time it's fairly routine, but every once in a while we get weird stuff." Regan moved into the public school classroom as a science teacher after a couple of years and is scheduled to be married in the spring of 2013.
Cullen Matthews
Cullen graduated with honors in chemistry in December, 2005. His thesis was based on three years of research that he did with Dr. Bill Taylor produced three publications in the Journal of Physical Chemistry. He commissioned into the US Navy through Officer Candidate School after graduating from UCA. After completion of Nuclear Power School, Submarine Officer Basic Course, then Nuclear Prototype training, he joined the crew on board the submarine USS Michigan out of Bremerton, Washington. The first half of his tour was spent supervising the operations of the nuclear reactor and engine room. During the second half he supervised the day-to-day operations of the entire submarine and crew to include conning (driving) the billion dollar, 17,000 ton ship. After becoming Navy Nuclear Engineer qualified he spent two years teaching and advising NROTC at Virginia Tech while working on his Masters in Mechanical Engineering. He joined a research group that studies Automotive Engineering and Vehicle Dynamics with the goal of improving vehicle system performance by studying the interactions between the vehicle and the terrain. His research has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the Society of Automotive Engineers. He expects to finish his degree by May, 2013. In January, 2013 he began a job as a Technical Manager at Reliant Technologies in east Texas, close to his home in Texarkana. Relian designs, fabricates, installs and operates non-destructive testing equipment for other manufacturing companies. He married his high school sweetheart, Caseh\y, in September, 2008 and their son Sawyer was born in 2011.
Brandon Ayers
Brandon is enrolled in the PhD program in chemistry at the University of Arkansas
Andres Chang
Andres is enrolled in the MD/PhD program at the University of Kentucky. He has joined the research lab of Dr. Becky Duch where he is studying mechanisms of viral entry of the human metapneumovirus, which causes respiratory diseases. His first paper will appear in the February, 2009 issue of the Journal of Virology and he has received a travel award to present his work at the Experimental Biology/ASBMB meeting in April, 2009. Andre was awarded an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship to support his studies for the 2010/11 and 2011/12 academic years.
Garren Holman
Garren enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin, where is am working on a PhD in organic chemisty. His research work under Dr. Brent L. Iverson is focused on DNA intercalators. Upon completion of his Ph.D. he plans to find a postdoctoral research program and then seek an academic position.
Elizabeth (Blake) Robinson
Blake is working in an orthodontics office in San Antonio, TX and is in the process of applying to dental school.
Jeff Shearer
Jeff is pursuing a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry at Colorado State University under the direction of Dr. Ellen R. Fisher. His work focuses onthe plasma deposition and characterization of thin films on free and supported nanoparticles. In his time away from chemistry, Jeff enjoys nature and landscape photography. A selection of his work can be found athttp://fineart.carbonartphoto.com
Clint Smith
Clint is currently enrolled in a PhD program in biochemistry in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.
Ryon Willingham
Ben Willis
Ben attended pharmacy school at UAMS.
Tamara Binyon
Tamara is working in a local pharmacy and is in the process of applying to medical school.
Ashley Brown
Jacquelyn DuPriest
Davis Duong
Davis was a biology major who did research for Dr. Desrochers for a number of years. Upon graduation he enrolled in medical school at UAMS and expects to receive his M.D. in May of 2011.
Ashley Evans
Ashley is enrolled in a graduate program in chemistry at the University of Mississippi,
Nick Gleason
Nick is in graduate school in biochemistry at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville. He is studying transmembrane proteins under the direction of Dr. Roger Koeppe II
Bethany Glover
Bethany entered pharmacy school at UAMS, but dropped out. She was employed for a time by the UCA Department of Chemistry as Laboratory Coordinator.
Austin Jones
Nicole Jones
Nicole entered the nuclear medicine program at Baptist Health.
Vi-Huyen Le
Sang Lee
Emily Malcolm
Emily received an M.S. in Chemistry from Georgia Tech in May, 2010. She is currently assisting her mother who is convalescing from hip replacement and Emily will apply to medical for the fall, 2012 entering class.
Akhil Mehta
Kimberly Morrison
Tori O'Bannon
Tori is enrolled in a graduate program in biochemistry at the University of Kentucky.
Lindsay Pack
After graduation from UCA with her BS in Chemistry in spring 2007 Lindsay spent the summer interning at Baxter Healthcare before attending UAMS in the fall. As an environmental health fellow for the Association of Public Health Laboratories, she completed her thesis, "Developing Greener Technology for Cotinine Biomonitoring Programs," while working at the Arkansas Public Health Laboratory. In 2009, she received an MS in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences and accepted a chemist position with the Arkansas Department of Health. While there, she worked in their Chemical Terrorism and Food Emergency Response Network labs utilizing a variety of methodologies involving SPE, ICP-MS, GC-MS, and LC-MS/MS. In 2011, Lindsay accepted a position with the National Center for Toxicological Research to be their in-house ICP-MS expert for the newly emerging Nanotechnology Core Facility and in 2013 accepted a permanent chemist position with the FDA's Arkansas Regional Laboratory. Currently she works under the Food Chemistry Branch in the Filth and Decomposition Lab where she is involved in analyzing domestic and imported food products for 'filth' and color or additional additives as well as go on facility inspections. She resides in Sherwood, AR.
Adam Phelan
Adam is a graduate student in chemistry at LSU in Baton Rouge.
Lindsay Read
Jacob Smith
Tara Sterrenberg
Mikaela Stewart
Tim Bartley
Immediately upon graduation Tim began work with an electroplating firm in Heber Springs
Rachel Grandon
Rachel moved to East Tennessee after graduation.
Tori Green Endres
Tori moved to Portland, OR with her husband where he had a career opportunity. Since that time, she has been employed by Chrome Systems, Inc. which provides data services to the automotive industry. She is currently a lead person in content development. She began medical school in the fall of 2013 at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland where she received a $20,000 scholarship to attend.
David Holland
David is studying boichemistry/biophysics at Texas A & M.
Tiffany Linz
James (Zach) Little
Zach is employed for a student mobilization group in Conway.
Josh Loewen
After graduation Josh began working in the laboratory at L'Oreal Cosmetics in Lonoke.
Amanda MacMillan
Erin Mangum
Aerial Marshall
Ariel followed her research with Dr. Desrochers and her graduation from UCA with graduate school in chemistry at Georgia Tech. She sent this update in October, 2010.
Michelle McClain
Adam Morrow
In March, 2012 Adam successfully defended his PhD dissertation in basic biomedical sciences with an emphasis in cancer biology at the University of South Alabama at the Mitchell Cancer Institute. This is a significant achievement since he reached this point in only 3 years and 9 months and the national average to complete a PhD in biomedical PhD programs is well above 5 years. Adam was awarded an American Heart Fellowship at the University of South Alabama during which he will investigate the relationship between lung infections and the onset of dementia.
Rebecca Morrow
Rebecca entered graduate study in medical sciences at the University of South Alabama and is pursuing a Ph.D. degree there which she hopes to complete in May, 2014. She has published a number of on-line article which can be found at http://www.united-academics.org/magazine/author/rebekah-morrow/
Chris Sutton
Chris enrolled in graduate school at Georgia Tech in the fall of 2009. In the fall of 2010 he had just finished one of his qualifiers: a seminar to his peers discussing a few references in a subject that is out of his area of expertise. Ariel Marshall reports that he did a really good job. Chris expects to receive his degree in May, 2014 and he is currently looking for postdoc positions and jobs. He also plans to get married shortly after graduation to his my fiance Allison, whom he met during his year in the Americorps program CityYear.
Chris's research mainly focuses on computational chemistry and condensed matter physics specifically modeling materials to be used in organic field-effect transistors, photovoltaics and light-emitting diodes.
Leah Thomson
Leah is in graduate school at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. She is currently in the research group of Dr. Dave Berkowitz studying mechanisms of inhibition of PLP dependent enzymes.
Thi Trinh
Tri entered graduate study in chemistry at Ohio State University.
Steve Baker
Seth Byers
Seth was employed for the summer following graduation as an analytical lab intern with FutureFuel Chemical Co. in his hometown, Batesville, AR. He performed a lot of GC and titration experiments to determine the quality of product development samples focusing on new methods for biodiesel refinement. He is currently pursuing a chemistry doctorate at Vanderbilt with an emphasis on physical/ analytical chemistry.
He then joined Dr. McLean's lab for Mass Spectrometry study where he worked with another UCA alum, Jody May, on instrument development and simulation projects. He says, "Classes went very well for me, as the education I received from all of you at UCA was, truly, above and beyond excellent. I was able to integrate the knowledge learned in my undergraduate career seamlessly with new material presented in my studies here at Vanderbilt. Not lacking in knowledge allowed me to focus a large portion of my time on my research rotations, and for that I am very grateful to all of you that worked so hard to prepare me for a future in chemistry."
Seth completed an M.S. degree in chemistry in Dec. 2012 and moved to Clarksville, TN with his wife who had obtained a job there. As of Sept, 2013 he was looking for employment in the Clarksville area.
Michelle Griffin
Katie Hoppert Ward
Katie was married shortly after graduation. She and her husband moved to Granger, IN which is close to Notre Dame where she ienrolled as a chemistry graduate student. In the fall of 2012 notice was received from Dr. Kenneth Henderson, Chair of the Notre Dame Chemistry Department, that Katie had passed her doctoral "in very convincing fashion". He said, "We are extremely pleased that she decided to attend Notre Dame for her graduate studies. Students like Katie have notably strengthened the quality of our program. I hope you will continue to recommend your outstanding students to our graduate program." She will receive her Ph.D. degree in chemistry in May, 2014 and will begin a career with Quintile, Inc. According to Wikipedia "Quintiles Transnational is the world's largest provider of biopharmaceutical development and commercial outsourcing services with a network of more than 33,000 employees conducting business in approximately 100 countries. Quintiles has helped develop or commercialize all of the top-50 best-selling drugs on the market." She will work as a consultant in business strategy at White Plains, NY.
Joshuah Lingo
Josh is currently working at UAMS as a research technologist for Dr. Van Rhee's Immunotherapy Lab in the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy. Currently they are collecting, activating, and expanding natural killer cells from patients so they can began human clinical research in October. The lab is excited about the upcoming study because they have been able to reverse both tumor development and bone destruction associated with myeloma, in an immuno-compromised mouse model that has a grafted human fetal bone infected with human myeloma using this type of immunotherapy in which natural killer B-cells are activated to recognize the cancer.
Latasha Moore
Scott Musial
Charles Nichols
Charles is enrolled in the Ph.D. program in chemistry at the University of Colorado. (1/1/11)
Laquita Robinson
Lam Tram
Kim enrolled in pharmacy school at UAMS in the fall of 2010..
Scott Cordova
Scott enrolled in an M.D./Ph.D. program at Emory University in the fall of 2010.
Daniel Fields
Daniel plans to take a year off from school and then apply to dental school.
Jade King
Jade continued his job as a surgical technician and then studied medicine at St. George's University on the Island of Grenada.
D J Martin
DJ enrolled as a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry at Texas A & M University.
Liz Schiefer
Liz enrolled as a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech University where she has joined the group of Dr. Rigoberto Hernandez in statistical mechanics. "I think Dr. Hernandez will be such a good mentor to me and I love everything about his group. After all the effort I put into avoiding biochem, the project of his that I'm most interested in is on protein folding...I have completely given up trying to predict where my life is going to take me. Meanwhile, my classes are killing me, I'm doing my very best just to pass them. But I love teaching; I love my engineering freshmen. I really am in nerd paradise here and I do love it." In spite of the fact that Liz was in "nerd paradise" she left Georgia Tech with a masters degree and moved to the Hot Springs area where she is employed as a high school teacher.
Martin Sharum
Martin plans to work as a chemist or obtain an internship, perhaps at NCTR..
Whitney Spencer
Whitney has accepted a position as a quality control chemist for Rineco Chemicals in Benton..
Sarah Stoeckel
Sarah is considering graduate school after taking a break from school.
Cory Stogsdill
Cory plans to pursue internships for a brief time and then apply for graduate study in chemistry.
Brian Besel
Immediately after graduation from UCA Brian worked as a toxicologist for Rocky Mountain Instrumental Laboratory in Fort Collins, Colorado. They do testing for forensics and for pharmaceutical companies. He resigned to pursue a career in the classroom and is currently practice teaching at Fossil Ridge High school in Fort Collins, CO. He expects to receive his Master's in Education from Colorado State University in May, 2014.
Philip Cook
Upon graduation Philip accepted a position with Southwest Energy in Conway. In the fall of 2011 he accepted a position in Searcy with Halliburton/Baroid as a drilling fluids engineer
Elizabeth Dourlain
Elizabeth hopes to pursue graduate study in oceanography.
Mary Freres
Mary will take a year off from school, work in a laboratory environment and then decide on graduate school.
Mickelene Hackman
Michelene hopes to pursue the study of Plant Pathology in graduate school.
Judith Higgins
Judith has accepted a position in the nutritional services division at Arkansas Children's Hospital..
Andrea Kirkpatrick
Andrea plans to enter Pharmacy School at UAMS in the fall of 2011.
Ben Magie
Immediately upon graduation Ben accepted a position as a chemist for Rineco Chemical in Benton.
Kali McGhehey
Kali is considering pursuing chemical engineering at the University of Arkansas.
Jabin Miller
Jabin hopes to ultimately pursue a graduate degree in pharmacology at UAMS.
Kaleb Smithson
Kaleb will enroll in medical school at UAMS in fall, 2011.
Casey Thurber
Casey will enroll in graduate school in chemistry at the University of North Texas in fall, 2011.
Derek Watts
Derek is pursuing employment as a chemist.
Jon Bishop
Jon is enrolled in a graduate program in Chemistry at the University of North Texas.
Taylor Caston
Taylor is pursuing some alternatives to medical school.
Tsung Yen Chen
Tsung Yen began an MD/PhD program at the UAMS medical school in the fall of 2012.
Jared Evanov
Jessica Gambill
Jessica began medical school at UAMSin the fall of 2012
Bryce Grant
Bryce is employed at Intertek in Marian, AR. Intertek is a third-party lab that performs laboratory testing for other companies. Bryce works in the petroleum testing division where performs such tests as water content, octane rating, flash point, ethanol content, and benzene content and performing distillations on samples such as diesel, biodiesel blends, gasoline, kerosene, and jet fuel. He makes extensive use of the skills he gained in quantitative analysis and advanced analytical classes.
Elana Huelle
Elana is enrolled as a Chemistry graduate student at Texas A&M University.
Vivian Huynh
Vivian is a graduate student in the Chemistry department at the University of North Texas.
German Perez
German is pursuing a graduate degree in chemical engineering at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Venusa Phomakay
Venusa began medical school at UAMS in the fall of 2012
Katie Primm
Katie is in graduate school in Chemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Taylor Quattlebaum
Taylor plans to enroll in a masters program in community health and then apply to medical school.
Taylor Razer
Taylor is enrolled in a graduate program in biochemistry at Texas A&M.
Wade Simpson
Wade is a pilot for the USAF National Guard at the air base in Jacksonville, AR.
Jamie Beck
In the summer of 2013 Jamie took a position as an environmental scientist II with the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health in Kemah, TX. He will be doing industrial hygiene and serving as a member of their Toxicology Emergency Response Program..
Li Chen Chen
Plans to take some time off to see her family and then apply to medical school
Elisabeth Collins
Elisabeth hopes to enter pharmacy school at UAMS in the fall of 2013.
Claire Desrochers
Claire will begin graduate study in chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis in the fall of 2013.
Jasmine Gilbert
Plans to pursue an M.S. in Biology at UCA where she will work for Dr. Sally Entrekin.
Amanda Hanson
Has been accepted into a Ph.D. program in Biochemistry at the University of Arizona.
Pyi Thein Kyaw
Pyi worked as an analytical chemistry for Tyson Food, Inc. in Waterloo, Iowa. There was a contingency of Burmese college students around Waterloo with whom Pyi hung. After a year with Tyson Pyi is entering an MBA program at Bentley College in Boston, MA. He is preparing to return to Burma and assume management of his father's business.
Yen T. Le
Yen Le is currently doing post-baccalaureate work at UCA and is applying to Dental Hygiene school in the Fall.
Ryan Parker
Ryan will begin graduate study in chemistry at the University of Texas, Austin in the fall of 2013.
Andrew Poppe
Moving to South Texas, getting married and plans to seek a job in the oil industry.
Jeremy Rodman
Jeremy plans to talke a year off from school and then pursue graduate study in Chemistry.
Desiree Shaw
After completing her undergraduate research in environmental studies with Dr. Sally Entrekin (Biology) her hopes were to find a job as an environmental chemist. Those hopes were fulfilled when she was employed by Fidelity National Environmental Solutions in Conway. This company's responsibility is to clean up the fluids produced by fracing. She will be the in-house chemist and will test water samples from fracing sites for bacteria.
Amanda Wallace
Plans to work for a while and then consider graduate school.
Dustin Ward
Ben Ward
Chelsea Washington
In July, 2013 Chelsea took a job at UAMS as a special procedures technician and hopes to use this as a springboard into other more chemistry-based areas.
Jordan Wilkerson
Jordan will begin graduate school in chemistry at Harvard University in the fall of 2013.
Tiange Bi
Josh Goodner
Josh is in the process of applying to a number of graduate programs in chemistry.
Mohamed Idrissa "Nathan Moussa
Nathan is pursuing admission into a medical school.
Brandon Powers


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To the Editor:
I found the article on conditioned crawlspaces
("Building a Sealed
Crawlspace," 10/03) very informative. As a building
inspector in New Jersey, I have promoted this concept for
years. The only disturbing thing about the column is that the
use of uncovered rigid insulation in crawlspaces is prohibited
due to the smoke development ratings.
Thank you.
Matthew O'Hara
Barrington, N.J.
Author Jeff Tooley responds: Our company has run into the
fire code issue in our crawlspace work. Here's where things
currently stand: Building departments in our area used to allow
exposed extruded polystyrene to be applied over framing or
concrete in unconditioned spaces. But once they realized that
we were making the crawlspace a conditioned space, they started
to require a fire-rated foam board. In response, we now use
Dow's Thermax, which meets local code requirements, and we are
not required to cover it.
Thermax is a polyisocyanurate foam; it doesn't melt and has an
ignition point near 800°F. It has foil facing on both
sides and is reinforced with fiberglass, which makes it
sturdier and helps it achieve a 15-minute fire rating.
When the building departments cracked down on the pink and
blue foam board, we had to go back to some homes under
construction and cover installed board with drywall. I don't
recommend drywall in a crawlspace at all, and the code allows
other coverings (metal, wood, and rock wool), but I left that
decision up to the builders who were paying for the work. Any
covering is inconvenient and awkward, so we stick to Thermax,
though any brand with a similar fire rating would
I read with great interest Ted Cushman's article on nail gun
injuries (In the
News, 10/03), in which he reported information from a study
on nail gun injuries among residential carpenters. I conducted
the study and would like to clarify issues raised in Mr.
Cushman's report.
First, Mr. Cushman wrote that inexperience was reported as an
important risk factor in our study. We did report a higher
injury rate among apprentice carpenters (3.5 times higher than
journeymen). This rate was based on the total hours each
carpenter worked but not the hours they actually were using a
nail gun. We believe the use of these tools is often considered
a relatively unskilled task assigned to inexperienced workers,
and we found evidence that apprentice carpenters use the tools
more of the time than more experienced carpenters. It is
important not to attribute the higher rate solely to
inexperience when it may, in fact, be a reflection of their
greater use of a potentially dangerous tool.
As Mr. Cushman reported, we recommend formal training for
carpenters who use these tools. A number of injuries were the
result of a carpenter firing the tool back toward himself,
using his nondominant hand, poor placement of the non-firing
hand, working in an awkward posture, and lack of eye
protection, for example. However, we tried to emphasize how our
findings support the need for engineering and policy changes to
prevent these injuries. The majority of the injuries we
investigated (68%) would likely have been prevented if the
carpenter had been using a tool with a sequential
Our study was conducted before the industry-sponsored ANSI
standard change (effective May 2003), which calls for the
shipping of framing nailers with sequential triggers instead of
contact trip mechanisms. Users can still request a contact trip
mechanism. Based on our data, we would like to have seen the
contact trip discontinued, but this is at least progress.
Suppliers will often retrofit existing contact trip guns with
sequential triggers, sometimes at no charge.
We know there are concerns on the part of contractors and
carpenters about slower production with the use of
sequential-trigger tools. We are interested in studies that
look closely at this issue in a broader context; speed in
sheathing may be offset by costs of extra nails resulting from
unintentional firings of contact trip guns, poor construction
quality, and costs of workers' compensation claims for
injuries. We recently reported that nail gun injuries, along
with injuries from falls, setting steel beams, and lifting
framed walls, were among the most costly work-related injuries
in residential carpentry (Journal of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine, 8/03). Because many of these
injuries involve relatively minor puncture wounds, their
potential seriousness is often dismissed.
Finally, I find the use of the term "accident" to describe
these injuries worrisome, because it implies that a random
event has happened. These are not accidents, they are
preventable injuries. It does not make sense to focus
prevention on the training of workers in the use of a dangerous
tool. The tool should be changed instead! We are smart enough
to prevent many of these injuries, and we should.
Hester J. Lipscomb, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Occupational and Environmental
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, N.C.
In the November 2003
Q&A, your
expert advises against venting a bathroom fan through the
soffit at the eaves because the moist air will "most likely" be
drawn back into the attic.
A dose of common sense might be in order. If the fan has any
kind of velocity at all, will that moist air really make a hard
U-turn and streak into the attic? And if the suction up toward
the ridge is that impressive, will the moisture even have time
to condense on a cold surface before it blasts out the ridge
vent? I'm wondering if I need to fit my cap with a chin strap
the next time I'm working near a soffit vent.
So many bathroom fans are either poorly vented (into the attic
or a joist bay) or not vented at all, getting that moist air to
the outside, even if it's in proximity to the soffit vent, is
an improvement.
Arne Waldstein
Arne Waldstein Construction
Housatonic, Mass.
I liked your article on fiber-cement board
Fiber-Cement Siding," 12/03); it's nice to see that there
is someone else out there who installs correctly. I'm in the
siding business in Wisconsin. We do a few big homes on Lake
Michigan each year in Hardiplank. It is by far a superior
product compared to others. You can mix and match your corner
boards, light blocks, and other components. When we want higher
definition at the corners, we use MiraTec, which blends well
with Hardiplank. There is really no limit to what you can do
with this product.
Randy Westphaln
R.W. Siding Specialist
Twin Lakes, Wisc.
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