Barnard Chemistry (Newsletter

This is the place where we usually gently suggest that you consider making contributions to the College, through either the Edward J. King or the Bernice G. Segal fund. The former supports junior faculty, especially in the sciences, the latter funds student research internships. However, this year we are making a different pitch. As described earlier, there are both pressing needs and exciting plans for the department to grow, but to move forward in the ambitious way we want, we need to raise matching funds for the recently awarded Mellon Grant. The Barnard Development Office is working on this, but they are also busy raising contributions for the much larger Nexus project. We need your help: either your generous checks, or, perhaps more importantly, your bright ideas and your contacts, personal and corporate. We feel we do a wonderful job teaching chemistry and biochemistry to our very talented students, and we are exceedingly proud of our alumnae's achievements. However, the lack of faculty-student research laboratory space and an adequate number of faculty is a crisis for the Chemistry Department. As Prof. Les Lessinger puts it, "the transition to a new generation of Barnard chemistry faculty must happen soon." But that is contingent on building additional laboratory space and expanding the department by two tenure-track faculty. If you have any good ideas, please call. We would be delighted to work with you.

Keep in touch. We enjoy hearing from you and sharing your news. Barnard faculty e-mail addresses are (initial-name)@barnard.edu, e.g. schapman@barnard.edu. Regular mail and phone calls are always welcome (Chapman: 212-854-2098; Rojas 212-854-5480; others are in the directory on Barnard's web page). Please accept our apologies if any news above is outdated or incorrect; we sometimes assemble information from incomplete sources and our not-always-reliable memory. Please write: we would like to know and share what you are doing.


Sally Chapman, Professor	Christian Rojas, Associate Professor

(with contributions from the entire department)