Welcome New General Chemistry Lab Manager Dan Prendergast Daniel Prendergast Daniel Prendergast (ABD) became our new Manager of General Chemistry Labs in January of 2021, arriving upon completion of his PhD coursework at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prendergast, who is a native of Old Saybrook, Connecticut, received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Brown University and an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering fromMIT. His Masters research was done in a collaboration with Italy’s national oil Company, Eni, to develop and understand novel, lab-scale oil cleanup devices incorporating hydrophobic surfaces, and their efficiency in scaled wave experiments. His PhD research focused on analytical chemistry techniques and hydrodynamic modeling to study the fate, transport, and sources of anthropogenic organic contaminants in natural waters and sediment. Working with Dr. Philip Gschwend in the Parsons Laboratory at MIT, he focused on developing new passive samplers and devising ways to identify the source(s) of contaminants in complex environments so that organizations such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other entities could effectively detect and mitigate toxic chemicals. In 2019, he joined Harvard University’s Active Learning Labs as an Environmental Engineer where he was responsible for their chemical teaching laboratory management, safety and instrument maintenance. In this role, he trained and supervised lab teaching assistants who assisted him in conducting laboratory exercises for multiple courses, as well as developing demonstrations of chemical and fluid phenomena for lecture-based courses and video demonstrations for distance and asynchronous learning. With the advent of COVID-19 and its impact to on-campus classroom learning, Daniel utilized his training in distance learning to assume the role of Chemistry Specialist at the University of Califonia, Davis where he provided remote instruction in weekly workshops for general chemistry and also designed supplementary curriculum to address the new demands of virtual learning. We welcome Dan to the Lehigh University Department of Chemistry! '68 James Frazeereports he is "VERY happily retired after 39 years as a synthetic organic chemist for GlaxoSmithKline. I loved the job, loved the folks I worked with, but love the retirement!” For the last 12 years, Jim has been working part time for Stags Leap Ranch and the Biebel Farms Association doing estimates of total population and diversity of wildlife found in and around selected private ponds in New Jersey. The information is provided to land owners to give them guidance for stress factors affecting their ponds. This data can lead to the owners placing private restrictions on the taking of the various wildlife from those aquatic areas. '04 Peter DeMatteohas completed three years with a research-for-hire and scale-up kilo lab facility (Adesis) located in the former Dupont Experimental Station. Adesis is growing rapidly (> 350 employees) and Peter is part of that growth. Their recent news release on businesswire.com describes the organization as "a contract research organization (CRO) supporting the pharma, biotech, catalysis and a number of other industries. The CRO specializes in organic and organometallic synthesis, in milligrams to multikilogram quantities. Adesis has a business model of providing clients with organic chemistry services in three areas: early stage research, scale up and development, and specialty manufacturing. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Universal Display Corporation. This expansion will provide new state-of-the-art laboratory growth to support Adesis' growing research and development pipeline. Situated in Wilmington, Delaware, this expanded lab space approximately triples Adesis’ footprint in the DuPont Experimental Station. '15 Mengzhao (Lucy) Xue completed her PhD in Biochemistry at Yale University and joined the research staff at Rockefeller University in New York City as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. ALUMNI NEWS STAFF NEWS Department of Chemistry · Page 19 '89 George Marchesini has been promoted to the Senior Director, Commercial Regulatory Affairs, Hematology & Cell Therapy, Bristol Myers Squibb, Bridgewater, New Jersey. '16 Gabrielle Haddad-Weiser is in her third year of service as Senior Engineer in the Environmental Toxicology Laboratory of the Veterinary Sciences College of the Norwegian University of the Life Sciences located in As, Norway.
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