Professional activities
As President of the American Institute of Chemists (AIC), a high profile national chemistry organization, Dr. Jerry P. Jasinski had the privilege and pleasure of presenting the 2010 AIC Gold Medal Award to Dr. Robert Grubbs, a 2005 Nobel laureate from the California Institute of Technology, for the development of the Grubbs catalyst at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, PA on April 8, 2010. This represents the ninth Nobel laureate given this honor by the AIC since 1926. On Friday, April 9, 2010, also at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Dr. Jasinski presented Dr. Sossina Haile, Professor of Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology, with the Chemical Pioneer Award for her work on designing materials with enhanced electrical properties in ionic compounds. Over the past 46 years, six previous winners of this award have also won the Nobel Prize in the field of chemistry.
Professor Jasinski has been the coauthor of 29 peer review scientific research papers in 2010. Titles of the most recent include the following: Desipramine hydrochloride: a non-merohedrally twinned structure, By Jasinski, Jerry P.; Butcher, Ray J.; Hakim Al-Arique, Q. N. M.; Yathirajan, H. S.; Ramesha, A. R., Acta Crystallographica, Section E: Structure Reports Online (2010), E66(3), o674-o675; , Imatinibium dipicrate By Jasinski, Jerry P.; Butcher, Ray J.; Hakim Al-Arique, Q. N. M.; Yathirajan, H. S.; Narayana, B., Acta Crystallographica, Section E: Structure Reports Online (2010), E66(2), o411-o412; Trimipraminium maleate, By Jasinski, Jerry P.; Butcher, Ray J.; Hakim Al-Arique, Q. N. M.; Yathirajan, H. S.; Narayana, B., Acta Crystallographica, Section E: Structure Reports Online (2010), E66(2), o366-o367; Chlorimipraminium picrate, By Jasinski, Jerry P.; Butcher, Ray J.; Hakim Al-Arique, Q. N. M.; Yathirajan, H. S.; Narayana, B., Acta Crystallographica, Section E: Structure Reports Online (2010), E66(2), o347-o348, and 5,7-Dimethyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-1,4-diazepin-4-ium picrate, Jasinski,Jerry P., Butcher, Ray J., Yathirajan, H. S., Narayana, B. and Prakash Kamath, K.
Chris Brehme, Assistant Professor in the Geography Department, is part of a multi-partner collaboration led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution that received a two-year award from the Northeast SeaGrant Consortium to analyze the potential interaction between endangered whales and lobster gear along the Maine coast. Other partners include the Institute for Broadening Participation, Maine Lobstermen’s Association and New England Aquarium.
With the help of geography major Amy Curran, Chris is using GIS to analyze information collected at small meetings in dozens of fishing harbors. At these meetings, lobstermen use paper charts and pens to indicate the location and timing of trap placement. These data will be combined with whale sightings information as part of a risk reduction model that the researchers hope will inform a more balanced approach to conservation management.
Candice Bosse, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies, has been invited to give two talks this summer: “El feminismo y el utopismo: la ética de la diferencia y la política de la igualdad” at El Museo del Hombre in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, June 17, 2010, and “Planeta hembra: el utopismo y el Apocalipsis” at La Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, July 17, 2010.
