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1989-90 Division of Analytical Chemistry Fellowships Nine analytical chemistry graduate students have been selected by the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry to receive either full-year ($9000) or summer ($3000) fellowship awards. The fellowships are designed to encourage basic research in analytical chemistry and to recognize potential future leaders in the field. Full-year fellowships were awarded to the following: Kenneth Creasy of the University of Connecticut. Creasy's research, under the supervision of Brenda Shaw, focuses on the use of modified carbon composite electrodes in electroanalytical chemistry. His fellowship is sponsored by Procter and Gamble. Randy Pell at the University of Washington in Seattle. Working with Bruce Kowalski, Pell is investigating IR emission spectroscopy for the monitoring of reactions and the subsequent data analysis using factor analysis methods. Perkin-Elmer is funding his fellowship. James Gord from Purdue University. Gord, under the direction of Ben Freiser, is applying Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance MS to the study of fundamental gas-phase processes. The Chemical Division of Eastman Kodak is supplying his fellowship. Deborah Luffer of the University of Indiana. Luffer, supervised by Milos Novotny, is investigating specific solute-phase interaction in supercritical fluid chromatography. Her award is being supplied by Du Pont.
Summer fellowships were awarded to the following: Patrick Treado from the University of Michigan. Treado, under the direction of Michael Morris, is developing Hadamard transform Raman microprobe spectroscopy. His fellowship is supplied by the Dow Chemical Corporation.
Raymond Sobocinski at the University of Arizona. Working with Jeanne Pemberton, Sobocinski is investigating Raman spectroscopic techniques to elucidate surface selectivity in studies using silver electrodes. The Pittsburgh Conference funds his fellowship. Lyle Burton of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Burton's research, supervised by Michael Blades, deals with the effect of the sheath gas in inductively coupled plasma emission spectroscopy. His summer work is supported by the Pittsburgh Conference. Kevin Litwiler from the State University of New York, Buffalo. Litwiler, under the direction of Frank Bright, is using fiber-optic probes to record excitation, emission, and phase-resolved visible and UV spectra of analytes. The Pittsburgh Conference provides his fellowship. Steve Soper at the University of Kansas. Soper, supervised by Theodore Kuwana, is investigating spectroscopic properties of materials isolated in a supported matrix such as a TLC plate. He is also developing novel detectors for HPLC. His fellowship also comes from the Pittsburgh Conference. In addition, honorable mentions go to Jani Cunningham Ingram of the University of Arizona, Jocelyn Dunphy of the University of Indiana, and Douglas Strong of Texas Tech University.
Color-coded Genes Bioluminescence is emerging as a clever means to monitor genetic activity. Two years ago researchers at the University of California—San Diego introduced the gene for luciferase, the enzyme responsible for a firefly's glow, into tobacco plants. The same researchers have now taken genes for four other bioluminescent enzymes, each catalyzing a different colored luminescence, and successfully transplanted them into bacteria. Depending upon the gene, the bacteria can glow green, yellow, orange, or yellow-green. A luminescence enzyme becomes a marker for genetic activity when its gene is coupled to another gene of interest. Expression of the latter gene also triggers the production of the enzyme. Addition of luciferin, which reacts with oxygen in the presence of ATP and luciferase-type enzymes, generANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, VOL. 6 1 , NO. 14, JULY 15, 1989 · 833 A
