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Alumni News
Do you have news? Marriages, births, jobs, advanced degrees, or just to let everybody know where you are. Looking
for a long-lost alum? Found an alum? If your company is hiring, let us know. Comments on the site? Keep in touch
here! (email Dr. Karyn Usher at kusher@wcupa.edu) Please include name, graduation date, degree program, and an e-mail
address, if available. The site is updated near the beginning of each semester.
We do not publish e-mail addresses, but we will forward notes if we know the e-mail of the intended recipient.
Andria Culbert (previously Styborski)
Andria is officially in the “Gene Therapy and Vaccines” subprogram of Molecular Biology graduate program at UPENN. She is studying a rare genetic disease in which soft tissues (skeletal muscles, tendons, ligaments) are replaced by bone (FOP – Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva).
Obiamaka Obianyo
Obie is now an AGEP Scholar studying biochemistry at the University of South Carolina.
Erum Azeez
A 2005 graduate in Forensic & Toxicological Chemistry, Erum now works at
National Medical Services, Inc.
Joey Barnes
Joey is employed at McNeil Pharmaceuticals, after earning her B.S in Forensic &
Toxicological Chemistry.
Ara Bush
A PreMed major (B.S. in Chemistry-Biology) in the Chemistry department, Ara was
accepted to the Drexel School of Medicine, starting in the Fall of 2006.
Pamela Cook Reynolds
Pam is a 1996 graduate of our Forensic and Toxicological Chemistry undergraduate
program, and is now working as a Forensic Examiner in the General Chemistry
Subunit for the FBI laboratory in Quantico, VA. (updated 9/7/007)
Maren Dennis
Maren has elected to attend grad school at Villanova University, having earned
the B.S. in Forensic & Toxicological Chemistry.
Jeff Evelhoch B.S. Chem 1977
This note from Jeff, who went on from WCU to get a Ph.D. in Analytical
Chemistry from UC, Riverside in 1981, and was an NIH Postdoc Fellow at
Washington University in St. Louis until 1984. He writes: After
18 years on the faculty of Wayne State University School of Medicine, where I
was Professor of Internal Medicine, Radiology and Oncology, I left there in
the summer of 2002 to be Director of Magnetic Resonance in the Experimental
Medicine Department of Pharmacia, based at the St. Louis site. Shortly before
I started there, it was announced that Pfizer was acquiring Pharmacia, a
transaction that was completed in April 2003, so the family stayed in Michigan
while I worked in St. Louis until the acquisition went through. I then worked
at the Pfizer Ann Arbor site as Global Head of MRI for World Wide Clinical
Technology at Pfizer Global Research and Development until October 2004. At
that time, I began my current position as Director of Medical Sciences Imaging
at Amgen ( www.amgen.com)
in Thousand Oaks, California. It's a great job in a great company (high
caliber coworkers and intelligent management) and I am pursuing the
translational research in which I am most interested, but found very difficult
to pursue in academia. My family (Nancy and our 3 teen-aged children) enjoy
living in Thousand Oaks, which is north of LA towards Santa Barbara.
I hope to see news from some of my other mid-70s
classmates who started their careers with the firm foundation the West Chester
Chemistry Department gave us.
Best regards,
Jeff Evelhoch
Steph Truesdale
With her B.S. in Chem Ed, Steph started her teaching career at Coatesville Area
High School, as of Fall 2006.
Adanna Vardian
With her B.S. in Forensic and Toxicological Chemistry, Adanna found her first
job at Alcoa, Inc.
Elijah Tan
Elijah reports that he has moved to Vertex Pharmaceutical in Cambridge, MA,
where he works as a CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control) Specialist.
He has earned his M.S. in Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance/Regulatory Affairs at
Temple U.
Arianne Motter
After graduation, Arianne went to work at the Armed Forces Institute of
Pathology as a Forensic Toxicologist in Washington DC for one year. As of 2006,
she is a first year graduate student at Georgetown University working toward a
PhD in Pharmacology.
Peter Szczerba
Pete tells us reports that he is the laboratory manager of the diagnostic lab,
as of January 2004. His lab does clinical chemistry, hematology,
microbiology, serology, molecular diagnostics and environmental monitoring for
Merck Research Laboratories. He earned his M.S. in Clinical Chemistry at
WCU in 2001.
Janell Kiersnowski, DVM
Janell is a 2003 Chem-Bio graduate, and then graduated from Ross University
School of Veterinary Medicine. In June, 2007, she writes to us "Without
WCU's help, I would never have been able to realize my potential. Thank
you!."
Jill McLennan
Jill will deliver a paper at the national meeting of the American Academy
for Forensic Science in February, 2003. She is working for the
medical examiner's office in Wilmington, Delaware.
Logan Umberger
Logan delivered a paper at the national meeting of the Society of Forensic
Toxicologists, Detroit in October, 2002. Logan is working for the
medical examiner's office in Wilmington, Delaware.
Russell E. Emrich, M. D.
(Chem. Bio. 1994)
Russ went to medical school at MCP-Hahnemann . After graduating in May of
1999, he did a residency in family medicine at The
Reading Hospital and Medical Center . As a second year
resident, he served as the Assistant Chief Resident. He is now the Chief
Resident in his last year of post-graduate training. He tells us,
"WCU gave me a great foundation on which to
build my profession. Please accept a heartfelt
thank you from me to WCU."
Thanks for the kind words, Russ!
Dawn Cox (Forensic and Toxicological. Chemistry, 2000)
Dawn got a job with ARP (American Registry of Pathology) a private company. She
is working at AFIP in Rockville, MD doing toxicology testing. She tells us that the
work is interesting.
Kevin Brown (BS, Chem.)
Kevin Brown is working at Purdue Pharma in Princeton, NJ..
Gretchen Smith (MS)
Gretchen got a job at Luzerne County Community College teaching chemistry
lecture and lab. Maybe you can recruit some chem majors for us!
Jeff Murray (BS, Chem.)
Jeff Murray is working at Glaxo SmithKline and is nearly finished law school
John Hughes, '96.
John got his fourth patent. He was awarded a Masters in Environmental Pollution Control at Penn State University at Great Valley.
He is living in Morgantown with his wife, who is expecting a baby in
July.
We will be looking forward to the blessed event!
Steve Wagner (Ralph Lichtenstein, BS Chem.)
Steve is working for Beckman-Coulter, selling HPLC, Capillary Electrophoresis,
Centrifugation and DNA Sequencing Equipment. He is located in Cranford, New Jersey.
Paul Bidez
Paul is in a doctoral program in tissue engineering at Drexel.
Kim Parker
Kim is with the DEA in Virginia as of December 17,
2001. Ho, ho, ho!
Cindy Shen
It's a boy!. Congratulations!
Mansoor Salahuddin ( MS Clinical Chemistry)
Monsoor got his MBA. Good show!
Mark Hardink ('98)
Mark is working at Pfizer Global R&D Headquarters in Groton, CT.
Joann Naef Coleman
You can check out Joann's paper in J. Chromatog. A 917 (1,2) 23-27. Good show!
Charles Zarnitz
Charles offers the following: "I just want you and your colleagues to know that (in retrospect) I appreciate
(all of) your efforts and I appreciate the demands and rigor of the program which has helped me to become better than I ever thought possible. The degree I received from WCU helped me qualify
for a new position with US Anchor in Pompano Beach, Florida, a manufacturer of adhesives, where I am responsible
for Research, Development, and Operations."
Thanks for the kind words, Charles. That's what we need to hear!
Hany Naggar
Hany is currently working on a Ph. D. in Cellular Biology and Anatomy at the Medical College of Georgia. He has
taken an interest in diabetic retinopathy.
Amy Posey (M.S. in Clin. Chem.)
Amy completed her undergraduate degrees from WCU in both Biochemistry and
Chemistry in May, 2002, and joined the Dade Behring company in Newark, Delaware
in their R&D division. While working full time, she also tackled graduate
studies, and earned her M.S. in Clinical Chemistry back here at WCU, in May,
2005. Amy shared her wedding photos with her old friends on campus, from
her September, 2007 ceremony.
Allison Lehr (Clin. Chem.)
Allison is now working on flu vaccines at Wyeth.
Kimberly Dilts, BS '89
Kim is working for Bayer in Connecticut.
Glen Binegar, BS
Glen works for a company which contracts with NASA. Outta this world!
Deborah Ferriola, BSEd '99
Deb is now working at WCU as Math/Science Coordinator for the tutoring center.
Lisa Watson Mundy, BS Forensic Chem '95 and Steve Mundy
Lisa is working for the Philadelphia
Medical Examiner's office, and has been very generous with her time and talents,
by returning to campus as a guest speaker in several courses in the Forensic and
Toxicological Chemistry major, her old major.
John Koh, BS Chemistry '87 gave a talk entitled "100 Years of Chemistry - Looking Forward, Looking
Back" at University Festival on October 3, 2000. John got his Ph. D. at Columbia and is now a faculty member
at University of Delaware.
John was recently granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of Chemistry at
the University of Delaware.
Kevin Brown, BS Chemistry '99 is working at ViroPharma
in Exton, PA.
Clay McElwee BS Chemistry '99 is working for Sartomer Company
in Exton, PA
Sartomer is a chemical company that supplies raw chemicals for various industrial processes. Most of their research
goes into photoreactive chemicals but they also develop applications where these chemicals can be activated by
the use of peroxides + heat. Clay's area of research includes the use of peroxide-curable additives in rubber formulations.
Debi Meiklejohn, BS Chemistry '96 reports from San Diego:
I am currently working as a Senior Research Associate for Arena
Pharmaceuticals in San Diego.
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