Ron Krippner. Ron teaches at Chippewa Valley Tech. in Eau Claire. He stopped by in January 2006 to get the official guided tour of the department from Fred King. Ron is involved with nano-tech. and teaching chemistry/biochemistry.

Dave Larson. Honorary alumnus from the chemistry department – he spent his research time on the fourth floor of Phillips – won the Burton Medal (Outstanding Young Scientist for 2005) of the Microscopy Society of America. He also received a UW-Eau Claire Outstanding Recent Alumnus Award <http://www.uwec.edu/newsreleases/05/dec/1205AlumniAwards.htm> . Dave works for Imago in Madison, and would be happy to sell anyone an Atom-Probe instrument. Dave recently visited the Department to serve as an external advisor/consultant for the Materials Science group at UWEC.

Ty Prosa. An Honorary alumnus from the chemistry department – he spent his research time on the forth floor of Phillips, has recently given up his faculty position at Hamline University in Minnesota to join Imago Instruments in Madison.
 
Jeff Leung. Jeff stopped by the department at the end of summer 2005 with his family. He got the tour of the department from Fred. Jeff continues to do very well in the business world.
 
Greg Smethells. An Honorary alumnus from the chemistry department – he spent his research time on the forth floor of Phillips, has given up his job at a National Lab to move to the Chicago area. He is thinking about getting involved in teaching.
 
Paul Pelzl. An Honorary alumnus from the chemistry department – he spent four years doing research on the forth floor of Phillips, reports that he hopes to finish up his Ph.D in EE this year.
 
Geir Helleloid. An Honorary alumnus from the chemistry department – he spent  research time on the forth floor of Phillips, and completed his BS at UW-Madison, reports that he is about a year away from wrapping up his Ph.D. in Mathematics at Stanford.

Joe Emerson is completing a post-doctoral position at the University of Minnesota

Jason Hallman works on new asthma and rheumatoid arthritis remedies at GlaxoSmithKline in North Carolina. He was married in April of 2005.

Derek Fox received an MS degree from the University of Minnesota and is currently teaching at Rochester Community and Technical College in Rochester MN.

From Nick Deprez :  It's been a long while since I gave you an update so I thought it was about time I did so.  Things are going really well here since last I talked to you.  My project is coming along really well, we just submitted another communication to JACS extending the directed C-H activation to undirected C-H activation.  With some luck the reviews will be pretty good and hopefully it will be accepted before I go through candidacy.  I just gave my second year student seminar on Wednesday on Hydroamination reactions using early transition metals, the faculty seemed to approve and I think overall it went pretty well.  I am definitely glad that it is behind me though, so now I am beginning to work on candidacy which I will go through within the next two months.  

Woubeshet (Woub) Ayenew.  Woub is now married (to Rahel) and living a life of suburban bliss (chainsaw and all) in the Twin Cities.    He practices
Cardiology in Minneapolis.  His interest is in prevention of Cardiovascular
disease and non invasive risk stratification.  

Chad Souvignier was promoted to director at Research Corp. Technologies. His areas of focus at RCT include oncology, pain, central nervous system disorders, diabetes and metabolic disease. Previously Souvignier was manager of international marketing in the commercial operations department at Guilford Pharmaceuticals. He and his wife gave birth to twins, Max and Claire in October of last year.

Dawn Schroeder has had a purposeful and adventurous life. After graduation, she participated in a year of AmeriCorps work in Amarillo, TX, and in September 2003 she finished my two years of Peace Corps service in Ghana, West Africa.  She has been living and working at Covance for the last two years as a quality assurance auditor.  

Kristin Lutz , RN, PhD, is another honorary alum who worked with Dr Hartsel.
She has a tenure-track position as a new assistant professor at the UW-Madison School of Nursing as of this past August. She has two lovely children: Aimee 6 and Jonah 3.
 
Beverly Piggott. Is in her first year of graduate school in Pharmacology at the University of Michigan.  
 
Tricia (Anderson) Metts is  a 1989 graduate (B.S.) of the chemistry program.  She left the Navy in 1999 after five years of service as an Environmental Health Officer.  After that, she earned my Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of Michigan in 2004.  I am now on the faculty of the Environmental Health Dept. at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN. Hooray , we created another professor!

Collin Hagen (2000) graduated in November 2004 with a M.S. in Chemistry from Colorado State University.  He is now employed as a research chemist and Bend Reseach, Inc., in Bend, Oregon.  Collin is also engaged to be married.  He is undoubtedly mountain biking and hiking all over Central Oregon and the greater Northwest!

Joe Uhan (2001) graduated in May 2005 with a M.A. in Kinesiology (Sport Psychology) from the University of Minnesota.  He is currently in the application process for the Doctor in Physical Therapy program at UW - La Crosse for 2006.  Joe continues to work at P3 Scientific in Oakdale, MN as a chemist and project coordinator.  He also coaches cross country and track at Menomonie High School, who just wrapped up their third Big Rivers Conference title in three seasons!  What free time that remains is spent training for and competing in local cross country, track, and road races. 

From Lynette (Lietzow) Roudebush: My life has taken a couple of interesting turns in the science world.  After UWEC in 1990, I spent a couple of years figuring out what to do with my life.  I ended up getting a scholarship/work committment from UW-Madison's school of nursing.  I graduated with my BSN in 1994 and worked for UW Hospitals and Clinics for 2 years in the field of solid organ transplant.  I left Madison in 1996 and took a job as a transplant coordinator at the University of AZ Medical Center in Tucson.  It was a fascinating job.  In 1997, I was lured away to the dark side and went into pharmaceutical sales for Roche Laboratories.  I was promoting their transplant medications including anantiviral near and dear to your heart (Cytovene for CMV disease)  I remember some of your research interest was in CMV disease.  Anyway, I worked for them for 5.5 years until my first child came along.  Alyssa was born in June of 2003.  My territory was such (AZ, UT, NV, NM) that working and having a family wasn't compatible.  Thus, I retired and have become a full time domestic engineer.  There are days when work sure does look nice.  My son arrived last Feb 2004 so the two of them are keeping me busy.  I married my husband back in 1999 (he's an engineer/hydrologist).  I hope one day to get back into science, we'll see what happens.

From Christine Benter. I have accepted a position as a patent attorney for the Bemis Company in Oshkosh.  Eleven years after graduating from law school I will finally be employed as an attorney!

From Michelle Rybak (Chem-Bus, December 2004), now working for Rosemount. Things are going pretty good back in Minnesota.  Work is going really good.  The job is okay, but I love the people I work with, so it makes it all worth it.  There is some traveling, so that is fun.  I might even go to Germany with my boss in a couple of months!  The one thing I miss about college-the great hours, working at 7 in the morning isn't exactly my cup of tea.  We have flex scheduling so I can pretty much pick my hours, but the traffic is not fun, so I'd rather just wake up early and avoid it, then be stuck in it.