The University of Nevada Reno Chemistry Department and the American Chemical Society hosted the 61st Northwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society. This meeting was held from Sunday, June 25 to Wednesday, June 28, 2006 at John Ascuaga’s Nugget in the Reno/Sparks area. This event included keynote speakers Fraser Stoddart from UCLA (the UNR Chemistry Fuson Lecturer) and Jack Norton from Columbia Univ. (the Sierra Nevada ACS section Distinguished Chemist) along with 2006 Cope Scholar Awardee Brian Stoltz from Caltech, EPSCoR Sensor group distinguished speaker Weihong Tan from Florida and symposium topics covering (all listed times are currently TENTATIVE - contact session chair to check):

• new advances in scanning probe microscopy and lithography for nanotechnology and materials science,
  Time: Tuesday, June 27, afternoon
  Organizer: Gangyu Liu, UC Davis
  Speakers include:

  • David Ginger, U. Washington
  • Jie Liu, Duke
  • Tianwei Jing, Agilent Technology, Inc.
  • Kevin Kelly, Rice
  • Paul Ashby, LBL
  • Deron Walters, Asylum Research
  • Valentin Leulevich, UC Davis
• molecular devices and motors,
  Time: Wednesday, June 28, morning
  Organizer: Bruce Branchaud, Molecular Probes
  Speakers include:

  • Fraser Stoddart, UCLA
  • Tom Bell, UNR
  • Heiner Linke, U. of Oregon
  • Christine Cremo, UNR
• molecular probes and chemosensors,
  Time: Monday, June 26, afternoon
  Organizer: Tom Bell, UNR
  Speakers include:

  • Kyle Gee, Molecular Probes
  • Tony Czarnik, UNR
  • Michael Heagy, NM Tech
  • Timothy Glass, U. Missouri
  • Alex DeQuan Li, Washington State
• micro- and nano-structured materials,
  Time: Monday, June 26, morning
  Organizers: Yunan Xia, U. Washington, and Suk-Wah Tam-Chang, UNR
  Speakers include:

  • Richard Kaner, UCLA
  • Jin Zhang, UC Santa Cruz
  • Frank Osterloh, UC Davis
  • David Nelson, NSF
• semiconductor fabrication chemistry,
  Time: Tuesday, June 27, morning
  Organizer: April Carman, PNNL
  Speakers include:

  • Chien Wai, U. of Idaho
  • Mark Lonergan, U. Oregon
  • Sean Casey, UNR
  • Anthony Muscat, U. of Arizona
• organic materials in solution and solid state,
  Time: Monday, June 26, afternoon
  Organizer: Ben King, UNR
  Speakers include:

  • Michael Haley, U. of Oregon
  • Ilya Zharov, U. Utah
  • Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, UCSB
  • Cory Pecinovsky, U. of Colorado
  • Jayne Garno, LSU
  • Nathan Wilmot, UC Riverside
• bioorganic chemistry and biosensors,
  Time: Tuesday, June 27, all day
  Organizers: Peter Beal, U. Utah, and Suk-Wah Tam-Chang, UNR
  Speaker include:

  • Yuehe Lin, PNNL
  • Daniel Chiu, U. of Washington
  • Weihong Tan, U. of Florida
  • Robert Corn, UC - Irvine
  • Scott Lokey, UC - Santa Cruz
  • Darrell Davis, U. of Utah
  • Dirk Iwata-Reuyl, Portland State
• new developments in transition metal coordination chemistry,
  Time: Monday, June 26, morning
  Organizer: Jason Shearer, UNR
  Speakers include:

  • Michael Haley, U. of Oregon
• analytical biochemistry,
  Time: Wednesday, June 28, morning
  Organizer: Pete Villalta, U. Minnesota
  Speakers include:

  • Heather Desaire, U. of Kansas
  • David Myszka, U. Utah
  • Mikaela Nichkova, UC Davis
  • Michael Wright, UC Davis
• organic synthesis,
  Time: Tuesday, June 27, afternoon
  Organizer: David Horne, Oregon State
  Speakers include:

  • Brian Stoltz, Caltech
  • Rich Carter, Oregon State
  • Justin Du Bois, Stanford
  • Paul Blakemore, Oregon State
  • Richmond Sarpong, UC Berkeley
• synthetic methodology,
  Time: Tuesday, June 27, morning
  Organizer: Liming Zhang, UNR
  Speakers include:

  • Jeffrey Bode, UC Santa Barbara
  • Kay Brummond, Pitt
  • John Wolfe, Michigan
• organometallic reaction mechanisms,
  Time: Monday, June 26, afternoon
  Organizer: Brian Frost, UNR
  Speakers include:

  • Jack Norton, Columbia
  • Don Krogstad, Concordia College
  • Kevin Shaughnessy, U. of Alabama
• luminescence in transition metal complexes,
  Time: Wednesday, June 28, morning
  Organizer: Vince Catalano, UNR
  Speakers include:

  • Alan Balch, UC Davis
  • Daniel Leznoff, Simon Fraser
  • William Connick, U. of Cincinnati
• molecular dynamics and spectroscopy,
  Time: Tuesday, June 27, afternoon
  Organizer: Joe Cline, UNR
• theoretical computational chemistry,
  Time: Monday, June 26, afternoon, and Tuesday, June 27, morning
  Organizers: David Leitner and Hyung-June Woo, UNR
  Speakers include:

  • Eric Bittner, U. of Houston
  • Deborah Evans, U. of NM
  • Marina Guenza, U. of Oregon
  • Kevin Leung, Sandia National Lab
  • Oleg Prezhdo, U. of Washington
  • Alexei Stuchebrukhov, UC Davis
  • Dmitrii Makarov, U Texas
• atmospheric science,
  Time: Monday, June 26, morning
  Organizer: Alan Gertler, DRI
  Speakers include:

  • Gayle Dana, DRI
  • Barbara Zielinska, DRI
  • Patrick Arnott, DRI
  • Mark Potosnak, DRI
  • Dean Atkinson, Portland State
• mercury detection,
  Time: Wednesday, June 28, morning
  Organizer: Alan Gertler, DRI
  Speakers include:

  • Hans Moosmuller, DRI
  • Allan Kolker, US Geological Survey
  • Glenn Miller, UNR
  • Seth Lyman, UNR
  • Jelena Stamenkovic, UNR
  • Steve Lindberg, Oak Ridge National Lab
  • Daniel Obrist, DRI
• Lake Tahoe environmental issues,
  Time: Monday, June 26, afternoon
  Organizers: Glenn Miller and Hatice Gecol, UNR
  Speakers include:

  • Alan Gertler, DRI
• renewable energy,
  Time: Tuesday, June 27, afternoon
  Organizers: Hatice Gecol and Glenn Miller, UNR
  Speakers include:

  • Nicholas Tsoulfanidis, UNR
  • Rudi Wiedemann, Biodiesel Solutions, Inc.
  • Dhanesh Chandra, UNR
  • Lisa Shevenell, UNR
  • Darko Koracin, DRI
  • John Sagebiel, UNR
• water treatment,
  Time: Monday, June 26, morning
  Organizers: Hatice Gecol and Glenn Miller, UNR
  Speakers include:

  • Parfait Miakatsindila, SulphCo, Inc.
  • Joshua L. Cartinella, UNR
  • Erdogan Ergican, UNR
  • Kendra Zamzow, UNR
• chemical/hazardous materials management,
  Time: Monday, June 26, morning
  Organizer: Luis Barthel-Rosa, UNR
  Speakers include:

  • Kelley Etherington, UC Berkeley
  • Larry Gibbs, Stanford
• reproductive health,
  Time: Monday, June 26, afternoon
  Organizer: Ben Owens, UNR
  Speakers include:

  • Larry Gibbs, Stanford
  • Neal Langerman, Advanced Chemical Safety
  • Janet Bryant, PNNL
  • Marion Miller, UC - Davis
• innovations in chemistry education,
  Time: Tuesday, June 27, all day
  Organizers: Glenn Crosby, Washington State, and Morton Hoffman, BU
  Speakers include:

  • John Kenney, Concordia U.
  • David Meltzer, U. of Washington
  • Maureen Scharberg, San Jose State
  • Brian Woodfield, BYU
  • Christopher Chidsey, Stanford
  • Resa Kelly, San Jose State
  • Michael Loverude, Cal State Fullerton
• the future of general chemistry texts in the internet age,
  Time: Monday, June 26, morning
  Organizer: Cinzi Muzzi, De Anza College
  Speakers include:

  • Gene LeMay, UNR
  • Conrad Stanitski, Franklin & Marshall College
  • Loretta Jones, U. of Northern Colorado
  • George Bodner, Purdue
  • Steven Zumdahl, Illinois
  • Richard Bauer, Arizona State
  • Carl Kulo, John Wiley & Sons

Additional topics were derived from contributed papers of general interest in chemical eduction, biochemistry, analytical, inorganic, organic, physical, and theoretical chemistry. There was also a student poster competition. Workshops were offered during the meeting in the area of chemical education (NOTE: LINKS ARE FOR INFORMATION ONLY - "Chemistry with Toys") and "Careers and Regional Employment."