Physical Sciences

Jacqueline L. Kiplinger

Education: B.Sc. University of Colorado, Chemistry; Ph.D. University of Utah, Organic Chemistry

Dissertation: Activation and Functionalization of Carbon-Fluorine Bonds by Transition Metal Complexes.

Thesis Advisor: Thomas G. Richmond, Professor of Chemistry, University of Utah

Research Topic: Synthesis and reaction chemistry of organotransition metal complexes with planar chirality

Mentor: Robert G. Bergman, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

Current Position: Researcher, Structural Inorganic Chemistry, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Carol Hirschmugl

Education: B.S. State University of New York at Stony Brook, Physics; Ph.D. Yale University, Physics

Dissertation: Low Frequency Adsorbate-Substrate Dynamics for CO/Cu Studied with Infrared Synchrontron Radiation

Thesis Advisors: Gwyn P. Williams, Professor of Physics, Yale University and Victor Henrich, Professor of Physics, Yale University

Research Topic: Vibrational relaxation effects of molecular and atomic adsorbates on semiconductors using the pulsed nature of synchrotron radiation

Mentor: Malcolm Howells, Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Grace Wolf-Chase

Education: B.A. Cornell University, Physics; Ph.D. University of Arizona, Astronomy

Dissertation: Dense Gas in the Monoceros OB1 Dark Cloud and Its Relationship to Star formation

Thesis Advisors: Charles J. Lada, Professor of Astrophysics, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Harvard University and Christopher K. Walker, Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona

Research Topic: Radiative Transfer Modeling of Protostellar Collapse

Mentor: Mary Barsony, Professor of Physics, University of California, Riverside

Current Position: Research Scientist and Astronomer, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago

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