Iota Sigma Pi is a national honor society for women that promotes professional development and personal growth of women in chemistry and related fields through recognition, public outreach, and the formation of supportive networks. The Iota Sigma Pi Speakers’ Bureau was set up to promote professional interactions between women in chemistry. The participants in the Speakers Bureau have expressed an interest in giving talks on various aspects of chemistry. Please contact the speaker directly for more information.
        The National Iota Sigma Pi is not responsible for any costs incurred by an individual while participating as a speaker for the Speakers Bureau. All financial reimbursements are handled with the host institution or group.

Jennifer K. Bachman
The University of the South
735 University Avenue
Sewanee, TN   37383-1000 
931-598-3237 (office) 
931-598-1145 (fax) 
email:  jbachman@sewanee.edu 
Topics: Drugs of Abuse, A Day in the Life of a Forensic Drug Chemist, What Does a Chemist Actually Do?

Linda C. Brazdil, Ph.D.
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
1500 W. Sullivan Road
Aurora, IL 60506-1000
630-907-5069 (office)
630-907-5918 (fax)
email:  brazdil@imsa.edu
Topics: Kinetics of an Aromatic Iodination Reaction Which Does Not Use Heavy Metals; Oxidation Catalysis (or General Catalysis); Careers in Chemistry; Science Education

Jeannette E. Brown
122 Brookside Lane
Hillsborough, NJ 08844-4816
908-874-6177 (home)
email: jbrown@adm.njit.edu or jebrown@infionline.net 
Topics: Careers in Chemistry; Science Education; Minorities in Science; History of Minority Women Chemists

Jeanne Buccigross, Ph.D.
College of Mount St. Joseph
Department of Chemistry
5701 Delhi Road
Cincinnati, OH 45233-1670
513-244-4718 (office)
513-244-4222 (fax)
email: jeanne_buccigross@mail.msj.edu
Topics: Teaching and Doing Research at a Small College; The Chemistry and Art of Natural Dyes

Kathleen Cox, Ph.D.
Schering-Plough Research Institute
2015 Galloping Hill Road, K-15-3-2800
Kenilworth, NJ 07033-0539
908-740-5179 (office)
908-740-2916 (fax)
email: Kathleen.Cox@spcorp.com
Topics: The Role of LC/MS/MS in Drug Metabolism in the Pharmaceutical Industry; Development of
Drugs in the Pharmaceutical Industry: From Molecules to Medicine

Clara D. Craver
P. O. Box 265
French Village, MO 63036-0265
573-358-2589
Topics: Real World Applications of Infrared Spectroscopy on Molecules; FT-IR Spectroscopy; Challenges and Pleasures of a Woman Chemist--1945 Forward

Dr. Gillian Eggleston
SRRC - USDA - ARS
1100 Robert E. Lee Blvd
New Orleans, LA 70179
504-286-4446 (office)
email: gillian@nola.srrc.usda.gov
Topics: Food Chemistry Research in Africa; Sugar Chemistry; Chemistry in the Sugar Factory and Refinery

Prof. Robin L. Garrell
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UCLA
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569
310-825-2496
310-206-4038 (fax)
email: garrell@chem.ucla.edu
Topics: Chemistry of Adhesion; Self-Assembled Monolayers; Biomolecules at Interfaces; Strategies for Success as a Women Chemist

Deborah A. Hess, Ph.D.
Evans Texas, Specialists in Materials Characterization
425 Round Rock West Drive, Suite 100
Round Rock, TX 78681
512-671-9500
512-671-9501 (fax)
email: evnstxdh@aol.com
Topics: Surface science/analytical chemistry, Working in a large public corporation vs. small private business, Women in chemistry

Angela Hoffman, Ph.D.
University of Portland
Department of Chemistry and Physics
5000 N. Willamette Blvd
Portland, OR 97203
503-943-7173 (office)
email: hoffman@up.edu
Topics: How to Get Started in Research for Graduates and Undergraduates; Taxol: What it is and How it Works

Allyn C. Howlett
Saint Louis University
School of Medicine
Department of Pharmacological and Physiological Science
St. Louis, MO 63104
314-577-8548 (office)
314-577-8554 (fax)
email: howletta@slu.edu
Topics: Drugs of Abuse--Marijuana

Susan Kauzlarich, Ph. D.
Chemistry Department
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA 95616
530-752-4756
email: smkauzlarich@ucdavis.edu
Topics: solid state inorganic chemistry: "Exploitation of the Zintl Concept for the Synthesis of New Materials" and "Synthesis and Characterization of Si and Ge Nanoparticles"

Dr. Susan Sonchik Marine
Miami University Middletown
4200 East University Boulevard
Middletown, OH 45042-3497
        or
4667 Sebald Drive
Franklin, OH 45005
513-727-3372 (work)
513-422-1683 (home)
513-727-3462 (fax)
email:  mariness@muohio.edu
Topics: Multidimensional Gas Chromatography; Submicron Lithography

Dr. C. J. Menendez-Botet
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr
Department of Clinical Chemistry
1275 York Avenue
New York, NY 10021-6007
212-639-5977
212-717-3397 (fax)
Topics: OSHA Chemical Hygiene Plan (Occupational Exposure to Hazardous Chemicals); Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens; Estrogen and Progesterone Receptor Protein in Patients with Breast Cancer

Grace Miller MS, RD, LD
197 Blandenburg Road
Carrollton, GA 30116
770-832-9825 (home, office)
Topics: Why do Diabetics Die of Vascular Disease?; Is it a Disease of Cholesterol or Glucose?

Lily Ng, Ph.D.
Chemistry Department
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH 44115
216-687-2467 (office)
email: l.ng@csuohio.edu
Topics: Chemistry of Alkyl Perfluoroethers on Oxide Surfaces: Implications for Tribology (research); In Situ FTIR-ATR Studies of Adsorbed Intermediates on Photoelectrode/Electrolyte Interfaces (research); Photospectroelectrochemistry: FTIR-ATR in situ Studies of Reaction Intermediates on Electrode Surfaces (research, introductory); Infrared Spectra of Biological Molecules (research, introductory); Leadership Qualities and How to Develop Them (general); Problem Solving with Surface Chemistry (general, undergraduate, introductory); Graduate School: Is It for Everyone? (general, undergraduate)

Elaine M. Ramesh, Ph.D.
Rockey, Milnamow & Katz
Two Prudential Plaza, 47th Floor
Chicago, Il 60601
312-616-5411 (office)
email: rexnprince@aol.com
Topics: Patent Law Basics, Careers in Patent Law for Chemists

Cheryl K. Rofer
125 San Juan
Los Alamos, NM 87544
505-661-0722
email: crofer@losalamos.com 
Topics: environmental cleanup; women in chemistry; science in undergraduate education; environmental issues in Eastern Europe

Dr. Judith Faye Rubinson
Department of Chemistry
Georgetown University
Box 571227
Washington, DC 20057- 1227
301-263-0452 (home)
202-687-2066 (office)
202-687-6209 (fax)
email: jfr@georgetown.edu 
Topics: Biochemical and Biomedical Applications of Conducting Polymer Electrodes

Kathryn Sandberg, Ph.D.
Bldg D, Rm 394
Departments of Medicine and Physiology
Georgetown University Medical Center
4000 Reservoir Rd, NW
Washington, DC 20007
202-687-4179 (work)
202-687-7270 (lab)
202-687-7278 (fax)
email: sandberg@georgetown.edu  
Topics: Small Molecule Ligands for Peptide Hormone Receptors
Webpage: http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/sandberg 

Dr. Barbara Sawrey
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UCSD
La Jolla, CA 92093-0303
619-534-6479 (office)
619-534-7687 (fax)
email: bsawrey@ucsd.edu
Topics: Visualizing the Molecular World: Developing Interactive Software for Biochemistry Labs

Dr. Anne T. Sherren
Lexington Square of Lombard
555 Foxworth Blvd
Lombard, IL 60148
630-932-0418 (phone)
630-637-5180 (fax)
email: ats@noctrl.edu
Topics: Items Related to Chemical Education--especially Use of Real Life Samples for Student Experiments

Edlyn S. Simmons
Section Head
Business Information Services
The Procter & Gamble Company
5299 Spring Grove Ave.
Cincinnati, Ohio 45217
513-627-5664 (phone)
513-627-6854 (fax)
email: simmons.es@pg.com
Topics: patent information; patent law; careers for chemists in information science and patent law

Melissa Strait
614 W. Superior 
Alma College 
Alma, MI 48801 
989-463-7223 (office)
email: straitm@alma.edu
Topics:   Porosity in meteorites, Meteorites in Antarctica, Service learning in the chemistry research lab, Environmental problems in Central Michigan

Claire Tessier
Department of Chemistry
University of Akron
Akron, OH 44325-3601
330-972-5304 (office)
email: tessier@mailhost.chemistry.uakron.edu
Topics: Metal-silicon chemistry; Organosilicon chemistry; Project SEED (sponsored by the ACS); Inorganic Backbone Polymers

Theresa Thewes, Ph. D.
Chemistry Department
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Edinboro, PA 16444
814-732-2516 (office)
email: Thewes@Edinboro.edu
Topics: Chemistry Outreach; Important Roles of Chemists; National Chemistry Week; Constructivist and Collaborative Teaching Strategies

Dr. Kathryn Thomasson
University of North Dakota
Chemistry Department
Box 9024
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9024
701-777-3199 (office)
email: kthomasson@chem.und.edu 
Topics: Computer Simulations of Protein-Protein Interactions and Protein-DNA Interactions, Glycolytic Enzyme Moonlighting, Actin Binding

Dr. Sheri Tonn
Dean of Information Resources
Department of Chemistry
Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma, WA 98447
253-535-7505 (office)
email: Tonnsj@plu.edu
Topics: Academic Administration: An Oxymoron?; The Estuarine Environment: Science and Public Policy; Coral Reef Chemistry - A Photographic Tour

Marcy Hamby Towns
Ball State University
Chemistry Department
Cooper Hall
Muncie, IN 47306
765-285-8075 (office)
765-285-2351 (fax)
email: 00mhtowns@bsu.edu
Topics: Science Education (Chemistry Education); Cooperative Learning

Adrienne Tymiak, Ph.D.
Bristol-Meyers Squibb
P. O. Box 4000
Princeton, NJ 08543-400
609-252-5370
email: tymiak@bms.com
Topics: trends in pharmaceutical chemistry; chemical diversity; NMR of resin-bound compounds

Jean B. Umland
13518 Queensbury
Houston, TX 77079
713-461-6270
Topics: textbook writing

Dr. Lidia M. Vallarino
Chemistry Department
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA 23284-2006
804-828-7515 (office)
804-828-8599 (fax)
804-353-4037 (home)
email:  lmvallar@vcu.edu 
Topics: Lanthanide Complexes with Biomedical Applications

Dr. Rebecca Wade
European Media Laboratory 
Villa Bosch, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, D-69118 Heidelberg, Germany
+49-6221-533-247 (office)
+49-6221-533-298 (fax)
email: rebecca.wade@eml.villa-bosch.de  
website: http://www.eml.org/english/homes/rebecca/index_html
Topics: theoretical/computational biophysics; molecular modelling, simulation and design (applied to proteins)

Dr. Karen J. Weiland
NASA Glenn Research Center
21000 Brookpark Road
MS 110-3
Cleveland, OH 44135
216-433-3623 (office)
216-433-3793 (fax)
email:  Karen.Weiland@grc.nasa.gov
Topics: Microgravity Combustion Research

Catherine Woytowicz
The George Washington University 
Department of Chemistry 
725 - 21st St., NW  Room 107A 
Washington, DC  20052 
202-994-5637 (office) 
email: drcat@gwu.edu 
           or
2201 N St. NW, #308
Washington, DC  20037
202-466-9494 (home)
email:  cwoytowicz@att.net 
Topics: organic synthetic chemistry, forensic chemistry, innovative teaching methods for organic chemistry, how Congress uses scientific information to make informed decisions, how the US State Department uses science in decision making, support for women in graduate school; chemical warfare issues

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