Reedies at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Denver

Hurricane Irene and canceled plane flights notwithstanding, thousands of chemists were still willing and able to visit Denver, Colorado last week for the Fall 2011 national meeting of the American Chemical Society. Tucked into this group were quite a few Reedies, past and present. The group in the photograph (left to right: Prof. Alan Shusterman, Prof. Juliane Fry, Danielle Draper ’13, Rhiana Meade ’12, and Caleb Arata ’11) was discovered in front of an environmental chemistry poster at the Sci-Mix poster session on Monday night.
Additional Reedies popped up here and there near local restaurants and in the Exhibit Hall. I ran into Prof. Kristopher McNeill ’92 on his way to dinner with other alumni of Prof. Robert Bergman’s research group. Dr. Julia Chamberlain ’04 was discovered in the Exhibit Hall explaining new interactive simulations under development at the PhET project. Mike Campbell ’02 and Vito Spadavecchio ’08 were likewise presenting new software products from Schrodinger. Mike and Vito tell me that they both expect to move on during the next year. Mike is planning on letting his creative side (cartoons) off its leash for awhile, while Vito hopes to start business school in another year. And yours truly, Alan Shusterman, spent two days at the Wavefunction booth showing visitors a new formula sketch/modeling app for the iPad that is currently under development.