72nd Annual ISCC
Keynote Presentation
“… As It Really Is, Warts and All”
A Panel Discussion on the Chemistry Graduate School Experience
with Brian K. Barr, Mary J. Carroll, and Brian J. Frost
Brian K. Barr graduated as a biochemistry major from Elizabethtown College in 1991, where he performed undergraduate research in biochemistry with Professor Martin O.L. Spangler. He obtained a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Cornell University in 1997. He is currently associate professor and chemistry department chair at Loyola College in Baltimore. He teaches courses in general and biochemistry, and his research is in enzyme mechanisms.
Mary J. Carroll is currently a second-year doctoral student in the medicinal chemistry program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She received a B.S. from Elizabethtown College in 2006. Although an undergraduate biochemistry major, she carried out her undergraduate research primarily in main group 14 organometallic chemistry. Her Ph.D. research in the group of Professor Andrew L. Lee involves the study of protein dynamics using high-field multidimensional NMR spectroscopy.
Brian J. Frost obtained his B.S. from Elizabethtown College in 1995. He conducted undergraduate research in main group 14 organometallic and theoretical chemistry. He spent the years 1995 – 1999 at Texas A&M University in the Donald Darensbourg group. Jack Norton served as Professor Frost’s postdoctoral advisor at Columbia University during 2000 – 2002. Brian is now an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Nevada at Reno, where he teaches and conducts research with graduate and undergraduate students. His recent interests and publications include synthetic, mechanistic, and water-soluble organometallic chemistry and catalysis. Brian is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award (nearly $400,000) and UNR Outstanding Undergraduate Research Advisor Award for 2008.