2005 Election of Officers

Candidate for Chair-Elect

Susan V. Olesik received her A.S. from Vincennes University, B.A. from DePauw University in 1977 and her Ph.D. in 1982 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working with James Taylor. She was also a postdoctoral fellow for Milos Novotny at Indiana University from 1982-1984 and for Tomas Baer at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill from 1984-1986. She has been a faculty member at The Ohio State University since 1986, being promoted to Associate Professor in 1992 and Professor in 1997. In 1987, she received the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Research Award; in 1990 she received the Eli Lilly Research Award; in 1998 she received a Commendation from NASA for work on Cassini-Huygen's Probe in which she developed a capillary glassy carbon column for the separation of the components of Titan's (Saturn's biggest moon) atmosphere; in 2000 she received the AWISCO Woman in Science Award from the Association for Women in Science in Central Ohio, in 2004 received the American Chemical Society, Columbus Section Award and in 2005 received the Central Ohio Technology Leadership Award. She has served on the Executive Committee of Chromatography and Separations Chemistry Subdivision for the last three years. She has an extensive publication record, has served on the Editorial Advisory Boards for the Analytical Chemistry (2002-2004), Journal of Microcolumn Separations (1999-2000) and Mikrochimica Acta (1990- 2002). She is most known for work in two areas of separation science - Enhanced-fluidity Liquid Chromatography and Low temperature Glassy Carbon Chromatography. Most recently her research has expanded into unique polymer separation methods, as well as, new separation science for sorting highly complicated mixtures and the synthesis of polymer and carbon micron- and nano- particles for use in separation science applications.

Position Statement:
The Separation Science subdivision of the ACS Analytical Division is well established. The bylaws of the subdivision state that the subdivision "object of the subdivision shall be the promotion of chromatography and separations chemistry in all their aspects" For a number of years, its prime focus has been to support the ACS meetings. That is, individuals have been found to organize symposia at ACS conferences. I strongly believe that we should work toward getting more analytical separation scientists involved in subdivision's efforts. The Separation Science subcommittee should be a group of people who actively keep analytical separation science visible and who take efforts to grow the discipline. I would like to see broader participation in the subdivision by active analytical separation scientists. Toward achieving this goal, subdivision members should feel that they are benefiting from their membership. I strongly believe that we need to expand our activities into areas other than developing ACS symposia. We need to generate an environment of support for the field of analytical separation science. We should consider finding mechanisms where larger groups of separation scientists can work together to support the whole. This may be organization meetings at various conferences where we talk about various mechanisms to support the activities of all analytical separation scientists. Other possible, ideas include developing a web-based clearinghouse where industry can find the vitae of our graduate students in separations science and perhaps where industrial separation scientists and academic scientists can interact. Other possible ideas from subdivision members are welcome and would be acted upon.

Candidates for the Executive Committee

Eric Erickson
Eric Erickson earned a B.S. in chemistry from Oregon State University in 1977 and a doctorate in analytical chemistry from Michigan State University in 1989. Since 1980 he has been the chromatographer and mass spectrometrist in the Research Department at the Naval Air Warfare Center - Weapons Division in China Lake, CA. His research has involved the use of GC, HPLC, CE, and MS to monitor environmental contaminants, understand ordnance aging, and identify sound ordnance demilitarization stragegies. Among the principle thrusts of Eric's current research is the development of more sensitive and selective field detection tools for monitoring trace atmospheric contaminants. The recipient of a Michelson Laboratory Award in 2001, Eric has 2 patents, 30 papers, and 36 presentations from his work at China Lake.

Jerry King
Jerry King is the Ansel and Virginia Condray Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University Of Arkansas. Dr. King has over 37 years of experience in supercritical fluid technology, chemical separations, chromatography, and applied chemical engineering & chemistry. He is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana, graduating from Butler University in 1965 with a B.S. in Chemistry. Dr. King continued with graduate studies at Butler University and the University of Utah, where he worked with Professor J. Calvin Giddings on supercritical fluid chromatography. In 1973, Dr. King received his Ph.D. from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts under the direction of Professor Barry Karger. He then conducted postdoctoral research in physical chemistry under Professor Daniel Martire at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
Prior to joining the University of Arkansas, he was Program Manager/research scientist in the Supercritical Fluid Facility at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. King was also the Lead Scientist of the Critical Fluid Technology Group at the National Centre for Agricultural Utilization Research (NCAUR) in Peoria, Illinois for 16 ˝ years. His research interests include the development of critical fluid technology for food and agro-material processing, materials science, and analytical applications. He has authored over 207 publications (including three patents) in SFE, SFC, and related separation techniques; and has lectured extensively on these subjects over the past 25 years at national and international symposia, including the ACS Shortcourse on SFE/SFF/SFC with Professor Larry Taylor. Dr. King has organized may symposia on SFE and SFC, including the well known International Symposia on SFC and SFE. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Supercritical Fluids, Italian Journal of Food Science, Journal of the American Oil Chemical Society and is a member of ACS, AOCS, IFT, AOAC, AAIC, and US or international critical fluid technology groups.
Dr. King has also worked with several industrial companies and R & D organizations. These have included Arthur D. Little, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Union Carbide Corporation (Bound Brook, New Jersey), and CPC International (Summit-Argo, Illinois). While at CPC, he was in charge of HPLC methods development for biotechnology, installation of process HPLC, and industrial analysis of saccharides and starch polymers.
In 1993, Dr. King was named AScientist of the Year@ at NCAUR, and in 1994 was elected a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Georgofili in Florence, Italy. Dr. King has been awarded the Chicago Chromatography Discussion Group's Merit Award for Asignificant contributions to chromatography@ and elected to Who=s Who in America. He was awarded AOAC's prestigious Harvey Wiley Award in 1997 for his research in analytical SFE. In 1998 he received the the Merit Award from the Midwest SFC Group/Tri-State Discussion Group for Aconsistent contributions in the supercritical fluid technology field, and the Award of Excellence at the 8th International Symposium on SFC/SFC for Apioneering achievement, leadership, and enthusiasm in the development of supercritical fluid technology and the education of others. He was awarded an Underwood Fellowship in 1999 for sabbatical study in the United Kingdom. In the year 2000, he received the Keene P. Dimick Award at Pittcon for his contributions to the field of gas and supercritical fluid chromatography. Dr. King has also awarded the 1st Place Award for Consumer Products from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer - Midwest Region. Recently he was awarded the Herbert J. Dutton Award from the American Oil Chemists' Society for his contributions to the analysis and processing of lipids and oils. Dr. King is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Food Science at the University of Arkansas. He was selected for a Marie Curie Chair by the European Union in Brussels, Belgium in 2004.

Karen W. Phinney
Karen W. Phinney received her B.A. from Monmouth College in 1984. She worked as a chemist at Monsanto Company for several years before attending graduate school. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii-Manoa in 1994, working with Apryll Stalcup. After completing her graduate work, she was awarded a National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associateship and joined the Analytical Chemistry Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She remained at NIST at the end of her postdoctoral tenure and is currently a Research Chemist in the Analytical Chemistry Division. Her research has focused on chiral separations, with particular emphasis on enantioselective separations of pharmaceutical compounds. Her work encompasses a broad spectrum of liquid phase separation techniques, including liquid and supercritical fluid chromatography (LC and SFC) as well as capillary electrophoresis (CE). She has been active in the American Chemical Society for over 20 years and previously served as Chair of the Illinois-Iowa section of the ACS. She is also a member of the Washington Chromatography Discussion Group and has served as Program Chair and President of that organization.

André Striegel
André M. Striegel received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of New Orleans in 1991 and his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1996, the latter working with Richard Cole. His graduate research was performed in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Southern Regional Research Center. From 1996 until 1998 he was a post-doctoral research chemist at the USDA's National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, IL, working under the supervision of J. L. Willett. From 1998 until 2004 he was a research scientist for Solutia Inc., at their Springfield, MA R&D center, where he worked as Senior Research Chemist (1998-2003) and then as Research Specialist (2003-2004), first in their Physical & Analytical Sciences Center and then in the Films R&D department. In the Fall of 2004 he joined the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department of Florida State University as Assistant Professor in the Analytical Division. He is the author of thirty peer-reviewed publications; the editor of ACS Symposium Series 893, "Multiple Detection in Size-Exclusion Chromatography;" and has served on the Editorial Board of Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering since 2001. He is the recipient of a Solutia Technical Achievement Award (2003) and the inaugural recipient of the ACS DAC Award for Young Investigators in Separations Science (2004). His interests lie in the area of macromolecular separation science, both at the fundamental and applied levels, with particular emphasis on deriving structure-property information using multi-detector size-exclusion chromatography and related techniques.