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Scholar Update: Fellowship Update Report -- 2005
Professor Gwen Kay
   Based on her research at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Professor Kay is now writing a book on the history of the cosmetics industry, geared to undergraduate university students, which will be published in the spring of 2006. Additionally, she has published an article on women chemists in the cosmetic industry and has served as a consultant for PBS's American version of The 1900 House on women chemists in the cosmetic industry and as a contributor of articles in the Wall Street Journal and Women First. She regularly uses her research in her classes at the State University of New York, Oswego.

 
Dr. Gregory J. Brust
   While in residences at CHF, Dr. Brust conducted historical research on the synthetic rubber industry in order to create a multimedia, educational website about the history and development of the industry. Since his summer at CHF, Brust's The Story of Rubber website, has been updated with images and quizzes. The site is used at a number of high schools in Mississippi and other states and it was the basis for a freshman course at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has also presented talks and demonstrations at American Chemical Society meetings based on his research. Having completed his Ph.D., Dr. Brust is now an assistant professor of Math, Science, and Technology at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, New York.

 
Dr. Harry Hecht
   Dr. Hecht published an article in Chemical Heritage magazine.

 
Mr. Mark Dorfman
   Mr. Dorfman is a freelance environmental scientist and independent scholar. The presentation he developed at CHF is on his website. The Biomimetics Network for Industrial Sustainability (BIONIS) in the UK links to his site, making his work available to its members and others interested in biomimicry. He has presented his research at a dozen different venues as diverse as the National Academy of Sciences, the Bronx High School of Sciences, and the Nepal Chemical Society. University professors regularly request copies of his presentation to use in their own research or in lectures. He will publish "Biomimicry: How and Why R&D Should Be Driven By Nature's Design" in Transforming a Sustainability Strategy into Action: The Chemical Industry this summer.

 
Professor Lisa Rosner
   Professor Rosner has developed a Web resource that integrates her research into her lectures for university students.

 
Dr. Jeanette Brown
   Dr. Brown has presented a paper based on her work at the Chemical Heritage Foundation at the Southeast Regional American Chemical Society meeting. She organized symposia for the National American Chemical Society meeting held in Washington, DC, in August 2005, and at the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers in Orlando, FL, in March 2005. In addition, she presented a poster session at the February meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, DC. She has also been invited to speak at Middle Tennessee University, Fisk University, and the Philadelphia ACS section to present her research. Dr. Brown is working on five biographical profiles of African-American women chemists for African American Lives edited by Professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University. She is also collaborating with the head of the Pan-African Studies Program at Drew University to further develop the research she started at CHF. Dr. Brown is currently expanding her curriculum materials, writing a paper for the Journal of Chemical Education, and developing a website. Recently, she received the 2005 ACS Award for encouraging disadvantaged students into careers in the chemical sciences.

 
Dr. Gerald J. Fitzgerald
   Since completing his fellowship on public health researchers' efforts to reduce airborne infection using chemical air sterilants in the 1930's and 1940's, Dr. Fitzgerald has been finishing his first book on the medical and technological history of airborne disease in the 20th century. He has also begun a new project, which is an outgrowth of his fellowship, on the health textile mill workers in the American South. He has receive three fellowship to support this new project including the John C. Hass Fellowship in the Chemical Industries at CHF, the J. Caryle J. Sitterson Visiting Scholar Grant, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Harry S. Golden Visiting Scholar Grant, at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He also has several articles underway for the American Journal of Public Health, Technology & Culture, and the Journal of American History.

 

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