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Phi Lambda Upsilon
Alpha Alpha Chapter
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Past Activities:
1. Election of officers
2. Scientific projects
Visit the PLU National
Homepage!
Phi Lambda Upsilon
Alpha Alpha Chapter
NEWS!
Past Activities:
1. Election of officers
2. Scientific projects
3. Public lectures (January 20, 2005; speaker from Kelly Scientific Resources)
4. Plant visits
5. Participation in exhibitions
6. National Chemistry Week (Oct. 17-23, 2004; candy display at RMC)
7. Fresenius Award (nominations due each January)
Professor Michael Berry (1982)
Professor Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede (2003)
8. Triennual Congress (34th Congress held at ACS meeting in Philadelphia, 2004)
9. Student travel grants
2005 – 2006 OFFICERS
President: Yan-Xin Li
Vice President: Kush Mathur
Treasurer: Whitney Nolte
Secretary: Phillip Hodge
FACULTY SPONSORS
Dr. Michael S. Wong
Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering
Assistant Professor in Chemistry
Dr. Joe W. Hightower
Professor Emeritus in Chemical Engineering
2005:
|
First Name
|
Last Name
|
| Chandrika | Acher |
| Howard | Chao |
| Geoff | Chow |
| Bradley | Colquilt |
| Joe | Elias |
| Scott | Esterholm |
| Teresa | Fu |
| Phillip | Hodge |
| Monica | Huang |
| Clare | Johnson |
| John | Kiappes |
| Melissa | King |
| Roni | Kobrosly |
| Carly | Levin |
| Kush | Mathur |
| Julie | Neubauer |
| Emmy | Newhouse |
| Whitney | Nolte |
| Carl | Onak |
| Phillip | Parmet |
| Robert | Pinnick |
| Mark | Pond |
| Ven | Rajarathinam |
| Johanna | Schaub |
| Kelsey | Shleton-Dodge |
| Caleb | Simmons |
| Sreevathsan | Sridhar |
| Emily | Stoops |
| Cara | Virgill |
| Leah | Witus |
| Rachel | Wolfron |
| Alex | Woodruff |
| Brandon | Zuniga |
2004:
| Christopher | Barth |
| Jigar | Bhakta |
| Candace | Chan |
| Gang | Cheng |
| Martin | Collier |
| Felipe De Jesus | Cortez |
| Rajat | Duggal |
| MyLinh | Duong |
| Elizabeth | DuPre |
| Matt | Fay |
| Erica | Flor |
| Kurt | Icenogle |
| Jan | Kemnade |
| Sirish | Kishore |
| Nastassja | Lewinski |
| Yan-Xin | Li |
| Nicole | Loo |
| Ryan | McConnell |
| Michael | Monaco |
| Alberto | Montesi |
| Vinit | Murthy |
| Seth | Neumuller |
| Roma | Patel |
| John | Pitcher III |
| Valentin | Prieto Centurion |
| Lilit | Sargsyan |
| Amishi | Shah |
| Jonathan | Surratt |
| Christopher | Tang |
| Jerome | Taylor, Jr. |
2003:
| Scott | Lenobel |
| Brian | Solomon |
| Ben | Harper |
| Katherine | Ward |
| Daniel | Trahan |
| Cynthia | Chin |
| Holly | Carter |
| Prathit | Kulkarni |
| Alan | Zhang |
| Crystal | Ramon |
| Shannon | Duffy |
| Jay | Henderson |
| Eric | Lee |
| Mary | Air |
| Todd | Tomson |
| Richard | Flansbaum |
| Jared | Ashcroft |
| Kyle | Kissell |
| Valerie | Moore |
| Joshua | Jurs |
| Jonathan | Laib |
| Aaron | Martinez |
| Megan P. | Tierney |
| David A. | Barron |
| John J. | Brinkley |
| R. Adam | Horch |
2002:
| Stephen Michael | Anthony |
| Matthew L. | Bentley |
| Kelly D. | Biddle |
| Lori Anne | Burns |
| Leah Beck | Casabianca |
| Stephanie Hina | Chanteau |
| Virginia A. | Davis |
| Lars Martin | Ericson |
| Vincent James | Germanese |
| Mary Elizabeth | Goodwin |
| Ilse Y. | Guzman-Jimenez |
| Julie | Huang |
| Jared | Hubbard |
| Chad Bryant | Huffman |
| Susan J. | Ireland |
| John William | Jaco |
| Dennis Charles | Krueger |
| Kristin A. | Krukenberg |
| Robert | Liou |
| Francisco | Maya |
| Natalia (Natasha) | Morozova |
| Michael J. | O'Connell |
| Douglas Charles | Ogrin |
| Laura | Olson |
| Sharel Cokee | Ongchin |
| Jenny Szu-Chin | Pan |
| Nicole Lynn | Pannucci |
| Andrew W. | Patterson |
| Donna Lynn | Pattison |
| Alison Lynn | Rogers |
| Melissa Annabelle | Sanchez Montoya |
| Leighann | Sullivan |
| Joseph A. | Sulpizio |
| Dmitry | Tsyboulski |
| Ann Marie | Wamsley |
| Yuhuang | Wang |
| Ran | Xu |
| Justin | Yanosik |
| Benjamin Daniel | Yuhas |
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Phi Lambda Upsilon ΦΛΥ
Alpha Alpha Chapter, Rice University
The aims and purposes of Phi Lambda Upsilon (PLU) are the promotion of high scholarship and original investigation in all branches of pure and applied chemistry.
PLU, the first honor society dedicated to a single scientific discipline, was founded as an honorary chemical society in March 1899 at the University of Illinois. Other honor societies: Phi Beta Kappa (humanities), Sigma Xi (scientific research), Tau Beta Pi (engineering)
Φ for Carl Remigius Fresenius, father of analytical chemistry
Λ for Justus von Liebig, father of organic/agricultural chemistry
Υ for Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff, father of theoretical/physical chemistry
Rice Chapter: Founded in 1926 as the 25th chapter
Councilors: Professor Dean Holmes Richter [1926-1966]
Professor Joe Hightower [1967-2002]
Professor Michael Wong [2003-present]
Classification of Membership:
Members: Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors majoring in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Physics, and Biochemistry with at least 3.5 GPA (at end of Fall)
Graduate Students nominated by their research advisors for exemplary chemical research
Honorary Members: nominated by current PLU members
Questions? Please contact us plu@rice.edu.
Have a chemical day!
Last updated: October 18, 2005.