Annual Awards Banquet Thursday 30 Apr 2015

THE FLOYD LANDIS SPORTS DOPING CASE

AS EVALUATED BY A FORENSIC

ANALYTICAL CHEMIST Bob Blackledge

Naval Criminal Investigative Service (RFL-Retired) Forensics

Floyd Landis, a professional bicycle racer from Murrieta, Cali-fornia, won the 2006 Tour de France. However, not many days after the race's conclusion, the Laboratoire National de Dépistage du Dopage (LNDD) "announced" (actually the in-formation was leaked to the press) that a urine sample ob-tained from Floyd after stage 17 had been found to be posi-tive for a form of synthetic testosterone. If this finding were to be upheld, Landis would be stripped of his title and also banned from participation in the sport. Landis denied any sports doping and his strategy in fighting these charges has

NEWSLETTER Oklahoma Section

American Chemical Society Volume 21 Number 2 http://oklahoma.sites.acs.org/ April/May 2015

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RSVP is NOT required to attend the presentation.

Buffet menu

chicken Marsalis oven roasted potatoes Key Largo vegetables whole wheat dinner rolls garden salad cheese cake

Dinner Reservation Information

Annual Awards Banquet Honorees Members with 50 & 60 years of service in 2015. Chemistry Olympiad finalists and their teachers. see list on page 2, Service Milestones and Chem Olympiad

Oklahoma School of Science and Math Library/Administration Building 1141 N Lincoln Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73104

5:30–6:30 pm Social Hour & Campus Tours 6:40–7:20 pm Dinner 7:30–9:00 pm Presentation

map & info: http://www.ossm.edu/contact/directions/

OSSM map & directions

Chair Elect Resigns Dane Scott is leaving the section to start a new job as Professor at East Tennessee State University beginning Fall 2015. Dane has been very active in the section. He has taken on the re-sponsibility for may things that have made a real difference. Dane has made everyone’s job a lot easier. We will all miss working with him. Please join me in thanking Dane for his service to the section.

We are looking for volunteer to fill the vacancy. Quoting our sections bylaws, Article VI §9:

Vacancies in offices shall be filled by vote of the Executive Committee. Members so appointed shall serve until the next regular election of the Section. In the event that the office of Chair-Elect, having become vacant by resignation or death of the incumbent, is filled by appointment by the Executive Com-mittee, both a Chair and a Chair-Elect shall be elected at the next regular election of the Section.

The person appointed by the Executive Committee will be automatically placed on the 2015 election ballot to be elect-ed for chair position. Hence in the fall the ballot this year we will elect both a chair and a chair-elect.

2015 Oklahoma Chemist Fazlur Rahman

Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics

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Dr. A.K. Fazlur Rahman, professor of chemistry at the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics (OSSM), is the recipient of the 2015 Oklahoma Chemist Award. He has been an active and influential force in chemical education for the last two decades. Having coached many Chemistry Olympiad participants, he has es-tablished an impeccable record in national and international arenas. His students have earned gold, silver and bronze medals for the United States. Thus far, he and his col-leagues led 10 students at the US National Chemistry Olym-piad camp (at the Air Force Academy) and four in the Inter-national Chemistry Olympiad to carry the chemistry flag of

Cost $20 members $5 students

RSVP Deadline Friday 24 Apr 5pm

Contact: Fazlur Rahman text to: 405-819-4385

(include your name and the number of attendees)

frahman@ossm.edu

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been to try to generate public support and to make all of the documentation of the LNDD tests available to the public. GC/MS is used by LNDD for preliminary sample screening, and carbon stable isotope ratio mass spectrometry is used for final confirmation. From the standpoint of a forensic ana-lytical chemist with experience in forensic laboratory accred-itation standards, this presentation will examine the analyti-cal data and correspondence from the Landis case in terms of: chain of custody requirements; World Anti-Doping Asso-ciation (WADA) guidelines and LNDD SOP; and reasonable standards of good laboratory practice. Bob Blackledge Biographical Sketch Robert (Bob) D. Blackledge received his BS (chem.) from The Citadel in 1960 and his MS (chem.) from the University of Georgia in 1962. Starting with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Tallahassee Crime Lab in 1971, Bob worked in forensic science for over thirty years. Stops along the way in-cluded eleven years with the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory-Europe, back during the Cold War when there was a crime lab in Frankfurt, Germany. Bob’s final stint was as the Senior Chemist with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service Regional Forensic Laboratory-San Diego from 1989 to 2006. The author or co-author of roughly fifty journal articles and book chapters, his interests are wide-ranging but his special passion is trace evidence. Reports of his research have been published in the FBI’s Law Enforcement Bulletin, the FBI’s Crime Laboratory Digest, the Journal of Forensic Sciences, Science & Justice, Forensic Science International, Forensic Science Review, Microgram Journal, and Analytica Chimica Acta. He is the editor for, “Forensic Analysis on the Cutting Edge: New Methods for Trace Evidence Analysis”, published by Wiley-Interscience in Aug. 2007.

(Speaker—continued from front page) Councilor’s Report Allen W. Apblett (Oklahoma Section Councilor)

I attended the Council Meeting in Denver on March 25 and I have a few items to report.

Candidates for 2016 President-Elect The Committee on Nominations and Elections presented to the Council the fol-lowing nominees for selection as candidates for President-Elect, 2016: G. Bryan Balazs, Allison A. Campbell, David J. Lohse, and Christopher J. Welch. By electronic ballot, the Council selected G. Bryan Balazs and Allison A. Campbell. These two candidates, along with any candidates selected via petitions, will stand for election in the Fall National Election.

Membership Dues and Meeting Fees The Council voted to set the member dues for 2016 at the fully escalated rate of $162. This rate is established pursuant to an inflation-adjustment formula in the ACS Constitution and Bylaws so there is little leeway on this. However, the Board of Directors of the ACS plans to enact an additional technical meeting fee since we “lose money” on the technical program. In actuality, this so-called loss appears primarily due to the result of add-ing a large overhead charge and divorcing the profit from the Exhibition from the technical program. Council respectfully requested that the Board of Directors delay the implementa-tion of the technical meeting additional fee to the meeting reg-istration fee, until the Board presents an analysis (preferably at the Boston national meeting) of the projected break even fee, including and excluding the net revenue from the Nation-al Meeting Exposition. The Meetings and Exhibition Commit-tee (M&E) recommended that the Early Member Registration Fee for 2016 national meetings be $415, per the National Meeting Long-Range Financial Plan. As part of the continuing ACS sustainability effort and to encourage the use of the ACS mobile app and online program, M&E has decided to discon-tinue free distribution of the hard copy program book starting in 2016. Those who pre-register for the meeting may pur-chase a copy of the program book for $10 (pick up on site), and copies will be available at the meeting for $20. The PDF version of the national meeting program will be more promi-nently displayed on the ACS website for those who would like to print portions for themselves. In my opinion the on-line pro-gram guide and mobile app perform poorly and certainly are not conducive to browsing. They need to be improved.

Committee on Membership Affairs has endorsed President Diane Schmidt’s campaign to invite faculty from PhD granting U.S. institutions to give ACS membership as an award to out-standing students in chemistry. Schmidt will match each gift by paying a student’s membership from her Presidential funds. This is a great opportunity for OU and OSU and I en-courage members to take advantage of the opportunity.

Annual Awards Banquet Honorees 2015 Service Milestones 50 Years of Service J. Paul Devlin, Stillwater Robert Orion Bost, Edmond Paul David Bowerman, Edmond Mary Pitynski Carpenter, Norman Anthony W. Harmon, Oklahoma City John Sidney Redmond, Midwest City Paul Earl Reinbold, Oklahoma City

60 Years of Service Floyd Farha, Oklahoma City Elliot Porter Doane, Oklahoma City K. Darrell Berlin, Stillwater

2015 Chemistry Olympiad Finalists Allen Chen (OSSM—Fazlur Rahman) Brittany Cogle (Yukon—DeLora Mowery) Mehdi Drissi (OSSM—Fazlur Rahman) Bailey Harper (Yukon—DeLora Mowery) Ian Kennedy (Norman North—Chris Yohn) Erica Luong (Midwest City—Leann Robertson) Ashutosh Raman (Norman North—Chris Yohn) Kaitlyn Trail (Weatherford—Nyla Watson) Shepard Wall (Midwest City—Leann Robertson)

Chemistry Olympiad News This March 126 students from 8 high schools participated in the local section competitions. Nine students took the Nation-al Exam on 18 Apr at SWOSU. These students may be invit-ed to attend the Study Camp at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs June 2–17. The US Team will attend the International Chemistry Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan July 20-28. We thank Tami Martyn, all the chemistry teachers, and students for their effort to make the 2015 Chemistry Olympiad a success.

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Check out the OK section’s web site

http://oklahoma.sites.acs.org/

2015 Oklahoma ACS Section Officers and

Standing Committee Chairs Luis D. Montes Chair Dane W. Scott Chair Elect Paul A. Sims Immediate Past Chair Lloyd A. Bumm Secretary + interim Newsletter ed. Jason Wickham Treasurer Allen Apblett Councilor + Nominations Com. Nicholas F. Materer Alternate Councilor Charles V. Rice Awards Com. Tami Martyn Chemistry Olympiad Com. J. Michael Ferguson National Chemistry Week Com. Cheryl Frech Public Relations Jim Dechter Web Master

SERMACS/SWRM 2015 71th Southwest Regional Meeting

04–07 November 2015 Hosted by The Memphis Section (Memphis, TN)

SOLICITING NOMINATIONS

Oklahoma Section Awards for Undergraduate Students The Roger Baldwin Graduate Student Award provides $500 for

students entering graduate school in chemistry or a chemistry related field. The application deadline is May 1st every year.

The Terrill Smith Travel Award is a grant of up to $600 for travel to present a paper or poster at a national or regional ACS meeting. The application deadline is 4 weeks prior to the meeting start date.

For more information and forms please visit the web site: http://oklahoma.sites.acs.org/undergraduateawards.htm

—Chuck Rice (Awards Committee)

Oklahoma. Additionally he has promoted STEM education in Oklahoma by coaching the TEAM+S (Test of Engineering Aptitude in Mathematics and Science) competition for the last 15 years. His students have consistently won state and na-tional championships in TEAM+S.

Dr. Rahman initiated and developed the organometallic chemistry research program for high school while at OSSM. He has supervised more than 45 students with chemistry re-search mentorships. He secured instructional instrumentation and research support for high school students from many different funding agencies. His contributions to a variety of chemistry outreach programs designed for K-12 students in-clude: (1) empowering his junior and senior students to intro-duce chemistry principles to thousands of fourth and fifth graders, (2) providing chemistry workshops for middle school and high school teachers, and (3) serving as a founding member of E-team, which has visited numerous elementary schools to popularize science with chemical demonstrations. Dr. Rahman has been instrumental in developing ACS curric-ulum in general chemistry and organic chemistry while in a high school setting. His students commonly receive chemistry course credit at state universities and other top institutions. Additionally, his students have attended chemistry programs at some of the most prestigious undergraduate and graduate schools in the nation. Many students from OSSM are current-ly chemistry/chemical engineering faculty members at Stan-ford, MIT, and Georgia Tech.

Dr. Fazlur Rahman earned B.Sc. (Hons) in chemistry from Jahangirnagar University, M.A. in organic chemistry from Brandeis University, and Ph.D. in organometallic chemistry from The Australian National University. He is the recipient of the Stanford University Teacher Tribute Award for exception-al teaching (2003), the Sigma Xi distinguish teaching award (2005), the American Chemical Society (ACS) Southwest Regional Award (2009), and the Research Opportunity Award from EPSCoR NSF in 2009 and 2015 . Dr. Rahman received fellowships from the Ames Laboratory (1990-91), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (1995), and Phillips Petroleum Company (1996-97). He has held visiting positions at the Uni-versity of Rochester (1998), Texas A&M (2012), and at the California Institute of Technology (2013). To his credit, Dr. Rahman has published more than 22 papers and has made more than 50 research presentations at national and interna-tional conferences. In addition to his position at the Oklaho-ma School of Science and Mathematics, Dr. Rahman also teaches chemistry as an adjunct professor at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Central Oklahoma.

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Congratulations to Megan Ayala from SWOSU for being awarded the Terrill Smith Travel Award to attend a regional or national chemistry conference. Megan used the $600 award to support travel costs to the 249th ACS National Meeting in Denver. Megan works with Prof. Tim Hubin and their work was described in a poster entitled 1,7-Dimethyl-1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane complexes of Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn: Synthesis and Characterization.

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