Mathematics is Focus of Two Grants C A M P U S C U R R E N T F a c u l t y N e w s
waste while illustrating important chemical concepts and bringing modern chemistry into undergraduate laboratories.” The student coauthors are Terence Wong ’09 and Camille
Sultana ’10 (for warfarin) and Rachel Nishimura ’09 and Chiara Giammanco ’10 (for divanillin).
Rachel Nishimura ’09 worked in Prof. Vosburg’s lab during summer 2008 on a divanillin experiment. Their work was recently published in the Journal of Chemical Education.
In Memoriam
Graydon Bell, physics HMC’s first research program in physics was Graydon D. Bell’s work in astrophysics. His research over many years received National Science Foundation (NSF) sup- port, involved many HMC physics majors and led to a number of pub- lications, one of which appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal Society with Greg Lyzenga ’75, now professor of physics, as co-author. “Gray brought with him a vision for excellence that helped
shape the department and College we know today,” said Robert Cave, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty. Bell, 87, one of the College’s founding faculty members, died
July 20, at his home in Claremont. He arrived at HMC in 1957 from Caltech. He had previously taught at Robert College in Istanbul and served in the Army Air Corps. During his time at HMC, he served as physics department chair (1971–1981) and chair of the faculty (1985–1988). An authority in the field of optics and spectroscopy, the interpretation of interaction be- tween matter and radiation, Bell received an NSF research grant in 1978. His yearlong research as part of the U.S.-Australia Co- operative Science program, helped to improve the quality of un- dergraduate teaching at HMC by providing models to upgrade HMC lab courses along with specific concepts for student re- search. He retired from the college in 1988. Read about the first six years of the HMC Physics Department
in Bell’s own words at
www.hmc.edu/academicsclinicresearch/aca- demicdepartments/physics/history/
earliest.html.
Thomas Woodson, engineering Thomas Theodore Woodson, senior professor of engineering emeritus and former Engineering Clinic director, died June 11 in Claremont, Calif., at the age of 100. Sam Tanenbaum, professor of life sciences and engineering
and dean emeritus, who, with Woodson, initiated the HMC Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) pro- gram in 1978, said, “Tom was a great designer and engineer, but he was also a wonderful person with a strong moral com- mitment to serve society—whether that meant motivating and providing opportunities for low-income high school students to become engineers through the MESA program, arranging pro- bono Clinic projects to help handicapped children, or build- ing homes for low income families with Habitat for Humanity.” Woodson arrived at
HMC in 1969 and chaired the engineering depart- ment from 1972 to 1973. As director of the Engi- neering Clinic from 1972 to 1977, he is credited with
significantly accelerating the growth of the program. He retired as Clinic director in 1977, but continued to teach part time and twice more led the Engineering Clinic in 1980–81 and 1984–85. John Molinder, James Howard Kindelberger Professor of En-
gineering, remarked of his friend Woodson, “Tom had incred- ible energy and was not one to waste time. Finishing a conver- sation with him often involved following him part way to the next activity on his agenda. He is one of the people I look to as models of how to live life to the fullest.”
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