Tom Parliament is a flavor chemist who received
a BS degree in Chemistry from Lehigh University and a Ph.D. in Food Sciences
from the University of Massachusetts. In his career with General Foods and
Kraft Foods, he studied the aromatic composition of numerous foods such as
meat, coffee, baked goods, seafood, fruits, cheese and he has more than 20
patents and 50 publications in these and related areas. He is a member of
a number of professional societies, including the American Chemical Society
(ACS), Sigma XI, and the New York Institute of Food Technology. Tom is past
chairman of the New York Chromatography Society, the Flavor Subdivision of
the ACS, and the Rockland Chemical Society. He is the co-organizer of four
national ACS Symposia, covering biologically and thermally derived aromas.
He has co-edited four flavor-related books. Since receiving a retirement package
from Kraft, he has been a consultant to the flavor industry. You may contact
him at: tparliment@fcc.net
DR. ANGELO TULUMELLO
Angelo Tulumello was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1932. From the time he was two years old, during the great depression, he was raised by a single parent with a 6th grade education. He is a 50-year member of the ACS, having joined as an undergraduate at the University of Detroit when he was 19. He has been active in Chemistry from that day to the present. He has been surrounded by a variety of challenges and he has developed a reputation for taking exceptional risks. His survival has leaned heavily on an endowment of extraordinary good fortune.
When he completed the doctorate in Inorganic Chemistry at Purdue University, he met a man at the airport who immediately offered him a position of Professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue. Having less than a minimum qualification for this position, he failed to get tenure and moved to a position in the Physics Department at the University of Illinois. That position disappeared in 1972 with the collapse of government funding for infrared detectors. His field became instrumentation. He went with Standard Oil of Indiana to design an instrument to measure phosphate in fertilizer. When the instrument was completed and patented, he was fired. He took another position in Newport, Rhode Island. There he designed a Total Organic Carbon Analyzer. The operation allegedly was managed by Neanderthals. During his tenure, the department had 100% turn over every 16 months. This he documented by creating a “Dearly Departed List”. He resigned this posi- tion. He then went on to design two more Total Organic Carbon Analyzers for Delta Scientific. Delta’s assets were bought out by another company that was eventually merged with Envirotek, a Fortune 500 company that went broke. After that, he opened a consulting practice in the New York City area.
Through all this, he has had the good fortune of being married to a mathematician, whose whole focus in life if airplanes and aviation. Because of her exceptional programming skills, she was hired away from Grumman by Northwest Airlines to write flight simulator software in sunny Minnesota. At 60 years of age, she recently enhanced her numerous pilot ratings and flying skills by taking advanced training in acrobatic flying. She is quite happy to have Dr. Tulumello out of the house and traveling. With her encouragement, he has become something of a world traveler on Northwest Airlines. China was but one of his stops.
DR. E. GERALD MEYER
Dr. E. Gerald Meyer was born in Albuquerque, NM, and attended Carnegie Mellon University (B.S. in 1940 and M.S. in 1942), and the University of New Mexico (Ph.D. in 1950). He was a laboratory chemist for the U.S. Bureau of Mines, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (as a naval officer during WWII), and the Research Division of New Mexico Tech before returning to complete his graduate work. He was on the faculty of the University of Albuquerque (1950-52), and New Mexico Highlands University (1952-1963) where he was successively Department Head, and Dean of Graduate Studies and Research. In 1963, he was appointed Professor and Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Wyoming, and in 1976, Vice President for Research. In 1990, he retired and is currently Emeritus Professor and Dean and works part-time. Dr. Meyer has served as State Science Advisor, and as president of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, of the Associated Western Universities, and the Laramie Regional Airport Board. He chairs the ACS Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting, is Past President of the American Institute of Chemists, is Past Chair and Councilor of the ACS Wyoming Section, and has served, and continues to serve, on ACS national committees. Dr. Meyer is a consultant to governmental agencies and industrial companies, refining processes he invented and patented. He is listed in several Who’s Who editions: in the World, in America, in France and Industry, in Science and Technology. He has competed in the last three Nationj Senior Olympics (5K and 10K road races), rides a Harley, and is Vice Mayor of Laramie, Wyoming.
DR. CHARLES A. WILKIE
Charles A. Wilkie is a native of Detroit. He received the BS from the university of Detroit and the PhD from Wayne State University. He joined Marquette University in 1967 and never left. He has been visiting professor at the University of Utah and at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. His work is in the broad area of fire retardance and thermal degradation of polymers.
DR. JACK H. STOCKER
Born in Detroit, Michigan, he received his undergraduate degree from Olivet College (Michigan) and his M.S. in Biochemistry from Indiana University. After several years in industry as a Control Chemist for the R. P. Scherer Corporation, he returned to graduate school at Tulane University for a Ph.D. in organic chemistry. He did postdoctoral work with Dr. J. H. Boyer (Tulane) and Dr. Karl Freundenberg (Heidelberg, Germany). He taught at the University of Southern Mississippi (1956-58) and (as one of the founding faculty) at the University of New Orleans (1958-1991) where he is presently a Professor Emeritus. He was an ORAU Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1959) and has spent a Research Sabbatical at the University of Lund (Sweden). Active in Local Section and National ACS Governance, he has chaired the Committee on Meetings and Expositions, and served as a member of the Nomenclature Committee, and the Committee on Science. More recently, he has been an elected member of the Council Policy Committee and the Committee on Nominations and Elections. He is a frequent Local Section speaker. He is the ACS representative appointed to the Chemical Heritage Foundation Council.
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Richard Gilbert Ph.D.
Professor, Chemical Engineering,
Research Professor, Department of Surgery
College of Engineering, University of South Florida
gilbert@eng.usf.edu (813) 974 2139
Appointments
2000-present Co- Director, Center for Molecular Delivery, University South
Florida
2000-present Research Professor, Department of Surgery, University of South
Florida
1998-present Professor Chemical Engineering, University of South Florida
1992-1997 Chair Chemical Engineering Department, University of South Florida
1985-1997 Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of South Florida
1981-1985 Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of South Florida
RESEARCH INTEREST
Research efforts use instrumentation and/or process control as a common beginning.
Typically, an idea
or project will develop that requires either or both of these elements and
then the engineering science aspects
and applications are explored. Naturally, this approach reflects my interest
in instrumentation however; that
interest is always fortified by the application potential the project presents.
Instrumentation and or control efforts are not always focused in the traditional
chemical engineering
controls arena. For example, the exploration and ultimate use of fields to
facilitate and control in-vivo
molecular delivery has been an on going research effort for the past 15 years.
In general, projects are always
multidisciplinary in nature and scope and require major cooperative effort
among the faculty on the team.
Substantially funded successful efforts have dealt with topics in several
areas. These include, the effective
delivery of drugs and genes to tumors, the monitoring of MBE grown GaAs, the
detection and identification of
nanogram amounts of nitrate, nitrite and ammonia in the open ocean by an automated
system operating in a
small AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle), and the determination of the sampling
technique and equipment
for State standard adoption for Florida's entire citrus processing industry
FUNDED RESEARCH
NSF-ATE, "Planning Grant for Greater Tampa Bay Regional Center for Manufacturing,
(Barger, Miller, Hoff),
$50,000,2002
NSF-DUE, "High School Technology Initiative" (Hoff, Barger ) $450,000,
2002 - 2005.
Agere Systems/USF Consortium, "Develop Education/Training System for
Manufacturing Personnel",
$310,000, 2001.
U.S. Display Consortium Inc, "Environmental Testing in Clean room and
Mini-environment Ambient",
(Hoff), $99,585 2001.
Lucent Technologies, "The Effect of Heavy and Light Metal Contamination
and Defects in Advanced IC
Processes", (Hoff, Campbell, Bhethanabotla), $280,490, 2000.
Lucent Technologies, "Investigation of Process Induced Charging in State
of the Art CMOS Manufacturing",
(Hoff,Campbell, Bhethanabotla), $320,407, 2000.
Fl. Dept of Citrus, " Flip-gate Sampler Evaluation for Grapefruit ",
(Das, Miller), $ 29,017, 2000.
NIH, ""In vivo delivery of genes to skin",(Heller, Jaroszeski,
Coppola), $166,328, 1999-01.
NIH,"Electrochemotherapy for Treating Soft Tissue Sarcomas"(Heller,
Jaroszeski,Coppola) $712,450, 1999-02
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NSF, "Tech-4 Electronic Workforce Development System", (DUE 9950106)
(Hawat, Dickison,, Rogers)
$1,100,000, 1999-02.
Fl. Dept of Citrus, " Citrus Core Sampling ", (Miller, Das), $ 73,000,
1999.
Tropicana, "Flip-gate Citrus Sampler Evaluation ",(Miller, Das),
$35,261, 1998.
.Lucent Technology, Technology,( Hoff ) " Educational Materials for Vacuum
Technology", $180,000,1998.
.Lucent Technology, Technology,( Hoff ) " On-Line Techniques for Wafer
Quality Control", $120,000,1998.
Dept. of Defense-Navy, "Development of a Remote Sensing Capability for
Nitrogen-Bearing Nutrients on an
Underwater Vehicle in the Coastal Ocean", (Fanning), $344,062, 1998.
Fl. Dept of Citrus, "Evaluation of Citrus Samplers for Pounds Solids
", (Miller, Das), $108,003, 1997.
American Cancer Society, "Electrochemotherapy, for the Treatment of Liver
Malignancies", (Heller, Yeatman,
Rapaport) $187,000, 1997-1998.
Genetronics Inc, "Electrochemotherapy as an Antitumor Treatment",(Heller,Jaroszeski),
$181,640, 1997.
Dept. of Defense-Navy, "Development of Remote Sensing for Nutrients on
an UAV in the Coastal
Ocean", $51,628, 1997.
Fl. Dept of Citrus, Citrus Sampling Systems Eval.,(Miller, Das), $108,003,
1997.
Lucent Technology, Technology Transfer in IC Processing, (Hoff), $310,000,
1997.
Genetronics Inc, "Electrochemotherapy as an Antitumor Treatment",(Heller,
Reintgen, Glass, and
Messina), $ 30,000, 1997.
CBR Laboratories, Inc., "In Vivo Delivery of Competent Genes for the
Treatment of Human Diseases", (Heller,
and Jaroszeski), $20,000, 1997.
Fl. Dept of Citrus, "Chemical Analysis Comparison", (Miller, Das),$121,969,
1996.
Office of Navel Research, "Development of a Remote Sensing Capability
for Nitrogen-Bearing Nutrients on
an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle in Coastal Oceans", (Fanning), $280,137,
1996.
Dept. of Energy, "Acoustic Octane Measurement System Evaluation",
$ 57,872 1995.
Office of Navel Research," Nutrient detection from Autonomous Underwater
Vessels", $96,000, 1995.
Genetronics Inc, "Effectiveness of Electrochemotherapy as a Antitumor
Treatment",(Heller,Reintgen,
Glass, Messina), $64,075, 1995.
NOAA, "Nitrate/Nitrite and Ammonia Detection System", $64,000, 1994.
Genetronics Inc,"Electrochemotherapy for Metastatic Melanoma and Other
Cutaneous and Subcutaneous
Malignancies",(Heller), $48,863, 1994.
Florida High Technology Council, $10,000, "Incorporation of Computer
Control Equipment into the Manufacture
of Packing Plant Equipment", 1993.
Critikon Corporation (Johnson&Johnson), "Biocompatibility of Vascular
Access Device Materials", $4,800, 1990.
Telemecanique Inc., "Programmable Controller Applications in Rock Crushing
Plants",$5,000, 1989.
Florida High Technology Council, $103,000, "Incorporation of Computer
Control Equipment into the Packing
Plant Environment",(Miller),1993-1990.
Florida High Technology Council, $18,000, "Computer Control of Packing
Plant Environment",1989.
EPRI,"Microprocess Control/ Management for Peak Load Distribution in
Florida Produce Industry",$32,000, 1984.
Allied Water Corporation,"Performance Analysis of Conductivity Instrumentation",
$3,500, 1982.