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John Schroeder

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Name:	John Schroeder
Title:	Professor
Department	Physics, Applied Physics & Astronomy
School	Science
Website:	http://rpi.edu/dept/phys/faculty/profiles/schroeder.html

Bio Prior to joining the faculty of Rensselaer in January, 1982, he was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy from June, 1962, to January, 1970. From 1975 to 1978 Professor Schroeder was a Post-Doctoral Associate in the School of Chemical Sciences and a Senior staff member of the Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana. In l978, he joined the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center in Schenectady, NY. He did basic glass and ceramic material research and examined material behavior at ultra high pressure (diamonds).

At Rensselaer he studied the optical and magnetic properties of glasses using Rayleigh, Brillouin and Raman spectroscopic techniques at extremes of pressure and temperatures.

Recently Schroeder has worked on confirming the existence of intermediate range order in glasses leading to an explanation of the existence of non-exponential structural relaxation in glasses. He also leads a program of optical characterization of nanocrystalline (II-VI and IV) semiconductors with high pressure being a most important parameter. Now, he also works on the problem of cataract formation in the human lens employing photoluminescence spectroscopy and perturbative colorimetry techniques.

Schroeder is the author or coauthor of over 110 published technical articles in refereed journals and proceedings. Under Schroeder’s guidance ten Ph.D. thesis students and eight M.S. students have completed their degrees. He has also supervised undergraduate research participants for over twenty students.

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Education Ph.D., Physics, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. B.S., M.S., University of Rochester.

Scholarly Works:

M..R. Silvestri and J. Schroeder. “Pressure and Laser Tuned Raman Scattering In II-IV Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Electron-Phonon Coupling” Phys. Rev B50, 15108 (1994). J. Schroeder and P.D. Persans. “Spectroscopy of II-VI Nanocrystals at High Pressure and HighTemperture.” J. of Luminescence 70, 69 (1996).

Mark Wentland

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Name:	Mark Wentland
Title:	Professor
Department	Chemistry and Chemical Biology
School	Science
Website:	http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem/chem_faculty/profiles/wentland.html

Bio Mark Wentland began his career in drug discovery in 1970 when he joined the medicinal chemistry department at Sterling Winthrop Inc. He earned his Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry in 1970 at Rice University under the direction of the late Professor Robert V. Stevens. During his 24 years at Sterling Winthrop, he held various positions of scientific and administrative responsibility with his last positions being Sterling Winthrop Fellow and Oncology Discovery Co-Chair. During the period 1971-1994, he was Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY where he taught over 30 graduate-level organic and medicinal chemistry courses.
In 1994, he joined the chemistry faculty at Rensselaer as Professor of Chemistry. At Rensselaer, he maintains a federally-funded research program in medicinal chemistry aimed at identifying novel, long-acting oral agents to treat cocaine addiction in humans. He recently developed the course Drug Discovery, where students learn and practice modern techniques of drug discovery. He holds the concurrent position of Adjunct Professor - Center for Neuropharmacology & Neuroscience at Albany Medical College where his responsibilities include collaborative neuroscience research with AMC scientists and presentation of lectures relating to medicinal chemistry.

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Education Doctoral: Rice University, Houston, TX, 1966-1970 Ph.D., Organic Chemistry [Thesis Advisor: Dr. R. V. Stevens (deceased)] Undergraduate: Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, 1962-1966 B.S., Chemistry (Mathematics-minor)

Scholarly Works:

Wentland, M. P.; Lou, R.; Lu, Q.; Bu, Y.; Denhardt, C.; Jin, J.; Ganorkar, R.; VanAlstine, M. A.; Guo, C.; Cohen, D. J.; Bidlack, J. M. " Syntheses of novel high affinity ligands for opioid receptors" Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2009, 19, 2289–2294.
Conroy, J. L.; Fang, C.; Gu, J.; Zeitlin, S. O.; Yang, W.; Yang, J.; VanAlstine, M. A.; Nalwalk, J. W.; Albrecht, P. J.; Mazurkiewicz, J. E.; Snyder-Keller, A.; Shan, Z.; Zhang, S.; Wentland, M. P.; Behr, M.; Knapp, B. I.; Bidlack, J. M; Zuiderveld, O. P.; Leurs, R.; Ding, X.; Hough, L. B. "Opioids Activate Brain Analgesic Circuits Through Cytochrome P450/Epoxygenase Signaling." Nature Neuroscience, 2010, 13, 284-286.
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