September 2003 Meeting
The three hundred and forty third meeting of the Section will be held on Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. The guest speaker, Dr. Lee Lefkowitz, will present a talk entitled "Safely Destroying the U.S. Stockpile of Chemical Weapons."
Social: 5-6 pm, Langone Center room 240.
Dinner: 6-7 pm, Langone Center room 241 A, B, C.
Dinner will be a buffet at $10.15. Please RSVP by Friday, September 5, to Janet Zimmerman at (570)577-3258 or jzimmrmn@bucknell.edu (Because of our lateness in getting this out, we will probably try to accommodate late RSVPs as best we can).
Directions: Bucknell University lies adjacent to U.S. Route 15 and the south side of the borough of Lewisburg, about 7 miles south of old exit 30 on Interstate 80. A campus map is available on the Bucknell home page or call the Chemistry Department at the above number for directions.
Dr. Lee J. Lefkowitz (Bucknell ’93) received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at San Diego after graduating from Bucknell. Following his research in biochemistry at UC San Diego, he entered the U.S. Army. He currently holds the rank of captain and is stationed at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland where he heads the Department of Defense (DOD) Cholinesterase Reference Laboratory (CRL). The CRL is responsible for managing the quality assurance component of the DOD-mandated medical surveillance program that monitors red blood cell cholinesterase levels for personnel at chemical weapons storage depots, chemical weapons demilitarization facilities and a number of smaller organizations that also work with nerve agents. His laboratory performs a specialized clinical test that is the most sensitive method available to detect nerve agent exposure. As part of his work, Lee is involved with new methods to destroy chemical weapons as required by the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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