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Rocky Mount, N.C. VOL.16N0^4 Wesleyan s Student Voice Since 1984** FRIDAY, JANUARY 26,2001 Crash kills former professor Physical/theoretical chemist was interested in ‘why^ of life "Dr. Deb was very patient when she explained her research work to me for this news release announcing her lecture," wrote Madeline Walls, 12/14/00, campus intranet: The Fourth Monday Colloquium al North Carolina Wesleyan College features Dr. Deborah Glover-Fischer, Monday. Sept. 28, 1998, at 11:30 a.m. in the Leon Russell Chapel. Dr. Glover-Fischer’s topic will be “‘Excited-State Enantionier Interconversion Kinetics Probed by Time- Resolved Chiroptical Luminescence Spectroscopy, and the Solvent and Temperature Dependence of Enanti- omer Interconversion Rates in Solution. The event is free to the public. Dr. Glover-Fischer is a physical/theoretical chemist, not a synthetic chemist. She is interested in the “why” things happen. Her topic is basically looking at a mol ecule from a chemotherapeutic drug. The molecule has two mirror-image forms. Like a right and left hand, the mirror image forms can’t be superimposed; the two differ chemically and physically. In solution, if you can isolate one of the two forms, it will always convert to the other one. Her study is concerned with how fast it lakes for one form to con vert to the other, or the process of racemization. Then Glover-Fischer also looks at how that process is af fected by temperature, and by the substance in which it is dis.solved. The molecules are normally .solids, but are dissolved in various liquids. In particular, she looks at how certain chemothera peutic agents interact with DNA. It’s not possible to look at what interacts with DNA, but you can look at what is left in the solution. A lot of chemotherapeutic drugs have right- and left-hand components. The com ponent that’s useless remains in the solution, and by process of elimination you can deduce what part of the molecule attaches to the DNA. Her study involves different types of applications, the primary application is in the treatment of can cer. In her research, Glover-Fischer is trying to find out '^'hy the one-handed form attaches. “If we can under stand the difference between the two, if you know the reason why, you should be able to do a better job at creating new chemotherapeutic drugs that would work inore effectively,” she said. Her article about this research is soon to be pub lished in the journal, “Inorganic Chemistry.” By KEIRA SCHLADEMAN Dr. Deborah Glover-Fischer, a former NCWC professor, was killed Dec. 13 in an automobile accident on VA 40 just east of Ferrum, Va. Glover-Fischer’s vehicle col lided with a logging truck after she lost control of her vehicle around 8 a.m. Neither driver was wearing a seatbelt. The driver of the logging truck sustained mi nor injuries. There were no pas sengers. Glover-Fischer was heading from Rocky Mount to Ferrum College in Ferrum, where she was employed as a chemistry and physics professor, when the acci dent occurred. She was on her way to administer final exams to her students. Although no longer employed at NCWC, notice of her death was sent via email to all faculty, stu dents, and staff. Dr. Gail Stafford commented, “Students, faculty, and staff are saddened by the tragic death of Dr. Deborah Glover-Fischer.” Glover-Fischer, commonly known to the Wesleyan commu nity as Dr. Deb, taught Chemis try, Physics, and Energy at Wesleyan from August 1995 un til last August, when she left to assume a position at Ferrum Col lege. She also advised the Alpha Sigma Tau sorority while she was at Wesleyan College. For those at Wesleyan who had the opportunity to know Dr. Deb, her memory will live on. Stafford remembers, “The happy picture etched in my mind of Dr. Deb is the one where she is wearing her white lab coat and strolling down DR. DEBORAH GLOVER-FISCHER the hall of Gravely Science to in form us that there is no problem, just a little fire or explosion.” Glover-Fischer was 34 years old. Wesleyan slates full Black History Month A full slate of events has been scheduled during February at N.C. Wesleyan for Black History Month. On Friday, Feb. 2, will be the movie, “The Learning Tree,” co sponsored by Multicultural Af fairs and CAB at 9 p.m. in the Hartness Center The movie “Soul Food,” co sponsored by SB A and CAB, will be shown on Friday, Feb. 9, at 9 p.m. in the Hartness Center. On Thursday, Feb. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Hartness Student Cen ter, African-American Storyteller/ Griot, Shindana Cooper, will per formed, co-sponsored by Multicultural Affairs, BSA and CAB. On Friday, Feb. 16, the movie “Cabin in the Sky,” co-sponsored by Multicultural Affairs and CAB, will be shown at 9 p.m. in the Hartness Center. On Thursday Feb. 22, a one- man play, “Destiny’s Child”, will be performed at 7:30pm in the Minges Auditorium, co-spon sored by Multicultural Affairs, BSA and CAB Slam Poetry Night, sponsored by the BSA, will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 18, at 9 p.m. in the Hartness Student Center. Contact Janet L. Morrison, Assistant Director of Student Life, for more information on these events. Wesleyan gets new Dean of Students Dr. Tyrone Bledsoe has wel comed Maude Emily Mobley to N.C. Wesleyan as the new Dean of Students. She will be replac ing Kevin Hughes. Mobley comes to Wesleyan from Atlanta. Ga. Previously, she served as Director of Residence Life at Spelman College. She had extensive experience in Student Affairs in Higher Rdncation and will certainly position Student Life for the 21st century. She received her Bachelor’s of Arts from UNC-Chapel Hill and her Master’s of Education from UNC-Greensboro with an empha sis in Counseling and Guidance. Dr. Tom O’Connor has an nounced that Mark Stevens, J.D., will join the main campus Justice Snidies faciiltv as a full rime Vis iting Assistant Professor Jan. 29. His degree is from the Tho mas Jefferson School of Law, and he has extensive experience in military law, private practice, and criminal justice instruction. He will be teaching Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evi dence, and Victimology. His of fice is located in BA 239C (Busi ness SniteV
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