FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                          March 1, 2004

CHEMISTRY JOURNALS DONATED TO NORTHWESTERN

            Thanks to the generosity of a ConocoPhillips staff member, chemistry students at Northwestern Oklahoma State University now will have approximately 15 years of professional journals available for reference.

            Steven McDonald, senior staff scientist in Emerging Technology Development at ConocoPhillips in Ponca City has donated his personal copies of the Journal of the American Chemical Society and the Journal of Organic Chemistry to Northwestern.

            McDonald, who has been subscribing to the journals since he was in graduate school in the mid-1980s, said rules of the American Chemical Society prohibit giving the journals away until they are at least five years old. The journals Northwestern received are from the mid-1980s through 1999. He said he would deliver the 2000 editions next year.

            “I attended a state college very similar to Northwestern,” McDonald said, “so I decided to donate the journals to the chemistry department here.”

            Dr. Kenneth Brown, professor of chemistry, was extremely pleased to receive the journals.

            “Our students have access to the journals online through the library, but will be nice to have them immediately available here in the Science Building,” Dr. Brown said. “We used to have a library in the building, but over the years it has evolved into a seminar room. We need to have shelves re-installed.”

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