Extras

Thanks for visiting us. If you've gotten this far, you must be really curious! Or really bored.

Deck Group Creed

  • We make useful, robust, creative contributions to the frontiers of chemistry.
  • We enjoy a steep learning curve.
  • We embrace critical thinking, team-building, innovation, and leadership.
  • We are responsible for our own careers.
  • We serve our group, our department, and our profession every working day.
  • We have lives outside the lab.

Old News (continued from home page)

  • October, 2007. Prof. Deck is elected to his second term as Secretary of SERMACS, Inc.
  • May, 2007. Former group member Mason Haneline (PhD, Texas A&M, postdocs with Alan Heyduk at UCI and Oleg Ozerov at Brandeis) joins Heraeus Metal Processing in Santa Fe Springs, CA. Congratulations Mason!

 

Photo Gallery

The grainy ones were scanned from film prints.

Barbecue at Prof. Deck's house.

  • Top: Owen Lofthus, Paul Deck.
  • Middle: Nate Reynolds, Matt Thornberry.
  • Bottom: Jenn Montgomery.
Andrew Tobiesen.

Our Group ca. 2001.

  • Front: Andrea Warren, Carrie Maiorana, Frank Cavadas.
  • Second Row : Owen Lofthus, Xu Cheng.
  • Third Row: Caleb Kroll,* Paul Deck, Prof. Gary Hollis.*
  • Back: Matt Thornberry.

*Caleb and Gary are collaborators from Roanoke College.

Group dinner at Boudreaux's in downtown Blacksburg. Left to right: Mason Haneline, Michael Lane, Jenn Montgomery, Mike Podraza, Paul Deck, Huaiying Kang, Matt Thornberry, and Kumi Jayaratne.

 

Paul Deck standing at his hood in Paul Gassman's lab at the University of Minnesota (last year of graduate school). This picture was scanned from a Polaroid picture!
Symposium at SERMACS on Functionalized Cyclopentadienyl Ligands. Left to Right: Eric Mintz (Clark Atlanta University), Tim Hanusa (Vanderbilt), Paul Deck (VT), Terry Nile (UNC Greensboro), and Russ Hughes (Dartmouth).
One of our vacuum lines. From our days in the field of Organometallic chemistry. This picture is posted in fond memory of Frans van Damme, our wonderful master glassblower who, with his talented coworker Andy Mollick, made so much of our equipment during our organometallic chemistry days. Andy is now also retired and we have an amazing new glassblower, Tom Wertalik.
The inorganic group at Virginia Tech ca. 1996. Left to right: Brian Hanson, Paul Deck, John Dillard, Karen Brewer, and Joe Merola. Since those days we have added an amazing colleague, Gordon Yee, to the inorganic team at VT.