An article
in the October issue of Chemical & Engineering News said that not only is KU's chemistry department ranked
among the top 50 in the U.S., it also has the highest percentage of women
professors. Though Kristin Bowman-James said KU hired its first woman chemistry
professor in 1921, it did not hire a woman faculty member again until her hire
in 1975. During her stint as chairman of the department, BowmanJames actively
recruited women. That trend has not changed.
The seven
chemistry professors and two courtesy professors from other departments are
Helena C. Malinakova, Heather Desaire, Janet Bond-Robinson, Kristin Bowman-James,
K. Barbara Schowen, Cynthia K. Larive, Gunda I. Georg (medicinal chemistry),
Susan Lunte (pharmaceutical chemistry), and Cindy L. Berrie. •