GSS HISTORY

23rd Year: 2005 (78 attending)
        Chairmen:  Danielle McMaster, Carrie Buckley, Sarah Burns & Jennifer Appawu

• Keynote Speaker:  Dr. Radislav Potyrailo, GE Global Research Center
• Keynote Speaker:  Dr. John L. Wood, Yale University

• McMaster University
• Syracuse University
• University of Rochester
• University of Waterloo
• Cornell University
• University of Durham
• Roswell Park Cancer Institute
• Buffalo State College
• The University of Western Ontario
• Bu-Ali Sina University

22nd Year: 2004 (67 attended)
        Chairmen:  Jessica France, Ruslan Pryadun, Elizabeth Tehan & Abbas M. Walji

• Keynote Speaker:  Professor Melissa A. Hines, Cornell University
• Keynote Speaker:  Professor Justin Du Bois, Stanford University
• Keynote Speaker: Professor Jochen Autschbach, University at Buffalo
  

• Brock University
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

21st Year: 2003 (50+ attended)
        Chairmen:  Carl Adams, Paul Bigwarfe & Ellen Shughart

• Keynote Speaker:  Dr. Charles Ross III, Merck Research Laboratories
• Keynote Speaker:  Dr. Allison A. Campbell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories

20th Year: 2002 (52 attended)
        Chairmen:  Douglas Smith, Daniel Higbee & Wendy Gardinier

• Keynote Speaker:  Professor Mark Lautens, University of Toronto
• Keynote Speaker:  Professor Scott McLuckey, Purdue University
  

• University of Toronto
• York University
• McMaster University

19th Year: 2001 (70 attended)
        Chairmen:  Derrick W. Lucey, Thomas P. White & Anthony R. Dolan

• Keynote Speaker:  Dr. Al Sattelberger, Los Alamos National Laboratories
• Keynote Speaker:  Dr. William Simonsick, Dupont

18th Year: 2000 (64 attended)
        Chairpersons:  Sheila Daniel & Todd Maloney

• Keynote Speaker:  Professor Fred E. Lytle, Purdue University
• Keynote Speaker:  Professor Michael P. Doyle, University of Arizona

• Purdue University
  
• University of Arizona
• York University
• McMaster University
• The University of Western Ontario

17th Year: 1999 (75 attended)
        Chairmen:  Adam M. Hawkridge & Christopher D. Kim

• Keynote Speaker: Professor Brian Hoffmann, Northwestern University
• Keynote Speaker: Dr. Terrence Vargo, Integument Technologies, Inc.

• McMaster University
  
• Binghamton University
• Syracuse University
• York University

16th Year: 1998 (152 attended)
        Chairpersons:  Maureen Kane & Steve Panaro

• Keynote Speaker:  Dr. Herbert A. Hauptman, Woodward-Hauptman Medical Research Institute
• Keynote Speaker:  Dr. Robert Opila, Lucent Technologies
• Keynote Speaker:  Dr. James Burke, Rohm and Haas

• Brock University
• Duquense University
• McMaster University
• Roswell Park Cancer Institute
• York University
• Binghamton Univeristy

15th Year: 1997 (67 attended)
        Chairpersons:  Rapfeal Alicea-Maldonado & Kimberly Reynolds

• Keynote Speaker: Professor Arthur B. Ellis, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Keynote Speaker: Professor Fred W. MacLafferty, Cornell University

• McMaster University
• Broch University
• Penn State University
• Tufts University
• York University
• Buffalo State University
• University of Rochester

14th Year: 1996 (86 attended)
        Chairpersons:  Lara Chappell & Chistine Ingersoll

• Keynote Speaker: Professor Barbara Sawray, University of California, San Diego
• Keynote Speaker: Professor Geraldine Richmond, University of Oregon

• McMaster University
• Clarkson University
• York University
• University of Vermont
• Wayne State University
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• University of Toronto
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• University of Toledo

13th Year: 1995 (78 attended)
        Chair:  Emily Niemeyer

• Keynote Speaker: Professor Gary M. Hieftje, Indiana University
• Keynote Speaker: Dr. Susan E. Kegley, University of California, Berkeley

• University of Michigan
• University of Toronto
• McGrill University
• Northeastern University
• Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Penn State University
• Eastern Michigan University
• Clarkson University
• Syracuse Univeristy
• Ohio State University
• University of Western Ontario

12th Year: 1994 (78 attended)
        Chair:  David Voss

• Keynote Speaker: Dr. Donald J. White, Proctor and Gamble Company
• Keynote Speaker: Professor George M. Bodner, Purdue University

• University of Pittsburgh
• Brown University
• Brandeis University
• McMaster University
• Clark University
• University of Western Ontario
• Clarkson University
• University of Windsor
• University of Connecticut
• SUNY Stony Brook

11th Year: 1993 (69 attended)
        Chair:  Fred Safarowic

• Keynote Speaker: Dr. George W. Parshall
• Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mark Stephen Wrighton

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• University of Toronto
• SUNY at Binghampton
• Carneigie Mellon University
• McMaster University
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Western Ontario
• Case Western Reserve University

10th Year: 1992 (?? attended)
        Chair:  Greg Agoston

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• Alfred University
• Boston College
• Brown University
• Buffalo State College
• Indian University of Pennsylvania
• Kent State University
• McGrill University
• Ohio State University
• SUNY of Binghampton
• University of Minnisota
• University of New Hampshire
• University of Toronto, Erindale College
• University of Toronto
• University of Western Ontario
• University of Windsor
• Western Kentucky University
• York University

9th Year: 1991 (77 attended)
        Chair:  JoAnn Zagrobelny

• Keynote Speaker: Dr. M. Bonner Denton
• Keynote Speaker: Dr. Stephen V. Kaye

• University of Toronto
• University of New Hampshire
• York University
• Univeristy of Waterloo
• Ohio State University
• University of Windsor
• Dartmouth College
• Clarkson University
• Adelphia University
• University of Rochester
• Columbia University

8th Year: 1990 (94 attended)
        Chairpersons:  Cindy Burkhardt & Kevin Litwiler

• Keynote Speaker: Dr. Marjorie H. Gardner
• Keynote Speaker: Dr. Henry Blount

• Buffalo State College
• Clark University
• Erindale College - University of Toronto
• Indiana University of Pennsylvania
• McMaster University
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Roswell Park Cancer Institute
• SUNY at Buffalo
• Tufts University
• University of Guelph
• University of New Hampshire
• University of Toronto
• University of Waterloo
• Univeristy of Western Ontario
• Yale University
• York University

7th Year: 1989 (88 attended)
        Chair:  Linda Kelash

• Keynote Speaker: Dr. Frank Westheimer
• Keynote Speaker: Dr. Arthur Diaz

• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Toronto
• University of New Hampshire
• University of Waterloo
• University of Western Ontario
• University of Guelph
• McMaster University
• University of Delaware
• University of Rochester
• Bharathidason University
• Roswell Park Memorial Institute
• SUNY of Binghampton
• Case Western Reserve University

6th Year: 1988 (73 attended)
        Chairpersons:  Marie LoRe, Linda Kelash & John Manka

• Keynote Speaker: Dr. F. H. Ebetino
• Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jerry March

• University of Waterloo
• Univeristy of Guelph
• McMaster University
• Syracuse University
• Roswell Park Medical Institute
• Carnegie Mellon University
• University of Western Ontario
• University of Rochester
• Case Western Reserve University
• University of Toronto

5th Year: 1987 (68 attended)
        Chairpersons:  John Manka, Mary Marmion, Marie LoRe & Sally Ann Smesko

• Keynote Speaker: Dr. George H. Morrison

• University of Toronto
• University of Guelph
• University of Rochester
• McMaster University
• Clarkson University
• Rensselear Polytechnic Institute
• Case Western Reserve University
• Yale University

4th Year: 1986 (65 attended)
        Chairpersons:  Sally Ann Smesko & John Manka

• University of Toronto
• Erindale College
• University of Rochester
• Univeristy of Guelph
• McMaster University
• SUNY Binghamton
• Ohio State University
• Case Western Reserve University
• Bowling Green University
• Cornell University

3rd Year: 1985 (57 attended)
        Chairmen:  Tom Zawodsinski & Tony Lanzalaco

• Case Western Reserve University
• University of Rochester
• University of Toronto
• University of Guelph
• McMaster University
• Cornell University
• York University
• Syracuse Univeristy

2nd Year: 1984 (32 attended)
        Chair:  Louis Fadel

• University of Toronto
• University of Rochester

1st Year: 1983 (?? attended)
        Chair:  Louis Fadel