Remembering Madalyn Paganetti

Today I heard about the passing of Madalyn Paganetti who was a cataloger at the NJIT Library until her retirement in 2003.  Her obituary in the Star-Ledger  stated she was 88 years old.

In all the years that I have worked at the NJIT Library, Madalyn had to be the friendliest worker.  She never had a bad word to say about anyone.  I remember she organized a lottery pool for the library employees.  We never won anything, but this helped to unify the staff.  She enjoyed her job as she worked until she was about 78 years old.  I remember her retirement luncheon at the Manor in West Orange.  She kept in touch with us for several years after her retirement.  It is a shame that the newer people in the library never had the pleasure of working with her.

My condolences to her family.

Happy Retirement to Carol Venanzi of the NJIT Chemistry Department

 There was a retirement party today for Carol Venanzi seen above with yours truly.  She was a dedicated researcher and teacher in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science for over 30 years.  She was one of the first people I met when I came to NJIT in 1992.  It was my pleasure to provide library services to her for all those years.  Below is a partial list of her publications:

Pandit, D., Fiorentino, A., Bindra, S., Venanzi, C.A.

Singular value decomposition analysis of the torsional angles of dopamine reuptake inhibitor GBR 12909 analogs: Effect of force field and charges

(2011) Journal of Molecular Modeling, 17 (6), pp. 1343-1351.

Pandit, D., Roosma, W., Misra, M., Gilbert, K.M., Skawinski, W.J., Venanzi, C.A.

Conformational analysis of piperazine and piperidine analogs of GBR 12909: Stochastic approach to evaluating the effects of force fields and solvent

(2011) Journal of Molecular Modeling, 17 (1), pp. 181-200. Cited 1 time.

Misra, M., Shi, Q., Ye, X., Gruszecka-Kowalik, E., Bu, W., Liu, Z., Schweri, M.M., Deutsch, H.M., Venanzi, C.A.

Quantitative structure-activity relationship studies of threo-methylphenidate analogs

(2010) Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 18 (20), pp. 7221-7238. Cited 4 times.

Banerjee, A., Misra, M., Pai, D., Shih, L.-Y., Woodley, R., Lu, X.-J., Srinivasan, A.R., Olson, W.K., Davé, R.N., Venanzi, C.A.

Feature extraction using molecular planes for fuzzy relational clustering of a flexible dopamine reuptake inhibitor

(2007) Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 47 (6), pp. 2216-2227. Cited 4 times.

Gilbert, K.M., Boos, T.L., Dersch, C.M., Greiner, E., Jacobson, A.E., Lewis, D., Matecka, D., Prisinzano, T.E., Zhang, Y., Rothman, R.B., Rice, K.C., Venanzi, C.A.

DAT/SERT selectivity of flexible GBR 12909 analogs modeled using 3D-QSAR methods

(2007) Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 15 (2), pp. 1146-1159. Cited 8 times.

Fiorentino, A., Pandit, D., Gilbert, K.M., Misra, M., Dios, R., Venanzi, C.A.

Singular value decomposition of torsional angles of analogs of the dopamine reuptake inhibitor GBR 12909

(2006) Journal of Computational Chemistry, 27 (5), pp. 609-620. Cited 6 times.

Gilbert, K.M., Venanzi, C.A.

Hierarchical clustering analysis of flexible GBR 12909 dialkyl piperazine and piperidine analogs

(2006) Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, 20 (4), pp. 209-225. Cited 7 times.

Misra, M., Banerjee, A., Davé, R.N., Venanzi, C.A.

Novel feature extraction technique for fuzzy relational clustering of a flexible dopamine reuptake inhibitor

(2005) Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 45 (3), pp. 610-623. Cited 8 times.

Gilbert, K.M., Skawinski, W.J., Misra, M., Paris, K.A., Naik, N.H., Buono, R.A., Deutsch, H.M., Venanzi, C.A.

Conformational analysis of methylphenidate: Comparison of molecular orbital and molecular mechanics methods

(2004) Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, 18 (11), pp. 719-738. Cited 12 times.

Banerjee, A., Venanzi, C.A., Misra, M., Davé, R.N.

Fuzzy clustering in drug design: Application to cocaine abuse

(2004) Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS, 1, pp. 308-313. Cited 2 time