Whelan's Most Amazing Drug

Hello Classmates, it is I, Megan Whelan, and this is my beautiful portrait taken by my lovely roommate. Here I pose with my interlibrary loan book, and to add some spice, a bottle of Aspirin (well, Ibuprofen, but it is the same thing). Why a bottle of Aspirin you ask? Because the book I have chosen is:

 "ASPIRIN- The Story of a Wonderful Drug" Written by Diarmuid Jefferys, and published by Bloomsburg in New York in 2004. 

I have chosen this book because I am positive Dr. Carlson's assignments will give me headaches.

I'm just kidding. 

The real reason I have chosen this book, is due to the Undergraduate Research I am conducting under the supervision of Dr. Patricia Kreke in the Science Department. During the spring semester course of Organic Chemistry, Organic students conduct a three step synthesis experiment, which we call the "Sequence Experiment." Over the past few years, Dr. Kreke, with the help of advanced Organic Chemistry students, have begun to "remodel" this experiment, so that it yields Aspirin, instead of the useless molecule Organic students are making now. I figured, if I am supposed to help make Aspirin, I should learn more about the drug and its history; and so I chose this book as my essay assignment. 

Carlson, Mark and Waxman "Carmen Fantasy" arr. Vertommen (Example)

Name: Carlson, Mark
Item title: Carmen Fantasy
Author: Georges Bizet / arr. Luc Vertommen (Waxman)
Publisher: Bocchino Music
Date: 2010
Note: Possibly illegal transcription of the Waxman Carmen Fantasy done by Vertommen for Bocchion music originally for Jascha Heifetz, violin. This edition up a halfstep and marred by key signature errors should be a bit easier to play on an instrument pitched in B-flat (like euphonium) even though I've already learned to play it in the original key of E. Also note that the picture was done on the first take... and on a bad hair day. I'm trying to set low expectations for the photography.