Education A.B., cum laude, with honors in Chemistry, Occidental College, 1971
M.S., Inorganic Chemistry, University of Illinois, 1972
Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry, University of Illinois, 1976
Academic Experience 9/1977 – 6/1984 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
7/1984 – 8/1987 Assistant Head, Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University
This period, with a surprise ending, is detailed in my unpublished
CMU Memoirs.
9/1987 – 6/1996 Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chair, Department of Science, Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmitsburg, MD
6/1996 – 6/1998 Associate Professor of Chemistry, Mount St. Mary’s College
7/1998 – 7/2010 Professor of Chemistry, Mount St. Mary’s University
1/2014 - present Visiting Professor of Chemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Honors, Awards, and Professional Activities National Science Foundation Energy-Related Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 9/1976 – 8/1977.
Reader for AP Chemistry Examination, selected by the College Board, 6/1987
National Aeronautics and Space Administration American Society for Engineering Education Case Lewis Summer Faculty Fellow, 6/1988 – 8/1988.
Selected to lead Mount St. Mary’s semester-abroad program to Florence, Italy, Spring semester, 2008.
Member, American Chemical Society, including Maryland section
Maryland representative, Middle Atlantic Association of Liberal Arts Chemistry Teachers, 1993-94
External research funding of $293,000
Invited Seminars Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, 1978
Physical-Inorganic Group, Pittsburgh Section, American Chemical Society, November, 1978
Fourth Department of Energy Solar Photochemistry Research Conference, University of Notre Dame, June, 1980
Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, March, 1983
Seventh Department of Energy Solar Photochemistry Research Conference, Mills College, June, 1983
Symposium on Computers in Chemical Education, 20th Great Lakes Regional American Chemical Society meeting, Marquette University, June, 1986
Department of Chemistry, Duquesne University, March, 1987
Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting, American Chemical Society, May, 2008
20th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Indiana University, July, 2008