About The Author
Bruce E. Bursten
Dr. Bruce E. Bursten received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 1978. After 2 years as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Texas A&M University, Dr. Bruce joined the faculty of The Ohio State University, where he rose to the rank of Distinguished University Professor. In 2005, he moved to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, as Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Bruce has been a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, and he is a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society. At Ohio State he has received the Arts and Sciences Student Council Outstanding Teaching Award in 1984, University Distinguished Teaching Award in 1982 and 1996,and the University Distinguished Scholar Award in 1990. Bursten received the Spiers Memorial Prize and Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2003, and the Morley Medal of the Cleveland Section of the American Chemical Society in 2005. Dr. Bruce was President of the American Chemical Society for 2008. In addition to his teaching and service activities, His research program focuses on compounds of the transition-metal and actinide elements.
Catherine J. Murphy
Dr. Catherine J. Murphy earned two B.S. degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1986, one in Chemistry and the other in Biochemistry. In 1990, she earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin.
From 1990 to 1993, she worked at the California Institute of Technology as a National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow. She joined the University of South Carolina, Columbia, faculty in 1993 and is now the Guy F. Lipscomb Professor of Chemistry.
Professor Murphy has been recognised for both research and teaching as a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, a Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient, and a subsequent NSF Award for Special Achievement.
Matthew Stoltzfus
Professor Matthew W. Stoltzfus graduated from Millersville University with a B.S. in Chemistry in 2002 and The Ohio State University with a Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2007. He worked for the Ohio REEL network, an NSF-funded center that works to integrate authentic research experiments into the general chemistry lab curriculum at over 15 universities and colleges throughout Ohio, for two years as a teaching postdoctoral assistant.
Dr. Stoltzfus joined the Ohio State University faculty in 2009 and is currently a Chemistry Lecturer. In addition to teaching general chemistry, he accepted a Faculty Fellow position with the Digital First Initiative, which encourages instructors to use new technology to provide chemistry students with engaging digital learning material.
He created an iTunes U general chemistry course as a result of this initiative, which has drawn over 120,000 students from all over the world. Professor Stoltzfus has earned a number of teaching honors, including the inaugural Ohio State University Provost's Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer in 2013, as well as being named an Apple Distinguished Educator.
Patrick M. Woodward
Dr. Patrick Woodward graduated from Idaho State University with bachelor's degrees in chemistry and engineering in 1991. In 1996, he graduated from Oregon State University with an M.S. in Materials Science and a Ph.D. in Chemistry. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Department of Physics for two years.
Woodward joined the Chemistry Department faculty at The Ohio State University in 1998, and he currently holds the rank of Professor. He has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Bordeaux and Sydney in France and Australia, respectively.
Patrick is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow. He is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Solid State Chemistry and the Director of the Ohio REEL programme, an NSF-funded center that works to introduce authentic research experiments into the laboratories of first- and second-year chemistry classes in 15 Ohio colleges and universities.
His research focuses on the relationships between solid-state inorganic functional materials' bonding, structure, and properties.
Theodore E. Brown
Dr. Theodore E. Brown received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1956. Since then, he has been a member of the faculty of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is now Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus. He served as Vice Chancellor for Research, and Dean of The Graduate College, from 1980 to 1986, and as Founding Director of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology from 1987 to 1993.
Dr. Theodore has been an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1972 he was awarded the American Chemical Society Award for Research in Inorganic Chemistry and received the American Chemical Society Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry in 1993. He has been elected a Fellow of the the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Chemical Society.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.