Education

• B.A. Austin College, 1961
• Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 1965

Academic Experience

• Research Associate (Postdoctoral), University of Illinois, 1965-67
• Assistant and Associate Professor, Muskingum College, 1967-80
• Associate Professor and Professor, Texas Wesleyan University, 1981-Present

Nonacademic Experience

• Visiting Scientist, Battelle Columbus Laboratories, 1974-75
• Senior Scientist, Radian Corporation, 1980-81
• Summer Research Fellow, Naval Research Laboratory, 1982-1983
• Congressional Fellow, American Chemical Society, 1986-87
• Advanced Research and Advanced Technology Grant Programs Director, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 1991

Memberships and Honors

• ACS, AAAS, AAUP, CUR, and Sigma Xi; Biography in "American Men And Women of Science."

Research Support and Publications

• NSF, PRF, Research Corporation, Office of Naval Research, Welch Foundation; 20 publications with 34 student co-authors.

Information Management Experiences

• Taught Chemical Literature for more than a decade.
• 1974 - conducted comprehensive coal oxidation electronic literature search at Battelle Columbus Laboratories.
• 1977 - received individualized training in data base access at University of Pittsburgh School of Library and Information Science.
• 1978 - coordinated institution-wide orientation to electronic information retrieval at Muskingum College.
• 1979 - provided information analysis on risk assessment of chlorinated benzenes at Battelle for the EPA.
• 1981 - responsible for characterization of compounds whose mass spectra were included in the EPA TSCA Data Base by Radian.
• 1986 - became conversant with Congressional Research Service and other Library of Congress components as ACS Congressional Fellow.
• 1993 - participated in Chautauqua short course on use of Cooperative Learning Strategies in Science and Mathematics.
• 1994-Present - Project Director for UCAIR