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Brief Bio
I was born in Wyoming
and raised in and around the Rocky Mountain region. I attended
Colorado College right out of high school, but didn’t finish my degree
until, almost twenty years later, I graduated from the University of
California at Irvine. I stayed at Irvine to finish my PhD in
Physical Chemistry under the direction of EKC Lee (who sadly
passed away) and Jim Valentini (now at Columbia University). My
research in graduate school concerned the photo dissociation of small
molecules using multiphoton ionization and resonance Raman
scattering. After graduating I accepted a Dreyfus postdoctoral
fellowship with Nancy Kolodny at Wellesley College. While at
Wellesley I became interested in using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
spectroscopy to study biological systems. I collaborated with
Nancy Kolodny (a chemist) and Mary Allen (a biologist) and in the
process learned a lot amount about NMR and, in addition, about
the benefits of research collaborations. Before coming to the
Chemistry Department at Eastern Illinois University in 1997, I was on
the faculty of the Joint Sciences Department of the Claremont Colleges.
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