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Education:

-                   B. S.: Pace University, New York City (1986)

-                   Ph. D.: University of Florida (1990): Major Advisor: Prof. Russell S. Drago

-                   Post-Doctoral Research Associate, North Dakota State University, (June 1990 - Aug. 1991) with Mark S. Gordon

Positions Held:

-                   University of Memphis: Assistant Professor (Aug. 1991 - Aug. 1995)

-                   University of Memphis: Associate Professor (Sept. 1995 – Aug. 2000)

-                   University of Memphis: Professor (Sept. 2000 – August 2002)

-                   Dunavant University Professorship (Sept. 2000 – August 2002)

-                   University of North Texas: Professor (Sept. 2002 – present)

Visiting Scientist Positions:

-                   Visiting Scientist, National Institutes of Standards and Technology/Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology: (June 1992 - Sept. 1992); Collaborator: Walter J. Stevens

-                   Visiting Scientist, Air Force Summer Faculty Research Associate, Phillips Laboratory, Emerging Technologies, Edwards Air Force Base: (June 1993 - August 1993); Collaborators: Joe Lichtenhan and E. J. Wucherer

-                   Visiting Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory (June - August 1994), Collaborator: Jeffrey C. Bryan.

-                   Visiting Scientist, Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University (Summer 1995)

-                   Professional Development Assignment, Theory-Experiment Study of Transition Metal/C-H Bond Interactions, University of Bristol (UK), Collaborator: Prof. A. Guy Orpen.

-                   NSF Scholar in Residence at NIH, Advanced Biomedical Computing Center, National Cancer Institute, (Feb – May 2001)

Editing and Advisory Council Activities:

  -                 Advisory Council for the ACS journal Journal of Chemical Information and Computational Sciences, 2000 – present.

 -              Edited, “Computational Organometallic Chemistry” Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 2001.

 -              Co-Editor, “Reviews in Computational Chemistry;” Wiley, New York, 2002 – present.

Honors and Awards:

-                   Awarded Early Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor, 1994.

-                   Early Career Research Award, University of Memphis, 1994.

-                   Superior Performance in University Research, University of Memphis, 1995,1996.

-                   College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Research Award, University of Memphis, 1998.

-                   Outstanding Paper Award, "Neural Networks in Inorganic Chemistry," Sigma Xi, Memphis Chapter, 1998

-                   Alumni Association Distinguished Research Award, University of Memphis, 2000.

  -                Dunavant University Professorship (Sept. 2000 – August 2003)