text: Brooks H. Pate is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia.
  He graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.S. in Chemistry in 1987, and from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in 1992.  He was a NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at NIST (Gaithersburg, MD) from 1992 to 1993.  He heads the Pate Research Group.