Gary B. Schuster, Special Advisor to the Commission Gary Schuster is Professor and Vasser Woolley Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Regents’ Institute of Technology. He served at Georgia Tech as Dean of Sciences (1994-2006), Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs (2006-2010) and Interim President (2008-2009). Schuster holds a bachelor of science in chemistry from Clarkson College of Technology and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Rochester. He joined Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994 after twenty years in the Chemistry Department at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He was a NIH PostDoctoral Fellow at Columbia University, a Fellow of the Sloan Foundation and a Guggenheim Fellow. In 1993 he was recognized by the American Chemical Society with the A.C. Cope Scholar Award, and in 2006 he was awarded the ACS Charles Holmes Herty Medal. Schuster is a nationally known scholar and researcher with an extensive list of published articles on topics ranging from biochemistry through physical chemistry as well as a number of scientific discoveries with commercial applications. Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, Special Advisor to the Commission Bassam Z. Shakhashiri is 2012 president of the American Chemical Society. The William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he is former assistant director of the National Science Foundation for Science and Engineering Education and internationally noted for leadership in promoting excellence in science education. The Encyclopedia Britannica cites him as the of lecture “dean demonstrators in scholarly publications include the multi-volume series, Chemical America.” Shakhashiri’s Demonstrations: A Handbook for Teachers of Chemistry. He founded the Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy and serves as its director. He received his A.B. degree in chemistry from Boston University and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from the University of Maryland.
Gary B. Schuster, Special Advisor to the Commission Gary Schuster is Regents’ Professor and Vasser Woolley Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Institute of Technology. He served at Georgia Tech as Dean of Sciences (1994-2006), Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs (2006-2010) and Interim President (2008-2009). Schuster holds a bachelor of science in chemistry from Clarkson College of Technology and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Rochester. He joined Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994 after twenty years in the Chemistry Department at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He was a NIH PostDoctoral Fellow at Columbia University, a Fellow of the Sloan Foundation and a Guggenheim Fellow. In 1993 he was recognized by the American Chemical Society with the A.C. Cope Scholar Award, and in 2006 he was awarded the ACS Charles Holmes Herty Medal. Schuster is a nationally known scholar and researcher with an extensive list of published articles on topics ranging from biochemistry through physical chemistry as well as a number of scientific discoveries with commercial applications. Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, Special Advisor to the Commission Bassam Z. Shakhashiri is 2012 president of the American Chemical Society. The William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he is former assistant director of the National Science Foundation for Science and Engineering Education and internationally noted for leadership in promoting excellence in science education. The Encyclopedia Britannica cites him as the “dean of lecture demonstrators in America.” Shakhashiri’s scholarly publications include the multi-volume series, Chemical Demonstrations: A Handbook for Teachers of Chemistry. He founded the Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy and serves as its director. He received his A.B. degree in chemistry from Boston University and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from the University of Maryland.
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