Ph.D. degrees

James O. Maloney is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Kansas. He holds a Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from Pennsylvania State University. In 1941 he began liis professional career at the DuPont de Nemours Company, before joining the University of Kansas in 1945, where he taught for 40 years. He served as department chairman for nineteen years. He is a fellow of the AIChE. 

Erik J. Sorensen was bom in 1966 in Oneida, New York. He graduated from Syracuse University with a B. A. in chemistry. He received his Ph. D. degree in chemistry from the University of California, San Diego in 1995 working under the guidance of Professor K. C. Nicolaou. His research interests are in the areas of total synthesis and reaction engineering. 

Rosa Llusar was born on September 20th, 1960 in Almenara (Spain). She studied chemistry at the University of Valencia (Spain) where she graduated in 1983 with the highest honors. Her doctorate work was devoted to the chemistry of cubane-type molybdenum and tungsten sulfides and she received Ph.D. degrees from Valencia University in 1987 and from Texas A M University (USA) in 1988, under the guidance of Prof. F. Albert Cotton. After working in the Research and Development Department of a Caprolactam Production Plant in Castello (Spain) for three years, she spent one year (1992) with Prof John D. Corbett at the... 

Hiroshi Fukumura received his M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees from Tohoku University, Japan. He studied biocompatibility of polymers in the Government Industrial Research Institute of Osaka from 1983 to 1988. He became an assistant professor at Kyoto Institute of Technology in 1988, and then moved to the Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University in 1991, where he worked on the mechanism of laser ablation and laser molecular implantation. Since 1998, he is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Tohoku University. He received the Award of the Japanese Photochemistry Association in 2000, and the Award for Creative Work from The Chemical Society Japan in 2005. His main research interest is the physical chemistry of organic molecules including polymeric materials studied with various kinds of time-resolved techniques and scanning probe microscopes. 

Journal of Liquid Chromatography and Related Technologies, the Journal of Environmental Science and Health (Part B), the Journal of Planar Chromatography-Modern TLC,Acta Chromatographica, and Acia Universitatis Cibiniensis, Seria F. Chemia. Dr. Sherma received his Ph.D. degree (1958) from Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 

A native of the state of New Hampshire, Donald Fitts developed an interest in chemistry at the age of eleven. He was awarded an A.B. degree, magna cum laude with highest honors in chemistry, in 1954 from Harvard University and a Ph.D. degree in chemistry in 1957 from Yale University for his theoretical work with John G. Kirkwood. After one-year appointments as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, and as a Research Fellow at Yale s Chemistry Department, he joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, rising to the rank of Professor of Chemistry. 

Lucjan Strekowski was born in Poland. In 1967 he obtained an MS degree in polymer chemistry with distinction from the Mendeleev Institute of Chemistry, Moscow, former USSR, and in 1971 a Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry from the Institute of Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. In 1972 he was appointed assistant professor and in 1976 promoted to associate professor (Docent) at the Institute of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. After several stints as visiting scientist at the University of Kansas, USA, the University of Florida, USA, and the Australian National University, in 1984 he accepted the position of assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, where he was promoted to associate professor in 1989, and then to professor in 1996. Professor Strekowski has published more than 250 research papers, directed 16 Ph.D. dissertations, and trained more than 40 postdoctoral research associates in the areas of heterocyclic, bioorganic and medicinal chemistry. 

P. M. Huang received his Ph. D degree in Soil Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1966. He is Professor Emeritus of Soil Science at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. His research work has significantly advanced the frontiers of knowledge on the nature and... 

James M. Meyer retired in 2001 as Vice President of DuPont Central Research and Development. He joined DuPont in 1969 and held a variety of research and management positions related to elastomers and polymers. He moved to Central Research and Development in 1992 as director of materials science and engineering, and he assumed his current position in 1996. Dr. Meyer received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Indiana University and his Ph.D. degree in inorganic chemistry from Northwestern University. 

Portions of this work were used by one of the authors (ALW) as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree at The Institute of Paper Chemistry. 

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