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Education, Honors, and Awards

• University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
  Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, 1970.
• Columbia University Teachers College, New York, NY
  M.A., Science Education, 1965
• Smith College, Northampton, MA
  B.A.summa cum laude with Chemistry Honors, 1964
• University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  Smith College junior year exchange program, 1962-63
• Fox Lane School, Bedford, NY, grades 10-12
• International School, Geneva, Switzerland, grade 9
• Pound Ridge Elementary School, Pound Ridge, NY, grades K-8

• Phi Beta Kappa
• Sigma Xi
• National Defence Education Act (NDEA) Graduate Fellowship 1968-70
• Lychnos Society (Honorary Society, University of Virginia, 1970)
• A.T. Gwathmey Memorial Award (Dissertation Award, University of Virginia, 1970)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Postdoctoral Fellowship 1975-76
  
• National Science Foundation (NSF)/ Visiting Professorships for Women (VPW) 1986-87
• College-University Resource Institute, Inc. (CURI) Senior Fellow, 1996

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Professional Experience

College Teaching:

• Professor of Chemistry, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA, 1984 to present
• Chair, Department of Chemistry, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Va., 1992-1995, 1983-86
• Visiting Professor of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1986-87
  [On leave from Sweet Briar College to accept National Science Foundation (NSF)/ Visiting Professorships for Women (VPW) award]
• Associate Professor of Chemistry, Sweet Briar College, 1981-84
• Associate Professor of Chemistry, 1980-81, and Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA, 1977-80
• Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Sweet Briar College, 1971-73

• University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, with Professor Paul N. Schatz, 1977, 1973-75, 1970-71
• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, with Professor P.J. Stephens, 1976 (part)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford University, Oxford, England, with Dr. Peter W. Atkins, 1975-76

• Teacher of secondary school chemistry, geometry, and physical science at Riverdale Country School, Riverdale, New York, 1965-66
• Teacher of secondary school mathematics, Burley High School,Charlotteville, Virginia, 1966-67
• Teacher of mathematics in the Upward Bound program at the University of Virginia, summer 1966.
• Research assistant in biochemistry, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, N.Y., N.Y., summer 1964 and summer 1965

Courses Taught in the Last Five Years

• Principles of Chemistry I and II (Chemistry 31, 32)
  
• General Chemistry Laboratory I and II (Chemistry 9, 10)
  
• Physical Chemistry I and II (Chemistry 209, 210)
  
• Intermediate Laboratory I and II (Chemistry 249, 250)
  
• Advanced Laboratory I (Chemistry 349)
  
• Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (Chemistry 212)
  
• Topics in Contemporary Science (Honors 125H)
  
• Instrumental Methods in Chemistry (Winter Term Course)
  

Grants from External Sources

• Grant by the Jessie Ball duPont Fund for 4-college/12 high school collaborative project entitled New Pathways in Chemistry, 1996-1998.

• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center grant, April 15, 1991 - April 15, 1994, for project entitled Theoretical Studies of the Effect of Vibronic Coupling in Mixed-Valence and Jahn Teller Systems

• Jessie Ball duPont Fund (to Sweet Briar College) and the NSF Undergraduate Curriculum Development (to College-University Resource Institute, Inc.),1991-1994, to fund the seven-college Women-in-Chemistry Consortium project entitled Revitalizing the Introductory Chemistry Laboratories: Development of Modules that Use a Hands-On, Open-Ended Collaborative Approach

• National Science Foundation (NSF)/Instructional Laboratory Improvement (ILI) grant for Laser Spectroscopy and Computers: An Integrated Laboratory Approach for Chemistry and Physics, 1990-1992

• NSF/ILI grant for Enhancing Instruction in Chemistry with NMR Spectroscopy, 1989-1991

• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center grant, April 1987 - March 1991 for project entitled Theoretical Studies of Mixed-Valence Compounds

• NSF/Research at Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) grant, University of Viginia, 1986-89 for project entitled Theoretical Studies of Mixed-Valence Compounds

• NSF/Visiting Professorships for Women (VPW) grant, University of Viginia, 1986-87

• Dreyfus grant for Attracting Women to Chemistry (with 4 other colleges), 1983-86

• NSF Small College Opportunity Award, summer 1982 and 1983, Univ. of Virginia

• NSF/ISEP grant for Computer Graphics in the Physical Sciences and Mathematics, 1979-80

• NSF/North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) postdoctoral Fellowhip, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1975-76.
  

Professional Memberships:

• American Chemical Society
• American Physical Society
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Association of University Professors
• Sigma Xi
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Iota Sigma Pi