Personal

Born 6/29/53, Quincy, MA, USA; Married; Karen Tracy Jordan; 3 children

Education

1981-1983 Postdoctoral Fellow; The University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (with C. P. Casey)

1981-1983 Postdoctoral Fellow; The University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (with C. P. Casey)

1981 Ph.D., Chemistry; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (with J. R. Norton)

1975 B.A., High Honors; Chemistry, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ

Professional Experience

2015-present Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor, The University of Chicago

1999-2015 Professor of Chemistry, The University of Chicago

1993-1999 Professor of Chemistry, The University of Iowa

1988-1992 Associate Professor of Chemistry, The University of Iowa

1988 Associate Professor of Chemistry, Washington State University

1983-1987 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Washington State University

1975-1976 Research Chemist, ARCO Chemical Company, Glenolden, PA

Awards and Professional Activities

2016 Dow Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley

2016 Dow Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley

2015 Organizer, Symp. on Metal Catalyzed Olefin Polymerization; Fall Nat. ACS Mtg.

2014 Search Committee, Assoc. Lab Director, PSE Directorate, Argonne Nat. Lab.

2013 BASF Lecturer, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA

2012 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science2011 Advisory Committee, U Chicago Tech

2011 Plenary Lecturer, C&CF 20112011 Guest Professor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

2011 NSF Center for Enabling Transformations in Catalysis Review Panel

2010 Eastman Chemical Lecturer, Univ. of California, Berkeley

2009, 2010 Vice Chair and Chair, Gordon Conference on Organometallic Chemistry

2009-present Governing Board, Council for Chemical Research

2008 Lanxess-Therban Lecture, XXIII ICOMC, Rennes, France

2007 Invited Lecturer, Mitsui Symposium on Catalysis, Chiba, Japan

2006 Plenary Lecturer, 39th IDW, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario

2006 NSF Inorganic/Bioinorganic/Organometallics Career Proposal Review Panel

2005 Visiting Professor, University of Rennes, Rennes France2002 Frontiers in Chemistry Lectureship, University of Iowa

2002 Humphrey Lecturer, University of Vermont2002 Organizer, Symp. on Recent Adv. in Organometallic Chem., Fall Nat. ACS Mtg.

2002- Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry

2000 Frontiers Lecturer, Case Western University

1999 Organizer, Symp. on Advances in Polymer Synthesis, Fall Nat. ACS Mtg.

1998 Akron Polymer Group Lecturer

1998 British Petroleum Lecturer, UK

1997-1998 Chair-Elect and Chair, Organometallic Subdivision, Inorganic Division, ACS

1997- Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Molecular Catalysis

1996-1998 University of Iowa Faculty Scholar Award

1995-1999 Board of Directors, The University of Iowa Research Foundation

1993-1995 Editorial Advisory Board, Organometallics

1993 Frontiers Lecturer, Case Western University

1992 Organizer, Symposium on Chemistry of Electrophilic Metal Centers, Nat. ACS Mtg.

1992 Program Planning Committee, Gordon Conference on Organometallic Chemistry

1992 Professeur Invité, University of Rennes, Rennes, France

1989-1991 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow

1989, 1990 Union Carbide Research Innovation Awards

1975 Athenaeum Honor Society, Rutgers University

1975 American Institute of Chemists Student Award, Rutgers Un