Other Professional Activities

Personal

• U.S. Citizen
• Married, three children
• Multi-lingual, diverse heritage, and inter-culturally cognizant
• Interpersonal skills, oral and written communication
• Well traveled; lived in, and visited over 20 countries
• Global orientation and extensive professional and personal
  Networks, spanning in all continents, especially in the US

Societies and Organizations

Fields of Interests and Experience

• Academic Leadership in Higher Education for the 21st. Century
  
  Distance learning, on-line education, integrated approach to teaching, scholarly pursuit and service, inter-culturalism and multi-lingualism, internationalization, diversity, public science literacy, science education, appropriate use of instructional technology, inter-, and multi-disciplinary, and multi-jurisdictional team approaches to curriculum, and, student centered, learner based, life-long and adult education. Endowment and public image building, industry-academe and community collaboration. I have participated in debates on higher education challenges, as promoted by Pew Charitable Trust, Knight Collaborative, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, and, Carnegie Endowment for Teaching among others.
  
• Scholarly track records
  
  Analytical chemistry, clinical, environmental and process method development; Environmental forensics, Synthesis and structural elucidation of novel heterocyclics; nano-engineering; manufacturing,in vitro and in vivo monitoring of brain neurotransmitters, forensics, and process and QA/QC engineering.
   
• Environmental and Natural Resource Conservation       
  
  DNA adducts as agents for chemical or environmental carcinogenesis, or  mutagenesis, Sustainable Development, environmental chemistry and science, law,  and policy, environmental forensics, environmentally benign by design and green technologies, persistence, bioaccumulative and toxicity assessment of industrial chemicals, climate change and natural resource conservation, ISO 9000 and 14000 series, Environmental Management System.   
  
• Government, Science & Technology, and Society
  
  National priorities for global competitiveness, science education, environment and climate change, health care and preventive medicine, urban crime prevention and control technologies and forensics, science in space, and international cooperation in science and engineering.

Teaching Experience

Environmental Chemistry and Science, General Chemistry I & II for science and non-science majors, Analytical chemistry, Instrumental methods of Analysis, Clinical Chemistry, Special Topics on Applied Electrochemistry with emphasis on Biosensors for Clinical, Environmental and industrial Analysis, Topics in Environmental Science, Advances in Surface Characterizations and Instrumentation for manufacturing engineering, Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, Chemistry of Art, and Scientific and Technological issues in Environmental Law. Graduate level Advanced Topics in Environmental Science I & II, advanced Environmental Analytical Testing.  Also, have assisted in the development of two Forensic Chemistry courses.

Research Skills and Tools 

References

1.      Dr. S.D. Pastor, Senior Research Fellow, Ciba-Specialty Chemicals, 540 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591-9005 . Phone 914-785-4276    ,email: steve.pastor@cibasc.com

 2.      Dr. G. Julian, Professor of Political Sciences, Pace University, Pleasantville, NY 10570-2799                                                                  Phone:914-773-3959   ,email gjulian@pace.edu 

3.      Professor Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Professor of Environmental Law, Pace University,    78 North Broadway, White Plains, NY 10603-3796, Phone 914-422-4343            ,fax 914-422-4437,email rkennedy@genesis.law.pace.edu

4.      Dr. J. Morelli, Senior Scientist, Akzo Nobel, Inc.1 Livingstone Avenue, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522-3401    Phone914-674-5133    ,fax 914-693-6814       ,email John.Morelli@akzo-nobel.com

5.      Professor Richard  Ottinger, Dean, Pace University School of Law, and former Member of the House of Representative, White Plains, NY 10603-3796 Phone 914-422-4205 fax 914-422-4015                                               email Rottinger@Genesis.Law.Pace.Edu

6.      Dr. A.W. Salotto, 1978-2000 Chair, Department of Chemistry, Pace University, Pleasantville, NY 10570-2799            Phone 914-773.3727   ,fax 914-773-3418       ,email asalotto@pace.edu

7.      Dr. Michael Lemke, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois, Springfield, Ill  62794-9243 Phone217-206-7339, fax 217-206-6162, email Lemke.Michael@uis.edu 

8.      Dr. S. Madon, Professor of Biological Sciences, San Diego State University’s Perl Laboratory, CA  92182-1870 Phone 619-594-5809, fax 619-594-0958        ,email Smadon@perlsdsu.edu

9.      Members of Congress Nita M. Lowey & Benjamin Gilman, The House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.

 A number of generic supporting letters are kept, and available upon request.