Educational and Teaching History
Fall of 2001 marked a new chapter in the history of my teaching career. I became Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. I grew up in Clarksville when my family moved here in 1976, attending Barksdale Elementary School, Burt Jr. High School, Richview Middle School, and Clarksville High School.
Upon graduation fom C.H.S. in 1985, I attended Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, earning a B.S. in chemistry with an emphasis in biochemistry. After graduating in 1989, I worked for a year at the Stroh Brewery Company in Memphis (now Coors). In the fall of 1990 I began graduate studies at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics learning under the guidance of Drs. Jackie Corbin and Sharron Francis. In the fall of 1996, I earned my Ph.D. from Vandy. It was during the last two years of graduate school that I began teaching on an adjunct basis for Austin Peay in the chemistry department. In the 1996-97 school year I was promoted to Instructor on a temporary basis for that year.
From 1997-1999, my family and I lived in the small town of Canton, Missouri as I accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Biology and Chemistry at Culver-Stockton College. Yet Clarksville was still calling us home and in the summer of 1999 we moved back to Clarksville for me to gain more post-doctoral research experience at Vanderbilt under the guidance of Dr. Brian Wadzinski. 2000-2001 brought another change in positions for me as I became Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, KY. In the Fall of 2001, a full-time position finally became available to me here at A.P.S.U. and I can now consider myself to be home.
It is great to be teaching at the Peay and to finally be settled in the new science building, the Sundquist Science Complex. This state-of-the-art facility will enable us to provide the highest quality in science education while maintaining close contact with our students. My office is located on the third floor of the A-wing; A308.
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