1. What is your work and ACS (if applicable) title?
Professor, Pennsylvania Western University – California
Councilor for the Pittsburgh Local Section, Member of the LSAC (Local Section Activities Committee,) and Chair of LSAC Committee on Grants & Awards
2. How many years have you been in the ACS?
26 years
3. What is the biggest benefit of ACS Membership?
Connecting with other chemists locally and around the world
4. What did you want to be when you were a child?
When I was a child, I wanted to be a surgeon, but I found myself too squeamish!
5. What made you fall in love with Chemistry?
I think I fell in love with chemistry, when I realized that all the objects (and people) I interacted with in everyday life were made up of atoms from the elements on the periodic table.
6. What is your favorite part of your career or job?
My favorite part of my job is helping students learn chemistry when they don’t think they can at first.
7. Which chemist, past or present, would you like to meet and why?
If I could meet any chemist, past or present, I would like to meet Dr. Marie Maynard Daly. Dr. Daly was the first African-American woman to earn her Ph.D. in chemistry in 1947. While she passed away in 2003, I would have enjoyed hearing about her experiences, including struggles and successes as she was a pioneer overcoming societal barriers.