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About the AuthorsAllen Schoffstall
Allen Schoffstall graduated from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, with a B.S. in chemistry. He earned his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the State University of New York-Buffalo, with thesis work done on synthetic phosphorylation under the mentorship of Professor Howard Tieckelmann. His postdoctoral work on the synthesis of unnatural nucleosides was done as a National Institutes of Health Fellow under the supervision of Professor Nelson J. Leonard at the University of Illinois.
Dr. Schoffstall has taught organic chemistry for over thirty years. He has been at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs for most of his career, except for sabbatical and other leaves at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he worked in collaboration with the late Professor Cyril Ponnamperuma on phosphorylation pathways related to prebiotic chemistry. Professor Schoffstall also spent a sabbatical leave in collaboration with Professor Al Padwa of the Department of Chemistry at Emory University doing research on dipolar cycloaddition, and he spent an additional academic year at Emory introducing microscale organic chemistry to their organic laboratories. He also taught organic chemistry for a semester at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Professor Schoffstall has always stressed the importance of undergraduate research activities and accomplishments to his students, and he has encouraged students to participate and present their research results at regional and national professional meetings. He and his students have had the support of grants from the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society and from the National Science Foundation scientific equipment programs, particularly for a high field NMR spectrometer and a GC/mass spectrometer.
Dr. Schoffstall and his wife Carole, who is Professor of Nursing and Dean of the Beth El College of Nursing and Health Sciences in Colorado Springs, enjoy outdoor activities made possible by the wonderful environment of Colorado. They especially value all of their associations with friends, colleagues, students, and former students at Beth El and CU Colorado Springs.
Barbara Gaddis
Barbara Gaddis is currently Director of the Science Learning Center at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. As an undergraduate, she attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, for two years and completed her degree at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Initially a biology major, she planned to go to medical school. Enrolling in a general chemistry course sparked her interest. She switched to chemistry as a major and never looked back. As an undergraduate, she taught general chemistry and organic labs and found she also had a love of teaching.
After graduation, she became a graduate student at the University of Colorado at Boulder with Professor David Walba and received her MBS degree working on the total synthesis of cladiellen, a soft coral from the Pacific. The synthesis involved an oxidative ring closure of a 1,5-diene system derived from geraniol. She also earned a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Colorado College in Colorado Springs in 1990. She recently received her doctorate from the Educational Leadership and Innovation Program at University of Colorado at Denver, where she is investigating the effects of computer-based instruction and simulations on learning organic chemistry.
Ms. Gaddis became Director of the Science Learning Center in 1991, where she develops curriculum for chemistry and biology courses. She teaches general chemistry, introductory chemistry, and organic chemistry at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and has taught general chemistry and organic chemistry at Colorado College.
Melvin Druelinger
Melvin Druelinger has been Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern Colorado since 1984. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry (Organic) from the University of Wisconsin and his B.S. in Chemistry from Indiana University. After a postdoctoral stint at Iowa State University (Photochemistry), Dr. Druelinger began his academic career at Indiana State University. Subsequent positions were at the U.S. Air Force Academy (Distinguished Visiting Professor Program), and Millikin University (Chairman). In addition to teaching organic chemistry (lecture and labs) at all levels (introductory, advanced, and special topics), he also teaches polymer and industrial chemistry and has taught advanced inorganic chemistry, general chemistry, and instrumental methods of analysis. He is currently on leave from the University of Southern Colorado in order to serve as Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Druelinger maintains an active undergraduate research group that includes an occasional MS student. His current research interests focus on the synthesis of fluoroorganics via selective fluorinations (directed to the generation of biologically active materials) and also include cycloadditions, reactive intermediates, photochemistry, and polymer chemistry. He has conducted research at the Seiler Research Lab (Air Force Academy), Rocket Propulsion Lab (Edwards Air Force Base), DowElanco and IBM. His work has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Petroleum Research Fund. Dr. Druelinger, an active member of the Council on Undergraduate Research, has mentored many undergraduates (and high school students) in research, including many women and minority scholars. He has been active in organizing and hosting the annual Southern Colorado Undergraduate Research and Creative Works Conferences.
In his spare time (!), Dr. Druelinger is a marathoner (including the Pike's Peak Marathon) and enjoys the Colorado mountains as a climber and backpacker. As a mountaineer, he has climbed in Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Tanzania and Russia as well as all over the US. He has been active with the El Paso County (Mountain) Search and Rescue Team for twenty years - an activity he finds to be both very challenging and rewarding. Although born, raised and educated in the Midwest, he clearly has mountains in his blood. He is also very proud of his Cherokee heritage. |
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