Will Hollingsworth's Education, Positions, and Membership:

EDUCATION:
 

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, 1982
      [Thesis title:  Metal Atom Fluorescence from the Quenching of Metastable Rare Gases by Metal Carbonyls]
•  M.S. in Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, 1979
•  B.S. in Chemistry, B.A.(Botany), University of Texas at Austin, 1977

                [Honors:  B.A. and B.S. with Highest Honors, 1977;  American Institute of Chemistry Award for Outstanding Senior in Chemistry, 1977;  Phi Beta Kappa, 1975]

  POSITIONS held:
   

  •  In the Chemistry Department at Carleton College, Northfield, MN, September 1986 - present

               [Chairman, December 1994 through June 1998]

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate with Dr. V. Vaida, University of Colorado (Boulder), January 1985 - July 1986

               [Research area:  Photofragmentation pathways in metal carbonyls, as probed by multiphoton ionization]

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate with Dr. G. Flynn, Columbia University (New York, NY), November 1982 - August 1984

               [Research area:  Reactions of small molecules with laser-created, hot hydrogen atoms producing OH, as probed by laser-induced fluorescence]

  • Graduate Student Research Associate with Dr. J. Winn, University of California (Berkeley), September 1977 - September 1982

               [Research area:  Metal-atom fluorescence from the reactions of metal carbonyls with metastable rare gases in a flowing-afterglow apparatus]

  SABBATICAL with:
   

  • Professor Mario Molina, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA), September 1993 - June 1994

                [Research area:  Surface reactions on ice leading to destruction of polar stratospheric ozone]

  MEMBERSHIP in:
   

  • American Chemical Society (ACS)

                 [Physical Chemistry and Chemical Education divisions]

  •  Midwestern Association of Chemistry Teachers at Liberal Arts Colleges (MACTLAC).
  •  Minnesota Academy of Sciences.
  •  Sigma Xi.

   

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