Contact Dean for most STEM departments. Works closely with the Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences as well as three other Vice-Deans.

Administrative:Co-Chair of the Council of Chairs and Program Directors in the College of Arts and Sciences at William & Mary; January to December 2020.Chair of the Department of Chemistry at William & Mary, with 15 tenure-eligible faculty members, four instructors, a Director of Laboratories and Instrumentation, two Laboratory Specialists and three administrative staff members; July 2017 to June 2020. Awards:Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar class of 1998 (CS 1998)Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence at William & Mary (2015)Jennifer and Devin Murphy Faculty Award recipient at William & Mary (outstanding integration of research and teaching -- 2014-2016)Garnered funding from: - National Science Foundation NSF Individual Grant CAREER Award - National Institutes of Health AREA Grant - Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation (Teacher-Scholar Award) - Statoil, Inc. of Norway - Department of Energy (as collaborator) - Jeffress Memorial Trust of Virginia - The Research Corporation - Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical SocietyInstructor for: Organic Synthesis (Chem. 457/657) Organic Chemistry I (Chem. 206) Organic Chemistry II (Chem. 209) Beyond Petroleum as a Fuel (Chem. 150W) Orgo I Lab (Chem. 252/206L) Orgo II Lab (Chem. 353)

Chair for a department comprised of 15 tenure-eligible professors, 3 full-time lecturers, 2 lab specialists, 1 Director of Laboratories, and 2 full-time administrators.

Developed tandem cyclization/addition reaction involving BiBr3 as an initiator. Published in J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125,11456-11457.Work led to several other publications (J. Org. Chem. in 2006 & 2011; Tetrahedron in 2005 & 2009)

Pd-Catalyzed intramolecular reactions (tandem and cascade)

Investigated formulations for phenolic resins