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Research
Scientist, Center for Computational Chemistry
Dr. Allen was born in Dickson, Tennessee, where he lived continuously
until 1979. His research in chemistry started at Vanderbilt
in 1978 under the direction of Professor David J. Wilson concerned
adsorbing colloid flotation of heavy metals, a water purification
technique. In August 1979 he entered Vanderbilt University.
His undergraduate thesis concerned ab initio quantum chemical
studies of the highly strained, "antiaromatic" molecule thiirene
and its saturated analogue thiirane. In May 1983 he graduated
from Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor of Arts degree,with
a double major in chemistry and physics. In August of 1983
Dr. Allen enrolled in graduate school in the Department of
Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley
he continued work in development and chemical applications
of ab initio quantum chemistry under the guidance of Professor
Henry F. Schaefer III. Dr. Allen completed requirements for
the Ph.D. degree in the Department of Chemistry at Berkeley
in September 1987. From July 1987 until June 1988 he continued
worked at the Combustion Research Facility of Sandia National
Laboratories as a postdoctoral research associate under the
supervision of Dr. J. S. Binkley. In July 1988 Dr. Allen joined
the faculty at Stanford University as an Assistant Professor
in the Department of Chemistry, where he directed Ph.D. research
in theoretical chemistry and taught advanced physical chemistry
until 1994. Since 1995 Dr. Allen has been a research scientist
at the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University
of Georgia. He has authored over 60 publications in the scientific
literature.
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Professor
of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Executive Technical
Director
Dr. Carlson received his B.A. in chemistry in 1968 from North
Park College (Chicago), and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
biochemistry from the University of Colorado in 1974 and 1976,
respectively. Since 1988, Dr. Carlson has also been the Technical
Director of the Department of Energy-funded Center for Plant
and Microbial Complex Carbohydrates at the Complex Carbohydrate
Research Center (CCRC). As Technical Director, he leads the
CCRC's plant and microbial carbohydrate structural analysis
services offered to the scientific community and co-organizes
two of the CCRC's four annual extramural training courses.
In 1996 Dr. Carlson was elected scientific councillor of the
International Endotoxin Society, and he is the discoverer
on two and co-discoverer on a third patent application. Full
publications: 130
Please Note: Due to a death in Dr. Carlson's family,
he will not be at the Academia & God Forum.
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Director,
Nonprofit Management & Community Service Program & Scherer
Professor Emeritus Department of Management
Dr. Carroll received his B.S. in Business Administration in
1965 from Florida State University, and his M.B.A. and Ph.D.
degrees in management and organization from Florida State
University in 1966 and 1972, respectively. Since 1972, Dr.
Carroll has served on the faculty of the Terry College of
Business, University of Georgia. In 1993, he was awarded the
Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, Distinguished
Research Award for twenty years of research in corporate social
performance, business ethics and strategic management. His
teaching, research and consulting interests are in business
ethics, stakeholder management, corporate social performance,
and global strategic management. Dr. Carroll has published
16 books in various editions and 110 articles in journals
and books. His latest book is Business & Society: Ethics
and Stakeholder Management, 6th Edition (2006) with Ann
K. Buchholtz, one of the leading books in this field.
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Senior
Research Scientist & Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
Michael Covington has degrees in linguistics from the University of Georgia (where he was co-valedictorian in 1977),
Cambridge University, and Yale University (Ph.D., 1982). Initially trained in historical linguistics and ancient
languages, he moved into computational linguistics and artificial intelligence early in his career and returned to
Georgia as a research scientist in 1984. He has been Associate Director of the University of Georgia's Artificial
Intelligence Center since its inception. His current research uses computer analysis of speech to characterize the
effects of cognitive impairment and mental illness. Dr. Covington is also well known for his books about his hobby,
amateur astronomy; his talks about intellectual aspects of the Christian faith; and his labyrinthine web site.
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Post Doc, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC)
Dr. Christian Heiss received his undergraduate training in Chemistry at the University of Erlangen, Germany and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at the University of Georgia on the synthesis of enzyme inhibitors and the use of enzymes for enantioselective reductions. He then worked for 2 years at McNeil Specialty Products Co., developing methods to make chlorinated sugars. He joined the CCRC in 2002, both as part of a start-up company trying to commercialize carbohydrate conjugates as textile chemicals and in the Analytical Services Department and is now involved primarily in the structural characterization of carbohydrates using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and liquid and gas chromatography.
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Associate
Professor, Department of Speech Communication
Thomas
M. Lessl (Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 1985)
is an Associate Professor in the area of rhetorical studies
in the University of Georgia's Speech Communication Department.
Throughout his career his scholarly labors have been devoted
to study of the rhetoric of science, especially the interface
between scientists and their nonscientific publics. His work
in this area has been published in The Quarterly Journal of
Speech, Communication Theory, Rhetoric and Public Affairs,
The Western Journal of Communication, The Journal of Communication
and Religion, the Oxford Review and various other outlets.
He has done editorial service for numerous journals in the
field and in the broader area of science studies and is currently
an executive officer for the Religious Communication Association.
He has served as an advisor on science and technology for
the United States Congress. Recipient of the Karl Wallace
Award in 1989, he has also presented several top papers at
the NCA convention. This past year his work was featured in
the New York Times, and he was interviewed on three occasions
for programs broadcast on National Public Radio. His work
has also been reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
He teaches undergraduate courses on religious communication,
science and religion, rhetorical criticism and public speaking.
His graduate seminars include the rhetoric of science, classical
rhetoric, rhetorical theory and criticism.
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Director of the Center for Computational Chemistry
Henry F.
Schaefer III was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1944. He
attended public schools in Syracuse (New York), Menlo Park
(California), and Grand Rapids (Michigan), graduating from
East Grand Rapids High School in 1962. He received his B.S.
degree in chemical physics from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (1966) and Ph.D. degree in chemical physics
from Stanford University (1969). For 18 years (1969-1987)
he served as a professor of chemistry at the University of
California, Berkeley. Since 1987 Dr. Schaefer has been Graham
Perdue Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for
Computational Chemistry at the University of Georgia. In 2004
he became Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, at the University
of California at Berkeley. His other academic appointments
include Professeur d'Echange at the University of Paris (1977),
Gastprofessur at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochshule (ETH),
Zurich (1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006), and David
P. Craig Visiting Professor at the Australian National University
(1999). He is the author of more than 1100 scientific publications,
the majority appearing in the Journal of Chemical Physics
or the Journal of the American Chemical Society. A total of
300 scientists from 35 countries gathered in Gyeongju, Korea
for a six-day conference in February, 2004 with the title
“Theory and Applications of Computational Chemistry: A Celebration
of 1000 Papers of Professor Henry F. Schaefer III.”
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