Editors’ Biographies
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Donna J. Nelson Dr. Donna Nelson, Professor of Chemistry at Oklahoma University (OU), obtained her PhD in Chemistry at the University of Texas-Austin with M.J.S. Dewar, did her postdoctorate at Purdue with H.C. Brown, and joined the OU faculty in 1983. She has almost 200 publications and many honors, including NSF ADVANCE Leadership Award, SACNAS Distinguished Scientist, Women’s eNews “21 Leaders for the 21st Century”, ACS Fellow, AAAS Fellow, Guggenheim Award, NOW “Woman of Courage”, Ford Fellow, Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award, NSF Creativity Extension, and many keynote talks. She specializes in organic chemistry, which she both researches and teaches. Nelson’s career has focused on five primary topics of research generally categorized in two areas, Scientific Research and America’s Scientific Readiness. Within Scientific Research, her topics have been on mechanistic patterns in alkene addition reactions and on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube (SWCNT) functionalization and analysis, yielding the first COSY NMR spectrum of covalently functionalized SWCNTs in solution. Under America’s Scientific Readiness, she focuses on science education, which includes classroom innovations and correcting organic chemistry textbook inaccuracies, on ethnic and gender diversity among highly ranked science departments of research universities, and on improving the image and presentation of science and scientists to the public. Nelson served as a science advisor to the AMC television show Breaking Bad. She was the 2016 President of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
H. N. Cheng H. N. Cheng (Ph.D., University of Illinois) is currently a research chemist at Southern Regional Research Center of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in New Orleans, where he works on projects involving improved utilization of commodity agricultural materials, green chemistry, and polymer reactions. Prior to 2009 he worked for Hercules Incorporated where he was involved at various times with new product development, team and project leadership, new business evaluation, pioneering research, and supervision of analytical research. Over the years, his research interests have included green polymer chemistry, biocatalysis and enzymatic reactions, pulp and paper chemistry, functional foods, polymer characterization, and NMR spectroscopy. He is an ACS Fellow and a POLY Fellow and has authored or co-authored 230 papers, 25 patent publications, co-edited 16 books, and organized or co-organized © 2017 American Chemical Society Nelson and Cheng; Diversity in the Scientific Community Volume 2: Perspectives and Exemplary Programs ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2017.
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30 symposia at national ACS meetings since 2000. He is active in the ACS and serves in various capacities at national, division, and local levels.
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