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Ronald Brisbois
Paul Fischer (On sabbatical, 2008-2009)
Rebecca Hoye (Department Chair)
Keith Kuwata
Kathleen Parson
Kathryn Splan
Susan Green
Thomas Varberg
Staff Barbara Ekeberg
Heather McCollor
Amy Rice
Robert Rossi
Emeritus Faculty Truman Schwartz
Emil Slowinski
Wayne Wolsey
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Faculty and staff
Thomas D. Varberg
Professor of Chemistry
B.A., Hamline University, 1985
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990
Postdoctoral work, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
1990-1992
NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford University (United Kingdom),
1992-1993
Tom
Varberg arrived at Macalester College in 1993. He teaches courses in
introductory and physical chemistry. His research is carried out in
collaboration with Macalester students and is focused on the
spectroscopy of gas-phase free radicals. In 1998 he was named a
Henry Dreyfus Teacher–Scholar by the Dreyfus Foundation in recognition
of his work with undergraduate students. To support this work, he
has in the last five years received $650,000 in funding through four
different grants from the National Science Foundation and the American
Chemical Society. In his time at Macalester, he has published 20
papers in scientific journals, many of these with Macalester students
as co-authors. He has held sabbatical appointments at Oxford
University, at the NIST Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado and at the
University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. In 2007-2008, he
will be on sabbatical at the University of Sydney, Australia, where he
will be undertaking experiments in astrochemistry and making
astronomical observations of molecules in the interstellar medium. Homepage: http://www.macalester.edu/~varberg
Email: varberg@macalester.edu |
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