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Paul Fischer (On sabbatical, 2008-2009)
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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
Wayne C. Wolsey
Emeritus Professor
of Chemistry
B.S., Michigan State University, 1958
Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1962
Wayne
Wolsey is an inorganic chemist. He received his B.S. from Michigan
State University in 1958 and a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in
1962. After spending three years as an industrial chemist (PPG -
Chemical Division, Barberton, Ohio), he joined the Macalester faculty
in 1965. He was a National Science Fellow from 1959-62 and is a member
of Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Pi Sigma, and Phi Lambda
Upsilon. He has received the Award for Distinguished Service from the
Minnesota Academy of Science (1984), the Minnesota College Science
Teacher of the Year award in 1989, the Macalester College Thomas
Jefferson award in 1993, and was designated as a MegaMole contributor
to Minnesota Chemistry Education in 1997. Wayne C. Wolsey, professor, was named Minnesota College
Science Teacher of the Year in 1989 and received Macalester's 1993
Thomas Jefferson Award. An inorganic chemist, Professor Wolsey is
co-author (with Professor Emeritus Emil Slowinski) of the widely used
general chemistry laboratory manual, Chemical Principles in the
Laboratory, the sixth edition of which was published in 1996. In
1994-95 he spent his sabbatical leave as a faculty participant in the
Oak Ridge Science Semester at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he
was involved in developing field methods for measuring heavy metals in
the environment.
Email: wolsey@macalester.edu
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