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Paul Kelter is Chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning at Northern
Illinois University. Prior to that, he was most recently at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, where he was Professor of Chemistry and University Dis-
tinguished Teacher/Scholar. Dr. Kelter received his B.S. from the City College of
the City University of New York in 1976 and was awarded a Ph.D. in Analytical
Chemistry in 1980 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UN-L). Before
coming to Northern Illinois, he worked as an Educational Specialist for the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration, was on the faculty of the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, and held the M. F. Rourk Chair in Chemistry and Chemical
Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, in addition to his
time at Illinois. Professor Kelter has won many university and state teaching
awards, including the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Distinguished Teaching
Award, the Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers Regional Science Education
Award,the Inaugural and Second University of Nebraska Student Body Outstand-
ing Teacher of the Year Awards, and is a five-time recipient of the Certificate of
Recognition to Students at UN-L. At Illinois, his student evaluations twice earned
him recognition on the “Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their
Students,” which is given to teachers in the top ten percent of student rankings
university-wide. He was the eighteenth faculty member inducted into the Univer-
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln Academy of Distinguished Teachers, and was the
fifteenth faculty member honored with the University of Nebraska Outstanding
Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award, the highest career-teaching award
given by that university system.
Michael Mosher received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Idaho in
1988, his M.S. in Organic Chemistry from Dartmouth College in 1990, and his
Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Texas Tech University in 1993. After teaching
for two years at the University of Idaho as a Visiting Assistant Professor, he joined
the faculty at the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK) in 1995. He currently
holds the position of Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at
UNK. He is an active member of the American Chemical Society, the Interna-
tional Society for Heterocyclic Chemistry (ISHC), and serves on the executive
board of directors for the International Center for First-Year Undergraduate
Chemistry Education (ICUC). He has received numerous awards for teaching
and research with undergraduate students, including the UNK Creative Teaching
Award in 1999, 2001, and again in 2003. He is one of only three faculty members
to have received two awards by the Pratt-Heins Foundation: the Faculty Award in
Scholarship and Research in 2001 and the Faculty Award in Teaching in 2003. He
is the author of numerous research publications and textbook ancillaries.
Andrew Scott is a science writer and lecturer in chemistry at Perth College of the
UHI Millennium Institute in Scotland. He has a B.Sc. (Hons) in biochemistry
from Edinburgh University (1977) and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from
Cambridge University (1981). He is the author of several textbooks and general
science books, which have been translated into nine languages. Dr. Scott has also
worked extensively as a science journalist and as a consultant on European educa-
tion programs. He lives in the village of Dunning, in Perthshire, Scotland, with his
wife Margaret. Their two children are currently at university in Edinburgh.
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