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Dear Colleague:
President Bienen and I are greatly pleased to announce the
appointment of C. Bradley Moore as Vice President for Research
and Professor of Chemistry, effective May 1, 2003.
Moore brings to this important administrative post at Northwestern
an extraordinary record of accomplishment as both a scientist
and an academic administrator. We are confident that, under
his direction, the research enterprise will build further
on its already-considerable strength, while the Vice President's
Office works to enhance the important services it provides
to the research community.
An internationally recognized physical chemist, Moore currently
serves as Vice President for Research at The Ohio State University
and President of The Ohio State University Research Foundation.
He also holds appointments at Ohio State as Professor of Chemistry
and Distinguished Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
From 1963 until 2000, he was a member of the faculty of the
University of California, Berkeley, where he served as Vice
Chair and Chair of the Chemistry Department and as Dean of
the College of Chemistry. From 1974 - 2000 he was a Faculty
Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
and served as Director of its Chemical Sciences Division from
1998-2000.
Moore was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in
1986 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.
He is a member of the American Chemical Society and a Fellow
of the American Physical Society and the American Association
for the Advancement of Science. Over the years his work has
been recognized by more than a dozen fellowships and awards.
Moore was identified by a search committee chaired by Professor
Frederick D. Lewis. President Bienen and I are grateful to
the search committee for its energetic work in identifying
and helping recruit to Northwestern this extraordinary new
colleague.
We are also grateful to Peter Dallos, who has served so ably
since January as Acting Vice President for Research.
Moore's work in physical chemistry has focused on molecular
energy transfer, chemical reaction dynamics, photochemistry
and spectroscopy. His research group uses lasers to produce
and detect molecules in specific energy states. In this way
benchmarks are established for the mechanisms of molecular
processes and predictive understandings developed. Applications
of this work are found in combustion and atmospheric chemistry,
in chemical and molecular lasers, and in isotope separation.
His group is currently focusing on bond breaking dynamics
in free radicals.
Fifty students have earned a Ph.D. in Moore's lab and
another seventy postdoctoral fellows and undergraduates have
worked with him, publishing some 250 research papers. Moore
has taught courses ranging from freshman chemistry to graduate
quantum mechanics. He was the founding chair of the Committee
for Undergraduate Science Education of the National Academy
of Sciences and the National Research Council and has helped
guide undergraduate chemistry curriculum development.
Moore received his B.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D.
in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.
We greatly look forward to welcoming Moore to the Northwestern
community this spring.
Lawrence B. Dumas
Provost
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