Resume of S. Murov

Resume of Steven L. Murov murovs@mjc.edu
[for home page, see http://murov.info ]

Birthday: October 16, 1940
Birthplace: Los Angeles
Marital Status: Married (12/1/89 - Carolyn Ann Murov)
Children: Wendy F. (7/16/69), Lori B. (8/1/71), David T. (4/10/76)

EDUCATION

Menlo-Atherton High School; Atherton, California, 1954-1958
   Life Member - California Scholarship Federation

Harvey Mudd College; Claremont, California, 1958 - 1962
    B.S., 1962, Chemistry Major, California State Scholarship
    Undergraduate research supervisor - Dr. P. C. Myhre
    Honors and Distinction at graduation

        University of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois, 1962 - 1966
            Ph.D., 1967, Physical Organic Chemistry
            NSF Fellow, 1962 - 1965, Esso Foundation Fellow, 1966
            Thesis supervisors - Drs. N. C. Yang and D. S. McClure
            Thesis - "Photochemistry of Aromatic Ketones"

California Institute of Technology: Pasadena, California, 12/66 - 1/68
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Supervisor - Dr. G. S. Hammond

SCIENTIFIC EMPLOYMENT

   State University of New York at Stony Brook; Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2/68 - 8/73
   Sangamon State Univ.; Springfield, Illinois, Associate Professor of Physical Sciences, 8/73 - 7/77
   Moorhead State University; Moorhead, MN, Visiting Associate Prof. of Chemistry, 9/77 - 7/78
   California State University; Bakersfield, CA, Lecturer of Chemistry, 9/78 - 6/79
   Modesto Junior College; Modesto, California, Professor of Chemistry, 9/79 - 6/06 (retired 6/06)
   UCMerced, Merced, CA, Visiting Professor of Chemistry, 6/06 - 12/06

SUMMER AND SABBATICAL POSITIONS

    Stanford High Energy Physics Laboratory, 6/58 - 9/58
    California Research Corporation, 6/62 - 9/62
    University of Notre Dame Radiation Lab, Notre Dame, Indiana, Consultant, 6/86 - 8/86
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA,
        Consultant for Science Education Center, 6/90 - 8/90, 6/91 - 8/91
   University of Rochester, NSF Center for Photoinduced Charge-Transfer, 6/94 - 8/94
   Washington State University, NSF Summer Science Institute in Chem. Engineering, 6/95 - 8/95
   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, CAMS Laboratory, 7/01 - 8/02

GRANTS, AWARDS

    Petroleum Research Foundation Grant, 1970 - 1971
    Research Corporation Grant, 1970 - 1971
    Eisenhower Program Science Grant, MAPS (Modesto Academic Partners in Science - a four year, $350,000 federal grant for a partnership between Modesto Junior College and Modesto City Schools to increase the level of science literacy), Project Director, 9/90 - 9/94
     Distinguished Service Award, Sept., 1994, Modesto Junior College Instructional Administrative Council
     Science Education Leadership Award, 10/18/02, San Joaquin County Office of Education and Delta Sierra Science Project.
     Modesto Junior College Distinguished Faculty Award, 9/3/03
    Stanislaus County Office of Education Volunteer of the Year Award 5/22/04

SPECIAL POSITIONS

   Modesto Area Partners in Science Program Director, 9/89 - 2003
   Science Consultant, Stanislaus County Office of Education, 10/00 - 9/01
   Co-director, Stanislaus County Science Olympiad, 1987 - 1997
   Co-director, NorCal State Science Olympiad, 1996, 1997
   Chief Abitrator, Stanislaus County Science Olympiad (1998 - present), NorCal State Science Olympiad (2001, 2002), Stanislaus County Elementary School Science Olympiad (2001 - present)

PUBLICATIONS

S. Murov, Chem 13 News, March, 2010. Promoting Insight: Atomic Mass.

S. L. Murov and B. Stedjee, Experiments and Exercises in Basic Chemistry, 7th ed., Wiley, New Jersey, 2009. (and all earlier editions)
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470423730.html

S. Murov, J. Chem. Ed., 84 , 1224 (2007). "Reaction-Map of Organic Chemistry." http://www.jce.divched.org/Journal/Issues/2007/Jul/abs1224.html

S. L. Murov, Experiments in General Chemistry, 5th ed., Thomson, Brooks-Cole, 2007. (and all earlier editions)
http://www.cengage.com/search/totalsearchresults.do?keyword_all=murov&N=0&image.x=43&image.y=18

P.G. Grant, M. Palmblad, S. Murov, D. Hillegonds, D. Ueda, J. S. Vogel and G. Bench, Anal. Chem., 75, 4519 (2003). "Alpha Particle Energy Loss Measurement of Microgram Depositions of Biomolecules."

T. J. Ognibene, G. Bench, J. S. Vogel, G. F. Peaslee and S. Murov, Anal. Chem., 75, 2192 (2003). "A High Throughput Method for the Conversion of CO₂ Obtained from Biochemical Samples to Graphite in Septa-Sealed Vials for ¹⁴C-AMS Quantification."

S. Murov, J. Chem. Ed., 78, 1429 (2001). "Exploring Chemistry Resources on the Internet." For abstract, see: http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/Journal/Issues/2001/Oct/abs1429.html (also includes full text for J. Chem. Ed. subscribers.)

S. Murov and B. Stedjee, J. Chem. Ed., 78, 1389 (2001). "Analysis of Zinc Tablets: An Extension to a Stoichiometry Experiment." For abstract, see: http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/Journal/Issues/2001/Oct/abs1389.html (also includes full text and experimental supplement for J. Chem. Ed. subscribers.)

S. L. Murov, Exercises and Tutorial Links for Malone, Wiley (2000).
http://exercises.murov.info/chemexercises.htm

S. L. Murov, Chemistry Webercises Directory, Wiley (1998). [ http://murov.info/webercises.htm ]

S. L. Murov, J. Chem. Ed., 71, 1082 (1994). "Chemistree".

S. L. Murov, I. Carmichael and G. Hug, Handbook of Photochemistry, 2nd ed., Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York (1993).
http://books.google.com/books/about/Handbook_of_photochemistry.html?id=d2BA1bONPosC

S. L. Murov, J. Chem. Ed., 54, 368 (1977). "Grignard Synthesis of Triphenylmethanol: An Interest Adding Feature."

S. L. Murov, PLATO Lessons (1975). "Interpretation of Mass Spectra" and "Chromatography".

S. L. Murov, Handbook of Photochemistry, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York (1974).

S. L. Murov, Loh-sheng Yu and L. P. Giering, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 95, 4329 (1973). A Mechanistic Study of the Quenching of Naphthalene Fluorescence by cis,trans-1,3-Cycloctadiene."

S. L. Murov and M. Pickering, J. Chem. Ed., 50, 74 (1973). "The Odor of Optical Isomers - An Experiment in Organic Chemistry."

N. C. Yang, S. L. Murov and T. C. Shieh, Chem. Phys. Letters, 3, 6 (1969). "Radiationless Decay Processes in 2-Naphthaldehyde."

S. Murov and G. S. Hammond, J. Phys. Chem., 72, 3797 (1968). "Mechanisms of Photochemical Reactions in Solution, LVI. A Singlet-Sensitized Reaction."

S. Murov, R. S. Cole and G. S. Hammond, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 90, 2957 (1968). "Mechanisms of Photochemical Reactions in Solution. LIV. A New Mechanism for Photosensitization."

N. C. Yang, D. S. McClure, S. Murov, J. J. Houser and R. Dusenberry, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 89, 5466 (1967). "Photoreduction of Acetophenone and Substituted Acetophenones."

N. C. Yang and S. Murov, J. Chem. Phys., 45, 4358 (1966). "On the Phosphorescence of 1-Indanone."

S. Murov, D. S. McClure and N. C. Yang, J. Chem. Phys., 45, 2204 (1966). "Dependence of Sensitized Biacetyl Phosphorescence Intensity on Exciting Light Intensity."

N. C. Yang and S. Murov, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 88, 2852 (1966). "Dependence of the Quantum Yield of Photoreduction of Benzophenone in 2-Propanol on Light Intensity. Possibility of Triplet Quenching by the Radical Intermediates in Solution."

N. C. Yang, M. Nussim, J. J. Jorgenson and S. Murov, Tetrahedron Letters, 3657 (1964). "Photochemical Reactions of Carbonyl Compounds in Solution. The Paterno-Buchi Reaction."

P. C. Myhre, S. L. Murov, R. C. Clark and L. Armi, Abstracts of the 144th Meeting of the American Chemical Society, 19M (1963). "Kinetics and Isotope Effect Studies of the Electrophilic Debromination of 2,4,6-Tri-t-butylbromobenzene."

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