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Dr. Herrick graduated from The Morgan High School in
Clinton, Connecticut and received his B.S. in Chemistry
at the University of Rochester and his Ph.D. in
Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University.
Following a post-doctoral appointment at Bell
Laboratories he joined the faculty at Oregon, where he
has taught and conducted research in Chemistry for over
34 years. He has served as Head of the Department
of Chemistry, Director of the Institute of Chemical
Physics, Chair of the Oregon Section of the American
Chemical Society, chair of the University of Oregon
Intercollegiate Athletic Committee, and he was a
member of the planning group for expansion and
renovation of the UO Library. National awards
include the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship,
and he is an elected Fellow of The American Physical
Society. Recent research interests have included
the theory of electronegativity for chemical bonds,
and the effects of electron-electron interactions in "artificial"
two-dimensional atoms of quantum dots fabricated
with semiconductor materials. His favorite courses
to teach are General Chemistry and Quantum
Chemistry. Dr. Herrick lives
in Eugene with his wife Ann,
who is an award-winning author of books for Kids and
Teens. Their daughter Jennifer (a UO graduate) works in advertising in
Portland and lives with her husband in Woodburn. |
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