Steve Schulman's blog

Hi Guys:
I graduated from City College in 1961.Started graduate school at Florida State but left and went to work as a chemist, first at the University of Miami marine laboratory then at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers.I returned to grad. school at the U of Arizona in 1964, where I earned my Ph.D. in chemistry in 1967. I returned to the Boyce Thompson Institute and left there in Feb.1968 for a position with Bellcomm Inc. in Washington, D.C. where I was a consultant to the Office of Manned Space Flight of NASA.
There, I worked on the possibility of extraterrestrial inorganic abiogenesis. I took a postdoctoral appointment in analytical chemistry in the laboratory of J.D.Winefordner at the U. of Florida in Gainesville in April 1969 and accepted an assistant professorship in the Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at UF in July 1970. I was there, where I taught analytical, medicinal and physical chemistries and maintained a research program in fast reaction kinetics, luminescence spectroscopy and the physical chemistry of partially aqueous solutions, until my retirement in July 2005. During my stay at UF I also had several visiting professorships such as at the Univ. of Kentucky, State University of Utrecht(Netherlands), State University of Ghent(Belgium), Universities of Kumamoto and Nagasaki(Japan), Chinese Academy of Sciences(Beijing), Karl Franzens University(Graz, Austria) and the University of Regensburg(Germany).The visiting appointments were probably the most interesting parts of my career. I am divorced and have three daughters. Christina(the oldest) is a graduate of Princeton and has a computer business in Pittsburgh, Barbara is an assistant professor of history at Flagler College in St.Augustine(she's a graduate of both UF and Minnesota).Anneke(a graduate of UF and UT,Austin) is an assistant professor of botany at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Anneke is also the mother of my only grandchild, Liam Padolina. Her husband Gani is a biochemist who works for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in Richmond. Incidentally, while at UF I was the faculty advisor for the revived AZ chapter of ZBT but during my tenure there we had no 18 year old house mother.I currently live in Boynton Beach, about 300 miles south of Gainesville and as I just discovered, about 5 miles ESE of Bob Straussman who is in Lake Worth. As I am totally inept as a typist I think it's time for me to end this(at least for now). So, I'm really looking forward to seeing all you guys in September. Be Well,
Steve Schulman