BS  Tennessee Technological University,  1964 
MS  Tennessee Technological University, 1966
PhD  University of Florida, 1971 
Post Doc Polymer Chemistry, Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany, 1971-1972
Post Doc Polymer Chemistry, Univ. of Florida, Sept. 1972- Dec. 1972

Scientist, Xerox Corporation, 1972-1980
Staff Scientist, Exxon Research and Engineering, 1980-1982
Research Associate, Eastman Kodak, 1982-1993
Research Fellow, Eastman Chemical, 1993-2004
Director, Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute, Virginia Tech, 2004-present

Honors and Awards:
Listed in Who's Who in Technology Today--Chemical Technology
Listed in Who's Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology, 2nd Edition
Received Distinguished Inventors’ Award from Eastman Kodak Company, 1993
Named Fellow Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering of the American Chemical Society, 2002
Chosen as Stein-Bayer Lecturer in Department of Chemistry University of Massachusetts Amherst, November 2003
Named one of “Top Ten” Scientists in Tennessee by “Business Tennessee” magazine, March 2004
University of Florida, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Chemistry 2004 Alumni Award
Tennessee Technological University, 2004 Alumnus of the Year Award
Northeast Tennessee ACS Section Speaker of the Year award for 2005 for outstanding achievements in polyester research, May 2005
PMSE Distinguished Service Award 2006, March 2006
Industrial Polymer Scientist Award for Outstanding Industrial Innovation—ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry, August 2008
Named Fellow of the American Chemical Society in the Inaugural Class of ACS Fellows, August 2009
Named Fellow of the Division of Polymer Chemistry, American Chemical Society (Inaugural Class), March 2010

Synthesis and characterization of step-growth hyper-branched ion-containing polymers, and novel-responsive polymers.

1. “Free radical copolymerization of methyl substituted stilbenes with maleic anhydride,” European Polymer Journal 46, 821-828 (2010) with Y. Li
2. “Synthesis and characterization of hexafluoroisopropylidene bisphenol poly(arylene ether sulfones) and polydimethylsiloxane segmented block copolymers, Polymer 51, 1679-1686 (2010) with L. Cureton, F. L. Beyer
3. “Cyclic diester based aliphatic copolyesters,” J. Polym. Sci. A: Polym. Chem. (accepted for publication Feb. 18, 2010) ( with Y. Liu)
4. “Synthesis and characterization of cyclohexyl-containing poly(ether ketone sulfone)s,” Polymer 50, 1144-1149 (2009) with K. Osano, S. Das  
5.  “Chain Structure of Substituted Stilbene Maleic Anhydride Alternating Copolymer Probed by Solid State NMR,”  Macromolecules 41, 387 (2008). with M. Mao, C. Kim, S. Wi. 
6. “Synthesis, Characterization, and Properties of Linear Poly(ether sulfone)s with Dendritic Terminal Groups,” J. Polym. Sci. A: Polym. Chem. 46, 958-969 (2008). With K. Osano