Don Taylor, Organic Chemistry Laboratory Technician, Wins Chancellor's Citation Award

The chemistry department's good fortune in having excellent support staff was again recognized as Don Taylor, the organic chemistry teaching laboratory technician, received one of this year's Chancellor's Citation Awards, which recognize outstanding and exemplary service to the university. Don is one of a number of chemistry department recipients of this honor (recent recipients include Kathy Tobiassen, Graduate Program Manager, and Marvin Ellin, Director of Operations).

Don's has worked for the department as an 03 (hourly) in the General Chem teaching labs in July '88, then with general chemistry program since January '89, and since August '92 in the organic chemistry program. He has always been especially attentive to the needs of the students, well beyond just getting solutions, samples, and experiments ready on time and in good shape. Even during summer programs, he has been known to find ways to make sure that outreach programs that depended upon Chemistry but were not specifically offered by the department -- such as Summer Enrichment Program for 50 high school sophomores, which ran for a number of years during the 1990's -- were able to operate successfully.

Our department has been able to carry on and prosper, despite numerous budget cuts and large-scale retirements, because we are lucky to have such excellent departmental citizens like Don. We are all proud that he is one of us.

Chancellor John Lombardi, Donald Taylor, Chemistry Department Head Bret Jackson, and Deputy Provost John Cunningham

(5/18/2005)