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American chemist (born 1952)
David Marlin Dooley
11th President of the University of Rhode Island
In office
July 2009 – July 31, 2021
Preceded byRobert Carothers
Succeeded byMarc Parlange
Personal details
Born (1952-05-13) May 13, 1952 (age 72)
Tulare County, California, U.S.
SpouseRev. Lynn Erville Baker
Alma materUniversity of California, San Diego (BS)
California Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known forCharacterization of organometallic compounds
Scientific career
FieldsBioinorganic chemistry
InstitutionsAmherst College
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Montana State University (provost)
University of Rhode Island (president)
ThesisSpectroscopic and magnetic studies of the coordination environment and electronic structure of copper sites in blue copper oxidases (1979)
Doctoral advisorHarry B. Gray
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David Marlin Dooley (born 13 May 1952) is an American chemist with expertise in organometallic compounds, and university administrator who has served as Provost of Montana State University and the eleventh president of the University of Rhode Island.

Early life and education

Dooley was born May 13, 1952, in Tulare County, California, to Walter Marvin Dooley and Mary Frances (Leonard) Dooley. He attended Foothill Aurora High School in Bakersfield, California, and he married Lynn Erville Baker, an ordained Baptist Minister, on Nov. 24, 1978 in Nobles County, Minnesota. He earned his bachelor's degree in 1974 at the University of California, San Diego and his Ph.D. degree in 1979 at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.

Academic career

Dooley's first academic appointment was as an instructor of chemistry at Amherst College in 1978, where he remained until 1993 when he assumed his position as head of the department of chemistry and biochemistry at Montana State University. Between 1984 and 1993, Dooley held a joint appointment as a chemistry professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he conducted much of his research into organometallic chemistry. In 1993, he joined the faculty of Montana State University as the chairperson of the department of chemistry and biochemistry. In 1999, he was appointed as interim provost, and in 2001, he was named as the permanent provost. In 2009, he joined the University of Rhode Island as its eleventh president and primarily focused on enhancing the global reach of the university and its research programs. Throughout his career as an administrator at both MSU and URI, he maintained his research program as an active scientist.

Legacy

David M. Dooley Science Quadrangle Marker at the University of Rhode Island

Upon the Dooley's retirement from the University of Rhode Island, the University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees approved naming of the President David M. Dooley Science Quadrangle in his honor.

Selected works

References

  1. ^ American Men & Women of Science. A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological and related sciences. 23rd edition. Eight volumes. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006. (AmMWSc 23)
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  4. Ancestry.com. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1999 . Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
  5. Ancestry.com. Minnesota, U.S., Marriage Index, 1958-2001 . Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
  6. ^ "MSU Provost Dooley selected as University of Rhode Island president". Montana State University. 12 May 2009. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  7. Diane M. Sterrett (Spring 2021). "Twelve Years of Transformation". University of Rhode Island Magazine. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  8. "Minutes of the Meeting of the University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees" (PDF). 25 June 2021. Retrieved 22 May 2022.

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Academic offices
Preceded byRobert Carothers 11th President of University of Rhode Island
1991–2009
Succeeded byMarc Parlange
Presidents of the University of Rhode Island
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