Biographical Sketch: Prof
Peter Y Johnson- 2010
Address
Department of Biological,
Chemistry, Physical Sciences (BCPS), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
IL 60616 Phone: CHEM (312)567-3440; FAX 567-3210; E-mail: johnsonp@iit.edu. Webpage IIT BCPS: http://www.iit.edu/csl/che/faculty/johnson_peter.shtml,
Peter's page: http://mypages.iit.edu/~johnsonp/index.html
for more personal information.
Recent IIT server "port" to "mypages" space has created many broken links in
these pages. Sorry.
Education
Attended The University
of Illinois 1961-65 receiving the Bachelor of Science Degree (Honors) in
Chemistry. Wrote a Bachelor's
thesis,"The Generation of Carbonium Ions from Carboxylium Ions", A JACS
publication, under the supervision of Professor Peter
Beak.
Attended The
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 1965-68 receiving the PhD in October
of 1968. Thesis work, directed by
Professor Glenn A. Berchtold, concerned "The Photolysis of Keto-Sulfides"
and resulted in several publications.
Postdoctoral research was
conducted at MIT under the supervision of Professor David Hercules involved
flash photolysis.
Awards
1964-1965 - N.S.F. Undergraduate Fellowship, U of IL,
1965-1966 - Sun Oil Fellow, MIT
1966-1968 - N.I.H. Predoctoral Fellowship,
MIT
1990-1991
- Amoco Award for Excellence
in Service and Teaching, IIT
1991-1992 - Bauer Award for Excellence in
Undergraduate Teaching- Chem 124, Freshmen chem.
1992-1993 - Anderson Quality Award Gold Medalist
Participant for Partnership
programs involving Business, Universities, and Public Schools (Access
2000).
1995 and 2001- IIT Award as Best Faculty
Advisor-UB (Union Board) (Has been advisor to many IIT
clubs.)
Professional
Societies
He is, or has been a
member of, the American Chemical Society (Organic, Medicinal, Chemical
information and Computer Sciences Sections), Sigma Xi, American Association for
the Advancement of Science, American Association of University Professors, Phi
Lambda Epsilon Society, Chicago Council for Post Secondary Education, College
Board Delegation, Council of Colleges of Arts and Letters and the American
Conference of Academic Deans as well as NACA.
Employment
1969-1975 - Assistant Professor, The
1976-1988 - Associate Professor,
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Il
1985-1996 - Director, IIT Summer
Institutes on Computer Modeling in Mathematics and Science, EID, DASH, and
HAWK
1986-1993 - Director, IIT
Educational
1988-1993 - Dean of Undergraduate Academic
Affairs, precollege, honors, Minority programs, other
1988
-Professor of Chemistry, IIT
1990-1996 - IIT Director of the
1993-present - IIT Director of the
Chicago Alliance for Minority Participation (Now Illinois LS-AMP)
2002-2008 - IIT President of
the Armour Faculty Club
2005-present - IIT
Academic Safety Officer, OSHA, Dept Homeland Security
Liason
Present
- Professor, Chemistry Division, BCPS Dept, Illinois Institute of
Technology.
He has been featured in
40+ newspaper articles and numerous TV spots: See sample news articles: Chicago Sun-Times, 5/6/86, "Kids get
hands on IIT computer"; Chicago
Tribune, 5/25/93, "Schools trying to fill gap in high-tech education"; "Science
and Math add up to fun"; Chicago Tribune, 7/29/94, "Rocket Science"; Chicago Tribune, 07/28/2000,"
IIT program aims to launch children into
science fields", Chicago Sun-Times, 03/01/2001, "Making Mirth at Work". Many of his photos have been used to
promote funded programs, clubs, and IIT goals and some have been published.
(Many can be found on my personal web-page: mypages.iit.edu/~johnsonp/index.html )
He has published 70 plus
articles, many in refereed publications, others abstracts for talks, ranging
from organic synthesis and mechanisms to the use of experts systems in chemistry
and co-authored/reviewed two chapters for the ACS Symposium
Series:
"Designing an Expert System for Organic Synthesis: The Need
for Strategic Planning,"
Peter Y. Johnson, I. Burnstein, J. Crary, M.Evens, and T. Wang, Published in the
ACS Symposium Series 408 "Expert System Applications in Chemistry",
p102-124, edited by Bruce Hohne and Thomas Pierce, 1989, Los Angeles,
California.
He has presented over
200+ talks on subjects ranging from organic synthesis, the use of computers in
chemistry, the use of expert systems in science, computer modeling of math and
science, inspirational addresses-do the best you can, go to college, be all you
can be promoted by the NSF, multicultural programs in the university
environment, Chicago inner-city education, the importance of student activities
in the educational process. Other, and started IIT's Annual UGR Conference and
Directed the first 5. He has taken
many inner city students to national NSF conferences and one just became famous
as the new head of Chicago Community Colleges -Google "Cheryl
Hyman".
He has attracted funding
from federal (NIH, NFS, NCI, DOE, DEA, FIPSE), state (IBHE), and local
governments (TAMS), foundations (Frankel, Fry, Coke-a-Cola, Scholl, IL Bell,
GTE, Northern Trust, Toyota) and industry (some with matching funds) totaling
over $4 million in areas ranging from organic synthesis, expert systems, and
STEM education. Inner city STEM programs include the IIT Gifted program, EID,
DASH, Bridge, Community HAWK, Build-A-Computer, Access 2000 and LS-AMP. Two of
the large NSF funded projects are:
*1990-1995 NSF.(CRCM),
*1993-2010 NSF (LS-AMP), Chicago Alliance for Minority Participation- as
Co-PI (Was PI on original proposal) and IIT Director to date.
He has worked with:
4 Postdoctoral follows, 14 Doctoral
students, 5 MS students, and 17 undergraduate research fellows before becoming a "bog downed" administrator. Still enjoys presenting the excitement
of natural product syntheses to his
students.