I received my Ph.D. with the late Russell S. Drago at the university of Florida, Gainesville, Fl in December 1984. I was an NIH postdoctoral fellow with Brian M. Hoffman at Northwestern University. I worked in industry for a few years and began teaching at Roosevelt University in Chicago in August 1990. I am interested in all areas of inorganic chemistry, including bioinorganic and coordination chemistry and magnetic materials.