Curriculum Vitae for Gerard S. Harbison

Current title                Professor of Chemistry
University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Born                            Manchester, England, January 1, 1958

Contact Information

Professional address   Department of Chemistry
University of Nebraska at Lincoln
723 Hamilton Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0304

Telephone                   (402) 472-9346

Email                           gerry@setanta.unl.edu

Web page                    http://setanta.unl.edu/research.html

 

Research Interests

Solid state NMR
Structure and dynamics of nucleic acids
Hydrogen bonds

Education

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Sept. 1974 - June 1977
B.A. (Mod.), First Class, in Biochemistry, July 1977

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Sept .1977 – Jan. 1984
Ph.D. in Biophysics, March 1984.

Postdoctoral, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Jan. 1984 - May 1985.

Fellow of the Max-Planck Society, Max-Planck-Institut fŸr Polymerforschung, Mainz, West Germany, June 1985 – Aug. 1986.

Professional Experience

Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0304, Aug. 1995 – present

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0304, Sept. 1992 – Aug. 1995

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, Sept. 1991 – Aug. 1992

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, Sept. 1986 – Aug. 1991

Awards and Honors

Entrance Exhibition Scholar, University of Dublin, 1974

Foundation Scholar, University of Dublin, 1975

Gold Medal of the University of Dublin, 1977

FIRST award, National Institutes of Health, 1987-1992

Lilly Teaching Fellow, State University of New York, 1987 - 1988.

Presidential Young Investigator, National Science Foundation, 1990-1995

Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, 1992-1997

Courses Taught

Chemical instrumentation (CHE 304), Spring 1987 - Spring 1991

Magnetic resonance (CHE 524), Fall 1987, Fall 1989 and Spring 1992

How science works (SCI 151), Spring 1989

Molecular structure and spectroscopy (CHE 357), Fall 1990 and Fall 1991

Angular momentum, operators, and group theory (CHE 587), Spring 1991

General Chemistry (CHE 109), Spring 1993, Spring 2002

Nuclear magnetic resonance (CHE 971b), Fall 1993, Fall 1995, Fall 1997, Fall 2000, Fall 2004

Physical chemistry laboratory (CHE 484),Spring 1993 - Spring 1995

Fundamental chemistry, (CHE 114), Spring 1996 - Spring 1998

Chemical thermodynamics, (CHE 982), Fall 1998, Fall 2000, Fall 2002

Molecular spectroscopy (CHE 887), Spring 2000, Spring 2002, Spring 2004

Biophysical chemistry, (CHE 471), Fall 1996, Fall 1999

Ab initio methods in chemistry (CHE 971f), Fall 2001

Physical Chemistry (CHEM 482) Spring 2005

 

Major Departmental and University Service

UNL Center of Materials Research and Analysis, 1992-present

Chemistry Department Executive Committee, 1995-1997, 1999-2001, 2004-present

UNL Academic Senator, 1996-1999 and 2003-present

UNL Research Council, 1998-1999

Faculty Adviser, UNL College Republicans, 1998-2004

Faculty Adviser, UNL Anime Club, 2003-2005

Chair, Chemistry Department Curriculum Committee, 2001-2003

Chair, Tenure and Promotion Committees for Xiao-Cheng Zeng and Paul Kelter, 1994 – 2000

Graduate Chair, Chemistry, 2003-2005.

Five Year Research Support (GSH as sole PI except where indicated)

Sponsor                       National Science Foundation

Title                            600 MHz NMR Spectrometer

Period of Support       7/1/2000 - 6/30/2003

Total Costs                  $615,000 from NSF
$265,900 from University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Sponsor                       National Institutes of Health

Title                            Structure and dynamics of DNA hairpins

Period of Support       5/1/2002 – 4/30/2006

Total Costs                  $150,000 (direct) p.a.