Ronald Starkey
Professor of Chemistry / Environmental Science
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay

B.A. 1963, Chemistry, Augsburg College, Minneapolis MN
M.S. 1965, Organic Chemistry, Michigan State University
Ph.D., 1968 Organic Chemsitry, Michigan State University

Experience

Research Associate (Post doctoral position),
Chemistry Department, University of California - Berkeley, 1968-69.

Faculty member, currently Professor,
Chemistry / Natural and Applied Sciences, UW-Green Bay, 1969 - present.

Visiting professor positions:
     Research Associate, Chemistry, University of Maine - Orono, Summer 1976.
     Visiting Professor, Chemistry, University of CA - Berkeley, Summer 1779.
     Visiting Professor, Chemistry, University of Colorado - Boulder, Summers 1983, 1993, 1994.

Publications and Presentations (last 20 years)

Presentations:

A Computer Based Pre-Laboratory Quiz for Organic Chemistry, R. Starkey & D. Kieper, American Chemical Society National Meeting, April 1981.

Design of a Computer Based Pre-Laboratory Quiz to Improve Teaching Effectiveness and Laboratory Safety, Seventh International Conference on Improving University Teaching, Japan, July 1981.

Introduction of a New Stereochemistry Term: Quadri-Varient Tetrahedral (QVT) Atom, American Chemical Society National Meeting, April 1982.

An Organic Chemistry Laboratory HPLC Experiment, American Chemical Society National Meeting, April 1985.

A Versatile New Microscale Glassware Component. American Chemical Society 11^th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, August 1990.

HyperChem Molecular Modeling Exercises in the Organic Chemistry Laboratory, American Chemical Society National Meeting, March 1997.

Molecular Modeling Software. A Tool for Teaching Natural Products Structure. American Chemical Society National Meeting, March 2000.

A Computer Based Pre-Laboratory Quiz System for Organic Chemistry, R. Starkey & D. Kieper, Journal of Chemical Education, 60, 897 (1983).

Who Knows the Ka values of Water and the Hydronium Ion?, R. Starkey, J. Norman, M. Hintze, Journal of Chemical Education, 63, 473 (1986)

Common Chromatography Misconception, R. Starkey, Journal of Chemical Education, 63, 514 (1983).

NMR Simulation Program for the ZX81 Computer, R. Starkey, Journal of Chemical Education, 68, 625 (1986).

Applications of Miniature Remotely Guided Aircraft to Monitor and Sample Atmospheric Pollutants, W. Lund & R. Starkey, Journal of Waste Management Association, 40, 896 (1990).

Sampling in the Air. Use of Miniature Remotely Guided Aircraft to Monitor for Atmospheric Pollutants, W. Lund & R. Starkey, CHEMTECH, 22, 648, Nov.1992. This was an invited paper.

A Resonance Analogy Using Cartoon Characters, R. Starkey, Journal of Chemical Education, 72, 542 (1995).

Determination of the R or S Configuration of tetrahedral Stereocenters. A Graphical Flowchart Approach. R. Starkey, Journal of Chemical Education, 72, 315 (1995).

Torsional Angle Driver (TorAD) System for HyperChem/Excel. A torsional angle driver system that uses the spreadsheet Excel to drive (via DDE) HyperChem. This is software that I wrote and is published by Journal of Chemical Education Software. The announcement of the publication is in Journal of Chemical Education, 76, 288 (1999).

SOS. A Mnemonic for the Configuration of Glucose. R. Starkey, Journal of Chemical Education, 77, 734 (2000).

Contributed a 23 page appendix: Molecular Model Exercises, Published in the Study Guide of Solomons. Organic Chemistry, Editions 3, 4 & 5, J. Wiley & Sons, Inc. (1984, 1988, 1992).

Designed the Theta Molecular Model Set for use in teaching Organic Chemistry. Distributed by J. Wiley & Sons, Inc. First Ed. 1982, Second Ed. 1984. Discontinued in 1996

Designed the Alpha Molecular Model Set for use in teaching General Chemistry. Distributed by J. Wiley & Sons, Inc. First Ed. 1984. Discontinued in 1998.

Awards (last 20 years)

University of Wisconsin System Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Grant. Funds awarded to develop a computer based pre-laboratory quiz for organic chemistry. 1980-81.

UW-Green Bay Founders Association Award for Excellence in Teaching, Fall 1985.

Collaborator in the US EPA funded project to determine the atmospheric inpt of toxic organic compounds into the great lakes. 1987-91.

National Science Foundation Instructional Scientific Equipment Program Grant to purchase a Gas Chromatograph / Mass Spectrometer. 1989.

Have received several UW-Green Bay Laboratory Modernization Grants to provide our courses with molecular modeling software and hardware.

Organic Chemistry I (225-302) and the accompanying laboratory course Organic Chemistry I Lab. (225-304). I have taught these courses every Fall Semester for the last 30 years.

Organic Chemistry II (225-303) and the accompanying laboratory course Organic Chemistry II Lab. (225-305). I have taught these courses every Spring Semester for the last 30 years except for the semester when I was on sabbatical in 1993.

BioOrganic Chemistry (225-300). A one semester applied organic chemistry course offered once a year. I have taught this course every year from its development in 1975 until 1993. Since 1993 I have taught the courses twice.

Advanced Organic Chemistry (225-402) and its laboratory (225-403). These courses are designed to be offered in alternate years. I have taught it several times since 1976.

Polymer Chemistry (225-463). I began team teaching this course Fall 1999.

Environmental Chemistry (225-434). I have team taught this course about 7 times in the last 10 years.

I have quite successful in obtaining funds to purchase modern chemistry instrumentation. The total funds that I have obtained for this is over $ 250,000.

I was successful in obtaining funds ($ 150,000) to completely remodel the organic chemistry laboratory (Lab Sciences 301) in 1991.

I was a member of the American Chemical Society Committee to write the 1998 ACS Organic Chemistry Exam. This exam is used by hundreds of universities to examine students after completion of a one year Organic Chemistry course. I am presently serving on the committee to write the 2002 Organic Chemistry Exam.

Since June 1999 I have served as the Molecular Modeling Exercises and Experiments Feature Editor for the Journal of Chemical Education: Online. This is a WWW based publication of the Journal of Chemical Education. It is my responsibility to evaluate submitted manuscripts and decide which will be published in the Molecular Modeling section of the online journal.