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Kenneth Doxsee, Mentor
Chemistry

Vanessa Muller, McNair Scholar

Professor Kenneth M. Doxsee is a native midwesterner, born and raised in the Chicago area. He received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Stanford University in 1978. Carrying out research under James P. Collman and John I. Brauman on the design, synthesis, and analysis of model compounds for the oxygen transport proteins, hemoglobin and myoglobin, he received his M.S. degree from Stanford University in 1979. With the support of a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation graduate fellowship, Doxsee carried out his doctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology. Working with Robert H. Grubbs on the development of catalytic methods for the production of fuels from carbon monoxide, he received his Ph.D. in organic/organometallic chemistry in 1983. Following a two-year postdoctoral appointment with Donald J. Cram at UCLA, during which time he carried out studies in the area of organic synthesis and molecular recognition with the support of an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellowship, Doxsee moved to the University of Southern California as an assistant professor. He was recruited by the University of Oregon as an associate professor in 1989 and was promoted to full professor at Oregon in 1999. He carries out research in organic, organometallic, and solid-state inorganic synthesis, focusing on the design of selective binding agents for ions, the application of molecular recognition phenomena in the crystallization of organic and inorganic materials, and metal-mediated reaction chemistry. Since 1996, he has also served as a Program Officer in the Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program at the National Science Foundation, and he presided over the Oregon Academy of Science in 1995-1996.