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Professor
Harold B. White, III was born in New England and raised in central
Pennsylvania where he graduated from Penn State University with a B. S.
in biochemistry. He joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
in 1971 after a postdoctoral research fellowship in Chemistry at
Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Brandeis
University. Between 1977 and 1981, he was the recipient of
and NIH Research Career Development Award. While his research interests
have been
in the structure, function, and evolution of vitamin-binding proteins,
particularly riboflavin-binding protein from chicken eggs, he has
strong interests in intermediary metabolism and biochemical evolution.
He was one of the early advocates of RNA enzymes. Since the mid 1990's,
his
interests have focused on undergraduate education. Between 1994 and
1998, he served as Principal Investigator on the
first NSF/DUE grant on Problem-Based
Learning (PBL) to the University of Delaware and was involved
with subsequent NSF, FIPSE, and Pew Charitable Trusts grants for PBL.
As a member of the Education and Professional Development Committee of
the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Institute for Transforming
Undergraduate Education (ITUE), he conducted numerous PBL
workshops in
the United States. For more than a decade he was an associate editor
for Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology
Education where he wrote commentaries on PBL. His publications
relating to PBL deal with the use of the research
literature for problems, preparation of peer tutor-facilitators,
faculty development,
and capstone courses. Hal received the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding
Teaching Award in 2005 and its Outstanding
Service Award in 2007. He received the 2011 Howard
Barrows Award for exceptional undergraduate teaching from McMaster
University in Hamilton, Ontario, and was recognized as a 50
year member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
In 2013 he was named Delaware
Professor of the Year and elected a AAAS
Fellow.
He was honored with the
2014 ASBMB Award for
Exemplary Contributions to Education and the 2015
Delaware Bio Educator of the Year Award. Hal White is emeritus
Professor of
Biochemistry
and was Director of the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute's Undergraduate Science Education Program
at the University of Delaware from 1998 to 2015. Locally, Prof. White
is also known as an expert
on the dragonflies of the northeastern United States and has
published a book on the Natural
History of Delmarva Dragonflies and Damselflies. He retired
in January 2016. |
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Prof.
Harold B. White, III Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716-2522 Past Director, Phone (302) 831-2908
e-mail: halwhite at udel.edu |
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