Bob
Schneider
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Chemistry
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Bob
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Bob received his A.B (1954), M.A. (1956) and Ph.D. (1959) degrees from Columbia. He was a postdoctoral research associate at the Brookhaven National Laboratories from 1958 to 1960, when he joined the faculty of the State University College on Long Island (which was later expanded and renamed the State University of New York at Stony Brook). While Bob has been a faculty member at Stony Brook since 1960, he also served in a variety of administrative positions related to research at Stony Brook for almost 30 years (1973 - 2002) during that period. His most recent past role was as Director of Informatics and Compliance in the Office of the Vice President for Research. He was responsible for the collection, maintenance and dissemination of information about all aspects of the campus' research activities. His other responsibilties dealt with compliance in the areas of Human Subjects, Laboratory Animals, Biological Safety, Radiation Safety, Conflict of Interest and Scholarly Misconduct. He maintained a web site dealing with all types of information about research administration. As of January 2003, Bob returned to full-time teaching in the Department of Chemistry. In his faculty capacity, he helps maintain the WWW site for the Department of Chemistry and teaches Introductory Chemistry Laboratory for which he also maintains WWW sites.(CHE 133 - CHE 134). |
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| Bob is particularly proud of three graduate students with whom he had the good fortune to collaborate back in the "good old days":
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In addition to his
faculty responsibilities, Bob was a member of the University at Stony
Brook's adminstration between 1973 and 2002, serving as Associate
Vice Provost for Research (1973 - 1991), and for two years, simultaneously
as Acting Vice Provost for Computing and Communications
(1986 - 1988) as well as other positions ( Acting Vice Provost for Research
and Graduate Studies, In 1974-5, Bob designed and presented an 18 month weekly TV show called Science in the News on local cable TV which featured a variety of interviews with faculty from Stony Brook, Brookhaven and other local educational institutions. Max Dresden, of the Stony Brook Physics Department, was an occasional co-host. In 1985,
he was Stony Brook's representative to a meeting to discuss a statewide
initiative to provide high speed networking to the research universities
in New York State. That meeting resulted in the creation of NYSERNet.
From 1986-1987, Bob served as (founding) Vice President, and member of
the Executive Committee of New York State Education and Research Network,
Inc. (NYSERNet),
non-profit corporation created to construct and manage a high speed state-wide
data processing network for access to supercomputing and other research
and education-related computing facilities. Bob was a recipient of President's and Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Teaching in 2001, joining seven of his colleagues in Chemistry who have earned that distinction. He can be reached by email here.
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The following dispel two common misconceptions about Bob: |
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This is
his family:
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| Here is a picture taken at the beautiful and educational New England Aquarium during a 1996 trip to Boston to attend a meeting dealing with ERA. It includes Heather, David, Mitchell, Bob and a friend (Bob is the one on the left.). A good friend, and former colleague at USB, Jerry Schubel, Director Emeritus of NEAQ and current Director of the Aquarium of the Pacific, was the photographer. |  |
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Here
is a picture of the family taken at a reunion in Williamsburg, Va. in
2002. |
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A more recent picture of the family in July 2005 includes its newest member. |
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| Bob is a founding member of the Wednesday Philosophical Society, a group which has either created or resolved some of the world's major problems at its regular meetings since 1991. | ||
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