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Biography
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Tami Spector
Professor: Chemistry
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Department Chair, 2007-2009
Tami Spector received her B.A. from Bard College, her Ph.D. from Dartmouth College, and was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota. She teaches fundamentals of organic chemistry, organic chemistry I and II, organic laboratory I and II, and a graduate course in advanced mechanisms.
Trained as a physical organic chemist her scientific work has focused on fluorocarbons, the transformations of strained ring organics, and the molecular dynamics and free energy calculations of biomolecular systems. She also has a strong interest in aesthetics and chemistry and has published and presented work on The Molecular Aesthetics of Disease, John Dalton and The Aesthetics of Molecular Representation, The Visual Image of Chemistry, and the Relationship between Chemistry and Contemporary Visual Art. She serves on the board of Leonardo/International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology and as the treasurer for the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry (ISPC). She is the chair of the Leonardo Scientists Working Group and is the facilitator of a project for Leonardo with the San Francisco Exploratorium on Art and Nanotechnology. The later entails, among other projects, serving as the co-editor (with Tom Rockwell) of an on-going special section on Art and Nanoscience, and Nanotechnology for the journal Leonardo. She is also currently serving as a guest editor for the publication of a series of articles from the 2007 ISPC symposium in the journal Foundations of Chemistry.
Contact Information:
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St., San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: (415) 422-2927
Fax: (415) 422-5157
Email: spector@usfca.edu
Office: Harney Science Center, 437
Office Hours: M 1-2:30 PM and T 2-3:00 PM and by appointment
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