Education:
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, August 1993
Research Adviser: Dr. Richard A. MacPhail
Dissertation Title: High-Resolution Stimulated Brillouin Gain Spectroscopy of Liquids, Supercooled Liquids and Glasses
High Point University, High Point, North Carolina, Bachelor of Science Honors, magna cum laude, May 1989
Major: Chemistry
Experience:
Associate Professor (8/01 -present): Current position in the department of chemistry at Stetson University teaching physical chemistry and other courses.
Assistant Professor (8/95 - 7/01)
NIST Postdoctoral Fellow (8/93 - 7/95): Research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology using transient infrared spectroscopy to evaluate chemical reaction dynamics and ultrafast energy flow in liquid phase polyatomic molecules.
Duke University (8/89 - 8/93)
Graduate research using stimulated Brillouin gain spectroscopy to study collective molecular motions in condensed phases. Evaluation of intermolecular dynamics and relaxational processes in simple and glass-forming liquids.
Research Focus:
"Research activities have focused upon an ongoing study of optical polymers (clear plastics) and the reactions by which they are formed using a novel laser interferometric technique. I've also been active in the chemical education community publishing articles on new laboratory experiments and how to incorporate computational chemistry in the physical chemical curriculum."
Courses Taught:
Physical Chemistry I & II (CY351-2) - sequence taught every academic year.
General Chemistry I & II (CY101-2) - sequence taught every academic year; includes separate laboratory sections each semester.
Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (CY416) - course taught every Fall
Grants Funded:
National Science Foundation (NSF-MRI) instrument development grant involving undergraduate students ($134,215), 2002 - 2005
Research Corporation grant to fund undergraduate research ($66,200), 1998
ACS-PRF grant to fund undergraduate research ($20,000), 1998
Stetson Faculty development grants, summers of 1997, 1998, 2002
Honors and Affiliations:
Hand Faculty Research Award, Stetson University, 1999
Member, Gamma Sigma Epsilon Chemical Honor Society 1996
NIST/NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship 1993
Member, Sigma Xi 1992
Member, American Chemical Society 1987
Peer Reviewed Publications (names of undergraduate co-authors are underlined):
[1] W. Tandy Grubbs, "The Diffusion Game - Using Symbolic mathematics software to Play the Game on a Large Scale," Journal of Chemical Education, (accepted, 2006).
[2] Sarah E. Caudill and W. Tandy Grubbs, "Interferometric Measurements of Refractive Index Dispersion in Polymers over the Visible and Near-Infrared Spectral Range," Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 100, 65 (2006).
[3] W. R. Furlong and W. T. Grubbs, "Safe Preparation of HCl/DCl for IR Spectroscopy," Journal of Chemical Education, 82, 124 (2005).
[4] E. Friedman and W.T. Grubbs, "The Boltzmann Distribution and Pascal's Triangle," The Chemical Educator, 8, 116 (2003).
[5] W. T. Grubbs, "Variational Methods Applied to the Particle-in-a-box," Journal of Chemical Education, 78, 1557 (2001).
[6] E. A. Fogleman, M. T. Kelly, and W. T. Grubbs, "Laser Interferometric Method for Measuring Polymerization Shrinkage in Light Cured Dental Restoratives," Dental Materials, 18, 324 (2002).
[7] O. Dudi and W. T. Grubbs, "Laser Interferometric Technique for Measuring Polymer Cure Kinetics," Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 74, 2133 (1999).
[8] W. T. Grubbs, "Fourier Transforms of Molecular Vibrations," Journal of Chemical Education, 76, 286 (1999).
[9] M. A. Page and W. T. Grubbs, "An Interferometric Study of Epoxy Polymerization Kinetics," Journal of Chemical Education, 76, 666 (1999).
[10] S. M. Arrivo, T. P. Dougherty, W. T. Grubbs and E. J. Heilweil, "New Advances in Measuring Hydrogen Bond Dynamics," Springer Series in Chemical Physics, Vol. 62, Ultrafast Phenomena X, Editors P.F. Barbara, J.G. Fujimoto, W.H. Knox, and W. Zinth, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1996.
[11] S. M. Arrive, V. D. Kleiman, W. T. Grubbs, T. P. Dougherty, and E. J. Heilweil, "Infrared Spectral Hole Burning of 1:1 Hydrogen-Bonded Complexes in Solution," Laser Chemistry, 19, 1 (1999).
[12] W. T. Grubbs, T. P. Dougherty, E. J. Heilweil, "Vibrational Deactivation through Bimolecular Hydrogen-Bonding Encounters," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 117, 11989 (1995).
[13] W. T. Grubbs, T. P. Dougherty and E. J. Heilweil, "Vibrational Energy Dynamics of Hydrogen-Bonded Pyrrole Complexes," Journal of Physical Chemistry, 99, 10716, (1995).
[14] S. M. Arrivo, T. P. Dougherty, W. T. Grubbs and E. J. Heilweil, "Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy of Vibrational CO-Stretch Up-Pumping and Relaxation Dynamics in Metal Hexacarbonyls," Chemical Physics Letters, 235, 247 (1995).
[15] W. T. Grubbs, T. P. Dougherty and E. J. Heilweil, "Vibrational Energy Transfer and Relaxation in Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl Iridium Dicarbonyl by Broadband Transient IR Spectroscopy," Chemical Physics Letters, 227, 480 (1994).
[16] T. P. Dougherty, W. T. Grubbs and E. J. Heilweil, "Photochemistry of Rh(CO)2(acetylacetonate) and Related Metal Dicarbonyls studied by Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy," Journal of Physical Chemistry, 98, 9396 (1994).
[17] W. T. Grubbs and R. A. MacPhail, "High Resolution Stimulated Brillouin Gain Spectrometer," Reviews of Scientific Instrumentation, 65, 34 (1994).
[18] W. T. Grubbs and R. A. MacPhail, "Dynamics in Supercooled Glycerol by High Resolution Stimulated Brillouin Gain Spectroscopy," Journal of Chemical Physics, 100, 2561 (1994).
[19] W. T. Grubbs and R. A. MacPhail, "High-Resolution Stimulated Brillouin Gain Spectroscopy of Liquid Carbon Disulfide: Dependence of the Linewidths and Peak Gain on Scattering Angle," Journal of Chemical Physics, 97, 19 (1992).
[20] W. T. Grubbs and R. A. MacPhail, "High-Resolution Stimulated Brillouin Gain Spectroscopy of Liquid Benzene Shows No Evidence of a Structural Transition," Journal of Physical Chemistry, 96, 8688 (1992).
[21] W. T. Grubbs and R. A. MacPhail, "Rotational-Translational Coupling and Asymmetric Lineshapes in the High-Resolution Stimulated Brillouin Gain Spectra of Liquid Carbon Disulfide," Journal of Chemical Physics, 97, 8906 (1992).
[22] K. Ratanaphruks, W. T. Grubbs and R. A. MacPhail, "CW Stimulated Brillouin Gain Spectroscopy of Liquids," Chemical Physics Letters, 182, 371 (1991).
[23] W. T. Grubbs and L. H. Rickard, "Hemoglobin Electron Transfer Reactions," in Charge and Field Effects in Biosystems-2, M. J. Allen, S. F. Cleary, and F. M. Hawkridge, editors, (Plenum Press, New York, 1989), 129-136.
