Office: 233 Olin Hall
Phone: (309) 677-3028
Email: dkkolb@bumail.bradley.edu

Education:

• B.S. (honors), University of Louisville
• Ph.D., The Ohio State University

Professional History:

• Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Bradley University, 1993-present
• Professor of Chemistry, Bradley University, 1970-93
• Chair, Department of Chemistry, 1967-89 
• Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1980-86
• Associate Professor of Chemistry, Bradley University, 1965-70
• Visiting Instructor, Corning Community College, 1959-61
• Research Associate, Corning Glass, 1958-65
• Research Chemist, AMOCO, 1953-58

Current Activities:

• Teaching CHM 550:  Industrial Organic Chemistry
• Lecturing in Bradley University Institute of Learning in Retirement
• American Chemical Society National Tour Speaker, 1980-present (over 50 lectures to date)

Honors:

• Rothberg Award for Professional Excellence in Research, Bradley University, 1990
• Service Award (with Doris Kasey Kolb), Great Lakes Region of the American Chemical Society, 2004
• Division of Chemical Education National Award for Outstanding Service (with Doris Kasey Kolb), American Chemical Society, 2005

Research Interests:

• Glass technology, history, and art
• Energy sources, past, present, and future
• Electrophilic addition of iodine to alkenes
• Kinetic vs. thermodynamic Friedel-Crafts reactions of aromatics.