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Glenn S. Nomura, Ph.D.

GLENN S. NOMURA, Ph.D.

965 Clifton Rd. NE

Atlanta, GA 30307-1225

H: 404-378-6642

W: 770-274-5062

C: 404-783-3247

last update: September 01, 2017

Academic Employment

Aug. 2011 – Present / Associate Chair of Physical Sciences of Dunwoody Campus - Georgia StateUniversity
2007 – Present / Professor of Chemistry - Perimeter College at Georgia State University
2002 – 2007 / Associate Professor of Chemistry - Georgia Perimeter College
1996 – 2002 / Assistant Professor of Chemistry - Georgia Perimeter College

Prior to Academic Employment

  • Sr. Scientist, Advanced Technology Division, CIBA Vision, Duluth, GA
  • Lt. Commander, Commissioned Corp, USPHS (Scientist Category SciPAC), Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA
  • Medicinal Chemist, Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, IL
  • Supervisor Quality Assurance, Baby Products Division, Johnson & Johnson, Lemont, IL
  • Quality Control Chemist, Industrial Division, Purex Corporation, Chicago, IL

Education

Postdoctoral Fellow (1985 - 1987)GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYAtlanta, Georgia

Ph.D. Organic Chemistry (1985) GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYAtlanta, Georgia

M. S. Organic Chemistry (1977) LOYOLA UNIVERSITYChicago, Illinois

B. A. Chemistry (1969) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS at CHICAGOChicago, Illinois

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

1996 – presentPERIMETER COLLEGE at Georgia State University, , Atlanta, Georgia

August 1, 2011 – present: Associate Chair of Physical Sciences at Dunwoody Campus. Staff hiring, faculty evaluations, laboratory inventory purchase approvals, curriculum development, department administrative duties, GSU downtown department level trainings and certifications, conflict resolutions.

2007 – present, Professor of Chemistry

2002 – 2007Associate Professor of Chemistry

1996 – 2002Assistant Professor of Chemistry

1994 – 1996Adjunct Instructor of Chemistry, GPC

1994 – 1996Adjunct Instructor of Chemistry, Oglethorpe University

Selected Academic Highlights

  • Dunwoodyorganic curriculum – May, 1999 Planned and organized the organic curriculum for CHEM’s 2641, 2641L, 2642, and 2642L at the Dunwoody campus, including the selection of texts for the lecture and laboratory, all course content planning, syllabi preparation, laboratory curriculum & experiments, supplies, and capital equipment specifications and purchasing.
  • Chair, Chemistry Curriculum Committee 2002-2005 (3-yr term), 2006-2008 (2-yr term). Author of the Chemistry Curriculum Committee Bylaws (2002). Author of the faculty senate bill to raise the math prerequisite for Principles of General Chemistry I (CHEM 1211) from College Algebra to Pre-calculus (2002). As Chair of the Curriculum Committee and its three (3) subcommittees (GOB, GEN, and ORG), during 2006-2008, managed the drafts and administration of assessment exams to approximately 1500 chemistry students registered across five (5) campuses through approximately 55 full-time and part-time teaching faculty (ca. 1:1 ratio FT/PT). This assessment constituted the first comprehensive coordinated assessment of the chemistry curriculum at the college in the current 10-year accreditation cycle at the college. Georgia Perimeter College is accredited by the The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and was last accredited in 2002.
  • Chair, Chemistry Section of the Georgia Academy of Science, 2007-2008 Planning and organization of submitted papers and abstracts in chemistry for the Joint Meeting with the Florida Academy of Science at Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida, March 14-15, 2008,
  • Member Science Executive Committee 2006-present. Comprised of science department chairs from five campuses, and curriculum committee chairs from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology; chaired by the science dean. The committee primarily is a policy and strategic planning committee that reports to the academic vice president.
  • Delegate to Board of Regents workshop “Academy for Learning through Performance Standards and Assessment” 2006 – 2007. One of 4 delegates from Georgia Perimeter College including Georgia Perimeter College’s Academic Vice President sent to attend a Georgia Board of Regent’s workshop monthly for 6 months to model performance standards in the college curriculum by reducing content based assessment. The Board of Regent’s Academy workshop was funded by the Partnership for Reform in Science and Mathematics (PRISM), A 3-year review of the program can be viewed at,
  • Program Chair, 173rd 2YC3 Conference at Georgia Perimeter College, March 25-28, 2006 Conference organizer for 173rdnational meeting of the 2-Year College Chemistry Consortium or 2YC3, a subdivision of the American Chemical Society.
  • Chair, “Other Institutions Subcommittee” of the President’s Special Committee on Full-Time/Part-Time Faculty Ratios, Fall 2005 A special committee appointed by the GPC interim President Mr. Rob Watts to research the relationship of FT/PT teaching ratios on classroom quality, retention, and progression. A copy of the full committee final report can be viewed at,
  • Submitter, College Board Advanced Placement Best Practices Course Study Instructor Online Rating Exercise, Spring, 2006 Invited participant to submit teaching materials for exemplary courses as part of a nationwide survey to establish best practices recommendations and curriculum standards recommendations for high school AP science curricula nationwide.
  • Co-Author, PRISM Grant, 2005 Co-author (with Linda Baker) of $8,000 grant to the Partnership for Reform in Science & Mathematics or PRISM, a 5-year $34.5M NSF grant of the University of Georgia directed at the improvement of science and math achievement of P-12 students, increasing teacher education programs in college, and working together with the Georgia Department of Education to revise the current Quality Core Curriculum (QCC) to what is now referred to as the Georgia Performance Standards. This grant purchased the first annual site license of ChemDraw Office Suite for Georgia Perimeter College in 2005, and which has continued through to present.
  • Panelist, The Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) Workship for the New Georgia Performance Standards, Gwinnett County Curriculum Development Center, June 2, 2005 A 2-day workshop to help introduce the New Georgia Performance Standards to high school chemistry teachers of Gwinnett County, Georgia, including formal presentations by the Gwinnett County Science Coordinator, the CEISMC Program Officer (Georgia Tech), classroom observations, and Q&A sessions.

INDUSTRIAL & FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

1994 - 1996 KINETIC BIOSYSTEMS INC. KBIBioPharma, Inc. - contract biopharmaceuticals process development and biomanufacturing

Early Stage Development Partner, 1994-1996 of an ongoing private venture technology start-up company, originally known as KBI, Kinetic Biosystems, Inc., presently known as KBI BioPharma, Inc. First-stage development of prototype machine leading toproof of concept of a patented high-density fermentation process known as Centrifugal Bioreactor Reactor (CBR) Technology.

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Glenn S. Nomura, Ph.D.

1990 – 1994 CIBA VISION CORP.Duluth, Georgia

Sr. Scientist - Advanced Technology Division Synthesized novel cross-linkers and monomers for new lens materials research. Conducted ultra fast cure polymerization production methods, and cost reduction technologies in support of manufacturing.

Development Scientist II - Regulatory & Technical Affairs Group Leader Organic Lab with two M.S. chemists as direct reports. Coauthored $335,000 project to upgrade internal monomer synthesis production to improve safety, monomer cost, and quality. Principle investigator to a$30,000 Freon replacement study with Hughes Aircraft Co. for the use of supercritical fluid CO2 (subsequently deployed) to clean lathed lenses during manufacturing. Co-inventor on U. S. Patent 5,805,264for surface modification of contact lens materials by a gas plasma activationtechnique and the subsequent polymerization of custom polymer coatings on a lens surface.

1987 – 1990 THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL Atlanta, Georgia

Lt. Commander, Commissioned Corps, U. S. Public Health Service(Scientist Category SciPAC),- Center for Environmental Health and Injury Control, Division of Environmental Health Laboratory Sciences, Toxicology Branch, Organic Synthesis Laboratory

Synthesized a series of isotopically labeled (13C and 15N) compounds for pesticide metabolites study in humans (U. S. Public Health Service Citation, 1989). Published the complete x-ray crystallographic structure proof of candidate compound implicated in Spanish Toxic Oil Syndrome Study.

FURTHERINDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE Approximately six (6) years experience:

Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago in Medicinal Chemist (synthesis of anti-inflammatory candidates) and Q.A. Research Chemist (HPLC assay of vitamin B-6 in tablet’s, company’s first HPLC method replacingclassical analysis);

Johnson & Johnson, Baby Products Division, Lemont, Illinois, Quality Assurance Supervisor;24-hr rotating shifts for raw materials receiving and quality testing, compounding and line packaging of baby powder and baby oil. Additional duties in attached Midwest Distribution Center.

Purex Corporation, Industrial Products Division, Chicago, Illinois, Quality Control Chemist: batch specifications for 2,000 gal. reactor and line operations.

EDUCATION

Postdoctoral Fellow (1985 - 1987) GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYAtlanta, Georgia

Profs. James C. Powers and Sheldon W. May, School of Chemistry, U. S. Army grant to synthesize and submit for testing organic compounds as antidotes against nerve gas poisoning.

Ph.D. Organic Chemistry (1985) GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYAtlanta, Georgia

Prof. Herbert O. House, School of Chemistry. The synthesis, conformational analysis (MM2), and crystallographic analysis of bridgehead methyl 4-keto perhydroazulene derivatives.

M. S. Organic Chemistry (1977) LOYOLA UNIVERSITYChicago, Illinois

Prof. David S. Crumrine, Chemistry Department. The synthesis of bridged N-nitrosamines and their photochemical reactions in neutral media.

B. A. Chemistry (1969) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS at CHICAGOChicago, Illinois

OTHER TRAINING

Polymer Synthesis: Fundamentals and Techniques, The American Chemical Society 1993

GMP Training Orientation, CIBA Vision Corp. 1992

Technical Writing Seminar, CIBA Vision Corp. 1991

Business Writing and Editing for Managers, CIBA Vision Corp. 1991

Priority Management, Christopher Management Consultants 1990

PUBLICATIONS

Robert A. Janssen, Ellen M. Ajello, Richard D. Auten, Glenn S. Nomura, and Thomas E. Shank,Process for Graft Polymerization on Surfaces of Preformed Substrates to Modify Surface Properties,United States Patent 5,805,264, September 8, 1998; assignee: CIBA Vision Corporation.

Glenn S. Nomura and Donald G. Patterson, Jr., Synthesis of 3,5,6-Trichloropyridin-2-ol-2,3,4,5,6-13C5-15N; A Metabolite of O,O-Diethyl-O-(3,5,6-Trichloro-2-Pyridyl)-Phosphorothioate (Chlorpyrofos), J. Labelled Compd. Radiopharm. 1995, 36, 339

Glenn S. Nomura, David L. Ashley, Ambrose H. Pendergrast, John T. Bernert, Jr., Donald G. Patterson, Jr., James Grainger, Donald VanDerveer, The Structural Identification of a Heterocyclic Compound Implicated in Spanish Toxic Oil Syndrome, Food and Chemical Toxicology, 1989, 27 (3), 165.

Herbert O. House, Glenn S. Nomura, Donald VanDerveer, Perhydroazulenes. 7. Effect of a tert-Butyl Substituent at C-6 Upon the Properties of the 4-Keto Derivatives, J. Org. Chem. 1986, 51, 2416.

Herbert O. House, Glenn S. Nomura, Donald VanDerveer, Jane E. Wissinger, Perhydroazulenes. 6. 4-Keto Derivatives with Bridgehead Methyl Substutuents, J. Org. Chem. 1986, 51, 2408.

Michael J. Lusch, William V. Phillips, Ronald R. Sieloff, Glenn S. Nomura, and Herbert O. House, Preparation of Low-Halide Methyllithium, Organic Synthesis, Collective Vol. VII, John Wiley, 1990, p. 346.

David S. Crumrine, Charles M. Brodbeck, Paul H. Dombrowski, Thomas J. Haberkamp, Rita J. Kekstas, Pat Nabor, Glenn S. Nomura, Henry A. Padleckas, David J. Suther, and James P. Yonan, Photocleavage of Diarylnitrosamines in Neutral Media, J. Org. Chem. 1982, 47, 4246.