W. Franklin (Frank) Gilmore
Treasurer
Chancellor
Montana Tech of The University of Montana

Frank Gilmore is chancellor and the 10th campus CEO of Montana Tech, an institution started 100 years ago as the Montana School of Mines. Prior to coming to Montana Tech, he was the executive vice president and vice president for academic affairs at West Virginia University Institute of Technology. For 26 years he was professor, chair and research professor in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Mississippi. A native of Mississippi, Gilmore earned a B.S. in chemistry at Virginia Military Institute and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After service in the Army, he spent a postdoctoral year with DeLos DeTar at the Institute of Molecular Biophysics at Florida State University. He also attended law classes at the University of Missouri at Kansas City while working for the Midwest Research Institute and later attended the Institute of Educational Management at Harvard University. As a graduate student at MIT, he was elected to full membership in Sigma Xi in 1960. He is a charter member of the University of Mississippi Chapter of Sigma Xi and twice served as chapter president. He has served Sigma Xi as a regional director and a director at large and as a member of the Executive, Finance, Awards and Strategic Planning committees. He is a Life Member of Sigma Xi and currently a member of the Montana Tech of The University of Montana Chapter. His most innovative research was the statement of and the original validation of the concept of peptidomimetics. His other research interests have included the use of organphorphorus compounds as biological agents and modified amino acids. Gilmore has served on the board of directors of the Butte-Silver Bow United Way and the Board of Directors of the Butte Family YMCA. He currently serves on the Goldwater Scholarship Selection Committee, and the NAPLEX Steering Committee of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy.