2003 Assembly of Delegates:
Baccalaureate Colleges Constituency Group Associate Director

November 13-16, 2003
Hyatt Regency Los Angeles at Macy's Plaza
Los Angeles, California

In conjunction with the Sigma Xi Forum, Science and Engineering: Keys to International Understanding, November 12-13
And the Sigma Xi Student Research Conference, November 14-15

Name: David Colin Lever

Present Position: Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry
Organization: Ohio Wesleyan University

Address: 61 S. Sandusky Street
Delaware, OH 43015
USA

Telephone: 740-368-3521
FAX: 740-368-3999
E-mail: dclever@owu.edu

Chapter Affiliation: Ohio Wesleyan University

Candidate's Statement: I believe that the unique needs of the Baccalaureate Colleges are not generally recognized by funding agencies and by many colleagues at larger institutions. An important role of the Baccalaureate Colleges Constituency Group within Sigma Xi is to continually remind others of the challenges we face in trying to combine high quality teaching with active undergraduate research programs, with the goal of identifying ways by which we may work together. I am particularly interested in exploring collaborations by which faculty and students at small colleges can contribute to a larger project without the impossible expense associated with acquiring all the necessary equipment.

Sigma Xi and Other Activities: Dave Lever has served as president of the Ohio Wesleyan University chapter for four of the last five years, and represented the chapter as a delegate to the National Meeting and Forum in 2002, and previously in 1999. In addition to Sigma Xi, he is a member of the American Chemical Society and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Biographical Information: B.A. Colgate University - 1986, magna cum laude. Ph.D. University of Utah - 1994. Human Genome Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow (Funded by D.O.E.) from 1992-1994 at Duke University with Michael Pirrung. Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Ohio Wesleyan University from 1994-2000, Associate Professor 2000-present, Chair 2002-present. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1986. Chair of Safety Committee for the Ohio Academy of Science, State Science Day, 1995-2000. Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Science Lecture Series at Ohio Wesleyan University from 1999-2003. David Lever has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research at Undergraduate Institutions for eight years for his research into the characteristics of keratinase enzymes from bacterial sources, and more recently from the NSF CCLI program for incorporation of GC and GCMS instrumentation into the first and second year laboratories. He has also been funded by the Agilent Corporation Higher Education Philanthropic Grants Program.