Research Associate: Clemson University: May 20, 1998 to July 15, 1998.

Visiting Professor: Clemson University: June 2, 1997 to August 7, 1997.

Research Associate/Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Clemson University in the laboratory of Dr. Stephen Creager. My duties included work on two projects: "Electrochemical Power Sources. Sub-project #4: Novel Perflourinated electrolytes for batteries and fuel cells", funded by U.S. department of energy EPSCoR program; and "Electronic Coupling and Adiabicity in Heterogeneous Electron Transfer", funded by the National Science Foundation.

Visiting Scientist: Indiana University: Bloomington, June - August 1994.

Visiting summer faculty fellow in collaboration with Dr. Stephen Creager, funded by a grant from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS-PRF) and the Department of Energy (DOE). The title of the proposed research was "Electron Conduction in Disordered Organic materials at Very High Electric Fields and Current Densities." Specific research focused on "Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) of chemically modified electrode surfaces."

Postdoctoral Research Associate, The University of Vermont, August 1991- August 1993. Chemically Modified Electrodes, Organometallic Electrochemistry, and Synthesis: Developed a project to examine the distance dependence of heterogeneous electron transfer employing a rigid dimethoxynaphthalene-spacer-dithiol which spontaneously attaches to Au and Pt electrodes in nonaqueous solvents. Investigated the structural changes and isomerization concurrent with electron transfer in a series of Cp(C₅H₅-X)Cr(Y) complexes (X= 2,4 (CH₃)₂, 1,5 (SiMe₃)₂; Y= CO, P(OCH₂)₃CCH₃, PF₃.) Conducted a spectroelectrochemical investigation monitoring the dimerization reaction (M-M bond formation) following the oxidation of CpRh(CO)P(OPh)₃.

Research Assistant, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. August 1986 - August 1991. Chemically Modified Electrodes, Polymer Chemistry, Solid State Electrochemistry, Computer Interface and Software Design: Designed and developed microelectrode cells, and methods suitable for controlled potential voltammetry.  Identified rigid and semi-rigid media with sufficient ion and reactant mobility for solid state voltammetry.  Quantitatively interpreted mass and charge transport, electron transfer kinetics, chemical reactivity, and mechanisms of electrode reactions at interfaces between electrodes and rigid or semi-rigid media, utilizing AC voltammetric, complex impedance, microscopic, spectroscopic, chronoamperometric, and cyclic voltammetric techniques.

Teaching Assistant, University of North Carolina.

Head supervisor for Senior-level Analytical and Instrumental lab, 1988.

Supervised first and second term Freshman Chemistry lab, 1986-1987.

GRANTS, HONORS and AWARDS

Hirtzel Foundation Grant, 2000. Anasazi Instruments Inc. NMR. ($55000)

Pennsylvania Equipment Grant. 1997, GC-MS. ($18,000)

Novel Solid Polymer electrolytes for Secondary Lithium Batteries. U.S. Department of Defense, $469,000. Dr. Stephen Creager as Co-PI. I was responsible for all the data presented in the proposal in support of Dr. Creager's part of the proposal.  1997.

Pennsylvania Equipment Grant. 1995, Pine Bipotentiostat.    ($11,000)

Implementation of a Hewlett Packard Diode Array Spectrometer into the General Chemistry and Advanced Laboratory Program: Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh College Equipment Grant, 1994. ($5000)

Gordon Research Conference Special Program: To encourage faculty from non-graduate-degree-institutions to attend Gordon Conferences. 1994. ($897) 

Tuition and Lodging Scholarship, NATO Advanced Study Institute "Microelectrodes: Theory and Application" Alvor, Portugal, May 1990.

American Institute of Chemists Student Research and Recognition Foundation: Student Award Certificate to Outstanding Senior Student Majoring in Chemistry, May 1986.

Outstanding Senior Chemistry Award, Eastern Nazarene College, May 1986.

William F. Clapp Memorial Scholarship, Excellence in High School Science, May 1982.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Chemical Society (ACS) – Division of Analytical Chemistry

American Chemical Society Exams Institute

Council on Undergraduate research (CUR)

    Middle Atlantic Association of Liberal Arts Chemistry teachers (MAALACT)   

    Midwest University Analytical Chemists Conference (MUACC)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2003 American Chemical Society General Chemistry Exams Committee

Penn-Ohio Border Section of the American Chemical Society (POBS-ACS)

Past-Chair – Executive Committee, 1999; Chair – Executive Committee, 1998; Chair Elect – Executive Committee, 1997; Treasurer – Executive Committee, 1995-1996.

WESTMINSTER COLLEGE SERVICE

    Director, Science In Motion program, 2000- 2003

    Dean Search Committee: 2002-2003

    Council of Chairs: 1999-2003

    Environmental Science Committee: 1994-2003

    Educational Policy Committee, Board of Trustees, 2000-2002

    Self Study Steering Committee for Middle States re-accreditation, 1998-2001

    Ski Club Advisor: 2001-2002, 2000-2001, 1999-2000

    Chaplain Search Committee, 1999-2001

    Teaching and Learning with Technology Roundtable (TLTR): 

                        2000-2001, 1999-2000, Chair 1997-1999

    Planning, Budget and Institutional Research Council, 1998-2000

    Institutional Research Review Board, 1997-1998

    Curriculum Development Committee, 1995-1997

    Religious Life Council, 1994-1996                    

    Pew Higher Education Campus Roundtable, 1994-1995

    Chair, Chemistry Faculty Search Committee – Inorganic Chemist, 2001-02

    Chair, Chemistry Faculty Search Committee – Environmental Chemist, 2000-01

    Chair, Chemistry Faculty Search Committee – Toxicologist, 1999-2000

    Faculty Search Committee – Organic Chemistry, 1997-1999

    President Search Committee –  Small group leader, 1995

PROFESSIONAL

PRESENTATIONS

T. T. Wooster; Kinetic Analysis by AC Voltammetry: An Undergraduate Collaboration; Midwest University Analytical Chemists Conference 2002, October 2002, at the University of Pittsburgh.

D. D. Evanoff, T.T. Wooster; The synthesis and characterization of a cobalt cage complex for electrochemical applications; National Conference on Undergraduate Research 2001, March 15 – 17, 2001, at the University of Kentucky

T.T. Wooster, Kara Weber, S. E. Creager; AC voltammetry of  redox-active monolayer assemblies on electrodes; 1998 Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) meeting, October 11-16, 1998, in Austin, Texas.

J.J. Sumner,  K.S. Weber,  T.T. Wooster,  and S. E. Creager; Bridge-Mediated Electronic Coupling in Electroactive Monolayers; 1998 Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) meeting, October 11-16, 1998, in Austin, Texas.

T.T. Wooster, S. E. Creager; Alternating current voltammetry of redox-active monolayer assemblies on electrodes; 216th ACS National Meeting, August 23 – 27, 1998, in Boston, Massachusetts.

T. T. Wooster, K. M. Long; Practical Exams in General Chemistry; 14^th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, August 4-8, 1996, at Clemson University.

T. T. Wooster, Royce W. Murray, W. E. Geiger; Solid State Voltammetry and Chemically Modified Electrodes; Visiting Scientist Indiana University, June, 1994.

T. T. Wooster, P. R. Gamm, W. E. Geiger, A. Black, and M. R. Paddon-Row; Rigid Rod Electroactive Compounds Attached to Au and Pt through Sulfur Linkages; Gordon Research Conference on Electrochemistry -- Poster, Ventura, CA, January, 1994.

T. T. Wooster, M. L. Longmire, M. Watanabe, and Royce W. Murray; Diffusion and Heterogeneous Electron Transfer Rates in Acetonitrile and in Poly-ether Polymer Melts by Alternating Current Voltammetry at Microdisk Electrodes; Journal of the Electrochemical Society Conference, Washington D.C., May 1991.

T. T. Wooster, M. L. Longmire, M. Watanabe, and Royce W. Murray; Diffusion and Heterogeneous Electron Transfer Rates in Acetonitrile and in Poly-ether Polymer Melts by Alternating Current Voltammetry at Microdisk Electrodes; Gordon Research Conference on Electrochemistry -- Poster Session, Ventura, CA, Jan. 1991.

T. T. Wooster, M. L. Longmire, M. Watanabe, and Royce W. Murray; AC Voltammetric techniques at Microelectrodes;  NATO Advanced Study Institute "Microelectrodes: Theory and Application"  Alvor, Portugal, 1990.

PUBLICATIONS

  Articles

Wooster, T. T.; Creager, S. E; A New Way Of Using Ac Voltammetry To Study Redox Kinetics In Electroactive Monolayers, Analytical Chemistry, 1998, 70(20), 4257.

Wooster, T. T.; Gamm, P. R.; Geiger, W. E.; Oliver, A. M.; Black, A. J.; Craig. D. C.; Paddon-Row, M. N.; Synthesis and Surface-Confined Electrochemistry of Dimethoxynaphthalene Fused Through Rigid Norbornylogous Spacers to Thiolate, Dithiolate, and Disulfide Groups, Langmuir, 1996, 12, 6616-6626.

Wooster, T. T.; Geiger, W. E.; Ernst, R. D.; Quantitative Study of the interconversion of S- and U- Isomers of Cp(h⁵-pentadienyl)Cr(CO) in 18e^- and 17e^- Complexes: Cyclic Voltammetric Study of an Organometallic Square Scheme, Organometallics, 1995 14(7), 3455-60.

A. J. Black, T. T. Wooster. W. E. Geiger, and M. N. Paddon-Row, Synthesis of a rigid Dimethoxynaphthalene-Spacer-Dithiol Which Spontaneously Attaches to Au and Pt Electrodes: Properties of Monolayer Films in Nonaqueous Solvents, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1993, 115, 7924.

T. T. Wooster, M. Watanabe, and R. W. Murray, Long Range Electron Transfers between Very Slowly Diffusing Tetracyanoquinonedimethane and Its Radical Anion in Poly(ether) Solutions, J. Phys. Chem. 1992, 96(14), 5886.

T. T. Wooster, M. L. Longmire, H. Zhang, M. Watanabe, and R. W. Murray, Experimental Aspects of Solid State Voltammetry, Anal. Chem., 1992, 64(10), 1132.

T. T. Wooster, M. L. Longmire, M. Watanabe, and R. W. Murray, Diffusion and Heterogeneous Electron Transfer Rates in Acetonitrile and in Poly-ether Polymer Melts by Alternating Current Voltammetry at Microdisk Electrodes, J. Phys. Chem., 1991, 95(13), 5315.

M. Watanabe, T. T. Wooster, and R. W. Murray, Electron Self Exchange reactions in Solid-State Voltammetry: The Radical Anion of 7,7,8,8-Tetracyanoquinone-dimethane in Polymer Electrolytes. 1,  J. Phys. Chem., 1991, 95(11), 4573.

M. L. Longmire, M. Watanabe, H. Zhang, T. T. Wooster, R. W. Murray, Voltammetric Measurement of Ultraslow Diffusion Rates in Polymeric Media With Microdisk Electrodes, Anal. Chem. 1990, 62(7), 747.

N. Surridge, J. C. Jernigan, F. Dalton, R. P. Buck, M. Watanabe, H. Zhang, M. Pinkerton, T. T. Wooster, M. L. Longmire, J. S. Facci, and R. W. Murray, Electron Self Exchange Dynamics Between Redox Sites in Polymers, Royal Society Medal Award Lecture, Oxford University, Faraday Discuss. Chem. Soc. 1989, 88, 1-17.

R. A. Reed, T. T. Wooster, R. W. Murray, D. R. Yaniv, J. S. Tonge, D. F. Shriver, Solid State Voltammetry in Ionically Conducting Phosphazene-LiSO₃CF₃ Films,  J. Electroanal. Chem. 1989, 136(9), 2565.

L. Geng, R. A. Reed, M.-H. Kim, T. T. Wooster, B. N. Oliver, J. Egekeze, R. Kennedy, J. W. Jorgenson, J. F. Parcher, R. W. Murray, Chemical Phenomena in Solid State Voltammetry in Polymer Solvents, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1989, 111(5) 1614.

  Books

M. Watanabe, C. S. Velแzquez, Z. Porat, O. Haas, T. T. Wooster, M. L. Longmire, H. Zhang, and R. W. Murray, Electrochemical Properties of Lithium Ion Conducting Solid Polymer Electrolytes, Proceedings from The Symposium on The Science of Advanced Batteries, November 8 & 9, 1993.

M. Watanabe, M. Longmire, T. T. Wooster, H. Zhang, C. Barbour, and R. W. Murray, Polymer Electrolytes and Microelectrodes, NATO ASI Ser., Ser. E, 197(Microelectrodes), 1991, 377-92.