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Dr. Desmond Hartwell Murray, Associate Professor of Chemistry at Andrews University and former Chemistry Instructor for Berrien County Math Science Center is Founder of Building Excellence in Science and Technology (BEST Early), Lead Editor for and Chapter Author in the 2016 American Chemical Society Symposium book – The Power and Promise of Early Research, and Editor and Columnist for Benton Spirit Community Newspaper.
He served as Academic Partner with the State of Michigan’s Office of Clean Water Public Advocate, and first Chair of Andrews University Community Engagement Council. He was recognized as the 2010 Thought Leader in Science Education for Southwest Michigan, as the 2012 College Teacher of the Year for the State of Michigan, and as a 2018 recipient of Andrews University’s highest faculty honor – the John Nevins Andrews Medallion.
He earned a BSc in Chemistry from Andrews University, a PhD in Chemistry from Wayne State University, and was a postdoctoral fellow in chemistry at Harvard University. In 1995 he became the first black professor of chemistry at his alma mater, Andrews University, teaching and researching in the very building that was dedicated in 1974 by the late Dr. Eric E. Williams, the first Prime Minister of the country of his birth, the twin island nation of Trinidad and Tobago.
For the last 25 plus years he has simultaneously taught, supervised and mentored over 1200 students in interdisciplinary chemistry-biology research at the high school, undergraduate and graduate levels. For more about his early research efforts see the employee tribute at ttps://www.andrews.edu/agenda/57837 and the recent interview featured in the April 13 issue of our student newspaper at A Quarter Century of Research.
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Life from its most basic level, form and manifestation to its greatest complexity is not insular or isolated; it cannot be. It is based on relationship and relatedness. Life requires something bigger than itself; it requires an environment and a relationship between them.
It is with the environment that energy and matter essential to life is exchanged. This is the fundamental scientific reason that we must be humble to and be stewards of our environment.
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