Dr. Maurice Eftink has worked through the ranks of Assistant to Full Professor of Chemistry, at the University of Mississippi, from 1978 to the present. Holder of Coulter Chair of Chemistry from 1993-97, in recent years, he has taken on administrative duties by serving as Associate Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs (Associate Provost) and Dean of the Graduate School. Dr. Eftink develops programs designed to enhance graduate education, particularly the participation of under-represented minority students in science, mathematics, and engineering graduate programs. He is also the Principal Investigator for the Alliance in Graduate Education in Mississippi. Special Accomplishments include: NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, 1977-78. Editorial Advisory Board, Biochemistry (current), Journal of Fluorescence (previous); member of NSF Molecular Biophysics review panel, NIH Molecular Biophysics training grants panel; several NIH ad hoc panels and site visit teams. Organizer of the 7th Gibbs Conference on Biothermodynamics. Dr. Eftink is the recipient of many awards and has memberships in many professional and service organizations such as: Margaret McLean Coulter Professor of Chemistry, 1991-1997; Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award, 1987; Phi Beta Kappa; Biophysical Society (Biological Fluorescence Subgroup, Chair, 1998; American Chemical Society (local section chairman, 1985, 1991); American Society of Biological Chemists; Protein Society; AAAS; AED Teacher of the Year, 1982, 1998; Editorial Board member for - Biochemistry and The Journal of Fluorescence; study section member for the NSF Biophysics program, 1989-1992.   Dr. Eftink received the following degrees: a B.S. in Chemistry (1973) from University of Missouri Columbia, a Ph.D. in Biochemistry (1976) from the University of Missouri-Columbia and post-doctoral training in Biochemistry (1976-78) at the University of Virginia-Charlottesville.

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