Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series

Gregory L. Geoffroy became president of Iowa State University in 2001, where he is also professor of chemistry. He began his academic career at the Pennsylvania State University in 1974, and was appointed head of the Department of Chemistry in 1988 and dean of the Eberly College of Science at Penn State in 1989. Geoffroy was appointed senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1997, where he also served as interim president for two months in 1998. Geoffroy is a nationally acclaimed researcher in organometallic chemistry, having published more than 200 research articles and has presented more than 200 invited lectures in the United States and nine other nations. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.