Charles Baldwin:  

Biographical Information Charles M. Baldwin PhD CChem FRSC Charles M. Baldwin was born in Pietown, New Mexico, a small town on the Continental Divide in western New Mexico. He grew up in New Mexico and Texas graduating as valedictorian of Midlothian High School in 1958. He earned a Presidential Scholarship to the University of Corpus Christi (now Texas A&M at Corpus Christi, Texas) where in 1962 he was awarded the Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in chemistry and a minor in English. After three years as field chemist and safety director with the South Texas Division of Halliburton Company and one year teaching physics and mathematics at Springlake-Earth High School in the Texas panhandle, he enrolled in the Graduate School of Texas Tech University with a Robert A. Welch Fellowship in chemistry. In 1970 Mr. Baldwin received the Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry completing his work on the p-semidine rearrangement and hydrazo-aromatic photochemistry under the guidance of Professor Henry J. Shine, Horn Professor of Chemistry. He joined the faculty of Union University in 1970 until 1981 when he returned to Texas to care for family suffering from Alzheimer's Disease and stroke. During this time he taught at Howard Payne University, where he also served as Chair of the Division of Physical Sciences and Mathematics and Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. In 1983 he assumed a position as Professor of Physical Science at Wayland Baptist University, and later was Visiting Lecturer at Baylor University (Summer, 1988). In the Fall, 1988 Professor Baldwin returned to Union University as Chair of the Department of Chemistry/Physics working toward the goal of building a high performance teaching team that prepares students to excel in careers centered in the chemical sciences. Baldwin lived in London during the academic year 1994-95 while he was a Visiting Academic at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. Subsequently, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (London). In 1997 Dr. Baldwin was appointed the O.P. and Evalyn Hammons Professor of Pre-Medical Studies. In t...Expand for more