James Van Epp:  

Life After Brown, where I majored in chemistry, I went to grad school at RPI, receiving a PhD in organic chemistry. While at RPI, I became an even bigger hockey fan and professionally became interested in chemical analytical spectroscopy, particularly nmr (nuclear magnetic resonance). I nearly got drafted, so I joined the AFROTC unit at RPI, got commissioned, and spent three months active duty at Dover AFB as a computer officer. Fabulous job, probably should have stayed in, but I always wanted to do chemistry. I spent all my time in the reserves, but did nothing else leaving as a captain in rank. I got a postdoc at MIT in synthesis for two years. I worked at Brown (Chemistry) for 22 1/2 years as an instrumentation manager. After that I worked as an nmr consultant and then held a contract nmr job at Millennium Pharmaceuticals (now Takeda in Cambridge) for 7 months. I had another contract nmr j...Expand for more