Christopher Sutton:  

Life I have been married to Laura Marie Fall, M.D. since April 27 1996. We have two children, Kenneth Christopher Sutton (1/1/2001--yes, the local New Year's, New Century, and New Millennium baby), and Jane Victoria Sutton (9/2/2003). We live on 1.1 acre with a bunch of cats, a malamute-black lab cross (Andromeda), about 80 chickens, 6 ducks, 2 pygmy goats, and about 30 assorted fruit trees. As for myself, I graduated Petaluma HS 1981, followed by an engineering major at SRJC, then changed major to chemistry with a physics minor upon transferring to Sonoma State University 1984. Graduated with a B.S. 1987. Started Indiana University graduate program in inorganic chemistry with a biochemistry minor in fall 1987 and, in 1992, obtained a Ph.D. in the area of boron-containing analogues of amino acids--useful in control of cholesterol, cancer, and studies of organic moieties (think chemically reactive parts) attached to the unusual boron center. I originally planned to teach chemistry at the university level and start my own academic research, so I took a post-doctoral position at Washington State University in fall 1992. There I worked on other organo-boron chemistry to further prepare for starting up my own research. I knew my teaching skills, especially lecture, needed improvement, so I took a position at the College of Southern Idaho to teach general chemistry for...Expand for more