last updated February 7, 2010

Current position:

Professor of Chemistry
Science Division, Mt. Hood Community College
26000 SE Stark Street, Gresham, Oregon, USA 97030
Phone: (503) 491-7348, FAX: (503) 491-7482
E-mail:
Internet: http://gst-d2L.com
CH 104 Academic Website:http://mhchem.org/104/
CH 151 Academic Website:http://mhchem.org/151
CH 221 Academic Website:http://mhchem.org/221
CH 222 Academic Website:http://mhchem.org/222
CH 223 Academic Website:http://mhchem.org/223

• National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) Excellence Award (2009)
• Who's Who Among America's Teachers (2009)
• Teaching and Learning Cooperative Innovation Grant ("Enhancing the Presence of MHCC in Second Life", Mt. Hood Community College, 2008, co-written with Valory Thatcher, MHCC Anatomy and Physiology Instructor, and Dr. Walter Shriner, Integrated Natural Resources Instructor)
• Distance Learning Faculty Liaison (Mt. Hood Community College, 2007 - 2009)
• Who's Who Among America's Teachers (2008)
• Distinguished Teachers' Award (Mt. Hood Community College, 2007)
• Who's Who Among America's Teachers (2007)
• Teaching and Learning Cooperative Innovation Grant ("Applications of Laboratory Video to Learning Environments - Creating Laboratory Videos to Enhance Student Learning", Mt. Hood Community College, June 2007, co-written with Valory Thatcher, MHCC Anatomy and Physiology Instructor)
• Teaching and Learning Cooperative Innovation Grant ("Creating Enhanced Podcasts", Mt. Hood Community College, June 2006)
• Who's Who Among America's Teachers (2006)
• Teaching and Learning Cooperative Technology Liaison (2005 - 2008)
• Teaching and Learning Cooperative Innovation Grant ("PowerPoint to Flash Conversion Techniques", Mt. Hood Community College, June 2005)
• Two-Year College Chemistry Consortium (2YC₃, 2000 - present)
• Resident Technology Expert (RTE) (Mt. Hood Community College, 2004 - 2006)
• Who's Who Among America's Teachers (2005)
• Teaching and Learning Cooperative Innovation Grant ("Dance To Your Own Drummer", Mt. Hood Community College, July 2004)
• Who's Who Among America's Teachers (2004)
• Who's Who Among America's Teachers (2003)
• Teaching and Learning Cooperative Technology Grant ("Anecdotes on the Amazing Adobe Acrobat", Mt. Hood Community College, February 2003)
• Who's Who Among America's Teachers (2002)
• Online Faculty Academy Instructor (Mt. Hood Community College, 2002)
• Who's Who Among America's Teachers (2001)
• Project Kaleidoscope Faculty for the 21st Century (F21) Class of 2001 (Project Kaleidoscope, July 2001)
• Teaching and Learning Cooperative Innovation Grant ("Listen to Me", Mt. Hood Community College, July 2001)
• Sigma Xi, National Honorary Society (2001 - present)
• Teaching and Learning Cooperative Innovation Grant ("Maximizing the Power of PowerPoint", Mt. Hood Community College, January 2001, co-written with Dr. Walter Shriner, Integrated Natural Resources Instructor)
• "Most Active Club" Award to Science Club (2000, Faculty Advisor since 1998)
• Teaching and Learning Cooperative Innovation Grant ("Joining the DV Revolution", Mt. Hood Community College, 2000)
• Who's Who Among America's Teachers (2000)
• Teaching and Learning Cooperative Innovation Grant ("Beyond the Internet Syllabus", Mt. Hood Community College, 1999)
• John F. Wolfenden Teaching Award (Dartmouth College, 1995)
• Richard W. Young Fellowship (Dartmouth College, 1995)
• Dartmouth College Graduate Fellowship (1990-1996)
• Who's Who in Graduate Research (Dartmouth College, 1996)
• Phi Lambda Upsilon, National Honorary Chemical Society (1990 - present)
• Analytical Chemist of the Year (Southern Oregon University, 1990)
• Inorganic Chemist of the Year (Southern Oregon University, 1989)

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society
   "Radical Synthesis of a Heterobinuclear µ-Oxo Complex: Reaction of V(O)(O-i-Pr)₃ with Ti(NRAr)₃ (R = C(CD₃)₂CH₃, Ar = 3,5-C₆H₃Me₃)" Wanandi, P. W.; Davis, W. M.; Cummins, C. C.; Russell, M. A.; Wilcox, D. E. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1995, 117, 2110-2111.
   
   
2. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
   "Interactions between Hydroxocobalamin and Nitric Oxide (NO): Evidence for a Redox Reaction between NO and Reduced Cobalamin and Reversible NO Binding to Oxidized Cobalamin" Rochelle, L. G.; Morana, S. J.; Kruszyna, H.; Russell, M. A.; Wilcox, D. E.; Smith, R. P. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 1995, 275, 48-52.
   
   
3. Graduate Thesis
   "An Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Investigation of Group 6 (Cr, Mo and W) Transition Metal Complexes" Russell, M. A. Graduate Thesis, Dartmouth College, 1996.
   
   
4. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
   "Spectroscopic Studies of Nitric Oxide (NO) Interactions with Cobalamins: Reaction of NO with Superoxocobalamin(III) - Likely Accounts for Cobalamin Reversal of the Biological Effects of NO" Kruszyna, H.; Magyar, J. S.; Rochelle, L. G.; Russell, M. A.; Smith, R. P.; Wilcox, D. E. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 1998, 285, 665-671.
   
   
5. Inorganic Chemistry
   "EPR Study of mer-MoCl₃L₃ (L = PMe₂Ph, PMe₃), Oxidized Mo(V) Complexes, and Analogous Tungsten Complexes: New Insight on the Solution Chemistry and Solid Samples of the Original 'Bond Stretch Isomer' System" Russell, M. A.; Wilcox, D. E. Inorg. Chem., submitted for publication.