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Dr. Michael A. McKinney, professor of chemistry and dean of the Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, joined Marquette University in 1967.
In 1997, McKinney received the John P. Raynor Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence, the highest honor a Marquette faculty member can receive.
McKinney was chair of the Department of Chemistry from 1981-92 and acting chair in fall 1997. He also was a visiting scholar at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., in spring 1986, and a visiting professor at the University of Toronto from 1980-81, and University College Dublin, Ireland, from 1994-95. He has lectured extensively both nationally and internationally at universities and scientific conferences.
McKinney has published numerous articles in scholarly journals in the fields of physical organic chemistry and most recently, through collaboration with Dr. Charles Wilkie, chair and professor of chemistry, flame-retardation.
He has formally mentored more than 40 undergraduates in his research laboratory and served as director for 14 master's degree and eight doctoral degree recipients.
His research has been supported individually or in collaboration by grants from the National Institute of Health, the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Corporate support for undergraduate student research includes awards from S.C. Johnson Wax and G.D. Searle-Nutrisweet. McKinney has also secured instrumentation and training grants from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education.
McKinney is a member of the American Chemical Society and has served on the National Organic Chemistry Exam Committee since 1980.
He also chaired the Milwaukee Section of the society in 1996-97 and received the 2003 Milwaukee Section Award. During his terms as chair of the Department of Chemistry and now as dean, he is a member of the Council for Chemical Research, a national organization founded to promote cooperation between industry, academia and government in basic research and to encourage quality education in the chemical sciences and engineering.
McKinney is also a member of Phi Lamda Upsilon and Sigma Xi. He has served on numerous university committees including the Athletic Board, the Committee on Faculty, and the Committee On Research.
In 1998, McKinney was inducted as an honorary member of Alpha Sigma Nu, the Jesuit Honor Society. The chemistry seniors awarded him the Senior Award in 1986, 1988 and 1989 in recognition of teaching excellence and guidance of future scientists.
McKinney earned his bachelor's degree at Loyola University Chicago in 1961 and his Ph.D. at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1966, where he was a U.S. Steel Foundation fellow. Supported by a National Science Foundation Fellowship, he held a one-year postdoctoral appointment at Yale University.
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| Identity: | Catholic, Jesuit, private |
| Established: | 1881 |
| Location: | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
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