Gary Schuster
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| name = Gary Schuster
| image = Gary Schuster 2010.jpg
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|8|6}}
| birth_place = New York City, New York
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| field = Chemistry
| work_institution = Georgia Institute of Technology
| alma_mater = Clarkson College of Technology
University of Rochester
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Gary Benjamin Schuster (born August 6, 1946){{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l4RUAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Schuster,+Gary+Benjamin%22+1946 |title=American Men & Women of Science - Google Books |year=2003 |publisher=R.R. Bowker |isbn=9780787665296 |accessdate=2012-11-09}} was the interim president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, a position he held from July 1, 2008, when former president G. Wayne Clough stepped down,{{cite web|url=http://www.gatech.edu/president/biography.html |title=Biography: Interim President Gary B. Schuster, Ph.D. |publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology |accessdate=2008-10-07 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080416140815/http://www.gatech.edu/president/biography.html |archivedate=2008-04-16 |url-status=dead }} until April 1, 2009, when George P. "Bud" Peterson was named Georgia Tech's permanent president. He still holds the office Vasser Woolley Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
Early life and education
Schuster earned a B.S. in Chemistry at Clarkson College of Technology in 1968, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry at University of Rochester in 1971.{{cite web|url=http://www.chemistry.gatech.edu/faculty/Schuster/|title=Faculty: Gary B. Schuster|publisher=Georgia Tech School of Chemistry & Biochemistry|accessdate=2008-10-07}}
Academic life
=University of Illinois=
Schuster was a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 20 years. He also served as Head of the Department of Chemistry in the UIUC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences from 1989 to 1994.
=Georgia Tech=
Schuster became Dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences and professor of chemistry and biochemistry in 1994.
He was named Interim President on April 4, 2008, and assumed the office on July 1, 2008.{{cite press release|url=http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=1808 |title=Gary Schuster Named Georgia Tech Interim President |publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology |date=2008-04-04 |accessdate=2008-10-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080408061413/http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=1808 |archivedate=2008-04-08 }}{{cite web|first=Vivian |last=Fan |url=http://www.nique.net/nique/article/437 |title=Clough departs; Schuster begins interim presidency |work=The Technique |date=2008-06-27 |accessdate=2008-10-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201151144/http://www.nique.net/nique/article/437 |archivedate=December 1, 2008 }} On April 1, 2009, Schuster stepped down from the position as George P. "Bud" Peterson took over as the Institute's permanent president.
Honors and awards
- Charles Holmes Herty Medal (2006)
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2004){{cite web|url=http://www.chemistry.gatech.edu/awards/faculty/|title=Faculty Honors & Awards|publisher=Georgia Tech School of Chemistry & Biochemistry|accessdate=2008-10-07|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081004030941/http://www.chemistry.gatech.edu/awards/faculty/|archivedate=2008-10-04}}
- Chancellor's Award, University System of Georgia (1998)
- Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (1994){{cite web|url=http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=1319&content_id=CTP_004496&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1|title=Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards|publisher=American Chemical Society|accessdate=2008-10-07|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811230542/http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=1319&content_id=CTP_004496&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1|archivedate=2011-08-11}}
- Paul Flory - IBM Fellowship
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