C. Frank Shaw III
- Professor Emeritus, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Biographical Sketch
1944-2016
Frank was born March 17, 1944 in Mount Vernon and grew up in Delaware and received his bachelor of science from the and his doctorate from . He completed his postdoctoral work at and , where his interest for metal ions and biological systems grew. Shaw went on to have a 25-year tenure at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he was a professor and the department chair in a rotating system for two years.
He retired from the university and took a job as the department chair and professor in the at in Richmond in 1999. By his final year as chair, the department went from receiving $12,000 in grants to over $1.3 million.
Shaw joined the Redbird faculty on July 1, 2003 as the Department of Chemistry Chair. He retired in 2014 and became a professor emeritus. He still had a lab, did research and held talks with the university.
On Sept. 30, Shaw held a talk with the University Club on the topic of climate change, an issue he dedicated most of his time to during retirement. During the presentation, Shaw explained information with a demonstration, which faculty members said were a staple of Shaw’s teaching style.