Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Steven E. Arnold

    Education

         Ph.D. in chemistry from Louisiana State University with professor
         R. V. Nauman  (1990)

             Dissertation research:  Ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy and nuclear
             magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the enolic, anionic and cationic
             forms of beta diketones

            B.S. in chemistry from Louisiana State University (1985)
 



 

    Experience

        Auburn University Montgomery:  1998 - present
             Assistant professor of chemistry and physics

       Oakland City University, Oakland City, IN:  1994-1998
             Assistant professor of chemistry and physics

        Tulane UniversityNew Orleans, LA: 1990-1993
            Postdoctoral fellow with professor Mark Sulkes

             Postdoctoral research:  Supersonic jet and solution spectroscopies
             of indole and tryptophan derivatives; fluorescence lifetimes via
             picosecond single photon counting
 
 


 

    Grants and Awards

                  Directed research of the recipient of the Sciences Undergraduate Research Award, (Bryan Hutto), 2000

                  Auburn University Montgomery New Faculty Grant-In-Aid for “An Experimental and Computational
                  Study of Compounds Forming Charge Transfer States", 1999
 



 

    Honors, Offices and Organizations

                  Vice Chair, Chemistry Section, Alabama Academy of Science (2000-2002)
                  Who's Who Among America's Teachers  (1998)
                  American Chemical Society
                  Alabama Academy of Science


 

     Publications and Presentations

Ab Initio Computations of the Structure and Properties of p-N,N-dimethylaminocinnamic Acid, Hutto, B., Arnold, S.; Abstracts of the 77th Annual Meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science, 2000

pH Dependence of the UV-visible Spectroscopy of p-N,N-dimethylaminocinnamic acid, Pyrlik, M, Hutto, B.,  Arnold, S.; Abstracts of the 77th Annual Meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science, 2000

Solvent Effects on the Fluorescence of p-N,N-dimethylaminocinnamic Acid, Arnold, S.; Abstracts of the 218th American Chemical Society National Meeting, 1999, PHYS #213

Fluorescence Spectroscopy of p-N,N-dimethylaminocinnamic acid, Arnold, S.; Abstracts of the 76th Annual Meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science, March 1999

Development of a Laboratory Course for Introduction to Physical Science, Arnold, S., Russell, R.; Abstracts of the 76th Annual Meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science, March 1999

A Laboratory Manual for Introduction to Physical Sciences, Arnold, S., Russell, R.; Department of Physical Sciences, Auburn University Montgomery, 1998

Spectroscopy of Solvent Complexes with Indoles:  Induction of 1La - 1Lb State Coupling, Arnold, S.; Sulkes, M.  J. Phys. Chem. 1992, 96, 4768

Direct Measurements of Fluorescence Decays of Selected Conformers of Tryptophan Derivatives, Sulkes, M.; Arnold, S.  Proc. SPIE 1992, 20

Fluorescence Quenching of Jet Cooled Carbonyl-Substituted Indoles: Evidence of Intramolecular Charge Transfer Quenching, Arnold, S.; Sulkes, M.  Chem. Phys. Lett. 1992, 200, 125
 

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