Michael H. Schmidt
Education:
A.B., Chemistry, June 1984.
Thesis: Characterization of Nickel Hexacyanoferrate Thin Films on Electrode Surfaces by Spectroscopy and X-ray Diffraction.
Ph.D., Chemistry, September 1989.
Dissertation Advisor: Nathan S. Lewis
Dissertation: "Electrochemical Studies of Nafion Films and Carbon Dioxide Binding to Cobalt (I) Macrocycles."
Postdoctoral Experience:
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Chemistry and School of Medicine, Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry. September 1989-June 1992. Laboratory of Jeremy Berg.
Projects: Studies of metal-peptide binding equilibria. Development of computer software to model complex binding equilibria. Construction of rubredoxin gene.
Teaching:
California State University, San Marcos
Chemistry 150, General Chemistry for science majors.
Chemistry 311, Chemicals and the Environment, a general education course for non-science majors.
Chemistry 275, Quantitative Investigations in Chemistry, a laboratory course incorporating both traditional quantitative analysis techniques as well as introductory physical chemistry techniques.
Chemistry 314, Chemistry of the Earth, a general education course to fulfill both physical and Earth science requirements.
Chemistry 404, Inorganic Chemistry, a junior-level advanced inorganic course.
Chemistry 416, Instrumental Analysis. Share course responsibility with 2 other faculty; focus on electrochemistry, chromatography and atomic absorption spectrophotometry.
Chemistry 300, Literature of Chemistry. A course for majors, about accessing, reading and writing chemical literature.
GES 101, Matter, Molecules, Life and the Environment. A lower-division general education course.
Teaching Evaluations
Average student response to ranking of "overall quality of teaching by the instructor:" 4.34 out of 5 (6717 responses).
Service:
Purchased approximately $250,000 worth of instrumentation to equip new Chemistry and Biology Laboratories. Helped plan Chemistry degree program and Natural Science General Education program for lower-division students.
Waste Reduction Planning Committee, member, November 1992-present.
Quantitative Literacy Task Force, member, February 1993-June 1993.
Foreign Language Policy Task Force, March 1994-present.
Academic Senate, 1994-1995.
General Education Committee, September 1995-June 1999.
Publications and Invited Talks:
"Kinetics of 2-Halopyridine Substitution at Pentaammineaquaruthenium (II)," M.H. Schmidt, Grady Horton and Ilan Tong, Inorg. Chem., accepted for publication, 1998.
"Thermodynamics of Carbon Dioxide Conversion," M. H. Schmidt, International Workshop on CO2 Chemistry, Hemavan, Sweden, September 19-23, 1993. Proceedings published in Carbon Dioxide Chemistry:Environmental Issues, Paul, J.; Pradier, C.-M., eds., The Royal Society of Chemistry: Cambridge, U.K., 1994.
"Stabilization of `Incorrect' Structures in a Minimalist Zinc Finger Peptide," M. H. Schmidt and J. M. Berg, manuscript in preparation.
"Modeling of the FeS4 Site in Rubredoxin with an Iron-Peptide Complex Based on the Zn-Finger Motif," M. H. Schmidt and J. M. Berg, manuscript in preparation.
"Metal Binding and Folding Properties of a Minimalist Cys2His2 Zinc Finger Peptide," S. F. Michael, V. J. Kilfoil, M. H. Schmidt, B. T. Amann, and J. M. Berg, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, 1992, 89, 4796-4880.
"Metal-Binding Proteins Involved in Transcriptional Regulation: Predictions and Structures," M. H. Schmidt and J. M. Berg, in Transcriptional Regulation, S. L. McKnight and K. R. Yamamoto, eds. Cold Spring Harbor Press: Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 1992.
"Design and Characterization of a Ligand-Binding Metallopeptide," D. L. Merkle, M. H. Schmidt and J. M. Berg, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1991, 113, 5450.
"Effects of Redox Potential, Steric Configuration, Solvent, and Alkali Metal Cations on the Binding of Carbon Dioxide to Cobalt(I) and Nickel(I) Macrocycles," M. H. Schmidt, G. M. Miskelly, and N. S. Lewis, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1990, 112, 3420.
"Reaction Entropies and Acid-Base Behavior of Transition Metal Complexes in Recast Nafion Films," M. H. Schmidt and N. S. Lewis, J. Phys. Chem., 1988, 92, 2018.
"Kinetic Studies of Ligand Substitution Rates for the Ru(NH3)5(H2O) Ion in Nafion Films," C. M. Lieber, M. H. Schmidt, and N. S. Lewis, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1986, 108, 6103.
"Reaction Entropy Measurements for Transition-Metal Ions Bound to Nafion-Coated Electrode Surfaces," C. M. Lieber, M. H. Schmidt, and N. S. Lewis, J. Phys. Chem., 1986, 90, 1002.
"Overlayer-Support Interactions Associated with the Formation of a Chemically Modified Interface: The Nickel Ferrocyanide Derivatized Nickel Electrode," L. J. Amos, M. H. Schmidt, S. Sinha, and A. B. Bocarsly, Langmuir, 1986, 2, 559.
"Metallocyanide Modified Nickel Electrode Surfaces: Enhanced Currents for
Solution Species," S. Sinha, L. Amos., M. H. Schmidt, and A. B. Bocarsly,
J. Electroanal. Chem., 1986, 210, 323.
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