Hawkridge is currently the Executive Associate Dean of the VCU College of the Humanities and Social Sciences; he is also full professor and past chair of the VCU Department of Chemistry. Dr. Hawkridge trained at the University of Kentucky (PhD 1971), earned a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship in 1987, and acted as a National Science Foundation Program Officer from 1989 to 1999. He received an honorary Ph.D. from St. Petersburg University, St. Petersburg, Russia (1993) and the A. Benedetti-Pichler Award from the American Microchemical Society for outstanding contributions to the field of microchemistry (2002). He is the author of dozens of peer-reviewed scientific articles in the field of bioelectrochemistry, a participant in several Gordon Research Conferences (1981 and 2000), and the recipient of the prestigious American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Analytical Chemistry (2003).
Thomas F Huff, PhD, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and Vice Provost for Life Sciences, VCU. As Vice Provost, Dr. Huff has established the Rice Center for Environmental Life Sciences on the James River, the Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, the Center for Life Sciences Education, 11 new bachelors, masters, and doctoral degree programs in Life Sciences, the Bioinformatics Computational Core Laboratories, the VCU Governor’s School in Life Sciences and Medicine, the Virginia Bioinformatics Consortium, and VCU’s national public television series “Secrets of the Sequence”. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Biotechnology Association and chairs the Bioethics Committee. Since 2001, he has commissioned the annual VCU Life Sciences Survey, an important, neutral poll of American public attitudes to high-impact issues in the life sciences which was described as “arguably the most authoritative source on public attitudes toward science” [Noam Scheiber, The New Republic Online, July 25, 2006]. Dr. Huff serves on the Steering Committee of Governor’s Advisory Commission for the Virginia Biotechnology Initiative, the Virginia Advisory Committee for Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Genetics Research, and was recently appointed to the Stem Cell Study Commission for the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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