iLearn Faculty

Professor Richard Mayer

Dr. Mayer holds a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., an M.A. degree from Columbia University in New York City, and a Ph.D. from Yale University.  He has worked as a research chemist in the pharmaceutical industry (Sterling Drug Company), as a science administrator with the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C., as an Environmental Research Center Director at State University of New York, as Dean of Huxley College at Western, and as a teacher and writer at Western, where he was the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching award.  He retired from Western in 2000 but remains active in the teaching field.

His special interests include water chemistry, groundwater quality, drinking water issues, pesticide transport, and the fate of organic chemicals in the environment.  He most recently taught:

            ENVR 101  Environmental Studies: A Scientific Approach
            ENVR 302  Environmental Disturbances
            ENVR 361  Water Quality Laboratory
            ENVR 446  Aquatic Chemistry
            ENVR 546  Advanced Aquatic Chemistry
            ENVR 690  Graduate Student Thesis Research