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Dr. William F. Polik is the Hofma Professor of Chemistry and has worked at Hope since 1988 in a wide variety of teaching and leadership positions.

At Hope College Dr. Polik has taught lecture and laboratory courses in general chemistry, physical chemistry, computational chemistry and advanced spectroscopy. Dr. Polik served as chemistry department chair, was elected as chair of the Academic Affairs Board and Administrative Affairs Board, and served as the Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship. Beyond Hope, Dr. Polik has been a visiting scholar at MIT, UC San Diego and the University of Queensland. He is a nationally recognized educator and was awarded the Hope College Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence, the Sigma Xi Award for Scientific Outreach and the ACS Norris Flack Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of Chemistry.

Dr. Polik has an exceptional record of productivity in scientific research with undergraduate students. He has been awarded $2.5 million of funding from Research Corporation, the ACS Petroleum Research Fund, the Dreyfus Foundation, NSF and other sources to support a research program in molecular spectroscopy and computational chemistry. He invented the method of pure vibrational spectroscopy that resulted in the most detailed vibrational spectra of small polyatomic molecules in the world. He constructed the first cluster computer at Hope College, pioneering an approach currently utilized by major supercomputer centers. His research has resulted in 76 publications with 40 undergraduate co-authors and over 120 invited seminars. Dr. Polik has been recognized nationally for his scholarship as a NSF Presidential Young Investigator, a Dreyfus Foundation Fellow, a CUR Councilor, an AAAS Fellow and an ACS Fellow.

Dr. Polik is committed to the pursuit of student success and academic excellence. At Hope College he led departmental curricular revision efforts to improve student learning, participated in changing college-wide general education requirements and served on college-wide strategic planning committees. Dr. Polik chaired the ACS Committee on Professional Training during its revision of national guidelines for accrediting undergraduate chemistry programs, adding emphasis to student skill development and program self-assessment. He is a strong advocate of faculty development efforts and has led workshops and retreats on goal setting and prioritization. He has led the development of college-wide academic policies, performed workload and scheduling analyses, recruited and hired new faculty and staff, managed budgets, mentored under-represented faculty into leadership positions and raised funds to support institutional goals. He has a particular interest in promoting a positive work environment for faculty and staff.

Outside of academia, Dr. Polik founded two companies related to his teaching and research interests, DiscusWare and WebMO. DiscusWare was recognized in the 1990s as the leading provider of internet-based discussion software and was used by hundreds of academic institutions for courseware distribution. WebMO is a web-based interface to computational chemistry currently in use by over 3,000 academic and research institutions worldwide.

See Dr. Polik's current research 

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Laser spectroscopy of highly energetic molecules
• High-accuracy quantum chemistry
• WWW software for education
• Curriculum revision and education reform
• Faculty development
• Academic leadership

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., physical chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, 1988
• B.A., valedictorian, chemistry and mathematics, Dartmouth College, 1982

Appointments

• Associate Dean of Research and Scholarship, Hope College, 2016亚洲色吧�2019
• Schaap Research Fellow, Hope College, 2013亚洲色吧損resent
• Edward and Elizabeth Hofma Professor of Chemistry, Hope College, 2001亚洲色吧損resent
• Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Chemistry, Hope College, 1988亚洲色吧�2001
• Administrative Affairs Board, Hope College, member, 2016亚洲色吧�2017; chair, 2017亚洲色吧�2018
• Academic Affairs Board, Hope College, member, 2011亚洲色吧�2013; chair 2013亚洲色吧�2014
• Chemistry Department Chair, Hope College, 2012亚洲色吧�2015
• Committee on Professional Training, American Chemical Society, member, 2000亚洲色吧�2004; vice-chair, 2005; chair, 2006亚洲色吧�2008; consultant 2009亚洲色吧�2010
• Beckman Scholar Program Executive Committee, member 2000亚洲色吧�2002; chair 2002亚洲色吧�2003; consultant, 2014
• Founding Partner, DiscusWare, LLC, 1999亚洲色吧�2009; WebMO LLC, 2000亚洲色吧損resent
• Consultant, Coherent Lasers, 1986亚洲色吧�1988; Laser Photonics, 1991亚洲色吧�1993; Systems Integration, 1992亚洲色吧�1994

Selected Publications

• 亚洲色吧淲eb-Based Computational Chemistry Calculations in Education and Research,亚洲色吧� with J.R. Schmidt, WIREs Computational Molecular Science, 12, 2021
• 亚洲色吧淏YOC: Build Your Own Cluster,亚洲色吧� with Nathan R. Vance and Michael L. Poublon, Linux Journal, 277, 278, 279, 2017
• 亚洲色吧淰PT2+K spectroscopic constants and matrix elements of the transformed vibrational Hamiltonian of a polyatomic molecule with resonances using Van Vleck perturbation theory,亚洲色吧� with Andreana M. Rosnik, Molecular Physics 112, 2014
• 亚洲色吧淎ccurate and Efficient Calculation of Excited Vibrational States from Quartic Potential Energy Surfaces,亚洲色吧� with John L. Davisson and Nicole R. Brinkmann, Molecular Physics 110, 2012
• 亚洲色吧淪ymmetrizer: Algorithmic Determination of Point Groups in Nearly Symmetric Molecules,亚洲色吧� with R. Jeffrey Largent and J.R. Schmidt, Journal of Computational Chemistry 33, 2012
• 亚洲色吧淣ew ACS Guidelines Approved by CPT,亚洲色吧� with Cynthia K. Larive, Journal of Chemical Education 85, 2008
• 亚洲色吧淒ispersed Fluorescence Spectroscopy of S0 Vibrational Levels in Formaldehyde-d,亚洲色吧� with Kristin K. Ellsworth, Brian D. Lajiness and James P. Lajiness, Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy 252, 2008
• 亚洲色吧淔actors Influencing Success in Physical Chemistry,亚洲色吧� with Karen E. Hahn, Journal of Chemical Education 81, 2004
• 亚洲色吧淒ispersed Fluorescence Spectroscopy of S0 Formyl Fluoride Vibrational States,亚洲色吧� with Katie M. Horsman and Todd P. Chassee, Journal of Physical Chemistry 104, 2000
• 亚洲色吧淎nalysis of the Vibrational Spectrum of a Linear Molecule,亚洲色吧� with Richard W. Schwenz and Sidney Young, Journal of Chemical Education 77, 2000