Dr. Douglas C. Pearson Jr.

Associate Professor of Physics and Chemistry
Department of Natural Sciences
Shorter University, 315 Shorter Avenue
Rome, GA 30165

office: 316 Rome Hall, (706) 233-7411
academic e-mail: cpearson at shorter dot edu
personal e-mail: chuck dot pearson at gmail dot com

E D U C A T I O N

B.S. (Physics), Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, IN), May 1993

Ph.D. (Biophysics), The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH), December 1999
Doctoral research in computational biology and photosynthesis; dissertation entitled “Brownian dynamics study of the interaction between cytochrome f and mobile electron transfer proteins”; advised by Dr. Elizabeth L. Gross

E M P L O Y M E N T

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alabama-Birmingham 1999-2000
Research on macromolecular modeling of protein complexes, particularly the cardiac troponin C/I complex; Perl script development for macromolecular structure manipulation; software tutorial development; in the laboratory of Stephen Harvey (now Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Structural Biology at Georgia Institute of Technology)

Assistant Professor of Physics, Middle Georgia College (Cochran, GA) 2000-2003
Teaching of general education science courses, freshman level courses in chemistry, and freshman/sophmore level courses in physics (courses including both traditional college students and students in the Georgia Academy of Mathematics, Engineering and Sciences - GAMES)

Assistant Professor of Physics and Chemistry, Shorter College (Rome, GA) 2003-2009

Associate Professor of Physics and Chemistry, Shorter University* (Rome, GA) since 2009
Teaching of freshman/sophomore level courses in physics (and upperclassman courses in physical chemistry through 2010) and online courses in general science; additional teaching responsibilities as needed to fill holes in course coverage; undergraduate research and independent study mentoring; various faculty mentoring responsibilities

*Name change to Shorter University on June 1, 2010

R E F E R E E D P U B L I C A T I O N S

D.C. Pearson Jr., E.L. Gross, and E.S. David. 1996. The electrostatic properties of cytochrome f: implications for docking with plastocyanin. Biophys. J. 71:64-76

D.C. Pearson Jr. and E.L. Gross. 1998. Brownian Dynamics Study of the Interaction between Plastocyanin and Cytochrome f. Biophys. J. 75:2698-2711.

E.L. Gross and D.C. Pearson Jr. 2003. Brownian Dynamics Simulations of the Interaction of Chlamydomonas Cytochrome f with Plastocyanin and Cytochrome c₆. Biophys. J. 2003 85: 2055-2068.

T E A C H I N G E X P E R I E N C E

Physical Science sequence (PHYS 1011/1012 at Middle Georgia College)
Astronomy (now PHY 1500, previously as Special Topics in Physics;PHY 1990 at Shorter; taught online)
General Physics sequence (trig-based; PHYS 1111/1112 at Middle Georgia College; PHY 1030/1040 at Shorter)
Calculus-Based Physics sequence (PHYS 2211/2212 at Middle Georgia College)
Modern Physics (2 credit hour version, for secondary education; PHY 2100 at Shorter)
Survey of Chemistry sequence (CHEM 1151/1152 at Middle Georgia College)
General Chemistry I (CHEM 1211 at Middle Georgia College)
General Chemistry II (CHEM 1212 at Middle Georgia College)
Physical Chemistry sequence (CHE 4010/4020 at Shorter)
Biochemistry sequence (CHE 4110/4120 at Shorter)
General Biology I (BIO 1010 at Shorter)
Interdisciplinary Science sequence (SCIN 1105/1106 at Middle Georgia College)
Survey of Natural Science sequence (NAS 1510 at Shorter, taught online; NAS 1520 proposed for online teaching Fall 2011)

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