Faculty and Staff
Kevin Pate
McCoy Associate Professor, Chair of Faculty Council
Dept: Chemistry
740-376-4752
Office: SELB 372
Degrees:Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry (Yale University), 2000; Bachelor of Science in Chemistry (Otterbein College), 1993
Year appointed: 2001
Dr. Pate, who completed post-doctoral work at Kansas State University in 2000-01, was named a McCoy Professor, the highest teaching honor at Marietta College, in 2005.
His primary teaching duties include Organic Chemistry, Organic and Biological Chemistry, Advanced Organic Chemistry and General Chemistry. Dr. Pate has also taught freshman seminar and honors courses.
His primary research interests are Organic chemistry pedagogy: Specifically with respect to the development of guided-inquiry or "discovery" experiments.
Dr. Pate has made numerous presentations at American Chemical Society National Meetings and Biennial Conferences on Chemical Education since 2002. In 2008 he was elected to the Faculty Council and Chair of the Chemistry Department. He also provides many service contributions to the College and region, including being a multi-year member of assessment and pedagogy committees and as the director of District 9 Science Fair. He became a tenured faculty member in the fall of 2006.
Dr. Pate and his wife, Michelle, and children, Kaylee, 9, and Justin, 5, and their newest addition to the family, Ashley, reside in Vincent, Ohio. Dr. Pate's outside activities and hobbies include church, camping, hiking, sports and letterboxing.
Debra Egolf
Professor of Chemistry
Dept: Chemistry
740-376-4755
Office: Bartlett 372A
Degrees:B.S. Chemistry/Mathematics, Lebanon Valley College 1983, Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, Penn State University 1988
Year appointed: 1989
Jim Jeitler
Associate Professor
Dept: Chemistry
740-376-4754
Office: SELB 344
Degrees: Ph.D. (Clark University), 1998; Master of Arts (Clark University), 1996; Bachelor of Science (SUNY Buffalo), 1992.
Year appointed: 2007
Professor Jim Jeitler, who earned tenure in the spring of 2012, has taught at various universities around the country before coming to Marietta. He first taught at Worcester (Mass.) State College from 1995-97. He then moved on to teach at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute from 1997-98, The University of Idaho from 1998-2000, and finally at North Idaho College from 2000-07.
Dr. Jeitler was a trustee for the Idaho Academy of Sciences from 2003-07 and also received the North Idaho College Center for Educational Access Student Choice award in 2006. He was a Faculty Fellow for the National Institutes of Health BRIN/INBRE in 2004 and 2005, as well as a Postdoctoral Fellow for Washington State University in 2001.
At Marietta, Dr. Jeitler teaches various levels of courses in the chemistry field.
Judith Dunn
Academic Secretary
Dept: Biology
740-376-4750
Judy Dunn has been an employee of Marietta College since 1979. For her first 25 years she served as office manager and departmental secretary for the Chemistry department. For the last seven years she has worked for the Biology, Chemistry and Environmental departments in the same capacity.
She is a past member and organizer of the Marietta College Support Council and is involved in the International Mentoring Program.
Judy is married to James W. Dunn and is the mother of two children, has seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.