Faculty Members Advance in Three Departments

10/31/2024

Professors Scott, Fox, and Bard were recently named to endowed professorships and chair.

Professors Scott, Fox, and Bard were recently named to endowed professorships and chair.

 Washington College is pleased to announce the recent naming of three faculty members to endowed professorships and chair. These honors recognize their outstanding contributions to teaching, scholarship, and service, and their commitment to Washington College’s mission of challenging and inspiring emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion. 

Jeremy P. Bard has been named the Clarence C. White Chair and Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Dr. Bard joined the Washington College faculty in 2022. Through the combination of organic synthetic methods and physical chemistry theory, Bard and his students design molecules to study how their chemical structures impact their fluorescence brightness and color. These structure-property relationships are vital for expanding the chemical toolkit that chemists and chemical biologists can use to image various samples, including cells, tissues, and even non-biological media like soil. His work focuses primarily on further applying and derivatizing phosphorus- and nitrogen-containing fluorophore, which is a sparsely studied molecule in literature due to its past challenges in synthesis and purification. 

Rebecca Fox has been named the Adrian Reed Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Studies. Fox joined the Washington College faculty in 2014 and serves as the current chair of her department. A watershed biogeochemist, her research interests tie into issues of agriculture, water quality, and climate change. She teaches a variety of environmental science and studies courses, including Introduction to Environmental Studies, Climate Change, the Bermuda Environment, Environmental Studies in Ecuador, and Watershed Biogeochemistry.   

Brian L. Scott has been named the Jim Lim Professor of Economics. Since his arrival in 2007, Scott has held a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the Department of Environmental Science and Studies. His teaching and research interests include institutions, rules, and assessing the viability of environmental and pollution markets, as well as volunteerism and charitable giving. He has received grants from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, the US Department of Agriculture, and the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation to study the Chicago Cap-and-Trade smog program, the viability of farmers entering carbon sequestration markets, and farmers participating in nitrogen sequestration markets. 

“These well-deserved promotions reflect the exceptional caliber of our faculty and their dedication to Washington College’s mission,” said Kiho Kim, provost and dean of the college. “The expertise and leadership professors Bard, Fox, and Scott bring to our campus each day strengthens our offerings for our students. I congratulate each of them on this vital next step in their careers.”

For more information on each of the programs offered to students by these and other outstanding faculty at Washington College, visit our Departments page.  

- Dominique Ellis Falcon