David M. Dooley Explained

David Marlin Dooley (born 13 May 1952) is an American chemist with expertise in organometallic compounds, and university administrator who has served as Provost of Montana State University and the eleventh president of the University of Rhode Island.

Early life and education

Dooley was born May 13, 1952, in Tulare County, California, to Walter Marvin Dooley and Mary Frances (Leonard) Dooley.^[3] He attended Foothill Aurora High School in Bakersfield, California,^[4] and he married Lynn Erville Baker, an ordained Baptist Minister, on Nov. 24, 1978 in Nobles County, Minnesota.^[5] He earned his bachelor's degree in 1974 at the University of California, San Diego and his Ph.D. degree in 1979 at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.^[6]

Academic career

Dooley's first academic appointment was as an instructor of chemistry at Amherst College in 1978, where he remained until 1993 when he assumed his position as head of the department of chemistry and biochemistry at Montana State University. Between 1984 and 1993, Dooley held a joint appointment as a chemistry professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he conducted much of his research into organometallic chemistry. In 1993, he joined the faculty of Montana State University as the chairperson of the department of chemistry and biochemistry. In 1999, he was appointed as interim provost, and in 2001, he was named as the permanent provost. In 2009, he joined the University of Rhode Island as its eleventh president and primarily focused on enhancing the global reach of the university and its research programs.^[7] Throughout his career as an administrator at both MSU and URI, he maintained his research program as an active scientist.

Legacy

Upon the Dooley's retirement from the University of Rhode Island, the University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees approved naming of the President David M. Dooley Science Quadrangle in his honor.^[8]

Selected works

• Solomon . Edward I. . Hare . Jeffrey W. . Dooley . David M. . Dawson . John H. . Stephens . Philip J. . Gray . Harry B. . Spectroscopic studies of stellacyanin, plastocyanin, and azurin. Electronic structure of the blue copper sites . Journal of the American Chemical Society . January 1980 . 102 . 1 . 168–178 . 10.1021/ja00521a029 .
• Dooley . David M. . McGuirl . Michele A. . Brown . Doreen E. . Turowski . Petra N. . Mclntire . William S. . Knowles . Peter F. . A Cu(I)-semiquinone state in substrate-reduced amine oxidases . Nature . January 1991 . 349 . 6306 . 262–264 . 10.1038/349262a0 . 1846226 . 1991Natur.349..262D . 4306816 .
• Kumar . Vinay . Dooley . David M . Freeman . Hans C . Guss . J Mitchell . Harvey . Ian . McGuirl . Michele A . Wilce . Matthew CJ . Zubak . Vilma M . Crystal structure of a eukaryotic (pea seedling) copper-containing amine oxidase at 2.2 å resolution . Structure . August 1996 . 4 . 8 . 943–955 . 10.1016/S0969-2126(96)00101-3 . 8805580 . free .
• Wilce . Matthew C. J. . Dooley . David M. . Freeman . Hans C. . Guss . J. Mitchell . Matsunami . Hideyuki . McIntire . William S. . Ruggiero . Christy E. . Tanizawa . Katsuyuki . Yamaguchi . Hiroshi . Crystal Structures of the Copper-Containing Amine Oxidase from Arthrobacter globiformis in the Holo and Apo Forms: Implications for the Biogenesis of Topaquinone . Biochemistry . December 1997 . 36 . 51 . 16116–16133 . 10.1021/bi971797i . 9405045 .
• Rasmussen . Tim . Berks . Ben C. . Sanders-Loehr . Joann . Dooley . David M. . Zumft . Walter G. . Thomson . Andrew J. . The Catalytic Center in Nitrous Oxide Reductase, Cu_Z, Is a Copper−Sulfide Cluster . Biochemistry . October 2000 . 39 . 42 . 12753–12756 . 10.1021/bi001811i . 11041839 .
• Zhu . Hui . Xie . Gang . Liu . Mengyao . Olson . John S. . Fabian . Marian . Dooley . David M. . Lei . Benfang . Pathway for Heme Uptake from Human Methemoglobin by the Iron-regulated Surface Determinants System of Staphylococcus aureus . Journal of Biological Chemistry . June 2008 . 283 . 26 . 18450–18460 . 10.1074/jbc.M801466200 . 18467329 . 2440603 . free .
• Adelson . Charles N. . Johnston . Esther M. . Hilmer . Kimberly M. . Watts . Hope . Dey . Somdatta Ghosh . Brown . Doreen E. . Broderick . Joan B. . Shepard . Eric M. . Dooley . David M. . Solomon . Edward I. . Characterization of the Preprocessed Copper Site Equilibrium in Amine Oxidase and Assignment of the Reactive Copper Site in Topaquinone Biogenesis . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 5 June 2019 . 141 . 22 . 8877–8890 . 10.1021/jacs.9b01922 . 31060358 . 6568004 .
• Lim . Hyeongtaek . Baker . Michael L. . Cowley . Ryan E. . Kim . Sunghee . Bhadra . Mayukh . Siegler . Maxime A. . Kroll . Thomas . Sokaras . Dimosthenis . Weng . Tsu-Chien . Biswas . Dalia R. . Dooley . David M. . Karlin . Kenneth D. . Hedman . Britt . Hodgson . Keith O. . Solomon . Edward I. . Kβ X-ray Emission Spectroscopy as a Probe of Cu(I) Sites: Application to the Cu(I) Site in Preprocessed Galactose Oxidase . Inorganic Chemistry . 16 November 2020 . 59 . 22 . 16567–16581 . 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02495 . 33136386 . 7799175 .

External links

• University of Rhode Island Historical Timeline

Notes and References

1. American Men & Women of Science. A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological and related sciences. 23rd edition. Eight volumes. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006. (AmMWSc 23)
2. Ancestry.com. U.S., Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
3. Ancestry.com. California Birth Index, 1905-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
4. Ancestry.com. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1999 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
5. Ancestry.com. Minnesota, U.S., Marriage Index, 1958-2001 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
6. Web site: MSU Provost Dooley selected as University of Rhode Island president. Montana State University. 12 May 2009. 22 May 2022.
7. Web site: Twelve Years of Transformation. Diane M. Sterrett. University of Rhode Island Magazine. Spring 2021. 17 May 2022.
8. Web site: Minutes of the Meeting of the University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees. 25 June 2021. 22 May 2022.