Prior to coming to UCD, downtown Denver campus in August of 2006, Jim Hageman served for six years as Dean of the College of Graduate Studies and Vice Provost for Research at Central Michigan University in July of 2000, assisting in that position in increasing external funding for research grants and contracts 3-4 fold, filing about a dozen patents on behalf of faculty and conducting a comprehensive analysis of graduate programs.  He received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois, C-U, his doctorate in biochemistry from UCLA and his post-doctoral studies in microbial genetics at Yale University. In 1971 he joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at New Mexico State University, where he served as head of the department from 1992-1998. He also served as founding director of the Graduate Program in Molecular Biology from 1988-1992.

Dr. Hageman has served on the Examinations Committee of the American Chemical Society, in which he was involved in preparing several national standardized exams in biochemistry. He also has served on the NSF Graduate Fellowships Committee, a Minority Biomedical Research panel of the NIH and for three years on the Governmental Relations Committee of the Council for Chemical Research.

Dr. Hageman has worked with undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral students on federally funded projects resulting in publication of over 40 peer-reviewed works in the areas of proteinases and protein degradation, enzyme kinetics, calcium binding proteins in bacteria, the synthesis and biological applications of aryl boronic acids (which resulted in the development of two commercial products) and the domestication of Russian thistle. A great deal of his research work was aimed at involving ethnic minority students, particularly Native American and Latino students, in active laboratory projects. He has recently filed a full patent on the use of a new device and process for carrying out chemical reactions to aid in the teaching of chemistry in classroom settings.  

 

 

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