Mitch Malachowski received a B.A. degree in chemistry from Rhode Island College in 1977 and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1983.  After teaching at Gettysburg College for one year, he joined the faculty at USD in 1984.  During 1992 he was a visiting professor at Leiden University, the Netherlands.  He maintains an active research program involving the bioinorganic chemistry of copper and manganese proteins and has received funding from the Petroleum Research Fund, the Research Corporation and Project SEED grants.  During his time at USD, he has worked with 60 research students who have delivered 35 talks at regional and national research conferences.  In this time, he has published 34 papers, many of them with undergraduate co-authors and delivered 65 presentations at scholarly meetings.  Mitch served as Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at USD from 1989 until he came to his senses in 1994.  Included among his responsibilities were the direction of faculty development projects, College-wide grant proposals, and the Faculty Research Grants Program.  He has published a number of articles in the CUR Quarterly on fostering administrative support for research, research vs. student-oriented scholarship, promoting research in non-science areas and the role of mentoring in research.  He strongly believes in faculty development issues including the balancing of teaching with research activities.  He continually seeks ways to make learning more student centered; included are research opportunities for undergraduates.  Mitch has served on the CUR mentor network, as a CUR consultant, co-coordinated the past six CUR Institutes and chaired the Nominations Committee.  He is currently the chair of the chemistry division of CUR and the chair of CUR's Outreach Committee.  He has received several awards including one for teaching excellence from the University of North Carolina, the administrator of the year award at USD, the 1999 Davies Award for Teaching Excellence at USD, a University Professorship from USD and the Charles B. Willard award for distinguished career achievement from Rhode Island College.