Malcolm J. D'Souza, Ph.D.

Dr. Malcolm J. D’Souza is Professor of Chemistry at Wesley College, in Dover, Delaware. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, over 150 conference proceedings, and has established a nationally recognized Wesley College Undergraduate Directed Research Program in Chemistry. There are 31 undergraduate co-authors on his list of peer-reviewed publications, and 10 Wesley College undergraduates from his laboratory have earned national awards. In 2009, he was nominated and identified by a selection committee for the 2009 Northern Illinois University (NIU) Golden Anniversary Alumni Award. For this award, he was selected as one of fifty distinguished alumni spanning the 50-year history of the college who have distinguished themselves either in their professional fields or through their involvement in civic, cultural, or charitable service and will now take a distinctive place among its nearly 70,000 alumni. In 2008, the Delaware American Chemical Society (DE-ACS) nominated Dr. D’Souza to the 2008 E. Emmett Reid Award for Excellence in Teaching at a Small College. Dr. D’Souza has also received 3 other teaching awards, a faculty research award, and currently serves as Guest Editor for a peer-reviewed journal. His current research efforts in bio-organic chemistry are supported by grant number 2 P2O RR016472-09 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) grant to the state of Delaware was obtained under the leadership of the University of Delaware. Dr. D’Souza now serves as Co-Director for Undergraduate Research on this $17.4 million grant to Delaware.