Dr. V. Prakash Reddy is Professor of Chemistry at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He has received a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. He has had a distinguished academic career for over 20 years, and is an internationally recognized scientist, scholar, and teacher. He was an honorary member of the Golden Key National Honor Society at Case Western Reserve University. In recent years, at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, he has graduated many Ph.D. students who are well established in their academic an industrial careers. He has been a NASA Faculty Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.