JOHN GEHRET STEVENS

B.S., Ph.D., North Carolina State University

Professional Employment
July 1991 to June 1997 National Executive Officer of the Council on Undergraduate Research

August 1979 to Present Professor - University of North Carolina at Asheville

August 1973 - July 1979 Associate Professor - University of North Carolina at Asheville

November 1968 - July 1973 Assistant Professor - University of North Carolina at Asheville

Academic Year, 1976-77 and Research Professor - Institute of Molecular Spectroscopy, University of
1978, 1979, 1980, 1981 Nijimegen, The Netherlands

Fall 1973 Research Associate - Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics, Stuttgart, Germany

Summers: 1969, 1970, 1971 Research Associate - Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory

Summer 1967 Project Chemist - North Carolina State Nuclear Reactor

Honors and Awards
Outstanding Young American Award, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, American Men of Science, Who's Who in Technology Today, Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology, Sigma Pi Sigma (Physics Honor Society), Sigma Xi (Research Honor Society), Family of the Year for North Carolina, Outstanding Individual Community Volunteer Leader, Feldman Professor, and Lois & Russell Cook Peace Award (Western North Carolina United Nations Association). Special presentations at National Conferences on Undergraduate Research (1998), North Carolina Consortium on Undergraduate Research (1997), and National Meeting of the Council on Undergraduate Research (1997).

Regional, National and International Boards
International Board on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (current).
International Commission on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (past).
Editorial Boards of CRC Handbook of Spectroscopy, Hyperfine Interactions, and Magnetic Resonance Reviews (current).
Western North Carolina Air Pollution Advisory Council (past).
Advisory Board for the International Symposium on Unstable Nuclei and Particles as Probes in Physics and Chemistry: Wako, Japan (past)
Member of Ten International Advisory Boards for the International Conferences on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (ICAME): Jaipur, India; Porturuz, Yugoslavia; Alma Ata, USSR; Leuven, Belgium; Melbourne, Australia; Budapest, Hungary; Nanjing, China; Otsu, Japan; Parma, Italy; Rio de Janero, Brazil (past and current).
Member of Three International Advisory Boards of the International Symposium on the Industrial Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (ISIAME): Japan, Italy, and South Africa (past)
Board of Trustees, King College (past)
Asheville Community Science Center Advisory Board (current).
Council on Undergraduate Research, Chemistry Councilor (past).
Established the North Carolina Consortium on Undergraduate Research (NCCUR) (current).
Governing Board of the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research (current).

Publications and Talks
Author of approximately 75 scientific articles.
Editor of the ten-volume series, Mössbauer Effect Data Index.
Editor of the twenty-22 volume series, Mössbauer Effect Reference and Data Journal.
Editor of the Mössbauer Spectroscopy and Its Chemical Applications (with G. K. Shenoy). Advances in Chemistry Series, No. 104, American Chemical Society, Washington, D. C. (1981) 642 pp.

Editor of Industrial Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (with G. J. Long), Plenum Press, New York (1986)
796 pp.
Over 100 scientific talks given at various research centers and conferences in over twenty countries.

Miscellaneous Professional Items.
Director of the Mössbauer Effect Data Center. (1970 to present)
Recipient of over 45 grants from National Science Foundation, National Standard Reference Data System, Department of Energy, NATO Office of Scientific Research, American Chemical Society, Research Corporation, North Carolina Board of Science and Technology, North Carolina Academy of Science, The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, The Keck Foundation, Department of Energy, The Sherman-Fairchild Foundation, The Merck Company Foundation, Glaxo Corporation, DuPont Corporation, The Soros Foundation, and Awards Committee for Education.
Director of the UNCA Undergraduate Research Program. (1985-1991)
Director of the Physical Sciences and Engineering Institute. (1982-1991)
Chair of the UNCA Faculty Senate.(1981-1983)
Director of the University Computer Center. (1982-1983)
Organizer of three international conferences on Mössbauer Spectroscopy:
American Chemical Society National Meeting (Houston,Texas (1980))
International Congress of Pacific Base Societies (Honolulu, Hawaii (1984))
International Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (Vancouver, Canada (1993))
Organizer of the first two National Conferences on Undergraduate Research. (1987 and 1988)
Established UNCA's Science Day, UNCA's Summer Science Insititutes (ran for 13 years) and UNCA's Sigma Xi

Community Activities (recent past and current)
Member of Advisory Board for the Western North Carolina United Nations Association.
Scoutmaster and organizer of Troop 24.
Deacon and Elder in the Presbyterian Church.
Member of the Parent Council of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.
Chairman of United Campus Ministries Board at UNCA.
Coordinator of various programs between Western North Carolina High Schools and University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Coordinator of two different neighborhood playground development programs.
Coordinator of the Advocates for Nuclear Arms Freeze and on National Committee of Nuclear Arms Freeze Campaign.
Coordinator of Western North Carolina Coalition of Social Concerns.
Chairperson of Asheville Presbytery's Peacemaking Task Force and Campus Ministries Committees.

Personal Life
Hobbies: Backpacking and other forms of camping; gardening, drafting and designing, cooking, biking; sailing; travelling; scuba diving; swimming.

Recent Publications Only
1. J.G. Stevens, L.H. Bowen, K.M. Whatley, Analytical Chemistry 62, 125-39 (1990). Mössbauer Spectroscopy
2. J. G. Stevens, Hyperfine Interactions 58, 2693-700 (1990). The Mössbauer Effect Data Center: A Report
3. R. L. Asher* and J. G. Stevens, Journal of Solid State Chemistry 87, 408-14 (1990). A Mössbauer Spectroscopic Investigation of a Series of Boron Capped Iron II Clathrochelates
4. Y. Zhang and J. G. Stevens. Physics Letters 156 (1-2) , 127-30 (1991)A Mössbauer Study of the Morin Transition of the Fe1.96Ru.04O3
5. L. Lu, W. Hua, X. Wang, J. G. Stevens, Y. Zhang, Thermochimica Acta 195, 389-93 (1992). Thermal Decomposition of Unsupported and Supported Sn3[Fe(CN)6 ]4 in Air
6. X. Wang, W. Gu, L. Lu, Z. Chen, J. G. Stevens, Journal of Applied Polymer Science 45, 993-96 (1992). Preparation of Polymer-Supported Schiff Base Iron (III) Complexes and Their Catalytic Activity for Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide
7. J. G. Stevens, Hyperfine Interactions 71, 1537-42 (1992). The Mossbauer Research Community: A
Report
8. J. G. Stevens, R. M. Etter, E. W. Setzer*, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B76, 252-3 (1993).121Sb Mössbauer Spectroscopic Study of Mineral Stibiconite
9. J.G. Stevens, Hyperfine Interactions 83, 125-9 (1994). The Latin American Mössbauer Research Community
10. Z. Li, J.G.Stevens, Y.C. Zhang, and Y.W. Zeng, Hyperfine Interactions 83, 489-94 (1994). Mixed Valence of Iron in Natural Vonsenite
11. Y.C. Zhang, J.G. Stevens, Y.S. Li, and Z.L. Li, Hyperfine Interactions 91, 547-50 (1994). Mössbauer Study of Jilin and Xinyang Meteorites
12. Z. Li and J.G. Stevens, Dizhi Kexue (Scientific Geologica Sinica) 5, 523-31 (1996). The Orgin of Magnetism of Loess Deposits
13. G. F. Sun, Y. Xin, D. F. Lu, K. W. Wong, Y. C. Zhang, and J. G. Stevens, Solid State Comm. 101, 849-53
(1997). Effects of FluorineSubstitution in Superconducting Tl2Ba2CuO6+d
14. B. E. Gamblin*, J. G. Stevens, and K. L. Wilson*, Hyperfine Interactions 112, 117-22 (1998),
"Structural Investigations of Chitin and Chitosan Complexed with Irron or Tin", .
15, J. G. Stevens, A. Khasanov, J. W. Miller, H. Pollak, and Z. Li, Hyperfine Interactions 117, 71-81 (1998). Documentation and Evaluation of Mössbauer Data for Minerals

* Undegraduate students.