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| Monday, September 13, 1999 WRITER: Amanda Rowan, 706/542-8022, arowan@uga.edu CONTACT: Linda Rowe, 706/542-0364, lsr@uga.edu UGA PROFESSOR TO RECEIVE TWO HONORARY DEGREES IN BEIJING ATHENS, Ga. -- University of Georgia professor Henry Schaefer will receive honorary degrees in Beijing later this month from two separate universities. These degrees are the result of an extensive collaboration between China and UGA’s Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, of which professor Schaefer is the director. Professor Schaefer will accept an honorary professorship from Beijing Normal University on Sept. 21. Two days later, he will receive an honorary doctorate from the Beijing Institute of Technology. Schaefer, the Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry at UGA, has served UGA as the director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry. The center "seeks to develop theoretical and computational methods through mathematical models for describing and understanding the movement and function of electrons in molecules and to apply the theoretical methods to significant problems of broad chemical interest." The CCQC receives funding from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Schaefer, who was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1944, first came to UGA in 1987, after serving as a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, for 18 years. He received his bachelor’s degree in chemical physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his doctoral degree in chemical physics from Stanford University. He is the recipient of three other honorary degrees; in 1996 he received an honorary professorship from St. Petersburg State University (Russia) and an honorary doctorate from University Plov Div (Bulgaria). Earlier this year, Schaefer accepted an honorary doctorate from the University of Sophia (Bulgaria).
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