Dr.
G. Earl Peace, Jr. is a native of Norfolk, VA. He received a B.S. in Chemistry
(with Honors) from Lafayette College and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He taught courses in General,
Analytical , and Environmental Chemistry and Instrumental Methods of Analysis
at Lafayette College for seven years and at the College of the Holy Cross for
12 years, winning superior teaching awards at each institution. At Holy Cross,
he was directly involved with the establishment of the "Discovery
Chemistry" curriculum. Dr. Peace has been a USAF Summer Faculty Fellow
(1980), an AAAS/EPA Environmental Science and Engineering Fellow (1981), and an
American Council on Education Fellow (1990-91). In this latter position, he served
as Special Assistant to the President of Bucknell University.
Earl left Holy Cross in 1992 for a postion at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, returning in 2001 as Dean of the Class of 2005. He is now Dean of the Class of 2009.
Earl is still married to his first wife (a massage therapist) and has a son (a 1998 graduate of Carleton College) and a daughter (a 2003 graduate of Cornell University). He also still has his first car - a 1967 Camaro convertible.
His hobbies include travel and photography.
