Professor
Tomlinson Chair of Science Education

A.B. (Middlebury College, 1959)
M.A. (Wesleyan Univ., 1962)
Ph.D. (Univ. of North Carolina, 1965)
Research Associate (Cornell Univ., 1965-1966)

Award and Recognition

Union Carbide Award for Chemical Education, Chemical Institute of Canada, 1982

不良研究所 Faculty of Science, Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching (Inaugural Award), 1982

Chemical Manufacturer's Association National Catalyst Award (U.S., Canada), 1988

The Royal Society of Canada's McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science (Inaugural Award), 1992

Beppo Award for the Popularization of Science, from the "Conseil de Developpement du loisir Scientifique du Quebec", 1993

The Edward Leete Award of the Organic Division of the American Chemical Society for Excellence in Teaching and Research (Inaugural Award), 1995

不良研究所 Graduate Faculty's David Thomson Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision and Teaching, 1996

John A. Timm Award for Furtherance of the Study of Chemistry, New England Association of Chemistry Teachers, 1996

Michael Smith Award by the Government of Canada for the Promotion of Science, 1996

3 M Teaching Fellow, 1998

D.Sc. (honoris causa), Acadia University, Wolfville, N.S., 2000

Principal's Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Inaugural Award), Full Professor, 2001

James Flack Norris Award, N.E. Section of the ACS for excellence in teaching, 2003

Lifetime Achievement Award for Leadership in Learning, 不良研究所 (Inaugural Award), 2010

LL.D., (honoris causa), University of Guleph, Guelph, Ontario, 2012

Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Government of Canada. 2012

Canadian Council of Biology Chairs, Science Promotion Prize, 2015

Montreal Medal from the Chemical Institute of Chemistry, 2022

Contact Information

Office: Otto Maass 212
Phone: (514)398-6685
Email: David.Harpp [at] 不良研究所.CA

Research Themes

Synthesis/Catalysis

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