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March 6, 2006 Marc D. Porter receives Outstanding Alumni Award from Wright State College of Science and Mathematics 
Marc D. Porter, professor of chemistry at Iowa State University and a 1977 and 1980 Wright State University graduate, is the Outstanding Alumni Award winner from the College of Science and Mathematics.
One of his Wright State professors considers Porter “one of the most talented, energetic, and stimulating students the Department of Chemistry has ever had.” While at Wright State, Porter excelled in research, academics, and sports, earning a tryout with the Montreal Expos major league baseball team in 1979. He received the Margaret Ellen White Graduate Faculty Award from Iowa State in 2004 and the prestigious 2003 R&D 100 Award. Porter received the R&D award for a new generation immunoassay system, the Ramanprobes™ System, for detecting and labeling antigens, the proteins that serve as the body’s natural defense against infectious agents. Porter has directed of the Microanalytical Instrumentation Center and the Institute for Combinatorial Discovery at Iowa State. He has published over 150 papers in these areas, and has been a member of the editorial boards of Analytical Chemistry, Langmuir and Electrochemistry Communications. Porter earned his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from The Ohio State University and studied as a post-doctoral fellow at Bell Communications Research.  Click on the photo above to see a high-resolution version suitable for printing.
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