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Joseph Fox was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA. He graduated with Magna Cum Laude honors from Princeton University in 1993, where he did undergraduate research with Maitland Jones, Jr. In 1998, he received the Ph.D. from Columbia University, where his Ph.D. advisor was Thomas Katz. At Columbia, he received the Pegram Award for excellence in graduate research as well as two teaching awards.
In 2001, he began his independent career at the University of Delaware as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and in 2007 was promoted to Associate Professor. Awards at Delaware include an NSF Career award and a Thieme Journal Award. His research focuses on the development of new methods for organic synthesis, with applications that extend from natural products synthesis to novel methods for bioconjugation. Visit the Fox group website. |
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Matthew is a science filmmaker based in Washington, DC, but he grew up in Harrisburg, PA. He graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Delaware in 1996, and spent a year taking classes at Cornell University. Moving on to the graduate program at Princeton University, he received his M.A. in Chemistry in 1999. Matthew spent the next three years working towards his doctorate in physical chemistry with Giacinto Scoles and Kevin Lehmann. The siren song of the silver screen called to him, so he moved to Montana and in 2006 earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Science and Natural History Filmmaking from Montana State University. For his thesis, Matthew focused on the creative process in science and its parallels with art. His short movie, The Poetic Element (2005, 8 minutes), won “Best Editing” at the first Element Film Festival in Bozeman, MT. Now the sole proprietor of Paignton Pictures, a multimedia production company, Matthew specializes in creating long- and short-form science documentaries and educational websites. His 2008 documentary on the Great Lakes Compact, Inland Seas (2008, 50 minutes), won a “Merit Award for Educational Value” from the 5th Montana CINE film festival and played on Milwaukee PBS. |
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Voice-over narration performed by Melissa Leebaert of MelissaVoice, Inc. |
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