Gary Christian began his career at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, where he developed an interest in clinical and bioanalytical chemistry. He joined the University of Kentucky in 1967, and in 1972 moved to the University of Washington, where he is Emeritus Professor, and Divisional Dean of Sciences Emeritus. Purnendu K. (Sandy) Dasgupta a brief stint as a researcher at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (where Raman made his celebrated discovery), he came as a graduate student to Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge in 1973. Sandy received his PhD in Analytical Chemistry with a minor in Electrical Engineering from LSU in 1977. Kevin Schug following two years as a post-doctoral fellow with Professor Wolfgang Lindner at the University of Vienna (Austria), he joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at The University of Texas at Arlington in 2005, where he is currently the Shimadzu Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry.