School of Sciences

Dr. Marguerite Cooper  (home page)

Title: Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
Office:  CW 215
Phone:  321-3458
e-mail:  mcooper@cbu.edu

Length of service at CBU: Dr. Cooper taught as a full time faculty member at CBU from 1977 to 2009.  She still teaches part-time.

Courses regularly taught: CHEM 113 and CHEM 113L (Principles of Chemistry I and lab); CHEM 114 and CHEM 114L (Principles of Chemistry II and lab); CHEM 312 and CHEM 312L (Biochemistry and lab), CHEM 438 (special topics: Lipids), and NSCI 410 and NSCI 411 (Natural Science Senior Thesis I and II).

Formal Education: Dr. Cooper earned her BA in Chemistry from Womens College of the University of North Carolina, her MS and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Memphis State University.

Background: She was born and raised in Burke County, North Carolina. She is the mother of two grown childer, Joe and Susan. She was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry from Memphis State University (now University of Memphis).

Professional interests: Besides teaching the Principles of Chemistry courses, Dr. Cooper teaches Biochemistry and a course on Lipids. She also teaches the capstone research project courses for the Natural Science majors.

Service interests: At CBU Dr. Cooper is affectionately known as Dr. Mom, with a lab coat with that name on it given to her by her students in recognition of her caring attitude towards her students. She is also an active member of her church.

Interests: Her daily sustenance includes good food, good wine, good conversation, good music, and good students. She maintains some sense of contentment through stimulating reading of journals, books and current events. Her special interests, aside from teaching, include some kind of participation in all sporting events. Her summers are spent in her beloved hills of home, the Appalachian mountains. It is here that her relationship with God is strengthened and she has time for sharing much love with her family. To amble through the woods (kicking leaves, observing wild flowers, listening to the songs of birds, watching many little animals) reinforces her good nature and minimizes her bad.

For more on Dr. Cooper, see this nice article.