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John P. Schaefer, Ph.D 71, is President of LSST Corporation, a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to building and operating a new astronomical telescope. Previously, he was President of the University of Arizona (1971-1982) and Professor of Chemistry at the University, where he had been a member of the faculty since 1960. Before his appointment as President of the University, he served as head of its Department of Chemistry and Dean of its College of Liberal Arts. Dr. Schaefer received his BS degree in chemistry from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1955 and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois in 1958. After postdoctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology, he taught chemistry at the University of California (Berkeley). Dr. Schaefer�s research interests have been in the area of synthetic and structural chemistry. He served on the Board of Governors of the U.S.-Israeli Binational Science Foundation (1973-1978). He is a director of Research Corporation and Research Corporation Technologies, Inc. He is also a trustee of the Polytechnic Institute of New York. Director since 1999. | 