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# Chemistry professor awarded ‘Chair of Excellence’
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/chemistry-professor-awarded-chair-of-excellence/
- Published: 2003-06-20T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T02:22:45.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Dr. Jamey Anderson, a widely-respected Santa Monica College chemistry professor, has been named the recipient of the Marvin Elkin/Northrop Grumman Chair of Excellence.

Anderson will receive $5,000 a year for the next three years to be used for projects of his choice that will enhance his teaching. He plans to use the funds for upgrading the college's Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory, allowing chemistry students and teachers to run more complex experiments.

“Not only has Dr. Anderson been responsible for the installation and maintenance of a highly sophisticated piece of equipment, he has trained students on the instrument, giving them skills usually offered only at graduate schools and which are highly valued in the chemical industry and academia,” said SMC President Dr. Piedad F. Robertson.

“His dedication shows in his students, who have gone on to such institutions as Berkeley and MIT,” she said.

Anderson is the second recipient of the Elkin award, which was the first of four chairs of excellence established at SMC. The first recipient was physics professor Richard Masada, who was named in 2000 and who used his award money for robot-ics research.

The other chairs of excellence are in biology, music and earth science. Such awards — believed to be rare for a community college — are administered by the SMC Foundation and are funded from the interest earned on the endowments.

Anderson, who has taught chemistry at SMC for five years, received a bachelor's of science in chemistry from Andrews University in Michigan and a doctorate in organic chemistry from UCLA.

An accomplished pianist as well as a scientist, Anderson lives in Van Nuys with his partner, Brian Driscoll.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 20, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/062003.pdf?ref=smdp.com)