Burt Goldberg is a Clinical Professor of

Chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

. Goldberg received his B.S. from

Pace University Pace University is a private university with campuses in New York City and Westchester County, New York, United States. It was established in 1906 as a business school by the brothers Homer St. Clair Pace and Charles A. Pace. Pace enrolls about ...

, an M.Phil from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, and a Ph.D. from the

University of Cardiff Cardiff University () is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales. It was established in 1883 as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and became a founding college of the University of Wales in 1893. It was renamed Unive ...

. Prior to retiring from research, his main area of focus was in

microbiology Microbiology () is the branches of science, scientific study of microorganisms, those being of unicellular organism, unicellular (single-celled), multicellular organism, multicellular (consisting of complex cells), or non-cellular life, acellula ...

Career

He has been a visiting faculty member at

Barnard College Barnard College is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia University in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a grou ...

. He is one of the faculty at NYU to plan to deliver all of his lectures on the web in a general course, with the class time used instead for discussions. His course, "The Body: How It Works" will be first taught in this format in 2011, but the lectures are expected to be available to the public in 2010.

Achievements and honours

He has received the S.H. Hutner Award for Research Contributions to

Protozoology Protistology is a scientific discipline devoted to the study of protists, a highly diverse group of eukaryotic organisms. All eukaryotes apart from animals, plants and fungi are considered protists. Its field of study therefore overlaps with the ...

(2004) and the Golden Dozen-Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at NYU (2006).

References

External links

NYU web page
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