Scholarship & Alumni Banquet

Program And Winner

36th Annual Scholarship and Alumni Banquet Program

Dr. George P. Cobb began his journey as an environmental chemist with a BS in Chemistry from the College of Charleston, where he studied sea turtle exposures to chlorinated pesticides and metals with Dr. Frank Kinard. He was shepherded towards the University of South Florida by an alumnus, Marion Doig, who is also a CofC faculty member. At USF, Dr. Cobb worked with Dr. Robert S. Braman to earn a PhD in analytical environmental chemistry with a focus of sampling atmospheric organic chemicals. Dr. Cobb was a charter member of the Faculty of Environmental Toxicology Department at Clemson, and later held a similar role at Texas Tech University. He currently serves as Chair of the Department of Environmental Science at Baylor University.

Dr. Cobb serves as an American Chemical Society Fellow, a Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Fellow, and is a member of the Committee on Science. Previously, Dr. Cobb served as Chair of the American Chemical Society’s Division of Environmental Chemistry and President of Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, North America. He now chairs the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals. His most recent work includes monitoring and evaluating paraben’s chemical transformation in Texas wastewater.