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Bettye L. S. Maddux

Director of Research Development
College of Science
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Bettye L. S. Maddux

Director of Research Development
College of Science

I am a scientist with over 30 years of experience in research and program/ project management. Currently, I am the Director of Research Development in the College of Science. Prior to this appointment, I was the Managing Director for the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry (CSMC), a large (>$25M) NSF funded Center for Chemical Innovation. Prior to CSMC, I was the Assistant Director for the Safer Nanomaterials and Nanomanufacturing Initiative (SNNI), a virtual Center funded by the Air Force Research laboratory ($20M). While in SNNI, I participated in the development of the International Standards Organization TC 229 (ISO/TC 229) to develop terminology for nanotechnology and lead in developing a standard for the Bio/ Nano interface. Before that, I managed a large ARO MURI ($15M) and I’ve also worked in Industry.

Education

B.S., Louisiana State University, Zoology and Physiology

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, Biological Sciences (chemical carcinogenesis)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Common Wealth University

College strategic research areas

Biomedical Science Materials Science

Publications

  • Dahl, J. A., Maddux, B. L. S., & Hutchison, J. E. (2007). Toward greener nanosynthesis. Chemical Reviews, 107(6), 2228–2269. https://doi.org/10.1021/cr050943k
  • Harper, S. L., Carriere, J. L., Miller, J. M., Hutchison, J. E., Maddux, B. L. S., & Tanguay, R. L. (2011). Systematic Evaluation of Nanomaterial Toxicity: Utility of Standardized Materials and Rapid Assays. ACS Nano, 5(6), 4688–4697. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn200546k
  • Rorrer, G. L., Torres, J. A., Durst, R., Kelly, C., Gale, D. K., Maddux, B. L., & Ozkan, A. (2016). The Potential of a Diatom-Based Photosynthetic Biorefinery for Biofuels and Valued Co-Products. Current Biotechnology, 5(3), 237–248.
  • Smith, B. L. (2001). The importance of molecular structure and conformation: learning with scanning probe microscopy. In S. H. Leuba & J. Zlatanova (Eds.), Biology at the Single-Molecule Level (Vol. 74, Issues 1–2, pp. 93–113). Pergamon.
  • Smith, B. L., & MacLeod, M. C. (1993). Covalent binding of the carcinogen benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide to Xenopus laevis 5 S DNA reconstituted into nucleosomes. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 268(27), 20620–20629.
  • Smith, B. L., Bauer, G. B., & Povirk, L. F. (1994a). DNA damage induced by bleomycin, neocarzinostatin, and melphalan in a precisely positioned nucleosome: Asymmetry in protection at the periphery of nucleosome-bound DNA. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 269(48), 30587–30594.
  • Smith, B. L., Schaffer, T. E., Viani, M., Thompson, J. B., Frederick, N. A., Kindt, J., Belcher, A., Stucky, G. D., Morse, D. E., & Hansma, P. K. (1999). Molecular mechanistic origin of the toughness of natural adhesives, fibres and composites. Nature, 399(6738), 761–763.
  • Xie, Y., Williams, N. G., Tolic, A., Chrisler, W. B., Teeguarden, J. G., Maddux, B. L. S., Pounds, J. G., Laskin, A., & Orr, G. (2012). Aerosolized ZnO Nanoparticles Induce Toxicity in Alveolar Type II Epithelial Cells at the Air-Liquid Interface. Toxicological Sciences, 125(2), 450–461.

Awards

  • Champion of Science Award, 2019
  • NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, NIH National Cancer Institute
  • NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship, NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Faculty Volunteer of the Year Award, Community Association Board, UCSB
  • Texas Public Education Scholarship
  • The University of Texas Research Grant