David W. Craig Professor of Biochemstry Director, Alcohol Educaton Project Department of Chemistry, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva,New York 14456 Biochemistry, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 1977 craig@hws.edu , (315) 781-3611, FAX (315) 781-3860 HWS Experts Page

Background:

David W. Craig, Professor of Biochemistry, received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California at Riverside in 1977 and his B.A. from California State University at Chico. In 1979, Craig became a professor of chemistry at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Craig is Project Director with Professor Wesley Perkins of Hobart and William Smith Colleges’ Alcohol Education Project, a collection of education and research initiatives, and directs a research group monitoring late night blood alcohol concentrations in a college population. His work has informed students and faculty about social norms and abuse problems related to alcohol and other drugs.

Course Descriptions

• Syllabus for Introductory Chemistry 110 -- Molecules That Matter (sample syllabus..more recent syllabi are on the college's secured blackboard site)
• Syllabus for Chemistry 348 -- Biochemistry I (sample syllabus..more recent syllabi are on the college's secured blackboard site)
• Syllabus for Chemistry 449 -- Biohemistry II (sample syllabus..more recent syllabi are on the college's secured blackboard site)
• Syllabus for Bidisciplinary 240 -- AIDS: Scientific Investigation and Human Experience
• Syllabus forBidisciplinary 295 -- Alchol Use and Abuse: Causes and Consequences

Research Interests

• Summary of Research Projects and Interests
• Alcohol Education Project-- Codirected with Professor Wesley Perkins, this project in a collection of initiaives designed to Reduce Misperceptions and Raising Curricular Interest About Drinking and Other Drug Use and Violence on Campus
• Blood Alcohol Concentration Reseearch Program. Program of research on the distributio of BAC levels in a college poplulation.
• Sexual Health
• Development of Protein Data Bank Browser Software. See PDBModeler/Browser Tour
• Environmental Chemistry of New York Finger Lakes. See data collected by HWS students over the years.
• Publications
• Recent Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures