Paul House is an Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department of UW-Whitewater. He received a B.A. in chemistry from Kalamazoo College (Kalamazoo, MI) and a M.S. and Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL). His graduate work focused on the kinetics and thermodynamics of a group of inorganic molecules involved in catalysis of alkene addition. After graduate school he worked at the University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston, TX) with a molecular biologist on the structure and enzymolgy of a DNA repair enzyme.