This effort was continuously supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), from whom he has won a Special Creativity Award in 1995. In 1990 he received a Japan-US Fellowship from the NSF and spent a sabbatical year in Osaka, Japan. He was elected as chair of the Polymer Chemistry Gordon Conference for the year 2000. He served for three years on the editorial board of the American Chemical Society journal, Macromolecules and he serves on the editorial board of Topics in Stereochemistry. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for “pioneering work in important new areas of polymer science.” He was elected as a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for a visit to Japan in 2003 and has been elected as winner of the Society of Polymer Science of Japan award for “outstanding achievement in polymer science and technology” for 2005. He was awarded a Jacobs’ “Excellence in Teaching Award” by the Polytechnic University in 2006 for his innovative approach to learning organic chemistry and his textbook with Harold Wittcoff entitled, “Organic Chemistry Principles and Industrial Practice.” A textbook following this philosophy in discovering the principles of the science in complex biological, academic and industrial processes, “Organic Chemistry Principles in Context: A Story Telling Historical Approach, and directed to beginning organic chemistry students was published in 2012. A review appeared in Nature Chemistry in 2013: “This textbook offers a fascinating and dramatic change to the landscape of textbook choice.”