Dr. Kathryn Williams

Kathryn R. Williams has over 35 years experience teaching university-level chemistry and writing instructional materials. After completing her PhD at the Florida State University in 1972, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher for a year. She subsequently joined the faculty at Florida International University, then in its second year of operation, where she designed the lecture and laboratory programs in inorganic and analytical chemistry.

In 1979, Dr. Williams moved to the University of Florida to become the coordinator of laboratories in analytical, physical, and radiochemistry. Since then, she has taught lecture courses in all areas of chemistry and has developed the laboratory curricula in analytical chemistry, instrumental analysis, physical and biophysical chemistry, and radiochemistry. A major part of her responsibilities have involved researching and testing new experiments and instruments, including writing all the accompanying student texts and procedures.

During her teaching career, Dr. Williams wrote seven student laboratory manuals and coauthored over 50 technical publications, many of them describing new student laboratory experiments. She also produced over 20 video tapes to enhance laboratory instruction.

Now semi-retired, Dr. Williams continues to teach chemistry courses on an adjunct basis, and she serves as the Undergraduate Advisor for both the Chemistry Department and UFTeach. She also established WonderWorder Editing Service to make her writing expertise available to individuals and businesses, including editing of theses and manuscripts in technical and non-technical disciplines.