• Royce Fellowship
William
Brucker

Concentration 

Chemistry

Award Year 

2002
The Synthesis and Reactivity of Perfluorinated Iron Pthalocyanine

Faculty Sponsor: Sergiu M. Gorun

Alkanes are a class of compounds that are extremely unreactive making them almost useless in industry and chemical synthesis. William Brucker worked to find a way to make alkanes more useful by observing the oxidative effects of the first perfluorinated Iron pthalocyanine compound on various alkanes.

Bill completed his M.D./Ph.D. training at The Warren Alpert Medical School in 2013. After graduation he began his residency training in Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut/Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. During his M.D./Ph.D. training Bill was involved in teaching. He started working as an adjunct Professor at Rhode Island College in 2008 and taught there for 8 semesters. During that time he became interested in methods of teaching medical science to the general public. In 2011, Bill, Brenna Brucker and Christoph Schorl founded the Providence Alliance of Clinical Educators (PACE) (www.pacescience.org), a nonprofit dedicated to integrating modern medical science and health information into high school science lessons. To date nearly 600 schools have incorporated these lessons into their classrooms. PACE has also received national attention with short features by National Public Radio and Science magazine. Bill is also involved at teaching at the residency and professional level and is a science consultant with the Hasbro Department of Child Maltreatment. Most recently he has become a district liaison for the American Academy of Pediatrics for the purpose of promoting and scoring community service project grants.