Education
Schuster earned a Bachelor of Surgery in Chemistry at Clarkson College of Technology in 1968, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry at University of Rochester in 1971.
Schuster earned a Bachelor of Surgery in Chemistry at Clarkson College of Technology in 1968, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry at University of Rochester in 1971.
He still holds the office Vasser Woolley Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry. University of Illinois Schuster was a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 20 years. He also served as Head of the Department of Chemistry in the UIUC College of Engineering from 1989 to 1994.
Georgia Technical Schuster became Dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences and professor of chemistry and biochemistry in 1994.
He became Provost in 2006. He was named Interim President on April 4, 2008, and assumed the office on July 1, 2008.
On April 1, 2009, Schuster stepped down from the position as George P. "Bud" Peterson took over as the Institute"s permanent president