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During his five years at the College, Assistant Chemistry Professor John Bushweller has worked toward completing the structure of a "very important" leukemia related protein, has received substantial grants from the National Institute of Health and has enjoyed teaching Dartmouth's "bright, capable students."
But there was one thing Bushweller, a biophysical chemist who studies the structure of biological molecules, missed in Hanover -- the opportunity to confer with other professors doing similar research.
Bushweller will leave the College in late August to work as an associate professor with tenure at the University of Virginia Medical School, despite "significant efforts" the College made to keep him here, including an offer to match the equipment the University of Virginia is going to provide for his research.
"This was a situation where another institution was looking to strengthen its research offerings in a particular area," Chemistry Department Chair John Winn said.
Winn said that, by "historical accident," the College does not have the same number of people working in Bushweller's area of interest as the University of Virginia.
But Bushweller said the opportunity to "be in an environment with other people who do related types of work" is not his only reason for leaving, although it is his primary one.
"I don't like the cold," he said.
Reasons for leaving
Bushweller's decision, and his reasons for making it, are not uncommon.
