• Dr Plummer after spending 41 years in teaching and research retired in 2001. He was one of 11 chemistry faculty to receive a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Science Scholar award in1993-1994. He was awarded as a  Senior Scientist from that same foundation in 1997-1998. He received research grants from the Petroleum Research Fund, The Robert A. Welch Foundation, and the National Science foundation. He was recruited to be a  temporary grants officer in  Chemical Dynamics at the National Science Foundation in1994-1995. He turned in his final progress report on his last grant from NSF in 2001. He was department Chair in Chemistry from 1976-1980. He published 47 referred articles on which many undergraduate students were listed. He helped initiate the creation of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). He was an associate editor on the first CUR newsletter published from Trinity University in 1990. He is listed on Research Gate as one of the most prolific researchers in the Chemistry Department. He and a colleague were the progenitors of undergraduate research in the department that they initiated with a $2,000 grant in 1968. He and his colleagues were awarded department instrumentation grants of over $2 million dollars that were awarded during his career. He was Chair of the Local Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in 1980-1981. He was Chair of the local section of American Association of University Professors 1972-1973. Two of his grandsons are Trinity graduates with degrees in science.