• B.S., University of Redlands, 1982
• Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, 1985
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University, 1985-1987

• 3M, Inc. Non-tenured Faculty Award, 1988-91
• Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Award for Excellence in Teaching, SUNY-Buffalo, 1998
• Buck-Whitney Medal from the American Chemical Society Eastern New York Section, 1999
• SUNY Chancellors’ Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2000
• SUNY Outstanding Inventors Award, 2002
• Named a University at Buffalo (UB) Distinguished Professor, 2002 (inaugural class)
• Gold Medal from the Society for Applied Spectroscopy New York Section, 2003
• Appointed to the A. Conger Goodyear Chair, 2003-12
• Akron Award from the American Chemical Society Akron Section, 2003
• Benedetti-Pichler Award in Microchemistry from the American Microchemical Society, 2005
• Jacob F. Schoellkopf Medal from the Western New York American Chemical Society, 2006
• Named a SUNY Distinguished Professor, 2008
• Named a Society for Applied Spectroscopy Fellow, 2010
• Elected to the International Society for Contact Lens Research, 2011
• Appointed to the Henry M. Woodburn Chair, 2012-20 (relinquished position upon retirement)
• Named a Royal Society of Chemistry Fellow, 2014
• American Chemical Society Award in Spectrochemical Analysis, 2015
• Edward W. Morley Medal from the American Chemical Society Cleveland Section, 2017
• Distinguished Alumni Award, Oklahoma State University, 2019

In August of 2020, after an exciting 33 year career, Frank retired from UB.

His experimental spectroscopy laboratories served as a diverse training ground for dozens of outstanding Ph.D. and M.A. graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and visiting scholars plus scores of talented undergraduate research students. His team produced more than 300 peer-reviewed articles and were awarded 18 U.S. patents.  Frank delivered several hundred invited lectures at numerous colleges, universities, and scientific forums around the world. Each of Frank’s former associates proved key to the Bright Group’s success and his former mentees have advanced to exciting careers as independent scientists and researchers.

Frank is delighted and honored to have worked with and helped to educate so many interesting and talented young people and seen them all grow and mature as individuals and as scientists.

Frank’s former mentees are his greatest professional accomplishment!