Dr. Robert Powers became a chemistry professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2003 and is about to retire after 23 years. Prior to UNL, Bob was a drug discovery researcher for 11 years at American Cyanamid, which eventually became Wyeth and is now part of Pfizer. Bob was born in Jersey, New Jersey. Something in his youth must have sparked an interest in chemistry because he earned a bachelor's in that subject from Rutgers University of New Brunswick, New Jersey. Then he traveled 1200 miles west to Purdue University in Indiana where he earned his doctorate. Next, he did postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health in the labs of Marius Clore & Angela Gronenborn. They were pioneers of using NMR to study biological macromolecules. At UNL, Bob’s lab has studied NMR-Assisted Drug Discovery.