Chemical Dreams
UM spin-off company offers major economic development potential
Don Kiely, a retired professor emeritus of chemistry at The University of Montana, comes across as fairly unassuming at first glance. Six feet tall. Slim. Seventy-one years old. White hair. He and wife Judy, also a chemist, share a bathroom with a periodic table shower curtain.
But unassuming or not, Kiely dreams big.
For 11 years he directed UM’s Shafizadeh Rocky Mountain Center for Wood and Carbohydrate Chemistry, a lab dedicated to unraveling the secrets of carbohydrates and finding practical applications for their use. He earned three patents during his UM tenure, with three more pending. (He added those Read More...

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