Dooley's first academic appointment was as an instructor of chemistry at Amherst College in 1978, where he remained until 1993 when he assumed his position as head of the department of chemistry and biochemistry at Montana State University. Between 1984 and 1993, Dooley held a joint appointment as a chemistry professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he conducted much of his research into organometallic chemistry.[6] In 1993, he joined the faculty of Montana State University as the chairperson of the department of chemistry and biochemistry. In 1999, he was appointed as interim provost, and in 2001, he was named as the permanent provost.[6] In 2009, he joined the University of Rhode Island as its eleventh president and primarily focused on enhancing the global reach of the university and its research programs.[7] Throughout his career as an administrator at both MSU and URI, he maintained his research program as an active scientist.
Legacy
Upon the Dooley's retirement from the University of Rhode Island, the University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees approved naming of the President David M. Dooley Science Quadrangle in his honor.[8]
Selected works
Solomon, Edward I.; Hare, Jeffrey W.; Dooley, David M.; Dawson, John H.; Stephens, Philip J.; Gray, Harry B. (January 1980). "Spectroscopic studies of stellacyanin, plastocyanin, and azurin. Electronic structure of the blue copper sites". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 102 (1): 168–178. doi:10.1021/ja00521a029.
Dooley, David M.; McGuirl, Michele A.; Brown, Doreen E.; Turowski, Petra N.; Mclntire, William S.; Knowles, Peter F. (January 1991). "A Cu(I)-semiquinone state in substrate-reduced amine oxidases". Nature. 349 (6306): 262–264. Bibcode:1991Natur.349..262D. doi:10.1038/349262a0. PMID1846226. S2CID4306816.
Wilce, Matthew C. J.; Dooley, David M.; Freeman, Hans C.; Guss, J. Mitchell; Matsunami, Hideyuki; McIntire, William S.; Ruggiero, Christy E.; Tanizawa, Katsuyuki; Yamaguchi, Hiroshi (December 1997). "Crystal Structures of the Copper-Containing Amine Oxidase from Arthrobacter globiformis in the Holo and Apo Forms: Implications for the Biogenesis of Topaquinone". Biochemistry. 36 (51): 16116–16133. doi:10.1021/bi971797i. PMID9405045.
Rasmussen, Tim; Berks, Ben C.; Sanders-Loehr, Joann; Dooley, David M.; Zumft, Walter G.; Thomson, Andrew J. (October 2000). "The Catalytic Center in Nitrous Oxide Reductase, CuZ, Is a Copper−Sulfide Cluster". Biochemistry. 39 (42): 12753–12756. doi:10.1021/bi001811i. PMID11041839.
^ abAmerican Men & Women of Science. A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological and related sciences. 23rd edition. Eight volumes. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006. (AmMWSc 23)
^Ancestry.com. U.S., Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.