Bill received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Indiana University in 1978 under the direction of Dennis Peters. He also holds an M.S. from Tulane University in New Orleans, and a B.A. in chemistry and physics from DePauw University in Greencastle, IN. He retired from Occidental Chemical Corporation in 2015 after 37 years and now heads his own company, Carroll Applied Science, LLC. He has served as President and as Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Chemical Society.
Bill’s current interests include projects with the United Nations pursuant to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and the Minamata Convention on elimination of the industrial use of mercury. At Indiana he conducts career workshops and resume reviews.