FAR Chair Dr. Allen Clabo

Dr. Allen Clabo, associate professor of chemistry at Francis Marion University, is in his third year as the university’s Faculty Athletic Representative.

A native of Columbia, S.C., Clabo earned B.S. degrees in chemistry and physics (magna cum laude) from the University of Richmond and the Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from the University of California (Berkeley). He joined the Francis Marion faculty in 1998. Prior to coming to Florence, he taught for two years as a visiting assistant professor at Auburn University. He previously worked for Endress+Hauser Inc. as a product manager/sensor research scientist and with Philip Morris USA Research Center as a summer research associate. He spent a year-and-a-half as a post-doctoral research fellow in Germany, was a graduate research and teaching assistant/associate at UC-Berkeley, and was an undergraduate research and teaching assistant at Richmond.

He attended the 2006 NCAA Division II FAR Fellows Institute in Indianapolis, Ind.