Richard W. Sanders received a B.S. degree in Applied Science from the U. S. Coast Guard Academy in 1983, and from the University of Connecticut received an M.S. degree in Chemistry in 1995, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2002. He holds the grade of Commander in the U. S. Coast Guard, and has been on the Coast Guard Academy faculty since 1995. In 1997 he was further selected for the Academy's permanent commissioned teaching staff (PCTS).  

CAPT Sanders is currently the Chief of the Chemistry Section at the Coast Guard Academy. He teaches General Chemistry and upper-level chemistry classes in the Marine & Environmental Science major. Research interests include synthesis and application of laser-absorbing dyes and development of undergraduate laboratory activities in organic chemistry. He is also the coordinator of cadet summer sail training programs and is active in diversity and outreach initiatives.  

• Ph.D., Organometallic Chemistry, University of Connecticut, 2002
• M.S, Chemistry, University of Connecticut 1995
• B.S., U. S. Coast Guard Academy, 1987

• Organic Chemistry
• Analytical Methods in Chemistry
• Inorganic Chemistry
• General Chemistry

• Ulrich T. Mueller-Westerhoff, Richard Sanders, Electronic Spectra of Ferrocenyldithiolene Nickel Complexes: Steric and Electron Donor/Acceptor Effects, Organometallics, Vol 22(23) (2002) pp. 4778-4782.
• Frederic Barriere, Nicole Camilre, William E. Geiger, Ulrich T. Mueller-Westerhoff, and Richard Sanders, Use of Medium Effects to Tune the ΔE1/2 Values of Bimetallic and Oligometallic Compounds, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol 124 (2002) pp. 7262-7263.
• Richard Sanders, Ulrich T. Mueller-Westerhoff, The lithiation of ferrocene and ruthenocene: a retraction and an improvement, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Vol. 512 (1996) pp. 219-224.

• American Chemical Society