August 2011

Dr. Paul Clifford retires

The Florida Industrial and Phosphate Research Institute announces the upcoming retirement of Dr. Paul Clifford, effective the end of July 2011. Clifford has served as the executive director of the Institute since 1996, and was instrumental in the transformation of the Florida Institute of Phosphate Research into a new research arm of the University of South Florida Polytechnic. His leadership and vision for the FIPR Institute has resulted in 15 years of quality phosphate-based research investigations, and has positioned the Institute to become a broader-based research entity, able to extend its research capabilities to other applied science topics in addition to phosphate.

Paul Clifford holds a doctorate in Organic Chemistry from Adelphi University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Research Fellow under Dr. George A. Olah at Case Western Reserve University, who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1994.

The FIPR Institute expresses gratitude to Dr. Clifford and wishes him well in retirement and all future endeavors.