I grew up and was educated in New York City. Since finishing graduate school in 2000 I have held several positions, and worked in Minneapolis, Atlanta, Upton, New York, and Union, New Jersey before coming to Nassau Community College in the fall of 2007. I have experience teaching general chemistry, inorganic chemistry, a course on the second law of thermodynamics, and a course on color and light for students training to work in the fashion industry.
I teach General Chemistry (CHE 131/132) and Inorganic Chemistry (CHE 151/152).
Thesis
Hicks, C. "Excited State Coordination Chemistry: A New Quenching Mechanism" Ph.D. Dissertation Submitted to The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, (2000).
Journal Articles
1) Hicks, C.; Fan, J.; Rutenberg, I.; Gafney, H. D. "Excited-State Acid-Base Chemistry: A New Quenching Mechanism " Coord. Chem. Revs. (1998), 171, 71-83.
2) Dougherty, T.; Hicks, C.; Maletta, A,; Fan, J.; Rutenberg, I.; Gafney, H. D.; "Excited-State Acid-Base Chemistry: A New Quenching Mechanism" J. Amer. Chem. Soc. (1998), 120, 4226-4227.
3) Hicks, C.; Ye, G.; Levi, C.; Gonzales, M.; Rutenburg, I.; Fan, J.; Helmy, R.; Kassis, A.; Gafney, H. D. "Excited-State Acid-Base Chemistry of Coordination Compounds" Coord. Chem. Revs. (2001), 211, 207-222.
4) Helmy, R.; Kassis, A.; Grunseich, A.; Mangubat, P.; Hicks, C.; Stevens, N.; Gafney, H. D.; Excited-State Acid-Base Chemistry: Evidence for a Dissociative Excited State Fan, J.; Inorg. Chem.; (Communication) (2003), 42(8); 2486-2488.
5) Bridgette A. Barry, Charles Hicks, Antonio De Riso, and David L. Jenson “Calcium Ligation in Photosystem II under Inhibiting Conditions” Biophys. J. (2005) 89: 393-401.
6) Hicks, C.; Stevens, N.; Zambrana, J.; and Gafney, H.D. “Excited-State Coordination Chemistry: Associated Excited States that Relax to Products” Manuscript in preparation.
Perpetual Motion Machines are machines that claim to violate one of the laws of thermodynamics, so they are of course, all frauds. Some of them are scams to rip off investors, some are the products of very disturbed people, some were just thought of before the laws of thermodynamics were known. Read more about them at the museum of unworkable devices.
http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/museum/unwork.htm.