Here is my "official" picture .

Here is my "unofficial" picture taken by Dr. R. Brent Thomas on Fripp Island, SC (crabbing with a chicken neck).

To learn economics (the "dismal" science) ask my brother! 

Before I came to USC-Upstate (formerly USC-Spartanburg), I attended graduate school at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and got my basis for the love of chemistry at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL.

If you need to contact me, please use the following means:

Christopher M. Bender

Natural Sciences and Engineering

University of South Carolina-Upstate

800 University Way

Spartanburg, SC 29303

 

Office Phone: 864/503-5755

FAX: 864/503-5366

 

E-mail: cbender@uscupstate.edu