Bio
Lt Col Hershel Lackey is an assistant professor at the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado. He instructs undergraduate classes, guides cadets in academic research, and develops course materials. He is also the director of the Department of Chemistry's Manpower Team, responsible for the recruiting and onboarding of new chemistry instructors.
Lt Col Lackey entered the Air Force in May 2007 through ROTC from Virginia Military Institute. He completed initial defense acquisition training in Nov 2007 and has since held a variety of scientific positions related to the development of new technology for military applications and supporting the monitoring of international nuclear treaties. Prior to his current position, Lt Col Lackey was Strategic Integration Management’s deputy division chief at the Air Force Technical Application Center, Patrick SFB, Florida.
Education
2007 Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia
2010 Master of Science, Chemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
2019 Doctorate, Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Honors & Awards
Meritorious Service Medal
Air Force Commendation Medal
Air Force Achievement Medal
Publications
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Colin S. Swenson, Hershel H. Lackey, Eric J. Reece, Joel M. Harris, Jennifer M. Heemstra, Eric M. Peterson “Evaluating the Effect of Ionic Strength on PNA:DNA Duplex Formation Kinetics” Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Biology. 2021, 2, 1249-1256.
Hershel H. Lackey, Eric M. Peterson, Joel M. Harris, Jennifer M. Heemstra “Probing the Mechanism of Structure-Switching Aptamer Assembly by Super-Resolution Localization of Individual DNA Molecules” Analytical Chemistry. 2020, 92, 6909.
Jin Kyoon Park, Hershel H. Lackey, Matthew D. Rexford, Kirill Kovnir, Michael Shatruk, and D. Tyler McQuade “A Chiral 6-Membered N-Heterocyclic Carbene Copper(I) Complex that Induces High Stereoselectivity,” Organic Letters. 2010, 5, 12, 5008-5011.
Jin Kyoon Park, Hershel H. Lackey, Brian A. Ondrusek, and D. Tyler McQuade “Stereoconvergent Synthesis of Chiral Allylboronates from an E/Z Mixture of Allylic Aryl Ethers Using a 6-NHC−Cu(I) Catalyst,” Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2011, 133, 8, 2410-2413.