Lloyd N. Ferguson, the 1978 recipient of the ACS Award in Chemical Education, received his BS and PhD degrees from the University of California Berkeley. He taught for 20 years at Howard University, serving as Head of the Chemistry department from 1958-65. He has been a professor at the California State University Los Angeles since 1965 and served as department chairman 1968-71. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Oregon and at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He did research as a Guggenheim Fellow at the Carlsberg Laboratorium, Copenhagen, Denmark, and as a National Science Foundation Faculty Fellow at the E.T.H., Zurich, Switzerland. His research interests have been in physical organic chemistry, the sense of taste, and recently on cancer chemotherapy. He is the author of over 50 journal publications, including many in the Journal of Chemical Education and Chemical Reviews, of articles in Colliers and a foreign encyclopedia, and of seven chemistry textbooks at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has received a number of awards: The Manufactuing Chemists Association Award for Excellence in Teaching, an Outstanding Professor Award from the California State University Los Angeles, a Distinguished American Award from the American Foundation for Negro Affairs, an award from the Oakland California Museum Association in recognition of contributions to science for humanity, and an honorary DSc Degree from Howard University.