T. V. (Babu) RajanBabu received his undergraduate education in India (Kerala University and Indian Institute of Technology, Madras). He obtained a Ph. D. degree from The Ohio State University under the direction of Professor Harold Shechter, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University with the late Professor R. B. Woodward. He then joined the Research Staff of Dupont Central Research and Development, becoming a Research Fellow in 1993. He returned to OSU as a Professor of Chemistry in 1995.