Professor Torres is now the Dean of Mathematics, Sciences, and Engineering at College of the Canyons and still teaches part-time at Moorpark College.  He has also served as the Department Chair in Chemistry, Geography, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Geology, and Environmental Science at Moorpark College.  He was recently selected to serve as the newest co-author of the best-selling introductory chemistry textbook for the allied health sciences, "Introduction to General, Organic, and Biochemistry" by Bettelheim, Brown, Campbell, and Farrell.        

Professor Torres received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Texas A&M University in 1998 and his graduate degree in Inorganic Chemistry from UCLA in 2001.  He has experience in teaching, research (inorganic, organic, and analytical), and academic administration.  Professor Torres taught both inorganic as well as organic chemistry at UCLA, where he earned two UCLA Department of Chemistry Awards for Excellence in Teaching for the 1998-1999 and 1999-2000 school years.  In addition, Professor Torres has worked at the Dow Chemical Company (Freeport, TX) in the area of Analytical Quality Control, developing and implementing new technologies for various plant operators and analytical scientists.

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