Paul R. Jones, Denton, professor of chemistry who worked at North Texas from 1968 to 2006, died Aug. 16. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University and his doctorate from Purdue. He also conducted post-doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and had served as a visiting scientist at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Seoul. At UNT, he was director of the Center for Organometallic Research and Education and was awarded grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Air Force and the Robert A. Welch Foundation. He was active in the American Chemical Society, among other organizations. In 1994, he was named a Student Association Honor Professor at UNT.