Dr. Helen Gigliotti has been at California State University, Fresno since 1966. She received a B.A. degree in Chemistry from Vassar College in 1958 and a Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry at the University of Michigan in 1963 working with Dr. Bruce Levenberg on the enzymology of mushroom amino acids. After spending three years engaged in postdoctoral research on the enzymology of folic acid and its derivatives in the laboratory of Dr. Bruce Huennekens at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation (La Jolla, CA), Dr. Gigliotti joined the faculty at CSUF as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. She was attracted to CSUF by the lifestyle of the San Joaquin Valley, an especially collegial faculty and the University's teaching emphasis.
Dr. Gigliotti served a term as Chair of the Chemistry Department prior to taking on a new administrative assignment in the office of the Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs as Assistant Vice-President for Academic Resources. During her 15 years in this office, she served several administrations and was promoted first to Associate Vice-President and then to Associate Provost. In this office, Dr. Gigliotti's primary responsibility was to provide advice and counsel to the Provost on all resource issues within the University.
In the Spring of 1995, Dr. Gigliotti made the decision to return to a more hospitable environment in the Chemistry Department. In Fall 1996, following a year's sabbatical, she returned to teaching Biochemistry. Dr. Gigliotti has a particularly keen interest in teaching about intermediary metabolism in humans, both normal and pathological, inherited errors of metabolism and principles of enzymology.
She can be reached at California State University, Fresno as follows: