Before coming to Olin College, Dr. Morse was a faculty member in the chemistry department at Tufts University where his courses covered both graduate and undergraduate curricula. At Tufts he served as the Graduate Training Coordinator, with the responsibility for the pedagogical training of the graduate students, especially those interested in careers in academia. He also successfully ran the Summer Institute on College Teaching for seven years, a program that trained graduate students in educational skills, and then paired them with veteran faculty members to co-teach courses.

Before Tufts, Dr. Morse was at MIT where he received his doctoral degree in inorganic chemistry in the lab of Alan Davison as a National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow. The Davison lab focused on the creation of radiopharmecueticals for use as imaging and therapeutic agents. Dr. Morse worked on the synthesis and reactivity of a class of rhenium and technetium organometallic complexes. While at MIT, he also served as the chemistry liaison and taught chemistry courses through the Experimental Study Group. During his summers, Dr. Morse taught chemistry for Project Interphase, which prepared underrepresented minorities from rural and urban areas for the rigors of first-year courses. For this effort, he was awarded the Goodwin Medal for excellence in teaching by a graduate student. He also holds an A.B. from Dartmouth College.

At Olin, Dr. Morse teaches courses in general and organic chemistry. He is currently working on a textbook for a course about art, art history and art preservation from a chemical perspective. Dr. Morse remains interested in pedagogy training and his current focus is on using cooperative education to teach critical thinking through chemistry and the role of math skills for success in the sciences. While at Olin he hopes to expose students to the wonders of the puzzle world through a co-curricular.