Ralph has been the Chemical Hygiene Officer at Keene State College in Keene, NH since 2014. He graduated from Cornell University in 1979 and got his master's at the University of Vermont in 1989. He managed lab safety at UVM for 25 years and was the Chemical Hygiene Officer at Cornell for 3 years before moving to Keene State. His professional contributions include developing electronic information resources for the laboratory safety community; participating in a lab waste regulatory reinvention project with the U.S. EPA; and developing a laboratory ventilation program at Cornell. He served on the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Health and Safety Program Committee for three years, as the divisional Secretary for nine years, and Chair of the ACS Committee on Chemical Safety's Safety Advisory Panel