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Professor Donald F. Hunt joined the faculty at the University of Virginia as an assistant professor in September, 1968 and was promoted to associate professor and full professor in 1973 and 1978, respectively. In 1993 he was promoted to the rank of University Professor with appointments in both Chemistry and Pathology. Prior to assuming these positions, he spent a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a National Institute of Health Postdoctoral Trainee in Mass Spectrometry under the guidance of Professor Klaus Biemann. The principal investigator obtained both his B.S. and Ph. D. (1967) degrees from the University of Massachusetts. Research for the doctoral dissertation was carried out under the direction of Professors Marvin Rausch and Peter Lillya in the area of organotransition metal chemistry.

Professor Hunt was chosen as a recipient of both an NIH Fogarty Senior International Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981-82. In 1990, he received the Charles H. Stone Award sponsored by the American Chemical Society. In 1992 he was named Virginia's Outstanding Scientist and also received the Pehr Edman Award for outstanding achievements in the application of mass spectrometry to the contemporary microsequence analysis of proteins. The Distinguished Contribution Award from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry was presented to Dr. Hunt in 1994 for his development of electron capture negative ion mass spectrometry. In 1996 he was the first recipient of the Christian B. Anfinsen Award from the Protein Society for development of new technology in the field of protein chemistry. He received the Chemical Instrumentation Award sponsored by the American Chemical Society in 1997.