After completing his doctorate, Calaway returned to Georgia Tech to teach chemistry, often teaching classes in
explosives. Calaway also spent time developing replacements for
quinine, the anti-
Malaria drug. As an associate professor of chemistry, he won Georgia Tech's first-ever
Sigma Xi Research Prize for his paper "The Tolymercaptopropanones and their Condensation with
Isatins" in 1947, which was published in the
Journal of the American Chemical Society in January 1947. Calaway was inducted into
Omicron Delta Kappa on May 25, 1952. From 1954 to 1957, Calaway was the director of the
Georgia Tech Research Institute, then known as the Engineering Experiment Station. ==References==