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Dr. Curtis Marcott is a Senior Partner at Light Light Solutions LLC, a spectroscopic consulting firm. He received a B.S. in math and chemistry at Concordia College and his PhD from University of Minnesota. Following his PhD, he joined The Procter & Gamble Company where he worked for over 28 years in the Optical Spectroscopy Laboratory and was…
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Robert Kennedy is the Hobart H. Willard Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Michigan. He earned a PhD at University of North Carolina in 1988 where his work focused on using open tubular LC to analyze single cells. After a post-doc in neuroscience he started his own research…
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James H. Prestegard, currently GRA Eminent Scholar, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, and Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Georgia, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in January of 1944. He remained in the state until he received his BS in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 1966. He then moved…
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Mary J. Wirth is the W. Brooks Fortune Distinguished Professor Emerita at Purdue University. She received her B.S. in chemistry from Northern Illinois University, where she became fascinated by separation science while taking a graduate course from Professor Joseph Pesek. She received her Ph.D. from Purdue University, working under the direction of Professor Fred Lytle,…
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John H. Kalivas is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the primary undergraduate institution Idaho State University (ISU). He obtained his PhD at the University of Washington in 1982 under the direction of Bruce Kowalski. After two temporary lectureship positions at University of Minnesota-Morris and Texas A&M University, he started his tenure track…
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Professor John A. McLean is Stevenson Professor of Chemistry, Chair of the Department of Chemistry, Associate Provost for Graduate Education, and Director of the Center for Innovative Technologies at Vanderbilt University. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He earned his PhD…
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Dr. Emanuela Gionfriddo is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of The University of Toledo (OH, USA). Research work in the Gionfriddo’s lab focuses on developing advanced analytical separation tools for the analysis of complex biological and environmental samples using green extraction methodologies. She received her Ph.D. in Analytical…
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NYMS is excited to honor Dr. Manu Prakash with the 2022 Ernst Abbe Award for his contributions to the field of microscopy, especially through his development of the Foldscope. The Foldscope is an optical microscope made from simple components, including a sheet of paper and a lens, that costs less than $1 to build. It…
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Dr. Fabrice G. Gritti received a B.S. degree in Chemistry and Physics from the University Joseph Fourier of Grenoble (France) in 1995 and a Graduate Engineering School degree in Chemistry and Physics from the University of Bordeaux I (France) in 1997. He then became in 1998 a Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics at the…
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Professor Philip J. Grandinetti was born and grew up in Clarksburg, WV. He received his B.S in chemistry in 1982 and M.S. in physical chemistry in 1984 at West Virginia University. At WVU, he worked on electron paramagnetic resonance studies of phase transitions in ferro- and anti-ferroelectric materials under Professor Nar S. Dalal. He moved…
