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Apryll Stalcup is currently Director of the Irish Separation Science Cluster and Professor of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University in Ireland. She received a BS in Chemistry from California State University‐Sacramento in 1979. She obtained her PhD in Chemistry from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, working under the direction of Daniel Martire in 1988….

NEW YORK MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY ERNST ABBE AWARDSymposium on Atomic Force Microscopy Infrared Spectroscopy organized with the New York Conservation Foundation Dr. Alexandre Dazzi has a research program focused on nanoscale IR Spectroscopy, a technique that he invented.  Specific research objectives including applying the technique to solve interesting problems in microbiological and cellular imaging, while simultaneously…

Laurence (Larry) A. Nafie received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1973, studying resonance Raman scattering, and from 1973 to 1975 he was a postdoctoral associate at the University of Southern California, working on the discovery and confirmation of infrared vibrational circular dichroism (VCD).  In 1975 he joined the Chemistry faculty at Syracuse University…

Joe Caruso holds a Ph.D. from Michigan State University. After a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at The University of Texas-Austin, he joined the University of Cincinnati Chemistry faculty and since then he has authored or co-authored greater than 400 scientific publications and presented more than 350 invited lectures at universities, scientific meetings, government and industry labs….

Thomas L. Chester is an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cincinnati. He obtained a B.S. degree from Florida State University in 1971. Tom then worked for the Verona Division of the Baychem Corporation (now Bayer) in 1971 and 1972 before resuming his education. In 1976 he received a Ph.D. degree in chemistry…

Catherine Fenselau received her A.B. at Bryn Mawr College and her Ph.D. at Stanford University, where she joined Carl Djerassi in the first studies of mass spectrometric fragmentation of amines, amides and esters. Her post-doctoral research was conducted with Melvin Calvin and A.L. Burlingame at UC Berkeley. In 1967 she joined the faculty of the…

Megan A. Macnaughtan is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Louisiana State University.  She received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Ohio University in 1998, and her Ph.D. in analytical chemistry in 2003 from Purdue University.  She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center at the University of…

Mark Westerhaus received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in psychology from Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio.  Mark continued his academic career in the Department of Statistics at The Pennsylvania State University where he became interested in statistical applications in agronomy. In 1978, he joined John Shenk as a graduate assistant in the USDA NIRS…

Dr. Robert Tycko is a Senior Investigator in the Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health.  He was born in New York City, raised on Long Island, and educated in physical chemistry at Princeton University (A.B. in 1980) and the University of California at Berkeley…