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Current Undergraduate Students

Bao Nguyen, BS in Chemistry, Senior Thesis, "Analysis of Mercury as a Tracer in Raw Petroleum Materials by Long-Path UV"   

Ben Salley, BS in Chemistry, Senior Thesis, "Fluorescence Studies of Metal Complexation by Natural Organic Materials"

Dan Derochers, BS in Chemistry, Senior Thesis, "Electrochemical Measurement of Cationic Polymers"


Current Graduate Students

Rahul Manmode, Ph.D. Candidate (Analytical), "Metal Binding Proteins" 

 

Isso Bayala, Ph.D. Candidate in UMass BioMedical Engineering & Biotechnology, "alpha-Tocopherol."

 

Haengah Lee, Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry (Environmental Studies Option), "Analysis of Metals at Industrial and Adjacent Residential Sites "

 

Bingqi Zhu, Ph.D. Candidate (Analytical), "Fluorescence Studies of Metal Complexes"

 

Thy Vu, Ph.D. Candidate (Analytical), "Metal Complexation"

 

Lin Li, Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry (Environmental Studies Option), "Petroleum Hydrocarbon Fractions from Oil Sands and EOR Extracted by Liquid CO2 and Particle Stabilized Emulsions"

 

Sindhura Mogulla, M.S. Candidate in Chemistry (Analytical), "Vitamin E"

 

Chetankumar Malepati, M.S. Candidate in Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, "Characterization of Metal Binding Proteins and Peptides"


Former Students         

Matthew Woodcock, Ph.D. in Chemistry (Analytical), 2008, "Partitioning of Metals in Blood Plasma from the Blue Mussel, Mytilus edulis."

 

Julie Nobrega, BS in Chemistry (Senior Thesis), 2007, "Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) and GC Analysis of Atropine in Urine."

Leanna Conway, B.S. in Chemistry (Senior Thesis), 2006, "Use of Field Portable X-Ray Fluorescence in Remediation Studies of Lead Contaminated Soil."

Patrick McEnaney, B.S. in Chemistry (Senior Thesis), 2006, "Liquid Chromatography/Atomic Emission Measurements of Metal Binding Proteins From Bivalve Blood."

Norman Lee, Ph.D. in Chemistry (Analytical), 2005, "An Investigation of Binding Between Metal and Soil Fulvic Acid by Aluminum-27 and Proton Pre-Saturation Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometry."

Qi Zhang, Ph.D. in Chemistry (Analytical), 2005, "Analysis and Oxidation/Reduction Studies of alpha-Tocopherol."

Raja Manjeeth Avanadula, M.S. in Chemistry (Analytical), 2004,  "Measurement of Free Metal Ion in Equilibrium with Humic-Metal Complexes Using an NMR Solvent Suppression Technique."

Julie Nobrega, Summer Opportunity in Science, 2003, "Isolation and Analysis of Humic Materials."

Jennifer St. Hilaire, B.S. in Chemistry (Senior Thesis), 2003, "Proton Water-Suppression NMR studies on Copper and EDTA."

Elizabeth Newman, Summer Opportunity in Science, 2002, "Protein Isolation and Protein Characterization Analysis from Bivalve Blood."

Margaret Larrousse, Ph.D. in Chemistry (Analytical), 2002, "A Novel Technique using presaturation water suppression to measure unbound Copper(II) ion in solution of fulvic acid and EDTA and the use of NMR relaxation measurements and fluorescence quencying to investigate the effect of Calcium on Copper-Fulvic Acid complexation."

Cheryl L. Coolidge, Ph.D. in Chemistry, Environmental Studies Option, 1999, "Binding of Organic Nitrogen Compounds to Soil Fulvic Acid as Measured by Molecular Fluorescence Spectroscopy."

Chi-ying Hsieh, Ph.D. in Chemistry, Environmental Studies Option, 1998, "Development of Analytical Protocols Designed to Effectively and Efficiently Monitor and Assess Toxic Chemical Pollutants and Toxicity in Watersheds."

G. Christopher Butler, Ph.D. in Chemistry (Analytical), 1998, "Investigations of metal-humic complexation using ion-pair reversed-phase HPLC coupled with fluorescence quenching titrations."

Matthew M. Staffier, Ph.D. in Chemistry (Analytical), 1997, "Bioconcentration of eight metals by the mussel Mytilus edulis in Boston Harbor."

Xiaojun Liu, Ph.D. in Chemistry (Analytical), 1997, "Characterization of fulvic acids using HPLC with FT-IR spectroscopy and MALDI mass spectrometry."

Femi A. Obateru, Ph.D. in Chemistry, Environmental Studies Option, 1997, "Microwave acid digestion for trace metal analysis: Atmospheric aerosols, gram quantities of animal tissue and monitoring of digestion progress by fiber optic fluorimetry."

Michael D. Hays, Ph.D. in Chemistry, Environmental Studies Option, 1996, "Data treatments relating metal ion and organic contaminant binding to soil fulvic acid as measured by fluorescence spectroscopy."

Hsienching Hsieh, M.S. in Chemistry (Analytical), 1996, "Cadmium Uptake and Depuration in the Mussel Mytilus edulis: A Nonlinear Toxicokinetic Model Approach."

Chih-Ping Shia, Ph.D. in Chemistry, Environmental Studies Option, 1995, "Determining Aluminum-Fulvic Acid Complexation in Acidic Waters by Fluorescence Enhancement."

Linda Sulkowski, M.S. in Chemistry, 1995, "Development and Validation of an Analytical Method for Extractable Petroleum Hydrocarbons by Capillary Column Gas Chromatography."

John W. Duggan, Ph.D. in Chemistry, Environmental Studies Option, 1994, "Enhanced Recovery of Gasoline Hydrocarbons by Soil Flushing with Solutions of Dissolved Organic Matter and Nonionic Surfactants"

Xiaojun Liu, M.S. in Chemistry (Analytical), 1993, "Ion pair reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography studies of fulvic acid complexation with Al(III) and Cu(II)."

Chun-Yi Shen, M.S. in Chemistry, 1992, "Determination of Selected Pesticides in Natural Waters with Solid Phase Extraction Followed by High Performance Liquid Chromatography."

Karin R. Di Chiara, B.S. in Chemistry (Senior Thesis), 1992, "Square Wave Voltammetry Trace Analysis for Lead, Copper, Cadmium and Zinc.

Robert Guenard, B.S. in Chemistry (Senior Thesis), 1992, "Evaluation of Iridium and Indium as Activable Tracers for Monitoring of Sewage Effluent in the Marine Environment."

Sheila Feltman, B.S. in Chemistry (Senior Thesis), 1991, "Automated Preconcentration of Natural Water Samples Using Chelation Ion Chromatography for Analysis of Trace Metals."

Lisa S. Ventry, Ph.D. in Chemistry, Northeastern University, 1989, "Copper(II) Complexation with Humic Materials: A Fluorescence Quenching and HPLC-UV-Fluorescence-DCP Study."

Holly Ellen Pevzner, B.S. in Chemistry (Senior Thesis), Simmons College, 1984, "Fluorescence Quenching Studies of Iron (II) and Iron (III) Complexation to Real and Model Humic Materials."