My interests
are analytical and environmental chemistry, undergraduate
teaching and advising, and teaching chemistry as general
education. I established the American Chemical Society
Olympiad for high school students at UConn and coordinated
it for many years.
For most of my time at the University,
I have served as the coordinator of undergraduate analytical
chemistry laboratories. I developed many analytical
chemistry experiments and wrote laboratory manuals for
analytical chemistry and instrumental analysis courses
including Chemistry 232 and 234.
In 1989, I took a leave of absence
to work with Professor William Fitzgerald in Marine
Sciences on ultra trace analysis of mercury and in 1990
I took part in an oceanographic cruise to the equatorial
Pacific to measure mercury in seawater. Upon returning
to the Chemistry Department in 1999 after serving as
Assistant Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
from 1992-1999, I developed and have been teaching Chemistry
101, Chemistry for an Informed Electorate; this is a
chemistry course for non-science majors with emphasis
on environmental chemistry. I am also developing and
coordinating the honors freshman chemistry laboratory.
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