Posted in Chemistry Faculty, Chemistry Majors on Sep 1st, 2010
The Department of Chemistry and Physical Sciences mourns the sudden death of Dr. Susan Slattery. Dr. Slattery was loved by students and faculty alike. She was known as a professor who taught very well, allowing students to really learn the material. As a colleague, she was loved for her infectious laugh, for working as a [...]
Posted in Chemistry Faculty, Chemistry Majors, Department Activities, Research on Aug 29th, 2010
All full time faculty and staff in the Chemistry Department and two senior Chemistry majors attended the American Chemical Society conference in Boston. Everyone attended sessions on teaching, research, and chemical instrumentation. In addition, six SU faculty and students gave formal presentations- more details on these presentations will be available in later posts at this [...]
Posted in Chemistry Faculty on Aug 26th, 2010
The Department is pleased to welcome Dr. Dawn Ward as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry for the 2010-2011 academic year. Dr. Ward taught at SU as an adjunct faculty member during 2009-2010. Dr. Ward is looking forward to “another year at Stevenson, broadening my teaching methods and guiding new and old students through Chemistry.”
Posted in Chemistry Faculty, Research on Aug 15th, 2010
UVA sophomore, Emily Gorman (right), is conducting research on off-target effects this summer with Tyler Demasky (middle) and Dr. Timothy Dwyer. A Baltimore native, Emily came home after the spring semester and wanted some lab experience. She’s learned a lot of new techniques and knows this experience will help her get a research position when [...]
Posted in Chemistry Faculty, Chemistry Majors on Aug 8th, 2010
Dr. Tracey Mason is enjoying her summer! Early in the summer, she mentored chemistry senior Brittany Miller so that Brittany would be able to be an independent researcher this fall. Brittany will be conducting cell cycle studies starting in September, being paid on Dr. Mason’s NIH grant. Dr. Mason is excited to be heading to [...]
Posted in Chemistry Faculty, Chemistry Majors, Department Activities on Jul 28th, 2010
Chemistry Seniors Brittany Miller (top left) and Lena Kemp (bottom) are excited about their upcoming trip to Boston to the 240th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting in August. Both students have conducted research with Dr. Jason Sonnenberg (top right) on actinide chemistry and each is presenting a poster of her work at the meeting. [...]
Posted in Chemistry Faculty, Chemistry Majors on Jul 25th, 2010
Diane Payne, Chemistry Instructor and Director of the Office of Research Development (ORD), is excited to announce that NIH has funded our proposal for a Research Development Working Group for the 2010-2011 academic year. This grant will allow us to offer a year-long professional development opportunity to a cohort of eight Stevenson faculty members who [...]
Posted in Chemistry Faculty, University Activities on Jul 21st, 2010
Middle school students joined us at SU this summer for our annual Science Camp, directed by Dr. Susan Slattery, Math Department Chair. The students enjoyed working in the areas of Biochemistry, Forensic Science, Robotics and Physics. Favorite activities included building robots programmed to draw pictures, making ice cream and shooting off water rockets. [...]
Posted in Chemistry Faculty on Jul 18th, 2010
This summer, Dr. Ellen Roskes (right), Chair of the Chemistry Department, Dr. Susan Gorman (center), Dean of the School of the Sciences and Dr. Susan Slattery, Chair of the Math Department traveled to Ogden, Utah to the 2010 meeting of the Council of Undergraduate Research. There, they led an interactive presentation entitled, “The Research-Rich Undergraduate [...]
Posted in Chemistry Faculty, Chemistry Majors, Department Activities, University Activities on Jul 3rd, 2010
The School of the Sciences at Stevenson University was proud to present Maymester for the 8th grade graduating class of Crossroads. Close to 50 8th graders came to campus for 2.5 weeks and learned what it’s like to be a college student as well as to participate in many science and math activities and classes. [...]