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Leslie Machado

Leslie Machado

LSSU Chemistry Major

PhD in chemistry at Johns Hopkins University

Division of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Geology and Physics

Environmental Analysis Laboratory

The EAL is:

Supervised by highly experienced Ph.D. chemists.
Staffed in part by undergraduate chemistry and environmental science students.
Provides "real world" working experience for LSSU science students.
Provides funding for the maintenance of sophisticated analytical instruments that make our undergraduate chemistry program unique.
Provides a service to the local community, as we offer the only environmental analytical laboratory in Michigan's Eastern Upper Peninsula.
Provides unique customized analyses for customers from throughout the United States.

Impact in the real world...

Rachel Claucherty-Arnold
Environmental Health

What made Rachel's Lake Superior State experience so unique was the practical research she did with top-notch faculty.

"I really enjoyed working with environmental chemistry professor Judy Westrick and biologist Deb Stai," Rachel says. "For my senior project, we evaluated a lab method for cultivating a fungus that causes infections in humans."

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