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Tyler graduated from Saline High School in Saline, Michigan. He has been an active leader at Anchorhouse Christian Fellowship. He completed his senior research on the use of microreactors to produce pharmaceutical precursors. He was the recipient of a GRO Fellowship for Undergraduates sponsored by the EPA. Tyler completed a summer working in Cinncinati for the EPA's National Risk Management Research Laboratory, and spent a summer in San Francisco with the American Chemical Society's Nuclear Summer School. Tyler will be pursuing his PhD at Washington State University in the Fall.

Tyler O'Dell
2010 Outstanding Graduate
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LSSU chemistry students receive top awards in undergraduate student research
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Undergraduate Research

Lake Superior State University students have demonstrated once again that they can be formidable competitors among their peers when it comes to research. Recently, three LSSU chemistry students received top awards in the undergraduate part of a competition that examined student research in their field.


Anna Kerr, a senior from Harrison, poses with a poster that details research she performed as part of the requirements for her bachelor's degree.

"Our students received the top awards in the undergraduate competition," said Prof. Barbara Keller Ph.D., chair of the department of chemistry and environmental science. "They really did an outstanding job and seemed to surprise the competition."

Titles of a few of the senior research projects include:

  • Heavy Metals Analysis of St. Marys Rivers Sediments, Emily Grenfell
  • Evaluating Discharge of Flowing Artesian Wells within the Munuscong Watershed, Kris Dorcy
  • Oxidizing Arsenite to Arsenate Using UV Light, Andrea Troschinetz
  • Unsupervised Classification of Satellite Date as an Aid to Natural Community Classification in Southeastern Massachusetts, Derek Martin
  • Gas Well Installation Effects on Forest Fragmentation Near Atlanta, Michigan, Greg Hochstetler

 

  

"The equipment available to students in our chemistry department is unparalleled in the state of Michigan. Here, undergraduate students get to use the equipment…They don't have to compete with research assistants as they would in other universities."

--Barbara Keller
Dean
College of Natural, Mathematical and Health Sciences


Student researchers collecting sediment cores on the St. Marys River.

 

 

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