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Marci graduated from White Pines Collegiate and Vocational School in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and has been active during her time at LSSU in the Chemistry and Environmental Club, Investment Club, Pre-Professional Society, Honors Society, Alpha Chi Sorority, Learning Center, a member of the American Water Works Association and the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, and is a volunteer at Pathways Retirement Home. While at LSSU, she has worked at the Learning Center as a tutor and supplemental instructor, learning her advanced tutoring certification and winning the Margaret Hagg Memorial Scholarship. She was a recipient of the Ontario Honors Scholarship for four years. Marci completed her senior research by standardizing a method to fluorescently detect pharmaceuticals and personal care products in drinking water. This study helped to prepare her for her graduate studies at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi to conduct biodiesel research with Dr. Paul Zimba. She will graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Chemistry and Chemistry, magna cum laude, with minors in Economics and Mathematics, graduating as part of the Honors Society.

Marci Leanee Savage
2010 Outstanding Graduate
Environmental Chemistry

Environmental Chemistry

HAZWOPER Certification, just one of the many hands-on training opportunities available for our students
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The Environmental Chemistry program uses a full compliment of analytical chemical instrumentation. Our undergraduate students use these instruments in both in their laboratory experiences and to support their senior research projects. 

  • Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICPMS)
  • Cleanroom - dedicated to support trace elemental analysis using ICMPS
  • New January 2005, Purge and Trap GCMS
  • Microwave Digester
  • Gas Chromatographs (FID)
  • High Performance Liquid Chromatography
  • 60MHz NMR
  • Graphite Furnace/Flame Ionization Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
  • Infrared Spectrophotometers
  • Diode Array UV/Vis Spectrophotometer
  • Elemental Analyzer
  • Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer
  • Ion Chromatograph)
  • HEPA & Perchloric Acid hoods


Students using a clean room for trace elemental analysis using ICMPS

  

We would enjoy the opportunity to discuss careers in the chemical sciences with you. During a campus visit, be sure to ask to speak with the Environmental Chemistry Department. We would like to show you our excellent facilities and take the time to discuss some of the exciting research projects now underway.

Partnerships

Chemistry Professor Barbara Keller (right) talks with Jim Hettinger (arms folded, center) and Karl Dehn (left) of Battle Creek Unlimited as they tour LSSU's Environmental Research Laboratory. The two were on campus to review LSSU facilities and discuss the possibility of forming a partnership with LSSU for work with a National Center for Food Protection.

Chemistry Professor Barbara Keller (right) talks with Jim Hettinger (arms folded, center) and Karl Dehn (left) of Battle Creek Unlimited as they tour LSSU's Environmental Research Laboratory. The two were on campus to review LSSU facilities and discuss the possibility of forming a partnership with LSSU for work with a National Center for Food Protection.

Impact in the real world...

Rachel Claucherty-Arnold

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." [ more ]

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