Department of Chemistry/Physics/Astronomy

Student Research

Chemistry majors Joe Marciniak, Fiyin Obajuluwa and Lubna Hussain presented posters of their summer research projects on August 6th at Valparaiso University’s Summer Celebration of Undergraduate Scholarship.  The project titles were Real-time Fluorometric Assay for Sewage Presence:  A Cost-effective Method to Determine Potential Water Quality Threats to Swimmers and Ecosystem Health AND Radiation Chemistry for the Study of Advanced Oxidation Treatment of Model Organics in Treated Wastewater Matrices;  both projects were supervised by Professors K. Vinodgopal and Julie Peller.

Other Student activities:

Lubna Hussain and Tim Kratz (VU, Civil Engineering)  presented a poster at the Radiation Chemistry in the 21st Century conference, July 2009, held on the University of Notre Dame campus.  The title of their poster was Radiation Chemistry for the study of Advanced Oxidation Treatment of Model Organics in Treated Wastewater Matrices.



Please click on the links below for information on recent and current research being done in the Chemistry department under the supervision of our faculty:

• Dr. AtillaTuncay
• Dr. Alan Lindmark
• Dr. Julie Peller
• Dr. K. Vinodgopal