MNS in Applied Chemistry

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11/11/2004

Southeast Chemistry faculty member Phil Crawford was recently awarded a grant from the Southeast Missouri State University Grants and Research Funding Committee to fund work on a forensic research project entitled  Trace Metal Analysis of Ecstasy by Microwave-assisted Digestion and Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES).

9/27/2004

The Forensic Science Section of the Missouri Academy of Science is expected to launch this fall, and the Southeast Department of Chemistry will have a prominent role in this section as one of its founding members.  Forensic posters and papers will be presented in the Chemistry or Biology section sessions at the spring 2005 MAS meeting.  The first official Forensic Science session is expected to be held at the Annual Meeting in the spring of 2006.

9/27/2004

Southeast Chemistry faculty members Phil Crawford and Jim McGill were recently awarded a grant from the National Institute of Justice through the Midwest Forensic Resource Center in the amount of $52,469 to fund a forensic research project entitled Trace Metal Analysis of Ecstasy by Microwave-assisted Digestion and Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES).

9/27/2004

Southeast Chemistry faculty member David Ritter was recently awarded a grant from the Southeast Missouri State University Grants and Research Funding Committee to fund work on a forensic research project entitled Evaluation of the Chemical Composition of Human Fingerprint Residue and its Evolution as a Function of Time Using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy: Steps Toward a Method of Fingerprint Age Determination.

9/27/2004

Southeast Chemistry graduate student Lauren O'Pry visited the FBI Forensic Science Research and Training Center at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia on August 18 and 19.  Lauren was selected to participate in a two-day workshop on the analysis of Colorless UV-dye Free Pepper Sprays as part of the FBI's Research Partner Program.  The Southeast Chemistry faculty and the Southeast Missouri Regional Crime Laboratory are participants in the FBI's RPP Program.

 

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