Emily Niemeyer Assistant Professor of Chemistry PhD, State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo BS, Ohio Northern University Location: FJS 315 Phone: 512-863-1721 Chemistry Home Page

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Southwestern (1998-present) Instructor, Program on Sustainable Development in Costa Rica, Associated Colleges of the South (Summer 2001)   CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS Camille and Henry Dreyfus Faculty Start-up Grant Program for Undergraduate Institutions (1998-2003) Mattern-Tyler Award for Excellence in Teaching (1996) American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Graduate Fellowship sponsored by DuPont Company (1997) Southwestern University Excellence in Academic Advising Award (2002-2003)   RESEARCH AREAS quantification of environmentally-significant chemicals in complex matrices molecular spectroscopy solvation in modified supercritical fluid systems including polymers and microheterogeneous media   REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS Recent Publications: Alter, Krystyn P.; Molloy, John L.; Niemeyer, Emily D. "Spectrophotometric Determination of the Dissociation Constant of an Acid-Base Indicator using a Mathematical Deconvolution Technique" submitted for publication, J. Chem. Ed. (August 2003). Janel E. Owens and Emily D. Niemeyer "Chemical Analysis of Industrial Pollution within an Open Canal Located in a Border Colonia" Brown Working Papers in the Arts & Sciences, Southwestern University, Volume II, Paper 5, 2002. (non-peer reviewed) Kane, M.A.; Daniel, S.N.; Niemeyer, E.D.; Bright, F.V. "Spectroscopic Investigations of Intermolecular Interactions in Supercritical Fluids" in New Trends in Fluorescence Spectroscopy: Applications to Chemical and Life Sciences, 2001, Springer-Verlag: New York, NY. Bonzagni, N.J.; Baker, G.A.; Pandey, S.; Niemeyer, E.D.; Bright, F.V. "On the Origin of the Heterogeneous Emission from Pyrene Sequestered Within Tetramethylorthosilicate-Based Xerogels: A Decay-Associated Spectra and O2 Quenching Study" J. Sol-Gel Sci. Tech. 2000, 17, 83-90.   MORE INFORMATION Home page: www.southwestern.edu/~niemeyee