Editors’ Biographies
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Mark A. Benvenuto Mark Benvenuto received his education at the Virginia Military Institute and the University of Virginia (BS and PhD, respectively), and did a post-doctoral fellowship at the Pennsylvania State University. He also served a four-year term of service between his undergraduate and graduate education as a lieutenant in the United States Army, spent mostly in Mannheim, West Germany. He joined the University of Detroit Mercy as a faculty member in inorganic chemistry in 1993, and has been department chair since 2001. Mark has taught freshman-level chemistry to science and engineering students virtually every semester since he has been at the University of Detroit Mercy, and has been voted the UDM Science Teacher of the Year, by the students, five times. He was also awarded the Michigan College Science Teacher of the Year in 2003 by the Michigan Science Teachers Association. He has been active in local and national ACS activities for two decades, and is a Class of 2015 ACS Fellow. Mark maintains research interests in two broad areas: coordination chemistry, specifically the development of multi-dentate ligands with unusual coordinating abilities; in the analysis of trace materials in archaeological objects as well as food supplements and personal care products via energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry.
Tracy Williamson Tracy Williamson received her B.A. in chemistry in 1985 from Hamilton College and her Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1992 from the University of Delaware. Tracy is currently the immediate past chair of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Environmental Chemistry and is a member of the ACS Committee on Nomenclature, Terminology, and Symbols. She is a fellow of the American Chemical Society and was formerly a member of the ACS Committee on Environmental Improvement. Tracy is currently the Chief of the Industrial Chemistry Branch in the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
© 2017 American Chemical Society Benvenuto and Williamson; Elements Old and New: Discoveries, Developments, Challenges, and Environmental Implications ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2017.
