Editors’ Biographies
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Elizabeth S. Roberts-Kirchhoff Elizabeth Roberts-Kirchhoff received a B.S. in Chemistry from Texas A & M University and a Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry from the University of Michigan. After postdoctoral research at Wayne State University and The University of Michigan, she joined the faculty at the University of Detroit Mercy in 1997. Presently, Liz serves as Assistant Dean of Science in the College of Engineering & Science at the University of Detroit Mercy. Liz has taught courses in biochemistry, medicinal chemistry, and environmental toxicology to science majors and general, organic, and biochemistry to allied health majors. Liz has continued to develop and implement innovative and evidenced-based teaching pedagogies in the classroom and laboratory. This has included the development of modules in Process-oriented Guided Inquiry Learning, the innovative use of technologies in the classroom, and the implementation of project-based laboratories and course-based undergraduate research experiences. Her research focus on the analysis of metals and xenobiotics in food, consumer products, and the waters of Southeastern Michigan contributes to the growing body of knowledge about how we impact our environment and how our environment impacts our health. Liz has interest in the analysis of metals and xenobiotics including the X-ray fluorescence analysis of metals in food, dietary supplements, and cosmetics, and the GC-MS and LC-MS analysis of pesticides and pharmaceutical compounds in southeastern Michigan waterways.
Mark A. Benvenuto Mark Benvenuto received his education at the Virginia Military Institute and the University of Virginia (B.S. and Ph.D., 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. © 2018 American Chemical Society
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Mark maintains research interests in two broad areas: coordination chemistry, specifically the development of multi-dentate ligands with unusual coordinating abilities, and 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.
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