Colleen Elonon attended the University of Minnesota, Duluth from 1985-1989 and majored in Biology and Chemistry. While an undergraduate, Ms. Elonon worked for the USEPA in the Pesticide Branch, performing GC chemical analyses on water and sediment samples from a littoral enclosure site near the Duluth Airport. After graduation, she was hired by the University of Wisconsin, Superior where she continued working on this project as well as other government sponsored projects. In spring of 1995, Ms. Elonon moved to her current position and began working in the Watershed Diagnostics branch of the USEPA. She has recently completed a three-year project studying "prairie potholes" in N. Dakota for water quality, invertebrates and sediment composition, and their impacts on migratory waterfowl. Ms. Elonen has also been involved in studies on the Western arm of Lake Superior and is now working on a Regional EMAP project with other agencies, studying coastal wetlands on nearshore Lake Michigan.

Monday, June 3, During the Undergraduate Symposium
Dr. Milt H. Andrus
3M
e-mail: mhandrus@mmm.com

Milton H. Andrus, Jr. obtained a BS degree in Chemistry in 1961 from Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD, and a Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry in 1967 from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. He joined the Printing Products Division of 3M in 1967 as a senior Chemist and worked on photoactive materials and imaging systems for lithographic printing plates and for proofing systems. In 1973, he joined what is now the Specialty Materials Manufacturing Division of 3M where he works on free radical initiated polymerizations of primarily acrylic monomers and on polymer modification reactions. The purpose of this research is the preparation of polymeric materials for use in 3M products. Examples include one of the polymers used in the retroreflective sheeting used for highway and traffic signage, the polymer used in DuraPrep(tm), a presurgical asepsis treatment, components of the lithographic printing process and photographic films, as well as low adhesion backside coatings for adhesive tapes.

Dr. Andrus is presently a Division Scientist in the Specialty Materials Manufacturing Division and is active in the activities of Division/Staff Scientist group including the Corporate Technical Education Steering Committee. He has been a team leader of technical people in his Division's Laboratory and has been active in the 3M Technical Forum including Chair of that organization in 1986-1987. Dr. Andrus is the past Secretary of the Minnesota Section of the American Chemical Society and will become a councilor of that organization in January, 2002.


For questions about the program, please contact:

William B. Tolman University of Minnesota tolman@chem.umn.edu 612-625-4061

Program Chair