Past Members of the Penn Research Group

	Dr. Amy Anschutz successfully defended her dissertation on 31 July 2006! She currently is an Assistant Professor at UW-Manitowac. Congratulations Amy! Ph.D. Chemistry, Univeristy of Minnesota B.S. Chemistry Carroll College (Waukesha, WI)
	Dr. Teresa Jentzsch successfully defended her thesis on 24 July 2007! She currently is currently teaching Chemistry courses as Anoka-Ramsey Community College. Congratulations Teresa! Ph.D. Chemistry, Univeristy of Minnesota B.S. Chemistry University of WI - Eau Claire
	Dr. Sara Isley successfully defended her dissertation on 14 Jan 2008! She currently works at Beckman in Minnesota .Congratulations Sara! Ph.D. Chemistry, Univeristy of Minnesota B.A. Chemistry and Mathematics Cornell College (Iowa)
	Dr. Anthony Ratkovich successfully defended his dissertation on 25 March 2008. He is curently working at FSI in Minnesota. Congratulations Anthony! Ph.D. Chemistry, Univeristy of Minnesota B.S. Chemistry University of WI - Eau Claire
	Chan Lan Chun, Ph.D. Chan Lan worked as a post-doc in our group 2006-2007.
no photo available	Harikrishnan Ramanan, Ph.D. Hari worked as a post-doc in our group 2005-2006 . He is currently employed Intel in Arizona. Congratulations Hari!
no photo available	David Burleson, Ph.D. David worked as a post-doc in our group Sept. 2002 to Jan. 2004. He is currently employed at Ecolab Research Center in Mendota Heights, MN. Congratulations David!
no photo available	Rachel Gabor, M.S. 2005 Rachel was a graduate student in our group 2004-2005. She earned her Masters in December of 2005. She is currently working in the Americorps program, doing great works in Louisiana (last we heard). Her project examined the chemical reactivity of doped magnetite nanoparticles.
	Dave Jordan worked with Dr. Sara Isley on the synthesis and characterization of titanium dioxide nanoparticles.Their work resulted in a publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Dave is going to Northwestern University for graduate school in the fall of 2008. Congratulations Dave!
	Matt Hofer worked with Jasmine Erbs on the reactivity of iron oxide nanoparticles.
no photo available	Eric Anderson worked with Dr. Sara Isley on the synthesis and characterization of titanium dioxide nanoparticles.Their work resulted in a publication in the Electrochemical Society Transactions. Eric iscurrently a graduate student at U-Del. Congratulations Eric!
no photo available	Kari Tanaka worked with Jasmine Erbs, and her project examined the size dependence of the kinetics of oriented aggregation. She was a co-author on a paper that appeared in the Journal of Crystal Growth in 2007.
no photo available	Jill Evers worked with Dr. Teresa Jentzsch in 2005-2006 on the synthesis of aluminum-substituted iron oxide nanoparticles.
no photo available	Djuna Gulliver worked jointly with Drs. Banerjee (Geology) and Penn (Chemistry) and Jasmine Erbs on synthesizing and characterizing iron oxide nanoparticles. She was a co-author on a paper that appeared in the Journal of Crystal Growth in 2006.
no photo available	Steve Codoluto worked with Dr. Anthony Ratkovich on the synthesis of ZnO nanoparticles.
no photo available	Page Johnson worked on MicroscopyCamp during the 2004-2005 academic year and summer of 2005. She is currently a teacher at Edina High School!
no photo available	Khiza Mazwi was a LANDO during the summer of 2004. His work involved quantifying the degradation of environmentally important pollutant molecules by zero valent iron nanoparticles.
no photo available	Danny Vereen was a summer student - sponsored by the IGERT for Nanoparticle Science and Engineering - who worked with Dr. Sara Isley on the synthesis and characterization of titanium dioxide nanoparticles. He performed many of the syntheses that would later lay a strong foundation for her dissertation work. He is currently at NAVAIR in Lexington Park, MD.
no photo available	Jaclyn Bailey was a Lando in the Penn Group during the Summer of 2003. Her project involved growing microbes for a joint project with Prof. Tim LaPara of Civil Engineering.
no photo available	Nick Aschbrenner worked in our group during the summer of 2003. He graduated from Lawrence University in 2004 with majors in chemistry and geology. His project involved the synthesis and characterization of ferrihydrite doped with arsenic.
no photo available	Brad Heidemann worked with Dr. Amy Anschutz in the Penn group during the spring of 2003. His work focused on iron oxide nanoparticles.
no photo available	Jackie Youtsos worked in the Penn group during 2002-2003. Her project involved growing microbes for a joint project with Prof. Tim LaPara of Civil Engineering.
no photo available	Ali Mostrom worked in our group during the summer of 2002. Her project involved the synthesis of nanoparticles of goethite (FeOOH), and she was a co-author on a paper that appeared in Geophysical Research Letters in 2003.
no photo available	Kevin Tung worked in the Penn group during 2001-2002. He worked on the dissolution of CoOOH nanoparticles.
no photo available	Spencer Ladd worked in our group during the 2001-2002 academic year.  He subsequently enrolled in the University of Minnesotas Master of Education/Initial Licensure Program. Now, he teaches high school science! His project laid some of the groundwork for our educational transmission electron microscopy project for middle-school-aged students.