Gustavus Adolphus College

Visiting Assistant Professor Download curriculum vitæ
Chemistry

B.S., Chemical Engineering, Purdue University; Ph.D., Chemistry, Penn State University

Relevant Educational Tidbits:

• I received my high school education at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School, an interfaith Jesuit school in Indianapolis, Indiana
• I also obtained a minor in Chemistry and completed the Industry/University Cooperative Education program at Purdue University
• Since successfully defending my dissertation, I have bee a post-doctoral researcher with R. James Kirkpatrick in the Department of Geology at the University of Illinois and the Department of Chemistry at Michigan State University
• I enjoy teaching and have more than two years of experience teaching general chemistry lab at the Collegiate level
• I received the Dan Waugh Memorial Teaching Award in 2003 based largely on student evaluations and feedback

For more information on my professional experience and accomplishments, research and teaching interests, and pictures of my other interests and hobbies, visit http://homepages.gac.edu/~gbowers.

Areas of Expertise

• Solid-state NMR
• Physical Geochemistry
• Low-gamma quadrupolar nuclei
• Cation-soil interactions
• Molecular-level structure and dynamics at mineral-water interfaces

Interests

• nuclear waste remediation
• cement chemistry
• quadrupolar NMR
• natural organic matter
• geochemistry
• environmental chemistry
• physical chemistry
• general chemistry

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