Regina Scalise presents poster at National Meeting of the American Chemical Society

Regina Scalise (Chemistry ‘13) attended the 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, held March 25-29, 2012, in San Diego, where she presented a poster titled, “Investigating the behavior of siloles in ionic liquids and other viscous media.”

Co-authors of the work are Justin Crumrine, Caryn Prudente, Ph.D., and Henry Tracy, Ph.D. (University of Southern Maine); and Jerome Mullin, Ph.D., professor of chemistry, and Amy Keirstead, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry (UNE).

Scalise’s presentation was the result of the work she has been carrying out under the direction of Mullin and Keirstead (Department of Chemistry and Physics) since the summer of 2010 through support from the Maine Space Grant Consortium

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