| Susie P. Gonzalez | 210-999-8406 | susie.gonzalez@trinity.edu |
Trinity University Professor Receives Promotion |
| Sept. 23, 2002 – Michelle Bushey has been promoted to full professor in the department of chemistry at Trinity University. Professor Bushey came to Trinity as an assistant chemistry professor in 1990. She received her bachelor’s in chemistry from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, and was awarded a doctorate in chemistry from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Professor Bushey, who also serves as chair of Trinity’s chemistry department, conducts research in the areas of capillary electrophoresis and micellar electrokinetic chromatography. She applies her findings to biological and biochemical fields such as the analysis of bilirubin bile salts and molecularly imprinted polymers. Among the grants she has received
to further her research is a $72,000 grant from the National Science
Foundation for work through September 2004; two other National Science
Foundation Grants totaling $70,854 for research to be conducted until
2003; a $30,000 grant from the Petroleum Research Fund to study mixed
bile salt systems through the summer of 2002; and a $27,000 grant in
1994 from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Grant of Research
Corporation. From 1983-84, Professor Bushey
was a volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps in Kenya. In this assignment, she taught
chemistry, physics, math, English, and geography to English-speaking
students and worked with private donors and the governments of Kenya,
the United Kingdom, and the United States to obtain goods and funds
for library books, classroom texts, laboratory equipment, rain catchment
tanks, and building supplies for a small rural secondary school. In graduate school, she was
a teaching assistant at UNC, and she was a visiting professor at the
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in the spring
of 1999, where she investigated various protein interactions. Trinity University is a nationally recognized liberal arts and sciences institution noted for its exceptional faculty and commitment to the comprehensive preparation of its talented student body. It is a learning community that has charted its course with a steadfast commitment to excellence since it was founded in 1869. |
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