I have just started a new website HomegrownScientists.org. It is a website that will provide science experiments, howtos, and resources for parents who homeschool their children or are looking for enrichment activities at home. It is new, and small now, but I expect to grow. Please visit the site, and send me your feedback! I gained the basic skills and understanding of computers and the Internet while a CoRE member that have allowed me to incorporate computers, programming and now the Internet into my professional work.
About Me I am a Ph.D. physical/analytical chemist/spectroscopist. My expertise is in near infrared Raman spectroscopy of non-routine samples. I am currently a Research Coordinator for the Northwestern University Astronomy and Astrophysics Group. I was a visiting assistant professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. For several months before that I worked as a postdoc in the laboratory of Sandra Bishnoi. I have also worked as a postdoc at the University of Michigan in the lab of Dr. Michael Morris. I have worked on several projects in the Morris Group. including bone biomechanics, hexafluorosilicate hydrolysis and depth resolved subsurface spectral imaging.
I earned my Ph.D. in Chemistry at Syracuse
University in August of 2002.
My dissertation advisor was
Dr. Joseph Chaiken. I earned my BS in chemistry at Binghamton University.
My dissertation research focused on developing a painless, noninvasive spectroscopic method
for monitoring blood glucose concentrations. This technology is being actively
developed and advanced by
LighTouch Medical Inc.
I earned my B.S. in Chemistry at
SUNY Binghamton in 1997. I was a member of the
CoRE module for 2 years while I was at
Binghamton.
Any questions, suggestions, corrections or miscellaneous
comments...
please send me an e-mail wffinney@gmail.com.
Last revision 09/20/2007