Melissa Schultz Earth Day Celebration
April 22 @ 11:00 am – 11:50 pm EDT
Ruth W. Williams Hall of Life Sciences – Room 060
The Department of Chemistry is hosting a symposium featuring three alumnus who will share their career journey in honor of, Melissa Schultz, PhD, Analytical & Environmental Chemist. Dr. Schultz was their advisor and mentor who was killed in a car accident 10 years ago on February 7, 2015. She taught at The College of Wooster 2006-2015.
A lunch will follow the lecture at noon. RSVP appreciated
Presenters:
Claire Moffett (’15, CHEM), PhD, “From Wooster to the Artcic”
- Chemist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Postdoctoral Research, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Baylor University, PhD, Environmental Studies
Caitlin Popa (’11, CHEM), “Pivoting Toward Success: A Story of Building a Career One Chapter at a Time”
- Senior Manager, The J.M. Smucker CO
- 3i, Quality Assurance Manager (2.5 years)
- The J.M. Smucker Company (10 years)
- Appleseed Community Mental Health Center board member
Kristina Schiavone (’15, CHEM), JD, “Beyond the Lab”
- Associate Attorney, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
- Walter | Haverfield, Intellectual Property Law Associate
- Cleveland State University – Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, 2021
- Coventya, Technical Service Associate Chemistry I
About Melissa M. Schultz, PhD
Received research funding from:
- HHMI Summer Research Scholars Program
- Environmental Analysis and Action Program
- The Chicago Waterways Grant
- National Science Foundation RUI Grant
- Research Corporation Grant
- Sophomore Research Program
Mentored:
- 8 Sophomore Research Students
- 14 Summer Researchers
- 30 Seniors
- 22 Chemistry Majors
- 7 BCMB Majors
- 1 Environmental Studies Special Design major
Active member/participant:
- Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
- The American Chemical Society
- Wooster Local Section of the American Chemical Society
- American Society of Mass Spectrometry
- Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy
Melissa Schulz Nature Preserve was dedicated in 2016. The property is located on Akron Road, between the Montessori School of Wooster and Gerstenslager Park. The College of Wooster, which owns the property, has granted the Montessori School of Wooster long-term use of the property as a nature preserve.