143 Millennium - Eighteenth Edition EDUCATION PROFESSOR Queens College of the City University of New York Flushing, NY ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE IN CHEMISTRY Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Glade Hill, VA SUSAN A. ROTENBERG, PHD Dr. Susan A. Rotenberg developed an early passion for biomedical science in her teens and grew stronger over time. She earned a BA in zoology at Connecticut College in 1975, an MS in biochemistry at Hahnemann Medical College in 1980, and a PhD in chemistry at Brown University in 1985. She continued to develop her scientific intuition by pursuing post-doctoral fellowships at The Rockefeller University and the Institute of Cancer Research at Columbia University. Since 1990, Dr. Rotenberg has been a faculty member at Queens College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She teaches biochemistry to undergraduate and graduate students and trains pre-professional students in her laboratory. While at Queens College, she also served as the chair of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry from 2015 to 2017 and as interim dean of the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences from 2017 to 2019. Dr. Rotenberg’s research focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying metastatic breast cancer, supported by numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health and small research foundations. Her research findings have been published over 50 times in peerreviewed scientific journals. Dr. Timothy R. Saarinen has enjoyed an extensive 34-year career in chemistry, with experience in roles ranging from chemist to management leadership. After retiring from his position as chief operating officer at Maruho Hatsujyo Innovations in 2020, he transitioned into academia, becoming an assistant professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). After earning a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at the age of 23, Dr. Saarinen went on to pursue a postdoctoral position at Cornell University, where he developed his expertise in analytical instruments. In addition to his doctorate, he holds a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Saarinen considers his notable achievement to be discovering and utilizing electrophoretic NMR, a technique for measuring ionic mobilities, later described by Peter Stilbs in the seminal “Diffusion and Electrophoretic NMR.” In the future, Dr. Saarinen plans to establish an experiential learning program at Virginia Tech and work with a potential successor to ensure its long-term success. TIMOTHY R. SAARINEN, PHD
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