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Brief Biography of Janet M. Osteryoung, North Carolina State
University and National Science Foundation Dr. Osteryoung is Director, Division of Chemistry, National Science Foundation. In this position, she is responsible for Federal funds in excess of $120 million to support research and education in the chemical sciences. She was professor and Head, Department of Chemistry, at North Carolina State University from January, 1992 to August, 1994. In that position, she led the Department into a major cycle of renewal and development of both graduate un undergraduate programs. She has retained her position as Professor of Chemistry. Prior to joining North Carolina State University, Dr. Osteryoung was Professor of Chemistry at SUNY University at Buffalo. Her research interests are in chemical analysis and electrochemistry, in particular, advanced electroanalytical techniques and their applications to the phenomenology of surface reactions, the degradation of materials, and the fabrication of mircoelectromechanical devices. She is the author of about 200 research papers and articles and also has co-authored a text for general chemistry. Her work has been recognized by the Garvan Medal of the American Chemical Society, the Triennial Honorary Member Award of Iota Sigma Pi, the Anachem Award of the Association of Analytical Chemists, and the Schoellkopf Medal of the Western New York ACS. She is a Fellow of AAAS and was a Guggenheim Fellow and Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton in 1985-86. Dr. Osteryoung has also served in the faculties of Montana State University and Colorado Sate University and has held visiting positions at California Institute of Technology, Colorado College, and the National Science Foundation, where she was Program Director of Chemical Analysis, 1977-78. Dr. Osteryoung has served on the Occupational Safety and Health Study Section of NIH, the Research Advisory Board on Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace of the March of Dimes, the Board of Scientific Counselors of the Nations Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and the Advisory Board of Analytical Chemistry. She has served in many other voluntary professional activities and is Immediate Past Chair of the Analytical Chemistry Division of the ACS. She received her undergraduate education at Swarthmore College, where she was a Merit Scholar and Dolfinger-MacMahon Summer Fellow, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. She received her graduate education at California Institute of Technology, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow and Woodrow Wilson Fellow. Internet:
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