Congratulations to Reem Salous who just graduated with a B.S. Chemistry degree and is looking for a job in the chemical industry. She is one of our many graduates this year. Salous finally got her chance to research with Professor Muna this spring after many delays due to the pandemic. She got interested in research due to the CURE (Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience) aspect of Muna's chemical instrumentation course in fall 2019 in which students worked on a short research project to substitute for some of the traditional teaching experiments.
In that course students analyzed the lead content of soil samples, but Salous wondered about the lead content in drinking water. This gave birth to her spring research to correlate the amount of lead in water with home location and age. Salous tested water samples from students enrolled in freshman chemistry laboratory courses that Muna taught. Because of the late start to the research project this spring (again, because of the pandemic) the project is incomplete, but Salous laid the foundation and more for summer students to finish the project. Congratulations to Salous and all of her graduating class for their four years of diligence.
