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DFW ACS Meeting – January 2009

 

Monday, January 26

UT Arlington

"Perchlorate, Wherefrom, Wherein, and Where Do We Go from Here? Re-Emergence of Iodine Deficiency intThe US?"

 

 

About the Talk: Perchlorate competes with iodine, which is essential for proper thyroid function in adults and for neural development in infants. Research from the Dasgupta group shows the presence of perchlorate in the water supply and even in mother's milk. The talk will emphasize Dasgupta's personal involvement in the intensely politicized continuing perchlorate saga and its omnipresence.

 

About the Speaker: Purnendu (Sandy) Dasgupta is Chair of the Chemistry Department at UT-Arlington. He is the recipient of the Traylor Creativity Award from Dow Chemical, the Benedetti-Pichler Award from the American Microchemical Society, the 2004-2005 Regional Scientist of the Year Award of the ARCS Foundation, and, for the second time, the recipient of the International Outstanding Achievement Award in Ion Chromatography. A perchlorate-related paper from the Dasgupta group published in Environmental Science and Technology was selected by the editors as best science paper of 2005.