Susan E. Burns
Oct. 28, 1999
Susan E. Burns, an assistant professor of chemistry, died
Oct. 9 in Kalamazoo. She was 35.
Burns had been a faculty member since 1996 and was an organic
chemist. In late 1996, she was awarded nearly $100,000 by the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to conduct research on the
ability of natural waters to degrade pollutants.
Burns earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Chatham
College in Pittsburgh in 1989. She went on to earn a doctoral
degree in chemistry from the College of Environmental Science
and Forestry at the State University of New York-Syracuse.
In addition to being an active researcher in the area of environmental
chemistry, she served as a faculty mentor and advisor to graduate
and undergraduate student researchers.
She also was a member of several chemistry associations, including
the American Chemical Society and the American Association for
the Advancement of Science and was a published researcher in
the field of environmental technology.
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