Funded Grants:

"Improving the Undergraduate Chemistry Experience using FT-IR Spectroscopy" - NSF and a Faculty / Student Grant from the ACA and the Mellon Foundation to assist in this work.

"The Chemical Syntheses and Study of Polytetrahydrofurans"-Appalachian College Association, Faculty-Student Research Grant, 1997-1998.

"Expanded Teaching and Research Opportunities using IR Spectroscopy"-The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences, 1998.

Bruce Branan, PhD

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Mars Hill College

"Environmentally Responsible Production of Energy from Various Biomass Sources: The Isolation of Cellulose from Refuse and its Acid / Enzyme Hydrolysis Coupled with Solar Distillation." Faculty / Student Grant from the ACA and the Mellon Foundation

"Chemical Analysis in the Field to Qualitatively Enhance the Inadequate Measurements of Prepackaged Field Colorimetric Tests - The development of Micro-Titer Plate Spectrophotometer technology to Expand the Instructional Capabilities of our Environmental Studies Program and Enable the Extension of Classroom Investigation." 1998 Pittsburgh Conference Memorial National College Grants Program, Promoting Excellence in Science Education

Mark T. Lassiter, PhD

Associate Profesor of Environmental Studies / Biology, Montreat College

Consortium Projects:

Analytical Environmental Chemistry Laboratory Manual

The consortium is initiating the development of a laboratory manual that compiles experiments developed by the consortium institutions and will seek to jointly publish this work. Participants

Funding for research proposals: Stream Monitoring, Atmospheric Deposition on Mt. Mitchell - A New Look, Watershed Dynamics, GC-MS Soil Gas Analysis, etc.

Please mail any comments to Dr. Mark Lassiter.

	"Improving the Undergraduate Chemistry Experience using FT-IR Spectroscopy" - NSF and a Faculty / Student Grant from the ACA and the Mellon Foundation to assist in this work.



	"The Chemical Syntheses and Study of Polytetrahydrofurans"-Appalachian College Association, Faculty-Student Research Grant, 1997-1998.

	"Expanded Teaching and Research Opportunities using IR Spectroscopy"-The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences, 1998.

	"Environmentally Responsible Production of Energy from Various Biomass Sources: The Isolation of Cellulose from Refuse and its Acid / Enzyme Hydrolysis Coupled with Solar Distillation." Faculty / Student Grant from the ACA and the Mellon Foundation

	"Chemical Analysis in the Field to Qualitatively Enhance the Inadequate Measurements of Prepackaged Field Colorimetric Tests - The development of Micro-Titer Plate Spectrophotometer technology to Expand the Instructional Capabilities of our Environmental Studies Program and Enable the Extension of Classroom Investigation." 1998 Pittsburgh Conference Memorial National College Grants Program, Promoting Excellence in Science Education