DEPARTMENT NEWS Towson University

Chemistry and Forensic Chemistry

Volume 7 Issue 1 Summer 2016

A Message from the Chair

As we celebrate the close of the 2015-2016 academic year, summer is going by faster than ever and

preparations are coming together for another fall semester. Looking back at the past year, we graduated

56 majors in Chemistry, 19 majors in Forensic Chemistry and 18 Forensic Science masters students.

Looking forward, we will have 230 chemistry majors, 204 forensic chemistry majors and 6 chemistry

secondary education majors with us for the coming semester. This continues to put us in the company of

some of the most productive Chemistry programs in the country!

We had a great showing of Towson Chemistry students presenting their research at national and

regional conferences, including the American Chemical Society national meetings, and meetings of the

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry and the Mid-Atlantic Association of Forensic

Scientists, among others. Our students also continued to publish their research with their faculty mentors

in numerous peer-reviewed journals.

On July 1, 2016, we bid a fond farewell to Valerie Smith who served as the lead administrative

assistant for the department for 23 years. Val kept the office running smoothly while pursuing her

passion of art in her spare time. With her retirement, Val can now put all of her efforts into her art, and

she can be seen all around the Baltimore art scene these days. Best wishes to Val on her retirement!

With Val’s retirement, we have the opportunity to welcome our new administrative assistant, Ms.

Cindy Wolfe. Cindy has been with Towson University in several roles for about 10 years and comes to

us most recently from the Department of Interprofessional Health Studies in the College of Health

Professions. Welcome Cindy!

The Chemistry Department was the beneficiary of an outstanding year of giving from our alumni

and friends. This support allowed us to provide additional summer student research opportunities,

enhance our seminar series of external speakers and also support long-standing awards presented to

deserving students in honor of friends and former faculty of the department. On behalf of the department,

I would like to express our sincere gratitude for gifts large and small that support our mission.

Sincerely,

Dr. Ryan Casey, Professor and Chair

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Chemistry Program News

Publications

LaBarre, W.J., D.R. Ownby, S.M. Lev, K.J. Rader, R.E. Casey. 2016. Attenuation of copper in runoff

from copper roofing materials by two stormwater control measures. Water Research. 88 (1 January

2016):207-215.

David Ownby was a co-author (with his father Dennis Ownby as another co-author; the two D.R.

Ownbys are not a typo!) on the following paper:

Cassidy-Bushrow, A.E., S. Havstad, N. Basu, D.R. Ownby, S.K. Park, D.R. Ownby, C.C. Johnson, G.

Wegienka. 2015. Detectable blood lead level and body size in early-childhood. Biological Trace Element

Research. First online: 11 September 2015 DOI: 10.1007/s12011-015-0500-7.

Pouyat RV, K Szlavecz, ID Yesilonis, CP Wong, L Murawski, P Marra, RE Casey, and SM Lev. 2015.

Multi-scale assessment of metal contamination in residential soil and soil fauna: A case study in the

Baltimore-Washington metropolitan region, USA. Landscape and Urban Planning. 142:7-17. DOI:

10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.05.001.

Sivey, J. D.; Bickley, M. A.; Victor, D. A. (2015) Catalysis of DBP-Precursor Halogenation by Halides

and Hypochlorous Acid, in Recent Advances in Disinfection By-Products; Karanfil, T., Mitch, B.,

Westerhoff, P., Xie, Y., Eds.; Washington, DC: ACS Symposium Series Book.

Sivey, J. D.; Lehmler, H.-J.; Salice, C. J.; Ricko, A. N.; Cwiertny, D. M. (2015) Environmental fate and

effects of dichloroacetamide herbicide safeners: "Inert" yet biologically-active agrochemical ingredients.

Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. 2, 260-269

Lewis, A. and Reber, K. P. 2016. Synthesis of Antifungal Alatanone and Trineurone Polyketides.

Tetrahedron Lett. 57, 1083-1086.

Truitt, A.R., Choi, B.E., Li, J., Soto, A.M. Effect of Mutations on the Binding of Kanamycin-B to RNA

Hairpins Derived from the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Ribosomal A-Site. Biochemistry 2015, 54, 7425-

7437

Devkota, T.; Devadas, M. S.; Brown, A.; Talghader, J.; Hartland, G. V., 2016 Spatial modulation

spectroscopy imaging of nano-objects of different sizes and shapes. Applied optics, 55 (4), 796-801.

Johns, P.; Yu, K.; Devadas, M. S.; Hartland, G. V., 2016, Role of Resonances in the Transmission of

Surface Plasmon Polaritons between Nanostructures. ACS nano 10 (3), 3375-3381.

Li, Z.; Mao, W.; Devadas, M. S.; Hartland, G. V., 2015, Absorption spectroscopy of single optically

trapped gold nanorods. Nano letters, 15 (11), 7731-7735.

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Research Presentations

The Chemistry Department sent four faculty members and six students to the 251st ACS National

Meeting in San Diego, CA.

Faculty presentations included:

The Analytical Chemistry faculty (Ryan Sours, Shannon Stitzel, Beth Kautzman, and John Sivey)

delivered a platform presentation in the Chemical Education Division at the 251st ACS National Meeting

in San Diego, CA, entitled, Development, pilot testing, and full implementation of an authentic research

experience in undergraduate analytical chemistry: Quantitative analysis of caffeine in coffee.

Reber, K., Sivey, J., Brunker, T., Stitzel, S., Kautzman, K., Sours, R. 2016. Development of a

sophomore-level cohort for chemistry majors to promote concurrent enrollment and success in analytical

and organic chemistry. Platform presentation.

Student presentations included:

Broadwater, M. A.; Sivey, J. D. Influence of often-overlooked free chlorine and free bromine species on

regiospecific halogenation rates of salicylic acid.

Taggart, G. A.; Sivey, J. D. Regiospecific rates and steric effects of phenyl ether bromination by aqueous

free bromine.

Maloney, S., Sudol, P., Khalsa, R., Stitzel, S., Sours, R. 2016. Determination of cocoa liquor provenance

using fatty acid and trace element signatures. Poster session.

Smiddy, B., Sours, R. 2016. Chromatographic investigation of the interaction between the polymorphic

compound mCyPU and tailored surface. Poster session.

Watts, T., Sours, R. 2016. Chromatographic investigation of the interaction between a polymorphic

compound and tailored surfaces. Oral presentation.

Burdge, H., Reber, K.Total synthesis of pyrophen. Poster session.

Presentations at other conferences include:

M.T. Wilfong, K.M. Hauser, D.R. Ownby, R.E. Casey. 2016. Performance of commercially available

soil amendments for enhanced copper removal in bioretention media. Poster. Chesapeake-Potomac

regional SETAC meeting, Charlottesville, VA.

Tim Brunker gave an invited presentation at the North East Regional meeting of the American Chemical

Society at Ithaca College, NY on June 13 entitled “Studies of neutral and cationic azaferrocene-borane

Lewis pairs”.

Recent ENVS masters graduate, Bill LaBarre presented the following poster in Spain:

LaBarre, WJ, SM Lev, DR Ownby, RL Dwyer, KJ Rader, JW Gorsuch, RE Casey. 2015. Stormwater

control measures (SCMs) decrease the toxicity of copper roof runoff. 25th Annual Meeting of SETAC

Europe. Barcelona, Spain. Poster Presentation.

John Sivey delivered the following platform presentation at the 250th ACS National Meeting in Boston,

MA: Buffers as potential catalysts of hydrolysis and halogenation during agrochemical fate experiments

in bench-scale reactors; Division of Agrochemistry.

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Allison Ricko (Environmental Science MS graduate, advised by John Sivey) delivered the following

poster presentation at the 250th ACS National Meeting in Boston, MA and was also the recipient of a

graduate student travel grant from the ACS Division of Agrochemistry:

Buffers as potential catalysts of hydrolysis and halogenation during agrochemical fate experiments in

bench-scale reactors; Division of Agrochemistry.

Shelby Weatherbee Weatherbee (Honors Student) and Erik Hobbs (MS in Applied Physics) gave platform

presentations at TOUR Expo. (faculty mentor: Devadas)

Sarah Talamntez-Lyburn and Thomas Kountz gave poster presentations at TOUR Expo. (faculty mentor:

Devadas)

Grants

The UPLC/ESI-MS instrument acquired under National Science Foundation Major Research

Instrumentation grant 1531562 (MRI: Acquisition of a Liquid Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer to

Support Multidisciplinary Research and Undergraduate Education at Towson University; PI Dr. Ryan

Sours), total award $382,737 has been installed in the UEBL lab space.

Undergraduate Chemistry major Hannah Burdge was awarded a $5000 summer research grant from the

Organic Division of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Keith Reber is the PI on the grant and her

research mentor.

Faculty Professional Development

Beth Kautzman reviewed a research proposal for NOAA.

Beth Kautzman attended “Anthropogenic Influences on Organic Aerosol Formation and Regional

Climate Implications” U.S. EPA Meeting and Webinar.

John Sivey reviewed journal articles for Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Science and Technology,

and Environmental Engineering Science.

David Ownby reviewed for Environmental Science and Technology and Bulletin of Environmental

Contamination and Toxicology and a book proposal for CRC Press.

Ryan Casey reviewed for Landscape and Urban Planning, Urban Water and Environmental Pollution.

Beth Kautzman reviewed a manuscript for Environmental Science and Technology

Tim Brunker reviewed a manuscript for the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and a grant

proposal for the American Chemical Society - Petroleum Research Fund.

Dan Macks reviewed 2 manuscripts for the Journal of Chemical Education.

Mary S Devadas reviewed a manuscript for the Journal of Physical Chemistry.

Faculty Awards

Beth Kautzman was presented The 2016 President’s Diversity Award (Faculty Research).

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Student Awards

Allison Ricko received a Graduate Student Research Award from the Office of Graduate Studies at

Towson University for her Master of Science in Environmental Science thesis entitled, Anaerobic abiotic

reduction of dichloroacetamide safeners: Effects of manganese oxides and agrochemical co-formulants.

Allison graduated in August 2015 and currently works as a scientist at Critical Path Services, a company

that supports agrochemical environmental fate studies to assist major agrochemical companies with EPA

product registration. Allison’s thesis advisor was John Sivey.

Matthew Broadwater was selected to receive a 2016 Undergraduate Student Award from the ACS

Division of Environmental Chemistry. This award recognizes outstanding achievement in undergraduate

coursework and/or research related to environmental chemistry. Matthew’s research advisor is John

Sivey.

Cassidy Stout and Pierce Publico were awarded Raspet summer research fellowships from the

endowment established by Ron and Linda Raspet.

Cassidy’s research project, conducted under the supervision of Dr. Tim Brunker was “Examining the

Effects of Ligand Structure on the Stereoisomers of Ruthenium (II) Dichloride Complexes with Chiral,

Tetradentate Aminosulfoxide Ligands.” She presented her work to the department on Feb. 4, 2016

Pierce, a senior, worked with Dr. Cynthia Zeller on a project titled, “Development of a Real-Time PCR

Assay for the Identification of Body Fluids.” She presented her work to the department on March 10,

2016.

Community Outreach

John Sivey delivered an invited research seminar in the Department of Civil Engineering at Villanova

University.

Research from John Sivey’s group was the subject of a recent segment (Jan. 13, 2016) on NPR’s The

Academic Minute national broadcast.

John Sivey presented an outreach event, "Mathematics of Color and Light," at Stricker Middle School on

April 20, 2016.

Beth Kautzman presented an invited talk entitled “Unraveling Uncertainties in Global Climate Change:

Evaluating the Chemistry and Physics of Atmospheric Aerosols” to the Girl’s STEM Club, Sacred Heart

of Glyndon Girls School.

The Department of Chemistry hosted the central Maryland site for the national chemistry competition

called You Be The Chemist Challenge®. The event for high school students was held on March 19, 2016

and was hosted by Mary S. Devadas on behalf of the department.

Mary S Devadas presented an invited talk on “Size Scale Matters” at Notre Dame Preparatory School to

Middle School Students on May 18th 2016.

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Miscellaneous

Rodney Dixon attended the "National Drive Electric Week Event" in Devon, PA, on Saturday, September

19. Rodney attended presentations by Dr. Michael Feinberg (of DVN GL Energy) and Dr. Diane Phillips

(of St. Joseph’s Univ.), got a close look at the University of Pennsylvania's REV1 electric racer. The day's

highlight was getting to drive a Tesla - it was great!

Forensic Programs News

The BS in Forensic Chemistry and MS in Forensic Science programs were reaccredited by the Forensic

Science Education Programs Accreditation Commission (FEPAC) in March. Congratulations to the

Forensic faculty! Towson University is 1 of 7 universities in the US that has both its undergraduate and

graduate forensic programs FEPAC accredited.

Publications

Kelly Elkins had the following papers accepted.

Krummel, J.N.; Russell, L.N.; Haase, D.N.; Schelble, S.M.; Tsai, E.; Elkins, K.M. “Application of High-

field NMR Spectroscopy for Differentiating Cathinones for Forensic Identification,” Colonial Academic

Alliance Undergraduate Research Journal, 2015, 5, http://publish.wm.edu/caaurj/vol5/iss1/1/.

Acharya, S.; Khatiwada, S.; Elkins, K.M. “CSI-Pi: A novel automated secure solution to interpret on-

site colorimetric tests,” Colonial Academic Alliance Undergraduate Research Journal, 2015, 5,

http://publish.wm.edu/caaurj/vol5/iss1/2/.

Quinn, A.A.; Elkins, K.M. “Analysis of ATR FT-IR Spectra to Differentiate Menstrual and Venous

Blood on Various Substrates,” Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2016. In press.

Elkins, K.M.; Perez, A.C.U.; Sweetin, K.C. “Rapid and inexpensive species differentiation using a

multiplex real-time PCR high resolution melt (HRM) assay,” Analytical Biochemistry, 2016, 500, 15-17.

Elkins, K.M.; Weghorst, A.; Quinn, A.A.; Acharya, S. “Color Quantitation for Chemical Spot Tests for a

Controlled Substances Presumptive Test Database,” Drug Testing and Analysis, 2016, DOI:

10.1002/dta.1949

Schelble, S.M.; Elkins, K.M.; Tsai, E.; Wieder, M.; Walker, R.D. “Creating Scholarship Opportunities

for Undergraduate Students through use of High Field NMR,” In ACS Symposium Series: NMR

Spectroscopy in the Undergraduate Curriculum, Volume 2, David Soulsby, Tony Wallner, Laura Anna,

eds., American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2016, Invited book chapter, in press.

Presentations

Quinn, A.; Elkins K.M. “Analysis of Attenuated Total Reflectance/Fourier Transform Infrared

(ATR/FTIR) Spectra to Differentiate Menstrual and Venous Blood on Various Substrates,” poster

presentation in the Criminalistics Section (B8) at the 68th Annual American Academy of Forensic

Sciences (AAFS) National Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, February 24, 2016.

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Elkins, K.M.; Murphy, K. “Implementation of the computer version of the ACS General Chemistry

Exam: A pilot study,” SCTY Oral #344, 2015 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies,

Honolulu, HI, December 19, 2015.

Elkins, K.M.; Schelble, S.M. “Leadership across multiple cultures: Providing workplace fairness

regarding common issues faced by women in chemistry,” SCTY Invited Oral #145, 2015 International

Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, HI, December 17, 2015.

Elkins, K.M.; Sweetin, K.C. “Sensitivity of a multiplex PCR high resolution melt assay for food-borne

pathogens Salmonella enterica, Escherichia coli and Shigella flexneri,” ANYL Poster #68, 251st National

Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), San Diego, CA, March 13, 2016.

Quinn, A.; Elkins K.M. “Development of a High Resolution Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction

(PCR) Melt Assay for Identifying “Legal High” Plant Material,” oral presentation in the Criminalistics

Section (B191) at the 68th Annual American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) National Meeting,

Las Vegas, NV, February 26, 2016.

Smith, D.; Acharya S.; Elkins, K. “The Design of a Repository Backed Automated Presumptive Drug

Test Evaluation Platform,” Poster Presentation, 14th Annual CAA Undergraduate Research Conference,

College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, April 16, 2016.

Elkins, K.M.; Perez, A.C.U.; Quinn, A. “Legal High” Plant Species Differentiation using a High

Resolution PCR Melt Assay,” 32nd Mid-Atlantic Plant Molecular Biology Society (MAPMBS)

Conference, Patuxent Research Refuge, Laurel, MD, August 18, 2015.

Acharya, S.; Elkins, K.M. “Evaluation of Novel Technological Solutions for Detecting and Interpreting

Presumptive Drug Tests,” NIJ International Symposium on Forensic Science Error Management,

Washington, D.C., July 21, 2015.

DeAngelo, T. “Potential Sources of DNA Cross Contamination from Non-Disposable Equipment,” Oral

presentation, MAAFS: Mid-Atlantic Association of Forensic Scientists, Richmond, VA, May 19, 2016.

Dr. Elkins was her research mentor.

Bell, R., Hondrogiannis, E. (2016) Differentiation of drugstore lipsticks using organic markers measured

by GC/MS. Mid-Atlantic Association of Forensic Scientists. VA. Oral Presentation.

Wioland, K., Hondrogiannis, E. (2016) The Analytical Investigation of a Designer Drug Containing

Ethylphenidate; An Emerging Trend. Mid-Atlantic Association of Forensic Scientists. VA. Oral

Presentation.

Twum G., Hondrogiannis, E. (2016) Quantitative Analysis of Nicotine in Dhoka by GC/MS. Mid-

Atlantic Association of Forensic Scientists, VA. Oral Presentation.

The below poster presentations were made at the Towson University Undergraduate and Graduate

Student Research Expo (TU-UGSRE), April 20, 2016:

DeAngelo, T.M.; Elkins K.M. “Potential Sources of DNA Cross Contamination from Non-Disposable

Equipment.”

Quinn, A.A.; Elkins K.M. “Analysis of ATR FT-IR Spectra to Differentiate Menstrual and Venous

Blood on Various Substrates.”

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Boise, T.H.; Elkins K.M. “Comparison of Detection of Food-Borne Pathogens by a PCR HRM Assay to

a Rapid on the Market Test Kit,” Poster Presentation, Towson University Undergraduate and Graduate

Student Research Expo (TU-UGSRE), April 20, 2016.

Adams, K.D.; Elkins K.M. “Persistence of Explosive Particles under Real World Conditions,” Poster

Presentation, Towson University Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research Expo (TU-UGSRE),

April 20, 2016.

Quinn, A.; Elkins K.M. “Analysis of Attenuated Total Reflectance/Fourier Transform Infrared

(ATR/FTIR) Spectra to Differentiate Menstrual and Venous Blood on Various Substrates,” posterPatel,

A.; Zeller, C. “The Effect of Varying Liquids on DNA Quantitation of Buccal Swabs,” Poster

Presentation, Towson University Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research Expo (TU-UGSRE),

April 20, 2016.

Bell, R.; Hondrogiannis, E. “Differentiation of Drugstore Lipsticks using Organic Markers Measured by

Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry,” Poster Presentation, Towson University Undergraduate and

Graduate Student Research Expo (TU-UGSRE), April 20, 2016.

Dye, A.; Hondrogiannis, E. “Elemental Analysis of Blue Ballpoint Pen Inks Using LA-ICP-ToF-MS for

the Purpose of Attribution,” Poster Presentation, Towson University Undergraduate and Graduate Student

Research Expo (TU-UGSRE), April 20, 2016.

Jackson, J.; Hondrogiannis, E. “Determination of the Toxicity of Electronic Cigarette Liquids Using the

Brine Shrimp Assay and Identifying Toxic Chemicals Through Gas Chromatography- Mass

Spectrometry,” Poster Presentation, Towson University Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research

Expo (TU-UGSRE), April 20, 2016.

Robinson, C.; Hondrogiannis, E. “Nicotine and cotinine detection from Lifted Latent Prints,” Poster

Presentation, Towson University Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research Expo (TU-UGSRE),

April 20, 2016.

Twum, G.; Hondrogiannis, E. “Quantitative Analysis of Nicotine in “Dokha” by Gas Chromatography-

Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS),” Poster Presentation, Towson University Undergraduate and Graduate

Student Research Expo (TU-UGSRE), April 20, 2016.

Tucker, D.; Hondrogiannis, E. “Elemental Analysis of Blue Ballpoint Pen Inks Using LA-ICP-ToF-MS

for the Purpose of Attribution,” Poster Presentation, Towson University Undergraduate and Graduate

Student Research Expo (TU-UGSRE), April 20, 2016.

Wioland, K.; Hondrogiannis, E. “The Analytical Investigation of a Designer Drug Containing

Ethylphenidate: An Emerging Trend,” Poster Presentation, Towson University Undergraduate and

Graduate Student Research Expo (TU-UGSRE), April 20, 2016.

Grants

S. Acharya (PI), K.M. Elkins (co-PI), “The Design and Development of a Drug Testing Application to

Aid in Crime Scene Investigation,” Maryland Technology Development Corporation, 12/01/15-03/15/16.

$10,000 – Funded

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Community Outreach

Kelly Elkins co-hosted a Maryland ACS 2016 Women in Chemistry event at Towson University on Feb.

17, 2016.

Dr. Elkins was invited to serve on the ACS Exams Institute Diagnostic of Undergraduate Knowledge

(DUCK) 2017 Exam Committee. The committee has met twice at the ACS National Meetings in Boston

in August 2015 and in San Diego in March 2016.

Dr. Elkins was also nominated to serve on the ACS Committee on Ethics (ETHX) for 2016 and joined

the committee for the first time at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego in March 2016.

Faculty Professional Development

Kelly Elkins was interviewed for a featured article about her research on GenomeWeb.com (155,000

monthly unique visitors), “Researchers Describe Rapid, Multiplexed High-Res Melt Assay for Species

Differentiation,” February 25, 2016 based on research published in Analytical Biochemistry.

Kelly Elkins reviewed manuscripts for the Journal of Chemical Education, Drug Testing and Analysis,

and Electrophoresis and a book chapter for ACS Books.

Student News

Forensic Chemistry graduates Sun Yi Li and Kaitlyn Palmquist, have been admitted into Sam Houston

State University’s Ph.D. in Forensic Science Program for the fall 2016 semester. They are 2 of only 7

applicants from across the country who were granted admission into this prestigious program in 2016.

Other News

SAACS Corner

Those interested in joining SAACS should go to our Facebook page

(http://www.facebook.com/groups/towsonsaacs/) and join our group on the involved@TU page.

The Towson University SAACS Club is an official branch of the Student Affiliates of the American

Chemical Society. Student members come from a variety of departments - you don't have to be a chemistry

major to join!

Forensic Science Student Organization (FSSO)

Those interested in joining FSSO should go to our Facebook page

(http://www.facebook.com/groups/FSSOTU/) and join our group.

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Photos

Baltimore

County Public

School

students

participating in

the

"Mathematics

of Color and

Light" outreach

activity

developed by

Dr. John

Sivey.

Sarah

Talamantez-

Lyburn at the

Colonial

Academic

Alliance April

2016 – 1 of 10

students

selected to

represent TU

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Photos

Erik Hobbs at the American Physical Society March 2016.

Thomas Kountz at the American Physical Society March 2016.

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Photos

Chemistry Department

Awards Recipients with

Dr. Ryan Casey and Dr.

Clare Muhoro. From left

to right Dr. Casey, Nicolas

Fioravante, Zelle Ndika,

Hannah Burdge (front),

Ryan Dias, Paige Sudol

(front) Emily Fleischman,

Cassidy Stout (front),

Thomas Boise, Dr.

Muhoro.

Dr. Dean Vanko right

along with Dr. Al Pribula

(left) (Retirement from

Towson), Dr. Shannon

Stitzel (Fisher College

Teaching award), Dr.

Clare Muhoro (Fisher

College Service award).

Editor: Dr. Ellen Hondrogiannis, Associate Professor, Forensic Analytical Chemistry

Assoc. Editor: Ms. Joy Parkey Harris

Production Managers: Dr. Hondrogiannis and Ms. Joy Parkey Harris