Biography
Janet Asper, Associate professor of chemistry, collaborates with chemists at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, VA as an Office of Naval Research Faculty Fellow. Her research interests include organic chemistry, protecting group methods for the guanidine functional group, history of chemistry and using NMR spectroscopy in organic chemistry and chemical education.
She is the Alternate Councilor of the Virginia Local Section of the American Chemical Society, member of the ACS Committee on Community Activities and a current member of the Chemical Education, History of Chemistry and Organic divisions of the American Chemical Society.
Areas of Expertise
History of ChemistryOrganic ChemistryZoologyOrganic SpectroscopyOrganic MethodologyOrganic SynthesisChemical EducationNuclear Magnetic Resonance (Nmr)
Accomplishments
2013-2017 Office of Naval Research Summer Faculty Research Program | professional
Elected Summer Fellowship at the Office of Naval Research
Research Grant - Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society | professional
Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society
Education
University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D., Chemistry
2001
Ohio University
B.S., Biochemistry and Zoology
1994
Affiliations
- Naval Surface Warfare Center
- Alternate Councilor of the Virginia Local Section of the American Chemical Society
- Chemical Education and Organic divisions of the American Chemical Society
- American Chemical Society Committee on Community Activities
Event Appearances
Summer Science Institute Symposium
Student Researchers Present at Symposium, University of Mary Washington
2014-07-24
Summer Science Institute Symposium
Summer Science Symposium Honors Student & Faculty Research, University of Mary Washington
2012-07-25
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