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Susan Jansen-Varnum

Professor
Associate Dean for Science Education
Analytical/Physical
​Education
Office: Gladfelter 629
Phone: 215-204-6390 or 215-204-4073
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Biography

1985 - 1987

1985

1981

Selected Awards
Postdoctoral researcher, Cornell University

Ph.D. University of Missouri, St. Louis

B.S. University of Missouri, St. Louis

College of Science and Technology Italia-Eire Foundation Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award.  College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Award.

Interests

Inorganic Synthesis of Novel Chemiluminscent Solutions.  Design and Evaluation of New Materials for Liquid and Plastic Scintillation.  Science Education Across the K-20 Continuum.  Profiling of Urinary Creatinine and Prostanoids.  Determination of Sex Hormones in Urine as a Profile of Biological Age 

Select Publications

Puppolo, M., Varma, D., & Jansen, S., (2014).  A Review of Anlaytical Methods for Eicosanoids in Brain Tissue.  J Chrom B. 964, 50-64.

Shah, S., Jansen, S., Taylor, L., Chong, P., Correa-Llanten, D., & Blamey, J. Lipid Composition of Thermophilic Geobacillus sp. Strain GWE1, Isolated from Sterilization Oven.  (2014) Chemistry and Physics of Lipids. 180, 61-71.

Logan, B. K., Presley, B., Jansen-Varnum, S., (2013), Analysis of Synthetic Cannabinoids in Botantical Material:  A Review of Analytical Methods and Findings, Forensic Science Review, 2013, 25 (1,2) 27-46.

Williamson, S., Varma, D., Brown, M.D., & Jansen, S., (2011). Eicosanoid Production Following One Bout of Exercise in African American Pre- and Stage 1 Hypertensives.  Journal of Aging Research.  2011: 302802.

Stull, J., Varnum, S., Ducette, J., Shiller, J., & Bernacki, M. (2011). The many faces of formative assessment. The International Journal for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. 23(1), 30-39.

Varma, D., Ganti S., Gilles, T., Diaz, M., Thompson, T., Stull, J., Jansen, SA. (2011). Comparison of UHPLC and HPLC Methods for the Assay of Prostanoids “Are the methods equivalent in terms of their accuracy and precision?” Bioanalysis. 3(8), 853-862.

​Blewett, A. J., Jansen, S.A., Varma, D., Gilles, T., Butcher, R.*, Jacob, J.*, & Amazon, J.*  (2011). Development and validation of a stability indicating high-performance liquid chromatography method for the simultaneous analysis of albuterol, budesonide, and ipratropium bromide in extemporaneous compounded nebulizer solutions. Journal of AOAC International. 94(1), 1-8.

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