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For info, email
Gretchen-Potts@utc.edu

Office: 402 Grote Hall

Mailing Address
Dr. Gretchen E. Potts
UC Fdn Associate Professor
Chemistry, #2252
UT-Chattanooga
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37403

(423)425-5296
(423)425-5234 fax

Grants

Funding Agency
Grant Title
Amount
Status
NIH – R21 Transdermal Nanoemulsion Patch of Multi-trace Elements for Pediatrics $408254 Pending
NSF-MRI MRI: Acquisition of growth chambers for global change biology research and teaching at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga $208485 Pending
UTC-PSRA Student: Josh Justice ICP-OES Detection of Trace Elements Delivered by Nanoemulsion Technology $905 Funded, July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013
UTC Faculty Summer Fellowship Analysis of contaminants leached from cigarette litter into surface soils $2500 Funded, Summer 2012
UTRF Transdermal Delivery of Trace Elements by Nanoemulsion Technology as an Alternative to Parenteral Delivery $15000 Funded, Jan 2012
ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry, IYC Activities Program, Chemistry Club Concepts for Elementary Students: A Hands on Approach to Bring Science into the Classroom $250 Funded, July 5, 2011

UTC-PSRA Student: Amy Balestrino

Safe Smoking?: A Study of Electronic Cigarettes $950 Funded, July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012
UTC-PSRA Student: Katherine Thurman Plants Grown in an Ash Tray: Bioaccumulation of Metals in Pea Plants $950 Funded, July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012
UTC-PSRA Student: Matthew Stephens More Than Just Litter: Quantification of Organic Compounds Leached from Cigarette Butts $975 Funded, July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2010
UTC-PSRA Student: Daniel Burriss Analysis of Organic Compounds Leached from Cigarette Butts $925 Funded, October 2009 - June 30, 2009
UTC-PSRA Student: Jessica Woods Analysis of Pollutants Released from Used Cigarette Litter $900 Funded, July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009
UTC Faculty Summer Fellowship Contaminants in the Little Sequatchie River: An environmental water analysis study $2500 Funded, Summer 2008
UTC-PSRA Student: Sarah Easparam Development of Basic Media Sol-gel Sensors $900 Funded, July 1, 2007 - June 30 - 2008
THEC Vocabulary Across the Curriculum $65000 Funded, Summer 2008
NSF- IIS - ITR-CreativeIT Visual interactive multivariate analysis $199970 Submitted, Fall 2007 - Not Fundined
Research Corp Sol-gel Trapped Nanoparticles for the Detection of
Lead in Natural Waters by Absorbance Spectroscopy
$26312 Submitted May 5, 2006 - Not Funded
SACP Nanoparticles, Sol-gels and Absorbance Spectroscopy for the Detection of Lead (II) $9790 Submitted March 2006 - Not Funded
UTC-PSRA Student: Sarah Easparam Development of Chemical Sensors $900 Funded, July 1, 2006 - June 30 - 2007
Research Corp The Development of Chemical Sensors Based on Dye-Doped Sol-gels for the Fluorescence Detection of Heavy Metals in the Environment $27,682 Submitted May 15, 2005 - not funded
SACP ICP-OES: A Versatile Tool for Undergraduate Research $9490 Submitted March 2005 - not funded
Coucil on Undergraduate Research Elemental Analysis of Human Cremains $5000 Submitted, November 2004 - not funded
UTC-PSRA Student: Timothy Brooks Answers from the Ashes: $875 Funded, July 1, 2003 - June 30 - 2004
Merck/Symbiosis Elemental Analysis of Human Cremains $59,400 Submitted, November 2004 - not funded
UTC Faculty Summer Fellowship Elemental Analysis of Human Cremains $5000 Funded, Summer 2005
NSF-CCLI Enhancing the Undergraduate Curriculum by Strengthening the Biotechnology Component Through Capillary Electrophoresis   Resubmitted, November 2004, not funded
SACP Bioremediation and Toxic Metals: In-Depth Phytoremediation Studies of Chinese Privet Using ICP-AES
$9500 Submitted March 2004, but not funded (05/19/04)
UTC-PSRA Student: Kira Shurtz Analysis of Toxic Metals in Lentinus edodes by Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy $875 Funded, July 1, 2004 - June 30 - 2005
NSF-CCLI Enhancing the Undergraduate Curriculum by Strengthening the Biotechnology Component Through Capillary Electrophoresis $71545.66 Submitted, November 2003, but not funded (08/11/2004) will resubmit
UTC - CHEM-Grote Faculty Fellowship Biomonitoring: A study of metal uptake in plants of the Chattanooga River Valley $5000 Funded, November 2003
UTC-PSRA Student: Jane Dickerson Biomonitoring: Analysis of Toxic Metals in Chinese Privet by ICP-OES $875 Funded, July 1, 2003 - June 30 - 2004
Merck/Symbiosis Biomonitoring: Analysis of Toxic Metals in Chinese Privet by ICP-OES $4000 Funded, May 2003
UTC - Instructional Excellence Detection of Fluoride Ion in Tea Leaves and Drinking Water - Laboratory Exercises for Chemistry 341 and Chemistry 342 $2750 Funded, May 2003

 

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