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Chemistry Department

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Dr. John Kirk

Office: 184 Micheels Hall

Phone: 715-232-2209

Email: krikj@uwstout.edu

Bio

Greetings!  My name is John Kirk and I am a new Assistant Professor in the Chemistry department.  I earned my doctorate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign studying gold colloids and microfluidics, and then spent a year researching membrane proteins at the University of Arizona.  I most recently came from the University of Iowa where I taught General Chemistry courses for two years while also doing Chemical Education research.

At Stout I am helping to start the Nanoscience concentration for the Applied Science program.  My research interests are in utilizing the unique properties of nanometer-sized gold colloids to detect and quantify small amounts of compounds in complex mixtures.  I am also interested in the synthesis of organized structures made from nanoscale materials such as silica and gold colloids.

One of the reasons that I am excited to be here at Stout is the great support for the sciences, including the instrumentation that has been brought into the program.  One of the courses I am teaching this fall is a brand new course: Characterization of Nanomaterials.  There aren’t many schools of Stout’s size that can boast about having four Scanning Tunneling Microscopes, an Atomic Force Microscope, and a Scanning Electron Microscope!  Students in the Characterization course are getting a one-of-a-kind experience using all of these instruments.