Education RISE Research Fellowship; Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF); Kolkata, India Fall 2009 Ph.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Analytical Chemistry, December 2010 Thesis: Field Portable Methods for the Determination of Arsenic in Environmental Samples. Advisor: Julian F. Tyson MS in Analytical Chemistry from University of Massachusetts at Amherst December 2004 BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst 1997

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