Vera Kolb, PhD

Vera Kolb, PhD

Professor - Chemistry Emeritus

Chemistry Department

Ph.D., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale , 1976

PHONE:
(262) 595-2133
EMAIL:
kolb@UWP.EDU
WEBSITE:
https://www.crcpress.com/authors/i6760-vera-kolb

Vera M. Kolb is Chemistry Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. She has received her PhD in organic chemistry at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1976. She has received her training in astrobiology from 1992-1994, at the NASA NSCORT Center in San Diego, where she has worked with Leslie Orgel at the Salk Institute, and Stanley Miller, at the University of California San Diego. She has worked in the field of astrobiology ever since. In 1992 she has received University of Wisconsin-Parkside 1992 Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity. From 2002-2003 she has studied sugar organo-silicates and their astrobiological importance with Joseph Lambert, at Northwestern University. Her new research and teaching interests involve also green chemistry. She was inducted in the Southeastern Wisconsin Educators’ Hall of Fame in 2002. She is a recipient of numerous research and higher education grants and awards from the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium/NASA, among others. At this time she has over 150 publications, including patents and books. She has edited a book “Astrobiology, An Evolutionary Approach”, for CRC Press, which was published in 2014. Her new book, “Green Organic Chemistry and its Interdisciplinary Applications”, will be published in May 2016, also by CRC Press.

Areas of Expertise

  • Organic chemistry lecture
  • Organic chemistry lab
  • Independent study
  • Senior thesis
  • Green chemistry
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