Elaine Marzluff

Elaine Marzluff joined the Grinnell faculty in 1997 and is currently an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Grinnell College. At Grinnell, she has recently served on the Executive Council, Personnel Committee and Advisory Board for the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies. She is currently Chair of the chemistry department and the faculty athletic representative for the Midwest Conference. She is a faculty director of the Grinnell Science Project, a program aimed at retaining students from underrepresented groups in the sciences. Elaine Marzluff received her undergraduate degree at Harvard University and her Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. Her research, which utilizes mass spectrometry to study the structure of peptides and proteins in the gas phase, received an American Society of Mass Spectrometry Research Award in 2000. Since 1998, she has collaborated with 38 undergraduate students in her research program. In addition to teaching general and physical chemistry in the chemistry department, she also is currently team teaching a course in policy studies. Marzluff is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Society of Mass Spectrometry, Project Kaleidoscope Faculty for the 21st Century, and the Council of Undergraduate Research. She served on the publications committee for the American Society of Mass Spectrometry from 2005-2007 and as secretary of the Iowa Section of the American Chemical Society from 1999-2004.