{"id":12767,"date":"2016-11-02T15:52:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T19:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/?p=12767"},"modified":"2016-11-02T15:52:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T19:52:28","slug":"discenza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/2016\/11\/02\/discenza\/","title":{"rendered":"DiScenza"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Dana DiScenza<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/848\/Dana-DiScenza-e1478116340739.jpeg\"  rel=\"lightbox[12767] attachment wp-att-12768\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12768\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/848\/Dana-DiScenza-e1478116340739.jpeg\" alt=\"Dana DiScenza\" width=\"300\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<p><strong>School:<\/strong> University of Rhode Island<br \/>\n<strong>Degree:<\/strong> Ph.d., Chemistry; Master\u2019s, Business Administration (MBA)<br \/>\n<strong>Advisor:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chm.uri.edu\/levinegroup\/webpages\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mindy Levine<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Expected completion date:<\/strong> May 2019<br \/>\n<strong>Research:<\/strong> My research focuses on the use of cyclodextrin-promoted fluorescence modulation for the rapid, sensitive, and selective detection of organochlorine pesticides in contaminated marine environments across Rhode Island. We have specifically focused on water from Arcadia Lake, Narragansett Bay, Narragansett Beach, and Providence River. We have also studied the effect of temperature on the performance of this system in areas affected by climate change. This preliminary work will enable us to design a solid-state device for practical detection of environmental toxicants in virtually any complex environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dana DiScenza School: University of Rhode Island Degree: Ph.d., Chemistry; Master\u2019s, Business Administration (MBA) Advisor: Mindy Levine Expected completion date: May 2019 Research: My research focuses on the use of cyclodextrin-promoted fluorescence modulation for the rapid, sensitive, and selective detection of organochlorine pesticides in contaminated marine environments across Rhode Island. We have specifically focused on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-2016-grad-support"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}