Andrew
Ewing '79
Andy
Ewing is professor, J. Lloyd Huck chair and head, Department of Chemistry,
Pennsylvania State University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate
students general chemistry, instrumental analysis, electrochemistry,
separations, bioanalytical chemistry and neurochemistry. “Working
with my students, I have been developing new micro- and nanoscale
techniques to measure neurotransmitters, metabolites and other chemical
species in single nerve cells,” he says. “This work is
allowing us to understand the way that nerve cells communicate with
one another and has shown insights into what happens, for instance,
when one treats Parkinson’s patients with the drug L-DOPA.
We are working to understand at the molecular and cellular level
the forces that drive and control neurotransmitter release.”
With many honors and awards to his credit (Penn State Graduate Faculty
Teaching Award; Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal in Physical Sciences
and Engineering; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship;
A.A. Benedetti-Pichler Award of the American Microchemical Society),
Ewing cites his 2001 St. Lawrence
University Alumni Citation as one
of the most valued.
Ewing earned his doctorate in analytical chemistry at Indiana University.
