Education

B.S. Chemistry
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY

Research Interests

• Emerging organic contaminants:  hormones, pharmaceuticals, personal care products
• Environmental analysis:  surface water, wastewater treatment plant effluent, soil, sediment
• Analytical chemistry: ultra-performance liquid chromatography, electrospray and atmospheric pressure chemical ionization tandem mass spectrometry, size exclusion chromatography extract purification

Presentations

• Rice, S. L. Coed Hide-&-Seek: Detection of Androgens vs. Estrogens.  Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA.  Department of Environmental and Aquatic Animal Health, March 17, 2009 
• Rice, S. L. Comparison of Electrospray and Chemical Ionization in the Mass Spectrometry of Hormones in Diverse Matrices. Poster Session; Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society; Sheraton Music City, Nashville, TN. November 14, 2008.
• Rice, S. L. Optimize and Compromise: Method Development for the LC-MS/MS Detection of Hormones.  Viginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA.  Department of Environmental and Aquatic Animal Health, January 22, 2008.
• Rice, S. L. and Mitra S. Method Development for the Detection of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Solid Environmental Matrices, Oral Defense of Undergraduate Research Thesis. Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY.  Department of Geological Sciences and Earth Studies, April 26, 2006; Department of Chemistry, May 1, 2006.
• Rice, S. L. The Life of a Scientist.  Tioga Hills Elementary School, Apalachin, NY.  January 13 & 19, 2006.
• Rice, S. L. and Mitra, S. Pharmaceutical-Derived Contamination of Natural Waters.  Broome County Environmental Management Council, United Way of Broome County, Vestal, NY.  July 7, 2005.
• Rice, S. L. and Mitra, S. Presence of Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Product Contaminants in Coastal Lake Erie.  Great Lakes Research Consortium Conference, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY.  March 18, 2005.

Publications

• Rice, S. L.; Hale, R. C. Parameters for Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatographic®/Tandem Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Selected Androgens versus Estrogens in Aqueous Matrices.  Submitted for review to Analytical Chemistry 2009.
• Rice, S. L.; Mitra, S. Microwave-Assisted Solvent Extraction of Solid Matrices and Subsequent Detection of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) Using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry.   Analytica Chimica Acta 2007, 589, 125-132.
• Undergraduate thesis: Method Development for the Detection of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Solid Environmental Matrices.  Binghamton University, 77 pp.  2006.

Advisor

Dr. Robert Hale