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Shane Lamos, newly named assistant professor of chemistry at Saint Michael's College, says "chemistry relates to everything in life-the whole world is chemistry." Showing how this is true gets his undergraduate students engaged in the subject. "It's empowering for students to gain an understanding of how chemistry permeates the whole world," he said.
Lamos is a 2000 graduate of Saint Michael's with a degree in biochemistry. He earned his doctorate in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 2006, and teaches organic chemistry and general chemistry at the college. He was a teaching assistant at Wisconsin, and had two years as a visiting assistant professor of chemistry at Saint Michael's from 2006 to 2008.
Lamos contacted his Saint Michael's adviser once he began the job search in 2006 and by sheer good fortune learned that she was taking a leave which would be filled by a one-year appointment. He got that and then another year and then applied for the tenure-track position and was selected, in a national search, for that spot.
This summer Lamos worked with three Saint Michael's undergraduates on a chemistry research project funded by a $70,000 Vermont Genetics Network grant. His research interests include "developing new chemical tools to probe biological/environmental systems; working in mass spectrometry; using stable isotopes for relative quantification and functional group identity in proteomics and metabolomics," and other areas. His research results have been published in two issues of
Analytic Chemistry and in an English journal of chemistry.
The son of Dick and Barb Lamos of St. Albans, Shane Lamos graduated from Bellows Free Academy in St. Albans, where he also played ice hockey, a sport he continued as a member of the Saint Michael's College varsity hockey team.
Shane and his wife Kelly and their children Seneca, 3, and Bayler, 3 months, are soon moving into a house they are building in St. Albans.
Saint Michael's College, founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nation's
Best 368 Colleges. A liberal arts, residential, Catholic college, Saint Michael's is located just outside of Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns and less than two hours from Montreal. As one of only 270 institutions nationwide with a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus, Saint Michael's has 2,000 full-time undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 200 international students. In recent years Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants, and Saint Michael's professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last eight years. The college is currently listed as one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2008
U.S. News & World Report rankings.