Past Graduate Student

Sandra Irene Salido was born on December 28, 1973 in Lynchburg, VA. She is the youngest of five children (four older brothers); her mother is a registered nurse and her father is a retired mechanical engineer. She graduated with a BS degree in chemistry from Davidson College in 1996. In the fall of 1996, she began her PhD graduate studies at Virginia Polytechnic and State Institute under the direction of Dr. Harry Dorn. Her PhD research focused on the use of a non-conventional, flow nuclear magnetic resonance technique called dynamic nuclear polarization, for the detection of small, probe organic molecules. The use of supercritical fluid carbon dioxide as a flowing solvent was, also, implemented in this work. Upon nearing the completion of her studies at VA Tech, she taught one year (2000-2001) as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Roanoke College in Salem, VA. She returned to VA Tech and finished her PhD in the fall 2002. Sandy completed a post-doctoral assignment in the Chemistry Department at the University of Virginia under the direction of Robert G. Bryant in January 2005. The focus of her research was, similarly, using non-conventional NMR shuttling techniques to characterize proteins and other biological tissue samples (i.e. rotational correlation times) via experimentally determined spectral density functions called magnetic relaxation dispersion plots, or MRDs--generated by way of spin-spin and spin-lattice relaxation times data. Sandy has since taught at two all women's liberal arts colleges in Virginia: Mary Baldwin College (spring 2005) located in Staunton, VA and is currently teaching at Sweet Briar College in Sweet Briar, VA. She presently resides in Lynchburg, VA, where two of her brothers and her parents also reside.

Education

B.S. Chemistry, 1992-1996, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
Ph.D. Analytical Chemistry, 1996-2002, Virginia Polytechnic & State University, Blacksburg, VA
Post-Doctoral Researcher, 2004-2005, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Curriculum Vitae

Click here to view Sandy Salido's Curriculum Vitae, or click on the Salido CV link to the left.