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Chemicals in the Environment: Risk, Resistance and Responsibility

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About the speaker

Dharni Vasudevan is a Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Studies at Bowdoin College. A PhD in Environmental Chemistry, her research concerns the environmental fate of chemicals, such as pharmaceuticals and pesticides, and her work focuses on the mechanisms by which these compounds and related model substructures interact with surfaces in soil and aquatic environments.

Dharni is jointly appointed to the Chemistry Department and Environmental Studies program at Bowdoin, and brings a interdisciplinary and collaborative lens to her teaching and research. A professor at Bowdoin since 2004, Vasudevan was the chair of the Department of Chemistry from 2014–2018, and then served as associate dean for faculty development and inclusion from 2020-2025. In 2013–2014, she was a visiting scientist in the Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk Program at the Harvard School of Public Health.

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