For Immediate Release

Contact: John M. Martino
Phone Number:  (215) 895-1186
Date: 05/08/00

Alpha Lambda Delta honors its Freshman Professor of the Year

The University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (USP) chapter of Alpha Lambda Delta recently honored Dr. Catherine M. Bentzley as its Freshman Professor of the Year. Alpha Lambda Delta is a national academic honor society for freshmen. Founded at the University of Illinois in 1924, Alpha Lambda Delta has over 220 chapters across the United States and has initiated over 575,000 students.

Before coming to USP in 1997, Bentzley, an assistant professor of chemistry, was a research assistant for five years at the University of Delaware. She also spent time as a research chemist at DuPont and a laboratory technician at Esschem Chemical Company. She is involved with numerous organizations, including the Delaware Valley Mass Spec Discussion Group, American Chemical Society, American Society for Mass Spectrometry and the Association for Women in Science. She has received several honors, including the University of Delaware’s Elizabeth Dyer Excellence in Teaching Award (Department of Chemistry) and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Travel Grant at the Sixth National Conference of the Council on Undergraduate Research.

She received a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry at the University of Delaware and a B.S. in chemistry at St. Joseph’s University.

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