Andrew Ewing ’79

Current Position: Professor, J. Lloyd Huck Chair and Head, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University; Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience and Anatomy, Penn State.

Advanced Education: Ph.D., Analytical Chemistry, Indiana University

His work: Andrew Ewing teaches undergraduate and graduate students general chemistry, instrumental analysis, electrochemistry, separations, bioanalytical chemistry and neurochemistry. “Working with my students, I have been developing new micro- and nanoscale techniques to measure neurotransmitters, metabolites and other chemical species in single nerve cells,” he says. “ This work is allowing us to understand the way that nerve cells communicate with one another and has shown insights into what happens, for instance, when one treats Parkinson’s patients with the drug L-DOPA. We are working to understand at the molecular and cellular level the forces that drive and control neurotransmitter release.”

Selected Honors and Recognition: Penn State Graduate Faculty Teaching Award; Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal in Physical Sciences and Engineering; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; A.A. Benedetti-Pichler Award of the American Microchemical Society; St. Lawrence University Alumni Citation in 2001.