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Professor ZUO, YUEGANG (Dartmouth)
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

    Phone: (508) 999-8959
    Email: yzuo@umassd.edu


**Disclaimer: Condensed CVs for the School of Marine Sciences. For a full CV, please contact the professor.**
Education:
1992 - Ph.D. Swiss Federal Institute for Water Resources and Water Pollution Control (EAWAG), associated with Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Dübendorf - Zurich, Switzerland, Ph.D. in environmental sciences

1984 - M.S. Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Science and Institute of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, M.S. in environmental analytical chemistry

1982 - B.S. Wuhan University, Hubei, China. B.S. in analytical chemistry


Professional History:
1999 - present - Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

1994 - 1998 - Research Scientist, Southeast Environmental Research Program, Florida International University.

1992 - 1994 - Postdoctor, Drinking Water Research Center, FIU,

1988 - 1992 - Research assistant, EAWAG

1986 - 1988 - Research Associate, Head of eco - effect group, Research Center for Eco - environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China.

1984 - 1986 - Research Assistant, Institute of Environmental Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science(IEC - CAS). Beijing.

1982 - 1984 - Research Assistant, IEC - CAS


Current Research Support:
2000 - 2001Antioxidants in Traditional Asian Americans’ Food and Drink –Free Radical Quenching Property and Protective Effects on Breast Cancer. $2,000. Submitted to the Institute for Asian American Studies, UMass Boston (funded in Feb. 2000).

2000 - 2001Isolation and identification of anti - breast cancer components in cranberry and their free - radical quenching properties. UMass Dartmouth Cranberry Research Fund $27,500 (funded in June, 2000)

2000 - 2002 Use of chitin to recycle nutrients in aquaculture effluents and residual dyes in textile wastewater. Chelsea Center for Recycling and Economic Development. $37,846 x 2 (being funded in 6/00).

1999 - 2000 Determination of phenolic antioxidants in cranberry and their photochemical transformation. Submitted to UMass Dartmouth Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry for UMass Dartmouth Cranberry Research Fund. $4,000 (partly funded in spring 2000 at $2,000).

Nanotechnology for Decolorization of Dyehouse Effluents. submitted to UMD for Healey Endowment Grants, $3,000, Fall, 1999 (partly funded at $2,000).

1999 - 2000 Instrument Donation (Two GC with autosamplers and NPD detector, $45,000, Novartis, July 1999) (funded)

2000 - 2002 Instrument Donation (GC/MS with autosample, $45,000, Novartis, Jan., 2000) (funded)


Selected Publications:
Yuegang Zuo and Yiwei Deng (1999) Evidence for lightning induced production of hydrogen peroxide during thunderstorms. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 63, 3451 - 3455.

Fan Luo, Nansheng Deng, Feng Wu and Yuegang Zuo (1999) UV - light induced discoloration of dye solutions in the presence of Fe(III) and humic acid. Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry 71, 125 - 134.

Feng Wu, Nansheng Deng and Yuegang Zuo (1999) Discoloration of dye solutions
induced by solar photolysis of ferrioxalate in aqueous solutions. Chemsphere 39, 2079 - 2085.

Feng Wu, Nansheng Deng and Yuegang Zuo (1999) Photochemical properties of ferric - oxalate complexes and their effects on photodegradation of organic compounds in natural aqueous phase. Advances in Environmental Science 7, 78 - 91.

Yuegang Zuo, Maria A. Guerrero and Ronald D. Jones (1998) Reassessment of the Ocean - to - Atmosphere Flux of Carbon Monoxide. Chemistry and Ecology 14,241 - 257.