Robin L. Garrell

Robin L. Garrell is an American chemist and academic who serves as Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of Graduate Division at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Having previously taught at University of Pittsburgh, Garrell has been a faculty member of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at UCLA since 1991, where she is professor of chemistry.[1] On March 30, 2020, Garrell was named the next President of The Graduate Center, CUNY in New York, a position she will assume on August 1, 2020.[2]

Robin L. Garrell
President of The Graduate Center, CUNY
Assuming office
SucceedingChase F. Robinson
Personal details
NationalityUnited States
Alma materCornell University (B.A.)
University of Michigan (M.S.Ph.D)
OccupationUniversity administrator, Chemist

Biography

Robin L. Garrell received her B.S. degree in biochemistry with honors and Distinction from Cornell University in 1978. While at Cornell, she worked with Stuart J. Edelstein on elucidating the structure of sickle cell hemoglobin fibers. Upon graduating from Cornell University, Garrell enrolled in the Graduate Program in Macromolecular Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, where she studied under Samuel Krimm and researched the development of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy to probe adsorption at liquid-metal interfaces. Garell earned her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan in 1984.[3] Until 1991, she worked an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Following her tenure at University of Pittsburgh, Garrell joined the faculty of University of California, Los Angeles. She also serves as the director of the UCLA NSF-IGERT Materials Creation Training Program, a special assistant in the UCLA Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Relations, as well as the immediate past chair of the UCLA Academic Senate.[3]

Academic career

Garrell's scientific research examines the behavior of molecules at liquid-liquid and liquid-solid interfaces, focusing in particular on how they control complex phenomena such as adsorption, adhesion, emulsification, wetting and liquid flow. She has worked on synthesizing new types of superparamagnetic nanoparticle catalysts as well as creating “lab-on-a-chip” devices that utilize droplet microfluidics for multistep chemical reactions. These applications include proteomics, the synthesis of millimeter-scale polymer particles and shells for inertial confinement fusion energy technology, and diagnostics and high-throughput drug discovery.[3]

Garrell is a member of the UCLA Biomedical Engineering faculty and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) and has served on the Advisory Boards of C&EN and Applied Spectroscopy, among other journals. Between 1994 and 1998, she was on the Coblentz Society Board of Governors and served President of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy in 1999. She received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award (1985), Iota Sigma Pi Agnes Fay Morgan Award (1996), Gold Medal Award in the 2007 Masscal Pioneering Micro and Thermal Analysis Technology Competition, and the Benedetti-Pichler Award from the American Microchemical Society (2007).[3] In 2002, she was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[4]

In March 2020, Garrell was appointed the President of The Graduate Center, CUNY in New York City. She will assume the position on August 1, 2020.[2]

Select Publications

Tucker-Schwartz, A.K.; Bei, Z.; Garrell, R.L.; Jones, T.B. Polymerization of Electric Field-Centered Double Emulsion Droplets to Create Polyacrylate Shells, Langmuir, 2011; 26: 18606-18611.

Nelson WC, Peng I, Lee GA, Loo JA, Garrell RL, Kim CJ Incubated protein reduction and digestion on an electrowetting-on-dielectric digital microfluidic chip for MALDI-MS Analytical Chemistry, 2010; 82(23): 9932-9937.

Debalina Chatterjee, A. Jimmy Ytterberg, Sang Uk Son, Joseph A. Loo and Robin L. Garrell Integration of Protein Processing Steps on a Droplet Microfluidics Platform for MALDI-MS Analysis Anal. Chem., 2010; 82(5): 2095-2101.

Izadian, A.; Garrell, R.L. Pico-Droplet Dispensing Control in Digital Microfluidic Systems, Proc. 49th IEEE Conference on DEcision and Control, 2010; 4583-4586.

Garrell, R.L.; Maynard, H.D. Surface Molecular Property Control, Biomedical Technology: Applications of Microfluidics, Nano Optics and Surface Chemistry, 2010; C-M. Ho ed.: 395-435.

Son SU, Garrell RL Transport of live yeast and zebrafish embryo on a droplet digital microfluidic platform Lab Chip, 2009; 9(16): 2398-401.

Nelson, W.; Peng, I.; Loo, J.A.; Garrell, R.L.; Kim, C-J. An EWOD Droplet Microfluidic Chip with Integrated Local Temperature Control for Multiple Proteomics, IEEE MEMS Proceed., 2009; 280-283.

Yoon, J.-Y.; Garrell, R.L. Biomolecular Adsorption in Microfluidics, Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2008; (D. Li ed.): 68-76.

References
  1. "Appointment of Robin L. Garrell as Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate Division". UCLA. 25 April 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  2. "CUNY names Robin L. Garrell as The Graduate Center's next president" (Press release). The City University of New York. 30 March 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  3. "Garrell, Robin L." UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  4. "Elected Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
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