Dissertation research: Ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy and nuclear
magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the enolic, anionic and cationic
forms of beta diketones
B.S.
in chemistry from Louisiana State University (1985)

Oakland
City University, Oakland City, IN: 1994-1998
Assistant professor of chemistry and physics
Tulane
University, New Orleans, LA: 1990-1993
Postdoctoral fellow with professor Mark Sulkes
Postdoctoral research: Supersonic jet and solution spectroscopies
of indole and tryptophan derivatives; fluorescence lifetimes via
picosecond single photon counting

Auburn University Montgomery New Faculty Grant-In-Aid for “An Experimental
and Computational
Study of Compounds Forming Charge Transfer States", 1999
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pH Dependence of the UV-visible Spectroscopy of p-N,N-dimethylaminocinnamic acid, Pyrlik, M, Hutto, B., Arnold, S.; Abstracts of the 77th Annual Meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science, 2000
Solvent Effects on the Fluorescence of p-N,N-dimethylaminocinnamic Acid, Arnold, S.; Abstracts of the 218th American Chemical Society National Meeting, 1999, PHYS #213
Fluorescence Spectroscopy of p-N,N-dimethylaminocinnamic acid, Arnold, S.; Abstracts of the 76th Annual Meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science, March 1999
Development of a Laboratory Course for Introduction to Physical Science, Arnold, S., Russell, R.; Abstracts of the 76th Annual Meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science, March 1999
A Laboratory Manual for Introduction to Physical Sciences, Arnold, S., Russell, R.; Department of Physical Sciences, Auburn University Montgomery, 1998
Spectroscopy of Solvent Complexes with Indoles: Induction of 1La - 1Lb State Coupling, Arnold, S.; Sulkes, M. J. Phys. Chem. 1992, 96, 4768
Direct Measurements of Fluorescence Decays of Selected Conformers of Tryptophan Derivatives, Sulkes, M.; Arnold, S. Proc. SPIE 1992, 20
Fluorescence Quenching of Jet Cooled Carbonyl-Substituted Indoles:
Evidence of Intramolecular Charge Transfer Quenching, Arnold, S.; Sulkes,
M. Chem. Phys. Lett. 1992, 200, 125
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