Dr. Otakuye Conroy-Ben is an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah, in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.  She is originally from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.  Dr. Conroy-Ben received her B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Notre Dame, and her M.A. in Analytical Chemistry, M.S. in Environmental Engineering, and Ph.D. in Chemical and Environmental Engineering all from the University of Arizona.  She completed a postdoc appointment in biochemistry in the area of metal resistance in bacteria.  Otak teaches Introduction to Environmental Engineering, Water and Wastewater Engineering, Groundwater Remediation, and Solid & Hazardous Waste.  Her research interests are broad, and include environmental endocrine disruption, proteoliposomes for water treatment, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, and wastewater epidemiology.  She has previously served on the Board of Directors of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society.

Otakuye Conroy-Ben:  University of Utah

249th National Meeting (2015)

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