Professional Biography

Courses taught include Physical Chemistry , Inorganic/Physical Chemistry Lab, Perspectives in Environmental Chemistry, Accelerated General Chemistry, General Chemistry, Electronic Instrumentation. Recent Research: An Electrochemical Investigation of the Enhanced Reactivity of Clays in Contact with Iron Metal (read an article about this research from the “Lewis & Clark Chronicle”)

The Effect of Doping on the Reactivity of Iron Oxides

Development of a CD-Rom to Teach Chemistry Within the Context of Environmental Remediation (read an article about this research from the “Lewis & Clark Chronicle”)

website: http://www.lclark.edu/~balko

Academic Credentials

Ph.D. 1991 University of California at Berkeley

A.B. 1984 Bryn Mawr College