Dr. Orwah Houshia Profile

Faculty Member

Academic Rank: 

Associate Professor

Specialization: 

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6394-5103

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Education: 

University/College Name	Degree Received	Specialization
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA	Phd	polymer-MALDIFTMS
Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS, USA	MA	M.S. in physical chemistry
Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS, USA	BA	B.S. in Biology/Chemistry

Academic Experience: 

From	To	Present	Position	Institution	Description
30/05/1995	30/05/1998		“General Chem. Drill” Discussion sessions and problem solving	Pittsburg State University, KS, USA
15/05/2000	15/05/2007		General, Organic and Analytical Chemistry Labs	University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
09/09/2008			“Organic/Polymer Chemistry/ Industrial Chem.”	The Arab American University, Jenin, Palestine

Administrative Experience: 

From	To	Present	Position	Institution	Description
10/10/2013	31/08/2016		Chairman of the Department of Chemistry,	The Arab American University, Jenin, Palestine

Courses Taught: 

Course Title	Level
general chemistry	Undergraduate
chemistry for medical students	Undergraduate
organic chemistry	Undergraduate
polymer chemistry	Undergraduate
industrial chemisrty	Undergraduate

Biography: 

Orwa Houshia earned his BS degree from Pittsburg State University in 1994, followed by an MS degree from the same university in 1998. Afterwards, worked at QWAL Laboratory in Pittsburg analyzing drinking water for pesticides, herbicides with GC-MS and HPLC. Then moved on to work at Oread Pharmaceutical Research LAB in Lawrence, Kansas, at the pharmaco-Kinetics unit analyzing tritiated water extracted from organs from mice to check where the medicine was most absorbed, and also with Iodine-131, the radioisotope of iodine to check if medicine was absorbed in the thyroids, as well as Carbon-14 radioisotope using scintillation analyzer. Then Ph.D. scholarship award to attend University of Arkansas, Fayetteville where the Ph.D. was obtained in 2005, and worked as assistant professor until 2008. From 2009 up until 2014, he worked as assistant professor at AAUJ, then promoted to Associate professor in 2014. I have wide range interests in specifically in organic synthesis, polymer, olive oil analysis, instrumental analysis, and A.I.

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FT-IR

MALDI-TOF

MALDI and ESi -FT-Ion cyclotron resonance

Awards: 

Pittsburg state University Best Teacher 1998

Wally Cordes Best Award Teacher 2002

NSF grant 2002

FAO Award 2014

IAEA Grant 2016

C.V.: 

OrwaJaber_CV-_August_2023.pdf

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