Dr. Martha Joseph, assistant professor of chemistry at Westminster College, will present her research at Faculty Forum Wednesday, March 5, at 11:30 a.m. in Patterson Hall room 131.

Joseph will speak about her research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she was part of the Analytical Chemistry Team.

"This top secret lab was built during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project, which tested the atomic bomb," said Joseph. "The list of scientists who worked on that project reads like a list of Nobel Prize winners."

"My own projects there were not nearly so exciting, although one of them not considered classified last year has since become labeled "sensitive," and I can no longer talk or write about it," continued Joseph. "I can talk about a study we conducted on aging of foams, -- although they would not tell me what the foams were used for -- and the development of an anthrax detection method. I also will talk a bit about life in and around Los Alamos, both during the Manhattan Project and at the present time."

Joseph, who has been with Westminster since 1993, earned her undergraduate degree from Greenville College, her master's from the University of Illinois, and her Ph. D. from the University of Kentucky.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Joseph at (724) 946-7295 or e-mail josephm@westminster.edu.