NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Ph.D., Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
B.S. Chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Dr. Savage was named interim provost and vice president for academic affairs in August 2022. She served as deputy provost from March 2022 until her current appointment.
Dr. Savage joined the University of New Haven in 2005. Since then she has enjoyed a distinguished career in which she has taught, led chemistry-emersion camps, and served on numerous University and department committees and in multiple administrative capacities, including associate dean of the Tagliatela College of Engineering and coordinator of the University's chemistry program.
She has served as a mentor for numerous Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship projects. She has been selected as Deputy Provost based on her academic track record, her administrative acumen, and her University and general systems knowledge.
Earlier in her career, Dr. Savage taught at the University of Hartford, the University of Connecticut, the University of Saint Joseph, and Quinnipiac. Her National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship supported her work studying gas sensors with the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
She earned a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship that supported her work studying gas sensors with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. She earned her Ph.D. in chemistry from Ohio State, where she investigated materials as high-temperature, harsh-condition gas sensors, and received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Dr. Savage’s research interests are within the broad area of materials chemistry. She's investigated new materials for chemical sensing applications, particularly composites of metal oxides with conducting polymers. Additionally, she is interested in applications for materials prepared using the electrospinning method, such as analytical separations.
Abigail Freyer*, Nancy Ortins Savage‡, Electrospun Silica Nanofiber Mats:Effects of Sol Viscosity and Application to Thin Layer Chromatography. In The Science and Function of Nanomaterials, ACS Symposium Series volume 1183. Harper-Leatherman, H., Solbrig, C. Ed.; American Chemical Society: Washington D.C., 2014.
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Bishwanath Dutta, Sourav Biswas, Vinit Sharma, Nancy Ortins Savage, S. Pamir Alpay, Steven L. Suib, "Mesoporous Manganese Oxide Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Coupling of Anilines To Aromatic Azo Compounds," Angew. Chem. 2016, 128, 2211.
Abigail Freyer*, Nancy Ortins Savage‡, Electrospun Silica Nanofiber Mats:Effects of Sol Viscosity and Application to Thin Layer Chromatography. In The Science and Function of Nanomaterials, ACS Symposium Series, Harper-Leatherman, H., Ed.; American Chemical Society: Washington D.C., Accepted.
Michael A. Collura, Shannon Ciston, and Nancy Ortins Savage, "Effect of freshman chemistry on student performance in sophomore engineering courses." American Society for Engineering Education. American Society for Engineering Education, 2011.
Nancy Ortins Savage, Samuel Daniels, Michael Collura, Inverting the Lecture Paradigm for a Multidisciplnary Course, American Society for Engineering Education Northeast Section Conference 2010 Proceedings, May 7-8, 2010.
Nancy Ortins Savage, "Gas sensing composites of metal oxides with vapor-deposited polypyrrole", Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 143 (2009) 6-11
Nancy Ortins Savage, Sonya Roberson, Greg Gillen, Michael J. Tarlov, Steve Semancik, "Thermolithographic Patterning of Sol-Gel Metal Oxides on Microhotplate Sensing Arrays Using Organosilanes", Analytical Chemistry, 75 (2003) 4360-4367.
N. Savage, B. Chwieroth, A. Ginwalla, B.R. Patton, S.A. Akbar, P.K. Dutta "Composite n-p Semiconducting Titanium Oxides as Gas Sensors" Sensors and Actuators B, 79 (2001) 17-27.
N.O. Savage, S. A. Akbar, P.K. Dutta "Titanium Dioxide Based High Temperature Carbon Monoxide Sensors", Sensors and Actuators B, 72 (2001) 239-248.
N.J.Ortins, T. Kruger, P.K. Dutta, "Recent Advances in Raman Spectroscopy of Heterogeneous Catalysts" in Analytical Applications of Raman Spectroscopy, M. Pelletier, Editor, Blackwell Science Limited, 1999.
M.Vitale, N.B. Castagnola, N.J. Ortins, J.A. Brooke, A. Vaidyalingam, P.K. Dutta, "Intrazeolitic Photochemical Charge Separation for Ru(bpy)32+ Bipyridinium Systems: Role of the Zeolitic Structure", Journal of Physical Chemistry B 1999, 103, 2408-2416.
University of New Haven "Excellence in Service" Award, 2013.
Connecticut Quality Improvement Award "Silver Prize" for The Summer Institute For Young Women, 2008.
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