Join us for an evening to learn about the history of chemicals of Newtown Creek with with author and academic, Peter Spellane.
Peter Spellane is a member of the Chemistry department at City Tech, a campus of the CUNY system located in downtown Brooklyn. He had studied at Hamilton College, the University of Washington, and the University of California at Santa Barbara. Before joining CUNY, he had worked as a research chemist at the IBM Thomas J. Watson lab in Yorktown Heights and at Akzo Nobel Chemicals in Dobbs Ferry and in Arnhem, the Netherlands.