• Education
  • B.A. Hampton University, Hampton, VA, 1975
  • MS, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL., 1979
  • Ph.D.Baylor University, Waco, TX., 1988


• Experience
  • North Carolina A& T State University, 1990 - present: teaching and research.
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 2000/2001 academic year - visiting teaching and research professor.
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, NMSU, Las Cruces, NM: Summer 1998, 1999.
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN,Summer 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1996.


• Research Interests
  • Environmental remediation of potential organic contaminants, especially pesticides, by electrochemical degradation.


• Current Projects
  • Our group is engaged in the investigation of electrochemical detoxification of organic contaminants and other toxic substances by electrosynthetic conversion into innocuous materials. Chemically modified electrodes are being investigated as possible working electrodes to perform analysis of inorganic and organic species to very low detection limits by stripping voltammetry and still attain good precision. The use of modified electrodes in the study of biological samples is not precluded in our investigation.


• Selected Publications
  • Development of On-line Electrochemical Sample Pretreatment Methods for the Analysis of Thallium and Uranium by ICP-MS. Feimeng Zhou,Gary J. Van Berkel, Shelby J. Morton, Douglas C. Duckworth, William K. Adeniyi, and John M. Keller; J. Amer Soc. For Testing and Materials, (1995) 82-98.
  • Joseph Wang, Jianyang Wang, William K. Adeniyi, and Samuel P. Kounaves; Adsorptive Stripping Analysis of Trace Nickel at Iridium-Based Ultramicroelectrode Arrays; Electroanalysis 12 (1) (2000) 44-47.
  • Joseph Wang, Jianmin Lu, Suw Young Ly, Maika Vuki, Baomin Tian, William K. Adeniyi, and Ruben A. Armendariz; Lab-on-Cable for Electrochemical Minitoring of Phenolic Contaminants; Analytical Chemistry 72 (2000) 2659-2663.

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