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Nancy McMillan

Nancy McMillan
Regents Professor Emerita
Department of Geological Sciences

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nmcmilla@nmsu.edu

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Expertise: Spectroscopy, Multivariate Analysis

Biography

 

Regents Professor Emerita, Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, 2024-present
Senior Scientific Advisor, Materialytics Technology Corp, 2022-present
Professor/Associate Professor, Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, 1989-2024
Department Head, Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, 2007-2024

BS Geology, New Mexico State University, 1979
BA Russian, New Mexico State University, 1979
PhD Geology, Southern Methodist University, 1986

Research Interests:

  • Application of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) to solve scientific and societal problems.
  • Traceability of a wide variety of economically important materials, with the goal of maintaining supply chains that are as fraud-free as possible.
  • Provenance, broadly defined, of Earth materials to understand Earth processes.