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Emily Heider

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Biography

I'm a Utah native and graduated with a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Utah studying laser spectroscopy. Following graduate school, I studied as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Central Florida developing surface plasmon resonance (SPR) techniques to quantify contaminants in water. I joined UVU faculty after nearly ten years as a lecturer at one of the largest undergraduate schools in the United States and look forward to continuing research and pedagogical interests with the outstanding students in Utah Valley.

Education

PhD, University of Utah, 2010

Major: Analytical Chemistry

Teaching

CHEM 3005

Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, Fall 2025

CHEM 1250

Chemistry Cornerstone- Research and Careers, Fall 2025

CHEM 1210

Principles of Chemistry I, Fall 2025

CHEM 4890R

Undergraduate Research in Chemistry, Fall 2025

CHEM 3000

Analytical Chemistry, Summer 2025

CHEM 3005

Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, Summer 2025

CHEM 489R

Undergraduate Research in Chemistry, Summer 2025

CHEM 1210

Principles of Chemistry I PP, Spring 2025

CHEM 1210

Principles of Chemistry I PP, Spring 2025

CHEM 489R

Undergraduate Research in Chemistry, Spring 2025

Presentations

Heider, Emily , Bell-Hunley, Cooper , Hill, Tyler , Jones, Dallin , Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting, "Monitoring Chemical Indicators and Harmful Algal Blooms in a Large Arid-Region Lake", American Chemical Society, Albuquerque, New Mexico. (October 24, 2025)

Heider, Emily , Nickles, Grace , Burt, Scott , Harper, James , American Chemical Society National Meeting, "Improving the prediction of antioxidant activity by identifying high-probability conformations with NMR", American Chemical Society, San Diego, California. (March 26, 2025)

Whitley, Robert (Presenter & Author), Heider, Emily (Co-Author), Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research, "Connecting Introductory Chemistry Principles and Computations with Concept Maps", Cedar City, Utah. (February 28, 2025)

Heider, Emily (Presenter & Author), American Chemical Society Leadership Institute, "Best Practices Case Study - Central Utah ", American Chemical Society, Houston. (January 31, 2025)

Bell-Hunley, Cooper (Presenter & Author), Heider, Emily (Co-Author), Yu, Ming (Co-Author), Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research, "Going Green in a General Chemistry Teaching Lab_ Assessment of Learning Outcomes", Utah Valley University, Orem. (February 16, 2024)

Heider, Emily , Nickels, Grace , Christiansen, Wesley , Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, "Antioxidant mechanistic study of a novel thiophene antioxidant ", American Chemical Society, Laramie, WY. (September, 2023)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Nickles, Riley , Heider, Emily , Harper, James , (2025) "A solid-state NMR approach for distinguishing between RNH2 and RNH3+ sites" (vol. 138). Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2025.102018

Heider, Emily , Nickles, Paula Grace, Emde, Dirke , Harper, James , (2025) "Improving the Prediction of Antioxidant Activity by Identifying High-Probability Conformations with NMR" (Issue: 25, vol. 97). Washington DC: Analytical Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.4c05912?urlappend=%3Fref%3DPDF&jav=VoR&rel=cite-as

Toomey, Ryan , Wang, Luther , Heider, Emily , Hartman, Joshua , Nichols, Alexander , Myles, Dean , Gardberg, Anna , McIntyre, Garry , Zeller, Matthias , Mehta, Mannish , Harper, James , (2024) "NMR-guided refinement of crystal structures using 15N chemical shift tensors" (Issue: 25, vol. 26). United Kingdom: Crystal Engineering Communications. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CE00237G

Heider, Emily , Stucki, Carly , Hill, Tyler , Bell-Hunley, Cooper , Campiglia, Andres , Harper, James , (2024) "Activity for Examining Light Reflectance, Transmittance, and Absorbance with Textiles and Light-Emitting Diodes" (Issue: 3, vol. 101). Journal of Chemical Education. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c00683

Young, Nicolas , Welch, Joseph , Sees, Mark , Beazley, Melanie , Heider, Emily , (2022) "Longitudinal Analysis of Sucralose at a Water Treatment Wetland" (Issue: 9, vol. 9). Basel: Environments. https://doi.org/10.3390/environments9090111

Heider, Emily , Simkins, Kylee , McLaughlin, Jared , Simmons, Vanessa , Long, Ruth , Coulter, Abigail , (2022) "Integrating informal learning in college general chemistry courses" (vol. 23). Longon: Chemistry Education Research and Practice. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/RP/D1RP00283J

Awards

E Ann Nalley Volunteer Service to the American Chemical Society Award

Rocky Mountain Region of the American Chemical Society - October 24, 2025

To recognize the volunteer efforts of individuals who have served the American Chemical Society, contributing significantly to the goals and objectives of the Society through their regional activities.

Jim and Kathy Spencer Scholar

Spencer Foundation - June, 2023

This award provided a scholarship to attend the National Conference to Advance POGIL Practice and receive additional training in process skills and the learning cycle. The three-day conference occurred in June 2023.

2nd Place, Blended Course Design

Utah Valley University - April, 2023

Selected by the University Flexible Learning Council, this award recognizes revision of a face-to-face laboratory class, Chem 1225, in collaboration with Dr. Ming Yu.

Faculty Excellence Award

Utah Valley University - April, 2022

The purpose of the Faculty Senate Faculty Excellence Award is to recognize full-time and adjunct faculty who have made significant contributions to UVU's mission through demonstrated excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. Through this award, UVU intends_
To publicly acknowledge the achievements of its faculty members in creating an academically engaged environment at UVU.
To demonstrate to the community the exemplary standards of academic professionalism to which the faculty members of UVU are dedicated;
To encourage faculty within UVU to pursue the highest levels of excellence in every aspect of their work (consistent with the best of academic traditions).

Wolverine Sighting Award

Utah Valley University - August, 2021

I was nominated by department chair, Merrill Halling, for this local award. It recognizes services within the UVU community. He was acknowledging the work I had performed over Summer 2021 to rebuild the Chem 1215 laboratory course.

CHEM 3000

Analytical Chemistry, Fall 2024

CHEM 3005

Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, Fall 2024

CHEM 1250

Chemistry Cornerstone- Research and Careers, Fall 2024

CHEM 1210

Principles of Chemistry I, Fall 2024

CHEM 1210

Principles of Chemistry I PP, Summer 2024

CHEM 1210

Principles of Chemistry I PP, Spring 2024

CHEM 1210

Principles of Chemistry I PP, Spring 2024

CHEM 3000

Analytical Chemistry, Fall 2023

CHEM 3005

Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, Fall 2023

CHEM 1250

Chemistry Cornerstone- Research and Careers, Fall 2023

CHEM 1210

Principles of Chemistry I PP, Fall 2023

CHEM 489R

Undergraduate Research in Chemistry, Fall 2023

CHEM 1210

Principles of Chemistry I PP, Spring 2023

CHEM 1225

Principles of Chemistry II Laboratory, Spring 2023

CHEM 1225

Principles of Chemistry II Laboratory, Spring 2023

CHEM 489R

Undergraduate Research in Chemistry, Spring 2023

CHEM 3000

Analytical Chemistry, Fall 2022

CHEM 3005

Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, Fall 2022

CHEM 1225

Principles of Chemistry II Laboratory, Fall 2022

CHEM 489R

Undergraduate Research in Chemistry, Fall 2022

CHEM 1225

Principles of Chemistry II Laboratory, Summer 2022

CHEM 1215

Principles of Chemistry I Laboratory, Spring 2022

CHEM 1210

Principles of Chemistry I PP, Spring 2022

CHEM 1210

Principles of Chemistry I PP, Spring 2022

CHEM 1215

Principles of Chemistry I Laboratory, Fall 2021

CHEM 1210

Principles of Chemistry I PP, Fall 2021

CHEM 1210

Principles of Chemistry I PP, Fall 2021

CHEM 489R

Undergraduate Research in Chemistry, Summer 2021

CHEM 1215

Principles of Chemistry I Laboratory, Spring 2021

CHEM 1210

Principles of Chemistry I PP, Spring 2021

CHEM 1210

Principles of Chemistry I PP, Spring 2021

CHEM 1215

Principles of Chemistry I Laboratory, Fall 2020

CHEM 1210

Principles of Chemistry I PP, Fall 2020

CHEM 1210

Principles of Chemistry I PP, Fall 2020

CHEM 1210

Principles of Chemistry I PP, Spring 2020

CHEM 1210

Principles of Chemistry I PP, Spring 2020

CHEM 1210

Principles of Chemistry I PP, Fall 2019

CHEM 1210

Principles of Chemistry I PP, Fall 2019

Bell-Hunley, Cooper (Presenter & Author), Hill, Tyler (Co-Author), Heider, Emily (Co-Author), Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, "Longitudinal Analysis of Phosphate and Anatoxin-a in Utah Lake", , American Chemical Society, Laramie. (September 16, 2023)

Christiansen, Wesley (Presenter & Author), Nickels, Grace (Co-Author), Heider, Emily (Co-Author), Harper, James (Co-Author), Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research, "Elucidation of radical quenching mechanisms for five novel antioxidants", , University of Utah, Salt Lake City. (February 17, 2023)

Nickels, Grace (Co-Author), Toomey, Ryan (Co-Author), Heider, Emily , Harper, James (Co-Author), American Chemical Society National Meeting (Fall), "Rational design of heterocyclic antioxidants that are highly reactive by hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) but inert to single electron transfer (SET)", , American Chemical Society, Chicago. (August 24, 2022)

Hill, Tyler (Presenter & Author), Maccione, Jesse (Co-Author), Heider, Emily (Co-Author), Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research, "Assessment of a classroom-based experiment_ exploring the relationship between color, wavelength, transmittance, and light absorbance", , Utah Tech University, St. George. (February 18, 2022)

Heider, Emily (Presenter & Author), Hill, Tyler (Co-Author), Concurrent Enrollment Conference, "Analysis of Anatoxin-a and development of a Portable Raman Sensor", , Utah Valley University, Orem. (November, 2021)

Leon, Joshua (Co-Author), Heider, Emily (Co-Author), American Chemical Society National Meeting (Fall), "Assessment of Service-Learning in University Asynchronous Online General Chemistry Courses", , American Chemical Society, Virtual (due to the COVID-19 pandemic). (August 23, 2021)

McLaughlin, Jared (Co-Author), Heider, Emily (Co-Author), American Chemical Society National Meeting (Fall), "Cultivating next-generation STEM undergraduates_ U.S. participation in informal learning", , American Chemical Society, Virtual (due to COVID-19 pandemic). (August 23, 2021)

Ellis, Nakita (Presenter & Author), Hefzella, Anthony (Co-Author), Wiegriffe, Holly , Heider, Emily , Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research, "Getting the Most Out of Technology in the General Chemistry Classroom; a Comparison of Online Content Homework with Metacognitive Training Homework", , Brigham Young University, Virtual (due to the COVID-19 pandemic). (February 19, 2021)

Heider, Emily , Interfacial and Bioanalytical Chemistry, "Development and Assessment of Activities for Analytical Chemistry Student Engagement", , University of Utah, Virtual (due to the COVID-19 pandemic). (January 15, 2021)

Ellis, Nakita (Presenter & Author), Heider, Emily (Author Only), Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, "Comparison of online content homework with metacognitive training homework in general chemistry courses", , American Chemical Society, Virtual. (November 13, 2020)

Wolford, Kylee (Co-Author), Heider, Emily (Co-Author), Utah Conference of Undergraduate Research, "Integration of Informal Learning into College General Chemistry", , Utah State University, Logan, Utah. (February 7, 2020)

Heider, Emily (Presenter & Author), Valenti, Domenic (Co-Author), Alheety, Samar (Co-Author), Mujumdar, Nirvani (Co-Author), Campiglia, Andres (Co-Author), Harper, James (Co-Author), American Chemical Society National Meeting (Spring), "In silico interpretation of endogenous fluorescence spectra from a live organism", , American Chemical Society, Orlando. (April 2, 2019)

Williamson, David , Bergman, Addison , Heider, Emily , Nagy, Gabe , (2022) "Experimental Measurements of Relative Mobility Shifts Resulting from Isotopic Substitutions with High-Resolution Cyclic Ion Mobility Separations" (Issue: 6, vol. 94). Washington D.C.: Analytical Chemistry. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.analchem.1c05240

Zare, Maryam , Kitt, Jay , Wen, Xin , Heider, Emily , Harris, Joel , (2021) "Hybrid-Lipid Bilayers Induce n-Alkyl-Chain Order in Reversed-Phase Chromatographic Surfaces, Impacting their Shape Selectivity for Aromatic Hydrocarbon Partitioning" (Issue: 8, vol. 93). U.S.A.: Analytical Chemistry. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.analchem.0c05467

Welch, Joseph , Simmons, Vanessa , Melendez, Eduardo , Gold, Yolanda , Sees, Mark , Heider, Emily , (2020) "Assessment of Non-Anthropogenic Addition of Uric Acid to a Water Treatment Wetlands" (vol. 7). Switzerland: Environments. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3298/7/8/60

Alheety, Samar , Valenti, Domenic , Mujumdar, Nirvani , Ellis, Nakita , Campiglia, Andres D., Harper, James K., Heider, Emily , (2020) "Characterization of a Bio‐sourced, Fluorescent, Ratiometric pH Indicator with Alkaline pKa" (vol. 96). U.S.A.: Photochemistry and Photobiology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/php.13299

Maccione, Jesse , Welch, Joseph , Heider, Emily , (2020) "Curve Fitting, Linear Algebra, and Solver in an Analytical Chemistry Course_ A Facile and Safe Activity Suitable for the Classroom Setting" (Issue: 4, vol. 97). U.S.A.: Journal of Chemical Education. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b00421

Heider, Emily , Valenti, Domenic , Long, Ruth , Garbou, Amel , Rex, Matthew , Harper, James , (2018) "Quantifying Sucralose in a Water-Treatment Wetlands_ Service-Learning in the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory" (vol. 95). U.S.A.: Journal of Chemical Education. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00490

Harper, James , Heider, Emily , (2017) "Data Linearization Activity for Undergraduate Analytical Chemistry Lectures" (Issue: 5, vol. 94). Washington D.C.: Journal of Chemical Education. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00687

Powell, Jacob , Heider, Emily , Campiglia, Andres , Harper, James , (2016) "Predicting accurate fluorescent spectra for high molecular weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using density functional theory" (vol. 328). Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022285216301187

Heider, Emily , Mujumdar, Nirvani , Campiglia, Andres , (2016) "Identification of detergents for forensic fiber analysis" (vol. 408). Switzerland: Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00216-016-9927-8

Munoz de la Pena, Arsenio , Mujumdar, Nirvani , Heider, Emily , Goicoechea, Hector , Munoz de la Pena, David , Campiglia, Andres , (2016) "Nondestructive Total Excitation–Emission Fluorescence Microscopy Combined with Multi-Way Chemometric Analysis for Visually Indistinguishable Single Fiber Discrimination" (Issue: 5, vol. 88). Washington D.C.: Analytical Chemistry.

Mujumdar, Nirvani , Heider, Emily , Campiglia, Andres , (2015) "Enhancing Textile Fiber Identification with Detergent Fluorescence" (Issue: 12, vol. 69). Applied Spectroscopy.

Trieu, Khang , Heider, Emily , Brooks, Scott , Barbosa, Fernando , Campiglia, Andres , (2014) "Gold nanorods for surface Plasmon resonance detection of mercury (II) in flow injection analysis" (vol. 128). Talanta. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039914014003063

Krishnaveni, Appalaneni , Heider, Emily , Moore, Anthony , Campiglia, Andres , (2014) "Single Fiber Identification with Nondestructive Excitation–Emission Spectral Cluster Analysis" (Issue: 14, vol. 86). Washington D.C.: Analytical Chemistry. https://pubs.acs.org/action/doSearch?SeriesKey=ancham&AllField=heider

Heider, Emily , Trieu, Khang , Diaz, Victor , Chumbimuni-Torres, Karen , Campiglia, Andres , Duranceau, Steve , (2013) "An indium tin oxide electrode modified with gold nanorods for use in potential-controlled surface plasmon resonance studies" (vol. 180). Microchimica Acta. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00604-013-1017-4

Wilson, Walter , Heider, Emily , Campiglia, Andres , (2012) "Low-temperature multidimensional luminescence spectroscopy for the analysis of polycyclic aromatic compounds" (vol. 9). Current Topics in Analytical Chemistry. http://www.researchtrends.net/tia/title_issue.asp?id=30&in=0&vn=9&type=3

Heider, Emily , Trieu, Khang , Moore, Anthony , Campiglia, Andres , (2012) "Portable mercury sensor for tap water using surface plasmon resonance of immobilized gold nanorods" (vol. 99). Talanta. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039914012004171

Heider, Emily , Grant, Myers , Harris, Joel , (2011) "Spectroscopic Microscopy Analysis of the Interior pH of Individual Phospholipid Vesicles" (Issue: 21, vol. 83). Washington D.C.: Analytical Chemistry.

Heider, Emily , Peterson, Eric , Barhoum, Moussa , Gericke, Karl-Heinz , Harris, Joel , (2011) "Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy To Determine Molecular Occupancy of Phospholipid Vesicles" (Issue: 13, vol. 83). Washington D.C>C: Analytical Chemistry. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac200129n

Heider, Emily , Barhoum, Moussa , Edwards, Kyle , Gericke, Karl-Heinz , Harris, Joel , (2011) "Structural Characterization of Individual Vesicles using Fluorescence Microscopy" (Issue: 12, vol. 83). Washington D.C.: Analytical Chemistry. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac200632h

Schibel, Anna , Heider, Emily , Harris, Joel , White, Henry , (2011) "Fluorescence Microscopy of the Pressure-Dependent Structure of Lipid Bilayers Suspended across Conical Nanopores" (Issue: 20, vol. 133). Journal of the American Chemical Society. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ja1117182

Heider, Emily , Barhoum, Moussa , Harris, Joel , (2010) "Identification of Single Fluorescent Labels Using Spectroscopic Microscopy" (vol. 64). Applied Spectroscopy. https://doi.org/10.1366/000370210790572034

Uibel, Rory , Heider, Emily , Gasser, Jennifer , Harris, Joel , Eyring, Edward , (2005) "Ultrasonic and Raman Scattering Spectroscopy of Zinc Thiocyanate Complexes in Water at 25º C_ Kinetics of Complex Formation Determined by Multivariate Analysis" (vol. 34). Journal of Solution Chemistry.

Heider, Emily , Davis, Brett , Frank, Elizabeth , (2004) "Nonparametric determination of reference intervals for plasma metanephrine and normetanephrine" (Issue: 12, vol. 50). Clinical Chemistry. https://academic.oup.com/clinchem/article/50/12/2381/5639988

Dunn, Brian , Covington, Daniel , Cole, P , Pugmier, Ronald , Meuzelaar, Hank , Ernst, Richard , Heider, Emily , Eyring, Edward , (2004) "Silica Xerogel Supported Cobalt Metal Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts for Syngas to Diesel Range Fuel Conversion" (vol. 18). Energy and Fuels.