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• Kearney, R.N.; Hoffman, L.D.; McCoy, S.W.; McCurry, D.L.; Reber, K.P.; Sivey, J.D. Sugars and other polyols can enhance chlorination rates of phenolic compounds in chlorinated water.  ACS ES&T Water 2025, 5, 3499-3507.
• DiPietri, V.T.; Grady, Z.S.; Frost, A.N.; Stitzel, S.E.; Sivey, J.D.  Toilet bowl cleaning tablets as sources of chlorine, bromine, and disinfection byproducts in wastewater.  Environ. Sci. Technol. 2025, 59, 7646-7655.
• Zhang, Z.; Reber, K.P.; Okwor, N.; Gujarati, P.D.; Vollmuth, M.; Zhang, L.; McCurry, D.L.; Sivey, J.D.; Prasse, C.  Stable isotope labeling to elucidate ring cleavage mechanisms of disinfection byproduct formation during chlorination of parabens. Nature Water. 2025, 3, 222-230.
• Kearney, R.N.; Braithwaite, S.G.; McCoy, S.W.; McCurry, D.L.; Reber, K.P.; Sivey, J.D. Methanol as a carrier solvent can influence chlorination rates of phenolic compounds in chlorinated waters. Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. 2024, 11, 1110-1115.
• Psoras, A.W.; McCoy, S.W.; Reber, K.P.; McCurry, D.L.; Sivey, J.D.  Ipso substitution of aromatic bromine in chlorinated waters:  Impacts on Trihalomethane formation. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2023, 57, 18801-18810.
• Szczuka, A.; Horton, J.; Evans, K.J.; DiPietri, V.T.; Sivey, J.D., Wigginton, K.R.  Chloride enhances DNA reactivity with chlorine at conditions relevant to water treatment.  Environ. Sci. Technol.  2022,  56, 13347-13356.
• Reber, K.P.; Sivey, J.D.; Vollmuth, M.; Gujarati, P.D.  Synthesis of C-labeled parabens from isotopically enriched phenols using the Houben-Hoesch reaction.  J. Labelled Compd. Radiopharm.  2022, 65, 254-263.
• Lanasa, S.; Niedzwiecki, M.; Reber, K.P., East, A.; Sivey, J.D.; Salice, C.  Comparative toxicity of herbicide active ingredients, safeners additives and commercial formulations to non-target algae,  Raphidocelis subcapitata, Environ. Toxicol Chem. 2022, 41, 1466-1476.
• Kim, E.; Driessen, O.M.; McCurry, D.M.*, Sivey, J.D.  Intramural, online research group meetings as professional development tools for undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral trainees. Environ. Eng. Sci. 2022, 39, 101-104.
• Schammel, M.H.; Martin-Culet, K.R.; Taggart, G.A.; Sivey, J.D.  Structural effects on the bromination rate and selectivity of alkylbenzenes and alkoxybenzenes in aqueous solution. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2021, 23, 16594-16610.

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Working to Ensure Safe Drinking Water

A five-year grant from the National Science Foundation made it possible for Dr. Sivey and his team to identify ways to make drinking water safer. Read the story.

Honors and Awards

• TU Presidential Faculty Award for Excellence in Research (2023)
• Honors College Professor of the Year, Towson University (2021)
• ACS Editors’ Choice Paper Recognition (Environmental Science and Technology Letters) (2020)
• Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2020)
• Best Papers of 2018 Nominee – Royal Society of Chemistry Environmental Science family of journals (2019)
• Invited Speaker, Gordon Research Conference on Water Disinfection, Byproducts and Health (2019)
• Emerging Investigator – Royal Society of Chemistry (Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology) (2018)
• NSF CAREER Award (2017)
• Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Fisher College of Science and Mathematics, Towson University (2017)
• American Chemical Society AGRO New Investigator Award Finalist (2015)

Professional Organizations

• American Chemical Society
• Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors

Courses Taught

• CHEM 220: Analytical Chemistry
• CHEM 310: Instrumental Analysis
• CHEM 345: Principles of Physical Chemistry
• CHEM 401: Communication Skills in Chemistry
• ENVS 600: Environmental Science & Sustainability Colloquium
• ENVS 605: Chemistry of Environmental Systems
• ENVS 680: Environmental Organic Chemistry
• HONR 301: The Polluted States of America