Judith Currano

Judith is head of Penn's Chemistry Library. Since 1999 she has been responsible for developing the electronic and print collections in chemistry. Judith has extensive experience in chemical information retrieval, structure and substructure searching for compounds and reactions, and sequence and structure searching for proteins and nucleotides. Her course in chemical information is required for the PhD in Chemistry at Penn. She holds bachelor's degrees in Chemistry and English from the University of Rochester, where she did original research in a synthetic organic chemistry laboratory. Judith has an MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is an active member of Penn's Women in Chemistry group, and the American Chemical Society