About

Susan Becker is a designer, artist, and educator working in the field of fashion and costume. Her fashion industry experience is expansive, having held positions in design, marketing, and sales for a variety of companies from small, independent labels to large, corporate brands. For the past twenty-five years, she has designed for traditional and experimental settings, including collaborations on stage, film, and site-specific projects. Her recent collaborators include artists Deke Weaver, Jennifer Allen, Cynthia Oliver, and Jennifer Monson, with whom she has engaged in investigations and performances. In addition to her design work, Susan has developed art, design, and fashion studies curriculum for various programs, including a fashion concentration at the University of Illinois. She has previously taught at Rhode Island School of Design, her alma mater, and currently holds an Assistant Clinical Professor position in the School of Art & Design at the University of Illinois, where she has taught since 2006.

Research topics

• Chemistry
• Political Science
• Biochemistry
• Law
• Waste management
• Organic chemistry
• Environmental economics
• Economics
• Chromatography
• Engineering
• Medicine
• Combinatorial chemistry
• Stereochemistry
• Pharmacology
• Biology
• Marketing
• Business

Selected publications

• Mitochondria-Targeting 1,5-Diazacyclooctane-Spacered Triterpene Rhodamine Conjugates Exhibit Cytotoxicity at Sub-Nanomolar Concentration against Breast Cancer Cells

  International Journal of Molecular Sciences · 2023 · 16 citations

  • Chemistry
  • Biochemistry
  • Pharmacology

  = 0.60 nM was determined and found to induce apoptosis in MDA-MB-231 and HS578T cells. Extra experiments showed the compound to act as a mitocan and to induce inhibition of proliferation or growth arrest in MDA-MB-231 cells at lower doses followed by an induction of apoptosis at higher doses. Furthermore, differential responses to proliferation inhibition and apoptosis induction may explain differential sensitivity of mammary cell lines to compound 28.

  DOI

• Developing an Amide-Spacered Triterpenoid Rhodamine Hybrid of Nano-Molar Cytotoxicity Combined with Excellent Tumor Cell/Non-Tumor Cell Selectivity

  Molecules · 2023 · 3 citations

  • Chemistry
  • Stereochemistry
  • Combinatorial chemistry

  = 1.9 nM, for A2780 ovarian carcinoma).

  DOI

• Analysis of e-waste recycling behavior based on survey at a Midwestern US University

  Waste Management · 2020 · 112 citations

  • Political Science
  • Business
  • Waste management
  DOI

Frequent coauthors

• A Zimmermann

  University of Illinois Chicago

  14 shared

• Hugh Montgomery

  University College London

  4 shared

• A B Lerner

  Université Paris-Saclay

  4 shared

• Thomas B. Fitzpatrick

  4 shared

• JAMES W. BURKS

  2 shared

• René Csük

  Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

  2 shared

• William B. Reed

  2 shared

• Niels V. Heise

  Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

  2 shared

Similar researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Jiawei Hanh-146
• Maria T. Grosse Perdekamph-141
• Gan Zhangh-134
• Jeffrey S. Mooreh-130
• Shuming Nieh-128