Faculty in the Department of Chemistry are conducting research that involves undergraduate and graduate students in a wide array of research areas.  Below are the research focus areas in the Department of Chemistry. Click on a professors name to learn more about the research going on in their lab.

 

 

Analytical Chemistry

• Ngee Sing Chong - Professor - Environmental analysis; Materials characterization; Studies of atmospheric pollution
• Charles Chusuei - Assoc. Professor - Carbon nanomaterials; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; Electrochemical sensing
• Chengshan Wang - Assoc. Professor - Peptide synthesis; FTIR spectroscopy to study Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases
• Mengliang Zhang - Assist. Professor - Mass spectrometric analysis of forensic samples, food materials, and natrual products

Biochemistry

• Donald Andrew Burden - Professor - Mechanism of action of DNA Topoisomerase II and anti-cancer drugs
• Paul Kline - Professor - Bioorganic and Biophysical Chemistry; Mechanistic enzymology; Enzyme transition state analysis
• Justin M. Miller - Assoc. Professor - ATP-dependent molecular motors; transient state enzymology; Biophysical chemistry
• Beng Guat Ooi - Professor - Cigarette smoke mutagenicity; Yeast metabolomics; Fermentation and wine quality

Chemical Education

• Katy Hosbein - Assist. Professor - Investigating the influence of STEM learning environments on student STEM identity using equity-centered methods
• Judith Iriarte-Gross - Professor - Increasing the involvement of girls and women in STEM fields
• Patricia Patterson - Professor - Developing outreach and resource programs for teachers and students
• Amy Phelps - Professor - Studying and improving the teaching and learning of chemistry
• Greg Rushton - Professor - Conceptual change in tertiary chemistry learning environments; classroom discourse practices; policy reform in K-16 chemistry education; pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in chemistry
• Michael Sanger - Professor - Designing and evaluating instructional methods to identify and confront student misconception

Computation/Theoretical Chemistry

• Jing Kong - Professor - Ab initio quantum methods to study many-atom systems based on electronic structure theory
  
• Preston MacDougall - Professor - Quantum chemistry-based design tools; Molecular geometry/chemical reactivity models
• Anatoliy Volkov - Professor - Density-normalized spherical harmonics

Environmental Chemistry

• Ngee Sing Chong - Professor - Environmental analysis; Materials characterization; Studies of atmospheric pollution
• John DiVincenzo - Professor - Pervious concrete quality studies; Detection of petroleum products in water

Inorganic Chemistry

• Keying Ding - Assoc. Professor - Organometallics; Catalysis; Bioinorganic chemistry
• Greg Van Patten - Professor - Quantum dots; Nanotechnology; Photophysics

Materials Chemistry

• Andrienne Friedli - Professor - Synthesis of organosilanes, organic polyelectrolytes, and liquid crystalline organic dyes
• Dwight Patterson - Assoc. Professor - Synthesis and characterization of organic polymers and polymeric materials
• Greg Van Patten - Professor - Quantum dots; Nanotechnology; Photophysics

Organic Chemistry

• Souvik Banerjee - Assist. Professor - Medicinal Chemistry, Computer Aided Design and Syntheis of Small Bioactive Molecules, Enzyme and Organo catalysis, Peptidomimetics 
• Kevin Bicker - Assoc. Professor - Bioorganic chemistry; Solid-phase synthesis; Assay development; Enzymology
• Keying Ding - Assoc. Professor - Organometallics; Catalysis; Bioinorganic chemistry
• Andrienne Friedli - Professor - Synthesis of organosilanes, organic polyelectrolytes, and liquid crystalline organic dyes
• Scott Handy - Professor - Organic synthesis, Deep eutectic solvents; Synthesis and isolation of biologically active natural products 

Physical Chemistry

• Charles Chusuei - Assoc. Professor - Carbon nanomaterials; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; Electrochemical sensing
• Greg Van Patten - Professor - Quantum dots; Nanotechnology; Photophysics

Polymer Science

• Dwight Patterson - Assoc. Professor - Synthesis and characterization of organic polymers and polymeric materials