Faculty  

• Study of Molecular Mechanisms of Wettability and Adsorption
• Self-Assembled and Covalently-Attached Organic Monolayers
• Development of Methods for Chemical Modification of Solid Surfaces 

James Hanson
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Professor of Organic Chemistry
Research: 

• Organic and polymer synthesis and photochemistry
• Photochemical acid and base generation
• Novel polymer structures
• Dendritic polymers
• Molecular Imprinting
• Microlithography   

• Physical studies of retention in liquid chromatography and the solution of unique analytical problems using chemical separations 

Stephen Kelty (Director of Graduate Studies)
Ph.D., Harvard University
Associate Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Director of the Center for Computational Research
Research:

• Simulation of metal oxide surfaces, thin films and interfaces
• Simulation of lipid membranes and membrane proteins
• Simulation of nucleic acids  
• Ab Initio and Density Functional simulation of materials 

Joseph Maloy
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry
Research:

• Electroanalytical methods
• Computer modeling of high energy density batteries
• Digital simulation of electrochemical and chromatographic phenomena
• Data acquisition techniques 

Cecilia H. Marzabadi
Ph.D., University of Missouri, St. Louis
Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry
Research:

• Synthetic organic and carbohydrate chemistry
• Carbohydrate polymers
• Conformational analysis 

W. Rorer Murphy, Jr.
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
Research:

• Fluorescent probes for the study of dendritic polymers and nucleic acids
• Binding of metal complexes to nucleic acids
• Synthesis, photochemistry and electrochemistry of novel transition metal complexes
• Development of organized molecular structures
  

Nicholas Snow (Chairperson)
Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Professor of Analytical Chemistry, 
Research:

• Chemical separations , GC and HPLC, GC/MS, sampling for chromatography
• Analysis of trace organic compounds from inorganic, aqueous and biological matrices   
• Molecular imprinted polymers as stationary phases 

John Sowa
Ph.D., Iowa State University
Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry and Project Shepherd for the New Science and Technology Center Construction
Research:

• Organic and organometallic chemistry
• Synthetic and mechanistic studies of homogeneous, achiral and chiral catalytic reactions 

George Turner
Ph.D., The John Hopkins University
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research:

• Membrane protein biology
• Communication cascades

• Elucidating the molecular mechanism of function for the integral membrane proteins involved in cascades, particularly those involving signal and solute transduction 

Emeriti Faculty
Robert Augustine
Ph.D., Columbia University
Professor of Organic Chemistry, Emeritus
Executive Director, Center for Applied Catalysis

Reverend Alfred Celiano
Ph.D., Fordham University
Professor of Physical Chemistry, Emeritus

Daniel H. Huchital
Ph.D., Stanford University
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Emeritus

Eugene T. McGuiness
Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Emeritus