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Chemistry Faculty

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Graduate Faculty

Bret E. Jackson, Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry, B.S., Carnegie-Mellon, 1979; Ph.D., M.I.T., 1983.

Craig T. Martin, Professor and Graduate Program Director, B.A., California at San Diego, 1979; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1984.

Scott M. Auerbach, Professor, B.S., Georgetown, 1988; Ph.D, California at Berkeley, 1993.

Michael D. Barnes, Associate Professor, B.S., California State at Sonoma, 1985; Ph.D., Rice, 1991.

Patricia A. Bianconi, Associate Professor, B.S., Yale, 1979; M.A., Columbia, 1981; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986.

Justin T. Fermann, Lecturer, B.A., B.S., Hartwick College, 1992; Ph.D., Georgia, 1996.

Lila M. Gierasch, Professor (Joint with Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), A.B., Mount Holyoke, 1970; Ph.D., Harvard, 1975.

Stephen S. Hixson, Professor, B.A., Pennsylvania, 1965; Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1970.

Igor A. Kaltashov, Assistant Professor, B.S., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 1987; M.S., 1989; Ph.D., Maryland, 1995.

Michael J. Knapp, Assistant Professor,  B.S., University of California at San Diego, 1993; Ph.D., 1998.

Paul M. Lahti, Professor, B.A., Cornell, 1978; M.S., Yale, 1981; M. Phil., 1981; Ph.D., 1985.

Michael J. Maroney, Professor, B.S., Iowa State, 1977; Ph.D., Washington, 1981.

Ricardo B. Metz, Associate Professor, B.S., Johns Hopkins, 1986; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 1991.

Vincent M. Rotello, Goessmann  Professor, B.S., Illinois Institute of Technology, 1985; Ph.D., Yale, 1990.

Howard D. Stidham, Professor, B.S., Trinity College, 1950; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1955.

Sankaran Thayumanavan, Assistant Professor,  B.S., The American College 1987; M.S., 1989; Ph.D., Illinois, 1996.

Lynmarie Thompson, Associate Professor, B.S., California Institute of Technology, 1983; Ph.D., Yale, 1989.

Julian F. Tyson, Professor, B.Sc., Aberdeen, 1971; Ph.D., London, 1975.

Richard W. Vachet, Assistant Professor, B.S., William and Mary, 1993; Ph.D., North Carolina, 1997.

Dhandapani Venkataraman, Associate Professor, B.Sc., R.K.M. Vivekananda, 1989; N.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology, 1991; Ph.D., Illinois, 1996.

William J. Vining, Associate Professor, B.S., New York at Oneonta, 1981; Ph.D., North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1985.

Edward G. Voigtman, Jr., Associate Professor, B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1972; Ph.D., Florida, 1979.

Robert M. Weis, Associate Professor, B.S., Michigan, 1979; Ph.D., Stanford, 1984.

 

Adjunct/Associate Faculty

E. Bryan Coughlin, Assistant Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering.

Scott C. Garman, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Moleuclar Biology.

David J. Gross, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Arnold T. Hagler, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry.

Daniel Hebert, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Shaw L. Hsu, Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering.

William E. Mahoney, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry.

Thomas J. McCarthy, Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering.

Peter A. Monson, Professor of Chemical Engineering.

Murugappan Muthukumar, Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering.

Jennifer Normanly, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Jacques Penelle, Associate Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering.

Thomas P. Russell, Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering.

Karsten Theis, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Baoshan Xing,Assistant Professor of Plant and Soil Sciences.

Robert A. Zimmermann, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.


Faculty Emeriti

Ronald D. Archer, Professor Emeritus  (1999).

Ramon M. Barnes, Professor Emeritus  (2000).

John F. Brandts,Professor Emeritus  (1990).

Paul E. Cade, Professor Emeritus (2002).

Louis A. Carpino, Professor Emeritus  (2005).

John A. Chandler, Associate Professor Emeritus (2002).

David J. Curran, Professor Emeritus (1996).

Roberta O. Day, Professor Emeritus (2002).

Robert R. Holmes, Professor Emeritus  (1998).

Clifford P. Lillya, Professor Emeritus  (2002).

Earl J. McWhorter, Associate Professor Emeritus (1992).

Bernard Miller, Professor Emeritus  (2001).

Louis D. Quin, Professor Emeritus (1996).

John L. Ragle, Professor Emeritus  (1998).

Marvin D. Rausch, Professor Emeritus  (2001).

Everett L. Reed, Assistant Professor Emeritus (1995).

Marion B. Rhodes, Professor Emerita  (2000).

George R. Richason, Jr., Professor Emeritus (1976).

Robert L. Rowell, Professor Emeritus  (1997).

Richard S. Stein, Goessmann Professor Emeritus (1991).

Everett E. Turner, Assistant Professor Emeritus (2002).

Peter C. Uden, Professor Emeritus  (2004).

John S. Wood, Professor Emeritus (2002).