Faculty Directory
Dallas K. Bates
Professor, Chemistry
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- Improving and developing new methods for heterocycle synthesis
- Creating novel applications for sulfoxides and other reactive sulfur species
Lanrong Bi
Associate Professor, Chemistry
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- Chemical biology: development of novel molecular probes for DNA sequencing analysis and disease gene discovery
- Medicinal chemistry: development of new imaging and therapeutic agents towards cancer and cardiovascular disease; Design and synthesis of novel prodrugs of peptides and peptide mimetics.
Paul Charlesworth
Associate Professor, Chemistry
Undergraduate Advisor, Second-Year Students
Adjunct Associate Professor, Cognitive and Learning Sciences
Research Interests
- Chemical education
- Technology-supported learning
- Online and Blended Classrooms
- Flipped Classrooms
- Spatial Ability
Bahne C. Cornilsen
Professor, Chemistry
Special Advisor for Double-Major Students, Minor Students, and Other Cases
Research Interests
- The nickel electrode used in Ni-hydrogen and Ni-Cd batteries (the active cathode material is actually a nickel hydroxide or oxyhydroxide)
- Prediction of vibrational spectra
- Influence of point defects on vibrational spectra
- Vibrational spectra of minerals
Tarun K. Dam
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- Molecular basis of glycan (carbohydrate)-mediated biological functions
- Glycan binding proteins or lectins
- Glycan detection
- Mechanistic glycobiology
- Macromolecular communication
- Biomolecular thermodynamics
Shiyue Fang
Associate Professor, Chemistry
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- Organic synthesis, including the synthesis of natural and unnatural useful molecules and the development of synthetic methodologies.
Sarah A. Green
Professor, Chemistry
Research Interests
- Origin and fate of DOC in terrestrial, lake, and marine environments
- Methods for detection of free radicals, photochemical transformations of natural and anthropogenic organic compounds in the environment
- Oxidative degradation reactions
- Response of aquatic systems to climate change
- Effects of electrostatic charge and ionic strength on fast reaction kinetics
- Behavior of metal-contaminated sediments in the Lake Superior basin
- Fluorescence-based analytical methods
Research Interests
- Synthesizing, processing, and characterizing polymers and composites or nanoparticles
- Stimulus-response nanoparticles for drug delivery
- Electrospinning of nanofibers for tissue scaffolds
- Structured nanoparticles for low-leaching wood preservation
- Biocomposites and biofibers
- Studies of controlled nanoscale interfaces of rice-hull reinforced composites
- Engineered wood- or biopolymer-reinforced composites having improved processing, longevity, moisture resistance, and mechanical properties
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- Synthesis, characterization, and biomedical and sensing applications of water-soluble conjugated glycopolymers, glycodendrimers, glyconanopaticles, conjugated polyelectrolytes, small redox-active carbohydrate conjugates, and functional carbon nanotube arrays
Rudy Luck
Associate Professor, Chemistry
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- Low-valent molybdenum complexes capable of activating dinitrogen
- Synthesis and characterization of heteronuclear quadruply bonded metal-metal complexes
- Molecular dihydrogen compounds
- Catalytic applications of metal-oxo/peroxo systems in the area of epoxidation of olefins
- Construction of metallo-framework cluster materials
Lynn R. Mazzoleni
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- Understanding the identities, occurrence, and transformation of aerosol organic compounds
- Identifying organic aerosol constituents from a variety of atmospheric environments
- Exploration of new LC column chemistries with ultrahigh pressure pumps for fast and thorough separations
- Aqueous reaction pathways
Pushpalatha Murthy
Professor, Chemistry
Research Interests
- Structure, metabolism, and biological role of phosphoinositides in plant cells
- Catalytic and structural aspects of phytases, including specificity of hydrolysis, molecular weight and subunit structure, amino acid sequence, and molecular biology
- Biosynthesis, subcellular localization, and biological role of novel scyllo-inositol containing phosphoinositides
Dario Stacchiola
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- Understanding the elemental chemical processes on simple model surfaces under pristine conditions
- Synthesis of metal and oxide nanoparticles deposited on novel film oxides, and their multi-technique characterization by photoelectron and infrared spectroscopies and scanning probe microscopy, in combination with theoretical models
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- Understanding the molecular recognition features and assembly mechanisms of gene regulation
Ashutosh Tiwari
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- Protein aggregation diseases
- Consequences of protein misfolding in vitro and how it relates to misfolding in vivo
- Molecular crowding
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
—"Walden" - H.D. Thoreau
—"Walden" - H.D. Thoreau
Loredana Valenzano
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Links of Interest
Reviewer for:
- Journal of Materials Chemistry
- Journal of Physical Chemistry C
- CrystEngComm
- Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
- New Journal of Chemistry
- Applied Surface Sciense
- Journal of Solid State Chemistry
- Computational Material Science
Research Interests
- Theoretical and computational chemistry and physical chemistry
- Electronic structure theory applied to molecules (organic, inorganic) and materials (molecular crystals, MOFs)
- Molecular adsorption on surfaces and in cavities
- Solvent effects on properties of molecules and solids with particular interest toward hydrated versus vacuum conditions
- Multi-scale computational modeling
- Synergistic collaboration with experimentalists to combine different techniques to solve some "puzzles" of Nature...
