Faculty Profiles

Principal Faculty
Kevin A. Reynolds, Professor and Chair. Biological Chemistry; Natural product and lipid biosynthesis, drug discovery and structural biology, mechanistic enzymology.
Dean B. Atkinson, Associate Professor. Analytical and Physical Chemistry; Chemical kinetics, cavity ring-down spectroscopy.
Albert S. Benight, Professor. Biophysical Chemistry; Nucleic acids and protein biophysics; DNA and RNA sequence-dependent stability; statistical thermodynamics; multiplex hybridization, microarrays, bioinformatics.
Tami Lasseter Clare, Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Materials chemistry and art conservation.
Elisa Cooper, Instructor/Lab Coordinator
Dirk Iwata-Reuyl, Professor. Biological Chemistry; Mechanistic enzymology, mechanism and function of RNA modification, natural product biosynthesis, molecular medicine.
Niles Lehman, Professor. Biochemistry; Evolution in vitro of RNA, molecular biology and genetics of the origins of life and primordial chemical systems.
James F. Pankow, Professor. Analytical Chemistry. College of Engineering & Computer Science, and College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
David H. Peyton, Professor. Biochemistry; Dynamics and structural aspects of proteins, protein-ligand interactions, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
Shankar B. Rananavare, Research Associate Professor; Physical Chemistry; Microemulsions, liquid crystals, display technology.
Scott Reed, Assistant Professor. Organic Chemistry; Biosensors, nanotechnology, fluorescence spectroscopy (on leave of absence).
Gwen Shusterman, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Affairs. Physical Chemistry; Computational chemistry, chemical education.
Reuben H. Simoyi, Professor. Nonlinear Dynamics; Chemical instabilities, chemical chaos, oscillations and symmetry-breaking bifurcations. Convective instabilities; Hydrothermal waves and advection. Biological Chemistry; Mechanistic basis of physiological effects of organosulfur compounds, chemical toxicology, carcinogenesis.
Robert M. Strongin, Professor. Organic Chemistry. Synthesis and evaluation of unique redox and chromophore materials.
Carl C. Wamser, Professor. Organic Chemistry; Materials chemistry, photochemistry, organic reaction mechanisms, polymer photochemistry, solar energy conversion.
Mingdi Yan, Professor. Organic Chemistry/Material Science; Molecular recognition, microfabrication, surface chemistry, sensors.
Mark Woods, Assistant Professor. Inorganic Chemistry; Design and chemical synthesis of targeted contrast media for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Advance Imaging Research Center (AIRC).
Andrea Mitchell Goforth, Assistant Professor and Signature Research Fellow. Inorganic Chemistry; The advancement of the field of bionanotechnology by the development of novel, nanometer sized inorganic imaging agents.

Research Faculty

Thomas M. Hard, Research Fellow. Environmental Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry, spectral and temporal discrimination methods in spectroscopy, photochemical kinetics of atmospheric trace gases.


Adjunct Faculty

Nancy Becker, Adjunct Professor; Nutrition.


Harry Davis, Adjunct Professor; Chemical Bonding


Julie Peyton, Adjunct Professor; Introductory Chemistry


Michael Riscoe, Staff Scientist and Principal Investigator, Medical Research Service, Portland VA Medical Center. Medicinal Chemistry; Biochemistry of parasitic agents.


EmeritusFaculty
Bruce W. Brown
Gary L. Gard,Professor. Inorganic Chemistry; Oxidation chemistry: new oxidationmaterials with high-valent non-metal and transition metal sites. Fluorine chemistry: new high-performance fluoromaterials with carbonand/or sulfur components.
Alfred S. Levinson. Organic Chemistry.
Raymond P. Lutz. Organic Chemistry.
David W. McClure, Professor. Physical Chemistry/Chemical physics; thermodynamics, computational methods.
Robert J. O'Brien, Professor. Physical Chemistry; Chemical kinetics, photochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, environmental chemistry.
Morris B. Silverman