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Faculty Profiles
Principal Faculty
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Kevin A. Reynolds,
Professor and Chair. Biological Chemistry; Natural product and lipid
biosynthesis, drug discovery and structural biology, mechanistic
enzymology.
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| 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. |
| Elisa Cooper,
Instructor/Lab Coordinator
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| Dirk Iwata-Reuyl,
Associate 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 of Organic Chemistry
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| Carl C. Wamser,
Professor. Organic Chemistry; Materials chemistry, photochemistry,
organic reaction mechanisms, polymer photochemistry, solar energy
conversion. |
| Mingdi Yan, Associate
Professor. Organic Chemistry/Material Science; Molecular recognition,
microfabrication, surface chemistry, sensors. |
Research
Faculty
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Thomas M. Hard,
Research Fellow. Environmental Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry,
spectral and temporal discrimination methods in spectroscopy,
photochemical kinetics of atmospheric trace gases.
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Adjunct
Faculty
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| 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
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| 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
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