The faculty within the department of chemistry strive to provide students with a sound background in the fundamental areas of chemistry, coupled with an understanding of and exposure to modern instrumentation, encouraging them to be successful in the academic and career goals.
Faculty and Staff
Analytical Chemistry, Nanomaterials in Sensing, Biological and Environmental Applications
Organic Chemistry, Chemistry Education Research Qualitative Research Methods, Representational Competence
Analytical and Environmental
Electrochemistry of Materials, Chemical Education
Organic Chemistry, Crystal Engineering and Coordination Chemistry
Scott M. Curtis
Laboratory and Stores Supervisor - Chemistry
Marla D. Fritz
Administrative Assistant II
Academic Administrative Assistant I for Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science
Dr. Nikolay N. Gerasimchuk
Distinguished Professor
Matthew & Patricia Harthcock College of Natural & Applied Sciences Faculty Fellowship
Inorganic/Bioinorganic Chemistry - Oxime-Bearing Ligands and their metal complexes as biologically active compounds
Physical/Biophysical Chemistry, NMR Spectroscopy of damaged DNA
Analytical - Photoluminescence and Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence (ECL)
Analytical, Environmental, Ecological effects of nanomaterials and fluorinated compounds.
Physical/Materials Chemistry - Colloid and Surface Chemistry, Organic thin films, Physical Properties of Polymers
Organic and Polymer Chemistry
Theoretical Organic and Organometallic Chemistry
Analytical, Developing Sensors based on Nanotechnology and Electrochemistry
Inorganic/Physical Chemistry, High-temperature Solid State Syntheses, Intermetallic Compounds, Thermoelectric Materials, First-principle Band Structure Computation
BIosensing, Fluorescent Sensing, Protein and Peptide Science, Polymer Chemistry