Apr 11, 2025  
2021 - 2022 Graduate Catalog 
    
2021 - 2022 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Chemistry Faculty


CHAIR

Robert D. Pike Professor (Ph.D., Brown).

GRADUATE DIRECTOR

William R. McNamara Associate Professor (Ph.D., Yale).

PROFESSORS

Christopher J. Abelt Chancellor Professor (Ph.D., University of California - Los Angeles), Deborah C. Bebout (Ph.D., Cornell), Randolph A. Coleman (Ph.D., Purdue), Elizabeth J. Harbron Floyd Dewey Gottwald, Sr., Professor (Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), Robert J. Hinkle (Ph.D., Utah), Lisa M. Landino (Ph.D., Virginia), and John C. Poutsma Garrett-Robb-Guy Professor (Ph.D., Purdue).

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Tyler K. Meldrum (Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley), Jonathan R. Scheerer (Ph.D., Harvard), Kristin L. Wustholz Class of 1964 Distinguished Associate Professor (Ph.D, Washington), and Douglas D. Young Cornelia Brackenridge Talbot Term Distinguished Associate Professor (Ph.D., North Carolina State).  

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Nathan M. Kidwell (Ph.D., Purdue), and Rachel O’Brien (Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley). 

SENIOR LECTURERS

Dana Lashley (Ph.D., Auburn), Beverly T. Sher  (Ph.D., California Institute of Technology), and Jordan T. Walk (Ph.D., Michigan).

EMERITUS PROFESSORS 

Gary C. DeFotis (Ph.D., Chicago), Richard L. Kiefer (Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley), Stephen K. Knudson (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology), David E. Kranbuehl (Ph.D., Wisconsin), Gary W. Rice (Ph.D., Iowa State), William H. Starnes, Jr. (Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology), and David W. Thompson (Ph.D., Northwestern).