Apr 11, 2025  
2022 - 2023 Graduate Catalog 
    
2022 - 2023 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Chemistry Faculty


CHAIR

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

GRADUATE DIRECTOR

William R. McNamara Wilson & Martha Claiborne Stephens Associate Professor (Ph.D., Yale).

PROFESSORS

Christopher J. Abelt Chancellor Professor (Ph.D., University of California - Los Angeles), Deborah C. Bebout (Ph.D., Cornell) (on leave 2022-2023), Randolph A. Coleman (Ph.D., Purdue), Elizabeth J. Harbron Floyd D. Gottwald, Sr., Professor (Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), Robert J. Hinkle (Ph.D., Utah), Lisa M. Landino (Ph.D., Virginia), John C. Poutsma (Ph.D., Purdue), and Jonathan R. Scheerer Garrett-Robb-Guy Professor (Ph.D., Harvard) (on leave 2022-2023).

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Tyler K. Meldrum (Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley), Kristin L. Wustholz Mansfield 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 Isabelle R. Taylor (Ph.D., University of California - San Francisco).

SENIOR LECTURERS

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

LECTURERS

John T. Bedford (Ph.D., Old Dominion University)

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Cemile Kumas (Ph.D. Southern Methodist University).

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).