Dec 06, 2025  
2025 - 2026 Graduate Catalog 
    
2025 - 2026 Graduate Catalog

Chemistry Faculty


CHAIR

Kristin L. Wustholz, Margaret Hamilton Professor (Ph.D., University of Washington)

GRADUATE DIRECTOR

Jonathan R. Scheerer, Garrett-Robb-Guy Professor (Ph.D., Harvard University)

PROFESSORS

Christopher J. Abelt Chancellor Professor (Ph.D., University of California - Los Angeles), Deborah C. Bebout (Ph.D., Cornell University), Elizabeth J. Harbron Floyd D. Gottwald, Sr., Professor (Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), Robert J. Hinkle (Ph.D., University of Utah) (on leave 2025-2026), Lisa M. Landino (Ph.D., University of Virginia), William R. McNamara (Ph.D., Yale University) (on leave 2025-2026), Robert D. Pike (Ph.D., Brown University) (on leave Fall 2025), John C. Poutsma (Ph.D., Purdue University), and Douglas D. Young McLeod Taylor Professor (Ph.D., North Carolina State). 

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Nathan M. Kidwell (Ph.D., Purdue University), and Tyler K. Meldrum (Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley).  

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Katelynn A. Perrault (Ph.D., University of Technology Sydney), Isabelle R. Taylor (Ph.D., University of California - San Francisco), Isaiah R. Speight (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University), and Audrey Ynigez-Gutierrez (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University).

TEACHING PROFESSOR

Beverly T. Sher  (Ph.D., California Institute of Technology).

ASSOCIATE TEACHING PROFESSOR

Jordan T. Walk (Ph.D., University of Michigan).

ASSISTANT TEACHING PROFESSORS

John T. Bedford (Ph.D., Old Dominion University) and Emily Hardy (Ph.D., Auburn University).

VISITING ASSISTANT TEACHING PROFESSOR

Mauro Tiso (Ph.D., Cleveland State University).

EMERITUS PROFESSORS 

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