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Faculty Research 
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Name Research Interests
Cevdet Akbay Synthesis, characterization, and application of  pseudostationary phases in micellar electrokinetic chromatography; development of polymeric and co-polymeric chiral and achiral surfactant micelles for separation of chiral/achiral pharmaceuticals and drug delivery systems
Daniel E. Autrey Biological Raman spectroscopy; Raman spectroscopy of model compounds for amino acids to characterize vibrational bands that serve as markers for the hydrophobic/hydrophilic local environment of the amino acid; Raman spectroscopy of laser-trapped bacteria and cells
Jonathan G. Breitzer Cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries; sulfur-rich molecules; synthesis of nanoscale materials; demonstrations for chemical education
Jairo Castillo-Chara Computational Chemistry
Shubo Han Molecular basis of protein interaction in Parkinson's disease; synthesis of nanomaterials for biosensor development
Booker Juma Synthesis, isolation and characterization of boeswellic acids from boswellia serrata: isolation of oligomeric proanthocyanidins: homogeneous catalytic studies.
Subir Nagdas Identification and characterization of acrosomal enzymes and acrosomal protein-protein interactions to elucidate their physiological roles in mammalian fertilization.
Darren Pearson Synthesis, characterization, and application of conducting rigid rod organic oligomers for use in molecular rectifiers, transistors, and other electronic devices.  Characterization of these molecules will involve hand on usage of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and the Infrared instrument as well as other analytical techniques.
Bidisha Bose-Basu
Physics, Astronomy, Earth and Natural Sciences 
Name Research Interests
Abdirahman Y. Abokor Physics
John Mattox Phenomena in Astronomy and Acoustics
Gurcharan S. Rahi Physics
Alex Umantsev Condensed- and soft-matter physics, computational materials physics and biophysics; particularly processes of pattern formation, nonequilibrium thermodynamic and dynamics of interfaces, theoretical methods and computer simulations.
Jianshi Wu Nuclear Structure and Astrophysics, elasticity of Microemulsion.