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Biological Sciences
Name Research Interests
Sherrice V. Allen Biochemical pathways and putative roles in infection and pathogenesis
Shirley L. Chao Toxicology
Valeria P. Fleming Biology, Biotechnology
Robert L. Grier IV Biotechnology
David L. Haas Biology
Subir Nagdas Biochemistry
Jonas E. Okeagu Biology
Murthy V.L.N. Pinapaka Biology
Minnie B. Ragland Biology
James E. Raynor, Jr. Cell Biology
Stephen J. Salek Interaction between reproductive hormones and behavior
Phil Senter
Dinosaur paleobioogy, Dinosaur forelimb function, Bioacoustics of Mesozoic animals
Floyd R. Waddle Genetics, Anatomy

 

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 Biochemistry
Steven Singletary Geochemistry
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.

 

Physics, Astronomy, Earth and Natural Sciences

Name Research Interests
Abdirahman Y. Abokor Physics
Ronald A. Johnston Teaching science, Earth Science
John Mattox Phenomena in Astronomy and Acoustics
Gurcharan S. Rahi Physics
Steven Singletary Geology
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.