Faculty

Ratio of majors to full-time department faculty: 4:1
Average class size, introductory: 50
Average class size, advanced: 15

Full-Time Faculty

David Burkey B.S., Colorado School of Mines, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Richard Cook University of Michigan; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.

Alice Deckert (chair) B.S. (chemistry), B.A. (mathematics), Bethel College; Ph.D., Stanford University

Ivelitza Garcia

Elizabeth Guldan B.S., University of Wisconsin; Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Vladi Heredia-Wilent

Marcus Juhasz

Jacqueline Knaust B.S., Quincy University; Ph.D., University of Missouri

Shaun Murphree B.A., Colgate University, 1984; Ph.D., Emory University, 1991

Phillip Persichini, III B.S., University of Pittsburgh at Bradford; M.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Ph.D., University of Wyoming

Kirsten Peterson B.S., Allegheny College, M.A., Allegheny College

Martin Serra B.A., Tarkio College; Ph.D., Ohio University

Ann Sheffield B.A., Johns Hopkins, University; Ph.D., University of Maryland

David Statman B.A., Lafayette College; Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook

Selected Faculty Publications and Achievements

Dr. Deckert's group published "Steric Considerations in the Covalent Binding of Myoglobin to Thin Films " in Langmuir.
Dr. Murphree coauthored a review of "Three-membered Ring Sytems" for Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry.
Dr. Persichini recently coauthored "Phospholipid Tubules II" in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and he has given four invited talks in the last two years.
Dr. Rodgers authored Descriptive Inorganic, Coordination, and Solid-State Chemistry, now in its second edition.
Dr. Serra was recently a Fogarty Senior International Fellow at CNRS in Strasbourg, France, and his group published "Effects of Magnesium Ions on the Stabilization of RNA Oligomers of Defined Structures" in RNA.
Dr. Sheffield presented "Using Mordants with Natural Dyes: Understanding and Improving the Process" at the Fourth International Symposium on Natural Colorants, and she is a member of the Committee of Examiners for the Chemistry GRE.
Dr. Statman is currently a Fulbright Scholar researching nonlinear optics in Budapest.
Dr. Vuocolo coauthored "Green Chemistry: Sustaining a High-Technology Civilization " in Pure and Applied Chemistry.