Research Areas and Faculty

On this page:

• About Undergraduate Research
• Analytical
• Education
• Environmental
• Inorganic
• Organic and Polymer
• Physical

About Undergraduate Research

The best way to learn about science is to do science. Scientific knowledge is gained through research. Before papers are published and textbooks are written, studies need to be designed, data needs to collected, and results need to be analyzed and interpreted. These activities, the backbone of science, are best learned through hands-on learning in a lab. Science is best understood when you know how science is conducted.
 

Analytical

• Steven Higgins, Ph.D.  Atomic force microscopy of solid-liquid interfaces, studies of heterogeneous kinetics under well-defined chemical and transport conditions
• Audrey McGowin, Ph.D.
   

Education

• Suzanne Lunsford, Ph.D. Inquiry-based technology in the classroom
   

Environmental

• Rachel Aga, Ph.D. Experimental and computational techniques applied to renewable energy alternatives
• Steven Higgins, Ph.D. Inorganic and bio-mineralization processes, aqueous geochemistry
• Audrey McGowin, Ph.D. Green methods for environmental analysis
• Suzanne Lunsford, Ph.D. Develop sensors
   

Inorganic

• Kuppuswamy Arumugam, Ph.D. Cytotoxicity of redox active N-heterocyclic carbene annulated gold complexes
• Suzanne Lunsford, Ph.D. Development of Surface Modified Electrodes
• An Electrochemical Approach to Control the Ring size of Cyclic Polyesters
   

Organic and Polymer

• Kuppuswamy Arumugam, Ph.D. Electrochemical approach to control the ring size of cyclic polyesters and functional polymeric hybrid materials 
• William Feld  Organic synthesis of haplomyrtin and cyclopentadienones, monomer/polymer synthesis of conducting and electronically active organic materials, study of thermally stable and potentially ordered polymers and bifunctional monomers
• Eric Fossum, Ph.D.  Synthesizing funtionalized highly branched polymers, using kinetic parameters to control polycondensation reactions that lead to linear and branched polymers; synthesis of new and interesting monomers
• Daniel Ketcha, Ph.D. Combinatorial organic synthesis and bioorganic, heterocyclic natural products
   

Physical

• Rachel Aga, Ph.D. Computer simulations to study molecular hydrogen storage capacity in nanostructured carbon materials, study performance efficiency of organic photovoltaic materials
• David Dolson, Ph.D. Laser-initiated gas-phase chemical chain reaction and energy transfer kinetics observed with time-resolved infrared fluorescence techniques; Laser-excited fluorescence spectroscopy
• Paul G. Seybold, Ph.D. Developing probabilistic stochastic cellular automata models that simulate the evolution of a variety of complex physical and chemical systems, using computer-based methods to find relationships between the structures of molecules and their physical, chemical, and biological properties
• Ioana E. P. Sizemore, Ph.D. Emphasis on Raman and Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy