Graduate Faculty

Craig T. Martin, Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry, B.A., California at San Diego, 1979; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1984.

Dhandapani Venkataraman, Professor and Graduate Program Director, B.Sc., R.K.M. Vivekananda, 1989; B.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology, 1991; Ph.D., Illinois, 1996.

Scott M. Auerbach, Professor, B.S., Georgetown, 1988; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 1993.

Michael D. Barnes, Professor, B.S., California State at Sonoma, 1985; Ph.D., Rice, 1991.

Patricia A. Bianconi, Associate Professor, B.S., Yale, 1979; M.A., Columbia, 1981; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986.

James J. Chambers, Assistant Professor, B.S., New York at Buffalo, 1997; Ph.D., Purdue, 2002.

Min Chen, Assistant Professor, B.Sc., Tianjin, China, 1996; M.Sc., 1999; Ph.D., Frankfurt, Germany, 2004.

Paul L. Dubin, Research Professor, B.S., City University of New York, 1962; Ph.D., Rutgers, 1970.

Michelle E. Farkas, Assistant Professor, B.A., Wellesley, 2001; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2010.

Justin T. Fermann, Senior Lecturer, B.S., Hartwick College, 1992; Ph.D., Georgia, 1996.

Lila M. Gierasch, Distinguished Professor (Joint with Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), A.B., Mount Holyoke, 1970; Ph.D., Harvard, 1975.

Jeanne A. Hardy, Associate Professor, B.S., Utah State, 1994; M.S., 1994; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 2000.

Bret E. Jackson, Professor, B.S., Carnegie-Mellon, 1979; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983.

Igor A. Kaltashov, Professor, B.S., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 1987; M.S., 1989; Ph.D., Maryland, 1996.

Kevin R. Kittilstved, Assistant Professor, B.S., Gonzaga, 2001; Ph.D., Washington, 2006.

Michael J. Knapp, Associate Professor, B.S., California at San Diego, 1993; Ph.D., 1998.

Michael J. Maroney, Professor, B.S., Iowa State, 1977; Ph.D., Washington, 1981.

Ricardo B. Metz, Professor and Associate Head of Department, B.S., Johns Hopkins, 1986; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 1991.

Ruthanne Paradise, Lecturer, B.S., Houghton College, 2004; Ph.D., Massachusetts Amherst, 2009.

Vincent M. Rotello, Distinguished Professor and Charles E. Goessmann Professor, B.S., Illinois Institute of Technology, 1985; Ph.D., Yale, 1990.

Nathan A. Schnarr, Lecturer, B.S., Hope, 1999; Ph.D., Colorado State, 2004.

Howard D. Stidham, Professor, B.S., Trinity College, 1950; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1955.

Eric Streiter, Assistant Professor, B.S., Wisconsin, Madison, 1999; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005.

Sankaran Thayumanavan, Professor, B.S., The American College, 1987; M.S., 1989; Ph.D., Illinois, 1996.

Lynmarie K. Thompson, Professor, B.S., California Institute of Technology, 1983; Ph.D., Yale, 1989.

Richard W. Vachet, Professor, B.S., William and Mary, 1993; Ph.D., North Carolina, 1997.

Gabriela Weaver, Associate Provost for Faculty Development, Director for the Center for Teaching and Faculty Development, Professor, B.S., California Institute of Technology, 1989; Ph.D., Colorado at Boulder and JILA, 1994.

Mingxu You, Assistant Professor, B.S., Peking, 2008; Ph.D., Florida, 2012.


Adjunct/Associate Faculty

Anthony Dinsmore, Professor of Physics.

Arnold  T. Hagler, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, Chief Executive Officer, Asian Fusion Pharma; Founder and Chair, ScienceMedia, Inc.

Daniel Hebert, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Peter A. Monson, Professor of Chemical Engineering.

Murugappan Muthukumar, Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering.

Shelly Peyton, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering.

Karsten Theis, Assistant Professor, Westfield State.

Elizabeth Young, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Amherst College.


Faculty Emeriti

Ronald D. Archer, Professor Emeritus (1999).

Ramon M. Barnes, Professor Emeritus (2000).

John F. Brandts, Professor Emeritus (1990).

Paul E. Cade, Professor Emeritus (2002).

Louis A. Carpino, Professor Emeritus (2005).

David J. Curran, Professor Emeritus (1996).

Roberta O. Day, Professor Emerita (2002).

Stephen S. Hixson, Professor Emeritus (2015).

Robert R. Holmes, Professor Emeritus (1998).

Paul M. Lahti, Professor Emeritus (2015).

Clifford P. Lillya, Professor Emeritus (2002).

Earl J. McWhorter, Associate Professor Emeritus (1992).

Bernard Miller, Professor Emeritus (2001).

Louis D. Quin, Professor Emeritus (1996).

John L. Ragle, Professor Emeritus (1998).

Everett L. Reed, Assistant Professor Emeritus (1995).

Richard S. Stein, Goessmann Professor Emeritus (1991).

Peter C. Uden, Professor Emeritus (2004).

Julian F. Tyson, Professor Emeritus (2016).

Edward G. Voigtman, Jr., Professor Emeritus (2015).

John S. Wood, Professor Emeritus (2002).

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