Brian Williams

Chemistry Department Faculty

Professor

Interests: Physical Chemistry, Spectroscopic characterization, Photophysical processes, Synthesis of micelles, lipid membranes, and vesicles

e-mail: williams@bucknell.edu
phone: 570-577-1143 fax: 570-577-1739

Faculty

Bucknell's chemistry faculty members provide close, personal attention to students in the classroom and in the lab. All chemistry faculty are active researchers who invite students to become involved in their research.

Dee Ann Casteel
B.Mus. Coe College; Ph.D. Illinois
Scholarly interests: organic synthesis, synthesis of peroxides, antimalarial, medicinal chemistry

Karen Castle
B.S. California at Irvine; Ph.D. Oregon State
Scholarly interests: kinetics and dynamics of atmospheric processes

Charles Clapp
A.B. Bowdoin; Ph.D. Harvard
Scholarly interests: enzyme mechanisms and enzyme inhibitors

Margaret Kastner
B.S. Ed., IU at South Bend; Ph.D. Notre Dame
Scholarly interests: x-ray crystallography, chemical education

William Kerber
Scholary interests: Inorganic Chemistry

Michael R. Krout
B.S. Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D. California Institute of Technology
Scholarly interests: natural product chemistry; total synthesis; reaction methods development.
Visiting assistant professor

Molly McGuire
B.A. Carleton; Ph.D. Wisconsin
Scholarly interests: environmental chemistry, environmentally important redox chemistry at clay mineral surfaces; spectroscopic characterization of aqueous colloids

Steven P. Romberger
Visiting assistant professor

David Rovnyak
B.S. Richmond; Ph.D. M.I.T.
Scholarly interests: biophysical chemistry, application of magnetic resonance techniques to the study of biological macromolecules

Thomas Selby
B.S. University of Akron, Ph.D. Ohio State University
Scholarly Interests: Biochemistry, Structural biology, X-ray crystallography

Thomas Shawe
B.S., M.S. Georgia; Ph.D. Emory
Scholarly interests: organic synthetic methodology: stereo-selective reactions and alkaloid synthesis

George Shields
B.S., M.S. Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology
Scholarly interests: computational chemistry, structural biochemistry, chemistry education

Robert A. Stockland Jr.
B.S. St. Cloud State University, Ph.D. University of Missouri
Scholarly Interests: Organic and Inorganic Chemistry

Timothy Strein (department chair)
B.S. North Carolina State; Ph.D. Penn State
Scholarly interests: capillary electrophoresis of biological fluids, charge transfer reactions at ultrasmall electrodes, GC/MS of environmental samples

James Swan
B.S. Kentucky; Ph.D. Penn State
Scholarly interests: bioanalytical chemistry: Mass Spectrometry of Peptides

Berhane Temelso, Postdoctoral Researcher
Scholarly Interests: Structural biochemistry, computational chemistry

Eric Tillman
B.S. Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo; Ph.D. Southern California
Scholarly interests: synthesis and characterization of macromolecules possessing interesting photophysical or electronic properties

Brian Williams
B.S. Harvey Mudd; Ph.D. Cornell
Scholarly interests: synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of solvent sensitive materials; photophysical processes; molecular modeling