David Rovnyak

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

 

William Kerber

• Inorganic Chemistry

 

Margaret Kastner

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

 

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

 

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

• Biochemistry

 

Thomas Shawe

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

 

Robert A. Stockland Jr.

• Organic and Inorganic Chemistry

 

Timothy Strein

• 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

 

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

 

Scientific and Support Staff

 

• Suellen Beck : Secretary and administrative assistant
• Brian Breczinski: NMR manager, electronics/instrumentation technician
• Margaret Brody: Stockroom and chemical Supervisor, Purchasing Officer
• Dr. Peter Findeis: GC/MS Specialist