Chemistry Faculty and Staff

Chemistry faculty members provide close, personal attention to students in the classroom and in the lab. The professors are active researchers who invite students to become involved in their work.

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
B.S. Case Western; Ph.D. University of North Carolina
Scholary interests: inorganic coordination chemistry; multinuclear iron(III) complexes

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

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
B.S. Susquehanna University; Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Scholarly interests:  structure-function relationships of photosynthetic proteins; biophysical/biochemical characterization of metallo-proteins

David Rovnyak
B.S. Richmond; Ph.D. M.I.T.
Scholarly interests: biophysics, magnetic resonance of biological macromolecules, bile micelles

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

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