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Adjunct Professorial Lecturer

Department Chair, Environmental Science

Albert Cheh received a BA in Chemistry from Columbia and a PhD in Biochemistry from UC Berkeley. His research focuses on the biochemistry of enzymatic digestion of biomass to produce cellulosic ethanol biofuel. He recently supervised two NIH postdocs... [More]

Assistant Professor

Dr. Costanzi’s research interests revolve around the study of the cellular targets of drugs, the identification and pharmacological characterization of molecules that modulate their activity, and the examination of the cellular consequences resulting... [More]

Professorial Lecturer

Professorial Lecturer

Senior Administrative Assistant

Adjunct Professorial Lecturer

Associate Professor

Douglas M. Fox received his BS in Chemical Engineering and his PhD in Chemistry at Michigan Technological University, in Houghton, MI. He spent two years at the Naval Research Laboratory and two years at the U.S. Naval Academy investigating the physi... [More]

Department Chair, Chemistry

Dr. James Girard teaches analytical, environmental and forensic chemistry, as well as chemistry for non-science majors. He is the author of a textbook for environmental and chemistry students, Principles of Environmental Chemistry. He is also the aut... [More]

Assistant Professor

Matthew Hartings is striving to develop new uses for metals in biological systems. He currently oversees two research projects—the first entails designing metal-based anti-cancer drugs, and the second involves creating artificial photosynthetic prote... [More]

Chemist in Residence

Dr. Hirzy is Chemist In Residence in CAS's Chemistry Department.

Professor Emeritus

Derek Horton received his degrees from the University of Birmingham in England, was on the Chemistry faculty at Ohio State University until 1992, and held visiting professorships in France and Germany. He held the Isbell Chair of Carbohydrate and Nat... [More]

Operations Coordinator

Associate Professor

Dr. Konaklieva’s research is in the area of exploring different approaches for delaying of microbial resistance. Current projects include computer-aided design and synthesis of novel beta-lactams as well as development of synthetic methodology for pr... [More]

Assistant Professor

Abigail Miller received a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked jointly with Rich Saykally’s group and the Biophotonics group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, using optical spectroscopy to study protein aggregati... [More]

Research Assistant Professor