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Research Opportunities in Chemistry & Biochemistry

The Chemistry & Biochemistry Department is committed to mentoring students in the laboratory and offering meaningful research experiences.  Explore the exciting opportunities that await our students! 

If you would like to conduct research with one of our faculty members, please click here (Adobe PDF) for important information and deadlines (Fall semester).  

Additional  research opportunities at large research institutions and pharmaceutical companies are available.  Click here (Adobe PDF) for information and deadlines (Fall semester).

Analytical & Inorganic Chemistry:  Dr. Szczepankiewicz’s group is interested in developing rugged photoactivated catalysts capable of reducing small stable molecules such as CO2.

 
Analytical & Environmental Chemistry:  Dr. Schaber’s group is interested in developing analytical tools to identify pollutants in water and soil. 

Inorganic Chemistry:  Dr. Kozik’s group studies a group of transition metal complexes called polyoxometallates and their potential applications in medicine and in environmental chemistry.

Biochemistry:  Dr. Disney's group studies the folding of RNAs related to disease.

 
Bioorganic Chemistry:  Dr. O’Sullivan’s group designs and synthesizes new organic compounds that bind to a protein found only in certain parasites called trypanosomes.

 
Organic Chemistry:  Dr. Gregg’s group is interested in the reactions of carbenes useful for preparing novel types of chemical products.  Our research includes screening the reactivity of starting materials, investigating chiral metal catalysts used to prepare optically active products, and modelling reaction mechanisms using computer-based quantum mechanical tools.



Physical Chemistry:  Dr. Sheridan’s group studies small molecules containing a single metal atom bonded to carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur in the gas phase using laser spectroscopic techniques.