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2014-2015 Graduate Catalog 
    
2014-2015 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Chemistry


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260 Science and Engineering Building • (248) 370-2320  (map)
Fax (248) 370-2321 • www.oakland.edu/chemistry/

 

Chair:
Arthur W. Bull
253 Science and Engineering Bldg.
(248) 370-2248
abull@oakland.edu
 

 

Distinguished professor emeritus:
Paul Tomboulian, Ph.D., University of Illinois
 

Professors emeriti:
Gottfried Brieger, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Denis M. Callewaert, Ph.D., Wayne State University
Dagmar R. Cronn, Ph.D., University of Washington
Julien Gendell, Ph.D., Cornell University
Kenneth M. Harmon, Ph.D., University of Washington
Steven R. Miller, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of
    Technology
Kathleen H. Moore, Ph.D., Wayne State University
R. Craig Taylor, Ph.D., Princeton University
 

Distinguished professor:
Michael D. Sevilla, Ph.D., University of Washington
 

Professors:
Sitaramayya Ari, Ph.D., Lucknow University (India)
Maria Bryant (Szczesniak), Ph.D., University of
    Wroclaw (Poland)
Arthur W. Bull, Ph.D., Wayne State University
Roman Dembinski, Ph.D., Polish Academy of Sciences
   (Poland)
Joel W. Russell, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
John V. Seeley, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of
   Technology
Xiangqun Zeng, Ph.D., State University of New York,
    Buffalo
 

Associate professors:
Ferman A. Chavez, Ph.D., University of California,
   Santa Cruz
Ghassan M. Saed, Ph.D., University of Essex (United Kingdom)
Linda Schweitzer, Ph.D., University of California,
   Los Angeles

 

Assistant professors:
Edith Chopin, Ph.D., University of Reading (United Kingdom)
Greg A. N. Felton, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Nessan Kerrigan, Ph.D., University College Dublin (Ireland)
Sanela Martic, Ph.D., Queen’s University
David Szlag, Ph.D., University of Colorado
Jennifer Tillinger, Ph.D., Oakland University
Marta Wloch, Ph.D., University of Silesia (Poland)
 

Adjunct professors:
David Becker, Ph.D., University of Washington
Grzegorz Chalasinski, Ph.D., University of Warsaw (Poland)
Anna C. Ettinger, Ph.D., University of Illinois
Om P. Goel, Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University
Gholam-Abbas Nazri, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
D. David Newlin, Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Fazlul Sarkar, Ph.D., Banaras Hindu University (India)
Joseph R. Stetter, Ph.D., State University of New York,
    Buffalo
 

Adjunct associate professors:
Klaus Friedrich, Ph.D., Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms
    Universität, Bonn, Germany
Stacey K. Seeley, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts


Adjunct assistant professors:
Janet Bennett, Ph.D., Oakland University
Gerald Compton, M.S., Oakland University
Naomi Eliezer, Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Faculty research fields

Current research interests of the faculty include:

  • chemistry of free radical species generated from biological intermediates
  • fate of toxic organic compounds in the environment
  • bioanalytical, electroanalytical and surface chemistry at solid/liquid interface
  • computational modeling of intermolecular interactions and surface phenomena
  • metabolism and biological activity of modified fatty acids and xenobiotic carboxylic acids
  • synthesis and characterization of novel organic, organometallic and inorganic compounds with potential biochemical significance
  • synthetic modeling of metalloenzyme active sites
  • chemical education software
  • trace environmental analyses and environmental modeling
  • novel analytical instrumentation
  • protein folding and assembly
  • development of new organocatalytic methods.

For current, detailed information on individual research efforts, please consult the faculty section of the Department of Chemistry Web site at www.oakland.edu/chemistry.

  

Programs

    DoctoralMaster’s

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