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Faculty Research Groups
This section contains links to faculty-maintained pages on research facilities and/or opportunities that aren't mantained by the University.
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Research Areas: Biomedical research, drug development, organic synthesis, reaction mechanisms
Physical and Materials Chemistry
Research Areas: Functional nanomaterials, surface chemistry, organoelectronic materials and devices
Research Areas: Nanomaterial Synthesis and Characterization, Green and Sustainable Nanotechnology, Continuous Millifluidic Reactor Technology, Biotemplating and Sustainable Nanostructure Design, Nanotechnology-Driven Machine Learning Models
RNA Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Research Areas: Catalytic RNA, therapeutic RNA, bioorganic chemistry, synthetic metabolic
pathway
Biochemistry, Virology, Drug Discovery
Research Areas: Viral biomolecules interaction and drug discovery in HIV
Analytical Chemistry, Electrochemistry
Research Areas: Areas of analytical chemistry, electrochemistry, electroanalytical chemistry, surface chemistry, and bioanalytical chemistry
Organic Synthesis and Catalysis
Areas of Expertise: Organic Synthesis, Catalysis, NMR Spectroscopy, and Computational Chemistry
Protein Biophysics, amyloids and protein aggregation
Research Areas: Amyloid aggregation in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, intrinsically
disordered proteins in norm and pathology
Inorganic and Supramolecular chemistry
Research Areas: Optical sensors for anions, cations and neutral compounds
Mathematics
Numerical partial differential equations
Ergodic Theory, Frobenius-Perron Operators
Symbolic computation
Numerical analysis
Geometry and Physics
Ordered Sets, Graph Theory
Mathematics Education, Digital Manufacturing
N-body problems, undergraduate research
Other Mathematics faculty who also pursue research and/or direct student research
include:
Skein Modules
Numerical Analysis
Physics
Physics and Astronomy is working to develop broad capabilities in laser and optical physics to enhance its educational and research activities.
- Currently funded research supports the development of optical devices, and optical materials, and the application of lasers for sensitive spectroscopic measurements.
- A collaborative research project with Los Alamos National Laboratory and Mississippi State University focuses on the development of small, portable isotopic analysis devices for environmental and security applications based primarily on the use of diode laser technology for high sensitivity environmental measurements of elements such as uranium and plutonium.
- Physics and Astronomy also participates in the recently funded Response-Driven Polymeric Films Center, an NSF funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, to develop holographically formed polymer dispersed liquid crystals for applications such as Bragg gratings, photonic crystals, hyperspectral filters, and etc.
Seminars
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Speaker Seminar Series
Each fall and spring, chemistry and biochemistry hosts a series of seminars by outside
speakers on Friday afternoon at 1:30 p.m., normally in TEC 106.
Graduate Student Seminar Series
Graduate students in chemistry and biochemistry are required to make a public presentation
of their research each year on Thursday afternoons at 2:30 p.m., usually in TEC 106.
These often include prospectus, thesis, or dissertation defenses. Everyone in the
unit is strongly encouraged to attend these seminars to learn about ongoing research
and to support the students.