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Baton Rouge & LSU Campus. Quick Profile Faculty: 26 research-active tenure-track faculty + 9 Instructors (full or part time) 1 Boyd & 4 Alumni Professors
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Quick Profile Faculty: 26 research-active tenure-track faculty + 9 Instructors (full or part time) 1Boyd & 4 Alumni Professors 7 Analytical, 6 Organic, 5 Macromolecular, 4 Inorganic, and 4 Physical faculty – broad distribution of all major chemistry fields + interdisciplinary areas 9NSF-CAREER Awards to junior faculty covering all research areas Graduate Students (Fall 2011):150 Ph.D. Students 62 Female, 88 Male 31 African Americans34 Ph.D. Graduates in 2009-10 20 Special Ph.D. Fellowship holders 71 International Students from 20 different countries $26M New Chemistry Annex Building – Summer 2012 Move-in • 5 stories • Chemistry & Material Science • 30’ × 32’ state-of-the-art labs • Student desk space outside of lab (2nd-5th floors)
Junior Faculty Justin RagainsBioorganic Small molecule natural product synthesis, medicinal chemistry Started Aug, 2010 Rendy KartikaOrganic Natural product synthesis, medicinal chemistry Started Aug, 2011 Megan MacnaughtanBioanalytical-NMR Structure and function of glycoproteins by NMR NIH “Career” Award Catherine ZhangMacromolecular Catalytic routes to new biopolymers NSF Career Award
Faculty – Recent Associate Professors Jayne GarnoBioanalytical Biosensors, AFM/STM of ordered protein-surface arrays ORAU Powe Junior Faculty Award NSF Career Award Evgueni NesterovOrganic Materials Organic electronic materials, molecular electronic applications NSF Career Award Bin ChenPhysical-Theoretical Relationships between molecular interactions and macroscopic properties NSF Career Award Carol TaylorBio-organic Polypeptide chemistry, glycosides, collagen, medicinal chemistry Easterfield Medal Doug GilmanBioanalytical capillary electrophoresis, lab-on-a-chip, flow dynamicdevices(lab on a chis in microfluidic p) NSF Career Award Robert CookEnvironmental-Analytical Analysis of soil and water via solution and solid-state NMR NSF Career Award
Faculty – Distinguished Full Professors (selected list) Graca VicenteBarré Professor Organic-Medicinal Porphyrins & boron compounds for cancer therapy Associate Editor Porphyrin Young Investigator Award Kermit MurrayBioanalytical New mass spectroscopic methods for protein analysis NSF Career Award Editorial Boards (2) Julia ChanAlumni ProfessorInorganic Materials Chemistry Sloan Fellow ExxonMobil ACS Solid-State Award Etter Crystallographic Award Paul RussoDaniels Professor Macromolecular NSF Special Creativity Award (2002) Dow Chemical Teamwork Award (2002)PI on NSF IGERT Award (1999) Randy DuranCain Chair Macromolecular Director of the Cain Center Robin McCarley Alumni ProfessorAnalytical, Surface Chemistry Dreyfus Teaching Grant Distinguished LSU Research Master Award Co-PI on NIEHS Superfund Center
Faculty – Distinguished Full Professors (selected list) Luigi MarzilliTison Professor Bioinorganic Honorary Member, Italian Chemical Society 350+ Research publications Former Departmental Chair Isiah WarnerWest Chair, Boyd Prof,Vice Chancellor Analytical HHMI Professor (2002 & 06) ACS Award (2003) AAAS Fellow (2003) ACS Fellow (2009) Andy MaverickWest ProfessorInorganic Supramolecular Chemistry Department Chair Coates Award (2009) Randy HallAlumni ProfessorPhysical Theory & Computational Co-PI on LA-SIGMA Center Barry DellingerTaylor ChairPhysical Environmental EPA STAR Awards (3) EPA Science Advisory Board NIEHS Superfund Center (2011) George StanleyAlumni ProfessorInorganic NSF Special Creativity Awards (1994 & 2003) Chair, 2005 Inorganic Gordon Research Conf. TIAA-CREF Service Learning Award (2005) Chair, Organometallic ACS subdivision (2009) ACS Fellow (2011)
Research Record $8.5 M in external research funding The highest per faculty research funding of any LSU department! Current major federal grants: 18 NSF, 9 NIH, 2 NIEHS, 1 DOE, 2 USDA 2 HHMI, 1 NASA, and 2 Private Industry 700+ research publications (2007-2011) 14 patents from 2000-present 2004 Program Review Committee: “It is clear that the hiring of new faculty, a challenge that was of major concern in the last review (1997), has been met with outstanding success (nine hires since 1997). This success is further evident in the impressive number of prestigious awards to young investigators (such as the NSF Career and Sloan Foundation Awards) garnered by the assistant professorial pool – a success rate that would be enviable by any chemistry department in the nation, including “Top Ten” departments.”
Recent Major Research Instrumentation $450KBruker Cu/Mo diffractometer $500KBruker MALDI Mass Spectrometer $160KMettler React-IR w/high pressure cell $1.5M Varian 700 MHz cold-probe NMR
Interdisciplinary Research $11M NIEHS Superfund Center led by Prof. Barry Dellinger to study the origin and control of toxic combustion by-products (Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Chemical Engineering, and LSU Health Science Center). Research studying environmentally-persistent free radicals formed from combustion processes. $20M NSF Louisiana Alliance for Simulation-Guided Materials Applications (LA-SIGMA) grantled by Prof. Mark Jarrell (Physics) & Randall Hall(Chemistry). Establishes a statewide computational research and education program focusing on three science drivers: electronic, energy and biomolecularmaterials. Prof. Isiah Warner’sHoward Hughes Medical Institute and NSF-funded programs enhance under-represented student involvement in science, technology, engineering, and technology (STEM) areas.
Outreach and Service Learning The ChemDemo service learning program (started in 1997) has sent out 8,700+ LSU undergraduates to K-12 classrooms exposing well over 112,000Louisiana students to hands-on chemistry and science activities. This is the largest service learning and chemistry/science outreach program in the nation. “I really had a good time during this project and also learned a lot about chemistry by teaching it to others.” – Misty Rabalais LSU undergrad Anthony Hudson demonstrates liquid nitrogen generated “clouds” from the Atmosphere demonstration with a third grade class from Cohn Elementary School. “This was an experience I will never forget. The students along with the teachers had a blast, and so did I. It was a lot of fun and the kids seemed to learn a lot.” – Robert Earhart Ph.D. chemistry student Jasmine Millican helps demonstrate the silly-putty-like polymer prepared by the Brusly Elementary students