HAL VAN RYSWYK, Professor of Chemistry and Chair, Department of Chemistry (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin): study of energy and electron transfer in self-assembled systems.

SHENDA M. BAKER, Professor of Chemistry (Ph.D., Caltech): the study of the adsorp- tion and structure of polymers on surfaces and creation of nanoscopic structures.

ROBERT J. CAVE, Professor of Chemistry and Vice President and Dean of Faculty (Ph.D., Caltech): electronic structure theory and the quantum mechanical treatment of electron transfer reactions.

G. WILLIAM DAUB, Seeley Wintersmith Mudd Professor of Chemistry (Ph.D., Stanford University): the development of new regio- and stereoselective reactions for organic synthesis.

KARL A. HAUSHALTER, Assoc. Professor of Chemistry and Biology (Ph.D., Harvard University): studies on the influence of chromatin structure on DNA repair.

ADAM R. JOHNSON, Assoc. Professor of Chemistry (Ph.D., MIT): design of ligands for the synthesis of chiral A metal complexes and enantioselective catalysis.

KERRY K. KARUKSTIS, Joseph B. Platt Professor of Effective Teaching in Chemistry and Chair of Faculty (Ph.D., Duke University): spectroscopic analyses of surfactant aggregations and macromolecular host-guest systems.

KATHERINE N. MALONEY, Asst. Professor of Chemistry (Ph.D., Cornell University): natural products isolation, chemical ecology and chemotaxonomy.

GERALD R. VAN HECKE ’61, Donald A. Strauss Professor of Chemistry (Ph.D., Princeton University): study of liquid crystals and the thermodynamics of liquids, as revealed by lasers.

DAVID A. VOSBURG, Asst. Professor of Chemistry (Ph.D., Scripps Research Institute): biomimetic and biosynthetic routes to natural products.

............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... RECENT STUDENT RESEARCH

Towards a Biomimetic Synthesis of the Endiandric Acids

Isolation of Induced Secondary Metabolites from Co-cultures of Endophytic Fungi

Natural product profiles of Sarcophyton

Metal-Metal Coupling in an Osmium Porphyrin Dimer

Developing a Five-Step Synthesis of Enantiopure (+)-Davanone

Analyte Detection via Surface-Oriented Liquid Crystals

Aggregation Behavior of n-octyl-ß-D-gluco- side in 1-butyl-methylimidazolium Tetrafluo- roborate

Wastewater Treatment in Rural China

Improving Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Increasing Voc and Jsc for ZnO based Cells

Acidity Effects on the Injection Process of Porphyrin Dyes in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

Elucidation of Small Molecule Interactions between Endophytic Fungi

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