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Faculty
Shenda Baker  

Shenda M. Baker
Professor, physical chemistry
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology.
Surface and Interfacial Properties of Organic Thin Films.


Robert J. Cave  

Robert J. Cave
Professor, physical chemistry
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology. 
Theoretical studies of ground and excited states of molecules.


daub   G. William Daub
Seeley W. Mudd Professor, organic chemistry
Ph.D. Stanford University.
Development of new regioselective reactions for synthesis.

 Roman de Jesus  
Roman P. de Jesus
Visiting Assistant Professor, oceanography
Ph.D. Scripps Institution of Oceanography
The chemical structure of dissolved organic compounds and their residence time in seawater.

Haushalter  
  
Karl A. Haushalter
Critchell Assistant Professor, chemistry and biology
Ph.D. Harvard University
Interactions between proteins and nucleic acids; DNA repair enzymes within chromatin.
David Hill 

David K. Hill
Visiting Assistant Professor, organic chemistry
Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park
Natural product, novel organometallic cyclizations, investigation of membrane bound biomolecules


johnson   Adam R. Johnson
Associate Professor, inorganic chemistry
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Amino acid-derived ligands for the synthesis of chiral transition metal complexes and novel ligands for the synthesis of heterobimetallic complexes.

Kerry Karukstis 
Kerry K. Karukstis
Professor, physical chemistry
Ph.D. Duke University
Spectroscopic studies of surfactant assemblies, host-guest systems, and drug-delivery vehicles.

 Mitsuru Kubota  

Mitsuru Kubota
Professor Emeritus, inorganic chemistry
Ph.D. University of Illinois (Urbana)
Synthesis and reactions of organotransition metal compounds, homogeneous catalysis


 

Hsiang-Wei Lu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles

myhre   Philip C. Myhre
Professor Emeritus, organic chemistry
Ph.D. University of Washington.
Reaction mechanisms and characterization of intermediates by solid-state carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

vanhecke   Gerald R. Van Hecke
Donald Strauss Professor, physical chemistry
Ph.D. Princeton University
Thermodynamics of liquid crystals.

Hal Van Ryswyk   Hal Van Ryswyk
Professor, analytical chemistry
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Self-assembling molecular systems, energy and electron transfer, solar energy conversion.

vosburg
  David Vosburg
Assistant Professor, organic chemistry
Ph.D. The Scripps Research Institute
Biomimetic cyclizations and natural product synthesis.


Staff

mccollum Lillian C. McCollum
Laboratory Manager.
B.S. Tuskegee University.
•  Phone: (909) 607-2957
•  Fax: (909) 607-7577
•  Office: Jacobs 2310
Lillian_McCollum@hmc.edu

young  

Kim Young
Administrative Assistant
•  Phone: (909) 621-8092
•  Fax: (909) 607-7577
•  Office: Jacobs 1209
•  Kim_Young@hmc.edu


P. Manisco 2008 

Penny Manisco
Laboratory Technician
B.S. University of Southern California
•  Phone (909) 607-4217
•  Fax:  (909) 607-7577
•  Office:  Jacobs 2314
Penny_Manisco@hmc.edu