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Department of Chemistry
University of Louisville
2320 South Brook Street
Louisville, KY 40292

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(502) 852-6798 (phone)
(502) 852-8149 (fax)
Welcome to the UofL Department of Chemistry

Chemistry at Louisville continues to build on its strong traditions. The members of our faculty are accomplished teacher-scholars who maintain exciting research programs in the myriad arenas that comprise the modern chemical sciences. Our department offers Ph.D. and M.S. degrees plus
a variety of degree options for undergraduate students. (read additional remarks from the chair: Message from the Chair)

Department News

Drs. Christopher Burns and Hunter Moseley join the faculty starting July 1, 2008.

Dr. Burns earned his Ph.D.  in Organometallic Chemistry under Professor Richard Jordan at the University of Chicago in 2005. Since then he held a postdoctoral appointment in the Molecular Materials Group at Argonne National Laboratory with Dr. Millicent Firestone.

Dr. Moseley completed his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham under Professor Rama Krishna. Since that time he has been in the Structural Bioinformatics Lab at Rutgers University, headed by Professor Gaetano Montelione.

Dr. Mona Zady, coordinator of undergraduate laboratories is retiring after 40 years in the department. She earned her Ph.D. under the direction of Professor John Wong in 1974. We all wish Mona the best in her retirement.

April 2008 - The Chemistry Department mourns the loss of distinguished chemist and teacher Dr. Dorothy H.Gibson

April 2008 - George Pack received the Arts and Sciences Dean's Award for Outstanding Department Leadership

Xiang Zhang joins us in January, 2008 as Associate Professor in our Analytical Chemistry Division. Professor Zhang works in the areas of bioinformatics and bioanalytical chemistry and their application to biomedical problems. His broad education background includes a B.A. in Radiochemistry, an M.S. in Nuclear Physics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Ph.D. in Bioanalytical Chemistry from Purdue. He was previously Research Assistant Professor and Director of Computational Life Sciences and Informatics at the Bindley Bioscience Center at Purdue. He as authored more that 45 peer-reviewed publications.

Eugene Mueller joins our Biochemistry Division in the fall of 2007 as Bloch Professor of Chemistry and member of IMD3. His research focuses on the enzymology of RNA modification. He was previously a member of the Chemistry faculty at the University of Delaware. He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard with Professor Jeremy Knowles and was a postdoctoral fellow at CalTech (Professor John Bercaw) and MIT (Professor Joanne Stubbe).

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