Baton Rouge & LSU Campus

Quick ProfileFaculty: 26 research-active tenure-track faculty + 9 Instructors (full or part time)

1 Boyd & 4 Alumni Professors7 Analytical, 6 Organic, 5 Macromolecular, 4 Inorganic, and 4 Physical faculty – broad distribution of all major chemistry fields + interdisciplinary areas9 NSF-CAREER Awards to junior faculty covering all research areas

Graduate Students (Fall 2011): 150 Ph.D. Students 62 Female, 88 Male 31 African Americans 34 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

Catherine ZhangMacromolecularCatalytic routes to new biopolymersNSF Career Award

Megan MacnaughtanBioanalytical-NMRStructure and function of glycoproteins by NMRNIH “Career” Award

Justin RagainsBioorganicSmall molecule natural product synthesis, medicinal chemistryStarted Aug, 2010

Rendy KartikaOrganicNatural product synthesis, medicinal chemistryStarted Aug, 2011

Doug GilmanBioanalyticalcapillary electrophoresis, lab-on-a-chip, flow dynamicdevices (lab on a chis in microfluidic p)NSF Career Award

Carol TaylorBio-organicPolypeptide chemistry, glycosides, collagen, medicinal chemistry Easterfield Medal

Faculty – Recent Associate Professors

Bin ChenPhysical-TheoreticalRelationships between molecular interactions and macroscopic propertiesNSF Career Award

Robert CookEnvironmental-AnalyticalAnalysis of soil and water via solution and solid-state NMRNSF Career Award

Evgueni NesterovOrganic MaterialsOrganic electronic materials, molecular electronic applicationsNSF Career Award

Jayne GarnoBioanalyticalBiosensors, AFM/STM of ordered protein-surface arraysORAU Powe Junior Faculty Award

NSF Career Award

Faculty – Distinguished Full Professors (selected list)

Julia ChanAlumni ProfessorInorganicMaterials ChemistrySloan FellowExxonMobil ACS Solid-State AwardEtter Crystallographic Award

Robin McCarleyAlumni ProfessorAnalytical, Surface ChemistryDreyfus Teaching GrantDistinguished LSU Research Master AwardCo-PI on NIEHS Superfund Center

Randy DuranCain ChairMacromolecularDirector of the Cain Center

Paul RussoDaniels ProfessorMacromolecularNSF Special Creativity Award (2002)Dow Chemical Teamwork Award (2002)PI on NSF IGERT Award (1999)

Graca VicenteBarré ProfessorOrganic-MedicinalPorphyrins & boron compounds for cancer therapyAssociate EditorPorphyrin Young Investigator Award

Kermit MurrayBioanalyticalNew mass spectroscopic methods for protein analysisNSF Career AwardEditorial Boards (2)

Isiah WarnerWest Chair, Boyd Prof,Vice Chancellor AnalyticalHHMI Professor (2002 & 06)ACS Award (2003)AAAS Fellow (2003) ACS Fellow (2009)

Luigi MarzilliTison Professor BioinorganicHonorary Member, Italian Chemical Society350+ Research publicationsFormer Departmental Chair

Barry DellingerTaylor ChairPhysical EnvironmentalEPA STAR Awards (3)EPA Science Advisory BoardNIEHS Superfund Center (2011)

George StanleyAlumni ProfessorInorganicNSF 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)

Faculty – Distinguished Full Professors (selected list)

Randy HallAlumni ProfessorPhysicalTheory & ComputationalCo-PI on LA-SIGMA Center

Andy MaverickWest ProfessorInorganicSupramolecular ChemistryDepartment ChairCoates Award (2009)

Diversity

Diversity

Research

Research

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.”

Record $8.5 M in external research fundingThe 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

$500K Bruker MALDI Mass Spectrometer

$160K Mettler React-IR w/high pressure cell

Recent Major Research Instrumentation

$1.5M Varian 700 MHz cold-probe NMR

$450K Bruker Cu/Mo diffractometer

$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) grant led by Prof. Mark Jarrell (Physics) & Randall Hall (Chemistry). Establishes a statewide computational research and education program focusing on three science drivers: electronic, energy and biomolecular materials. Prof. Isiah Warner’s Howard Hughes Medical Institute and NSF-funded programs enhance under-represented student involvement in science, technology, engineering, and technology (STEM) areas.

Interdisciplinary Research

Outreach and Service LearningThe ChemDemo service learning program (started in 1997) has sent out 8,700+ LSU undergraduates to K-12 classrooms exposing well over 112,000 Louisiana students to hands-on chemistry and science activities. This is the largest service learning and chemistry/science outreach program in the nation.

Ph.D. chemistry student Jasmine Millican helps demonstrate the silly-putty-like polymer

prepared by the Brusly Elementary students

LSU undergrad Anthony Hudson demonstrates liquid nitrogen generated “clouds” from the Atmosphere demonstration with a

third grade class from Cohn Elementary School.

“I really had a good time during this project and also learned a lot about chemistry by teaching it to others.” – Misty Rabalais

“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

Graduate Students are #1