WSU Department of Chemistry

Faculty and Research Interests

Name	Field	Research Interests
Bombick, Daniel	Analytical Chemistry	Interests include desorption/ionization methods in mass spectrometry; the development of new chromatographic packings; the development of novel gas chromatographic columns; and the study of-specific gas chromatographic detectors.
Dolson, David	Physical Chemistry	Kinetic studies of laser-initiated chemical chain reactions, photodissociation dynamics, energy transfer, and laser-excited fluorescence.
Feld, William A.	Organic Chemistry	The syntheses of soluble and processable thermally stable polymers have been investigated
Fossum, Eric	Polymer Chemistry	Our research is focused in three general areas: 1) synthesis of functional, highly branched polymers, 2) controlled synthesis of branched polymers using polycondensation chemistry, and 3) water soluble, UV curable polyester systems.
Gilpin, Roger	Environmental Science	Analysis of pollutants, surface science.
Grossie, David A.	Inorganic Chemistry, X-ray Crystallography	Crystal and molecular structure of organic model compounds with nonlinear optical properties; structure determination by single crystal x-ray diffraction.
Higgins, Steven	Environmental/Analytical Chemistry	Atomic force microscopy of solid-liquid interfaces.
Katovic, Vladimir	Inorganic Chemistry, Electrochemistry	Transition metal chemistry. Synthetic and structural studies of coordination compounds of biological or catalytic interest. Metal-metal bonding and metal cluster compounds.
Ketcha, Daniel	Organic Chemistry	Synthetic methodology; heterocyclic chemistry; selective functionalization of N-protected indoles and pyrroles; synthesis of alkaloid natural products; metal catalyzed oxidation; reductions in acidic media.
Lunsford, Suzanne	Chemical Education	Inquiry-based technology in the classroom.
McGowin, Audrey	Environmental	Research area includes the fate and transformation of xenobiotics in the environment and the chemistry of waste treatment.
Seybold, Paul G.	Physical Chemistry	Molecular structure-property and structure-activity relations; applications of quantum chemistry and chemical graph theory; use of cellular automata models in chemistry.
Turnbull, Kenneth	Organic Chemistry	Routes to fused ring sydnones via modification of ortho-substituted aryl sydnones; preparation of mesoionic C-nucleosides; synthesis of stable compounds containing the unusual S=S or N=S moieties.