Faculty and Staff

The University of Dayton

Department of Chemistry

Faculty and Staff

Vladimir A. Benin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, organic chemistry (B.S., University of Sofia, BG, 1990; M.S., Vanderbilt University, 1993; Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1995) synthesis of novel heterocycles, polydentate ligands, cyclic azo compounds, hypervalent iodine reagents.

E-mail: vladimir.benin@notes.udayton.edu

Faculty

Associate Professor, medicinal chemistry (B.S., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1982; Ph.D. Nebraska Medical Center, 1988) nucleic acid, peptide and protein chemistry, cancer chemotherapy, and new synthetic methodologies directed towards novel antiviral agents.

E-mail: kevin.church@notes.udayton.edu

Kevin M. Church, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, environmental and physical chemistry (Ph.D, Penn State, 2005) Spectroscopy (Solid-State NMR and Fluorescence). Molecular level environmental studies of the fate and transport of industrial chemicals, emerging contaminants, and novel materials (e.g. nanomaterials) proposed for widespread industrial or personal uses.

E-mail: garry.crosson@notes.udayton.edu

Albert V. Fratini, Ph.D.

Professor, physical chemistry (B.S., University of Rhode Island, 1960; Ph.D. Yale University, 1965) x-ray diffraction studies of monomer and polymeric materials.

E-mail: Albert.Fratini@notes.udayton.edu

Visiting Assistant Professor, biochemistry (B.S., Ohio State University, 1984; Ph.D. Duke University, 1990) Study of proteins, metalloenzymes and free radicals

E-mail: paul.gardner@notes.udayton.edu

Paul R. Gardner, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, inorganic chemistry (B.S., 1979; Ph.D.,1983, Illinois Institute of Technology) ; structure and reactivity of metal complexes, nuclear magnetic resonance, infrared and Raman spectroscopies.

E-mail: dave.johnson@notes.udayton.edu

Garry S. Crosson, Ph.D.

Professor, physical chemistry (B.S., Villanova University, 1963; Ph.D., Temple University, 1967) electroanalytical chemistry.

E-mail: robert.keil@notes.udayton.edu

R. Gerald Keil, Ph,D.

Professor Emeritus, inorganic chemistry, (B.S., University of Dayton, 1963; Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1971) ; synthesis and properties of fullerenes, structure and reactivity of phosphorus halides and sulfur-nitrogen chemistry.

E-mail: howard.knachel@notes.udayton.edu

Assistant Professor, biochemistry, (B.S., University of Dayton, 1998, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003); Application of techniques and methodologies of protein biochemistry and structural biology towards understanding problems in the fields of DNA replication, DNA recombination, and DNA repair.

E-mail: matthew.lopper@notes.udayton.edu

Matthew E. Lopper, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Chair, physical chemistry (B.A., University of California, San Diego, 1978; M.S., University of California, Riverside, 1984; Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University, 1988) photochemistry and electronic structure of bacteriorhodopsin, b-carotene and other carotenoids; microcanonical, discrete and continuous canonical temperature studies

E-mail: mark.masthay@notes.udayton.edu

Professor, organic chemistry (B.A., The Ohio State University, 1984; Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1988) ; synthetic applications of organic electrochemistry, total synthesis of biologically significant compounds and natural products, studies on phenol oxidations.

E-mail: gary.morrow@notes.udayton.edu

Gary W. Morrow, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus, biochemistry (B.S., Brooklyn College, 1962; Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1967) endocrinology, enzymology, biochemical control, cancer, hypertension and toxicology.

E-mail: sanford.singer@notes.udayton.edu

Assistant Professor, bioinorganic chemistry (B.S., Edinboro University, 1991; M.S., Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1998) ; transition metal complexes and metalloporphyrins, electron transfer studies, DNA binding studies of metallic supramolecular complexes.

E-mail: shawn.swavey@notes.udayton.edu

Shawn M. Swavey, Ph.D.

Lecturer (BCME., 1984, M.S. CME, 1988, Ph.D., Materials Engineering, 1994, University of Dayton) Corrosion, biocorrosion, composite material processing with an emphasis on kinetics, reaction mechanisms and process modeling. Pedagogy of secondary and post-secondary science education

E-mail: kimberly.trick@notes.udayton.edu