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Department of Chemistry


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair: James J. Valentini, Ph.D.
344 Havemeyer
Tel: 212.854.2433


Director of Graduate Studies: Jack R. Norton, Ph.D.
344 Havemeyer
Tel: 212.854.2433


Director of Admissions: David R. Reichman, Ph.D.
344 Havemeyer
Tel: 212.854.2433


Dissertation Sponsors

Bruce J. Berne:
Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1964
Interests: Theoretical chemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ronald C.D. Breslow:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1955
Interests: Organic chemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Louis E. Brus:
Professor of Chemistry and of Chemical Engineering, Ph.D., Columbia, 1969
Interests: Physical chemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Virginia Cornish:
Associate Professor, Ph.D
Interests: Development of in vivo selection strategies for proteins with novel catalytic properties
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Samuel J. Danishefsky:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1962
Interests: Organic chemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Kenneth B. Eisenthal:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1959
Interests: Physical chemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
George W. Flynn:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1965
Interests: Physical Chemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Richard A. Friesner:
Professor, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1979
Interests: Theoretical chemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Brian R. Gibney:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Michigan, 1994
Interests: Inorganic chemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ruben L. Gonzalez:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2000
Interests: biophysical and biochemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Thomas J. Katz:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1959
Interests: Organic chemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Laura J. Kaufman:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2002
Interests: Physical chemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Tristan H. Lambert:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Cal-Tech, 2004
Interests: Organic chemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
James L. Leighton:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1994
Interests: Organic chemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ann E. McDermott:
Professor (Chemistry), Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1973
Interests: Biophysical chemistry; Synaptic transmission in the spinal cord dorsal horn
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jack R. Norton:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1972
Interests: Inorganic chemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Colin P. Nuckolls:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1998
Interests: Organic chemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gerard F.R. Parkin:
Professor, Ph.D., Oxford, 1985
Interests: Inorganic chemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David R. Reichman:
Professor, Ph.D., MIT, 1997
Interests: Theoretical chemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Dalibor Sames:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Arizona, 1996
Interests: Organic and bioorganic chemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Scott A. Snyder:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Scripps, 2004
Interests: Organic and bioorganic chemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Brent R. Stockwell:
Assistant Professor (Chemistry), Ph.D., Harvard, 1997
Interests: Diagramming disease networks with chemical and biological tools;Biological and organic chemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Nicholas J. Turro:
Professor, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1963
Interests: Organic chemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
James J. Valentini:
Professor, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1976
Interests: Physical chemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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