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【简介】
Wayne State University is a Carnegie I institution and the Chemistry Department maintains very productive graduate and undergraduate programs. Currently, the total graduate student population is about 170 and there are about 30 postdoctoral fellow researchers in the Department. During the past three years nearly 60 Ph.D.s and 150 Bachelor's degrees in Chemistry have been awarded. Their 30 faculty members bring in approximately $4.5 million dollars in external funding and five of their faculty members are listed among the 1,000 most-cited scientists in the world.
Faculty Listing - by research interest:
ANALYTICAL
( Benderskii, Coleman, Poole, Rodgers, Rorabacher, Schroeder)
Ongoing research within Analytical Chemistry at Wayne State University covers a broad range of methodology including chromatography (Poole), spectroscopy (Benderskii, Coleman), mass spectrometry (Rodgers), electrochemistry (Schroeder and Rorabacher), and reaction kinetics (Rorabacher). Several current projects are tied to biological and/or environmental problems. Some of the research groups are actively engaged in collaborative projects with other units within the university as well as with governmental and industrial laboratories.
BIOCHEMISTRY
(Benson, Bhagwat, Chow, Pflum, Romano, SantaLucia, Spaller)
Wayne State University offers students opportunities for training and research in cutting-edge areas of the field of biochemistry. Recent developments in the understanding of life processes are revolutionizing the directions of biochemical research. These efforts include the genome projects and advances in structural and molecular biology, all of which present unprecedented opportunities for contributions by chemists. The Department of Chemistry at Wayne State has for several decades recognized the advantages of having a biological chemistry component within its program. The current on-going research within the division enables students to obtain solid foundations in chemistry, while carrying out research projects in challenging areas of biochemistry. The breadth of research interests covers nucleic-acid chemistry, protein and peptide chemistry, carbohydrate chemistry, molecular biology, enzymology, carcinogenesis, and drug design.
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(Benson, Brock, Chow, Endicott, Montgomery, Rorabacher, Verani, Winter)
The research ongoing in inorganic chemistry at Wayne State University is at the forefront of science and reflects the breadth of the discipline. The division of inorganic chemistry offers students training in diverse areas including organometallic chemistry (Montgomery, Winter), materials & solid state chemistry (Benson, Brock, Verani, Winter), coordination chemistry (Verani), spectroscopy (Benson, Endicott, Rorabacher), and bioinorganic chemistry (Benson, Chow). Research within this division is highly interdisciplinary, interfacing with biochemistry, biology, and medical fields, as well as physics, engineering, and materials science. Students receive hands-on training on state of the art instrumentation and in modern as well as traditional synthetic techniques and leave well equipped to pursue their career goals.
MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
(Benson, Brock, Goodson, Verani, Winter)
A number of the faculty in Chemistry have strong interests in the growing field of materials science. Research in this area includes preparation of metal nanoparticles with tunable solubility (Winter), supramolecular coordination chemistry (Verani), optical spectroscopy of unique polymeric and composite materials (Goodson), creation of biosensing protein-nanosphere assemblies (Benson), and the synthesis and characterization of transition metal phosphide nanoparticles and nanostructures with novel optical and magnetic properties (Brock). Several faculty participate in interdisciplinary materials science institutes at Wayne State University including the Institute for Manufacturing Research and the Smart Sensors Institute. There is also a strong tradition of collaborative research both with groups at Wayne State University and at other institutions.
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(Cha , Johnson, Montgomery, Pflum, Postema, Rigby, Spaller, Winter)
No matter what area of organic research you may wish to pursue, they have a group specializing in that area. Their faculty's activities span the entire spectrum of contemporary research from bio-organic to physical organic and organic synthesis. Noteworthy areas of particular current focus include: applications of organometallic chemistry to synthesis, designing and detecting protein modifications, carbohydrate chemistry, and the synthesis of pharmacologically active natural products. In addition to their distinguished faculty, they are also fortunate to have first-rate instrument support for their research endeavors here at WSU, including four high field NMR spectrometers, several mass spectrometers, and a state-of-the-art X-ray laboratory. Of course, each lab is well equipped with relevant research instruments as well.
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
(Benderskii, Endicott, Goodson, McClain, Rodgers, SantaLucia, Goldfield (adjunct))
Representative areas of physical chemistry at Wayne State University include non-linear optics (Goodson), probing interfaces using coupled spectroscopy-microscopy (Benderskii), gas-phase biomolecule reactions (Rodgers), the study of electron transport phenomena (Endicott), biological structure determination via nuclear magnetic resonance (SantaLucia), and light scattering (McClain). There are more than a dozen laser systems operating from the infrared to the vacuum ultraviolet, and from femtosecond to continuous wave, a new 700 MHz NMR, a guided ion beam spectrometer, and a number of ultra high vacuum systems.
THEORETICAL/COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
(Goldfield (adjunct), Hase, McClain, SantaLucia, Schlegel)
A variety of computational techniques including quantum dynamics (Goldfield, McClain), atomistic simulations (Hase), molecular orbital calculations (Schlegel and Rodgers), and biochemical informatics (SantaLucia) are employed to elucidate important chemical processes. Research in theoretical chemistry makes use of several IBM RS/6000 and Silicon Graphics workstations, various PC clusters, a Sun Enterprise multiprocessor system and the Wayne State's 24 processor IBM SP cluster, as well as the NSF supercomputing centers. In addition to collaborative research within the department, the faculty is an active participant in the interdisciplinary Institute for Scientific Computing.
UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING
(Barber, Maguire, Zibuck)
Department of Chemistry
Wayne State University
5101 Cass Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
U.S.A.
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