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Chemistry

Faulty and Staff

Richard D. Broene  (on leave for the 2011-12 academic year)
Professor of Chemistry
Organic Chemistry, organometallic-mediated organic synthesis, lanthanide chemistry, and new synthetic methodologies

Ronald L. Christensen 
James Stacy Coles Professor of Natural Sciences
Physical Chemistry, photobiology, organic photochemistry and low temperature, electronic spectroscopy

Michael P. Danahy
Lecturer in Chemistry

Danielle H. Dube 
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Chemical biology, biochemistry, organic chemistry: chemical tools to target, alter and understand glycosylation

Benjamin C. Gorske
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Yi Jin Gorske
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Jeffrey K. Nagle
Charles Weston Pickard Professor of Chemistry
Inorganic Chemistry, inorganic photochemistry, metal-metal bonding, and electron transfer
Ryan C. Nelson
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Daniel M. Steffenson
Visiting Professor of Chemistry

Elizabeth A. Stemmler
Professor of Chemistry, Chair of Chemistry Department
Analytical Chemistry, negative ion mass spectrometry, ion-molecule reactions and analysis of organic pollutants

Dharni Vasudevan
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Studies
Environmental Chemistry, surface complexation theory, sorption, desorption and coordination of organic and inorganic compounds at the soil/mineral-water interface

Laboratory Instructors

Rene Bernier
Laboratory Instructor / Science Center Manager

Martha Black
Laboratory Instructor

Beverly DeCoster
Laboratory Instructor

Judith Foster
Laboratory Instructor / Director of Laboratories

Colleen McKenna
Laboratory Instructor

Paulette Messier
Laboratory Instructor

Emeritus Faculty

David S. Page
Charles Weston Pickard Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Emeritus
Environmental Analytical/Biochemistry, enzyme chemistry and effects of hydrocarbons and other pollutants on marine environments

Research Associates

Aimee Eldridge
 Research Associate in Chemistry

Robert de Levie
 Research Associate in Chemistry
Normand Laurendeau
Research Associate in Chemistry

Department Coordinator

Penny Westfall
pwestfal@bowdoin.edu
Department Phone: (207) 725-3218
Department Fax: (207) 725-3017
Room 157 Druckenmiller

Instrument Support Technician

Celeste Morin
cmorin @bowdoin.edu
Phone  (207) 725-3756
Room 256 Druckenmiller