Faculty Overview

See also: Faculty by Research Division

Our more than 30 faculty members have research interests that both span the traditional areas of chemistry and encompass new interdisciplinary fields such as materials chemistry, chemistry of the life sciences, and environmental chemistry.

Additionally, our faculty maintain vigorous research programs in all of these areas. We also pursue a variety of collaborative and interdisciplinary research activities that cut across the traditional divisional boundaries of chemistry.

Several of our faculty participate in research institutes that foster collaboration between University of Tennessee scientists and the staff at nearby Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). ORNL is a multiprogram Department of Energy research facility jointly managed by the University and Battelle Memorial Institute.

The research achievements of the UT Chemistry faculty have been recognized nationally and internationally. Three members of the department are fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Our faculty also boasts five winners of the NSF CAREER award and its predecessor, the National Young Investigator award. Members of the faculty have been commended for innovative research and teaching by the Dreyfus Foundation, the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society, and the Department of Energy.