Faculty and Staff
Faculty
Lakshmaiah
Sreerama, Ph.D.
Fulbright Scholar
Professor of Chemistry, Chair
B.S. 1983, M.S. 1985, Ph.D. 1991, Bangalore University (India)
Specialty: Biochemistry and biochemical pharmacology,
anticancer drug resistance mechanisms and biochemical toxicology of environmental
chemicals
Email: lsreerama@stcloudstate.edu
Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/lsreerama
Office: Wick Science Building 372
Telephone: (320) 308-2080
Research Interests
Cassidy Dobson, Ph.D.
Adjunct
B.A. 2005, Hamline University; Ph.D. 2012, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Specialty: Biochemistry
Email: cmdobson@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Wick Science Building 367
Telephone: (320) 308-4531
Michael
A. Dvorak, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry
B.A. 1987, Saint Olaf College; Ph.D. 1992, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Specialty: Analytical chemistry with an emphasis
on fluorescence spectroscopy
Email: madvorak@stcloudstate.edu
Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/madvorak
Office: Wick Science Building 351
Telephone: (320) 308-2015
Research Interests
Louis (Cliff) Grosberg
Adjunct
B.S. 1972, U of WI, River Falls; M.A. 2000, St. Mary's University
Specialty: Preparatory Chemistry
Email: lcgrosberg@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Wick Science Building 339
Telephone: (320) 308-4161
Michael
A. Jeannot, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
B.S. 1992, University of Saskatchewan; Ph.D. 1997, University of Alberta
Specialty: Analytical chemistry, trace environmental
analysis using microextraction techniques
Email: mjeannot@stcloudstate.edu
Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/majeannot
Office: Wick Science Building 366
Telephone: (320) 308-2046
Research Interests
Rebecca
A. Krystyniak, Ph.D.
Dr. Krystyniak is on leave from Chemistry from 2010-2012. She is serving as the Co-Director of the Teacher Preparation Initiative (TPI).
Associate Professor of Chemistry
B.A. 1996, Carthage College; M.A. 2000, Ph.D. 2001, University of Northern
Colorado
Specialty: Chemistry education, inquiry-based
learning, the effect of order of content on student understanding, the development
and assessment of science process skills, and student understanding of chemistry
on the molecular level
Email: rakrystyniak@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Education Building A-232A
Telephone: (320) 308-2024
Tamara
Leenay, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
B.S. 1982, Le Moyne College; Ph.D. 1988, University of Pennsylvania
Specialty: Organic chemistry
Email: tleenay@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Wick Science Building 363
Telephone: (320) 308-3948
Research Interests
Mohammad
Mahroof-Tahir, Ph.D.
Dr. Mahroof is on sabbatical leave for 2011-2012.
Fulbright Scholar
Professor of Chemistry
M.S. 1979, Quaid-i-Azam University; M.A. 1990, Ph.D. 1992, Johns Hopkins University
Specialty: Bioinorganic chemistry, synthesis
and characterization of metal complexes with potential antidiabetic and anticancer
properties
Email: mmahroof@stcloudstate.edu
Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/mmahroof
Office: Wick Science Building 373
Telephone: (320) 308-3198
Research Interests
Jack
F. McKenna, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
B.S. 1977, Ph.D. 1982, Clemson University
Specialty: Physical chemistry
Email: jfmckenna@stcloudstate.edu
Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/jfmckenna
Office: Wick Science Building 364
Telephone: (320) 308-3032
Research Interests
Mark
Mechelke, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
B.S. 1993, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ph.D. 1998, University of Iowa
Specialty: Organic chemistry, design and synthesis of novel anticancer drugs
Email: mmechelke@stcloudstate.edu
Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/mmechelke
Office: Wick Science Building 370
Telephone: (320) 308-2030
Research Interests
Donald
R. Neu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry
B.S. 1989, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Ph.D. 1993, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Specialty: Solid state, quantum dot, materials
science, inorganic chemistry and radiochemistry, semiconducting materials,
quantum devices, quartz crystal micro-balance sensor devices, and direct nuclear
power conversion
Email: drneu@stcloudstate.edu
Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/drneu
Office: Wick Science Building 369
Telephone: (320) 308-3989
Sarah C. Petitto, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
B.S. 1999, Rochester Institute of Technology; Ph.D. 2005, University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Specialty: Physical surface chemistry
Email: scpetitto@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Wick Science Building 371
Telephone: (320) 308-5420
Research Interests
Latha
Ramakrishnan,
Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Specialty: Biochemistry
Email: lramakrishnan@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Wick Science Building 368
Telephone: (320) 308-3257
Research Interests
Ruth Robinson,
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
B.A. 1981, Carleton College; Ph.D. 1987, UC-Berkeley
Specialty: Physical Chemistry
Email: rlrobinson@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Wick Science Building 372
Telephone: (320) 308-4170
Kannan Sivaprakasam
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
B.S. 1988, University of Madras; Ph.D. 1998, Indian Institute of Science
Specialty: Physical chemistry, polymer science
Email: ksivaprakasam@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Wick Science Building 357
Telephone: (320) 308-1692
Nathan
S. Winter, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
B.A. 1987, Macalester College; Ph.D. 1992, Washington University
Specialty: Biophysical chemistry, protein crystallization
and structural studies
Email: nwinter@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Wick Science Building 365
Telephone: (320) 308-2052
Administrative Reassigned Faculty
Daniel
D. Gregory, Ph.D.
Dr. Gregory is on leave from Chemistry. He is serving as Associate Provost for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies.
Professor of Chemistry
B.S. 1994, Southwest State University; Ph.D. 1998, Iowa State University
Specialty: Physical organic chemistry, photochemistry
and computational chemistry of organic compounds
Email: dgregory@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Administrative Services 121
Telephone: (320) 308-5468
Lab Coordinator
Ed
Stewart,
Ph.D.
B.S. 1985 University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D. 1992 California Institute
of Technology
Specialty: Physical Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Nanocomposites
Email: egstewart@stcloudstate.edu
Office: WSB-350
Telephone:
Research Interests
Staff
Bernie
Frie
Office Manager
Email: bmfrie@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Wick Science Building 358
Telephone: (320) 308-3031
Web site: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/bmfrie
Jeff
Stobb
College Laboratory Services Specialist
Email: jwstobb@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Wick Science Building 313-1
Telephone: (320) 308-1743
Mike
Moore
College Laboratory Services Specialist
Email: mjmoore@stcloudstate.edu
Office: Wick Science Building 313-1
Telephone: (320) 308-2061
