2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
    Dec 22, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics


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Instructor and students in a lab.

Brian Logue, Department Head
Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics
Avera Health and Science Center 247
605-688-5151 (Chemistry and Biochemistry)

Robert McTaggart, Assistant Department Head 
Daktronics Engineering Hall 255 
605-688-5428 (Physics)

The graduate programs in the department lead to a 12-credit Applied Physics graduate certificate, a Professional Science master’s degree with an Applied Physics Emphasis, the M.S. or Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry or the Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry. Research programs exist in condensed matter (materials) physics, health/nuclear physics, analytical/environmental chemistry, biochemistry, chemical education, and organic/natural products chemistry.

Graduate Faculty

Michelle Baack, Adjunct Associate Professor
Larry Browning, Professor
Francisco Bustos, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Suvobrata Chakravarty, Associate Professor
Indra Chandrasekar, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Jihong Cole-Dai, Professor
Pilar De La Puente, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Rudolph Faustino, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Darci Fink, Associate Professor
Kevin Francis, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Fathi Halaweish, Professor
Yung Huh, Professor
Adam Hoppe, Professor
Melody Jewell, Senior Lecturer
Michael Kareta, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Parashu Kharel, Professor
Lance Lee, Adjunct Associate Professor
Brian Logue, Department Head and Professor
Abdelhalim Loukil, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Robert McTaggart, Associate Professor
Matthew Miller, Professor
Keith Miskimins, Adjunct Professor
David Pearce, Adjunct Professor
Louis-Jan Pilaz, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Kyle Roux, Adjunct Associate Professor
Alexei Savinov, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Jay Shore, Associate Professor
Kameswaran Surendran, Adjunct Associate Professor
Jianning Tao, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Paola Vermeer, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Rachel Willand-Charnley, Assistant Professor
Cheng Zhang, Associate Professor

Programs

Master’s Degrees

Doctoral Degrees

Certificates

Facilities and Services

The chemistry and biochemistry programs are housed in the Avera Health and Science Center, which provides 100,000 sq. ft. of research and instructional space.  The physics programs are housed in Daktronics Engineering Hall, which provides 29,000 sq. ft. of research and instructional space.

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