Mail can be sent to faculty members at the Department of Chemistry, Xavier University of Louisiana, 1 Drexel Drive, New Orleans, LA 70125 U.S.A. The telephone number of the Chemistry Department office is (504) 520-5082, and the chemistry stockroom number is (504) 520-7379. Faxes to any member of the chemistry department can be sent to (504) 520-7942. For additional contact information see the University Online Directory. This list was last updated on 8/27/07.
Ruquia Ahmed-Schofield, Ph.D. Organic Chemistry (University of Maryland, College Park, 1986). Assistant Professor. Teaches: general chemistry lab, organic chemistry drill and lab. Research interests: organic synthesis, photochemical approach to the synthesis of organic compounds, and mechanistic studies of organic reactions.
Sr. Joanne Bauer, SBS. Ph.D. Science Education, Chemistry (Univeristy of Southern Mississippi, 1989). Assistant Professor and Assistant Premedical Advisor. Teaches: General Chemistry lecture and drill. Research interests: Chemistry education.
Teresa Birdwhistell, Ph.D. inorganic chemistry (University of North
Carolina, 1986). Professor and MARC
(Minority Access to Research Careers)
Program Director. Teaches: Advanced Inorganic lecture, Advanced
Synthesis lab, General Chemistry lab, Instrumental Analysis lecture
and lab. Research interests: materials science, enzyme modelling.
JW Carmichael, Jr., Ph.D. physical chemistry (University
of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1965). Professor and Premedical Advisor.
Teaches: general chemistry. Research interests: ways to improve
teaching effectiveness.
Marion Carroll, Ph.D. Biochemistry (Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, 2001). Assistant Professor. Teaches: Biochemistry I and Biochemistry Laboratory. Research interests: Repetitive DNA Elements, Genomics and Bioinformatics, Prostate Cancer.
Stassi DiMaggio, Ph.D. Organic Chemistry (University of New Orleans, 2003). Assistant Professor. Teaches: Organic Chemistry and Organic Chemistry Lab. Research Interests: Organic synthesis of biologically active compounds and natural products, synthesis of dendrimer-peptide complexes to be tested as novel gene transfection agents, studying small molecule-polymer conjugation reactions used in the synthesis of nanotherapeutics.
Maryam Foroozesh, Ph.D. organic chemistry (Tulane University, 1994). Professor. Teaches: Organic Chemistry lecture, drill, and lab, and Toxicology lecture. Research interests: Synthesis of potentially selective suicide inhibitors of cytochrome P450 enzymes involved in carcinogenesis. Funding: NIH/MBRS; program manager for RISE at Xavier.
Galina Goloverda,
Ph.D. physical-organic chemistry (Pisarzhevskii Institute of Physical
Chemistry, Kiev, Ukraine, 1988). Associate Professor. Teaches:
organic chemistry, advanced organic. Research interests: materials science and synthetic organic chemistry. Funding: NIH/MBRS.
Vladimir Kolesnichenko, Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry (Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Kiev, Ukraine, 1986). Assistant Professor. Teaches: general and inorganic chemistry. Research interests: coordination chemistry of metal clusters; development of new organo-inorganic cluster and nanoparticles-based compounds for biological and medical application: MRI contrast agents, magnetic drug and radioisotope carriers.
J.Robert Luo, M.S. Organic Chemistry (State University of New York, Albany, 1987). Lecturer. Teaches: General Chemistry labs.
Gloria Thomas MaGee, Ph.D. Chemistry (BS Chemistry, Southern University and A&M College 1996; Ph.D. Chemistry, LSU, 2002; National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2002-2003). Assistant Professor. Teaches: Quantitative Analysis, General Chemistry II Lab. Research Interests: Electrophoresis, Fluorescence Spectroscopy, and Bioanalysis. gmagee1@xula.edu.
Kathleen Morgan, Ph. D. organic chemistry (Yale University, 1994). Associate Professor. Teaches: Organic lecture, drill, lab; Molecular Structure and Organic Synthesis lab. Research interests: physical organic chemistry, reaction mechanisms, organic thermochemistry.
Ann Privett, Ph.D. inorganic chemistry
(University of Arkansas, 1989). Associate Professor. Teaches:
General Chemistry lecture and lab. Research interests: chemical
education.
Warren Ray, Ph.D. organic chemistry (University of New
Orleans, 1989). Assistant Professor. Teaches: organic lecture
and lab.
John P.
Sevenair, Ph.D. organic chemistry
(University of Notre Dame, 1970). Professor and department webmaster. Teaches: Organic
Chemistry lecture, drill and lab, Qualitative Organic Analysis;
Research interests: ways to improve teaching effectiveness.
Cheryl Klein Stevens, Ph.D. physical chemistry (University
of New Orleans, 1982). Professor, MBRS
(Minority Biomedical Research Support)
Program Director, and Department Chair. Teaches: Analytical Chemistry lecture and lab,
Physical Chemistry. Research interests: x-ray structural studies
of pharmacologically interesting compounds. Funding: National Institutes of Health and Department of Defense.
Guangdi Wang, Ph.D. analytical chemistry (University of
New Orleans, 1995). Associate Professor. Teaches: Analytical Chemistry
lecture and lab, Instrumental Analysis lecture and lab, General
Chemistry lab. Research interests: gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
of environmental pollutants and drug metabolites.
Sarah L. Weaver, Ph.D. organic chemistry (University of Florida, 1990). Assistant Professor. Organic Chemistry lab coordinator. Teaches Organic Chemistry lab, General Chemistry lab. Research Interests: mechanistic organic chemistry specifically heterogeneous catalytic processes.
David E. Wolfgang, Ph.D. Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology (Cornell University 1998). Assistant Professor; Teaches: Biochemistry I, Biochemistry Lab, Organic Chemistry Lab. Research Interests: Enzymology and Tuberculosis drug resistance.
Jian Zhang, Ph.D. physical and inorganic chemistry (Northeastern University, 1987). Professor. Teaches: Physical Chemistry lecture and lab, General Chemistry lab. Research interests: synthesis and characterization of nanostructured magnetic and electronic materials as well as materials for environmental applications.