Galina Goloverda, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Organic  Chemistry I and II lecture, drill and lab; Molecular Structure and Organic Synthesis lab, Advanced Organic Chemistry

Galina Z. Goloverda was born and raised in former Soviet Union (USSR), now Ukraine.  She graduated from Kiev State University in 1979 with Master’s degree in Inorganic Chemistry.  She received her Ph.D degree in Physical Organic Chemistry in 1988 from Pisarzhevskii Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences.  She continued to work at the same institution as a Post Doctoral Fellow and then as a Research Scientist until 1993.
In the summer of 1993 her family of three moved to USA, Lawrence, Kansas.  She worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Chemistry Department of the University of Iowa, and then an Assistant Professor at Rowan State University of New Jersey in Glassboro, before moving to Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans, where she has been working since 1999. 

Dr. Goloverda’s research interests are in the areas of synthetic organic chemistry and materials science; design of non-polymeric organic coating for novel magnetic nanocomposites for biomedical application. The main focus is currently on development and study of hydrophilic organic polydentate ligands that can potentially serve as templating or capping ligands for nanocomposite materials.  This project is supported by NIH grant SC3GM088042.

Included above.

Galina Goloverda, Barry Jackson, Clayton Kidd and Vladimir Kolesnichenko, “Synthesis of the ultrasmall nanoparticles of magnetic iron oxides and study of their colloid and surface chemistry”, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2009, 321, 1372-1376.  
Vladimir Kolesnichenko, Vincent Vu and Galina Goloverda, “Preparation of Colloidal Metals of Iron Group With Uncapped Surface in Polar Aprotic Medium”, Ukrainian Chemistry Journal, 2005, 69(11-12), 65-70.