
The W. Allan Power Lectureship
The Department of Chemistry ’s signature endowed lectureship event will be a public lecture by a world renown chemist, Professor Nathan (Nate) S. Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology. During the public lecture Prof. Lewis will describe a new materials phenomenon (inorganic phototropic growth) that his lab has discovered and will discuss the potentially revolutionary applications it may offer in nanoscale and mesoscale materials design and synthesis and device technology.
Faculty Members with External Research Grants
Students Co-Authored Publications in the Past 5 Years
Undergraduates Performing Research During the School Year
Undergraduate Presentations at Regional or National Meetings Last Year
Faculty Highlights

Jeff Simpson, director of NMR and computational support, and Michael Leopold, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, and a team of undergraduates published a paper in ACS Applied Nano Materials on using functionalized gold nanoparticles to detect the neonicotinoid pesticides believed to be harming bee populations.
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Michael Leopold, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, along with collaborator Jeff Simpson, director of NMR and computational support, and a team of undergraduates published a paper in ACS Applied Nano Materials on using functionalized gold nanoparticles to detect the neonicotinoid pesticides believed to be harming bee populations.
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Michael Leopold, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, was featured on the Chem4Real - Research Engages All Learners podcast by the Council of Undergraduate Research (CUR) talking about mentoring students in research at the University of Richmond.
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Carol Parish, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, along with undergraduate student co-authors, published “Atomistic Insights into the binding of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Receptor Binding Domain with the Human ACE2 receptor: The Importance of Residue 493” in the Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modeling.
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Gottwald Science Center B-100
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Phone: (804) 289-8242
Fax: (804) 289-1897
Department Chair: Dr. Christopher Stevenson
Assistant Department Chair: Dr. Jonathan Dattelbaum
Academic Administrative Coordinator: Pat Coleman