Regina Stevens-Truss, Professor of Chemistry (Co-chair)
Phone: 269.337.7330 Email: regina.stevens-truss@kzoo.edu
Professor Stevens-Truss teaches Chemical Reactivity, Biochemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, and Infection: Global Health & Social Justice. Research in her lab focuses on testing a variety of compounds for antimicrobial activity.
Dwight Williams, Associate Professor of Chemistry (Co-chair)
Phone: 269.337.7409 Email: dwight.williams@kzoo.edu
Professor Williams teaches Organic Chemistry I & II with the corresponding labs, as well as Advanced Organic Chemistry and Introductory Chemistry. His research interests combine synthetic organic chemistry and medicinal chemistry with pharmacology.
Blakely Tresca, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Phone: 269.337.7018 Email: blakely.tresca@kzoo.edu
Professor Tresca teaches Organic Chemistry. His research interests include Organic and Supramolecular chemistry.
Daniela Arias-Rotondo, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Phone: 269.337.7017 Email: Daniela.Arias-Rotondo@kzoo.edu
Dr. Arias-Rotondo teaches Inorganic Chemistry, Molecular Structure, and Chemical Reactivity. Her research focuses on photoactive complexes of first-row transition metals.
Josie Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Phone: 269.337.7020
Dr. Mitchell teaches Biochemistry and the corresponding labs. Her research focuses on studying biochemical processes in vivo by manipulating proteins using CRISPR-Cas9 genome engineering in Drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies).
Cecilia Vollbrecht, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Phone: 269.337.7021
Dr. Vollbrecht teaches Physical Chemistry.
Yit-Yian Lua, Laboratory Instructor
Email: yit-yian.lua@kzoo.edu
Tom Massura, Instrument Technician
Phone: 269.337.7099, Email: tom.massura@kzoo.edu
Tom’s duties include maintaining all of the Instrumentation for the Science Division along with setting up Physics Labs. When Tom started at the College in 1987 computers were a rare thing to be found on campus. Now he maintains over 50 machines just used in the Science Division. In his spare time he enjoys spending time with his 2 children when they are home from college and spending time outside.
Jarred Fitch, Director of Chemistry Laboratories
Phone: 269.337.7022
Betsy Paulson, Office Coordinator for Biology and Chemistry and Biochemistry
Phone: 269.337.7007, Email: elizabeth.paulson@kzoo.edu