Faculty

The Department of Chemistry and Physics has a dynamic and energetic faculty dedicated to high quality undergraduate education. The faculty members have specifically chosen to teach and conduct research in an undergraduate setting in order to maximize their interactions with students.

In addition to being excellent teachers in the classroom, the faculty are actively involved in directing undergraduate research, an essential component of a quality undergraduate degree program in the sciences.

The members of the faculty have been successful in securing extramural funding for their research and curriculum development efforts, and several recently have taken their students to national meetings in order to present the results of their research.

Jerome L. Mullin, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry and Department Chair
(Analytical Chemistry)

  • Ph.D., Analytical Chemistry, University of New Hampshire, 1983
  • B.S., Chemistry, LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY, 1977
  • Post-doctoral Fellow, University of New Hampshire, 1983-84

Dr. Mullin has been teaching at UNE since 1990, and teaches General Chemistry I and II (CHE 110/111), Quantitative Analysis (CHE 307), Instrumental Analysis (CHE 309), Applied Physical Chemistry (CHE 327) and Independent Research in Chemistry (CHE 410/411). Dr. Mullin's primary research focus has aimed toward the analytical applications of chemiluminescence and the development of fluorescence-based fiber optic sensors. His current projects involve the determination of heavy metal distributions in marine sediments, the determination of other environmentally important analytes in natural samples and investigations of the spectroscopic and electrochemical characteristics of novel organometallic compounds (e.g., Group-14 metalloles) that have unusual photoluminescence properties.

Phone: 207-602-2538
Lab: Alfond Center 340
Email: jmullin@une.edu
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Paul Bilotta, M.S.
Laboratory Instructor (General Chemistry and General Physics)

  • M.S., Analytical Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1978
  • B.S., Chemistry, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, 1975

Paul joined the department in 2002. His responsibilities include instruction in the general chemistry and general physics laboratories.

Phone: 207-602-2143
Office: Decary Hall 333
Email: pbilotta@une.edu

Dan Callahan, M.S.
Lecturer in Chemistry and Laboratory Coordinator
(General Chemistry and General Physics)

  • M.S., Environmental Science and Meteorology, Naval Post-graduate School.
  • B.S., Chemistry, California State Polytechnic University

Dan teaches courses in introductory chemistry and physics for health science majors, as well as General Chemistry and General Physics labs. He occasionally teaches the General Chemistry course, as well. In his role as laboratory coordinator, Dan does an excellent job of making sure that the General Chemistry labs are prepared for each experiment. He also manages the chemistry stockroom and is the department's chemical hygiene officer.

Phone: 207-602-2490
Office: Decary Hall 349
Email: dcallahan@une.edu
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Amy Morin Deveau, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry (Organic and Medicinal Chemistry)

  • Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, University of Virginia, 2002
  • B.S., Chemistry, Stonehill College, 1996

Dr. Deveau completed her Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Virginia with Tim Macdonald focusing on the design and synthesis of heterocycles that arrest cancer cell growth.She then moved to a post-doctoral position in synthetic organic chemistry with Gregory Friestad at the University of Vermont.At UVM, her research involved the total synthesis of tubulysin D, a peptide-based marine natural product.Recently joining UNE in the summer 2003, Amy is currently developing her undergraduate research program.Her interests include the synthesis of medicinally active compounds, particularly those compounds containing unnatural amino acids, aziridines, and other chiral amines.She is teaching the Organic Chemistry series (CHE 210/211 with lab) and Medicinal Chemistry (CHE 404) during the 2003-2004 academic year.

Phone: 207-602-2813
Lab: Alfond Science Center, Rm 334
Office: Decary Hall 347
Email: adeveau@une.edu
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John Stubbs, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry (Physical Chemistry)

  • Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, University of Minnesota
  • B.S., Chemistry, University of Minnesota-Morris

Dr. Stubbs joined the Department in September, 2006. He teaches courses in General Chemistry and Physical Chemistry. His research area is in the field of computational chemistry.

Phone: 207-602-2152
Decary Hall, Rm 353
e-mail: jstubbs@une.edu

Charles Tilburg, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physics (Physical Oceanography)

  • Ph.D., Oceanography, The Florida State University
  • M.S., Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas
  • B.S., Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas

Dr. Tilburg joined the Department in January, 2007. He teaches courses in General Physics and Oceanography. His research focuses on physical oceanography and the circulation of estuaries and the coastal ocean. He is particularly interested in the physical factors that govern the distribution of river plumes, the transport of crab and fish larvae, and across-shelf transport on the continental shelf.

Phone: 207-602-2422
Marine Science Center, Rm 219
e-mail: ctilburg@une.edu
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Mark Sweezy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry (Biochemistry)

  • Ph.D., Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, 1998
  • B.A., Biology, Western State College of Colorado, Gunnison, CO, 1989

Dr. Sweezy did is doctoral research with Professor Scott Morrical in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Vermont. Following a postdoctoral research appointment at the University of Colorado's Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Dr. Sweezy joined the Department of Chemistry and Physics at UNE in 2002. His teaching duties have so far included General Chemistry, Introductory Biochemistry, and the two-semester Biochemistry (CHE 350 and 351) for Biochemistry majors. In addition, Dr. Sweezy is using his first year to set up his research program and develop new experiments for the Biochemistry courses.

Phone: 207- 602-2224
Lab: Alfond Science Center, Rm 351
Office: Decary Hall 338
Email: msweezey@une.edu
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Christopher Syvinski, M.S.
Laboratory Instructor in Chemistry

  • M.S., Organic Chemistry, Clarkson University
  • B.S., Chemistry, Clarkson University

Chris is a laboratory instructor with expertise in Organic Chemistry and General Chemistry. He also helps maintain the Department's 300 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer.

Phone: 207-602-2593
Office: Decary Hall, Rm. 333
e-mail: csyvinski@une.edu

James Vesenka, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physics (General Physics)

  • Ph.D., Physics, University of California-Davis, 1989
  • M.Sc., Physics, University of California-Davis, 1986
  • B.A., Physics/Chemistry, Clark University, Worcester, MA, 1982

Since joining the department in 1999, Dr. Vesenka has been busy teaching General Physics and upgrading the physics laboratory. Dr. Vesenka's scholarly activities include curriculum development in physics, including the development of a modeling-based approach to General Physics, and biophysical applications of scanning probe microscopy.

Phone: 207-602-2560
Office: Decary Hall 352
Email: jvesenka@une.edu
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