All chemistry faculty are conducting research during the academic years and summers and present many opportunities for students in their research labs. Chemistry research is funded by numerous grants from such agencies as:

• The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
• The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation (Henry-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards)
• The Beckman Foundation (Beckman Scholars’ Program)
• The Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) of the American Chemical Society (ACS)
• The Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• The Jeffress Memorial Trust of Virginia
• The Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund of Virginia
• The U.S. Department of Defense
• Commonwealth Health Research Board
• The Roy R. Charles Center of William & Mary

The research activities of the faculty belong in one or more of the areas listed below.

Analytical	Biological	Computational
Rachel O'Brien John Poutsma	Deborah Bebout Randolph Coleman Lisa Landino John Poutsma Douglas Young	Randolph Coleman Nathan Kidwell John Poutsma
Conservation Science (Cultural Heritage)	Inorganic	Materials
Tyler Meldrum Kristin Wustholz	Deborah Bebout Robert Pike William McNamara	Richard Kiefer David Kranbuehl William McNamara Robert Pike
Organic	Physical	Spectroscopy
Christopher Abelt Elizabeth Harbron Robert Hinkle Jonathan Scheerer Douglas Young	Nathan Kidwell Tyler Meldrum John Poutsma Kristin Wustholz	Christopher Abelt Deborah Bebout Elizabeth Harbron Nathan Kidwell Tyler Meldrum Kristin Wustholz