Faculty
100% of the Chemistry Department's full-time professors have Ph.D.s. They also have expertise in multiple areas of their respective disciplines. This gives the student a broad integrative approach to each course taken.
Donald Lorance, Ph.D., dlorance@vanguard.edu, Professor Emeritus Chemistry
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
Member, American Institute of Chemists, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Scientific Affiliation, American Chemical Society; author of articles in professional journals and presenter of papers at professional society meetings.
Ted Lorance, Ph.D., tlorance@vanguard.edu, Chemistry Department Chair and Associate Professor Chemistry
Ph.D., University of Arizona.
Postdoc, Arizona State University
Member of American Chemical Society. Author of articles in professional journals and presenter of papers at professional society meetings. Dr. Lorance's research interests lie in the accurate prediction of the course and rate of both gas- and solution-phase organic reactions, particularly those involving open-shell species, using computational methods.
Tara M. Sirvent Ph.D., tsirvent@vanguard.edu, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
Ph.D., Cornell University
Postdoc, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
Member of the American Chemical Society (ACS), American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), the Phytochemical Society of North America (PSNA), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the Herbal Society of America (HSA). Dr. Sirvent's research interest lies in Natural Products Chemistry with a focus on phytomedicinal plants. She actively recruits undergraduates (especially freshmen) in research. Her students present their research results at National and Regional Conferences.
ADJUNCT FACULTY
Rick Bravo, M.S., Adjunct Professor of Chemistry
M.S., University of California, Irvine
Studying synthetic inorganic chemistry with Dr. Alan Heyduk as a NSF-LSAMP Bridge Fellow; B.A. Point Loma Nazarene University. Member of American Chemical Society.
Anja Rosengarth, Ph.D., anja.rosengarth@vanguard.edu, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry
Ph.D., University of Munster, Germany
Postdoctoral, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry/Structural Biology, University of California, Irvine