{"id":98,"date":"2018-08-19T02:17:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T09:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vendor.hub.wp.nau.edu\/Chem-Biochem\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T22:34:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:34:56","slug":"faculty-and-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/faculty-and-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty and staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Faculty and staff<\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_550\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-550\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-550 size-tall-banner-image\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/375\/faculty-19-20-960x384.jpg\" alt=\"Faculty and Staff Photo\" width=\"960\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/375\/faculty-19-20-960x384.jpg 960w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/375\/faculty-19-20-465x186.jpg 465w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/375\/faculty-19-20-1440x576.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-550\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faculty and Staff Retreat Spring 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the latest faculty and staff contact information, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/directory\/\">Chemistry and Biochemistry Directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Faculty<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Alvin Altamirano\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/altamirano\/\">Alvin Altamirano<\/a> (Associate Chair), biochemistry<\/li>\n<li><u><a title=\"Cindy Browder\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/browder\/\">Cindy Browder<\/a><\/u>, organic chemistry<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Edgar Civitello\u00a0(Chair)\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/civitello\/\"><u>Edgar Civitello<\/u><\/a>, organic chemistry<\/li>\n<li><u><a title=\"Brandon Cruickshank\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/cruickshank\/\">Brandon Cruickshank<\/a><\/u>, chemical education<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:Dale.Cummings@nau.edu\">Dale Cummings<\/a>, chemical education<\/li>\n<li><u><a title=\"Jennifer Duis\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/duis\/\">Jennifer Duis<\/a>,<\/u>\u00a0chemical education<\/li>\n<li><u><a title=\"Anthony Hascall\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/hascall\/\">Antony Hascall<\/a><\/u>, chemical education<\/li>\n<li><u><a title=\"Stephanie Hurst\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/hurst\/\">Stephanie Hurst<\/a><\/u>, inorganic chemistry<\/li>\n<li><u><a title=\"Jani Ingram\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/ingram\/\">Jani Ingram<\/a><\/u>\u00a0(Chair), analytical and environmental chemistry<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:Paul.Jagodzinski@nau.edu\">Paul Jagodzinski<\/a>, physical chemistry<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:melanie.johnston@nau.edu\">Melanie Johnston<\/a>, biochemistry<\/li>\n<li><u><a title=\"Andrew Koppisch\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/koppisch\/\">Andrew Koppisch<\/a><\/u>, biochemistry<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/naomileelab.wixsite.com\/research\">Naomi Lee<\/a>, biochemistry<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Gerrick Lindberg\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/lindberg\/\">Gerrick Lindberg<\/a>, physical chemistry<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:arthur8@icloud.com\">Arthur Nonomura<\/a>, adjunct, photosynthesis<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:Devon.Randall@nau.edu\">Devon Randall<\/a>, brewing<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:Victor.Ramos-Sanchez@nau.edu\">Victor Ramos Sanchez<\/a>, analytical chemistry<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:Kaylee.Rellaford@nau.edu\">Kaylee Rellaford<\/a>, assistant teaching professor<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:Benjamin.Sandler@nau.edu\">Benjamin Sandler,<\/a> associate teaching professor<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:jaclyn.torkelson@nau.edu\">Jaclyn Torkelson<\/a>, analytical chemistry<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/wasylenki\/\">Laura Wasylenki<\/a>, environmental chemistry<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:Ryan.E.Williams@nau.edu\">Ryan Williams<\/a>, organic chemistry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Staff<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Malia Davis-Rodriguez\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/rodriguez\/\">Malia Davis-Rodriguez<\/a><\/li>\n<li><u><a title=\"Kurt Ristinen, MS\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/ristinen\/\">Kurt Ristinen, MS<\/a><\/u><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Jeannette Thompson\" 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Faculty Alvin Altamirano (Associate Chair), biochemistry Cindy Browder, organic chemistry Edgar Civitello, organic chemistry Brandon Cruickshank, chemical education Dale Cummings, chemical education Jennifer Duis,\u00a0chemical education Antony Hascall, chemical education Stephanie Hurst, inorganic chemistry Jani Ingram\u00a0(Chair), analytical and environmental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","ring_central_script_selection":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-98","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-chemistry-biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}