About Dr. Greg Naumiec

Dr. Gregory Naumiec, a synthetic organic chemist, joined the chemistry faculty at UCA in 2015. Greg earned a B.S. in Biochemistry from the State University of New York at Geneseo in 2005, followed by a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Rhode Island in 2010. While in graduate school, Greg helped to modernize the organic chemistry laboratory and published two novel experiments in the Journal of Chemical Education. Greg then served as a postdoctoral fellow for the PET Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, Molecular Imaging Branch of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland until 2015. Greg plans to involve undergraduate students in laboratory research at UCA, with an emphasis on the development of drug candidates to treat neglected tropical diseases and designing new undergraduate laboratory modules for Organic Chemistry I and II. Greg teaches Chemistry 2401 (Organic Chemistry I), Chemistry 3411 (Organic Chemistry II), Chemistry 3211 (Organic Spectroscopy), and Chemistry 4V09 (Medical Imaging).