Each member of the department's faculty oversees a research programme, many of which are funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the American Chemical Society (ACS). Faculty engage in local collaborations with researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and the Universities of Wisconsin as well as national collaborations with faculty at other universities and researchers at national laboratories.

Recently funded projects include:

Dr. Jier Huang (PI) DOE Early Career - Design and Structural Analyses of 2D COFs as Single-Site CO2 Reduction Catalysts

Dr. Qadir Timerghazin (PI), Dr. Scott Reid (Co-PI) NSF - $681,425 to fund a new supercomputing cluster for research on campus

Dr. James Kincaid (PI) NIH RO1 - $1.1 million to study the mechanisms and control of multifunctional cytochromes P450

Dr. Adam Fiedler (PI) NIH - $442,528 to study synthetic, spectroscopic and computational investigations of thiol oxidation by nonheme iron enzymes