Joe Meadows Visiting Assistant Professor, Chemistry |
Education
Teaching Interests
My role at the College is focused on teaching the General Chemistry course sequence, where I have the privilege of opening the doors to the field I love for students from a variety of majors and academic departments. I love teaching this set of courses because my own General Chemistry professor fundamentally changed my life by encouraging me to become a chemist, and I would love to pay that forward to my own students.
Research, Scholarship or Creative/Artistic Interests
My research is focused on investigating the photophysical properties of small, transition metal carbonyl complexes with respect to changes in their molecular structure. By making structural changes in the ligand of an inorganic molecule, we can observe changes in the physical properties in order to find better ways to describe the relationships between the structure of the complex and its behavior in a reaction.
On a practical level, my research group and I make a series of molecules that have nearly identical structures separated by systematic changes in one end of the molecule, and we look to see whether those changes will make a predictable impact on the other end of the molecule.