Brent L Iverson, PhD

 

Dean, School of Undergraduate Studies

Professor, Department of Chemistry

School of Undergraduate Studies; College of Natural Sciences

 

Dr. Brent Iverson became the second dean of the School of Undergraduate Studies in July 2013. Iverson was actively involved in the formation of the school, first serving on the Task Force on Curricular Reform that led to the school’s creation in 2006 and then on the school’s faculty governance group, the Undergraduate Studies Advisory Committee, for four years.

Before he became dean, Iverson was chairman of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, where he holds the Warren J. and Viola Mae Raymer Professorship. He has co-authored six editions of an organic chemistry textbook used at universities across the country. He is well known across campus for teaching an immensely popular undergraduate organic chemistry course, a task he continues to perform each spring.

Iverson also maintains an active research lab with major projects including the development of technologies that will enable the creation of next-generation biotherapeutics, investigation of a new class of molecules that bind to long stretches of DNA, and creation of synthetic molecules that clarify the factors responsible for amyloid fibril formation, one of the characteristic features of Alzheimer’s disease.