Dr. Frank V. Bright at the UB Department of Chemistry

Sensors, arrays, and detections
Tailored materials
Environmentally friendly chemistries
Chemical analysis of things as they are
Instrumentation

Frank V. Bright

UB Distinguished Professor of Chemistry A. Conger Goodyear Chair of Chemistry Department Chairperson

511 Natural Sciences Complex Department of Chemistry University at Buffalo The State University of New York Buffalo, NY 14260-3000 Phone: (716) 645-6800 ext. 2162 Fax: (716) 645-6963 E-mail: chefvb@buffalo.edu

Education

B.S., University of Redlands (1982)
Ph.D., Oklahoma State University (1985)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University (1985-87)
Visiting Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, Georgia Tech (1994-95)

Awards & Honors

3M, Inc. Non-tenured Faculty Award (1988-91)
UB, SUNY Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Award for Excellence in Teaching (1998)
Eastern New York Section of the American Chemical Society Buck-Whitney Medal (1999)
SUNY Chancellors' Award for Excellence in Teaching (2000)
SUNY Outstanding Inventors Award (2002)
New York Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy Gold Medal (2003)
American Chemical Society Akron Section Award (2003)
Niagara Frontier Intellectual Property Law Association, Technical Societies Council of the Niagara Frontier, "2003 Inventor of the Year, Life Sciences" (2004)
A. Benedetti-Pichler Award in Microchemistry from the American Microchemical Society (Nov. 2005)
Jacob F. Schoellkopf Medal, WNY Section, ACS (2006)
"Most Promising Technology" Smart Start Venture Forum, UNYTECH, Universities of Upstate New York Venture Forum (2007)

The primary theme linking all our research work is that significant improvements in analytical methods and materials will derive from a deeper understanding of the key molecular-level events and processes that are involved.

Current efforts in our laboratories focus on the following research topics:

Representative Publications

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