Farah Dawood is developing the experimental physical chemistry curriculum. She is initiating a research program grounded in nanolithography for designing optically active materials for manipulating light and sensors for detecting low concentrations of biomolecules. During her postdoctoral research at The Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Dawood developed new lithographic methods for spatially organizing soft materials, in particular for enabling applications in next-generation quantum computing. Before that, Dawood was a postdoctoral researcher in physical chemistry at the University of Maryland, where she studied new nanofabrication methods using ultrafast lasers to design biomolecular scaffolds and sensors. Dawood earned her doctorate in materials chemistry at Penn State, focusing on colloidal routes for the predictable and controllable synthesis of metastable nanoparticles using crystal structures as templates. She earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Concordia College, Moorhead.

American Chemical Society; Principles of Chemistry lab Physical Chemistry I lab Physical Chemistry II