For a while now, Matt McIntosh’s OrganicLinks (www.organiclinks.net) – now administered by the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry and Jared Shaw’s ChemBioLinks (www.chembiolinks.net) united members of the synthetic organic and bioorganic communities, respectively, at Ph.D.-granting colleges and universities. In 2015, when I was invited to speak at an ACS Division of Organic Chemistry symposium for undergraduate research mentors, I realized that such an online network did not yet exist for faculty whose scholarly work predominantly involves undergraduate students. Namely, those who work at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs).
Although the site now only lists faculty research groups, it will grow to include tools, information, and features based upon user feedback. Specifically, it is my sincere hope that this network will be used by students and faculty to establish collaborations, organize meetings, and to select true peers as reviewers of grant proposals and manuscripts.
This site intends to include research groups that pursue experimental organic chemistry research as a significant part of their program, but whose focus is not solely pedagogical.
Faculty who fulfill the following criteria will be included:
- Active involvement in experimental organic chemistry research, judged as follows:
- research that would fall under the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry
- published in a reputable, peer-reviewed journal within the last 10 years
- Tenure-track or tenured at the rank of assistant, associate, or full professor, and who are not currently serving as an administrator
- Located at an accredited university within the United States of America
- Professional site specifies research interests or links to a personal site that does
- Evidence that the faculty site or linked personal site has been updated in the last 10 years
In order to keep the database to a manageable size (between 500-1000 groups), I have included only faculty whose department offers a major leading to a B.A., B.S. and/or M.S. degree in chemistry. If an institution awards Ph.D.s, but does not offer a Ph.D. in chemistry, those faculty were included, as were researchers in chemistry departments who offer a Ph.D. degree in chemical education, but not experimental organic chemistry.
I apologize for any oversights, and request that you e-mail me your URL if your research group meets the above criteria but is not listed. Please do not hesitate to send me an update if you are a new PUI faculty member at a member institution, change institutions, retire, if your URL changes, or if you no longer wish to be listed
Created, maintained, and copyrighted by Stephen Chamberland, Utah Valley University, updated September 2026.
