这里的研究计划旨在了解疾病和氧化损伤，各种化合物和相关离子的结构/反应性，以及开发用于结构生物学和国土防御的计算和光谱工具。这项跨学科研究通常依靠光谱，生物物理，计算和理论方法的组合来解决化学动力学，能量学和结构方面的基本问题。正在进行的无机化学研究的具体例子包括阐明金属在生物学中的作用，包括诸如阿尔茨海默氏病和由氧化损伤引发的疾病之类的疾病。项目采用了多种光谱学，包括吸收，荧光，电子顺磁共振（EPR）和圆二色性（CD）。侧重于应变，芳族和α-异质化合物的计算和理论研究跨越了物理，有机和无机化学的边界。激
Research programs here are directed towards understanding disease and oxidative damage, structure/reactivity of diverse compounds and related ions, and developing computational and spectroscopic tools for structural biology and homeland defense. This generally cross-disciplinary research relies on a combination of spectroscopic, biophysical, computational, and theoretical methods to address fundamental problems in chemical dynamics, energetics, and structure. Specific examples of ongoing research in inorganic chemistry include elucidating the role of metals in biology, including diseases such as Alzheimer's and those initiated by oxidative damage. Projects employ a variety of spectroscopies, including absorption, fluorescence, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and circular dichroism (CD). Computational and theoretical efforts that focus on strained, aromatic, and exotic compounds cross the boundaries of physical, organic, and inorganic chemistry. Laser spectroscopy is applied extensively to understand photochemical events. For example, ultrafast spectroscopy initiates and probes the earliest events of photochemical reactions to understand and even predict the topology of chemical reactions. Time-correlated single-photon counting can reveal the mechanism of response of fluorescent polymers, fabricated for environmental sensing applications. Computational chemists at UMBC are developing novel methods to predict the structure and vibrational energy transfer processes in proteins. In addition, ongoing research programs focus on application of neutron scattering and terahertz spectroscopy for structural determination of macromolecular assemblies.