Randy Wadkins is Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry. His educational background is B.S., University of Mississippi, 1986 Ph.D., University of Mississippi, 1990 NIH Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Mississippi, 1986- 1990 Max Plank Gesellschaft Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany, 1990-1991 Postdoctoral Fellowship, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 1991-1994 AAAS S&T Congressional Fellow 2015-2016. His research interests are biophysical chemistry, molecular dynamics, fluorescence microscopy and imaging, DNA structure and structural transitions, & biosensors.