Professor Sardella serves as Director of the Presidential Scholar's Program at Boston College. The Presidential Scholars Program is a select four-year undergraduate educational experience for young men and women of exceptional talent and character. It nurtures their development into the nation’s future leaders through rigorous Honors curricula and special enrichment opportunities, including community service, international experience, and professional internships

Professor Sardella also teaches general chemistry to undergraduate students. His past research focused on the use of NMR spectroscopy in conjunction with molecular orbital calculations to analyze a variety of problems.

Representative Key Publications:

"Through-Space 13C-19F Coupling in Highly Crowded Systems: Radial Dependence and Electronic Effects" Hsee, L.C.; Sardella, D. J.; Mag. Res. Chem. 1990, 28, 688.

"IH and 13C Spectra of Fluorine-Containing Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. IH-19F and 13C-19F Coupling Across Bay Regions" Sardella, D. J.; Boger E. Mag. Res. Chem. 1989, 27, 13.

"Two-Bond Deuterium Isotope Efects on Chemical Shifts. A Measure of Carbon-Carbon Bond Lengths" El-Din, A. E.; Sardella, D. J. Mag. Res. Chem. 1989, 27, 253.