Chemistry Department

The Department of Chemistry provides a strong foundation of the discipline’s principal components — analytical, inorganic, organic, physical, and biochemistry. Chemistry students enjoy a learning environment defined by the close interaction between faculty and students. A majority of chemistry majors and minors build on those strong faculty relationships by undertaking undergraduate research under a professor who works in their particular field of interest. More than 50 chemistry students conduct undergraduate research each summer, and more than 70 students work in research projects during the academic year. Students regularly appear as co-authors on published papers in chemistry and biochemistry journals and present posters on their research at regional and national scientific meetings.

Chemistry graduates are ready to enter the best chemistry graduate programs in the country, to join the workforce as chemists in industry and government, to proceed into careers as secondary school teachers, or to develop careers in sales and marketing for the technical industry. This major also provides a strong background for studies in the health professions, allied health professions, and law.

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