The graduate program in chemistry includes course work, seminar participation, and research, and is designed to lead to a broad understanding of the subject. The program offers the following degrees:
Entering students may be admitted to either the master's or the doctoral program. The doctoral program is designed to be flexible so that individual programs of study in inorganic, organic, physical, biophysical and materials chemistry may be devised to satisfy the particular interests and needs of each student.
Students in the Ph.D. program are eligible to participate in the new interdepartmental Graduate Program in Quantitative Biology, which provides training in new research fields that cross the traditional boundaries between the life sciences and the physical sciences.
The department offers specializations in organic, inorganic, and physical chemistry and in chemical physics, and is poised to play an active role in the rapidly growing research areas of genomics, quantitative biology, and neuroscience, and in the increasingly important interdisciplinary areas of chemical biology, complex systems, materials chemistry and catalysis. The research opportunities are outstanding, with our home in our new state-of-the-art science center, modern instrumentation, and an excellent staff. The most recent addition to our infrastructure is a soon-to-be-installed 800 MHz NMR spectrometer that complements 4 other NMR instruments in the department. Recent exciting research developments from groups in the department include new synthetic methods for practical and environmentally benign catalysis, insights into the origins of Parkinson's disease, and the discovery of biologically relevant structure in nanodroplets.