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The Department of Chemistry was established in 1904.  It offers instruction and research experience in all major areas of chemistry at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The Department is accredited by the American Chemical Society and offers options in standard chemistry, biochemistry, and environmental chemistry. The Chemistry department in conjunction with the School of Education also has an undergraduate option in secondary school teaching. For more information on the bachelors, masters, and doctoral programs, click at the corresponding link on the menu.

In the Spotlight

The Chemistry Department congratulates 5 doctoral candidates who recently defended their Ph.D.s.

IYA LIKHTINA, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Electronic spectroscopy and computational studies of GSCbl, H2OCbl, and MeCbl
Mentor: Prof. Ronald Birke

PRAGYA YADAV, Ph.D.
Dissertation: The role of the Epstein-Barr Virus Nuclear Antigen-1 in the production of antibodies to dsDNA
Mentor: Prof. Linda Spatz, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education

SAYANTANI SARKAR, Ph.D.
Dissertation: A Tale of Two Nutritional Targets: Studies of Molecular Structure and Pedagogy
Mentor: Prof. Ruth Stark

DENIZ TEMEL, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Interactions between a Bacterial Tyrosine Kinase and its Cognate Phosphatase - A Solution NMR Study
Mentor: Prof. Ranajeet Ghose

YI PAN, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Synthesis, Characterization, Raman, and Surface Enhanced Raman Studies of Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Mentor: Prof. John Lombardi