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Welcome to the Chemistry Graduate Program


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We offer the following degrees in Chemistry:

Come join our 136 graduate students, including the Entering Class of 2012, working in 23 research groups.


Analytical Chemical Education Inorganic Organic/Biochemistry Physical/Computational Polymer

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We offer a variety of research concentrations: bio-inorganic chemistry, bio-organic chemistry, chemical eduaction, clinical chemistry, computational chemistry, enzymes, environmental chemistry, fluorescence, heterocycles, lasers, marine chemistry, mass spectrometry, medicinal chemistry, NMR utilizing FT techniques, nucleotides and nucleic acids, photochemistry, physical chemistry, polymer chemistry, proteins, surface chemistry, thermodynamics, transition-metal chemistry and more.

We are an emerging university in a high-growth area that is undergoing considerable expansion in the scientific, technological, and medical fields. We have strong collaborative research efforts with the College of Engineering, the Medical School, and the College of Public Health, all within walking distance of the Department of Chemistry.