It has received wide attention outside this University. In the last decade we have appointed sixteen new faculty who bring freshness and youthful energy to the program. It is an especially stimulating time to be a chemistry concentrator. You are considering for your concentration a discipline that is challenging and that stretches the imagination. At the same time Chemistry remains practical and down to earth.
Chemists analyze, synthesize, quantitate and design materials.
We relish creating models and theories that can rationalize what happens in the laboratory. We enjoy discussing our experiments and ideas with each other as well as with physicists, biologists, computer scientists and with experts in electronics and materials science. In other words, we interface with a myriad of other disciplines and fields. The study of chemistry prepares individuals for the obvious real-life jobs in chemical industry, education and related fields. More fundamentally it develops the ability to solve problems and to think critically.