The Departmental faculty are actively conducting research sponsored by a number of federal agencies. As a chemistry student at Tennessee Tech, you will have an opportunity to work in their laboratories on research projects in exciting areas like environmental chemistry, computer modeling of DNA and proteins, medicinal chemistry, gene splicing, and spectroscopic studies of the Hubble Space Telescope data. Through these and other research efforts, you can gain valuable expertise solving real-life problems, having fun learning, and even earn a salary at the same time.
Several faculty can support students financially to work in their research labs.
But their efforts are not confined to the laboratory. Students present results of their projects at professional meetings in such faraway places as Denver, Dallas, San Diego, or New Orleans, where they gain valuable experience as well as mix with peers and professionals.