A Solid Reputation

We firmly embrace collaborative faculty-student research as an important part of a modern chemistry or biochemistry education. All full-time faculty members have active research programs and all include students in these efforts year-round.

Chemistry and Biochemistry

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry enjoys a solid reputation as a quality program with faculty who strive to be the best teachers and researchers on campus. Coursework in Chemistry and Biochemistry is designed to prepare students for a variety of options and career paths following graduation. The upper division courses are based on a sequence of integrated laboratory/lecture courses in organic/physical chemistry, inorganic/physical chemistry, biophysical chemistry, instrumental methods and biochemistry.