As a chemistry student, you’ll enjoy small classes (including introductory chemistry), significant original research experiences in our modern laboratories, wide ranging student-faculty collaboration, varying teaching methods that serve diverse learning styles, and opportunities to teach others through our mentor program. You’ll also have the flexibility to design a major that suits your interests including, for example, completing an ACS certified program. Our majors go onto graduate programs in a variety of disciplines and international fellowships.
Department News
Four Reasons to Attend a Research Conference as an Undergrad
Whether you’re presenting your own research or just immersing yourself in the experience, a conference can be an exciting opportunity for young scholars.
Chemical Connections: Classics and Chemistry Collide with Research on Greek Vase
What’s the connection between olive oil, an ancient Greek vase, and X-ray fluorescence analysis? That’s exactly what Nora Madrigal ’19 and Ben Hoekstra ’19 sought to find out from a research project in their Chemistry 358: Instrumental Analysis class.
Special Campus Memo: Erickson Endowed Chemistry Professorship Established
Team Effort Establishes Luther and Jenny Erickson Endowed Professorship of Chemistry
An outpouring of support from former students of Luther Erickson, professor…