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Chemistry is all around us

It impacts everything we can see, touch, smell and taste. The programs of the Department will prepare you to understand,investigate and apply the principles of chemistry to a wide variety of careers from the study of the environment, to solving criminal cases, to working in a chemically related business, to using chemistry to understand biological systems and processes, to preparing for a career as a research chemist.

For those wishing to prepare for advanced study in chemistry we offer both Master's and Doctoral Programs in all major fields of Chemistry.

Our faculty provide teaching and research expertise in all major areas of Chemistry

The Department offers weekly seminars by faculty from departments throughout the United States and beyond describing the latest advances in their fields.

Weekly Seminar

Departmental Seminars are held in the Van Lente Auditorium (Neckers 240) at 4:00 pm unless otherwise indicated below.

Date and Time: Aug. 23, 2019 at 4:00 pm

Speaker: Professor André Schleife, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: Excited electronic states: Dielectric screening and hot-electron mediated ion diffusion

Materials Technology Center Seminar Series

Congratulations

Professor Keith Gagnon, on being awarded an NIH R15 grant on the Nuclear Surveillance of Disease-Associated C9ORF72 Expanded Tandem Repeat RNA.

Professor James E. House,a member of the Departmental Hall of Fame, was recently notified that the first volume in the series, "Developments in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry" of which he is the series editor, won the 2019 PROSE Award in the Chemistry and Physics Category from the American Association of Publishers.

Professor Gary Kinsel for receiving $4,900 from the SIU Alumni Association for AY 19-20 UGRA's. With Department match-up it will allow us to engage 4 full-time UG's to do research in our labs.

Professor Boyd Goodson who was selected for the COS Scholar Excellence Award. Also recognized was Professor Sally Potter-McIntyre of Geology who received the COS Early Career Excellence Award.

Professor Zhihua Du and his co-PI, Professor Xiaolan Huang, Department of Computer Science, on being awarded an NIH R15 grant titled "Structures and Catalytic Mechanisms of Cas13b and potentially related Cas9 Endonucleases.

Professor Qingfeng Ge on being chosen for the 2018 Midwest Award of the Midwest Region of the American Chemical Society. The award will be presented at the Midwest Regional Meeting at Iowa State University October 21-23, 2018.

Professor Kyle Plunkett who is co_PI with Professor Derek Fisher in Microbiology on a NIH-R15 award in the amount of $442,500 for the period June 1, 2018-May 31, 2021

Professor Boyd Goodson and Professor Saikat Talapatra on the award of a three year NSF grant titled "REU Site in Interdisciplinary Materials Research"

Professor Boyd Goodson is co-PI on an NIH_R21 grant approved by NIH. His co-PI is Professor Eduard Chekmenev at Vanderbilt University and there are several Russian Collaborators.

Undergraduate Student Awards, Chem. & Biochem., Fall 2017-Spring 2018 Presented Honors Day, April, 2018

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