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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

Please Note: Our grateful thanks to Dr and Mrs Victor Garsky who have donated $10,000 to the Department in acknowledgement of the help and guidance given to Dr Garsky by Emeritus Professors Gerard V. Smith and David F. Koster. The gift will be used as financial support for part-time employment of undergraduate students with the expressed goal of giving these students laboratory research experience.

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.

Professor Mark Byrd, Department of Physics, SIUC, Friday, February 15, 2019

" Quantum Computing: A Top View of the Room at the Bottom "

Materials Technology Center Seminar Series

Congratulations

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.

Professors Gary and Mary Kinsel on the article in the Southern Illinoisan highlighting their outside classroom activities both within and outside the university.

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.

To our 2018 DRA recipients: from the left, David Price, Chelsea Gemeinhardt, Ahmad Qamar, Max Gemeinhardt, Zach Kartje.

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

Michael Molway, Chelsea N. Bridgmohan and Yachu Du on being selected as the 2018 Schmulbach Graduate Teaching Awardees.

Madison McMinn, a junior Chemistry major with minors in Forensic Science and Mathematics from Chatham IL on being named 2018 Goldwater Scholar Honorable Mention.

Professor Qingfeng Ge on his selection as the recipient of the 2018 University-Level Scholar Excellence Award.

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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