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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

Positions available: Assistant Professor in Organic Chemistry

Weekly Seminar

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

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

Due to COVID-19, the remaining seminars of the semester have been cencelled.

Materials Technology Center Seminar Series

Congratulations

Professor Mohtashim Shamsi, on being awarded an NSF EAGER grant on Novel probes for label-free detection of neurodegenerative DNA repeats.

Professor Boyd Goodson, on being awarded an NSF Collaborative Research grant: Exploiting Spin Networks and Efficient Catalyst/Substrate Separations for NMR "SABRE”

Professor Punit Kohli and his co PIs, on being awarded an NSF-MRI grant to establish an AFM facility at the IMAGE center.

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

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