The Central Science. Chemistry is the link that connects problems in the fundamental nature of matter to the most complex problems in the processes of life. Members of our department bring chemistry to life as cutting-edge researchers and as teachers for students across the university.

Undergraduates majoring in chemistry can go on to several professional fields, including medicine and graduate study, and are also in high demand in fields like secondary education. Our commitment to teaching is also reflected in our desire to build a community environment and provide every opportunity of success for our undergraduates. Toward that end, we have initiated a Chemistry Learning Community for our first year and transfer students.

Our Ph.D. program has a history of cutting edge and often interdisciplinary research that will teach you to be an independent scientist, ready for a career in industry or academia. Our goal is to help you learn the most modern research techniques and to think creatively about solutions to major scientific problems.

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The Department of Chemistry is pleased to welcome back Dr. Lisa Balbes from the American Chemical Society for two days of employment and career management seminars and workshops!

The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce new faculty joining us in 2015.

Robbyn K. Anand

Robbyn K. Anand will join the chemistry faculty in August 2015 as an Assistant Professor. She earned her Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Texas at Austin under the guidance of Prof. Richard M. Crooks with the support of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. She developed microfluidic devices employing bipolar electrodes for electrokinetic focusing of charged species and membrane-free seawater desalination. Then, as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, she worked with Prof. Daniel T. Chiu at the University of Washington on the capture and analysis of circulating tumor cells. She pioneered a technique for dielectrophoretic manipulation of biological cells using extended electric field gradients.

Jared Anderson

Jared Anderson,, Professor, will join the chemistry faculty in August 2015. He earned his B.S. in 2000 from South Dakota State University and his Ph.D. from Iowa State University in 2005. He joined the chemistry faculty at The University of Toledo where he rose through the ranks as an assistant professor (2005-2009), associate professor (2009-2011), and full professor (2011-2015). Anderson was a recipient of a NSF CAREER Award, Emerging Leader in Chromatography Award given by LCGC Magazine, and the American Chemical Society Young Investigator in Separation Science Award. In 2014, he was included in the Top 40 under 40 Power List by the Analytical Scientist Magazine.

Aaron Rossini

Aaron Rossini, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, received his B.Sc. in 2005 and Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Windsor where he worked in the group of Prof. Robert W. Schurko on the development and application of solid-state NMR spectroscopy of unreceptive and exotic nuclei. From 2011 to 2014 he worked with Prof. Lyndon Emsley and Dr. Anne Lesage at the cole Normale Suprieure de Lyon/CRMN Lyon as a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow on the development and application of dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) enhanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Following postdoctoral work at the cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne with Prof. Lyndon Emsley he will join the chemistry faculty at Iowa State University in August 2015.

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