Chemistry

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Building connections

As a chemistry major at St. Kate’s, you will study chemistry in an environment that stresses close student-faculty interaction and individual support. You will have the opportunity to work collaboratively in the laboratory on open-ended projects utilizing our modern facilities and more than a half-million dollars worth of instrumentation. You will assist with faculty research in such areas as:

• synthesis of blood-clotting inhibitors
• computer simulations and molecular modeling
• bioanalytical chemistry
• synthesis and characterization of inorganic complexes
• solid-state luminescent metal complexes

Plenty of options

St. Kate’s offers three concentrations of the chemistry major, each providing a sound program for students interested in pursuing graduate study or employment in an industrial or governmental laboratory: the core chemistry concentration, the American Chemical Society (ACS) certified concentration and the biochemistry concentration.

If you’re interested in interdisciplinary fields such as biochemistry, food science, environmental science and oceanography, as well as in professional fields such as medicine, veterinary medicine, patent law, dentistry, pharmacology and microbiology, we recommend you investigate these different concentrations.