CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY: GSU offers students the opportunity to gain hands on experience with laboratory equipment such as Rotary Evaporators, IR Spectrometers, NMR Spectrometers, Auto Titrators, and Gas Chromatography Systems to name a few!
CUTTING EDGE FACILITIES: The Department of Chemistry is housed in PSC, the Science Annex, the Natural Science Center, Petit Science Center. Pet-it Science Center, Kell Hall, and the Natural Science Center feature teaching labs, offices, service modules, and research laboratories. Major facilities include a state-of-the-art high-field regional NMR core facility with 300, 500 and 600 MHz NMR spectrometers as well as three Bruker (400,500 and 600 MHz) spectrometers with the 500 MHz instrument equipped with a cryoprobe.
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Other instrumentation includes UV/vis, infrared,
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Currently more than 600 undergraduate Chemistry majors are enrolled. Our Undergraduate Office, is designed to be more than just a place for academic advisement. We want to be your home department and shepherd you through your challenging undergraduate years. The campus-wide pre-med advisor, Dr.
Biacore instruments, one quartz crystal microbalance (QCM-D), mass spec, bead sorter for combinatorial chemistry, ITC and DSC instruments. Compound separation and analysis is achieved via HPLC, FPLC, cen-trifugal partition chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, LC-MS and GC-MS. The depart-mental NMR Facility is managed by a full time Ph.D. as is the departmental Mass Spectrometry Facility. Instrumentation shared with the Biology Department includes environmental rooms as well as a centralized DNA and peptide synthesis and analysis facilities.
Keith Pascoe, is a faculty member in the Chemistry Department. There are a number of programs available both departmental and
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The Chemistry Department has a very dynamic faculty conducting cutting edge research at the interface of chemistry, biology, and biophysics. Several faculty members are actively involved in research in the areas of biophysics, computational chemistry, protein design, protein dynamics, enzyme catalysis, drug design, nucleic acid structure and function, NMR imaging, and hydrodynamics. The Chemistry faculty have an outstanding level of external grant funds and publications. The Department, in spite of being one of the smaller units of the University, consistently ranks near the top in external grant support and publications.
Whether they are co-authoring papers, awarded scholarships, winning fellowships, or presenting research, Georgia State University Chemistry majors have attained limitless heights! The Department of Chemistry at Georgia State University faculty is devoted to teaching and working with both undergraduate and graduate students while helping them achieve their goals. A wide variety of programming is available for students interested in research. Dynamic faculty represent opportunities for a wide array of cutting edge research interests.
Why Choose Chemistry? A degree in Chemistry serves as a basis
Program Information: Chemistry deals with the nature of all substances and the changes that occur therein. It ranges from the study of the structure of atoms and molecules to that of the reactions
from which a large number of career paths can be followed.
Available Concentrations:
occurring in living organisms. The study of chemistry can A degree in Chemistry
provide knowledge that will give students a greater understanding and
The Department of
provides various career
appreciation of the world in
Chemistry is fully
opportunities including those
which they live. In addition,
accredited by the American
a knowledge of chemistry is
Chemical Society and offers a
a great asset in areas such as
traditional Bachelor of
biology, physics, and
Science degree in Chemistry
health-related fields. It is a
with the sub-disciplines of:
logical basis for premedical
Biochemistry, Physical
training.
Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Premedicine. An ACS Certified B.S. in Chemistry is also available.
in the following fields: Pharmaceuticals, Fashion and Textile Design, Medicine, Teaching, Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration,
The US Chemical Industry: The chemicals industry is one of the United States’ largest
Consumer Products, and
manufacturing industries. The industry’s more than 8,000
Petroleum to name a few!
firms produce more than 70,000 products. In 2011, the U.S. chemicals industry had sales of $763 billion and directly employed more than 788,000 workers, with additional indirect employment by industry suppliers of more than 2.7 million. With investment of $56 billion in research and development in 2011, one-fifth of all patents granted in the United States are chemistry-related.