Seminars & Events

Friday, 21 February 2025 | 9:00-10:00 am
Chemistry Seminar: Dr. Thomas M. Osborn Popp, Oregon State University
Expanding the frontiers of solid state NMR: new methodologies, high-pressure studies of lipid membranes, and insights into zinc battery interfaces
Location: Coolbaugh Room 209

Friday, 21 February 2025 | 10:00-11:00 am
CBE Shell Seminar Series: Dr. Emily Pentzer, University of Texas A&M
Stabilization of non-aqueous pickering emulsions and their use for encapsulation of water-sensitive liquids
Location: CTLM Room 102

Friday, 7 March 2025 | 9:00-10:00 am
Chemistry Seminar: Dr. Eric Bauer, Los Alamos National Laboratory
My scientific journey at LANL: Understanding 5f electron behavior in U and Pu alloys and compounds
Location: Coolbaugh Room 209

Friday, 7 March 2025 | 10:00-11:00 am
CBE Shell Seminar Series: Mike Gordon
Bio-inspired and biologically-enabled photonic materials
Location: CTLM Room 102

Friday, 14 March 2025 | 9:00-10:00 am
Chemistry Seminar: Dr. Ariel Furst, Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT
Bio-inspired and biologically-enabled photonic materials
Location: Coolbaugh Room 209

Friday, 14 March 2025 | 10:00-11:00 am
CBE Shell Seminar Series: Kejun Chen
Pathways to High Performance Silicon-Based Photovoltaic Technology
Location: CTLM Room 102

Preparing professionals

The programs of the Chemistry Department are designed to educate professionals for the varied career opportunities this central scientific discipline affords. At the undergraduate level, we offer a BS degree program in chemistry that is approved by the American Chemical Society and, new in 2019, a BS degree in biochemistry. In addition, we offer specific curricular tracks emphasizing biochemistry or environmental chemistry along with a more flexible chemistry track that can be tailored to optimize the preparation of students to achieve their specific career goals.

At the graduate level, the department offers MS and PhD degrees in Chemistry, Applied Chemistry and Geochemistry. In addition, MS and PhD degrees are also offered in Materials Science, Hydrological Sciences and Engineering through interdisciplinary graduate programs. The chemistry graduate program coordinates closely with the Material Science Program, graduate students from chemistry and material science conduct research in many of the labs under advisement of several faculty members. Students interested in pursuing a graduate degree in material science and interested in research with chemistry faculty are urged to contact those members.

The Chemistry Department maintains a high-quality, well-funded research program with participation of students at both the graduate and undergraduate level. The research program in the department emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to solving real world problems in areas including sustainability, alternative energy, materials, bio-detection, nanomedicines and water quality assessment, to name a few.

Mines faculty as a whole has been recognized by premier news organizations for the success they have observed in combining scholarly research with classroom instruction.