Chemistry
Colorado School of Mines
The Chemistry Department at Colorado School of Mines emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to solving real-world problems in areas such as sustainability, alternative fuels and energy, bio-detection, materials, nanomedicines and water quality assessment.
Friday, 17 October 2025 | 9:00 am
Chemistry Seminar: Prof. Raphaële Clément, Materials Department, University of California – Santa Barbara
Dual and composite electrolytes for solid-state batteries
Location: 209 Coolbaugh
Friday, 17 October 2025 | 10:00 am
CBE Seminar: Yuriy Román, Massachusetts Institute Technology
Reimagining Thermochemical Catalysis: Promoting Reactions with Electric Fields
Location: 102 CTLM
Friday, 24 October 2025 | 9:00 am
Chemistry Seminar: Prof. Kent Griffith, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego
An NMR Crystallography Approach to Defects, Dynamics, Distortions, and Disorder in Emerging Materials
Location: 209 Coolbaugh
Friday, 24 October 2025 | 10:00 am
CBE Seminar: Carissa Eisler, University of California, Los Angeles
Controlling the direction of light emission in anisotropic perovskite nanoparticles using alignment, fusing, and surface interactions
Location: 102 CTLM
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.
News
- Two Mines faculty members win NASA Early Career Faculty Award
Omid Beik, assistant professor of electrical engineering, and C. Michael McGuirk, associate professor of chemistry, are conducting research that could power future space exploration. - Two Mines students honored with Goldwater Scholarships
Caitlyn Castellion and Marco Salgado among 441 students nationwide chosen for the competitive scholarship program - Melissa Krebs inducted into American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Melissa Krebs, associate professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows. AIMBE membership hon … - FIRST program gives first-year students direct research experience
At Mines, undergraduate students don't have to wait years to get experience in the lab. The First-Year Innovation and Research Scholar Training Program introduces new college students to academic …