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Chemistry

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

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Campus address: Robert A. Welch Hall (WEL) 2.204, phone (512) 471-3890, fax (512) 475-8839; campus mail code: A5300

Mailing address: The University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Program in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 105 East 24th Street A5300, Austin TX 78712-0165

E-mail: brooke.graham@austin.utexas.edu

URL: http://www.cm.utexas.edu/

Facilities for Graduate Work

The Mallet Chemistry Library is the largest academic chemistry library in the country. In addition to extensive print-based collections in all areas of chemistry and chemical engineering, the library provides access to major database resources such as SciFinder (Chemical Abstracts), Reaxys, Web of Science, Science of Synthesis, and Design Institute for Physical Properties, as well as hundreds of electronic scholarly journals and thousands of e-books. These resources are available through the University Libraries Web site, http://www.lib.utexas.edu/ .

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry maintains suitably equipped and well-staffed shops for glassblowing, machine work, and electronics maintenance and design. There are service laboratories equipped for organic analysis and for work in spectrophotometry; spectropolarimetry; photoelectron, nuclear magnetic, and electron spin resonance; X-ray diffraction; and mass spectrometry. Other specialized equipment is available in various laboratories. The facilities of Information Technology Services are used in numerous research programs.

Areas of Study

Graduate study in chemistry is offered in the areas of biochemistry, chemical physics, and analytical, inorganic, organic, or physical chemistry. Each of these broad areas encompasses specialized aspects of the subject. Details are available from the chair of the department’s Graduate Admissions Committee. The separate graduate program in biochemistry is described in the biochemistry section .

Graduate Studies Committee

The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee in the spring semester 2013.

Eric V Anslyn
Dean R Appling
Allen J Bard
Jeffrey E Barrick
Christopher W Bielawski
Jennifer S Brodbelt
Karen S Browning
Alan Campion
James R Chelikowsky
Alan H Cowley
Richard M Crooks
Ananth Dodabalapur
Guangbin Dong
Ron Elber
Andrew Ellington
Ilya J Finkelstein
Richard H Finnell
John B Goodenough
Marvin L Hackert
Graeme A Henkelman
David W Hoffman
James A Holcombe
Bradley J Holliday
Simon M Humphrey
Brent L Iverson
Kenneth Johnson
Richard A Jones
Adrian T Keatinge-Clay
Sean M Kerwin
Michael J Krische
Alan Lambowitz
David A Laude
Hung-Wen Liu
Philip D Magnus
Dmitrii E Makarov
Edward M Marcotte
Stephen F Martin
Andreas T Matouschek
Charles B Mullins
Jon D Robertus
Michael Rose
Peter J Rossky
Rick Russell
Jonathan L Sessler
Jason B Shear
Dionicio R Siegel
Greg O Sitz
John F Stanton
Keith J Stevenson
David A Vandenbout
Lauren J Webb
Katherine A Willets
Carlton G Willson
Yan Zhang

Admission Requirements

The preliminary training of students seeking a graduate degree in chemistry must include at least twenty-four semester hours of undergraduate work in chemistry, consisting of twelve or more semester hours of upper-division coursework and at least two courses (including laboratory) in organic chemistry and two in physical chemistry; one in analytical chemistry; and one in inorganic chemistry.


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