Chemistry

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

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Campus address: Robert A. Welch Hall (WEL) 2.218, phone (512) 471-4538, fax (512) 471-6835; campus mail code: A5300

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

E-mail: bhamblen@cm.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 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, and DIPPR Thermodynamic Data, as well as hundreds of electronic scholarly journals and thousands of e-books. These resources are available through the University Libraries Web site .

The Department of Chemistry 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 chemical physics, 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.

Graduate Studies Committee

The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee in the spring semester 2015.

Eric V Anslyn Allen J Bard Jennifer S Brodbelt Alan Campion James R Chelikowsky Alan H Cowley Richard M Crooks Ananth Dodabalapur Guangbin Dong Ron Elber Andrew Ellington Christopher J Ellison John B Goodenough Graeme A Henkelman Bradley J Holliday Simon M Humphrey Brent L Iverson Richard A Jones Adrian T Keatinge-Clay Sean M Kerwin

Michael J Krische David A Laude Hung-Wen Liu Dmitrii E Makarov Stephen F Martin Charles B Mullins Emily Que Sean Thomas Roberts Michael Rose Peter J Rossky 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

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.