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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Welcome to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry seeks to equip students with the knowledge and methodologies of chemistry and biochemistry so as to enable them to be informed Christian citizens as well as skilled and ethical practitioners of chemistry, biochemistry and chemical education.

As a program approved by the American Chemical Society, our department offers rigorous courses across all sub-disciplines of chemistry, as well as laboratory and research experiences necessary for preparation as a scientific or health-care professional. Our department places special emphasis on the integration of the knowledge and methods of science with Christian faith.

CHEM Graduating Class 2024

Graduating Class of 2024

Congratulations to our class of 2024!  Plans are set for next year.  This is what they are doing:

  • Ph.D. Programs!  Johns Hopkins University, University of California Riverside
  • M.S. Programs!  Northeastern University
  • Medical Schools!  Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • Teaching!  West Chester School District
  • Laboratory Positions!   University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, M.J. Reider Laboratories

Department Superlatives

After completing her Ph.D. and NSF fellowship at Pennsylvania State University, Megan Steves (Chemistry '17) is now a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.  She recently received a 2024 Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project entitled "Sub-millisecond widefield detection for single-molecule microscopy, spectroscopy and dynamics."

Congratulations to Nick Tay (Chemistry '14) on the publication, in Science, of research he conducted in synthetic organic chemistry, in support of better PET scan imaging!  Nick is now in a post-doctoral position at Columbia University.  Read about his research at:

https://www.unc.edu/…/carolina-scientists-discover-new-me…

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6446/1170

Gloria Igihozo (Biochemistry '19) shared her courageous dreams for the future in the September 2017 edition of The Swinging Bridge magazine.  Gloria studied public health for women in rural Rwanda through her master's program at the Univesrity of Global Health Equity and is now a Ph.D. student at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

http://pulse.messiah.edu/2017/09/swinging-bridge-magazine-september-2017/

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