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The department has purchased more than $1,750,000 of new instrumentation since 1998, including electron microscope, LC-MS, DNA sequencer, FT-NMR, ICP-OES, AAS, HPLC, IC, GC-MS, and UV-Vis. Current areas of faculty research include trace metal analysis, computer interfacing, dynamics of phospholipids in cellular processes, gene expression analysis and proteomics, inorganic coordination compounds, analytical environmental investigations, mechanistic and synthetic organic chemistry, green chemistry, characterization and remediation of a Superfund site, pheromones as alternatives to pesticides, and the effects of trout farming on water quality. Although a baccalaureate degree is required, a degree in chemistry is not! We encourage applications from Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Biology, Environmental Health, Natural Resources Management, and Clinical Laboratory Sciences undergraduates.
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The Master of Science (M.S.) program in chemistry effectively prepares students for careers as industrial chemists or for further study in professional schools or doctoral programs. The emphasis of the program is on environmental chemistry in our local region, the Southern Appalachians, although research opportunities are available in all major areas of chemistry: inorganic, organic, analytical, physical, polymer, environmental, and biochemistry. The program is designed for students to finish in two years, including an original research project and a thesis. Teaching assistantships are available for graduate students, and there are a limited number of in-state and out-of-state tuition waivers.
To request program information and/or application materials, please fill out this form online or send an e-mail (including your name, mailing address and other contact information, the term in which you intend to start your studies at WCU, and college graduation data) to kwochka@email.wcu.edu
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Cooperative Ph.D. Program with Bowman Gray School of Medicine
A cooperative graduate program between the Department of Biochemistry at Bowman Gray School of Medicine and WCU offers students a five-year plan leading to the Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees. Two years are spent at WCU and three years are spent at Bowman Gray.
Chemistry
The program for the MS degree in chemistry requires a minimum of 30 semester hours of graduate study, including a thesis as specified by the Department of Chemistry and Physics. An oral defense of the thesis is required.
Required courses: 2 hours of CHEM 696, 6 hours of CHEM 698, 3 hours of CHEM 699, and 19 semester hours in at least three areas of chemistry approved by the student’s research advisory committee. At least one half of the coursework must be from those courses numbered 600 or above.
Environmental Chemistry Concentration
The program for the MS in Chemistry with an Environmental Chemistry concentration requires a minimum of 30 semester hours of graduate study, including an environmentally related thesis as specified by the Department of Chemistry and Physics.
Required courses: 2 hours of CHEM 696; 6 hours of CHEM 698; 3 hours of CHEM 699; CHEM 561 (4 hours); 6 hours of environmentally related courses; and 9 hours of electives approved by the student’s thesis research advisory committee.
M.S. in Chemistry Requirements—Four Plus One
The program for the M.S. degree in Chemistry requires a minimum of 30 semester hours of graduate study, including a thesis as specified by the Department of Chemistry and Physics. An oral defense of the thesis is required.
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