Investing in Innovative Learning, Academic Research
Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
With a Chemistry Degree...
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Find Your Happy BeginningMany chemistry students head to medical school or a graduate program. Others are eager to put their skills to work earning a paycheck.
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Race a Nanocar on a Track of GoldWith no more than 100 atoms, they made a car with four wheels, axles, and a chassis--and drove it with an electron scanning tunneling microscope in the world's tiniest race.
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Search for CuresBuilding a nano-particle to kill cancer cells ... turning off bacteria's riboswitch ... making peptides to stop Alzheimer’s progression?
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Students explore yesterday, today and tomorrow, searching for solutions to today's problems and imagining what they can build in a future of nano-devices and smart supramolecular architectures. They even probe the mysteries nature embedded long ago in cell walls and RNA.
Building a New Home
As Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty and students make research headlines around the world, work on a new state-of-the-art chemistry building at Ohio University moves forward.
Analytical
Biological and forensic analysis, nanomedicine, nanobiotechnology, biological mass spectrometry
Biochemistry
Probing the mysteries of living organisms by studying the collective behavior of atoms, molecules and cells
Inorganic
Pursuing innovative main group and transition metal chemistry toward applications in biology, catalysis and materials
Organic
Design of novel medicinal agents, development of new synthetic methods, design of smart supramolecular architectures
Physical
Materials science including nanoscience and solid-state, surface, synthetic and polymer chemistry.
Education
Innovative teaching, undergraduate research with renowned faculty, accredited chemistry and forensic programs