Chemistry & Biochemistry Department

With a Chemistry Degree...

Find Your Happy Beginning

Many chemistry students head to medical school or a graduate program. Others are eager to put their skills to work earning a paycheck. Demi Reed chose another route and joined the Peace Corps.
Race a Nanocar on a Track of Gold

With 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.
Be Part of the Cure

Building a nano-particle to kill cancer cells ... making peptides to stop Alzheimer’s progression? Mason Myers chose to look at antibiotic resistance and how molecules target RNA riboswitches.

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.

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Midwestern Universities Analytical Chemical Conference

Outreach and Public Engagement

The Chemistry & Biochemistry Department is committed to engagement with the local community as well as the scholarly community.

Giving Opportunities

Gifts by alumni and friends help support faculty and students in the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department.

Recent Chemistry News:

Chemistry lab students predict spread of COVID-19 with kinetics models

1 month 2 weeks ago

In this graph, students in the spring kinetics lab predicted daily cases for the 2022-23 academic year. From Ohio University News Chemist Jixin Chen looked at the rapid spread of COVID-19 early in the pandemic and saw a novel opportunity for his kinetics lab, where they study the rates of reactions. The first time he ran the lab in spring 2021, undergraduate students concluded that social regulations […]

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25 Arts & Sciences Faculty Promoted, 15 Granted Tenure

2 months 3 weeks ago

Wilson Hall on College Green From Ohio University News The Ohio University Board of Trustees voted in June to award promotion to 25 College of Arts & Sciences faculty members, with seven named full professor, 15 promoted to associate professor with tenure, and three named associate professor of instruction. “Tenure-track assistant professors generally apply for […]

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22 Arts & Sciences professors awarded faculty fellowship during 2022-23

3 months ago

Wilson Hall on College Green From Ohio University News The Ohio University Board of Trustees approved 22 College of Arts & Sciences faculty members for faculty fellowship leave during the 2022-23. “Faculty fellowship leaves provide invaluable opportunities for faculty to devote substantial time to scholarship,” said Florenz Plassmann, Dean of the College of Arts & […]

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