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Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
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.
Latest Chemistry & Biochemistry News
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. Demi Reed chose another route and joined the Peace Corps.
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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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Be Part of the CureBuilding 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.
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