Welcome | Department of Chemistry

Welcome

The faculty and staff are delighted that you are considering the Department of Chemistry at the University of North Texas for your graduate studies. The Department of Chemistry recently celebrated its 100th anniversary, and is one of the largest chemistry programs in the state. We offer comprehensive graduate degrees with research training in the four traditional areas of chemistry (analytical, inorganic, organic and physical) with a wide range of subdisciplines including computational chemistry, organometallic chemistry, materials chemistry and forensic science, to name only a few. We have a full line of degree programs in chemistry education that are designed for practicing chemistry education professionals who wish to earn an advanced degree. We offer a Professional Science Masters (PSM) degree in Industrial Chemistry that provides a rigorous, advanced training in chemistry and development of the workplace skills necessary for employment in chemical industry. Interdisciplinary research opportunities are available through collaborations with researchers in other Departments, such as Biological Sciences, Materials Science and Engineering, and Physics. Chemistry graduate students have won highly competitive university fellowships and travel grant awards.

Many new and exciting developments have occurred within the Department of Chemistry in the last few years. The Department moved into a new chemistry building in 2004, and has hosted two major chemical education conferences in our new facility - the 19th ChemEd Conference in July of 2007 and the 21st Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE) in August of 2010. Several faculty members have recently joined the department, and additional hires are envisioned, to support research initiatives in bionanophotonics, forensic science and instrument development. A number of faculty members have been internationally and nationally recognized for their accomplishments, receiving major research and professional awards, and serving as editors or as members of advisory boards of major journals and scientific organizations. The Department is also the home of the Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling (CASCAM), which is one of the Nation's largest and most comprehensive computational chemistry programs.

The Department is fully equipped with modern research instrumentation, and our major equipment holdings include both a 500 and a 400 MHz Varian NMR spectrometer, mass spectrometers having MALDI, ACPI and ESI capabilities and APEX II CCD-based X-ray diffractometer. In addition the Department houses computer clusters comprised of over 2,000 cores, which are dedicated exclusively to computational chemistry research and instruction.

The chemistry faculty is committed to excellence and your success as a graduate student is important. We are large enough to have internationally recognized faculty and research programs, but of a size that enables you to establish strong and lasting ties with both faculty and fellow classmates. We are extremely proud of our graduates, many of whom have gone on to academic appointments and to important leadership positions in chemical industry and in governmental laboratories after receiving an advanced chemistry degree from UNT.

We will be happy to provide you with additional information about the chemistry department and our degree programs, and to arrange for you to visit the department. Please contact the Department's Office of Student Services, (940) 565-4848 or chemistry@unt.edu, for more detailed information, for application material, or to schedule a visit to the department and talk with our faculty.

Michael Richmond
Professor and Chair