Prospective Graduate Students

Welcome to the Department of Chemistry! Please review our degree programs in Chemistry, our diverse areas of research, our cutting edge interdisciplinary research opportunities, our expansive research facilities, and our thesis advisors currently accepting new graduate students, and you'll find what you're looking for in a graduate program. Not only that, but the Seattle and the Puget Sound Region provide a beautiful setting for your studies at the University of Washington. If you need financial assistance to help you realize your dreams, financial support is available to graduate students in Chemistry. If you are serious about pursuing your graduate education with us, please review the admission requirements and application procedures.

Current Graduate Students

The Department of Chemistry Graduate Program offers activities that promote academic, professional, and personal development of graduate students. You are encouraged to apply for Graduate School sponsored travel awards that provide funding assistance for travel to conferences or professional meetings to present talks or posters. There is also the Graduate Student Travel Award Opportunity, whereby students may receive Departmental travel awards for transportation to your undergraduate alma mater to present a seminar on your doctoral research. You can be involved in the Chemistry Graduate Student Club which is very active, offering social events as well as educational opportunities. It is important for graduate students to be aware of and follow the Elements of Graduate Good Standing.

Graduate Program News

Final Examination - Dissertation Defense

Congratulations to Maxwell Zeigler, who defended his Ph.D. work "Highly Sensitive Quantitative Microscopy for Cellular and Subcellular Analysis" on March 7. More...

Final Examination - Dissertation Defense

Congratulations to Michael Lynch, who defended his Ph.D. work “Correlating Electronic and Nuclear Motions in Ultrafast Photoinduced Charge Transfer Reactions with Femtosecond Multidimensional Spectroscopies” on February 18. More...

Final Examination - Dissertation Defense

Erin Riley defended her Ph.D. work "Single Molecule Photoluminescence Intermittency: The Role of the Host" on December 13. More...

Final Examination - Dissertation Defense

Congratulations to Jennifer Gadd, who defended her Ph.D. work “Single-Molecule Studies for the Characterization of Synaptic Vesicles" on September 5. More...

Final Examination - Dissertation Defense

Congratulations to Dmitry Liskin, who defended his Ph.D. work "Oxidative Difunctionalizations of Alkenes" on August 10. More...

Final Examination - Dissertation Defense

Congratulations to Gayani Perera, who defended her Ph.D. work "Chemical Proteomic Tools for Studying Protein Kinase Active Sites" on August 2. More...

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Graduate Program Coordinator
Department of Chemistry
University of Washington
Box 351700

Seattle, WA 98195-1700

gradprogram@chem.washington.edu
206-543-4787 (office)

1-800-UOW-CHEM

(1-800-869-2436, toll-free in the U.S.; from outside the U.S., first dial your country’s exit/international access or direct dialing (IDD) code)

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