Department of Chemistry
Did you know that the University of Washington, located in beautiful Seattle, wins more federal research funding than any other American public university? That’s the way it’s been for over 30 years. Among public and private universities, UW holds the number two spot in the nation, easily topping research powerhouses such as Berkeley, Harvard, and Caltech (only Johns Hopkins betters us). We spend about $1 billion dollars annually on research.
Did you know that the Department of Chemistry at the University of Washington runs the largest undergraduate degree program in chemistry and biochemistry in the nation, awarding about 300 degrees annually? Did you know that graduate students studying toward the Ph.D. in chemistry at UW are part of a group of nearly 400 faculty, postdoctoral associates, graduate students, and research staff who are pursuing research on a wide variety of projects?
Unless you have visited, you certainly wouldn’t know just how welcoming is the environment in which all of this is happening.
If you are considering graduate study in Chemistry, and our research interests match yours, I hope you will consider joining us. It is an extremely exciting time in our field and in this department.
We take great pride in our vibrant, evolving programs at the core of chemistry, in the areas of analytical, inorganic, organic and physical chemistry. You will find outstanding faculty members at UW in all of these areas. If it is your goal to study in one or more of these areas, do explore opportunities here at UW.
Is chemistry at its interfaces more your thing? Then come speak to our many faculty in the area of nanotechnology (UW had the first degree-granting nanotechnology program in the nation), or in materials chemistry, or biological chemistry. Or come to visit our Center for Process Analytical Chemistry (CPAC), the nation’s leading consortium of academic and industrial scientists doing cutting-edge research to advance industrial processes. Would you like to get in on the ground floor of creating and testing the new electro optic materials that will form the interface of optical and electronic data transmission? Then sign on with a research team in our NSF Science and Technology Center discovering Materials and Devices for Information Technology Research. These are but a few of the opportunities available to you.
We invite you to visit our department. Once you have seen what it is like to study at a first-rate university, in an outstanding department, with all the advantages of being located in a major city, while surrounded by the environmental grandeur of the Pacific Northwest, we know it is likely you’ll return to join our program.
And by the way, if you visit us, stop by to say hello.
With very best wishes,
Paul B. Hopkins
Professor and Chair
Professor Paul B. Hopkins
Professor Paul B. Hopkins
(206) 543-1613
chair@chem.washington.edu
Professor
Robert Synovec
(206) 685-2328
synovec@chem.washington.edu
Professor Philip J. Reid
(206) 543-6147
preid@chem.washington.edu