Hello Students, Alumni, Faculty, Staff, and Friends,
It’s week 6 of WQ2019 already(!!) and we are looking forward to spring, which will come up soon. In spring we will be running Instrumental Analysis (our 2nd offering of the new format), where students will get hands-on experience working with various instruments. Sophomore chemistry and junior biochemistry majors should take it if they have taken analytical (the pre-requisite for instrumental).
Biochemistry III and Physical Chemistry III lectures and labs are also offered every spring quarter.
Inorganic Chemistry Lecture and Lab (320/321) is only offered in spring quarter and is a required course for chemistry and biochemistry majors. Juniors should enroll in this course (unless they plan on taking it in their senior year), as should any seniors if they have not taken it yet.
Graduating seniors should also take capstone (CHE330).
In terms of electives (which vary quarter to quarter), SQ2019 has CHE318 – Biophysical Chemistry and CHE362 – Drugs and Toxicology.
Biophysical chemistry is designed for advanced undergraduate students with an interest in the interdisciplinary field of biophysics (using physical chemical methods to analyze biological systems). The course will focus on several subfields of biophysical chemistry, such as: fluorescence as a tool in biophysics; protein folding; biophysical applications of single molecule fluorescence, atomic force microscopy, etc.
Drugs and Toxicology examines the chemical and biological analysis of the metabolism and distribution of drugs, toxins and chemicals in animals and humans, and the mechanism by which they cause therapeutic and toxic responses.
For our MS programs, courses in Materials Science, Molecular Dynamics, and Science Writing/Communication are being offered. The Science Writing course in particular is required for our MS programs (both our MS in Chemistry and our MS in Polymer and Coatings program) and is not offered every year, so all MS students should enroll in CHE494.
Talk to your academic about your courses so you know which ones you need to take in what quarters to graduate in a timely fashion.
Something that is also in our sights is the Chicago-Area Undergraduate Research Symposium, CAURS. The deadline for applying is Feb 28th! We encourage all undergraduate researchers to apply, and all are welcome to attend and check our the research performed by undergraduates at Chicago-area schools.
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