Chemistry - Hamilton College Clinton

Chemistry from Hamilton College Clinton is a Campus Bachelor Chemistry degree that prepares you for a Science career. CHEMISTRY IS CALLED THE CENTRAL SCIENCE, AND FOR GOOD REASON. The inquiry into how matter is composed and combined is a foundation of all fields of scientific knowledge. The chemist's laboratory stretches from the interior of living cells to the most distant reaches of the universe. Between the extremes, chemistry is a key to many of our most crucial issues: environmental safety, global warming, renewable energy, bio- and chemical terrorism, medicine and fertility. At Hamilton, students don't just study chemistry; they help break new ground as members of a scientific community. How are molecules structured? How do they interact? What are the dynamics and properties of organic and inorganic matter on the molecular level? Such questions, and the research through which they are investigated, are the starting points for a broad knowledge of chemistry that drives modern technology, medicine, industry and agriculture. On a deeper level, chemistry shapes our very understanding of nature, from the microscopic to the intergalactic. Hamilton's Department of Chemistry provides students with a strong background for graduate work in many specialized science fields. Half of the College's chemistry alumni do graduate study. The program also prepares students to enter a range of health-related professions. And even students whose primary interests lie elsewhere find that a basic grounding in chemistry provides a wealth of important knowledge about the everyday world, on issues as mundane as household products and as monumental as national security. RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES Students are among Hamilton's most important researchers in chemistry , working closely with professors in a variety of fields. In connection with their senior projects or as senior fellows, senior students do research with faculty members. Some juniors, sophomores and even first-year students work in the laboratory during the academic year and summer. In addition to the 30 or so students who participate in campus chemistry research each summer, Hamilton students pursue summer research at other colleges, at government laboratories and in industry. In recent years, students have presented research at the National Organic Symposium, at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society and at an international symposium of the Quantum Theory Project. Hamilton students won the outstanding poster award at an international symposium for two consecutive years. Students also have co-authored papers published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the Journal of Organic Chemistry , the Journal of Physical Chemistry, the Journal of Chemical Physics, the Journal of Luminescence, Tetrahedron Letters and Biochemistry. THE SENIOR PROGRAM All senior chemistry students work collaboratively with faculty members on research projects as part of the Senior Program. This intensive two-semester project combines original scientific research with reading and understanding the scientific literature. It culminates in a Senior Thesis that is defended in a public presentation to departmental faculty and student chemistry majors. RESOURCES State-of-the-art facilities, advanced technology and small classes at the new campus Science Center mean that Hamilton undergraduates have the opportunity to work closely with instruments available only to graduate students at many schools. The Science Center is fully wireless and houses more than 100 teaching and research laboratories as well as offices and classrooms, student areas and a coffee shop. Instrumentation includes a 500 MHz variable-temperature multinuclear nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, several Fourier-transform infrared spectrophotometers, a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer, and a dual pump, high-pressure mixing high-performance liquid chromatograph. Also available are versatile ultraviolet/visible spectrometers, a high-performance glove box, a refrigerated centrifuge and several vacuum lines. View more details on Hamilton College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Chemistry courses.