Department of Chemistry

Whether students are in upper-level teaching laboratories or individual faculty research laboratories, they gain hands-on experience with modern chemical instrumentation as they study research problems. Some research projects result in student-authored publications.

UD has strong support for undergraduate research, including the honors program, College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Summer Fellowships, Integrated Science and Engineering Summer CoRPs and the Berry Summer Thesis Institute. Our department has the longest standing undergraduate research program at UD.

Our facilities occupy most of the four floors of the Wohlleben wing of UD's Science Center complex. Our state-of-the-art instructional labs, equipped with Fourier Transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers and computer-interface lab experiment modules, are among the finest to be found anywhere.

Upper-level students gain hands-on experience with a Bruker 300 MHz FT NMR, high pressure liquid chromatography, a GC-mass spectrometer system, a laser Raman system, as well as Fourier transform infrared, fluorescence and ultraviolet spectrometers.

Desktop and mainframe computer access and high-speed parallel computing clusters are also available for studies in computational chemistry. Specialized equipment supporting research in X-ray crystallography, biochemistry, nanotechnology, inorganic and organic synthesis and electroanalytical studies are also available, including scanning tunneling microscopy, and atomic force microscopy equipment in UD’s Nano Engineering Science and Technology Center.

1. Students will be able to address a scientific problem and present a solution in a written and oral format to a scientific audience.
2. Students will have the knowledge to succeed in graduate school, professional school or professional employment.
3. Students will be able to apply modern lab techniques to the solution of chemical problems.
4. Students will be able to succinctly define the term "chemistry" and explain its significance a relevance to the modern world.

UD's Bachelor's Plus Master's program allows academically gifted students the opportunity to obtain both a B.S. and M.S. degree in a shorter amount of time than would normally be required.

In addition to University scholarships, the Department of Chemistry offers undergraduate scholarships.