Research
At
Rochester, we educate through research. All faculty
members in the Department participate in the graduate educational
program and direct a research program. A typical research
group has 5 to 12 members including undergraduates, graduate students,
postdoctoral fellows, and a research advisor. This size provides an
interactive, informal atmosphere that facilitates problem solving
and makes science enjoyable as well as exciting.
In a
recent National Science Foundation survey, the Department of Chemistry
at Rochester ranks in the top ten among all chemistry departments
in federal research support per faculty member. The Department's success
in the highly competitive federal funding process attests to the quality
of its research. National recognition of the research accomplishments
of the current faculty is also evidenced by their many honors and
awards, including numerous Sloan, Dreyfus and Guggenheim Fellowships,
Presidential Young Investigator/CAREER Awards, Fulbright Awards, and
American Chemical Society awards.
The success
of the research efforts at Rochester have also led to the development
of a first class infrastructure for doing research with instrumentation,
facilities and staff support that are rare for much larger institutions.
State-of-the-art instrumentation is available for
"hands-on" use by students, assisted by expert staff. The well-organized
Carlson Science Library is attached to Hutchison Hall,
where the Chemistry Department is housed.
The
Department has an extremely active seminar program usually featuring
two or more leading researchers from outside the University each week. The
centerpieces of this program are three endowed lectureships which
bring to the campus outstanding scientists who remain in residence
for one week, presenting several seminars and interacting widely
with faculty and students. In addition, faculty and students
often attend relevant seminars offered by other departments, such
as Physics and
Optics and the
Medical Center.
Rochester's
Department of Chemistry is large enough to offer diverse research
areas and excellent instrumentation, but at the same time
maintains an informal atmosphere that encourages interaction
among students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty. This results
in a training experience that prepares students to solve the
wide range of problems encountered in various chemistry careers.
Multidisciplinary
Research Centers
The Department has strong research programs in interdisciplinary
areas such as chemical physics, photochemistry, metal-organic, organometallic,
biophysical, bioorganic, and bioinorganic chemistry. The effective
interaction between different research groups encourages such interdisciplinary
research and often makes it difficult to classify many of our faculty into the traditional chemical disciplines.
Collaborative
and interdisciplinary research also extends to other areas of the
University. There are active interactions with many departments, including
Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Biology,
Biochemistry & Biophysics,
Physics,
Chemical Physics,
Optics,
and the UR Medical School.
University of Rochester research centers closely affiliated with Chemistry:
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