New Course Announcements

Chemistry 156. Chemistry of Positron Emission Tomography (spring term)
This course will provide exposure to translational imaging from a unique chemical perspective. The focus of the course will be radiotracer chemistry but additional topcs such as imaging physics, imaging equipment, and probe design based on biology, pharmacokinetics, and image analysis will be covered. Students will leave the course with working knowledge of radiotracer design and human translational imaging.

Chemistry 171. Biological Synthesis. (spring term)
This course will examine synthesis from a biological perspective, focusing on how organisms construct and manipulate metabolites, as well as how biological catalysts and systems can be used for small molecule production. Topics to be covered include mechanistic enzymology, biosynthetic pathways and logic, biocatalysis, protein engineering, and synthetic biology.

Chemistry 255. Practical Crystallography in Chemistry and Materials Science. (spring term)
With the great advances in technology, crystal structure analysis plays a more and more important role in the structure determination of complex solids. This course will involve the basic principles of crystallography, and cover advanced aspects of practical crystal structure refinement. Topics include crystal symmetry, space groups, geometry of diffraction, structure factors, and structure refinement. The student will get a working knowledge of X-ray crystallographic techniques, and learn how to grow good crystals, determine a structure from data collection strategies to data reduction, visualize structure, use structure database and publish the crystallography result.

Physical Sciences 11. Foundations and Frontiers of Modern Chemistry: A Molecular and Global Perspective. (spring term)
The Physical Sciences hold the key to solving unprecedented problems at the intersection of science, technology, and an array of rapidly emerging global scale challenges. The course emphasizes a molecular scale understanding of energy and entropy; free energy in equilibria, acid/base reactivity, and electrochemistry; molecular bonding and kinetics; catalysis in organic and inorganic systems; the union of quantum mechanics, nanostructures, and photovoltaics; and the analysis of nuclear energy. Case studies are used both to develop quantitative reasoning and to directly link these principles to global strategies.

Primarily for Undergraduates

Because of the sequence of prerequisites for chemistry courses, the Department strongly recommends some work in mathematics as well as chemistry in the first year. Freshmen contemplating this program are urged to consult a member of the Chemistry Department in planning their work for the first year. Advice may be obtained in the Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies’ Office, Science Center 114.

Course Catalog Descriptions

For course descriptions, schedules and links to course websites, click here:
Chemistry and Chemical Biology course catalog

Schedule of Courses

COURSE SCHEDULE: Spring 2012