Overview

There are currently 26 active faculty members. Of these, 22 are tenured and 4 untenured. They include 6 women and 1 underrepresented minority member. Four hold joint appointments. 10 of these faculty are members of the National Academy of Sciences. Two are winners of the Nobel Prize and one has received the National Medal of Science. There are 4 lecturers (1 senior & 1 advanced).

The department serves our chemistry majors and has an extensive service teaching mission that meets undergraduate education requirements across the university and its many disciplines. During the past academic year, there were 3009 undergraduates enrolled across all Chemistry courses (12,149 units). There are 47 undergraduate chemistry majors. Another key element of the teaching mission is for the graduate student population in chemistry.

The faculty, staff and department operations are currently housed in ~160,000 sq.ft. of assignable space distributed over 6 buildings. The renovated “old chemistry building" is now called the Sapp Center for Science Teaching and Learning.

The operations, teaching and research missions are directly supported by ~30 Chemistry staff. These include a Department Manager and 6 senior managers of functional areas (facilities including a core NMR instrumentation center, external relations, human resources/faculty affairs, student services, administrative services and finance). In addition, there are ~20 external staff supporting the library, service centers, EHS and IT.