Graduate education at Colorado State aims to train creative and competent scientists through the pursuit of answers to scientifically important research problems. Graduate students have opportunities to take a wide array of courses within the university. Graduate classes emphasize the most modern concepts and are taught by an internationally respected faculty.
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Areas of research cover both the traditional chemistry disciplines (analytical, inorganic, organic, physical) and interdisciplinary fields (materials, chemical biology, environmental). CSU’s Analytical Resources Core is extensive through the department. The department maintains electronics, woodworking and scientific glassblowing expertise, and the university has a fully-staffed machine shop.
Students in the News
CSU Chemistry Club achieves American Chemical Society’s highest student chapter award
Out of 10 Colorado schools, CSU is the only to have an ACS student chapter receive a national award this year.
Chemistry student receives competitive national fellowship
Mariel Price received the Graduate Women in Science Fellowship to aid in research toward transforming plastics using light-driven methods
Going Viral: Biology student creates educational kit about the spread of pathogens
The Going Viral kit will be used by middle- and high-school students throughout Colorado.
Chemistry student awarded oldest graduate fellowship of its kind, NSF GRFP
Three-year fellowship gives Ian Moseley research freedom to focus exclusively on molecular magnets
