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
Liliana Gallegos combines organic chemistry and computer modeling
Liliana Gallegos is a Ph. D. student in CSU’s Department of Chemistry. She is researching ways to use computer modeling to make organic chemistry reactions more efficient and has also been awarded a Frontera Computational Science Fellowship.
Ph.D. students awarded national lab research opportunities
Three Ph.D. students at CSU received an award from the Office of Science Graduate Student Research to continue their research at national laboratory facilities around the country.
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
