Graduate Brochure

THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE AND ITS LOCALE HE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE IS A STATE- 1 ASSISTED, PRIVATELY CONTROLLED COEDU- TCATIONAL LAND, SEA AND SPACE GRANT INSTITUTION WITH ROOTS IN AN ACADEMY FOUNDED IN 1743. TODAY, OVER 14,500 UNDER- GRADUATE STUDENTS CHOOSE FROM APPROXI- MATELY 105 MAJORS. THE UNIVERSITY OFFERS THE MASTER’S DEGREE IN 80 FIELDS AND THE DOC- TORAL DEGREE IN 40 DISCIPLINES, AND HAS A GRADUATE ENROLLMENT OF ABOUT 2,500. THE STATE OF DELAWARE SITS IN THE HEART OF THE MID-ATLANTIC SEABOARD, HALFWAY BETWEEN WASHINGTON, D.C. AND NEW YORK CITY. DESPITE ITS SMALL SIZE, THE STATE IS REMARKABLY DIVERSE, FROM THE URBAN AND SUBURBAN AREAS OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY TO THE FARMS AND SAND BEACHES OF KENT AND SUSSEX COUNTIES. IT HAS A LONG AND PROUD HERITAGE: DELAWARE WAS THE FIRST STATE TO RATIFY THE U. S. CONSTITUTION. CONTAINED WITHIN ITS COMPACT BORDERS IS AN ABUNDANCE OF MUSEUMS AND EDU- CATIONAL AND CULTURAL ATTRACTIONS ATTESTING TO DELAWARE’S CONTRIBU- TIONS TO OUR NATION’S FOUNDING AND EARLY GROWTH. THE STATE OF DELAWARE ALSO HAS PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN THE FIELDS OF SCIENCE AND CHEMISTRY IN PARTICU- LAR. FROM ITS CORPORATE AND ACAD- EMIC LABORATORIES HAS COME A CONTINUING STREAM OF DEVELOPMENTS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE. COMMERCIALIZATION OF INVENTIONS SUCH AS PHARMACEUTICALS, AGRI- CULTURAL CHEMICALS, SYNTHETIC POLYMERS, GAS CHROMATOGRAPHS, SYNTHETIC REPLACE- MENT BODY PARTS, SOLAR CELLS AND SOLAR STORAGE DEVICES, AND POLYMER-COMPOSITE MATERIALS HAS PLACED DELAWARE AT THE CUT- TING EDGE OF TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION FOR MANY DECADES. BOSTON INTERSTATE 87 INTERSTATE 81 INTERSTATE 95 INTERSTATE 87 NEW YORK INTERSTATE INTERSTATE 76 95 PHILADELPHIA INTERSTATE 81 WILMINGTON NEWARK GETTING TO THE 896 . d The undergraduate pro- Univ. R BALTIMORE 273 ll Guest i UNIVERSITY OF M Apts s gram has a long history as a i Dover t r DELAWARE NEWARK u WASHINGTON C Lewes Robert Kirkwood Highway2 Travelodge major producer of chemists Georgetown To Wilmington © The I-95 corridor is 279/2 and biochemists. The hall- minutes from campus 896 273 13 Railroad marks of the Delaware pro- facilitating travel to Sleep Chestnut Hill R Inn INTERSTATE 896 gram include a strong con- four of the East 95 Marrows Road 273 To Coast’s largest cities: 4 Phila. © centration on the subject, Howard 72 RICHMOND INTERSTATE Comfort Johnsons New York, 95 Inn Turnpike Chapman Rd. close contact with faculty § To Baltimore, INTERSTATE Service Area Philadelphia, Baltimore 95 NORFOLK Washington and a concern for the indi- and Washington, D.C. Old Baltimore Pike vidual student. The depart- The University of Delaware is reached Newark (pro- ment is proud of the accom- from I-95 by going north nounced “New plishments of its many dis- on Delaware route 896 Ark”), a city of approximately 30,000 situat- tinguished alumni, including Daniel at exit 1. A visitors’ ed in the northwestern corner of the state, is Nathans, winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in parking lot is located on medicine and physiology. South College Avenue the home of the University of Delaware. It (route 896) adjacent to offers a pleasant small-town setting in a the Visitors Center. location that affords easy access to major THE DELAWARE COMMITMENT cultural and entertainment centers in near- by metropolitan areas. he moderate size of the graduate student body allows excellent student-fac- Tulty interaction. The resources of the THE DEPARTMENT department provide a variety of research ocated in three interconnected build- opportunities comparable to graduate pro- ings, H. Fletcher Brown Laboratory, grams of much larger size. Many students LQuaesita Drake Hall, and Lammot du participate in research across traditional Pont Laboratory, the Chemistry and boundaries in the chemical sciences. For Biochemistry Department occupies more example, a graduate student in analytical than 200,000 square feet of teaching, office chemistry might collaborate with a faculty and research-laboratory space. Its degree member in biochemistry or physical chem- programs include the Bachelor of Arts (with istry on a project of common interest, or a majors in Chemistry and Chemistry biochemistry student might collaborate Education), the Bachelor of Science (with with a molecular biologist. The breadth of majors in Chemistry, Biochemistry, and the program is enhanced by joint faculty Chemistry with Environmental appointments in chemical engineering, life Concentration), the Master of Arts, the sciences and marine studies and by cross- Master of Science and the Doctor of disciplinary training programs. Philosophy. The 30-plus faculty and approximately 110 graduate students continue the tradi- tion of excellence in teaching and research PROGRAMS in the five major areas of chemistry and bio- he graduate program in chemistry was chemistry, as well as in interdisciplinary one of the first advanced-degree pro- areas. In recent years, this effort has result- Tgrams established at the University of ed in annual publication rates of over 150 Delaware, awarding its first Ph.D.s in 1948. scholarly articles. The annual department Over the years, more than 500 doctoral budget is approximately $10 million per degrees and more than 300 master's degrees year, of which approximately $4 million is have been awarded. Alumni of the depart- devoted to research. ment have successful careers in industry, academia and government laboratories. 2 RESOURCES wide variety of resources are available to chemistry and bio- Achemistry graduate students. S TAFF. The department has an outstanding staff to support its teaching and research mission. A full-time glassblower, four machinists, and three electronics technicians aid in the design, construction and maintenance of laboratory equipment. A computational chemistry specialist and two computer technicians oversee the computing and networking infrastruc- ture of the department. The chemistry stockroom handles the day-to-day sup- plies and expedites the processing of special orders. Laboratory services support teaching of laboratory courses. L IBRARIES. The Chemistry Library, located in Brown Laboratory, contains an extensive collection of ref- erence works and monographs, and carries subscriptions to over 200 jour- nals. The Hugh M. Morris Library is a two-minute walk from the department and contains more than 2 million vol- umes. Catalogs of the Morris Library and the branch libraries are conve- niently available on-line from loca- tions within the department and out- side the University. Other bibliograph- ic databases, including those of the American Chemical Society, are also available on-line. instruments that provide service in electro- SINGLE MOLECULE DETEC- spray ionization (ESI), matrix-assisted laser TION USING FLUORES- R ESEARCH I NSTRUMENTATION. Three CENCE MICROSCOPY. desorption ionization (MALDI), fast-atom major facilities support the research of fac- bombardment (FAB), chemical ionization ulty and students. These laboratories are (CI), and electron ionization (EI) mass spec- operated by Ph.D.-level scientists who pro- trometry. GC/MS and LC/MS instruments vide analytical service and training courses. are available for routine student use. The X- The NMR laboratory houses five liquid- and ray laboratory includes two state-of-the-art solid-state FT-NMR spectrometers and one diffractometers for small molecule crystal- FT-ESR spectrometer. Graduate students lography. A research facility to perform routinely use these instruments in their macromolecular crystallography is also research. Included is a 400 MHz NMR with housed in the department. gradients that allows rapid acquisition of A wide variety of equipment is available data for characterization of molecules and in individual research laboratories such as complex synthetic intermediates. The mass FTIR, UV-VIS, fluorescence and stopped- spectrometry laboratory encompasses six 3 ALIGNING BEAMS IN A LASER flow spectrometers, high performance liquid domain spectrofluorimeters, and a laser flu- MASS SPECTROMETRY EXPER- chromatographs, gloveboxes and high vacu- orimeter capable of single-molecule detec- IMENT. um lines for air-sensitive manipulations, tion. electrochemical analyzers, instrumentation Outstanding facilities are available for for electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, molecular modeling and computational a quartz crystal microbalance, amino acid chemistry. The department has many analyzers, peptide sequencers, peptide and Silicon Graphics workstations and a CaChe DNA synthesizers, preparative and analyti- system for modeling, visualization and data cal ultracentrifuges, circular dichroism spec- analysis. For the most computationally trometers, ion lasers, nanosecond and intensive work, two high-performance mul- picosecond pulsed lasers, oil-imersion opti- tiprocessor Silicon Graphics computers are cal microscopes, an atomic force micro- available in the department and the scope, Fourier-transform, time-of-flight, University maintains multiprocessor Cray quadrupole and sector mass spectrometers, and Silicon Graphics computers. A wide aerosol generation and characterization variety of applications software is available equipment, and high vacuum equipment. for quantum chemistry, molecular dynam- In addition, many faculty have developed ics simulations and other techniques. specialized instruments for particular Campus-wide research centers, for exam- research projects, for example ultrafast and ple the Center for Composite Materials and high temperature/pressure FTIR and Raman the Center for Catalytic Science and spectrometers, aerosol

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