170 College of Arts Sciences and Education Graduate Catalog 2020-2021 Chemistry and Biochemistry Stanislaw F. Wnuk, Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Education, Robert Stempel School of Public Yong Cai, Professor and Chairperson Health Research Irina Agoulnik, Associate Professor, College of Medicine Yi Xiao, Associate Professor Jose R. Almirall, Professor David A. Becker, Associate Professor Graduate Admission Requirements John Berry, Associate Professor 1. A minimum undergraduate grade point average Konstantin Bukhryakov, Assistant Professor (GPA) of 3.0/4.0 in chemistry and cognate science Justin Carmel, Assistant Professor courses and submission of official GRE scores are Sara Casado Zapico, Instructor, Graduate Program required. International graduate student applicants Director, Professional Science Master's in Forensic whose native language is not English are required to Science submit a score for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or for the International English Mrinal Chakraborty, Instructor Language Testing System (IELTS). A total score of 80 David C. Chatfield, Professor on the iBT TOEFL or 6.5 overall on the IELTS is Christopher J. Dares, Assistant Professor required. Anthony P. DeCaprio, Associate Professor and Director 2. Applicants must send a statement of purpose and of Forensic Science Certificate Program arrange to have sent transcripts and three letters of Milagros Delgado, University Lecturer and Coordinator of recommendation evaluating the applicant’s potential Laboratories at BBC and Chemistry Undergraduate for graduate work. Originals of these items must be Program Director sent to the FIU Admissions office as specified at Francisco Fernandez-Lima, Associate Professor and https://admissions.fiu.edu/how-to-apply/graduate- Director of the Advanced Mass Spectrometry Facility applicant/index.html. Prospective candidates should Kenneth G. Furton, Professor and Provost and Executive refer to both the above website and Vice President and Chief Operating Officer http://casgroup.fiu.edu/chemistry/ for details Piero R. Gardinali, Professor and Director of SERC regarding the application procedure, Which must be Megan Gillespie, Instructor completed on-line. Palmer Graves, University Lecturer and Coordinator of 3. Formal admission to the M.S. and Ph.D. programs is General Chemistry Laboratories granted by the Admissions Office. Awards of teaching Arthur W. Herriott, Professor Emeritus assistantships are granted by the Graduate Program Rudolf Jaffe, Professor Emeritus Director. Entrance is possible at the beginning of each Jeffrey A. Joens, Professor semester (fall, spring, summer). For consideration for Konstantinos Kavallieratos, Associate Professor a graduate assistantship applicants need to apply for John T. Landrum, Professor Emeritus the Fall semester and all application materials should Watson J. Lees, Associate Professor and Biochemistry be received at least five months prior to the desired Undergraduate Program Director starting date. Fenfei Leng, Professor 4. Students whose undergraduate degree is not Chenzhong Li, Professor, Department of Biomedical equivalent to the American Chemical Society certified Engineering Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry may be Joseph Lichter, Senior Lecturer and Director of required to make up deficiencies. For example, Pre-Health Professional Advising depending on his or her area of specialization, a Yuan Liu, Associate Professor and Biochemistry student may be required to make up deficiencies in Graduate Program Director quantum mechanics, instrumental analysis, or Ramon Lopez de la Vega, Associate Professor and biochemistry by successfully completing Graduate Associate Chair Physical Chemistry II (CHM 5426), Graduate Bruce R. McCord, Professor Analytical Methods (CHM 5150), or Graduate Alexander M. Mebel, Professor Biological Chemistry (CHM 5305) respectively. Jaroslava Miksovska, Associate Professor 5. Entering graduate students must pass two proficiency Joong-ho Moon, Associate Professor exams. Proficiencies are offered in organic, physical, Zaida Morales-Martinez, Professor Emerita inorganic, analytical, and biochemistry. One pass Kevin E. O’Shea, Professor must be in either organic or physical chemistry; the Natalia Soares Quinete, Assistant Professor other is open. The proficiency exams will be J. Martin E. Quirke, Professor administered to incoming graduate students in the Raphael G. Raptis, Professor week before the fall and spring semesters. If a Kathleen S. Rein, Professor and Chemistry student fails to receive a pass in a proficiency exam, Graduate Program Director he or she must show proficiency by completing the Barry P. Rosen, Professor, College of Medicine appropriate course with a grade of “B” (3.0/4.0) or Sandra Stojanovic, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of better. These courses are Graduate Organic Organic Chemistry Laboratories Chemistry (CHM 5225), Graduate Physical Chemistry Uma Swamy, University Lecturer and Coordinator of (CHM 5425), Graduate Analytical Methods (CHM General Chemistry Laboratories 5150), and Graduate Biological Chemistry (CHM Yuk-Ching Tse-Dinh, Professor and Director of 5305). Students are expected to complete proficiency Biomolecular Sciences Institute requirements by the end of their first semester. Sonia M. Underwood, Assistant Professor 6. Graduate students must maintain a GPA of 3.0/4.0. Xiaotang Wang, Associate Professor Only courses applicable to the graduate program, Stephen Winkle, Associate Professor Graduate Catalog 2020-2021 College of Arts Sciences and Education 171 excluding those for making up deficiencies or CHM 6281 Environmental Organic Chemistry satisfying proficiencies, are counted in the GPA. If the CHM 6340 Organic Geochemistry cumulative GPA drops below 3.0 for one semester, OCC 5050 Chemical Oceanography the student will be placed on academic probation. A CHM 6088 Environmental Chemistry of Trace student who fails to raise his or her GPA to 3.0 or Elements higher within one semester will be dismissed from the Inorganic program. CHM 5251 Organometallic Chemistry 7. Full-time graduate students generally serve as CHM 5440 Kinetics and Catalysis Teaching Assistants (TA’s) in the Department of CHM 5540 Group Theory in Chemistry Chemistry and Biochemistry for their first semester. CHM 5650 Physical Inorganic Chemistry Ph.D. candidates must serve as TA’s for at least one Organic year except in unusual circumstances. TA’s are CHM 5236 Spectroscopic Techniques and awarded on a competitive basis, require a minimum Structure Elucidation cumulative GPA of 3.0, and can be continued for up CHM 5250 Organic Synthesis to four years for Ph.D. students who maintain CHM 5263 Physical Organic Chemistry acceptable academic performance. A limited number of Graduate Research Assistantships (RA’s) may be Physical available. CHM 5423 Atmospheric Chemistry CHM 5490 Physical Spectroscopy Transfer of Credits and Financial Support CHM 5540 Group Theory in Chemistry Transfer of credits. Students having an M.S. in chemistry CHM 5586 Computational Chemistry may transfer as many as 36 credits towards their Ph.D. CHM 6461 Statistical Thermodynamics degree. However, no more than six of those credits will CHM 6480 Quantum Mechanics count toward fulfillment of the formal course work Courses not listed above may be counted as core course requirement. More than six credits for formal course work with prior departmental approval. can be transferred only with special permission of the Graduate Committee, in which case the number of b) At least six credits of additional graduate-level additional course work credits required will depend on the courses approved by the thesis committee in student’s performance in courses, the date courses were consultation with the Graduate Program Director completed, and the area of Ph.D. concentration. with the following guidelines: Financial Support. Full-time graduate students in good 1. The courses must be 5000 or 6000 level academic standing are eligible for financial support. chemistry courses (CHM prefix) or approved Teaching and research assistantships are available on a cognates (up to a maximum of six credits). competitive basis. Inquiries concerning application to the 2. The following do not count toward satisfaction of program and availability of financial support should be this requirement: proficiency courses and directed to the Chemistry Graduate Program Director. courses taken to make up for undergraduate- level deficiencies in chemistry (including CHM Master of Science in Chemistry 5150, CHM 5225, CHM 5305, CHM 5425, and CHM 5426); and courses corresponding to Degree Requirements research, seminar, colloquium, supervised teaching, and thesis completion (CHM 6910L, 1. A minimum of 32 credits of course work. A grade of CHM 6935, CHM 6936, CHM 6940, CHM 6970, “C or higher must be obtained in all courses, and a and CHM 6971). cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher which c) Full-time graduate students are required to must be maintained. The course work must include: register for one credit of CHM 6940 (Supervised a) At least nine credits of chemistry in at least two of Teaching) each semester they serve as teaching the six major areas of chemistry (Analytical, assistants. Biochemistry, Environmental, Inorganic, Organic, d) Full-time graduate students are required to and Physical) from the core listed below: register for one credit of CHM 6935 (Graduate Core Courses (three credits each) Seminar) or one credit of CHM 6936 (Chemistry Analytical Colloquium) each fall