We’ll encourage you to apply your knowledge with innovative teaching-learning techniques and extensive hands-on lab experiences, leading into unique research activities and real world applications.

Our chemistry students reinforce their education through internships, research with faculty, student organizations, study away, and more.

The Doane Hall of Chemistry maintains an array of instruments and equipment to support teaching and research, including:

• FT-NMR
• GC-MS (Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer)
• HPLC-MS (High Performance Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer)
• FT IR’s (Infrared Spectrometer)
• UV-vis spectrometer
• microwave reactors
• Stopped Flow
• Fluorimeter
• Surface Enhanced Raman spectrometer
• and much more!

Instruments are incorporated into the curriculum, so that students enter the research laboratory with familiarity and hands-on experience with these important tools.

Allegheny chemistry students will find that there is no shortage of activities to get involved in beyond the lab, including:

• Lord Lecture Series
• Department Lecture Series
• Professional conferences, including the American Chemical Society, the National Organic Symposium, and the National Conference on Undergraduate Research
• Student Organizations, including Chemii Club and Phi Lambda Upsilon

Many chemistry students carry out independent research or collaborative research with faculty in addition to the Senior Comp.

Chemistry majors frequently present their findings at regional and national meetings; successful projects can lead to publication in professional journals. Seniors also often present their results at the department’s annual Senior Project Symposium.