Chemistry
General Information
Degree offered: Ph.D.
Faculty working with students: 23
Students: 93
Students receiving Financial Aid: 100%
Deadline for Fall 2008 Application: December 15 (priority deadline)
Spring Application: consult department
Part time study available: consult department
Test required: GRE General. GRE Subject recommended.
Program Description
The following areas of specialization are available: analytical, biological, inorganic, physical, theoretical, and organic. A wide range of interdisciplinary research programs (e.g., toxicology, biological chemistry, cell and molecular biology) involve chemistry students with those in medical sciences, engineering, and the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, and occasionally with local industry.
In Spring 2007 semester, the Department of Chemistry moved into a new state-of-the-art research facility, the French Family Science Center . The French Center was a gift to the university from Bill Gates and his wife Melinda French Gates, who is a Duke alumnus. The new building, totaling over 275,000 square feet, is a shared research facility with groups from Biology, Physics, Mathematics and the Medical Center occupying space, with additional research space in the adjacent Levine Science Research Center . This well-equipped chemical laboratory provides conditions conducive to research in many areas of current interest. Major shared instruments, including those for nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometry, are housed in the departmental instrumentation facility and a wide array of more specialized instrumentation is available in the various research laboratories.
The move to French increases research space, teaching space and instrument support space for the Chemistry Department. Research space will increase from approximately 29,250 square feet to 37,000 square feet, teaching space from approximately 14,000 square feet to 15,500 square feet, and instrument support from approximately 1,900 square feet to over 2,700 square feet.
The program is enhanced by our location in the Research Triangle, one of the finest scientific communities in the United States. The intensive Duke program in chemistry allows an average time of 4.7 years for the completion of the doctoral program.