Chemistry

• Students have opportunities to conduct research with peers and faculty, and have published and presented at conferences.
• Students receiving BS degrees in chemistry are able to have their degrees certified as meeting the rigorous standards of the American Chemical Society. Fewer than 700 of the 5,000 American colleges and universities have achieved this privilege.
• You can apply for Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) positions, sponsored by the National Science Foundation or others. This program allows undergraduate students to participate in active research projects during the summer before their junior or senior year.
• You can also leverage Pittsburgh’s tight-knit academic and medical community through connections our faculty has around the region.

Integrated Chemistry Laboratory

Experiments are selected to illustrate important principles of advanced experimental chemistry and to familiarize students with important experimental methods. The course is intended to encourage students to think critically about the reliability of their experimental results in the light of their previous chemistry experience. 

Environmental Chemistry

This course is an advanced study of the chemical principles underlying common environmental problems. It aims to deepen the student’s knowledge of chemistry and its role in the environment and shows the power of chemistry as a tool to help us comprehend the changing world around us.

Computational Drug Design

Study of computational techniques of importance in contemporary drug design. Topics include molecular docking, ligand binding free energy calculations, de novo drug design, pharmacophore elucidation, quantitative structure-activity relations, and combinatorial library design.