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Chemistry at SSU

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Department of Natural Sciences

Phone: (740) 351-3456
Email: science@shawnee.edu
Massie Hall, Room 315

We have the resources to help you succeed.

Shawnee State has facilities with state of the art instrumentation, including a Bruker Fourier 300 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, an HP gas-chromatograph–mass-spectrometer, and a suite of computers running computational chemistry software.

Shawnee State faculty members offer research opportunities for every student enrolled in our program, and work one-on-one with them in a dedicated research lab space.

  • Three faculty members with Ph.D.'s in chemistry.
  • Hands-on access to all instrumentation in the department, including NMR, FTIR, GC, GC-MS, UV-VIS, AA, and a bomb calorimeter.
  • Undergraduate research opportunities every semester.
  • Upper-division classes are small, with class sizes typically around 10 students.
  • A teaching licensure option is available with our BS Natural Sciences degree.
  • Graduates have been admitted to graduate, medical, and pharmacy schools at: The Ohio State University, Ohio University, and the University of Cincinnati.
  • Chemistry students have been accepted into prestigious summer research programs at the University of California, Irvine; The University of North Dakota, and The University of Cincinnati.
  • We have an active chemistry club that invites speakers to campus, gets involved in our community, and organizes social activities.

If you have any questions about our chemistry programs, feel free to drop us an email at: science@shawnee.edu

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