The Department of Chemistry
Bryn Mawr’s Chemistry Department has a more than century-long tradition of combining high quality, visible research programs with excellent teaching – a tradition the department is committed to continuing this century. The chemistry department seeks to provide a supportive and rigorous curriculum at the undergraduate and graduate level to students having diverse preparation and diverse goals. The department emphasizes throughout the curriculum the hands-on nature of chemistry, for major and non-majors alike. We seek to offer challenging and rewarding research opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students at the frontiers of chemistry. To that end, we maintain an active and visible profile for the department in the chemistry research community.
Why Chemistry at Bryn Mawr College?
Our department offers a unique opportunity to study chemistry in an environment that is distinctive for these reasons:
- small supportive atmosphere
- excellent facilities
- commited to building teaching skills
- cutting edge research
- great location
Who are we?
The members ofthe Department of Chemistry make up a community of teachers and students, researchers and mentors, colleagues and co-workers. Students have opportunities to be researchers in faculty research and work side by side with faculty. Experienced student researchers become mentors for newer members in research groups. Sophomore, junior and senior chemistry majors serve in teaching roles when they participate as teaching assistants in general chemistry labs or when they are Peer Instructors in introductory chemistry courses.
What do we do?
The chemistry major program of study includes introductory and advanced courses in the core areas of biological, inorganic, organic and physical chemistry. The advanced courses are informed by the research areas of bioinorganic, nanomaterials, medicinal, computational, organic materials and nucleic acid and protein chemistries.