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Prospective Graduate Information
College: College of Letters and Science
Designation: Department
Major: Chemistry
Degrees Offered: M.S., Ph.D.
Other: Ph.D. Minor
Tracks: Ph.D. degree subplans in analytical, inorganic, organic, physical, or materials chemistry
Faculty: Berry, Blackwell, Brunold, Burke, Burstyn, Casey, Cavagnero, Certain, Coon, Cornwell, Crim, Cui, Dahl, Ediger, Farrar, Fenske, Fredrickson, Gaines, Gellman, Gopalan, Hamers, Harriman, Hsung, Jin, Keutsch, Kiessling, Landis, Li, Lynn, Mahanthappa, McMahon, Mecozzi, Moore, Nathanson, Nelsen, Raines, Record, Reich, Schmidt, Schomaker, Schwartz, Shakhashiri, Shen, Sibert, Skinner, Smith, Stahl, Strieter, Taylor, Treichel, Vaughan, Weinhold, Weisshaar, West, Whitlock, Woods, Wright, Yethiraj, Yoon, Yu, Yu, Zanni, Zimmerman
The department offers a master of science and a doctor of philosophy in chemistry. Specializations within the program are analytical, inorganic, materials, organic, and physical chemistry. Minors may be taken in other departments including physics, mathematics, computer sciences, biochemistry, chemical engineering, and in fields other than the student's specialization within the Department of Chemistry.
Excellent facilities are available for research in a wide variety of specialized fields including synthetic and structural chemistry; natural product, physical, and bio-organic chemistry; molecular dynamics and photochemistry; biophysical, bioanalytical, and bioinorganic chemistry; spectroscopy (including magnetic resonance and microwave), theoretical and experimental chemical physics, chemical dynamics, quantum and statistical mechanics; macromolecular and polymer chemistry, materials science, surface and solid-state chemistry; x-ray crystallography, lasers, and light scattering; and chemical education. Programs are assisted by department computing and instrument centers and by other facilities on campus including those of the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) and the Synchrotron Radiation Center.
Information on the research fields of faculty members is given in the American Chemical Society Directory of Graduate Research, from the chemistry department Web site (www.chem.wisc.edu), and in a brochure available from the department.
The department offers opportunities for graduate students to obtain teaching experience. Financial assistance is available to most graduate students in the form of teaching or research assistantships, fellowships, or traineeships.
Admission
Prospective graduate students are expected to have satisfactorily completed the equivalent in class and lab of the fundamental courses in chemistry offered at UW-Madison, one year of physics, and mathematics through calculus. Students who have not completed all the prerequisites may be admitted in exceptional cases, but any deficiencies must be made up in the first year of graduate study.
A grade-point average of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) in the last 60 hours of undergraduate work is the minimum required for admission to graduate studies. The Graduate Record Exam (GRE) is also required. The advanced test is required for fellowship candidates and is strongly recommended for all applicants. Students for whom English is not the native language are required to present the GRE advanced test in chemistry as well as the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Before teaching assistant appointments can be finalized, students for whom English is a second language must participate in the SPEAK Test, the institutional version of the Test of Spoken English (TSE).