Prospective Honors Concentration Program students are urged to acquaint themselves as early as possible with the requirements below as well as with the particular procedures for acceptance into the Department's Honors Concentration Program. See the departmental honors advisor or the Honors Program Director for this information. It is the mission of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry to provide its graduates, and all its students, with a core of chemistry-related knowledge and cognitive and material tool skills, on the basis of which they may make valid judgments, make reasonable predictions, and take actions as professionals. Another aspect of the Departmental mission is to develop the ability of students to work/study independently and to solve original problems through involvement in research projects with faculty. This is done through close interaction with students and a laboratory program that requires students to be intimately involved with experimentation.