大量的教师正在利用他们的化学专业知识探索生物现象的化学和物理细节。研究计划涵盖生物化学，酶机制，蛋白质折叠，膜结构和功能，生物物理学和结构生物学。高分辨率NMR，停止流动力学，荧光和拉曼光谱等技术可用于探测蛋白质的结构，功能和折叠。新型的生物合成和化学策略已被用于生成小分子，用于探测酶机制和探索配体-受体相互作用。文理学院内的化学系提供学习课程，这些课程可授予化学教学硕士学位，理学硕士和哲学博士学位。参加MAT课程的学生必须通过专业发展学院进行注册。博士生 该计划可以选择以该计划的教职人员代表的化学领域的
The Department of Chemistry, within the College of Arts and Sciences, offers courses of study leading to the degrees of Master of Arts in Teaching Chemistry, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy. Students in the M.A.T. program must register through the School of Professional Development. A student in the Ph.D. program may choose dissertation research in any one of the diverse areas of chemistry represented by the interests of the program faculty, or may choose an interdisciplinary topic under the guidance of a faculty member in another program. Coordinated activities exist with several programs, and include optional concentrations in chemical physics and chemical biology.<br><br>A significant number of the faculty are using their chemical expertise to explore the chemical and physical details of biological phenomena. Research programs span biological chemistry, enzyme mechanisms, protein folding, membrane structure and function, biophysics and structural biology. Techniques such as high resolution NMR, stop-flow kinetics, fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy are used to probe protein structure, function, and folding. Novel biosynthetic and chemical strategies are being used to generate small molecules for use in probing enzyme mechanisms and exploring ligand-receptor interactions.