The Chemistry Department is consistently top-ranked among its peers in terms of degree production (BA, BS, MS, & PhD) and research expenditures. Our 30 faculty members and 140 graduate students generate over 100 peer-reviewed publications per year and have earned numerous prestigious awards for research, teaching, and outreach. In addition to the major areas of chemistry (analytical, inorganic, organic, and physical), our polymer chemistry program has been ranked among the top 5, and we have highly developed programs in several interdisciplinary areas including drug discovery, computational and theoretical chemistry, surface science, renewable energy, and chemical biology.<br>The Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute (MII) is a campus research institute that brings together dozens of faculty members and over 100 students with common interests in polymer science and engineering, adhesion science, and other related disciplines. The Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery (VTCDD) is an interdisciplinary group committed to continuing the growth and advancing the stature of the existing drug discovery and development programs at Virginia Tech. The NSF-funded Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MolSSI) is a nexus for science, education and cooperation for the global computational molecular sciences community. GlycoMIP: An NSF Materials Innovation Platform is an NSF-funded national user facility and multidisciplinary research program that addresses scientific and technological bottlenecks in glycomaterials research.