Graduate Research Opportunities
UW Chemistry
Graduate Research in the Department of Chemistry will give you:
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Hands-on experience in cutting-edge research
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Individual interaction with faculty
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Training in the use of state-of-the-art instrumentation
The range of research conducted by our active research faculty covers all areas of modern chemistry including:
Analytical chemistry
About: Development of methods for the detection of molecules of environmental and medical importance; development of new battery materials.
Faculty: Basile, Dutta and Hill
Biological chemistry
About: Study of protein structure, dynamics, and folding; biomolecular solution and solid state NMR; antifreeze proteins; DNA recognition. Includes bioinorganic, bioorganic and mass spectrometry.
Inorganic chemistry
About: Design of metal-based anticancer agents; development of catalysts for industrial processes; computational analysis of industrially important processes.
Faculty: Hulley, Leonard, Oliveira and Parkinson
Organic chemistry
About: Ligand design for metal-catalyzed reactions; carbohydrate methodology; drugs for photodynamic therapy; supramolecular chemistry; organic light-harvesting nanoassemblies; DNA synthesis; photochemically induced electron transfer; mechanisms of organic reactions; design of new pharmaceuticals.
Physical chemistry
About: Thermodynamic and kinetic understanding of amorphous solids and supercooled liquids; solid-state NMR spectroscopy; Raman and Brillouin scattering; calorimetry; high-pressure phase transformations; molecular spectroscopy; nonlinear optics; reaction dynamics
Faculty: Anderson, Lehmann and Zhou
Research Sub-topics
Catalysis
Faculty: Hill, Hoberg, Leonard, and Zhou
Energy
Faculty: Anderson, Hill, Hoberg, Leonard, Oliveira, Parkinson and Zhou
Materials
Faculty: Hill, Leonard, Oliveira, Parkinson and Zhou
Nanotechnology
Faculty: Dutta, Hill, Leonard, Oliveira and Parkinson
Organometallics
Photochemistry, photovoltaics and photophysics
Faculty: Clennan, Hill, and Parkinson
Spectroscopy
Faculty: Anderson, Clennan, Hill and Lehmann
Surface science (scanning microscopy using AFM & STM)
Faculty: Hill, Parkinson and Zhou
Theoretical chemistry
Faculty: Anderson
The University of Wyoming has earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing Wyoming's only four-year university with the top research universities in the United States.