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Department of Chemistry
Graduate School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania
 Detailed InformationPrograms of StudyThe Department of Chemistry at Villanova offers the Master of Science (M.S.) degree in all traditional areas of chemistry. The degree can be earned full-time or part-time. The thesis option requires the successful completion of six courses and a research project culminated by a written thesis. The nonthesis option requires the completion of ten courses and a seminar course based on work experience. All students are required to take three core courses in either analytical, biological, inorganic, organic, or physical chemistry, followed by elective courses. Comprehensive exams and 30 credits are also required for the Master of Science degree. Research FacilitiesIn 1999, Villanova completed a $35-million expansion renovation to Mendel Science Center, resulting in a state-of-the-art teaching and research facility. The Department is well equipped with instrumentation. Two FT-NMR spectrometers (both 300 MHz), including a Varian Mercury instrument with an MAS probe for solids analysis, are available. Other instrumentation includes an HP GC–mass spectrometer, a Siemens single-crystal diffractometer, DSC, TG, ultracentrifugation, and polarimetry. Spectroscopy is performed with several FT-IRs and UV-visible spectrophotometers, CE, and fluorescence. Chromatographs include several GC and LC instruments, along with CE. The Department’s Computational Chemistry Lab holds an IBM RISC station along with a Linux cluster and a Silicon Graphics O2 workstation. Financial AidMost full-time graduate students in the Department hold teaching or research assistantships of $15,603 for nine months plus full tuition remission. Limited research and teaching fellowships are available for summer months. Cost of StudyThe tuition for graduate chemistry at Villanova was $650 per credit hour in 2008–09, with a general fee of $30 per semester. Living and Housing CostsAlthough on-campus housing is not available, ample apartments/rooms are available in the suburban neighborhoods surrounding Villanova. The Office of Residence Life offers assistance by providing rental lists to students. Living expenses for a single student are estimated at $13,000 per year. Student GroupThere are 40 graduate students (18 full-time) and 15 tenure-track faculty members in the Department. About 40 percent of the students are women and 10 percent are international. Student OutcomesSome graduates are employed by the nine major pharmaceutical firms in the Philadelphia area. Others choose employment at smaller companies, and some continue their studies in doctoral programs in chemistry and related areas. LocationLocated in a safe, suburban community 12 miles west of Philadelphia, the picturesque 254-acre campus features sixty buildings. Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges are nearby, and major Universities in Philadelphia (Penn, Temple, Drexel, and others) are easily accessible by public transportation. Philadelphia supports many cultural opportunities including theater, opera, symphony concerts, and ballet, as well as professional sports teams of every variety. The UniversityFounded in 1842 by the priests and brothers of the Order of St. Augustine, Villanova University is the oldest and largest Catholic university in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The University’s commitment to love and service is reflected in the Latin words of its seal, which translate into truth, unity, and love. ApplyingAn application form, with full instructions, is available on the Web at http://www.gradartsci.villanova.edu. The application fee is $50. Application deadlines are August 1 (fall), December 1 (spring), and May 1 (summer). Applicants who wish to be considered for assistantships should submit their application by March 1 (fall) and October 1 (spring) for priority evaluation. The GRE General Test is required of all students; the TOEFL is required of international applicants whose native language is not English. The most important criterion for admission is a sincere desire to study chemistry. Applications from second-career, older, and other nontraditional chemistry students are encouraged. The Faculty and Their Research
- Temer S. Ahmadi, Ph.D., UCLA. Materials/physical chemistry: synthesis and optical properties of metal-polymer, metal-semiconductor, and luminescent semiconductor nanomaterials.
- Joseph W. Bausch, Ph.D., USC. Organic and computational chemistry: synthetic and computational studies of electron-deficient clusters, carborane synthesis, structure prediction.
- Eduard G. Casillas, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins. Organic chemistry: natural product synthesis, synthesis of antagonists for plant/fungal secondary metabolic pathways, terpene biomimetic synthesis.
- Timothy J. Dudley, Ph.D., North Dakota. Computational/theoretical chemistry: characterization of transition-metal–hydrocarbon complexes, biological and atmospheric photochemistry, ab initio method development.
- Robert M. Giuliano, Ph.D., Virginia. Organic chemistry: carbohydrate chemistry, synthesis of vinyl glycosides and carbohydrate vinyl ethers, branched-chain carbohydrates, nitrosugars.
- Amanda M. Grannas, Ph.D., Purdue. Analytical/environmental chemistry: Photochemical degradation of environmental pollutants in surface waters, photo chemistry of organics in snow and ice, redox chemistry of soil and sediments, Arctic climate change.
- W. Scott Kassel, Ph.D., Florida. Inorganic chemistry: solid-base catalysis, X-ray diffraction, synthesis of chiral pyrrolidine transition-metal complexes as enantioselective catalysts.
- Anthony F. Lagalante, Ph.D., Colorado. Analytical/environmental chemistry: environmental/food/agricultural applications of solid phase microextraction (SPME), high-pressure spectroscopy in supercritical fluids used as “green” solvents.
- Christine A. Martey-Ochola, Ph.D., Lehigh. Research: effect of cigarette smoke and airborne nanoparticles on normal human lung cells, synthesis and characterization of novel drug-polymer conjugates.
- Brian K. Ohta, Ph.D., California, San Diego. Organic chemistry: NMR spectroscopy, intermediate characterization in photosensitized oxidation reactions, hydrogen bond asymmetry.
- Jennifer B. Palenchar, Ph.D., Delaware. Research: enzymology of bacterial aspartate kinase, transcriptional initiation complexes in Trypanosoma brucei.
- Jared Paul, Ph.D., North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Inorganic chemistry: study of proton-coupled electron-transfer reactions of small organic molecules and metal complexes in biological and chemical systems.
- Barry S. Selinsky, Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo. Biochemistry: membrane biophysics, structural analysis of membrane proteins, membrane-active antibiotics, anticoagulants.
- Deanna L. Zubris, Ph.D., Caltech. Inorganic chemistry: synthesis of organometallic complexes as polymerization catalysts, mechanistic studies.
Correspondence and InformationVillanova University Graduate Chairperson Department of Chemistry 800 Lancaster Avenue Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085-1699 Telephone:
610-519-4840 Fax:
610-519-7167
Email:
chemistrygrad@villanova.edu
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