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An ACS
Accredited Department of Chemistry
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Mission
Statement
The
mission of the Department of Chemistry is
to meet the needs of three types of students:
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Those who plan to enter graduate school
for advanced study, or to enter the field
of industrial chemistry
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Those who plan to enter the professional
schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy,
and other professions requiring a knowledge
of chemistry.
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Those who are non-science majors, but
who desire the subject for its cultural
and educational values.
In
addition to strong traditional classroom,
laboratory, information technology and library
experiences, the Department offers the opportunity
for a challenging research experience for
those who desire it.
Areas
of Research
Photochemical
reaction and rearrangements, clay chemistry,
environmental soil studies,
chromatographic and electrophoretic chiral
separations and characterization of entantiomeric
resolution, solute reactions with chromatographic
surfaces, mechanisms of paper degradation,
decarboxylation of esters and carboxylic acid
salts, molecular modeling, multimedia applications
in chemical education.
Facilities/Resources
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Chemistry classes are taught in the Olin
Hall of Science, where there are instructional
laboratories, and student and faculty
research laboratories. There is
also a 125 seat auditorium with a multimedia/computer
facility.
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Chemistry Equipment includes a Fourier
transform infrared spectrophotometer,
an atomic absorption spectrophotometer,
a GC/Mass spectrometer, a nuclear magnetic
resonance spectrometer (NMR), a high performance
liquid chromatograph (HPLC) , computer-based
capillary electrophoresis, research grade
gas chromatographs, fluorescence spectrophotometer;
ultraviolet/visible spectrophotometer.
The department has analytical, organic
and physical instrumentations as well
as research laboratories.
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Chemistry students at Millsaps have access to the campus network
both hard-wired (Ethernet) and wireless
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All buildings on campus are connected
via optical fiber. All classrooms
in the science buildings are wired for
computer access. Multimedia
classrooms and a multimedia lab are also
available in the Olin Hall of Science.
A T1 connection to the internet provides
Worldwide Web access for the campus.
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