Chemistry is the central science describing how matter changes - chemists create new molecules and materials as well as trying to understand naturally occurring processes. Chemists exhibit a combination of both quantitative and qualitative reasoning to understand the world around us. As a result, chemistry represents one of the most exciting and flexible degrees possible. Many chemistry graduates directly use their training to work in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, while others use their knowledge to pursue jobs in a biomedical field, consulting, business or even on Wall Street. Others choose to continue on to graduate school in science, medical school, law school (many patent lawyers have chemistry degrees) or other professional schools. Chemistry has recently become more diverse than ever, and our department has federally funded faculty members studying problems in many areas including computational chemistry, chemical education, synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry, crystal engineering, inorganic chemistry, polymer synthesis and evaluation, biochemistry and environmental chemistry. The chemistry department at USF strongly encourages undergraduate research, and virtually every laboratory has undergraduate researchers who publish their work and present their findings at scientific meetings.
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