探索生命的相互作用.
From the environment to space science to soap, 阿斯匹林, and aluminum—chemistry is everywhere around us and has a profound impact on our daily lives. Chemists 研究 matter and energy, interactions and reactions. 他们研究原子间的相互作用, 分子, and subatomic particles to better understand the processes that surround us.
As a chemistry student at 沃拉沃拉大学, you will:
- 探索 the major fields of chemistry (analytical, inorganic, organic, physical, and biochemistry)
- 开发 the skills you need and receive encouragement to conduct original 研究
You will enter a world of 研究 and experimentation, 研究ing with professors actively involved in 研究. The chemistry faculty is committed to providing all chemistry majors with hands-on experience using laboratory instrumentation. With chemistry, your possibilities are endless. 来发现你的选择!
- 小班授课，个性化关注: Learning from distinguished faculty means you’ll have unparalleled access to expertise in specialties such as medicinal chemistry, 新陈代谢, 有机金属化合物, 和更多的.
- Hands-on learning in chemical laboratories and instrumentation: Put your knowledge to work in laboratory settings that prompt you to think critically and creatively. 发现质谱仪, 核磁共振, and other analytic techniques in a curriculum designed to prepare students for advanced 研究.
- 研究与整合团队合作: whether you’re investigating a chemical 研究 problem or conducting chemical 研究 for a professional laboratory, you’ll work in teams designed to approximate a graduate or professional school experience.
- 优秀的教育: 沃拉沃拉大学 chemistry students consistently rank higher across the board on standardized success measures, and are routinely accepted for post-graduate studies at institutions such as Loma Linda University, 犹他大学, 以及华盛顿大学. WWU chemistry professors hail from nationally recognized graduate schools, and are active in nationwide professional development.
WWU化学毕业生进入的职业:
- 医学: 学生 who earn a biochemistry degree are among the best prepared for medical school.
- 药店: 化学 students are very successful in this field. Pharmacists are now working more behind the scenes in hospitals to look at drug interactions and with pharmaceutical companies to reformulate existing drugs. Our students have a high acceptance rate to 药店 schools.
- 药剂师: 许多学生选择从事化学工作, which allow them to 研究 the composition and properties of chemicals and the way chemicals interact with each other.
- 药品: An education in chemistry could lead to jobs that involve pharmaceutical development, 研究, 或销售.
- 食品化学家: 作为一名食品化学家, you could work closely with agricultural scientists, who work directly with food crops to refine them and improve their desirable characteristics.
- 化学工程师: Chemical engineers employ math, physics, and economics to solve practical problems. Having a degree in chemistry would set you apart from other engineers, as you would have both scientific and technical mastery.
研究生s from a WWU chemistry-related program continue their education at graduate institutions, 开始硅谷以外的博士后工作, 或者直接进入令人满意的职业. Our grads go on to a variety of positions including:
- Professor of 药店 at Loma Linda University
- 研究生
- 博士后工作
- 化学 and mathematics professors or teachers including at the University of Florida, 贡扎加大学, 和LA Sierra大学
- Clinical Instructor for University of Washington
- 心脏病专家
- Work in the biotech industry including using artificial intelligence to search for new medicinals
- 从事数据科学工作
- Work as a lawyer (after completing law school)
"My chemistry education set me up for success through medical school following graduation. To succeed as a chemistry/biochemistry major in undergrad you have to be disciplined to 研究 and put in the time. This gave me good 研究 habits and a very strong knowledge base and foundation to do well in medical school. The chemistry department also pushed me to learn how to think and problem solve in many different ways because of the variety provided in the coursework and lab that have translated into my life beyond chemistry."
"You’ll have to work hard and 研究, but it’s worth it. You’ll come out of the program with so much knowledge and great mentors in the field that you’ll be able to pursue any career choice whether it’s teaching, 医学, 药店, 研究, 等. The department is small so it’s a close knit group and you get a lot of time to get to know your professors in the upper division courses. 我仍然和他们中的许多人保持联系."