Department of Chemistry
USF At a Glance Founded in 1956 The 9th largest university in US (>45,000 students) Tampa is at heart of one of the fastest growing areas of US (catchment population = 3,900,000) More than 1,660 faculty 1 of only 3 state universities in Florida with Carnegie Research I status $320,000,000/year in research funding (#2 in Florida) Member of the Florida High Tech Corridor Medical school, #1 Cancer Institute in Florida (Moffitt Cancer Center), #1 Alzheimer’s Institute in Florida Big East Conference
The Department of Chemistry 28 tenured and tenure track faculty 28 tenured and tenure track faculty 4 new faculty and 1 new faculty 10/11 130 graduate students in 2009/2010 19 new research faculty since 1999 More than $4 million/year in external funding Typically top 10 in US in number of undergraduate degrees Many opportunities for cross-disciplinary research New NES building and remodeled Chemistry building in 2006 Interdisciplinary NMR facility and Mass Spectrometry/Peptide Synthesis facility
Areas of Interdisciplinary Research in the Department of Chemistry Drug discovery – CMD 5 Center for Molecular Diversity in Drug Design, Discovery and Delivery Materials Chemistry – SMMARTT Smart Metal-organic Materials Advanced Research and Technology Transfer Chemical/Science Education Coalition for Scientific Literacy
The Chemistry Department
USF Campus in Tampa
The Campus Map for the Sciences
The Campus: Chemistry Natural and Environmental Science Science Center Bioscience Facility Chemistry
The Tampa Bay Area
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