Outstanding Graduates

DEGREE AUDITS

Blastomycosis Study

Environmental Health Accreditation

Environmental Analysis Lab
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GRADUATES - have you completed our survey?  All graduates from programs under the School of Physical Sciences are asked to complete the survey: once at graduation and again anytime you have a change in education or employment.  We'd like to hear from you and it is really short. 

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Our chemistry program is now approved by the American Chemical Society.

Internships are a great way to gain experience and new skills in your field - plus you get to travel to new and exciting places.  Review our list of internships from last summer here.

Faculty-Student research in Green Chemistry is among theTop-Ten most accessed articles at the Royal Society of Chemistry during September 2010.   Dr. Alexei Iretskii and Makayla Fetting used an organically derived lignin to add hydrogen to fuels in a process to create environmentally friendly fuels for the future.  Makayla will be starting graduate school in January 2011.  View the Top-Ten list here, or check out their paper titled: Catalytic disassembly of an organosolv lignin via hydrogen transfer from supercritical methanol 

All our seniors conduct a capstone research project on an area of interest to them and relevance to their professional focus.  Each senior presents a poster at a Friday evening forum, and a short talk at our Saturday Research Symposium.  Abstracts for these projects are available here.

Fall 2010 Senior Thesis Symposium

Chemistry's Living-Learning Community - By the Fall 2011 we hope to be in our new residential living-learning community centered on the Chemistry Club (actually we will let a few others in too).  This residential unit is undergoing major renovation during the 2010-2011 school year and we need your help.  The Club was asked to fund $10,000 of the $250,000 renovation.  Donations are tax deductible and can be made to the foundation.  Read more about this project here, and thank you for your support.

"I know you're a chemist but what do you do?"  There are as many answers to this question as there are practicing chemists (over 100,000 in the U.S. alone).  Chemists work in government as researchers, policy officers, environmental scientists and policy analysts/makers.  Chemists are found as teachers at all levels from elementary school through graduate school.  Chemists work in industry in fields as diverse as automobile manufacturing to cutting edge biotechnology or environmental protection.  Chemists are attorneys, business managers, marketing strategists, environmental engineers, and company presidents.  The only limit is your imagination. 

"Chemistry IS for you!"  We would enjoy the opportunity to discuss careers in the chemical sciences with you. Please call or send an email for more information, or you might like to have one of our faculty contact you directly.  If you can visit campus we would like to show you our excellent facilities and to discuss some of the exciting research projects now underway with our students.

"Won't you join us?"  The chemistry department at Lake Superior State University provides a great environment in which to work and learn with others.  Our faculty are ready to work with you to achieve your academic and professional goals.  Our state-of-the-art chemical instrumentation is here for you to use, preparing the hands-on experiences needed to help you be a valuable and valued member of our profession after graduation. 

What's Hot - Chemistry Slideshow - review highlights of our program