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The MC Chemistry Department invites you to visit it's web site and contact the Faculty. MC's Chemistry Department has a long tradition of preparing students for successful and rewarding careers in chemistry, biochemistry, medicine, pharmaceuticals, engineering and a variety of other career paths.

The Monmouth College Chemistry Department strives to….

1. sharpen students’ quantitative skills.
2. encourage critical thinking.
3. demonstrate the cumulative aspect of chemistry principles.
4. afford students the opportunity to get involved in a research project as early as their sophomore year.
5. utilize “inquiry based learning” in lecture.
6. strengthen students’ scientific writing and presentation skills.
7. illustrate the interrelatedness among chemistry, biology, physics, and mathematics.

The Department offers a hands-on curriculum, rich in research opportunities and one-on-one student/faculty interactions. Alumnus William LeSuer has provide an instrumentation endowment which allows the Department to purchase, on average, a major piece of instrumentation each year. A former Professor and name sake of the Monmouth College Science building, W. S. "Haldy" Haldeman has endowed the Department with a library fund which provides internet access to current research journals, the latest book and periodical publications, and the latest in chemistry and scientific software.

Consider what your future might be like with a chemistry or biochemistry degree from Monmouth College.

Trips to Research Conferences!

Where are our graduates?

Jon Cline	Des Moines University Medical School
Ted Tomlin	Sigma-Aldrich - Chemist
Stephanie Inskeep	Grain Processing - Muscatine- Research Tech
Amanda Link	Rockford College - MAT (Master's Teaching Program)
Om Kumar Shrestha	Univeristy of Iowa - Biochemistry
Sara Wenzel	Univeristy of Kansas - MBA
Katrice King	Kent State University - Chemistry
Antonella Magnelli	Northeastern University - Chemistry
Sara Hitchcock	University of Nebraska - Chemistry
Alison Warren	Mercer University - Pharmacy
Jennifer Hass	Indiana University - Chemistry
Nate Coleman, Jr	University of Iowa - Chemistry
Matt Faron	University of Iowa - Genetics
Jennifer Scott	Sigma-Aldrich - Chemist

LEARN ABOUT THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS)

JOIN THE ACS

ACS Student Affiliates Charter from 1949 signed by Linus Pauling!!!!!!

Monmouth College Chemistry/Biochemistry Majors/Minors and their 2009 REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) Program


Sara Wenzel	University of Kansas
Noah Hendricks	Colorado State University
Blake Lyon and Ben Battenburg	Monmouth College
Om Kumar Shrestha	University of Wisconsin
Taryn Tang	University of Iowa