Graduate Study in - Chemistry - Johns Hopkins University

Welcome
Rendition of new chemistry
building currently under
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Greetings and welcome to the Department of Chemistry at Johns
Hopkins University. As you will see throughout this brochure,
we offer an exciting environment for graduate studies in all areas
of the chemical sciences. Our department has a unique
advantage in its ability to maintain internationally recognized
research programs in a wide variety of chemical disciplines, while
remaining small enough for close student-faculty interactions. This
tradition of excellence has been carried forward from the department’s
inception as the first Ph. D. program in chemistry in America, and as you
will see, is now continued by an outstanding group of scientific leaders
that make up the Chemistry Department faculty. It is an exciting time to
enter our department. The Chemistry department resides in Remsen Hall,
which underwent a complete renovation in the 1990’s, Dunning Hall, and
the new state-of-the-art Chemistry building that is being constructed to
accommodate department growth. The building will follow a Georgian
style (see sketch) to blend with the Hopkins campus. Students choosing to
do their graduate work here will benefit from cutting-edge research
programs and facilities, while working in a friendly environment in which
access to faculty is unrestricted.
Students can work on many projects that cross the traditional
lines of chemistry, ranging from materials chemistry and surface
science to bioorganic and bioinorganic chemistry. There is an
extraordinary commitment here by the faculty towards the
development and growth of the graduate students; one only has to
look at the many students who have graduated from the Chemistry
Department and gone on to successful careers in both industry and
academia as concrete evidence of this commitment.
The Department is located on the Homewood campus of Johns
Hopkins University, approximately 3 miles from the Inner Harbor
of downtown Baltimore. The city of Baltimore offers all of the
advantages and recreational activities of a major metropolitan area,
and has seen a fantastic revitalization in the downtown section and
Inner Harbor in the past few years. Many other outstanding
research institutions are located in the Baltimore/Washington D.C.
area, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda,
Maryland, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in
Gaithersburg, Maryland, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Naval
Research Laboratory (NRL), the Army Research Laboratory (ARL), and
the University of Maryland’s Baltimore County campus, as well as its
Biotechnology Institute at College Park. This concentration of scientific
research centers and programs is one of the highest in the country and
gives students in the Chemistry Department the opportunity for
collaborations and other interactions, including seminars and meetings
with different scientists from private industry, government laboratories
and other academic institutions. If you are interested in this type of
stimulating environment and are committed to pushing the boundaries of
the scientific frontier, we invite you to join one of the country’s
outstanding chemistry departments.
2 Graduate Study in Chemistry at The Johns Hopkins University