Truman Chemistry Fact Sheet

Students

• Chemistry has 150 majors graduating approximately 20-30 each year.
• Between 45-50% of our students are female.
• Students regularly present the results of research investigations at scientific meetings.
• Student clubs include American Chemical Society Student Affiliate, Alpha Chi Sigma professional fraternity, and American Medical Students Association (AMSA).

Faculty

• 20 full time faculty, born and raised in several different states and countries.
• All of the faculty hold a terminal degree (Ph.D.)
• 4/20 (20%) of the faculty are female
• Our faculty have attended a diversity of public and private undergraduate institutions.
• Their Ph.D.s were received from research institutions in the U.S.

Curriculum

• Chemistry offers only an American Chemical Society certified baccalaureate degree.
• Honors recognition is also available.
• There are opportunities for selected students to conduct undergraduate research.
• Internships are available.
• Our largest lectures have 75-80 students.
• Some are as small as 10-20 students.
• Many classes have only 20-50 students.
• All lab sections are restricted to 24 or fewer students and taught by professors.

Facilities and Equipment

• The Fall semester of 2005 will brought to completion a major building addition and renovation that provides the discipline with new teaching and research space.
• The 2004-2005 academic year included a newly revised introductory chemistry sequence with the addition of new laboratory experiments and instrumentation.
• A 400 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer was added to our instrument holdings in 2003.
• Our teaching and research labs are equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation that students get to use regularly.
• We have many computers (both Macs and PCs) in teaching and research labs.
• Two new Varian Cary UV-Visible Spectrophotometers were purchased in 1999.
• Two Varian Capillary Gas Chromatography and two HP Gas Chromatography instruments were donated in 1999.

Alumni

• Over the past five years, about 55-65% of our graduates attend graduate school, about 25% attend medical, dental, or pharmacy school, and the remainder (10-20%) enter the job force.
• Listed below are some of the graduate, medical, and law schools that have accepted our graduates in the past five years:

  Baylor University School of Law Georgia Tech University Iowa State University Kansas State University Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine Massachusetts Institute of Technology Medical College of Wisconsin Northern Illinois University Northwestern University Ohio State University Penn State University Purdue University Southern Illinois University Texas A&M University University of California-Berkeley University of California-San Diego

  University of Chicago University of Colorado University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University of Iowa University of Kansas University of Missouri-Columbia University of Montana University of Nebraska University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill University of Northern Colorado University of Illinois School of Law University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Wyoming University of Arkansas-Fayetteville University of Miami-Ohio Washington University (St. Louis)

• Listed below are some of the pharmacy schools that have accepted our graduates in the past five years:
  • University of Missouri-Kansas City
  • University of Kansas
  • Creighton University
  • University of Iowa
• Listed below are some of the industrial companies that have hired our recent graduates:

  Sigma Aldrich Chemical Corporation Monsanto ABC Laboratories Hoescht Marion Roussel Ecolab Inc Pharmacia & Upjohn Co. BASF

  Mallinckrodt Chemical Company Bio-Kraft Company American Cyanamid Tnemec Corp. Inc Continental Cement Co. Solutia Quintiles Co.