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Department: Chemistry

Executive Officer: Professor Yolanda Small

The Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10016

Email: Chemistry@gc.cuny.edu

https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Chemistry

FACULTY

Daniel Akins, Spiro Alexandratos, Teresa Bandosz, Philip Barnett, Elizabeth Biddinger, Mark Biscoe, Adam Braunschweig, Zimei Bu, Benjamin Burton-Pye, Marco Castaldi, Elise Champeil, Emmanuel Chang, Xi Chen, Yu Chen, Jun Yong Choi, Malgorzata Ciszkowska, Maria Contel, Alexander Couzis, Aneta Czajkowska, Lesley Davenport, Columba de la Parra, Melissa Deri, Amedee des Georges, Ruel Desamero, Roger Dorsinville, Terry Dowd, Dorthe Eisele, Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle, Robert Engel, Cherice Evans, Stephen Fearnley, Lynn Francesconi, Jean Gaffney, Emilio Gallicchio, Kevin Gardner, Guillermo Gerona-Navarro, Ranajeet Ghose, Eleonora Gianti, Brian Gibney, Nicolas Giovambattista, Dixie Goss, David Gosser, Michael Green, Nancy Greenbaum, Steven Greenbaum, Alexander Greer, Marilyn Gunner, Rupal Gupta, Wayne Harding, Yi He, William Hersh, Edward Hohenstein, Mandё Holford, Qiao-Sheng Hu, Ankit Jain, Seogjoo Jang, Urs Jans, David Jeruzalmi, Shi Jin, Andrei Jitianu, George John, Lawrence Johnson, Laura Juszczak, Akira Kawamura, Daniel Keedy, Edward Kennelly, Reza Khayat, Frida Kleiman, Mark Kobrak, Ali Kocak, Ronald Koder, Glen Kowach, Ilona Kretzschmar, Michal Kruk, Thomas Kubic, Chandrika Kulatilleke, Sanjai Kumar, Tom Kurtzman, Mahesh Lakshman, Themis Lazaridis, Jong-Ill Lee, Jianbo Liu, John Lombardi, Gustavo Lopez, Sharon Loverde, Alan Lyons, Richard Magliozzo, Neepa Maitra, Prabodhika Mallikaratchy, Eugene Mananga, Mateusz Marianski, Louis Massa, Hiroshi Matsui, Donna McGregor, Panayiotis Meleties, Robert Messinger, Pamela Mills, Michael Mirkin, David Mootoo, Ryan Murelli, Daniele Musumeci, Fred Naider, Robert Nolan, Stephen O'Brien, Naphtali O'Connor, Anton Oliynyk, Ralf Peetz, Nicholas Petraco, Sebastien Poget, Adam Profit, Krishnaswami Raja, Varattur Reddy, John Reffner, Susan Rotenberg, David Rumschitzki, Randye Rutberg, Kevin Ryan, Uri Samuni, Steven Schwarz, Matthew Sfeir, Chwen-Yang Shew, Yolanda Small, Peter Spellane, Ruth Stark, Carol Steiner, Gillian Stewart, Maria Tamargo, Ming Tang, Micha Tomkiewicz, Mariana Torrente, Rein Ulijn, Michele Vittadello, Chen Wang, Ryan Williams, Yujia Xu, Yuemei Ye, Alexandre Zaitsev, Barbara Zajc, Brian Zeglis, Guoqi Zhang, Pengfei Zhang, Shengping Zheng, Shuiqin Zhou

THE PROGRAM

The Ph.D. Program in Chemistry involves participation of faculty at seven senior colleges of The City University of New York: Brooklyn College, The City College, Hunter College, Lehman College, Queens College, the College of Staten Island, and York College. Doctoral research and laboratory courses are conducted at the various colleges of the City University. Students in the Ph.D. Program in Chemistry select one of these colleges or the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) as the location for their doctoral research. Doctoral seminars and lecture courses are given at The Graduate Center, which also serves as the administrative headquarters for the Ph.D. Program in Chemistry. The Ph.D. degree is granted by the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.

Doctoral research is carried out under the direction of a research mentor. The selection of a research mentor should be made before a student’s second semester in the program. The general course of study in the Ph.D. program involves a transition by the student from coursework and examinations early in the program to a full-time commitment to the research project as study continues.

The Ph.D. Program in Chemistry has a large faculty with diverse interests. Doctoral research is conducted in all major areas of chemistry. Laboratory work at each of the senior colleges is supported by a wide range of modern instrumentation and augmented by the facilities at the ASRC. One major attribute of the Ph.D. program is that students conducting research at one senior college have access to the facilities and instrumentation at any of the other senior colleges and the ASRC. Students also have access to computers at the Graduate Center and to the many computational facilities at the senior colleges. Other support facilities include a clean room, machine shops, and electronics shops.

Each of the senior colleges maintains a library with a range of chemistry journals. CUNY faculty and students have access to American Chemical Society (ACS) online journals. Remote access to journal articles is also available at no cost to doctoral faculty and students at any CUNY campus via two document-delivery services: ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) and CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service). In addition, SIBL, the Science, Industry, and Business Library of the New York Public Library, is located in the same building as the Graduate Center.

En-route M.A.

Upon completing 45 credits with an average grade of B, passing the First Examination, and satisfactorily completing a major research paper, the student may apply for an M.A. degree. Those seeking an en-route master’s degree should have the Executive Officer initiate the appropriate action. The degree is awarded formally by one of the participating senior colleges.