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Points of Pride Chemistry is a Foundational Science in Most STEM Majors • Nearly half of Chemistry Majors are women • Nearly half of Faculty are women • Undergrad Chemistry Major Mr. Peter Winegar is only the 10 th Michigan Tech student to win the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship created by the U. S. Congress • Educate over 1400 students per year: 1 st-year, organic, and physical chemistry. Students span MANY majors! • Completed total renovation on two Undergraduate teaching labs and partial modernization on two others totaling ~ $1 M 3/22/17 Chemistry

Points of Pride Five Faculty Inducted into Academy of Teaching Excellence • More than half of undergraduates involved in research • Approximately 17 Faculty, 33 Graduate Students, and 40 Undergrads engaged in cutting-edge research • External Research Funding increased five-fold since 2013 – Sources include NSF, NIH, NASA, DOE, Corporate, … • Dr. Lynn Mazzoleni - Director of new $1 M+, NSF World-class, Mass Spectrometry Chemical Analysis (Ch. ARM) Laboratory • First-ever NSF-CAREER Grant awarded to Chemistry – Prof. Dr. Xiaohu Xi (2017) NIH, NSF and corporate support 3/22/17 Chemistry

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Undergraduate Degrees and Concentrations • Chemistry – ACS Certified (Can combine with concentration in) • Environmental Chemistry • Secondary Education • Polymer Chemistry • Chemical Physics • Biochemistry • Pharmaceutical Chemistry • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology • Chem. Informatics HALF PAGE IMAGE SIZE EXAMPLE 3/22/17 Chemistry

Graduate Degrees • Ph. D. – Research-based Degree • Requires courses & research thesis • Financial Support Options • Teaching/Research Assistant Support • Self-supporting • M. S. – Research-based • Requires courses & research thesis • Financial Support Options • Teaching/Research Assistant Support • Self-supporting • M. S. – Course-based • Requires courses but no thesis • Financial Support Options • Self-supporting with possible partial support for tuition only HALF PAGE IMAGE SIZE EXAMPLE 3/22/17 Chemistry

5 -year Accelerated M. S. Degree Undergraduate Program that completes B. S. & M. S. degrees within 5 years • M. S. – Research-based • Requires courses & Research • Self-supporting with possible partial tuition support HALF PAGE IMAGE SIZE EXAMPLE 3/22/17 Chemistry

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Opportunities for You to Help! • Excellence in Graduate Research – Goal: $3 M Support for state-of-the-art equipment & student research are essential to maintain excellence in education and research • Graduate Research Fellowships: $40 K/yr per student: or $9/summer per student Recruit “best & brightest” Students • Invest in high-impact research instrumentation to promote external research funding • Excellence in Undergraduate Education – Goal: $3. 6 M • Continue modernization of 8 remaining undergrad teaching laboratories: ~$450/Lab • Excellence in Undergraduate Research – Goal: $40 K • Undergrad Summer Research Fellowships: 10 x $4 K/summer per student 3/22/17 Chemistry

Contact Cary Chabalowski Professor and Chair Department of Chemistry Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Dr Houghton, MI 49931 cfchabal@mtu. edu (906) 487 -2048 www. mtu. edu/chemistry