Inorganic Resources

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Inorganic Division Awards

Rothwell Travel Award: Recognizes graduate students for their outstanding research accomplishments and subsidizes travel to a national chemistry conference. Applications will typically be open in January-February of each year. Application Guidelines (PDF)

Rothwell Seminar Award: Recognizes a third-year graduate student for giving the best literature seminar that year.

Original Proposal (Candidacy Exam)

All graduate students will write and defend an original proposal during their third year in order to advance to candidacy. Here are some resources to help you in this process.

NIH Proposal Format (PDF)

Prof. Wilker's OP Survival Guide (PDF)

First-year Course Recommendations

First-year graduate students should register for three courses each semester.

Fall Semester

CHM64100: Advanced Inorganic Chemistry; 3CR
CHM64400: Solid State Chemistry; 3CR
CHM64800: Bioinorganic Chemistry; 3CR
CHM65100: Advanced Organic Chemistry; 3CR
CHM56000: Organic Spectroscopic Analysis; 3CR
CHM62000: Spectrochemical Instrumentation; 3CR
CHM69600: Chemistry of Polymers; 3CR

Spring Semester

CHM64200: Advanced Inorganic Chemistry; 3CR
CHM64700: Transition Metal and Organometallic Chemistry; 3CR
CHM66800: Physical Organic Chemistry; 3CR
CHM69600-006: X-ray Crystallography; 3CR