Our graduate program in chemistry at Ohio State leads the country in education and research because of our vast resources, cutting-edge facilities, and outstanding faculty. Consequently, we are consistently ranked as one of the best in the nation by the National Research Council and others.

Our faculty members include a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Ohio Eminent Scholars, Sloan Fellows, Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar awardees, and fellows of the American Physical Society, the American Ceramic Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Several faculty hold major national awards from the American Chemical Society and have distinguished themselves numerous times with research.

Our department is home to approximately 350 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. We emphasize the research and research-skill component of the master's and Ph.D. degrees and provide the resources and guidance necessary for students to become independent scientists. Each student works with a faculty adviser to develop an individual program of course work including advanced seminars, independent study, and extensive research.

Our teaching and research facilities are housed in four adjacent buildings at the center of the beautiful Ohio State campus. We are particularly proud of our facilities which have recently undergone major expansion and renovation projects. Today and in the future, we will continue to offer students and researchers some of the world's most advanced equipment and resources.

As a large department, we are able to offer excellent opportunities for training in all of the major areas of chemistry. Many of our faculty members' research interests span several areas or bridge the fields of chemistry, biology, physics, and materials science providing opportunities for interdisciplinary research. Many of our faculty members accept graduate students from Ohio State's interdisciplinary programs in chemical physics, biochemistry, materials research, and environmental sciences.

Our department also has close ties with a number of interdisciplinary centers and programs on campus including the Ohio State Biochemistry Program, the Center for Materials Research, and the Chemical Physics Program. These programs provide additional opportunities and facilities to those involved in research at the boundaries of chemistry, physics, biology, and materials science.

For the past 50 years, Ohio State has been the site of the most important meeting in spectroscopy: The Ohio State University International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy. The annual meeting brings together outstanding scientists from all over the world to discuss current advances in molecular spectroscopy.

We have an Industrial Associates in Chemistry Program which was established in 1978 as a collaborative effort between chemistry faculty and representatives from industrial companies. The group meets on a regular basis to discuss a wide range of issues of common interest.

Professor Matthew S. Platz, in collaboration with Cryopharm Corporation of Pasadena, CA, has developed new UV activated sensitizers. These sensitizers can inactivate millions of particles of HIV in the presence of platelet concentrates with acceptable recovery of in vitro platelet properties. Animal studies are in progress which hopefully will lead to the development of new technology which would eliminate the risk of viral disease transmission in transfusion medicine.