Introduction

   The Chemistry Department at Ohio State ranks as one of the strongest graduate programs in the country. An exciting and expanding area of research is the chemistry of life processes. Many faculty members have research programs at the interface of chemistry and biology. The graduate biochemistry curriculum, which combines course work and original, is designed to train you to be an independent, innovative scientist in biochemical and biomedical research.

   The Department of Chemistry provides financial support to all graduate students throughout their stay at OSU. Depending on his/her qualifications, a student may be supported either by a fellowship, teaching associateship (TA), or research associateship (RA). There are a variety of fellowships available at OSU, supported by US government (NIH), The Ohio State University, or the Department of Chemistry. For example, the predoctoral fellowship under a training grant "Chemistry at the Interface of Biology" (supported by NIH) will provide three years of fellowship at $16,900/ year plus tuition waiver.

   The Department of Chemistry and the Campus Chemical Instrument Center house state-of- the-art instrumentation in every area of chemical/biological research. The department and the Center have 8 NMR spectrometers (from 200 to 800 MHz). The mass spectrometry facilities are capable of analyzing both small organic molecules (GC/MS, FAB, etc.) and delicate large biomolecules (electrospray and MALDI/TOF). Other facilities include an X-ray diffraction laboratory, a computing and graphics laboratory, FT-IR, ESR spectrometers, and a CD spectrometer. Each research group also has a collection of equipment suited for their own research, e.g., ultra-speed centrifuges, scintillation counters, UV-VIS spectrophotometers, fluorometers, phosphoimager, rotating anode X-ray source, low angle X-ray scattering camera, high sensitivity differential scanning calorimeter, and various chromatography instruments.