About the Department
The Duke University Chemistry Department offers an exciting program of research conducted by a dynamic group of faculty and students using state-of-the-art facilities. Over the last few years, five full Professors and seven Assistant Professors have been hired. In the last few years, George McLendon and Warren Warren have moved to Duke as full Professors from Princeton as well as Dewey McCafferty and Michael Therien from University of Pennsylvania; Kathy Franz, Don Coltart and Jiyong Hong have been hired as Assistant Professors; and Peter Agre, the 2003 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, moved to Duke from Johns Hopkins. Our current goal is to hire an additional 10 faculty over the next five years.
The $115M French Family Science Center, next to the former P.M. Gross Chemistry building, houses the Department, plus related groups in Physics and Biology. The Center furthers the institutional goals to promote interdisciplinary science at the Chemistry/Biology and Chemistry/Materials interface. This is only a small part of the $834M investment Duke has made in 34 major construction projects completed or initiated since February 2001.
In addition to research opportunities in chemistry, members of the Department participate in several interdisciplinary centers and training programs covering Chemical Biology; Molecular and Biomolecular Imaging; Photonics and Biophotonics; Developmental, Cell and Molecular Biology; Biophysics; Materials Science; Genetics; Pharmacology; and Toxicology.
We hope that you will visit our campus to experience first-hand our growing and dynamic department.