Why Choose Chemistry/Science - Teacher Certification at Western Illinois University?

Students develop the ability to work closely with other health care professionals, use complex and precise instruments, and gain a solid background in the sciences.

WIU's Chemistry degree research program allows students the opportunity to get involved with projects such as analytical chemistry, biochemistry, environmental chemistry, food chemistry, forensic chemistry, green chemistry, inorganic chemistry, material science, nanotechnology, organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, physical chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, polymer chemistry, and toxicological chemistry.

Our Students

• get highly individualized advisement and mentorship from our faculty.
• participate in departmental research grants and contracts, involve them as ?doers and thinkers? in novel, cutting edge research.
• become involved in research learn techniques and instrument use not normally assessable in a large instructional setting.
• travel to state, regional, national, and international conferences via faculty research grant funding.
• present their research data, mix with and meet chemists from across the US around the world.
• ....have made 47 research presentations in the past few years at the national American Chemical Society or the national American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology meetings in Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, New Orleans, San Diego Washington DC, and San Francisco.
• ...become published authors!
• ...have been listed as coauthors with the chemistry faculty in over 100 referreed journal articles during the past four years alone. Most of these have been in nationally or internationally known journals, such as the Journal of Organic Chemistry, the Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Organic Letters, Applications in Biotechnology and Microbiology, Experimental Biology, the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, and many, many more.
• ...graduate our program with impressive resumes!
• ...gain top flight careers!