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Department of Chemistry
USF At a Glance
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Founded in 1956
The 9th largest university in US (>45,000 students)
Tampa is at heart of one of the fastest growing areas of US
(catchment population = 3,900,000)
More than 1,660 faculty
1 of only 3 state universities in Florida with Carnegie
Research I status
$320,000,000/year in research funding (#2 in Florida)
Member of the Florida High Tech Corridor
Medical school, #1 Cancer Institute in Florida (Moffitt
Cancer Center), #1 Alzheimer’s Institute in Florida
Big East Conference
The Department of Chemistry
 28 tenured and tenure track faculty 2009-2010
4 new faculty 2009-2010 and 1 new faculty 10/11
 130 graduate students in 2009/2010
 19 new research faculty since 1999
 More than $4 million/year in external funding
 Typically top 10 in US in number of undergraduate
degrees
 Many opportunities for cross-disciplinary research
 New NES building and remodeled Chemistry
building in 2006
Interdisciplinary NMR facility and Mass
Spectrometry/Peptide Synthesis facility
Areas of Interdisciplinary Research
in the Department of Chemistry
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Drug discovery – CMD5
Center for Molecular Diversity in Drug Design, Discovery and
Delivery
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Materials Chemistry – SMMARTT
Smart Metal-organic Materials Advanced Research and
Technology Transfer
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Chemical/Science Education
Coalition for Scientific Literacy
The Chemistry Department
USF Campus in Tampa
The Campus Map for the
Sciences
The Campus: Chemistry
Natural and Environmental Science
Bioscience Facility
Science Center
Chemistry
The Tampa Bay Area
The Tampa Bay Area
For More Information Please
visit our website
http://chemistry.usf.edu
or contact Dr. Patricia Muisener
[email protected]
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