- CBC has 53 faculty and instructors, making it one of the largest UA academic departments.
- We have the largest graduate degree program at the UA. Most of our 165 graduate students are pursuing PhD degrees in Chemistry or Biochemistry.
- CBC has 650 Biochemistry and 325 Chemistry undergraduate majors earning BS or BA degrees.
- Our faculty, instructors, staff, and graduate students teach nearly 50,000 student credit hours per year, which is the third highest among UA departments.
- CBC faculty direct research programs on the cutting edge of 21st-century science, including energy conversion, drug design, astrochemistry, polymer chemistry, protein and membrane biochemistry, eukryotic signal transduction, nanomaterial design, and natural product synthetic chemistry.
- The operating budget for CBC is approximately $20M/yr, of which $10M/yr is grants and contracts.
- Five active CBC faculty are Regents Professors, seven CBC faculty are Galileo Circle Fellows, and one is a University Distinguished Professor.
- CBC has 9 multi-user Research Support Services that serve the entire UA community and many external clients. Our state-of-the-art capabilities include nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and many surface analysis methods.
- The CBC Analytical Chemistry program in CBC is ranked 9th in the nation.
- We have awarded more than 5,000 degrees in the 125-year history of the department, and we are in contact with over 4,000 active alumni.
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