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“Having chemistry classes at Mount Mary’s Gerhardinger Center is beyond great. It’s a perfect facility in which to have lab classes and to study science. After class we enjoy meeting down in the Cyber Café, too.”

Chemistry

Do you have interest and ability in chemistry? Would you like to make it part of your career? Mount Mary College’s chemistry program helps students develop their scientific interests and abilities and prepares graduates to pursue work in:

  • the chemical industry
  • the medical technology and related fields
  • graduate school
  • medical school (including chiropractic, dentistry, osteopathic, and veterinary)
  • education

Mount Mary’s chemistry program provides a solid framework covering all areas of the discipline, including:

  • inorganic
  • organic
  • analytical
  • biochemical
  • physical

When you choose Mount Mary College for your chemistry studies, you’ll:

  • benefit from small class sizes and individualized attention
  • develop data analysis and problem solving skills
  • gain broad scientific literacy
  • acquire and practice basic chemical laboratory techniques in our top-notch facilities
  • master relevant computer applications
  • enjoy learning in a supportive and creative environment

Chemistry Programs

Chemistry is offered as either a major or a minor at Mount Mary. With a curriculum rooted in the liberal arts, Mount Mary’s chemistry program emphasizes problem-based learning that encourages students to relate science to real-world situations.

Mount Mary’s chemistry major offers sequences:

  • General – prepares students for chemistry at the graduate school level
  • Health sciences – prepares students for professional studies (medicine, dentistry, veterinary, etc.)
  • Education – prepares students for teaching chemistry at the middle or secondary level
  • Education, Broad field - prepares student to teach broad field science to early adolescence/adolescence students

Recent News -

New assistant faculty, Jordan Acker Anderson, Fine Arts, and Lynn Diener, Sciences, began a cross-disciplinary collaboration to bridge the subject of science with studio work created by art majors. The objective of the ongoing collaboration is to engage art students in a visual dialogue about science, increasing their interest in an outside field by entering scientific information through a visual perspective. The work was published in the Journal of Chemical Education, Vol. 86 No. 2 February 2009, as two separate articles penned by Acker Anderson and Diener: "News from Online: Statospheric Chemistry" and "A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration." Original artwork by ten Mount Mary students was published through the articles, on the cover and alongside related features.