Department of Chemistry
The Department of Chemistry provides students with the background to needed to enter
graduate school, medical or dental school, pursue careers as professional chemist,
or careers as high school teachers.
FACULTY:
The Department of Chemistry has five full-time tenured track faculty with terminal
degrees and one full-time instructor/laboratory coordinator. The expertise of the
faculty represents all of the core areas of chemistry (more faculty)
EQUIPMENT:
The following pieces of equipment a re available for student research and laboratory
studies:
- Hitachi Rapid Scan NMR
- Galaxy/Mattson FTIR
- Perkin Elmer Fluorescence Spectrophotometer
- Hewlett Packard HPLC
- Hitachi Spectrophotometer
- Varian Gas Chromatograph
- Olympus Polarized Microscope
- HAAKE Viscometer
- HVA6 PARR Viscometer
- Thermal Analysis Differential Scanning Calorimeter
- PAR Polarograph
- Thermal Analysis Thermal Gravimetric Analyzer
- Hitachi Two UV-Vis Spectrophotometer
- Varian Spectra 220 Atomic Absorption Spectrometer
- PAR Catalytic Hydrogenator
- Themal Analysis Mechanical Analyzer
- Agilent Gas Chromatograph - Mass Spectrometer
- EG&G Applied Research Polarographic Analyzer/Stripping Voltameter
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES:
Students are encouraged to participate in on- and off- campus research projects. On-campus
research projects include Nitric Oxide Free Radical Reactions, Polymer Synthesis,
Polymer Rheology, and Coal Slurry energy related research. Students also frequently
participate in research projects at Dow Chemical, Baton Rough, LA; Philip Morris,
Richmond, VA; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA;
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA; and NASA. (more research)
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE:
The University and the Department of Chemistry offers students a variety of financial
aid packages. These include scholarships, grants, loans, and work-study. For more
complete information please contact:
CONTACT
Dr. Bobby Burkes
Interim Department Head/Professor
Department of Chemistry
Carver Hall, Room 218
Grambling, La 71245
(318) 274-2341
burkesb@gram.edu
Fax: (318) 274-3703
