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USF’s Master of Science in Chemistry is designed for graduate students seeking a research-based degree with personalized direction from research advisers and training from experienced full-time faculty. Hands-on training opportunities prepare our students for a future in professional research and development, further studies in a PhD program or health-related professional programs, and teaching positions at the high school and community college level.
Degree Requirements and Program Learning Outcomes
Full-Tuition Merit Scholarships
Students admitted to the program are funded, including a full graduate scholarship, and most earn a salary through teaching or research assistantships.
Research Areas
Students are accepted into specific research groups and immediately join a research project supervised by their assigned research adviser, with whom they develop a program of directed scientific research. To qualify for admission to the program, you must be interested in pursuing research in one of the following areas:
- Analytical Chemistry: Amrita Bhattacharyya
- Biochemistry: Janet Yang
- Bioinorganic Chemistry: Michael Stevenson
- Computational Chemistry: William Karney
- Inorganic Chemistry: Osasere Evbuomwan
- Organic Chemistry: Herman Nikolayevskiy
- Physical Chemistry: Giovanni Meloni
Research Labs
Our students work alongside full-time faculty in well-equipped research labs in chemistry and biochemistry.
Lab Instruments
- Atomic absorption spectrophotometer
- Computational facilities
- Electrochemical workstation
- Fluorimeter
- FPLC
- FT-IR/Raman spectrometer
- GC-MS and GC systems
- HPLC systems
- Isothermal titration calorimetry
- Multimode plate reader
- UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometers
- Varian 500 MHz FT NMR
Faculty Spotlight
Dr. Janet Yang has received a grant of $419,312 from National Institutes of Health for her project titled “Mechanisms of Substrate Selectivity and Transport by a Bacterial Methionine ABC Importer”. This proposal seeks to understand how prokaryotic ABC importers uptake nutrients that are crucial for survival, and these findings could provide new targets for treatment against bacterial pathogens. Towards this end, Dr. Yang will employ biochemical and biophysical methods to dissect how the E. coli MetNI transporter, an established model system, transports methionine from the periplasm to the cytoplasm.
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Contact Info
Chemistry MS
Herman Nikolayevskiy, Graduate Director
Harney Science Center 353, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA 94117-1080
chemistry@usfca.edu
(415) 422-6157
(415) 422-5157