WELCOME TO OUR DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA!
We are a university-wide unit with staff and faculty in both the College of Science and the College of Medicine and students educated even more broadly. At a time when the boundaries between the traditional branches of knowledge are disappearing, as underlined by the Strategic Plan of our University, we are ideally positioned through our education, research, and outreach programs to tackle the grand challenges that our society faces.
Our world-class research addresses important topics in the chemical and biochemical sciences that require the integration of multiple disciplines, ranging from energy science and engineering, materials science and engineering, optical science, physics, computational science, biochemistry, chemical biology, biomedical engineering, drug discovery, structural biology, and molecular and cellular biology. Our research fuels our education activities: CBC offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in Chemistry and Biochemistry at all levels, from bachelor’s degrees to Ph.D’s.
Department Head Dr. Craig Aspinwall Welcomes You!
THE VISION FOR OUR DEPARTMENT IS TO BE A WORLD LEADER IN THE CHEMICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES THROUGH CUTTING-EDGE EDUCATION, RESEARCH, AND COMMUNITY IMPACT THAT IMPROVE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD AND OUR QUALITY OF LIFE.
CBC By The Numbers
10
Research Support Services
10th
Ranked in nation for Analytical Chemistry
31st
Ranked in Chemistry among public universities
STUDENTS
134 |
Graduate Students |
420 |
Biochemistry Undergraduate Majors |
200 |
Chemistry Undergraduate Majors |
~49,000 |
Student credit hours per year taught by CBC Faculty and graduate students |
FACULTY
49 |
Tenure-track & teaching faculty |
4 |
Galileo Circle Fellows |
4 |
Regents Professors |
3 |
Endowed Chairs & Faculty Fellowships |
2 |
Distinguished Professors |
TECH TRANSFER
>10 |
Start-up Companies |
60 |
Average Number of Patent Applications Per Year |
GRANTS
$10.5M |
Total Grant Expenditures |
50 |
Grants & Contracts Awarded on Average Per Year |
Institutional Knowledge Map
The map represents a network in which the nodes are individual researchers. The edges correspond to collaborations: either joint publications or joint research proposals. Clusters represent tightly collaborating groups of researchers.
There are three types of connections: publication connections (black), grant proposal connections (grau), and both (green].
Font size represents how collaborative a person is, based on number of internal connections, number of grants, and number of publications.
The majority of researchers are in the main connected component, or the main continent on the map, while smaller connected components are islands. This is a small world network with average shortest path length of 5 on the continent, so everyone is close to everyone else. By using the first law of geography, nodes that are close to each other are more connected than nodes that are far apart. Naturally, the underlying network is dense, which is why we often just look at the map and not explicitly show all edges.
You can type in an individual's name into the KMap Search Box to learn more about research areas, publications, funding and quotes from individual researchers.