Welcome to the Department of Chemistry of Washington University in St. Louis. Our Department consists of 25 full-time faculty, 119 graduate students, 32 postdocs, 8 adjunct and research faculty, 6 educational staff, and 34 administrative and research support staff. We occupy 5 buildings, of a total size of 242,000 square feet.

The faculty of the Department obtain research grant and contract direct costs of approximately $5.4 million annually, supplementing a University operating budget of approximately $3.2 million.

The Department provides rigorous training in all areas of chemistry at both graduate and undergraduate levels. Approximately 50 chemistry majors graduate each year, many of whom go on to further study at the best graduate schools in the world.

Shared departmental facilities include a high-resolution NMR facility, a Mass Spectrometry facility, Computing resources, glass, mechanical and electrical shop services, and numerous other instrumentation.

Please explore this web-site for further information, including details of the research activities of our faculty, profiles of some of our graduate students, curricular and admissions information for both the graduate and undergraduate programs, seminar schedules, course web-pages, and announcements.

For the Historical Campus Tour description of Louderman Hall, click here.

Here are directions for visiting our Department.