Chemistry

Dartmouth Alums With This Major

• Senior Investigator, U.S. Chemical Safety & Hazard Inv. Board
  (Maryland, Dartmouth '74)
• Associate, The Boston Consulting Group
  (California, Dartmouth '03)
• Sr Vice President & Winemaker, Wente Vineyards
  (Washington, Dartmouth '68)
• Chemistry Lab Supervisor, Hamilton College
  (New York, Dartmouth '93)
• Senior Software Engineer, Applied Biosystems, Inc.
  (California, Dartmouth '77)
• Managing Director, Seattle Repertory Theatre
  (New York, Dartmouth '77)
• Organics Laboratory Manager, Alpha Analytical Laboratories
  (Massachusetts, Dartmouth '81)
• Program Manager, Gillette Company
  (Massachusetts, Dartmouth '83)
• Aviation Safety Analyst, Federal Aviation Administration
  (Maryland, Dartmouth '87)
• Research Chemist, Pfizer, Inc.
  (Connecticut, Dartmouth '95)
• Psychiatrist, Private Practice
  (Washington DC, Dartmouth '96)
• 8th Grade Science Teacher, Vance County Schools
  (North Carolina, Dartmouth '05)
• Senior Scientist, LORD Corporation
  (North Carolina, Dartmouth '96)
• Associate Attorney, Finnegan Henderson Farrabow, et al
  (Virginia, Dartmouth '96)
• Assistant Professor, Barnard College
  (New York, Dartmouth '98)

Major Description

The Department, characterized by excellent teaching, close faculty-student relationships, and a lively research environment, presents a wide range of chemistry courses and modern research opportunities in both majors it offers - Chemistry and Biophysical Chemistry. The faculty is committed to the value of hands-on research, and evidence of which is the emphasis of laboratory classwork as well in as the availability of research projects in an individual faculty member's laboratory.

Skills Acquired

What is this?

• Critical & Analytical Thinking
• Problem Solving
• Quantitative Skills
• Research Skills
• Technology

Possible Career Paths

• Analytical
• Biochemical
• Organic
• Geochemistry
• Inorganic
• Polymer Chemistry
• Physical
• Education
• Business
• Technical Writing
• Law
• Information Specialists/ Technical Libraries