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The Chemistry
Department participates in an interdisciplinary program of graduate study in
molecular biophysics with the Department of Molecular Biology and
Biochemistry (MB & B) and the Department of Physics. The program provides a
course of study and research that overlaps the disciplinary boundaries of
chemistry, physics, biology, and molecular biology, and is designed for
students with undergraduate background in any one of these areas. Students
in the program are enrolled in one of the participating departments and
fulfill canonical requirements of that department. In addition, they take
advanced courses in molecular biophysics and pursue dissertation research
with one of the faculty in the program. Centerpieces of the program are the
weekly interdepartmental journal club in molecular biophysics and the annual
research retreat.
Both activities bring together students,
research associates, and faculty from all participating departments, and
foster interdisciplinary collaborative projects.
The molecular biophysics
program receives special support from the National Institutes of Health in
the form of a training grant. The program is affiliated with interest groups
such as the New York Structural Biology (NYSB) and the New York
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (NYBCB) groups. All students are
encouraged to join and attend national meetings of the Biophysical Society.
Click here to open the
Molecular Biophysics web
site. Students interested in this program
apply for admission to the Chemistry Department or to the other two
participating departments. Application forms for these departments are
available at
www.wesleyan.edu/chem |
