There are currently 25 full-time faculty members actively engaged in chemical research in the Northeastern University Department of Chemistry. Our department is committed to quality teaching and research. The number of honors that our faculty members have received over the past several years evidences the quality of our faculty. These awards include the:

Hurtig Hall - Home of the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology

• Alfred P. Sloan Award
• NIH CAREER Award
• two NSF CAREER Awards
• Northeastern University Excellence in Teaching Award
• Research Corporation Benchmark Award
• Light Metals Award of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society
• University Klein Lectureship
• Matthews Distinguished Professor Award
• ACS Fisher Award in Analytical Chemistry
• ACS Supelco Award on Chromatography
• AJP Martin Medal
• EAS Award in Separation Science
• Camille & Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award

Egan Research Center houses laboratories for several research groups

Faculty in the department of chemistry are located in three buildings on the main Northeastern campus in Boston, Hurtig Hall (the main building), Mugar Hall, home of the Barnett Institute of Chemical Analysis, and the Egan Science and Engineering Center. The department has a staff of seven technical and instructional support personnel located in Hurtig Hall.

Major research equipment includes:

• Nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers (300, 400, 500, 700 MHz)
• Numerous mass spectrometers (GC-MS, HPLC-MS, MS/MS, MALDI-TOF, ESI-MS)
• Electron paramagnetic resonance spectrometers (9 GHz, 220 GHz quasioptical)
• Liquid and gas chromatographs, capillary electrophoresis, and atomic emission and absorption spectrometers
• X-ray diffractometers, electron microscopes, and thermal analyzers and calorimeters
• Electrochemical workstation with rotating disk and micro electrodes
• Ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and Raman spectrometers, including IR-micro imaging
• Ultrafast laser and photon counting systems, low-temperature optical dewar
• Moessbauer spectrometers and low-temperature facilities
• High resolution field emission scanning electron microscope
• Electroanalytical, polarographic, and coulometric equipment
• Electrophoresis:  CEC/PEC/TLC, SDS-PAGE, IEF, HPCE, immuno-CE, affinity-CE
• Polypeptide and polynucleotide synthesizers

Computational Chemistry Resources

Graduate students with an interest in computational chemistry and chemical biology have access to several state-of-the-art computer facilities including the Advanced Scientific Computation Center (ASCC) which has a parallel cluster of high-speed processors and a fully optimized mathematical library and MPI parallel library.  Departmental equipment includes two 64-bit PC-compatible superworkstations, with 16 GB of RAM, running under Windows XP64, a computer cluster with 8 Linux based and 2 Windows based notes (total 20 CPU) with storage capacity over 1 TB, and a four-node Debian Linux cluster, plus workstations for visualization, Red Hat linux boxes, and several PCs.  Numerous software programs are available for molecular modeling and visualization, data analysis, and prediction of molecular and materials properties.