84th Annual Intercollegiate Student Chemists Convention
Lehigh University - April 10, 2021
Welcome
The Department of Chemistry at Lehigh University is pleased to host the first ever virtual Intercollegiate Student Chemists Convention on April 10th, 2021. This convention is designed to give undergraduate students the opportunity to give oral presentations about their own independent research projects. Students will give a 12 minute talk with 3 minutes for questions. The talks will be judged by a small panel and awards will be given for the best talks. The schedule will conclude with a plenary lecture by Dr. Niki Patel from Merck.
About Lehigh
Lehigh University is a non-profit private research university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which is nestled in the Lehigh Valley – the third most populated area in Pennsylvania (~900,000 residents). Lehigh University comprises a student body of about 5,000 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students and is the sole research university in the area. With five colleges (Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Business, Education, and Heath), Lehigh University boasts a long-term emphasis on establishing vibrant and highly recognized programs for cutting-edge research and education of broad impact.
Chemistry at Lehigh
The Department of Chemistry maintains productive undergraduate and graduate programs focused on building strong foundations in chemistry and on conducting impactful research in areas of fundamental and technological importance. The faculty’s commitment to creating exciting research opportunities for undergraduate students is evidenced by the high student-participation rate (> 80%) in research during the academic year and in the summer. Consequently, our graduates have gone on to successful positions and careers in industry, academia (as graduate students, postdocs, or professors), and national laboratories. Our graduate students receive training from highly-active and engaged faculty and exposure to a large array of instrumentation and research topics. Their training positions them well to obtain jobs in both industry and academia upon completion of their Ph.D. Learn more
The faculty members in the Department of Chemistry are dedicated to sustaining highly active and internationally recognized research programs aimed at solving critical scientific problems in fields such as energy, catalysis, biomolecular structure and function, drug design, advanced spectroscopic analysis, and materials development and production. Our faculty also encompass all traditional disciplines of analytical, inorganic, organic, biochemistry, physical, and computational chemistry. Learn more
In addition to the high-end equipment available in individual research group, the Department is home to an array of shared-user instrumentation, including high-field NMR, MALDI-TOF, LC-MS, ATR-FTIR, and single-crystal x-ray diffraction that are all available to local institution at the internal use rate. Also, Lehigh has state-of-art electron microscopy and XPS facilities that serve both the University and the region (Lean more) A virtual tour of our instrumentation is available here.
