Welcome to the Department of Chemistry
The Department of Chemistry has a proud history of excellent research and teaching, being established as a foundation Department of the University. The Department is a member of the School of Molecular Sciences and Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering.
Chemistry is taught at all year levels in undergraduate Bachelors degrees through to Honours. The Department offers postgraduate degrees by research at Masters and PhD level as well as a Masters of Chemical Science coursework degree.
Excellent facilities are available for research across a wide range of chemistry. All academic staff offer projects for qualified research applicants. The Honours projects are indicative of the particular research interests of each staff member. There are more than 25 postgraduate students in the Department.
News and Events
- 12/2009 AINSE Grant Success for Peter Barnard
- 12/2009 3 ARC LIEF Grants totalling $905,000 for Chemistry
- 11/2009 ARC Discovery Project Grant Success for Dr Conor Hogan
- 11/2009 Lab Coordinator position available for 2010
- 10/2009 6 Top-up PhD Scholarships ($5K per annum)
- 10/2009 2009 Max O'Connor Lecture awarded to Ian McKelvie
- 10/2009 Chemistry postgraduate students win prizes at Intersect09 conference
- 10/2009 Synchrotron Open Day 25th October
- 09/2009 Industry PhD position available
- 08/2009 ACS articles for Department of Chemistry
- 08/2009 Chemistry highlighted at Open Day 2009
- 08/2009 Andrew Hughes elected as Fellow of RACI
- 08/2009 Release of first volume of Amino Acid, Peptides & Proteins series edited by Andrew Hughes
- 07/2009 PhD positions available
- 07/2009 Conference presentations by chemistry academics and postgraduate students
- 05/2009 La Trobe Chemistry to host Intersect09 conference in September 2009
- 05/2009 $64M funding for new La Trobe Institute of Molecular Sciences
- 06/2009 Professor Brownlee awarded Emeritus Professor, Retirement function in July 2009
- 03/2009 New 500MHz NMR has arrived and is being installed
- 02/2009 Two Chemistry postgraduate students win prizes at R&D Topics conference
- 03/2009 La Trobe Chemistry book donation to Thailand
- 02/2009 Chemistry Computer Lab refurbishment completed
- 01/2009 The Department of Chemistry has appointed four new academics in 2009