让自己沉浸在实验室里，和基督教教授一起学习.
在小班授课中，你与关心你和你未来的教授密切合作. Demanding courses and a range of tracks help students think like a scientist and discover what it means to work in a lab. 化学专业的学生在教授的指导下进行研究, 许多人花10周的时间参加一个密集的夏季研究项目. Renovated labs and state-of-the-art instrumentation set Westmont's program apart and give graduates an advantage in finding jobs or getting into graduate school. You receive a first-rate education in chemistry from Christian professors who integrate faith and learning and prepare you for meaningful work.
使命宣言
The mission of the chemistry department at Westmont College is to provide a nationally competitive chemistry program that helps students become competent, 深思熟虑的, 神学反思的科学家, teachers, 卫生保健提供者, 以及我们这个世界的公民.
化学追踪
化学物理方向/项目D/理学学士学位
Combines chemistry with a strong emphasis in physics and engineering and prepares students for graduate work in chemical physics or chemical engineering and for teaching chemistry and physics at the secondary level.
一般文学士轨道
Offers a broader curriculum for a double major; allows the most flexibility; four-year fast-track plan for a secondary teaching credential in chemistry in addition to the B.A. 也可用.
Pre-Chemical工程
拥有工程学院的学位和韦斯特蒙特学院的文学学士学位, combines the benefits the liberal arts and specialized training from an engineering school; interested first-year students need to plan their schedule with a professor to meet all requirements. 具体请参见主要要求.
可供学生使用的仪器
- Spectrometers: 400 MHz FT-NMR; UV-VIS (5); FTIR (2); Steady-state, time-resolved fluorescence spectrometer; AA spectrometer
- Separation Equipment: GC (3); HPLC
- Mass Spectrometers: LCQ Deca Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer with ESI probe; Integrated GC-MS
- 自动化电化学分析仪
- 粘度计
- 折射计
- 旋光计
- 合成实验室:手套箱, 溶剂净化系统, 旋转蒸发器(4个), 许多真空和施连克流形
- Biochemical Equipment: FPLC; automated gel electrophoresis system; membrane ultrafiltration unit; freeze dryer; centrifuges; incubators and incubator-shakers
夏天的研究
作为威斯蒙特大学化学系的学生，你会直接参与化学研究. 化学专业的学生必须参与研究, 我们所有的教授都在进行积极的研究项目. 每年夏天，大约有40%的大三和大四学生作为带薪实习生在实验室工作. 学生们经常根据他们的研究共同撰写科学论文, 每年完成几项重大荣誉工作. This solid background has led many of our students to complete doctoral programs and medical school at top universities.
化学教师
Helps biochemists understand neurodegenerative diseases and students make wise choices about medical school; expert in protein aggregation
Seeks a cleaner world through new molecules with his specialty in inorganic biochemistry; thinks with you about integrating science and faith
Physical chemist who uses powerful lasers to study surfaces and powerful teaching techniques to help you learn chemistry
Mentor to a generation of undergraduate chemistry researchers; he probes the motions of molecules in thin films
Develops new methods for hooking molecules together and explores the wonders of organic chemistry with you
与员工见面
的职业道路
- 化学工程师
- 工业或临床化验师
- 大学教授
- Dentist
- Dietician
- 高中教师
- 海洋科学家
- 药理学家
- Physician
- 放射技师
- 核医学技术员
- 法医serologist
- 毒理学家
- 技术作家
- 专利律师
- 工业卫生学者
- 工业管理
威斯蒙特化学专业的学生获得的研究生学位包括:
- Stanford
- Harvard
- Princeton
- UCLA
- UC Davis
- 加州大学圣巴巴拉分校
- 加州大学伯克利分校
- 加州大学圣地亚哥分校
- 芝加哥大学
- 加州大学河滨分校
- Michigan
- Illinois
- 爱荷华州立
- Colorado
- 洛马·林达
- 俄勒冈健康科学
2017年6月, Westmont收到了225美元,为重新设计我们的实验课程从凯克基金会得到了一万美元. The project is entitled “Turning students into practicing scientists: integrating research throughout the science curriculum.“在过去的五年里, the biology and chemistry departments have incorporated more inquiry-based learning methods into lecture courses; this proposal will bring those into the labs as well. 拨款还资助了15个新模块所需的仪器仪表. 化学系将获得一台电子顺磁共振(EPR)机器(上图), 而生物会购买一个实时的, 定量PCR机, 手持式GPS设备, 一个新的索瓦尔超离心机, 研究级荧光显微镜和成像系统.
Amanda Silberstein and Michael Everest accompanied three students to the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco. Student Karli Holman presented a poster summarizing work she had done under Amanda's direction entitled "Nickel-Catalyzed Borylation of Aryl O-Sulfamate.Holly Bowler和Ryan Korlewitz, 在迈克尔·埃佛勒斯的指导下, 展示了题为“马利筋有多毒”的海报? 分光光度法测定中心苷的含量 Asclepias Syriaca" and "Using Evanescent-Wave Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy and a Chemical Gradient to Determine the Free Energy of Adsorption of Phosphotungstic Acid to Clean and Silane-Modified Silica,”分别.
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Westmont certainly had vital roles in the annual meeting of the Southern California Christians in Science in April 2017 at California Baptist University. Steve Contakes和Michael Everest是此次活动的联合主席, 史蒂夫做了一个题为“通过化学让基督徒生活得更好”的演讲? ag娱乐官网化学在科学中的作用的思考和问题 & 宗教对话.“三个韦斯特蒙特的学生——雅各布·克拉克, 劳里Maragliano, 和Makenna musson也参加了他们与Westmontag娱乐官网与科学俱乐部的合作.
化学毕业生
奇松迪·瓦里奥巴，21岁 毕业于威斯蒙特大学，主修化学、物理和生物. 他正在芝加哥大学攻读医学物理学博士学位. Warioba is a Recipient of the NSF (National Science Foundation) Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Field of Study Engineering - Biomedical Engineering. His award announcement states: "Being chosen as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow is a significant national accomplishment and places you among an elite group of fellows, 他们中的许多人在STEM或STEM教育领域取得了杰出的成就。”. Warioba's plans for the future are to attend medical school as he aspires to become a physician-scientist.
卡莉·霍尔曼，17岁 目前正在攻读博士学位.D. 在加州理工学院攻读化学专业，主要研究天然产物合成. 在Westmont, 她有机会成为有机化学的助教, 并完成了一篇ag娱乐官网有机合成的主要荣誉论文. Karli是“城市倡议”核心团队的成员, 并在春假期间带领他们去旧金山为无家可归的人服务. 她还经常参加韦斯特蒙特的舞蹈课程和边缘学生戏剧节.
艾伦·威尔克，16岁 毕业于化学、生物和音乐三门专业. 他是一名杰出的钢琴演奏家，与韦斯特蒙特大学的教授一起进行科学研究. 2016年秋天，他开始了自己的创业计划.D./Ph.D. 斯坦福大学的项目. 这个8年的项目将为他成为医生/科学家做准备.
伊丽莎白·西蒙尼，15岁 graduated from Westmont with degrees in Spanish and chemistry and won the Kenneth Monroe Award for academic achievement, 校园领导和对同学的影响. She pursued two majors so she could communicate with Spanish-speaking patients in their own language and volunteer in communities where doctors aren’t easily accessible..在queremacimtaro教了一年英语之后, Mexico, 她于2016年秋季进入南佛罗里达大学医学院. Dr. 西蒙尼特是加州文图拉的一名家庭医生. 她隶属于文图拉县医疗中心.
Dr. 亚伦·巴恩斯12岁 从达特茅斯医学院毕业, 在那里，他发现自己比常春藤盟校的大多数同学准备得更充分. 生物和化学双学位, he says the summer research he conducted with Professor 克里斯蒂·拉扎尔·坎特雷尔，2000年 gave him an advantage few medical students could match. He also learned that working in the lab didn’t fit him and continued to pursue his interest in medicine, 提供更多与人的互动. 在达特茅斯-希区柯克医疗中心(Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center)完成住院实习后. 巴恩斯回到了他的家乡阿拉斯加的安克雷奇. 他是Alyeska血管外科的血管外科医生.
Dr. 克里斯蒂·拉扎尔·坎特雷尔，2000年 graduated from Westmont and earned a master’s degree at Princeton University and a doctorate from the 芝加哥大学. She returned to Westmont in 2010 to teach chemistry and provide the kind of mentoring that has influenced her life so profoundly. 她在韦斯特蒙特大学当助教，梦想着教书. 她的专业领域是蛋白质聚集, 包括被认为是导致许多退行性疾病的错误折叠蛋白质的沉积, 比如老年痴呆症. 她让学生参与这项研究.
Christopher Aubuchon, 94年 我从没想过要上大学，但在最后一刻申请了威斯蒙特大学. 他的教授激励他学习科学, 他在斯坦福大学获得了化学博士学位. 毕业后, 他是Exajoule的联合创始人, 设计用于制造的微机电系统(MEMS)组件的公司. 2004年，韦斯特蒙特大学授予他“年度青年校友”称号. 最近, 他创立了field并担任首席执行官, 一种按需加油服务，无需在加油站停车. 他还曾在Tessera Technologies的企业发展小组工作.