The Undergraduate Instrumentation Facility houses the department’s major scientific instruments and brings together an essential collection of instrumentation, support equipment and staff. The facility seeks to maintain research level instrumentation, provide access to and training on the instruments, and promote a safe working environment through training and adherence to best practices.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology is committed to providing its students with an outstanding learning and living experience. Our program is geared to enable students to be problem solvers, work well in teams, be excellent communicators and leaders who are prepared to excel as they transition into their next experience. We are also committed to ensuring that your graduate school experience offers multiple opportunities for personal growth and fulfilling experiences.
Jacob Shelley earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ in 2005, and completed his Ph. D. at Indiana University under Prof. Gary Hieftje in 2011.
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Chemistry and Chemical Biology are committed to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education and outreach by a variety of programs, such as I-PERSIST Mentor Program, Rensselaer Chemistry Society (RCS) and Summer@Rensselaer Program. The I-PERSIST Mentor program at RPI is an initiative of the School of Science and the Division of Student Life and is sponsored by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).
Sustainability is based on a simple principle: everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment. To pursue sustainability is to create and maintain the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony to support present and future generations. Biomass offers the most readily implementable solution to access non-petroleum organic molecules for the manufacture of bulk, fine and specialty chemicals, polymers and transportation fuels.
Polymers, Materials and Energy research programs seek to understand how to design novel materials for discovery, development and structure/property optimization in clean and renewable energy, advanced manufacturing, sustainable technology and nanobiotechnology applications. Both natural and synthetic polymers and novel materials are exploited while using a wide range of experimental and computational methods.
