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Department of Chemistry
Newark
Surrounding area...
 Manhattan
(NJ Transit, 20 minutes)
 Philadelphia, PA
(Amtrak, ~ 1 hour)
 Washington, DC
(Amtrak, ~2 hours)
Application instructions:
http://chemistry.rutgers.edu/grad/
admissions-info
Contact Info:
Department of Chemistry
73 Warren Street
Newark, NJ, 07102
http://chemistry.rutgers.edu
Ms. Lorraine McClendon
Graduate Program Secretary
(973) 353-5173
mcclendon@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Prof. Frieder Jäkle
Graduate Coordinator
fjaekle@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Transportation...
 Newark Liberty Airport (EWR)
 NJ Transit
 PATH train
Become a part of our team!!!
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Fifteen full-time faculty members
Research programs in all
disciplines of chemistry:
 analytical
 biological
 inorganic
 materials
 organic
 polymer
 physical
 theoretical
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Facts and Figures
Our PhD program offers a
comprehensive support package:
 Teaching Assistantship (TA) stipend
 Full coverage of graduate tuition
 Medical benefits package equal
to that of Rutgers faculty and staff
 Dissertation fellowships available
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Department instrumentation
 500 MHz and 600 MHz NMR spectrometers
 Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer (FTMS)
 Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
 Single crystal X-ray Diffractometer
 UV-Vis-NIR absorption spectrometer
 Fluorometer
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PolyRUN: New $2M Polymer Characterization Facility
 TGA/DSC, Rheometer, Dynamic Mechnical
Analyser (DMA)
 Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
 MALDI-TOF MS
 Solid State NMR
 Confocal Raman Microscope
Current TA stipend:
$25,969 (plus summer stipend).
Support guaranteed for up to 5
years, provided good academic
standing.
New integrated science building
planned to house expanding
Chemistry Department
opening
2017
Supercomputing abilities:
Newark Massive Memory Machine (NM3)
 largest single Linux cluster in a statefunded New Jersey institution
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