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The American Chemical Society’s (ACS) ranking of the most productive chemistry and biochemistry departments in the U.S. has placed the University of Delaware 23rd in the nation for the number of chemistry and biochemistry students receiving undergraduate degrees and 26th for those receiving masters’ degrees.

In the Aug. 25 edition of ACS’s Chemical & Engineering News, a survey of 630 ACS-certified university and college chemistry and biochemistry departments in 2000-01 shows that UD graduated 54 chemistry and biochemistry students, making the University the 23rd most productive in the nation, leading the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard and the University of Chicago.

Of the 290 masters programs surveyed, UD ranked 26th, with 13 students receiving master’s degrees in 2000-01.

John Burmeister, Alumni Distinquished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and associate chairperson of the department, said, during the last 25 years, UD’s chemistry department has consistently graduated more chemistry and biochemistry students than 95 percent of the chemistry departments in the U.S.

“The data demonstrate the validity of the old adage ‘the more things change, the more they stay the same,’ at least as far as our department's productivity is concerned,” Burmeister said.

Contact: Barbara Garrison, (302) 831-1964
Oct. 23, 2003