Welcome to the LSU Chemistry Department

    Thank you for visiting our web site. We are a leading research and teaching-intensive department centrally located in the LSU Baton Rouge campus which has been voted as one of the ten most beautiful campuses in the country. Our faculty are extremely research active and at the same time are committed to its tradition of excellence in teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level. We are very proud of the many accomplishments of our students and alumni and of the dedicated support staff.  Our faculty excel in winning awards and grants for both research and education. As a result, we have LSU's largest PhD program and recently have doubled our number of majors.  Also, we are one of the best-equipped Chemistry departments in the United States, most recently we have been awarded and have invested well over two million dollars in NMR equipment. 

    Baton Rouge is large enough to offer many indoor and outdoor activities, excellent restaurants and shopping, etc. but still small enough to have a College-town flavor. Our local culture is unique and is a derivative of many other cultures, including French, African, Italian, British, German, Hungarian, and Spanish, just to name a few.  In closing, if you still have some unanswered questions about the LSU Department of Chemistry, please feel free to contact the department at 225-578-3361.

Department Chairman  
Prof. Andrew Maverick