Department of Chemistry at Illinois State University

Research

You can do research....and have your results published in scientific journals!

If you are thinking about being a scientist, it would be a great opportunity and learning experience to create new knowledge through research. In the beginning of your ISU career, we strongly encourage you to look through each professor's research description, talk to several professors doing research that interests you, and then select someone to work with on a research project. Your classroom experiences build a theoretical foundation, but research is an opportunity to go beyond the limits of the classroom.

Research not only expands your knowledge about your research interest, but it allows you to have personal interactions with graduate students and faculty, enhances your personal and professional communication skills, and makes you much more competitive in the job market or in graduate/medical/dental school applications. You may become a coauthor on a paper published in internationally renowned journals and travel to national meetings to present your research results.