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Ever wondered what makes the world tick? Why glass and sand, made of the same basic material, are so different? Why one reaction with oxygen unfolds slowly while another explodes in the blink of an eye? How a living cell can carry out thousands of reactions simultaneously without confusion—and how a single mistake can lead to its death?
If questions like these spark your curiosity, your place is with us at the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
The Faculty of Chemistry is home to a diverse community of students, researchers, educators, and scholars who seek to understand how the physical world behaves at the molecular level. Along the way, our students and researchers design and synthesize entirely new molecules—materials the world has never seen before—many of which have the potential to improve the quality of life for people everywhere.
The Technion is Israel’s leading technological university and one of the world’s top institutions for science and engineering education and research. Chemistry stands at the heart of research and teaching at the Technion, and the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry plays a central role in advancing both. As scientists and engineers increasingly explore technologies at ever-smaller scales—down to the molecular level—the importance of chemistry, and of the Faculty, continues to grow.
The Schulich Faculty of Chemistry includes 27 faculty members engaged in research and teaching. The Faculty is home to more than 200 undergraduate students, approximately 100 graduate students, and 40 postdoctoral fellows.
Research interests span the full spectrum of chemistry: Physical, Analytical, Inorganic, Organic, Biological, and Theoretical Chemistry. In addition, faculty members and their research groups work at the forefront of renewable and clean energy technologies, nanoscience, drug design, and structural biology.
The Faculty maintains strong collaborations with other scientific, engineering, and medical faculties at the Technion. Faculty members are also deeply involved in the Technion’s interdisciplinary research centers, including the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI), the Lorry Lokey Center for Life Sciences and Engineering, the Grand Water Research Institute (GWRI), and the Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP).
Research achievements by faculty members and their students are regularly published in leading international journals such as Nature, Nature Chemistry, Science, PNAS, JACS, Angewandte Chemie, Nano Letters, and others.
The undergraduate and graduate curricula are designed to reflect the dynamic and evolving nature of modern chemical science. Students progress rapidly from foundational concepts to advanced courses that prepare them for cutting-edge research or careers in industry.
In addition to the three-year BSc program in Chemistry, the Faculty offers two joint undergraduate programs: a three-year Molecular Biochemistry track (in collaboration with the Faculty of Biology) and a four-year double major in Chemistry and Materials Engineering.
Each year, hundreds of additional Technion students take service and advanced chemistry courses within the Faculty. Students benefit from state-of-the-art experimental teaching laboratories in General, Analytical, Organic, and Physical Chemistry, allowing thousands of Technion students to experience first-hand what it truly means to be a chemist.
The Schulich Faculty of Chemistry is strongly committed to promoting chemical education at the middle- and high-school levels. Together with the Israeli Ministry of Education, the Faculty organizes the annual Israeli Chemistry Olympiad (the Chimiada). Final-stage winners form Israel’s national team for the International Chemistry Olympiad, held each year in a different country.
Another flagship initiative, the Archimedes Program, brings outstanding high school students from across Israel to study at the Technion for up to three years, earning academic credits toward a future Technion degree.
Cutting-edge science requires advanced infrastructure. The Faculty provides researchers and students with access to state-of-the-art facilities, operated by highly skilled professional staff, including NMR, X-ray crystallography, mass spectrometry, computational chemistry, and chemical and surface characterization laboratories. These resources are complemented by the Technion’s interdepartmental research centers and serve both research excellence and advanced education.
Many of the wide-ranging activities at the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry are made possible through the generous and long-standing support of Mr. Seymour Schulich, a leading international philanthropist dedicated to advancing higher education in Israel, Canada, and the United States.
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