College of Charleston

News Environmental Program Receives Certification December 9, 1998 The ACS Committee on Professional Training (CPT) was established in 1936, and its primary objective is to facilitate the maintenance and improvement of the quality of chemical education. One of the Committee's most important activities is the development and administration of guidelines that define high quality undergraduate chemistry programs. Besides certifying chemistry programs it offers approved options in biochemistry, chemical physics, schemistry education, environmental chemistry, materials, and polymers. The CofC Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry offers certified BS degrees in both chemistry and biochemistry and now adds to that environemntal chemistry. Only seventeen departments in the country have been certified in environemntal chemistry: University of Alaska, Fairbanks Fairbanks, AK Ashland University, Ashland, OH California State University, Fullerton Fullerton, CA College of Charleston The University of Delaware Newark, DE Furman University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI University of Michigan-Flint Flint, MI Montana Technological University of Montana Butte, MT University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV University of Nevado at Reno Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ Rochester Institute of Technology State University of New York, College at Oswego, Oswego, NY Tennessee Technological University University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Dr. W. Frank Kinard was instrumental in obtaining this additional recognition for our department. The program includes all courses required for the BS in chemistry plus CHEM 522 Environenmental Chemistry, CHEM 522L Environmental Chemistry Lab, plus one year of biology or geology plus one upper level course in the environemntal area.