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Chemistry is sometimes called the “central science”. Because chemistry focuses on the composition, characteristics, and changes of matter, it has natural connections to fields as diverse as biochemistry and meteorology, medicine and engineering, archaeology and neurology, or electronics and psychology. After a 4-year undergraduate program exploring the core subject areas of chemistry, some of our graduates accept employment in government, industry, or education while others pursue further education—including graduate school, medical school, pharmacy school, or other health professions. The diversity of career options available to chemists is illustrated by a partial listing of positions actually held by some of our CN chemistry graduates at various stages in their careers: medical missionary, high school chemistry teacher, laboratory research (basic and applied), manager of a manufacturing plant (US and overseas), environmental analyst, staff consultant in a law firm, university professor, medical school professor, pharmaceutical salesman, commercial developer of consumer products, director of Federal radioactive waste programs, patent-holding inventor, and manager (pharmaceuticals, personnel, research). Regardless of whether they have saved lives in an obscure clinic, created a new kind of ink, inspired students to do what they had never thought possible, or developed the anti-ozone ingredient that allows car tires to last 60,000 miles, Carson-Newman chemistry alumni have had a positive impact on our world. You are invited to join this procession and invest your life for the good of mankind.
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