Saint Mary's College of California

 
   
  Welcome to the Chemistry Department!
 

Congratulations to Professor Steve Bachofer on being selected by SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Resposibilities) as co-director the SCI-WEST (Sencer Center for Innovation)
 

Interested in pursuing the Central Science? Learn more about the Chemistry Department at SMC.   Course Highlights
 

Advanced Biochemistry course offered in Spring 2008 find out more

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Contact Information:
phone: 925-631-8222
fax: 925-376-4027
e-mail: jsigman@stmarys-ca.edu
 
2007 Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to German chemist Gerhard Ertl.

 

Bacteria that eat Arsenic?!
A bacterium that feeds on this, normally, toxic semi-metal has been discovered in the warm, bubbling pools of Mono Lake in California. Story in BBC News

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, describes climate change as “the defining challenge of our age,”