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What Can I Do With a Chemistry Major?

What Can I Do With A Chemistry Major?

Here's just a sampling of all the career possibilities in the chemistry field.

  • Agricultural Chemist
  • Computational Chemist
  • Consumer Goods Developer
  • Crime Lab Analyst
  • Dentist
  • Drug Discovery
  • Environmental Assessment
  • Environmental Engineer
  • FDA/EPA Inspector
  • Fire Protection Engineer
  • Food Scientist
  • Geologist
  • Green Chemistry
  • Laboratory Technician
  • Materials Scientist
  • Microbiologist
  • Patent Lawyer
  • Perfumerist
  • Personal Care Product Development
  • Pharmaceutical Chemistry
  • Pharmacist
  • Physician
  • Polymer Scientist
  • Professor
  • Radiologist
  • Renewable Resource Specialist
  • Research Chemist
  • Teacher
  • Toxicologist
  • Veterinarian

 

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Faculty Profile

Dr. Nancy Carter Dopke

Dr. Nancy Carter Dopke
Departments: Chemistry

Joel Dopke always wanted to be a teacher and entered college planning on teaching high school chemistry and physics.

“As I came to learn more about chemistry and research, I decided to try to teach at the college level,” the assistant professor of chemistry says.