The Department of Chemistry is dedicated to excellence in education, research, and public service. We strive towards these goals through classroom teaching and practical training. Research aimed at solving some of society's most important issues viz. human health, energy, and environmental problems, fostering an environment of safety, and embracing diversity of communities and ideas to benefit city, the nation, and the world. As an important component of Natural Sciences, Chemistry offers the students an ideal platform to begin exploring the composition, structure, properties & behaviour of all forms of matter. The Department of Chemistry has started B.Sc. (Hons.) course in chemistry from the academic session 2017-2018 and the first batch passed out in 2020.
The infrastructural facilities in this department includes experimentation laboratories for undergraduate, research laboratories, instrumentation laboratory, book bank, BEST (Bhaskaracharya Environmental Sustainability Task-force), class-room with ICT and wi-fi facility for students and staff. The laboratories are well-equipped with sophisticated instruments that enable students to carry out all the experiments as prescribed in the syllabus. Besides these, there is an instrumentation laboratory for carrying out experiments in physical chemistry and analytical techniques. Moreover, there are dedicated laboratories to carry out research work in leading areas of chemistry that are equipped with sophisticated modern instruments being funded by BRNS, SERB, DST and University of Delhi. Currently, one student is pursuing PhD in this department. Modern teaching tools such as ICT (power-point) and virtual labs are employed. The students are encouraged to give presentations, attend workshops on current areas and to perform small projects to attain hands-on experience of latest instruments. The department of chemistry has its own chemical society named “ALCHEMY” which conducts events for holistic development of the students. The department has Google-groups, Email and WhatsApp group that are being pooled by teachers and students to share views, news, ideas and academic achievements of the department from time to time.
Vision of the Department:
The Vision of the Department is to generate and disseminate knowledge by igniting and nurturing enthusiasm, interests and passion, in the study of chemistry. The Department prepares students for a diverse and changing world. We strive to contribute to a chemically literate society through teaching (with classrooms, labs, and research), scholarships, and service.
Mission of the Department :
Our mission is to maintain a department that is regarded as equal to any in terms of its relevance of teaching and research. The Department provides a platform for students whose career paths require expertise in chemistry. We are dedicated to rigorous standards for content knowledge, communication skills, research quality, and professional behavior. We are committed to demonstrating science as a human endeavor and as a way to understand the natural world. The faculty in the Chemistry Department see themselves as resources for our units, university, region, state, nation, and world.