Graduates from the Chemistry Department have achieved success in a wide variety of career paths. Our graduates have attended the top chemistry and biochemistry graduate programs in the country, including the University of California at Berkeley, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Wisconsin, Chicago, MIT, Cornell, Northwestern and Illinois. They have been extremely successful in gaining admission to medical school, most notably Indiana University Medical School. Our graduates have completed other postgraduate studies, including law, business and physical therapy. Finally, Wabash chemistry majors have obtained employment immediately following graduation with companies in Indiana and across the United States.

Listed below are some of the various achievements of our chemistry graduates. The list is not meant to be inclusive, but is designed to show some examples of the many areas in which our graduates find employment.

• Chris Halkides '83, Jay Baltisberger '89, Paul Sandefer '90, Mike Vance '98, T.J. Ronningen '99 and Robert Dirks '00 were awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships.
• Len Pysh '88 (Ph.D. UC-San Diego) was awarded a Howard Hughes Graduate Fellowship in biochemistry. Len is now Assistant Professor of Biology at Roanoke College.
• Geoff Coates '89 (Ph.D. Stanford) is Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University.
• Gary Glish '76 (Ph.D. Purdue) is Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina.
• Ross Weatherman '91 (Ph.D. Wisconsin) is Assitant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Purdue.
• Thomas Roberts '70 (Ph.D. Harvard) is Professor of Pathology and Chairman of the Division of Medical Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School.
• Frank Sellke '78 (M.D. Indiana) is a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.
• Jeffrey Santrock '78 (Ph.D. Indiana) is a senior research scientist for General Motors Research.
• Brad Maxwell '84 (Ph.D. Purdue) is a radiosynthetic chemist and group leader at Monsanto.
• Chris Fields '92 (Merrillville) and John Sherrick '92 (LaPorte) are high school chemistry teachers.
• Bill Catus '77 (Ph.D. Northwestern) is a senior associate editor for Chemical Abstracts Services.
• Steve Wilt '88 is a sales representative for The Upjohn Company.
• Bob O'Keefe '85 is a patent attorney for the Dow Chemical Company.
• Jim Ziegler '92 (Ph.D. Cincinnati) is an analytical chemist for Eastman Chemical.
• Donald Shelbourne '72 (M.D. Indiana) is an orthopaedic surgeon and works with both Wabash College athletic teams and the Indianapolis Colts.