The NSF WebCaspar data base at http://caspar.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/WebIC.exe indicates that for the 1987-1996 decade there were about 450 institutions (out of the approximately 455 Carnegie Comprehensive I Universities, Public and Private) whose students went on to complete PhDs in Chemistry. Of these, YSU was in the top 20, sending 25 students on to complete PhD degrees in Chemistry compared to a maximum of 44 at the top ranked school and 430 institutions with 20 or fewer! Since that time, total enrolment in chemistry undergraduate and masters programs and the number of students going on to PhD degrees at YSU has grown significantly and we expect our national ranking to increase substantially for the current decade. We believe that, in large part, this growth is due to substantially increased undergraduate participation in research and due to greater excitement about chemistry developed when our students routinely use research grade instrumentation for both research and teaching.