Laboratory Facilities & Instrumentation
The Chemistry Department in the Murchie Science Building has laboratories dedicated to teaching general chemistry, organic chemistry, analytical/environmental chemistry, physical chemistry and biochemistry.
The general chemistry labs have support spaces for stockroom and preparatory work and a balance room.
The organic lab has an instrument room with a Midac FTIR spectrometer and a HP gas chromatograph.
The upper division laboratory courses are supported by a broad array of modern instrumentation including a Nicolet FTIR spectrophotometer, an HP Engine GC/mass spectrometer, two liquid chromatographs (Waters and Beckman), a Cary UV-Vis spectrophotometer , a Varian atomic absorption/emission spectrophotometer, a SLM-Aminico SPC-500 spectrofluorimeter, a Shimadzu gas chromatograph and a PARR electrochemical analyzer.
The biochemistry lab also has a support instrument room with Beckman prep and ultra centrifuges, an environmental shaker, a Labcono freeze dryer, a Yamato autoclave and a cold room.
The physical chemistry lab has a Parr solution calorimeter and a magnetic susceptibility balance.
Students have access to a department computer lab with eight PCs and a Silicon Graphics workstation.
Faculty have individual research labs with access to these instruments as well as an Amray electron microscope and a polymerase chain reaction thermal cycler in the Biology Department, and an X-ray diffractometer and a fluorescence spectrophotometer in the Physics Department.