The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry occupies 27,000 sq. ft. of the Donald P. Shiley Center for Science and Technology, built in 2003.  Teaching laboratories are equipped with state-of-the-art fume hoods in which all experiments are performed.  A $1 million grant from the Fletcher-Jones Foundation provided funding to purchase instrumentation and equipment for biochemical research now housed in the Center.  In the new facility, each faculty member has 475 sq. ft. of well-equipped research space in a laboratory that accommodates 4-5 students and the PI. In addition, the department has a molecular modeling facility with 12 PC desktop; a 12 Unix/Linux workstations; a server complete with molecular modeling software; and an eighteen dual-processor Xeon cluster for computational chemistry.  

Whether enrolled in chemistry and biochemistry courses or engaged in collaborative research with faculty, our students have complete access to modern instrumentation including:

• Photon Technologies and Jasco fluorimeters
• Jasco circular dichroism spectropolarimeter
• ThermoElectron UV/Vis spectrophotometers (2)
• Jasco UV-Vis/Near-IR spectrophotometer
• Jasco FT-IR spectrometers with ATR attachments
• Hewlett-Packard Atomic Absorption spectrometer (2)
• Varian HPLC
• Hewlett-Packed and Thermoelectron GC-MS
• ThermoElectron LC-MS
• Personal Chemistry microwave reactor
• Varian Inova-500 and Mercury-400 NMR spectrometers
• Laser laboratory
• Molecular modeling facility: 12 SGIs, 12 PCs, Spartan, Insight, AMBER,Gaussian
• BioRad Protein Purification Systems (2)
• Jasco FPLC

For a complete list of instrument holdings - click here.