Equipment & Facilities
The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is housed in the renovated Hudson Hall, featuring six well-equipped teaching laboratories, each with dedicated preparatory rooms, as well as computers and printers for student use. The adjacent Hudson Hall Annex includes a large shared research laboratory, two smaller research labs, and three instrumentation labs.
Major Instrumentation & Equipment
Students have hands-on access to a wide range of modern, state-of-the-art instruments, which are integral to laboratory classes and collaborative research.
- 400 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer
- Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer
- High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
- Gas chromatography-mass spectrometer (GC-MS)
- Gas chromatography (GC)
- Ultraviolet-visible (UV-VIS) spectrophotometer
- Fluorescence spectrophotometer
- Malvern Zetasizer Nano ZS — New! NSF funded
- Dynamic scanning calorimetry (DSC)
- Fluorescence microscope — New! NSF funded
- Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES)
- Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM)
- iBright, imaging-acquiring system for western blotting analysis
Other Facilities & Instrumentation
- Cell-culture lab
- Computational chemistry lab
- Freeze-dryer
- Centrifuges
Image left: 400 MHz NMR spectrometer. Image right: NSF-funded automated fluorescence microscope