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The Chemistry Program: Equipment and Facilities

The Natural Sciences Building is well-equipped with instructional and research facilities for study in the chemical sciences. Each of the chemistry faculty has a modern laboratory in which collaborative research with students is carried out. In addition to numerous standard items of equipment, students and faculty have available for their use the following:

• Hewlett-Packard 5890A GC/MS
• Varian 3400 GC with FID/ECD
• Dionex 4000 HPLC with ultraviolet and electrochemical detectors
• Waters HPLC 590 with photodiode array detector and WISP autosampler<
• Nicolet Nexus 470 FT-IR
• Perkin Elmer 283 IR
• Varian T-60 NMR with variable temperature probe
• Cary 118 C UV/VIS with kinetics accessory
• Perkin-Elmer LS-5 spectrofluorometer
  
• Perkin-Elmer Analyst 100 atomic absorption spectrometer
• BAS CV-1B cyclic voltamograph
• EG & G 384B polarographic analyzer
• Pine AFRDEA Bi-potentiostat
• Parr Adiabatic Calorimeter
• Parkard 1600 Liquid Scintillation Counter
• Ultracentrifuge
• Electrophoresis equipment

Software packages such as CAChe and Hyperchem are available for molecular modeling and computational work.