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Research
Chemistry majors find that they can work side-by-side with faculty, undertaking chemistry research and gaining valuable experience as early as their sophomore year.
Summer research funding from a variety of internal and external sources provides numerous opportunities for chemistry students at Macalester. Student frequently turn their research into journal publications and presentations at local, regional or national meetings.
Resources
Because faculty members are active in research as well as teaching, National Science Foundation grants and other funds have provided advanced equipment for student and faculty use:
- Agilent 5973/6890N gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer system with autosampler
- Varian Gemini 2000 300 MHz broadband NMR spectrometer
- Nicolet Magna 550 FT-IR and Perkin Elmer 1430 IR spectrometers
- Beckman DU-7400 and Cary 50 Bio scanning multicell UV/visible spectrophotometers
- Waters HPLC apparatus
- Continuum Nd:YAG-pumped dye laser system
- Coherent DPSS-pumped 899-29 Ti:dye ring laser
- Buck Scientific 211 atomic absorption spectrometer
- Buck Scientific 410 mercury analyzer
- Hewlett-Packard chiral capillary gas chromatograph
- Transmission and scanning electron microscope
- X-ray diffractometer
- Athlon Computational Cluster (12 dual processors) and four Linux workstations for parallel computing
- X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (in the Geology Department)
- Amersham Biosciences UPC-900 AKTA FPLC
- Cary Eclipse Fluorescence Spectrophotometer
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