Research and Teaching Labs
The College’s science building, Olin Rice, underwent a nearly $20 million renovation and expansion during the mid-1990s. This significantly increased laboratory space, both for courses and for faculty research. In addition to classroom laboratories, each faculty member now has his/her own research lab space where research is conducted along with students. With both internal and outside funding, the Department has been able to house these laboratories with with state-of-the-art equipment, including equipment for DNA and protein analysis, a flow cytometer, a real-time PCR system, a mammalian tissue culture facility, image analysis and presentation equipment, a scanning electron microscope, and a wide assortment of other technical equipment supporting course work and research.
Students work in state-of-the art labs with impressive equipment, including:
- Coherent 899-29 ring laser
- Coherent DPSS-pumped 899-29 Ti:dye ring laser
- Beckman CEQ Capillary DNA Sequencer
- Real Time PCR
- FEMTOLASERS femtosecond Ti-Sapphire laser
- Agilent 6890N/5973 gaschromatograph/mass spectrometer system
- High vacuum magnetron sputter deposition system
- PANalytical PW X’Pert PRO X-Ray Diffractometer
- PANalytical PW2400 X-Ray Fluorescence spectrometer
- Magneto-Optical cryostat
- Observatory with DFM 16” telescope
- Zeiss DSM 960A Scanning Electron Microscope with Oxford Instruments Energy Dispersive X-Ray spectrometer
- Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography (FPLC) system
- 24-processor Appro parallel computing cluster
- Athlon computational cluster
- Nicolet iS10 FT-IR spectrometer
- Brucker Avance III 400 MHZ NMR Spectrometer (multinuclear capability)
- Beckman Coulter Cytomics FC500 Flow Cytometer
- Leica DMRA2 Fluorescent microscope with advanced image processing
- Olympus BX60 Fluorescent microscope