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:
- Bruker Avance III 400 MHz broadband NMR spectrometer with multinuclear probe, variable temperature control, and automatic sample changer
- Thermo Scientific Nicolet iS10 fourier transform infrared spectrometer with Smart iTR diamond attenuated total reflectance (ATR) accessory
- Thermo Scientific Evolution 300 Peltier-thermostatted scanning multicell UV/Visible spectrophotometer with fiber optic sampling capabilities
- Snowy Range Instruments Sierra IM-52 Raman spectrophotometric microscope
- Vacuum Atmospheres 103991 Solvent Purification System
- Biotage Initiator Robot 8 Automated Microwave Reactor System
- Beckman DU-7400 themostatted diode-array multicell UV/visible spectrophotometer
- Continuum Nd:YAG-pumped dye laser system
- Coherent DPSS-pumped 899-29 Ti:dye ring laser
- Buck Scientific Accusys 211 atomic absorption spectrophotometer
- Buck Scientific 410 cold vapor mercury analyzer
- Agilent 5973/6890N gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer (GC/MS) system with autosampler
- Hewlett-Packard 5890 capillary gas chromatograph with flame ionization detector (FID)
- Waters HPLC apparatus
- Johnson Matthey Magnetic Susceptibility Balance
- CH Instruments 1200A electrochemical analyzer (potentiostat)
- Multiple Vacuum Atmospheres glove boxes
- Multiple inert atmosphere/vacuum double manifold Schlenk lines with gas purification systems
- Athlon computational cluster (12 dual processors) and four Linux workstations for parallel computing
- Amersham Biosciences UPC-900 AKTA fast protein liquid chromatograph
- Cary Eclipse fluorescence spectrophotometer
- Coy Laboratory Products anaerobic chamber
- Savant Modulyo lyophilizer
- Cary 50 Bio thermostatted UV/visible spectrophotometer (shared with Biology)
- Philips PW2400 X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (in the Geology Department)
- Zeiss DSM 960A Scanning Electron Microscope with Robinson Backscatter Electron Detector and Oxford Instruments Energy Dispersive X-ray Detector (in the Geology Department)
- PANalytical X’PERT Pro X-ray Diffractometer (in the Geology Department)