Labs, labs and more labs

• If you're interested in Archaeology and Anthropology you'll benefit from the hands-on labs and field work associated with the Anthropology Department. Students work with regionally excavated site specimens within the labs, and use equipment for materials preservation, bone analysis, and seed and pollen identification.

• Well equipped Biology research labs contain facilities for automated DNA sequencing and analysis, electron and light microscopy, filmless autoradiography and fluorescence imaging, protein analysis and chromatography, electrophysiology, video analysis, and animal care, as well as a greenhouse, salt water tanks, and other facilities for enhancing studies in marine, aquatic and terrestrial environments.

• Graduate students in the Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences program work in state-of-the-art computer facilities and specialized research laboratories with amino acid analyzers, controlled environment chambers, electron microscopes, electrophysiological equipment, high-speed and refrigerated centrifuges, spectrophotometers, high-pressure liquid chromatography systems, polymerase chain reaction and DNA sequencing facilities, and radiation counters. Excellent tissue culture facilities are available for graduate student research.

• First-rate Chemistry Labs include UV, VIS, IR, and FT-IR spectrophotometers, laser-Raman spectrophotometer, FT and conventional NMR equipment, electron spin resonance equipment, laboratory for X-ray crystallographic studies, ESR instrumentation, CW, pulsed, and tunable dye lasers, electroanalytical equipment, analytical and preparative gas chromatographs, high pressure liquid chromatograph, extensive computing facilities, atomic absorption spectrometers, mass spectrometers, ORD/CD instrument, modulated differential scanning calorimeter, stop-flow kinetics instrument.

• Our distinguished Computer Science Program has a UNIX Lab as well as a PC/NT Lab, equipped to provide a forum for advanced research and exploration into the architecture of the 80X86 based Personal Computer.

• Facilities of the Earth and Geographic Sciences Department include specialized laboratories for earth sciences, mineralogy/petrology, hydrogeology, and information technology, including more than 30 DEC and Sun UNIX workstations, more than 30 Pentium II and other PCs, a variety of input and output devices, a number of the most commonly used mapping, image, processing, GIS, database management, word processing, and statistical analysis software packages, Trimble navigation and Garmin GPS receivers.

• Among our Environmental Coasts and Ocean Sciences program's many choice facilities are a Trace Metal Lab, Organic Geochemistry Lab, Carbon Isotope Preparation Lab, Aquatic Toxicology Lab, CHN Lab, Plankton Research Lab, Ecosystem Modeling Lab, all equipped with top of the line technology. We also have our own research vessel.

• A wide variety of modern, specialized laboratory equipment (FT-IR, STM, NMR, HPLC, TGA, DSC, UV, VIS, X-Ray Diffractometer, AA/AES, AFM, ESR, GCMS, LCMS-MS) is available for use by students pursuing Green Chemistry theses and dissertations. Students in this field of study will find superior laboratory space for faculty and graduate student research; glass blowing, machine and electronics shops.

• A library of audio cassettes, audio CDs, and computer software programs are available in several languages in our Language Labs including: Chinese, ESL, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and American Sign Language.

• Graduate student researchers have access to the Graduate and Research Computing Multimedia Lab, which contains powerful, multi-processor, PC workstations with an extensive suite of software, including statistical, geographic, mathematical, office, image and video editing, page layout, and web authoring. The lab also contains many hardware items, including B&W and color laser printers, 36-inch inkjet printer-plotter, film scanners and recorders, document and OCR scanners, digitizer, video capture systems, CD burners, and projector.

• The teaching and research labs in the Physics program include facilities and equipment for ultrasonic spin resonance, low temperature studies, non-linear optics, optical information processing, nuclear spectroscopy, millimeter-wave magnetic resonance and biophysics.