Get hands-on learning with facilities and equipment

A chemistry student dressed a lab coat, goggles, and gloves, mixes a solution in a glass beaker.

The Chemistry Hall offers over 6,500 square feet of teaching labs and 7,500 square feet of research labs, providing ample space for discovery. Our faculty prioritize laboratory learning, ensuring students have access to well-equipped spaces for undergraduate research and instruction.

With small class sizes and state-of-the-art instrumentation, our Chemistry & Biochemistry Department offers students the chance to work with advanced equipment typically reserved for graduate students at larger institutions. Our facilities rival those of institutions several times our size!

Facilities

General

Alumni Daniel Windsor, Ph.D. gives a talk on battery chemistry in the Chemistry Hall lecture auditorium.
  • 100-seat Natural Sciences Auditorium for events
  • Central storeroom with a chemical vault
  • 450 sq. ft. study room
  • public study areas
  • 12 faculty offices,
  • Conference room

Teaching labs

Aimee Morris, Ph.D. instructs students in a teaching lab.
  • Two 1,300 sq. ft. general chemistry labs with flexible workstations and computer stations.
  • 1,600 sq. ft. organic chemistry lab with individual fume hoods, ventilated instrument stations.
  • 1,300 sq. ft. biochemistry teaching lab, updated with NIH and Howard Hughes funding, plus an attached prep room.
  • 1,200 sq. ft. analytical chemistry lab with advanced spectrochemical and chromatographic tools.

Research & specialized labs

Callie Cole, Ph.D. works with students in a specialized lab.
  • 2,500 sq. ft. chemical synthesis suite for organic/inorganic research, including a 400 MHz NMR lab, IR, chromatography, and more.
  • 1,000 sq. ft. biochemistry research lab with facilities for cold storage, cell culture, and crystallography.
  • 2,200 sq. ft. chemical analysis suite with FTIR, atomic absorption, and chromatography.
  • Physical measurements suite with lasers and optical setups for advanced spectroscopy.

Department instruments

Analytical
Biochemistry
Electrochemical
Magnetic Resonance
Spectrophotometry
Spectroscopy
Synthesis