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title: "Facilities | Biological and Chemical Sciences"
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date: 2026-06-05
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# Facilities | Biological and Chemical Sciences

# Facilities

The Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences has several teaching and research labs.

## Biology

We have labs dedicated to conducting animal and plant research (molecular or organismal, especially in the following areas

- Animal Behavior
- Cell and Molecular Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Ecology and Evolution
- Genetics and Genomics
- Microbiology
- Neurobiology

There is also a greenhouse, as well as ample equipment and supplies for our students to conduct cutting-edge research. Students are involved in the entire process of scientific investigations, from learning about a subject to building and testing hypotheses, conducting experiments, analyzing results and evaluating data in the context of previous scientific evidence.

## Chemistry

The chemistry laboratories provide state-of-the-art instrumentation, including:

- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) facility
- An X-ray generator
- Fourier-transform infrared and nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers
- A double-monochromator fluorimeter
- A recording double-beam absorption UV and visible spectrophotometer
- Computer-interfaced, scanning spectrophotometers
- A mass spectrophotometer
- An atomic absorption spectrophotometer with a graphite furnace
- Four high-performance liquid chromatographs, rotovaps and gas chromatograph
- Computer simulation facilities using state-of-the-art hardware and software packages

## Biochemistry

The biochemistry research laboratory has the following:

- A cold room
- Preparative centrifuges and an ultracentrifuge
- Lyophilizer
- Electrophoresis apparatus
- Automated fraction collectors
- Equipment for protein and nucleic acid biochemistry

## Kakos Center for Scientific Computing

The Kakos Center for Scientific Computing opened in 2014 and gives our students access to the same state-of-the-art technology used at the world’s top universities and research laboratories. It boasts a liquid-cooled 64GB high-speed GNU/Linux server complete with four Tesla graphics processing units. Projects that our students and faculty use the Kakos Center for include:

- Developing algorithms
- Modeling 3D structures of molecules
- Solving equations that require high performance computing