Chemistry Facilities
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 graphite furnace
- Four high-performance liquid chromatographs, rotovaps and gas chromatograph
- Computer simulation facilities using state of the art hardware and software packages
Biochemistry Facilities
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