Take A Look At Some of the Incredible Facilities Available to Undergraduates at Ithaca College!
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Take A Look At Some of the Incredible Facilities Available to Undergraduates at Ithaca College!
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In January 1993, construction of the New Science Building (recently renamed the Center For Natural Sciences) was complete. This state-of-the-art, $20,000,000 building is now home to Ithaca College's Chemistry, Biology and Physics departments. The facility provides each professor with their own private laboratory where students can carry out a variety of different research projects. In addition to the private labs, there are also several classroom labs . It is in these highly sophisticated labs that Experimental Chemistry I-V are taught.
Yet, it is not only the building in which the Chemistry Department resides that is advanced. The department itself has a well known reputation for constantly purchasing the most up-to-date lab equipment. The following is a partial list of the equipment currently held by the Ithaca College Chemistry Department. The groupings show at what class level the instruments first become available for use. Note that at many colleges and universities, access to such equipment is restricted to graduate students.
| E-I (usually taken freshman year) | ||
| Spectronic 20D's (10 @ $890) | ||
| PE 1310 Infrared | ||
| Varian 634S UV-VIS (2 @ 5,560) | ||
| PE 137 Infrared (2 @ 3,000) | ||
| Nicolet Magma 550 FT-IR Spectrometer | ||
| HP 8452A Diode Array Spectrophotometer |
| E-II (usually taken sophomore year) | ||
| HP 5890 TCD Gas Chromatograph (2) | ||
| HP 5890 FID Gas Chromatograph | ||
| HP 3392 (1) & HP 3396 (2) Integrators | ||
| Varian T-60 NMR | ||
| Varian EM-360 NMR (used) | ||
| Varian EM-360L NMR (used) |
| E-III (usually taken sophomore year) | ||
| Varian Vista 6000 automated GC System | ||
| Varian 3400 GC with inboard data handling | ||
| FTS System MC-4-60 bath | ||
| FTS System MC-4-84 | ||
| NesLab Cryobath | ||
| NesLab RTE 110 D bath (6 @ 2,000) | ||
| HP-5592A GC-MS (used) | ||
| Varain XL-300NB FT-NMR, 300 MHz & Sun Workstation | ||
| Varian 4600 GC with DS-654 Data Station & autosampler |
| E-IV (usually taken junior year) | ||
| Gouy Magnetic Susceptibility Apparatus | ||
| Cary 14 UV-VIS NIR |
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| BAS CV-1B Cyclic Voltammograph with Houston X-Y recorder | ||
| BAS CD-27 Voltammograf | ||
| Digital Oscilloscope | ||
| Shimadzu UV-2101PC Spectrometer |
| E-V (usually taken senior year) | ||
| Spec 3/4 meter Czerny-Turner monochromator | ||
| Wayne-Kerr Impedance Bridge | ||
| Fisher-Accumnet 805 pH meter (2 @ $700) | ||
| Intersystems S-100 Microcomputer (4 @ 1,800) | ||
| Micro-Solution Calorimeter (homemade) | ||
| Nitrogen Laser |
| Research (can be taken as early as freshman year) | ||
| Rayonet Photochem Reactor | ||
| Altex HPLC with UV, Flour, RI Detectors | ||
| Varian 5500 HPLC with 2 UV-VIS & Electrochem Detectors | ||
| Berthold Bioolumat ATP photometer | ||
| M. Braum MB 150m Dry Box | ||
| Packard - 2000 CA Liquid Scintillation Analyzer | ||
| Spaltrohr 155 Distillation System | ||
| Hanovia Photochemical Reactor with Merry-go-round | ||
| DEC 425c 486-based PCs $MB, 105MB disk (25@$1467) | ||
| Hyperchem molecular modeling software | ||
| Oriel Xenon Lamp (1 KW) and optical bench | ||
| HP 5971A GC-MS | ||
| Hitachi F-4500 Fluorescence Spectrometer | ||
| HP 5890 Series II Gas Chromatograph with autosampler | ||
| HP 1090 HPLC with Diode Array Detector and Data Station | ||
| Shimadzu HPLC with integrator |
So what does all this mean? Ithaca's
chemistry undergraduates receive a rare combination of small
class size and laboratory experience. The above list attests to
Ithaca College's dedication to the latter. It is believed that
this unique education process yields better, more versatile
chemists.
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This page is maintained by Roger Crump (e-mail: rcrump@ithaca.edu) and was last modified on October 12 , 1999.
