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The
new F.W. Olin Physical Sciences Building is the new home to
the Chemistry
Department, the Physics & Space Sciences Department, and the Dean's office for
the College of Science and his staff.
The
building provides 51 laboratories (14 teaching and 21 research),
consolidates faculty offices and enhances
the use of technology in teaching the physical sciences. Upwards of 1000 students use the building on any given day.
- Astronomy
& Astrophysics
- Atmospheric
Sciences
- Condensed
Matter Physics
- Geospace
Physics
- High
Energy Physics
- Computational
Physics
- Bio-Organic Chemistry
- Synthetic-Organic
Chemistry
- Polymer
Chemistry
- Medicinal
Chemistry
- Environmental
Chemistry
- Molecular
Spectroscopy
The
69,348-sq.-ft. facility also includes two large multi-use lecture/demonstration
classrooms. |
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The Chemistry
Department, previously housed in seven separate buildings,
moved into thirteen faculty research laboratories and four
large teaching laboratories. Major research instrumentation
will include a new 500 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometer.
The teaching labs are designed for safety and contain a
wireless computer network system to support all chemistry
labs. The Claude Pepper Institute is also housed in the
chemistry department. |
The Physics
& Space Sciences Department occupies eight teaching
and eight research laboratories. On the rooftop will be an
Internet-accessible automated 0.6-m research telescope and
fifteen small instructional telescopes. The geospace laboratory
will include a clean room for spacecraft instrumentation
projects. A 3,500-sq.ft. 'high bay' physics research hall
will initially be used for magnetic levitation launch systems
and high energy physics research.
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