The main chemistry facilities are the Thompson Chemistry Laboratory and the Morley Science Laboratories and the Schow Science Library. These buildings house the instructional laboratories and classrooms as well as the offices and the research laboratories of approximately half of the chemistry faculty. A fine research and teaching library, the general chemistry stockrooms, and facilities for handling laboratory animals are also located here.

The Bronfman Science Center was specifically planned to accommodate collaborative research and contains a central pool of research instruments. The other half of the chemistry faculty have their offices and research laboratories in the Bronfman Science Center. The Bronfman Science Center also contains a student machine shop, an electronics shop, and a photographic darkroom.

Major items of equipment in the Thompson Chemistry Laboratory, Morley Science Laboratory, and the Bronfman Science Center used by chemistry students include: IBM and Apple microcomputers, a Bruker Avance 500 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer (superconducting magnet, multinuclear capability), a Hewlett-Packard 6890 benchtop gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer, a JEOL RE1X electron spin resonance spectrometer, Waters ALC 202/401 high pressure liquid chromatograph, a Perkin-Elmer model 410 gradient high pressure liquid chromatograph with a variable wavelength detector, a Cary 14 and a Cary 219 spectrophotometer, a Perkin-Elmer E-1 modular spectrometer, a Perkin-Elmer l-3 recording UV-visible spectrophotometer, a Gilford 240 spectrometer with linear transport, an IBM voltammetric analyzer, a Perkin-Elmer 3000 fluorescence spectrometer, Perkin-Elmer 237B, 283B, and 710 infrared spectrometers, Hewlett-Packard diode-array spectrophotometer, Nicolet 550 and 460 Fourier-transform infrared spectrometers, Phillips x-ray diffractometer, LKB laser-enhanced densitometer, Pharmacia fast protein liquid chromatograph, Miligen Cyclone Plus DNA synthesizer, Continuum Nd:YAG-pumped dye laser, Perkin-Elmer atomic absorption spectrophotometer, Varian-Aerograph A-90-P, 202B, 1420, and 1860 and Carle 8500 gas chromatographs, a Perkin-Elmer 241 digital polarimeter, a Beckman LS1800 liquid scintillation counter, a Beckman L7 ultracentrifuge, a Beckman J2-21 refrigerated centrifuge, a Savant electrophoresis system, a Cambridge Stereoscan 100 with a Tracor Northern TN-2000 x-ray analyzer, a Philips CM -10, and cold room facilities.

In 2001, the college completed a $47-million science construction and renovation project. This project added 8,000 square feet of new facilities in the Morley Science Laboratories that connect the newly renovated Thompson Physics, Chemistry, and Biology Laboratories with the Bronfman Science Center. The Morley Science Laboratories house teaching and research laboratories for chemistry, biology, and psychology and the neuroscience and environmental studies programs. Thompson Chemistry Laboratory now houses offices, classrooms, computer rooms, and student interactive spaces, but almost no "wet" lab spaces. The new, unified Schow Science Library serves the entire science facility.

If you wish to visit the Laboratory, any member of the Department will be glad to talk with you and show you the facilities. All instrumentation and other specialized apparatus are readily available for student use both in scheduled laboratory work and in independent research projects. Inquire at the information window in the entrance hallway. The Department welcomes inquiries from interested students, either by mail or in person.