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The chemistry department moved into a new $18M building in the fall of 2000. This building houses all the department's classrooms, teaching labs, research labs and faculty offices. The new Science Hall substantially increased student space for study and research, and greatly improved teaching spaces, including teaching and research laboratories. In addition to the chemistry department, Science Hall houses about half of the biology department, two physics laboratories, and space for large instruments that are shared by all the science departments. The pictures on this page are from the brochure produced for the building's dedication. The new building is attached, through an atrium, to Youngchild Hall, from which this department moved, and which it had shared with biology and physics for forty years. Youngchild was renovated during the 2000-2001 academic year, and was re-occupied by the biology, physics, and geology departments in the fall of 2001.
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The Chemistry department is well-equipped, with an excellent selection of major scientific instruments. Among these are a 250 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometer, a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer, an additional capillary gas chromatograph with an electron capture detector (for use with environmental chemistry samples containing pesticides and PCBs), a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer, a nanosecond spectrofluorimeter, two atomic absorption spectrometers, ultraviolet/visible/near infrared spectrometers, and a range of other chromatographic, spectroscopic, and electrochemical instruments. Two electron microscopes (one a transmission instrument, the other a scanning microscope), an X-ray diffraction instrument, and an electron paramagnetic resonance spectrometer are among the instruments shared with other science departments.
Lawrence also provides extensive access to general-use computers, and the department has a growing collection of computers specifically for use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, etc. A key fact about these tools is that students have hands-on access to any of them as course work or research projects require.
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