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Facilities of the Albion College Chemistry Department
Putnam Hall
 The Chemistry Department is housed in Putnam Hall on the Albion campus. Named
after Dr. Mark E. Putnam, a former Vice President of the Dow Corp. and Albion College
trustee, the building has four floors for teaching and research use. The main floor
consists of several classrooms with the other three floors consisting of teaching and
research labs and professor's offices. The top floor houses the organic and biochemistry
labs. The second floor houses the general chemistry and inorganic research labs, and the
basement houses the analytical, physical and instrumentation labs. A
major construction project scheduled to begin in 2004 will result in the
renovation of Putnam Hall.
Instrumentation
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 The department is continually upgrading its instrumentation through
Albion College equipment funds and recent grants from such organizations as
the NSF, Pittsburgh Conference Foundation, Dow Foundation, and the Culpepper Foundation.
Instrumentation includes a Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer, fluorescence spectrometer,
two Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometers, four diode array UV-VIS
spectrometers (one with fiber-optic dip probe), a 60 MHz Fourier Transfrom Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer, and HPLC, GC, and IC chromatographs. The department also has an extensive collection
of pH and specific ion electrodes, field conductivity measurement systems, two
autotitrators, and a mercury dropping electrode/amperometric system. - Department and science instrumentation has recently been enhanced by the
opening of the Dow Analytical Science Laboratory
made possible by a donation
from the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation. This
interdisciplinary instrument facility is housed in the Norris Science Center
and contains several new pieces of
instrumentation such as a 400MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
spectrometer, liquid chromatograph/mass spectrometer, X-ray diffraction,
fluorescence lifetime spectrometer, and others.
- All of the equipment is used in both the teaching and research laboratories. Many
of the instruments are introduced to the students in the first or second years of the
chemistry curriculum.
Technology -
- Albion has embarked on an ambitious plan to incorporate multimedia technology
throughout the college curriculum. The chemistry department has available proxima
projection systems and several 'multimedia enhanced' classrooms for its use.
Recent additions include a chemistry computer laboratory with PCs and a Silicon
Graphics workstation equipped with the Spartan® molecular modeling program
for use in both the introductory and advanced chemistry classes.
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Last Modified September 1, 2007 by Vanessa McCaffrey
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