Facilities and Equipment
Suter Science Center East Wing renovations were completed in 2015, providing biology and chemistry departments with brand new facilities, hardware and safety equipment. We are fortunate to have a variety of instruments and equipment that enhance the laboratory experience. Listed below are some of our most commonly used teaching and research materials.
Take a virtual tour of the science center.
Spectrophotometers:
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (The Shenandoah Valley NMR Consortium is headquartered at James Madison University and linked to EMU via the Internet.)
- Magritek Spinsolve Carbon NMR spectrometer
- Fourier-Transform infrared spectroscopy
- Luminescence/Fluorescence spectroscopy
- Two atomic absorption
spectroscopy - UV-Visible spectroscopy
- Vernier SpectroVis Plus
- Polarimetry
Liquid and Gas Chromatographs:
- High performance liquid chromatographs
- Vernier gas chromatographs
- Capillary gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer
Other Chemistry/Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Equipment:
- Millipore reverse osmosis water purification system
- Millipore UV ultrapure water purification system
- Beta Star vacuum autoclave (steam sterilizer)
- Differential scanning calorimeter
- Thermal cycler and real-time thermal cycler for PCR
- Luminometer
- High-speed refrigerated centrifuges
- Protein and DNA electrophoresis equipment
- Environmental chamber/incubators
- Milligram digital balances
- Compound, dissecting, and fluorescence microscopes
- Ultra-low temperature freezer
- Rotary evaporators
- Ovens and vacuum ovens
- 4.0 liter capacity freeze dry system
- Vernier LabQuest 2 data collection devices and sensor equipment
- pH meters
- light sensors
- Temperature probes and melt stations
- Oxygen, carbon dioxide, and gas pressure sensors
- Calorimeters and SpectroVis Plus spectrophotometers
- Conductivity probes and turbidity sensors
- Dissolved oxygen probes
- Soil moisture sensors
