Facilities

The Chemistry Department at Frostburg State University is home to modern undergraduate teaching and research laboratories and state-of-the-art equipment. The laboratories are housed in the Compton Science Center, erected in 2003.

Laboratories

The Chemistry Department has six teaching laboratories: two dedicated to general chemistry, one to organic chemistry, one to analytical chemistry, one to physical chemistry, and one to biochemistry.

The Chemistry Department has four dedicated research laboratories: one for synthetic chemistry, one for environmental chemistry, one for shared instrumentation, and one for interdisciplinary research. The organic, analytical, physical, and biochemistry laboratories are also used for undergraduate research.

Instruments

All chemistry majors and minors get the opportunity to use state-of-the-art instrumentation in their upper division courses. Some of the instruments availabe for use include:

JEOL ECX 300 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spetrometer

Thermo Nicolet 6700 Fourrier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer

Shimadzu GC-17A Gas Chromatrographs

Shimadzu GC-17A/GCMS QP5050 Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer

Shimadzu LC10AD/LCMS2010A Liquid Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer

Shimadzu AA-6800 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotomer

Shimadzu ICPE 9000 Iductively-Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrophotometer

Shimadzu DSC60 Differential Scanning Calorimeter

Shimadzu TGA50 Thermogravimetric Analyzer

Shimadzu UV3101PC Ultraviolet/Visible/Near-Infrared Scanning Spectrophotometer

Shimadzu RT5301PC Fluorospectrophotometer