Facilities and Instrumentation

• Critical Point Dryer with water circulator and heater/chiller

  

• Gas Pycnometer
• GC-MS (electron impact)
• High Speed Camera Contact Angle Measuring System
• Hydraulic Hot Press Systems
• Physisorption Analyzers
• Thermal Constants Analyzer

• Centrifuges
• Coldroom
• Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography (FLPC) System
• Fraction Collectors
• Freezer (-80°C)
• Gel Imaging System
• Incubator
• Laminar Flow Fume Hood
• Lyophilizer
• NanoDrop Spectrometer
• PCR
• RT PCR
• Protein Electrophoresis Cells
• Shaker/Incubator (4 - 50 °C)
• Water Polishing System
• Western Blot Transfer Cell

• Biological Laminar Flow Hood
• Cell Counter
• Centrifuge
• CO2 Incubator (water-jacketed, for mammalian cells)
• Light Microscopes, inverted and Compound
• Micro-osmometer, freezing-point depression

• GC-FID
• GC-MS with Autosampler
• HPLC
• ICP-MS
• Ion Chromatograph
• LC-MS/MS
• Prep-Scale HPLC with UV/Vis

• Access to high performance computing on the Hamilton College Cluster
• Access to high performance computing cluster at Union College in the Physics and Astronomy Department

• Voltammetric Analyzer

• Box Furnace
• Convection Oven
• Magnetic Susceptibility Balance
• Tube Furnace

• Argon-Krypton Mixed Gas Ion Laser
• Bomb Calorimeter
• Differential Scanning Calorimeter
• Micro-Osmometer
• Monochromator/CCD Detector
• Polarimeter

• Atomic Absorption Spectrometer
• Circular Dichroism Spectropolarimeter
• Dynamic Light Scattering Instrument
• Fluorometers
• FTIR w/ Diamond Anvil ATR
• 400 MHz NMR
• Raman Spectrometer
• UV/Vis Diode-Array Spectrophotometers
• UV/Vis Microplate Reader

• Atomic Force Microscope (w/ inverted optical microscope)
• Infrared Microscope
• Raman Microscope
• Scanning Electron Microscope with EDX
• X-Ray Diffractometer

• Glove Box with freezer
• Microwave Synthesizer
• Solar Simulator
• Water Polisher

Students and faculty across disciplines collaborate, innovate, learn, and conduct research throughout Union’s new Integrated Science and Engineering Complex. Within this modern building are teaching labs, classrooms, research labs, and faculty offices for biology, chemistry, physics and astronomy, mechanical engineering, and electrical, computer and biomedical engineering. In ISEC, the Chemistry Department has two instrumentation suites that provide resources for collaborative student-faculty research and training in chemistry. These suites house the majority of the department’s shared instrumentation, including a 400-MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, GC-MS with autosampler, HPLC, preparatory-scale HPLC, FTIR w/ Diamond Anvil ATR, lyophilizer, glove box, microwave synthesizer, polarimeter, fluorometer, UV/Vis diode-array spectrophotometers, UV/VIS/NIR dual monochromator spectrophotometer, and more.

The Olin Center contains the Union Observatory, high-tech classrooms and laboratories, the Office of Health Professions and the Academic Opportunity Program. Many of our students learn Introductory Chemistry in the adjoining lab/classroom spaces on the second floor. Olin also houses the Interdisciplinary Research Instrumentation Suite (IRIS), a shared space for major research instrumentation that cultivates cross-disciplinary interactions among faculty and students. Currently, IRIS is equipped with a Zeiss EVO Variable Pressure Scanning Electron Microscope with Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy and Chemiluminescence, an Asylum MFP-3D-SA atomic force microscope, a Powder X-Ray Diffractometer, a Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometer, Bruker RAMAN Spectrometer, and a Nikon Ti-E microscope.

The Wold Center is a dynamic hub for interdisciplinary work and research. It contains the Wright Biochemistry Research Laboratories and the interdisciplinary Aerogel Lab, where faculty and student researchers manufacture, characterize, and test some of the lightest solid materials known for various applications. The Biochemistry Suite contains labs and resources for collaborative student-faculty biochemistry and molecular biology research, as well as the Kane Biochemistry Teaching Laboratory. The suite holds a cold room, two shared instrumentation rooms, and a culture room. The labs are well equipped with a -80 °C freezer, water polishing system, centrifuges, UV/Vis and fluorescence plate readers, thermal cyclers, qRT-PCR system, gel imaging systems, FPLC, and a PCR cabinet, among other instrumentation.