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Chemistry Facilities
Welcome to the Indiana Wesleyan University Chemistry Department.
Courses for chemistry majors are taught in Burns
Hall of Science and Nursing. The Chemistry Department shares
this building with our sister departments in the Natural Sciences
and Mathematics Division (biology, computer science, mathematics,
and physics) and with the Nursing Division. An extensive enlargement
and renovation of the building was completed in 2000, providing
spacious and comfortable classrooms, each with an Internet-linked
computer and overhead projection system.
As part of the new construction, we were able to purchase a
wide array of new equipment. We invite you to take a quick peek
at the labs and classrooms that would become your home if you
join us here. We think you will agree that there are no better
facilities anywhere.
 We
emphasize hands-on learning, so the equipment you see in our
Instrumentation Lab (Room 317) would be available for you to
use. As you take more advanced chemistry courses you will learn
to operate an NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer),
IR (infrared spectrophotometer), GC (gas chromatograph), AA
(atomic absorption spectrophotometer), HPLC (high performance
liquid chromatograph), and much more. Our graduates are well-trained,
whether they move on to graduate school, medical school, or
into the job market.
Be sure to take a look at the research labs that are reserved
for undergraduate projects (Rooms 306, 308, 310). All our chemistry
majors do at least one independent research project. You will
be assigned to one of the three research labs, so that you have
a place to set up and run your experiments without interference
from the academic lab operations. A faculty member will supervise
your work, but you will have the opportunity to explore some
aspect of chemistry with as much independence as possible.
As you take a virtual look around, we hope you will begin to
picture yourself as a chemistry major at IWU! Then come give
us a real visit, and we'll talk about reasons beyond hardware
and facilities that IWU is the place to be.
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