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 The Chemistry Department
building complex consists of the Pearson research & teaching building
(built 1923) and the Michael research building (built 1964). The Michael
Building and west wing of Pearson underwent a complete renovation in
1996 that included three floors of
state-of-the-art research laboratory space, centralized chemical storage
and stockroom facilities, a physical chemistry teaching
laboratory complex, and a multimedia electronic lecture auditorium.
In 2004 a $5 million renovation project of
Pearson included improved lab space and ventilation, building code upgrades,
enhanced plumbing and sprinkler systems, as well as the creation of new wet
lab facilities in the basement, and first and third floors of Pearson Hall.
The department houses first-rate
instruments and facilities for modern chemical research.
Department Instrumentation includes two high-field multinuclear NMR
spectrometers (Bruker AVANCE 300 and AM 300), a JEOL scanning electron
microscope with EDS capabilities, Nicolet and Mattson FTIR's, Hewlett
Packard GC-MS and Bruker MALDI-TOF mass spectrometers, AA, AES, ICP, diode
array UV-Vis and fluorescence spectrometers, several Digital Instruments
scanning probe microscopes (STM, AFM), a wide variety of pulsed and CW
laser systems for analytical and physical measurement, a variety of
potentiostats for electrochemistry, and UHV surface analysis equipment
(Auger, HREELS). The department also maintains a variety of HPLC's,
capillary GC's, as well as a walk-in cold
room, an in-house stockroom, professionally staffed electronics and
machine shops, and a student machine shop. Additional
instrumentation, such as three NMR spectrometers (400 MHz, 500 MHz and
soon a 600 MHz), are available at the nearby Tufts Medical School, and a
variety of instruments for the preparation and characterization of
materials are available on campus at the Engineering School.
Tufts University Academic
Computing Services provides and supports a variety of computing services
to faculty and students. Additional computing resources are
available on a variety of workstations available within the
department. The Tufts high speed 1-GHz Ethernet system provides
networking to computers and workstations located throughout the
department as well as access through a high speed T1 fiberoptic and vBNS
connections to the
Internet.
The research interests of many of
the faculty at Tufts are interdisciplinary, and numerous opportunities
exist for collaborative research both within and outside of the
university. The Tufts
Medical,
Dental and
Veterinary schools, the
Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, and
the Friedman
School of Nutrition Policy & Science, one of only two
nutrition centers in the country, are easily accessible. The
department encourages and supports collaborative research with other
departments and institutions as well. Examples include
collaborations with pharmaceutical companies to find potent new
anti-cancer agents, with engineers in the
Department of
Biomedical Engineering in areas of biomedical instrumentation,
bioengineering, biotechnology and systems biology, with researchers at the Tufts Medical School to develop sensor
technologies for an “artificial nose” that can be used to detect land
mines or environmental monitoring, and with NASA's research centers in
exploring the geochemical and potential biological
environments on other planetary bodies such as Mars and Europa. Tufts long-standing tradition of supporting environmental
research and collaborations between the Chemistry Department and the
departments of Biology and
Civil &
Environmental Engineering, as well as with
Tufts
Institute for the Environment, exemplify interdisciplinary environmental
chemistry research at Tufts. Tufts' proximity to a host of leading
universities and industries fosters cooperation with researchers outside
the university and provides convenient access to additional advanced
research facilities.
The
Tufts University
Libraries
support the educational and research programs of the university through
services to students, faculty, and staff. The principal library on the
Medford/Somerville has recently undergone a major renovation and expansion
that has nearly doubled its size. The new
Tisch Library's resources
consist of over a million volumes, more than 300 online databases and over
15,000 print and electronic journals. Features and facilities include easily
accessible open stack areas, seating for over twelve hundred, AV and
computer-equipped classrooms connected to the university network, group
study rooms, and computerized literature searching services. The Rockwell
Reading Room in the chemistry complex is a branch of the Tisch library
that provides Tufts chemists with in-house access to current issues of
selected chemistry journals. Tufts' affiliation with the Boston
Library Consortium provides Tufts students and faculty with access to the
resources of eleven additional academic and research libraries in the
Boston area. Department members also have free access to a host of
on-line journals from the major publishers, and resources such as the CAS
SciFinder Scholar, ISI ChemServer, Science Direct, Ovid, and the ISI Web
of Science.
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