Most of the research activities will take place in the new $28M Science Building on the campus of A&M Commerce. The Departments of Chemistry and Physics are located in this building along with the new planetarium. The new science building is well equipped with modern instrumentation for research. One of the objectives of the REU program is to introduce participants to the operation of equipment used in modern research relating to Chemistry and Surface Science. Some of the major research instruments and facilities are summarized below:

Department of Chemistry:

• Varian 400 MHz NMR Spectrometer
• Thermo/Nicolet FT-IR Spectrometers
• OLIS 15 and 17 UV-Vis & CD Spectrophotometers
• Shimadzu Absorbance and Fluorescence Spectrophotometers
• TA Thermal Gravimetric Analysis Equipment
• Shimadzu GC/Mass Spectrometer
• Shimadzu & Dionex High Performance Liquid Chromatographs
• LICOR DNA Sequencer & Biotechnology Laboratory

Department of Physics:

• X-ray Fluorescence
• X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
• Super computers

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