Facilities & Instrumentation
Research Facilities and Shared Instrumentation
The Chemistry Department is located in the Merkert Chemistry Center, a 109,000 square foot structure designed to empower the dynamic, cutting-edge research for which the department is internationally recognized. The Merkert Chemistry Center contains faculty research laboratories in organic chemistry, chemical biology, and physical chemistry; specialized research facilities and shared instrumentation; and classrooms and teaching laboratories. Chemistry faculty members have collaborated on the unique design of their own research laboratories, which are built to accommodate state-of-the-art instrumentation and adapt to new research directions. The Merke