Facilities

The department is housed on the bottom two floors of the Science Building. This space includes four classrooms, a library, two general chemistry laboratories, a biochemistry laboratory, an organic laboratory, an analytical chemistry laboratory, an instrument laboratory, an inorganic/physical chemistry laboratory, two physics laboratories, and a twenty station computer laboratory. Faculty offices are also in the building.

Equipment

• Chemagnetics A-200 Superconducting, Broad Band, Multi-nuclear NMR
• Bomem MB 100 FT-Infrared Spectrophotometer
• Shimadzu UV-210 PC UV/Vis Scanning Multi-cell Spectrophotometer
• Hewlett Packard 8453 Diode-Array UV/Vis Spectrophotometer
• Joel JSM-35CF Scanning Electron Microscope
• Beckman P/ACE 2200, 5500 and MDQ Capillary Electrophoresis Systems with UV, Diode-array, and Laser-Induced Fluorescence Detection
• Hewlett Packard 1100 binary pump HPLC with diode-array detection
• Hewlett Packard 1050 gradient HPLC with variable wavelength UV detector
• Rainin Binary Delivery Solvent HPLC with UV detection
• Perkin Elmer 8320 Capillary Gas Chromatogram with FID
• Hewlett Packard 5890 GC-5971 MSD GC-MS
• Hewlett Packard 1100 MSD with ESI and APCI sources
• Jobin Yvon 38S Inductively Coupled Plasma-Emission Spectrometer
• Thermo Elemental Solaar MQZ Graphite Furnace Atomic Asborption Spectrometer
• GBC 908 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer with Model 3000 Graphite Furnace and PAL Autosampler
• Sorvall RC5B Refrigerated Superspeed Centrifuge
• IEC B-22 High Speed Centrifuge
• IEC Centra MP4R Refrigerated Centrifuge
• Millipore and Barnstead water polishing systems
• New Brunswick Scientific Innova 4230 Regrigerated Microbial Incubator/Shaker
• Several temperature-controlled Stationary Incubators
• Waterbaths (stationary, recirculating, and shaking)
• Abbe and Letiz Refractometers
• Rotary Evaporators
• Labconco RapidVap nitrogen systems (sample concentrators)
• Pierce Reacti-Therm concentrators/reactors
• Miscellaneous benchtop clinical and microcentrifuges
• Savant SC110 Speed Vac
• 12 Stations SCI Technologies-LabWorks CBL's
• 2,800 sq. ft. Science/Math Resource Center
• 30 Pentium 4 Work Stations

Research

The department has been very active and successful in pursuing external funding. It has obtained several hundred thousand dollars in funding through the National Institutes of Health, the United States Air Force, and the National Science Foundation. The NIH funds an ongoing Minority Biomedical Research Support program (MBRS). This currently supports a director and three invesitgators. The U.S. Air Force grant funds two researchers. The NSF has funded a multi-disciplinary program involving four faculty members.

For additional information contact the Department at:

Department of Physical Sciences
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Durant, OK 74701
Phone: (580 745-2248
Fax: (580) 745-7494