Facilities

Wright State’s chemistry department has teaching and research laboratories throughout Oelman Hall, Fawcett Hall, and the Brehm Lab, totaling more than 30,000 square feet of teaching and research space. The department has dedicated teaching laboratories for inorganic, organic, physical, environmental, quantitative analysis, and instrumentation chemistry courses. Every faculty member has their own independent research facilities. The department supports a Research Instrument Center located on the Oelman Hall fourth floor next to some of the chemistry research faculty.

Recent renovations of Oelman Hall and the Brehm Lab provide up to date teaching and research facilities to support the undergraduate and graduate teaching mission of the department. The chemistry department teaches hundreds of students in chemistry lectures and laboratories each fall.

The College of Science and Mathematics employs instrumentation specialists and maintains an electronics shop,  instrument shop, and instrumentation laboratories. One instrumentation library houses many of the department’s teaching instruments, while a second houses shared research instruments. Many professors also have their own research instruments.

Chemistry Instrumentation

Instruments enhance the teaching and research mission. The vast majority are available for "hands-on" use in our undergraduate teaching laboratories, though they share a dual mission for the research enterprise. Click on the pictures below to see an expanded view of these instruments. Below the pictures is a table of some of the instrumentation maintained by the department and its research faculty.