Furman University Department of Chemistry

Townes Center for Science

New Plyler Hall The Chemistry Department is located in the Townes Center for Science along with the Biology, Earth and Environmental Science, and Physics Departments. This $62.5 million state-of-the-art facility was dedicated in 2008. The chemistry research laboratories, teaching labs, classrooms, seminar rooms, and group study areas are found mostly on the second floor with the main office suite located in Townes 236.

Instrumentation

Laura Glish using AFM Furman's Department of Chemistry holds an array of elaborate scientific instrumentation. Having acquired over $4 million in new instrumentation since 1985, the department has a commitment to maintaining numerous state of the art instruments for undergraduate use. The department is home to two high-field, superconducting NMR spectrometers (300 and 500 MHz), a coupled liquid chromatograph/electrospray mass spectrometer, two GC/MS instruments, two atomic force microscopes capable of "seeing" individual atoms, and the world's first mass-selected electron spin resonance spectrometer, to name only a few. Each piece of equipment was procured specifically for the use of the department's undergraduates.


Specific Facilities

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Mass Spectrometry