At La Roche University you will engage in authentic research experiences and develop laboratory expertise before graduating.
Real-World Research
ChemSOLVE is an extracurricular program designed to provide laboratory experience for chemistry majors. Through this program you'll gain real-life experience by:
- Designing and leading experiments the way that scientists do in their daily work
- Enhancing experiments and designing novel hands-on learning kits
Facilities and Instrumentation
Our facilities include three laboratories, a stockroom and numerous offices on the second floor of the Palumbo Science Center. The John Arnold Instrument Lab houses modern spectroscopy and chromatography instrumentation, purchased entirely through departmental external funding:
- A gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer
- Two additional gas chromatographs
- Two high-performance liquid chromatographs
- An atomic absorption spectrophotometer
- Ultraviolet-visible
- Fluorescence
- Two Fourier-transform infrared spectrometers
Additionally, two Fourier-transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers are located in a separate NSF-sponsored NMR lab.
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