Facilities
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry provides a wide variety of in-house services and facilities to support the activities of teaching in a university environment, as well as high-level scientific research.
The classrooms and laboratories of our department occupy over 500,000 square feet of modern, fully-equipped, air-conditioned space, which recently underwent a $26 M safety renovation. Our chemistry library contains one of the largest chemical collections in the country, and includes extensive journal holdings in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. The department operates X-ray, NMR, mass spectrometry, and surface analysis laboratories, which house a variety of specialized research instruments, as well as machine, electronic, and glassblowing shops, all supervised by full-time staff and technicians. Biological chemists have access to core resources of the Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology for synthesis and sequencing needs.
The department has access to the outstanding facilities of the UT Advanced Computing Center which supplies supercomputing services to the nation's academic research community. Our Computer Services Group provides support for users of administrative, academic, and network computing facilities, including an instructional media lab which offers computers and multimedia tools for departmental graduate students and faculty working on research or course related projects.
The procurement office handles the details and intricacies of purchasing chemicals and equipment for a state institution, and the research storeroom coordinates all order deliveries to the department in addition to having a large inventory of chemicals and supplies in-house.
