The Department of Chemistry is located in the Natural Science Center, which opened in the fall of 2002. The center has several chemistry laboratories with modern instruments that our faculty and students use as learning and research tools. These instruments include or interface with modern computers for data collection, analysis and display.

Waters HPLC Lab

Through an agreement with the Waters corporation, the chemistry department houses much of Waters' state-of-the-art HPLC and MS equipment. When the equipment is not being demonstrated, it is can be used for research by NKU faculty and students in collaboration with Dr. Oehrle.

Laser Lab

This room contains instruments necessary for absorption, emission, transient absorption and Stark spectroscopic techniques. The equipment and instruments include a Nd:YAG Laser, Scanning UV-Vis spectrophotometer, emission spectrometer, and a liquid nitrogen optical cryostat (all shown below). These items are used in undergraduate courses as well as for undergraduate research.