Resources for Student Inquiry and Research
Facilities: Equipment in The Grainger Center
Resources available for student use in the Grainger Center for Imagination and Inquiry include:
General Equipment and Facilities
- Computers
- Conference table and chairs
- Digital cameras
- Electronic piano keyboard
- Lockable laboratory cubicles
- Lockable storage cabinets
- Printers: color; black-and-white
- Reference library and journal collection (small)
- Sink and drainage area
- Student work tables and chairs
Laboratory Equipment
- General laboratory equipment
- autoclave
- balances
- Micropipettors
- pH meter
- Stir plates
- Centrifuges
- Microcentrifuges
- Refrigerated Centrifuges
- Beckman Floor Model J2-21 Centrifuge
- Electrophoresis apparatus
- horizontal gel boxes
- vertical gel boxes
- sequencing gel apparatus
- gel documentation system
- electroblotting apparatus
- Electroporator
- ELISA plate reader
- Microscopes
- Dissecting microscopes
- Fluorescent microscopes
- Inverted microscope
- Light microscopes
- Spectrophotometer (UV and Visible-light capable)
- Temperature Control Environments
- Refrigerators
- Freezers (-20° C & -80° C)
- Heating blocks
- Heat plates
- Incubators
- Shaking incubators
- Shaking water bath
- Water baths
- Thermal cyclers
- Tissue culture facility
- Biological hood for sterile work
- Carbon Dioxide incubators
Safety Equipment and Information
- Chemical fume hoods
- Fire Safety
- Fire blanket
- Fire extinguishers
- First Aid kit
- Hazardous chemical storage (locked)
- Hazardous waste disposal
- Materials Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
- Protective Coverings
- Disposable gloves
- Full face protectors
- Goggles
- Rinse Stations
- Eye wash station
- Full body dousing station