2005-06 - Office of the Registrar - Duke University

for graduate study in one of these areas should be directed to the director of graduate studies
of any of the five departments. For information pertaining to the use of the Primate Center,
graduate studies, or availability of research space, write to Dr. William L. Hylander,
Director, Duke University Primate Center, 3705 Erwin Road, Durham, North Carolina
27705.
Psychological and Brain Sciences Laboratories. Our department faculty reside in
three locations: the Psychology/Sociology building, the Center for Cognitive
Neurosciences, and the Genome Science Research Building II. These facilities contain stateof-the-art
laboratories to study perception and cognition in human infants and adults—
including the areas of autobiographical memory, developmental cognitive and affective
neuroscience, and visual perception. Equipment is available for electrophysiology, eye
tracking, and video recording. There are also laboratories equipped for the study of animal
learning and cognition, and time and number perception in rats, mice, pigeons, fish, and
monkeys. These labs are designed to conduct research in behavioral and computational
neuroscience and are supported by facilities for animal housing, surgery, histology,
microscopy, and electrophysiology. There is support for building of new apparatus, and for
computer networking. Additional facilities for access to prosimian animal models, patient
populations, and for brain imaging are available in Duke’s Brain Imaging and Analysis
Center, the nearby Primate Center, and the Duke and V.A. Medical Centers.
Chemistry Laboratories. The Department of Chemistry is housed in the P. M. Gross
Chemical Laboratory, a building containing 146,400 square feet of total area, with additional
research space in the Levine Science Research Center to accommodate chemistry at the
biology interface. This well-equipped chemical laboratory provides conditions conducive to
research in many areas of current interest. Major shared instruments, including those for
nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometry, are housed in the departmental
instrumentation facility, along with optical and other instrumentation, including FTIR, UV-
VIS, and fluorescence spectrometers. A wide array of more specialized instrumentation is
available in the various research laboratories, from ultrafast laser systems to atomic force
microscopes to automated solid-phase synthesizers. Other major facilities on campus
include the Free Electron Laser Laboratory and the University NMR Center, which
maintains several ultra high field NMR instruments. A broad range of instrumentation for
biological and materials science applications is accessible in the Medical Center and School
of Engineering, with additional facilities available at the neighboring universities and in
Research Triangle Park, including those for X-ray diffraction and structure determination.
Computing facilities in chemistry include SGI and Redhat Linux workstations,
Beowulf clusters, and clusters of PC’s associated with the teaching laboratories and the
library. The department is linked to the university's high speed fiber optic network and to
the university’s high performance shared computing cluster. In addition, the department
has state-of-the-art computer/video projection systems in its lecture halls and is installing
wireless networking for incorporation of the latest computational research tools into the
undergraduate chemistry curriculum.
The Department of Chemistry Library, with holdings of approximately 50,000
volumes, is also located in the P.M. Gross Chemical Laboratory. The library receives over
500 current periodicals and serial subscriptions and has computer facilities for complete
information retrieval.
Physics Laboratories. The Physics Building houses research and instruction in the
Departments of Physics and Mathematics. Additional space is provided by the adjacent
Nuclear Building (TUNL) and Free Electron Laser (FEL) Laboratory Buildings. Graduate
students studying in these two programs usually have offices in these buildings.
About half of the Physics space is devoted to research laboratories for the department's
programs. Special equipment includes: ultrafast, high power, short wavelength, and farinfrared
lasers; a 45-MeV electron linear accelerator driving an infrared free electron laser
(FEL) and a 1 GeV linear accelerator and high current electron storage ring driving an
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