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way at the laboratory. The staff of the laboratory is available for consultation and participation in seminars.
Arrangements may be made for students to conduct certain aspects of their research at the laboratory.
Marine Laboratory. The Duke University Marine Laboratory (DUML) of the Nicholas school of the Environment
and Earth Sciences is an educational and research facility. DUML is located on Pivers Island within the Outer Banks,
adjacent to the historic seacoast town of Beaufort, North Carolina, with direct access to the Atlantic Ocean, Cape
Lookout National Seashore Park, estuaries, sand beaches, wetlands, and coastal forests. The area provides an excellent
opportunity for teaching and research at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels. There are approximately 30
masters and 20 resident doctoral students. (For additional information concerning the MA, MS, and PhD graduate
programs refer to the section ''Courses and Academic Programs'' in this bulletin and for the MEM graduate program refer
to the current Bulletin of Duke University: Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences.) The Marine
Laboratory accommodates nearly 3,700 visitors per year. The physical plant consists of 23 buildings including five
research buildings, six dormitories, a dining hall, classroom laboratories and a maintenance complex. Research from
the molecular to the population level is supported at the Marine Laboratory. DUML operates the R/V Susan Hudson,
a 57-foot fully equipped coastal oceans research vessel with the capacity to perform small-scale biological, chemical,
geological, and physical oceanography. DUML is also the home port for the R/V Cape Hatteras, a 135-foot
oceanographic research vessel operated for the NSF by the Duke/University of North Carolina Oceanographic
Consortium.
For information concerning teaching and research space, write to the Auxiliaries and Administrative Services
Office, Duke University Marine Laboratory, 135 Duke Marine Lab Road, Beaufort, North Carolina 28516-9721;
telephone 252/504-7652 or e-mail: dominick.brugnolotti@duke.edu.
Lemur Center. The Duke Lemur Center is located in Duke Forest about two miles from the main campus. It is the
world’s only facility devoted entirely to the care, conservation, and study of lemurs. The colony is composed of
approximately 250 animals from more than twenty named taxa. The lemurs, and their closest relatives, the lorises, are
housed in spacious indoor and outdoor facilities. In the summer months in particular, numerous lemurs "free range" in
large tracts of open area within Duke Forest, providing a unique opportunity for investigators and students to study lemur
behavior in a semi-natural setting. The Center also houses frozen, preserved, and fossil primate collections for study.
All collections are utilized by students and faculty from a wide variety of Duke departments, as well as by scholars from
other national and international institutions. Graduate students wishing to conduct research at the Center should
indentify this interest to the director of graduate studies for the department to which they are applying. For information
pertaining to the use of the Lemur Center, graduate studies, or availability of research space, write to Dr. Sarah Zehr,
sz19@duke.edu, Research Manager, Duke Lemur Center, 3705 Erwin Road, Durham, North Carolina 27705.
Chemistry Laboratories. In 2007, the Department of Chemistry moved to the French Family Science Center, a
state of the art research facility donated by Bill and Melinda Gates. This building houses not only the entire Chemistry
Department, but also Biological Sciences, and a portion of the Physics Department and research labs. The building
contains 275,000 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, UVVIS, 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 xray
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. The department is linked to the university's high speed fiber optic
network and to the university’s high performance shared computing cluster. This building is primarily a research facility,
and the majority of space is dedicated to research and teaching labs. In addition, the department has state-of-the-art
computer/video projection systems in its lecture hall and conference rooms and wireless networking for incorporation
of the latest computational research tools into the undergraduate chemistry curriculum.
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 French Family Sciences Free
Electron Laser (FEL) Laboratory Buildings. Graduate students conducting research in these buildings usually have their
offices there.
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 far-infrared lasers; a 1 GeV linear accelerator and
high current electron storage ring driving an ultraviolet to soft X-ray FEL (this facility is used, among other things, to
produce a high-intensity gamma-ray source known as the HIGS project); a high-resolution 4 MeV Van de Graaff
accelerator; a 20 MeV tandem Van de Graaff accelerator with polarized source and cryogenically-cooled polarized
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