Facilities

The science and mathematics programs at LVC offer students modern laboratories with an extensive collection of state-of-the-art instrumentation and equipment which includes:

  • $200,000 superconducting nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer
  • $100,000 molecular modeling laboratory (SGI Indigo workstations and PowerMacs)
  • $40,000 atomic force and scanning tunneling microscope
  • $40,000 scanning electron microscope
  • gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer
  • gamma ray spectrometer
  • an atomic absorption spectrophotometer
  • gradient liquid chromatograph
  • classroom equipped with 17 networked Pentium PCs running Windows 95 and Linux
  • networked labs with diverse computers
  • student-administered Linux and Windows NT Server 4 systems