Master of Science [M.S] [Chemistry] From South Dakota State University

The Department is well-equipped with modern instrumentation to serve its research needs.  It is readily available to qualified graduate students for "hands-on" experience.  The Department maintains the Core Campus NMR, Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics facilities.  The NMR core facility includes 200, 300, and 400 MHz solution-state NMR spectrometers and 100, 200, 300, and 400 MHz wide-core solid-state NMR spectrometer with GC, HPLC, Pryolsis and fast-atom bombardment capabilities, a 7T Bruker APEX ESI FTMS and a Bruker BIFLEX MALDI-TOF spectrometer.  The Proteomics core sample preparation facility is also operated by the Department for the university community.  The Department's spectroscopy facility includes two BioRad FTS 40 AFT-IRs with microscope, ATR and DRIFT abilities, a laser spectroflourometer with lifetime measurement capability, a double monochromator spectroflourometer with lifetime measurement capabilities, FRET and single molecule FRET microscopes.  In addition to those departmental resources, individual research groups maintain their own specialized instrumentation.