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Core Facilties
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Geological Sciences and Environmental
Studies
The Department has extensive laboratory facilities
supporting a wide range of instructional and research
activities. Equipment includes two heating-freezing
microscopes with video recording capabilities for fluid
inclusion studies; a 30'x2'x1.5' recirculating flume
for experiments in sediment transport; an experimental
petrology laboratory with 15 cold-seal vessels, 2 Ar-media
presses, 2 one-atmosphere gas-mixing furnaces, and a
piston cylinder furnace; a paleomagnetics laboratory
with a slow speed spinner magnetometer and a.f. demagnetizing
equipment; a seismic laboratory with a local seismic
station and computer links to seismographs around the
world; two scanning electron microscopes; and a cathodoluminescence
microscope.
During the last 5 years we have obtained new state-of-the-art
equipment to improve our research facilities, including:
(1) a DCP- atomic emission spectrometer for whole-rock
and mineral-separate analyses: (2) a JEOL-8900 'Super
Probe' for our electron microbeam facility; (3) a Nikon
microscope-photography set up for photomicrographs and
videotapes; (4) three classroom monitors for real-time
Macintosh, IBM, and Microscope-TV display; (5) a 24-channel
high-resolution shallow seismic reflection system; (6)
an X-ray diffractometer with computer automation and
pattern searching software; and (7) a network of Sun
workstations for our Seismic laboratory.
Ongoing research projects involving faculty, staff,
and graduate students include field studies in Australia,
California, the Canadian Rockies, the Caribbean, Colombia,
East Greenland, Idaho, India, Iowa, Mexico, Michigan,
Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, New Zealand,
at sea with the Ocean Drilling Program, Russia, Pakistan,
Taiwan, Tibet, Utah, and Venezuela.
Ongoing laboratory studies include computer modeling
of earthquake source mechanisms, experimental studies
of amphibole stability, computer modeling of Earth tides,
oscillations, and wobbles, and analytical studies of
whole-rocks, mineral separates, and minerals in thin
section.
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Mathematical Sciences
Research and instruction are supported by extensive
computing facilities, including several IBM mainframes
and Sun servers. Microcomputers, some with sophisticated
graphics capabilities, are available in central complexes
as well as in departments and laboratories around campus.
Terminal connections are available in the graduate apartment
complex through the campus telecommunications system.
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Archaeological Analytical
Research Facilities
The Archaeological Analytical Research Facility provides
infrastructure and analytical support for research and
teaching by faculty and students in the Department of
Anthropology at Binghamton University. The Facility
consists of a laboratory complex located on the second
floor of the South Wing, in the Science 1 Building on
the University campus. The purpose-built, multi-room
laboratory complex (Rooms 201, 201A, 203, and 205) houses
a number of collections, and provides equipment and
work space for individual and group projects. The focal
collection includes over 300 vertebrate skeletons, housed
in Room 201A. These comparative zoo archaeological materials
are accessed for research and teaching by faculty, students,
and interested members of the public.
The core of the collection includes approximately 250
accessioned skeletons, most of which are disarticulated
and curated in appropriately labeled and taxonomically-ordered
collections boxes. A representative sample of articulated
and mounted specimens is also located throughout the
main collections room for display and study. The bulk
of accessioned specimens represent common and local
taxa from the Northeastern United States, in addition
to representative specimens from other areas of North
America.. An additional number of comparative specimens
are available for study. These include taxa collected
by departmental archaeologists in the course of their
field research, and include examples from South America,
West Africa, and the Arctic. Other comparative materials
include an expanding collection of invertebrate specimens,
primarily from the western neotropics, as well as a
variety of modern butchery specimens and variously modified
examples for taphonomic research. The collections are
regularly accessed during undergraduate and graduate
teaching, in addition to tours by non-University organizations,
visits by interested members of the public, and official
use by various law-enforcement agencies in the course
of routine investigations. The facility also is regularly
accessed in the course of advanced training and research
in zoorchaeology and taphonomy by graduate students
at both the Masters and Doctoral levels. Advanced undergraduate
students are especially encouraged to use these materials
and available wet lab space for original, independent
research projects during their junior and senior years.
Many of these projects have formed the basis for Senior
Honor's Theses and subsequent publication in international
journals.
The facility also houses teaching collections, including
ceramic and pottery, lithics, and the departmental slide
compilation, which are available on a sign-out basis
for faculty and students. These are housed in an adjacent
room (205), which also includes microscopes and illuminated
lenses, digital balances, geological screens, cameras,
and various forms of lab equipment for independent research
projects. Limited work space, computer facilities, and
temporary curation of study collections are also available
in Room 205. The facility is also equipped with an Olympus
Zoom microscope with attached photographic abilities,
along with various IBM-compatible equipment to support
computer-aided graphics in Room 203.
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Biological Anthropology Research Facilities
The Biological Anthropology Research Facilities provide
research, teaching, and training support to faculty
and students in the Department of Anthropology, and
to students, colleagues and Post-Doctoral Fellows outside
the Department who collaborate with Program Faculty.
There are a total of eight facilities (described below),
which add a unique research and training dimension to
the Department's programs. The facilities are located
in both Science 1 and Science 3 buildings. They are:
Biomedical Anthropology and Neurosciences Laboratory
(Science 3). The facilities consist of Biosafety Level
2/3 wet laboratories with a focus on cellular and molecular
mechanisms of neurodegeneration in late onset, uniformly
fatal disorders such as Quamanian ALS, Parkinson's and
Alzheimer's disease, and infectious diseases of unknown
etiology. Facilities include a suite of three labs for
tissue culture and PCR, Light microscopy, and molecular
biology.
BioArchaeology Laboratory (Science 1). This research
facility allows students to work with skeletons on loan
from museums. Current research encompasses the broad
fields of paleodemography, paleopathology, including
infectious diseases, trauma and anemia, and taphonomy.
The lab is fully equipped with osteometrics tools, microscopes
and computers.
Forensic Anthropology Laboratory (Science 1). The facilities
consist of a full-sized teaching laboratory, a large
research laboratory and a secure evidence room. Teaching
materials include 20 complete human skeletons, casts,
comparative faunal material, and pathological specimens.
The research laboratory is fully equipped for forensic
casework and research in taphonomy, trauma, biomechanics
and osteology. The lab includes microscopes, computers,
osteometrics equipment, casts, fume hoods, and an x-ray
machine.
Forensic DNA Identification Laboratory (Science 3).
This facility is dedicated to forensic DNA identification
to complement existing forensic casework in the Department.
It is, by necessity, a separate functional laboratory
removed from the possibility of cross-contamination
from other ongoing DNA research.
Human Adaptability and Human Variation Laboratory (Science
1). The facilities are a primary teaching laboratory
for understanding physiological and morphological variation
in human populations. Training equipment available for
blood physiological studies, blood glucose levels, respiratory
function, temperature regulation, morphological growth,
and skin reflectometry.
Molecular Anthropology Laboratory (Science 3). This
facility consists of wet labs for both ancient and modern
DNA research with the latest direct sequencing and PCR
equipment. The facility also includes ongoing research
in pharmacogenetics and malaria based on individual
and population variation to pharmacological regions.
Molecular Anthropology and Ancient DNA Laboratory (Science
3). The facilities consist of wet lab and analytical
computer lab space. Facilities include ancient DNA extraction
and PCR labs as well as separate contemporary DNA extraction,
PCR, and genotyping labs. Equipment is available for
direct sequencing of DNA, SNP discovery and for SNP-,
RFLP-, and STR-typing as well as for the analysis of
these data.
Paleoanthropology and Skeletal Biology Laboratory (Science
1). This facility houses extensive skeletal material,
including skulls and mounted skeletons of monkeys and
apes and other nonhuman primates. Human skeletal research
and teaching resources include mounted skeletons, a
number of unmounted skeletons, and a variety of skeletal
specimens. Paleoanthropological resources include casts
of most of the major hominid fossils that can be used
for both teaching and research.
These facilities consist of wet (4) and dry (4) laboratories.
The wet laboratories are recently renovated state-of-the-art
facilities for microbial, cellular and molecular studies
at biosafety levels 1, 2 and 3 for forensic DNA identification
and ancient DNA studies. The dry laboratories are for
paleontological, osteological, physiological and morphological
(growth) studies. A large amount of research is conducted
through these facilities and their collections. The
research represented is international in scope and much
is connected with ongoing field research programs in
Latin America (Bolivia, Brazil), Europe (Georgia), Asia
and the Pacific Islands (China, Siberia, Melanesia,
Micronesia and Polynesia), Africa (Kenya, South Africa)
and the USA.
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Geographic Information System/
Statistical Analysis Lab
The GIS Campus Core Facility was created in August
2001 in response to a growing need for GIS and GPS training
in a variety of disciplines. We are committed to a program
of quality training and informed interaction, as well
as to the provision of selected secondary data sources,
through a variety of short-courses and one-on-one interactions
with users seeking funded research. While the facility
will not create primary databases, it will train users
in GIS and GPS data acquisition methods, assist them
in research and design, and evaluate existing data sets
provided by users.
The hardware in the PC GIS lab consists of 16 Pentium
PC's connected together in a Local Area Network (LAN).
One of these computers has four very large hard drives
and acts as our data storage center.
The UNIX Workstation LAN consists of six Sun Workstations.
The printers and plotters include: one laser-jet printer,
two size A (8 1/2" x 11") color deskjet printers,
and a size D (32" by continuous feed) plotter.
three digitizers: 12" x 12", 12" x 18",
and 40" x 64"
The software in the PC GIS lab includes: Arc/Info (PC
and UNIX), Arcview 3, MapInfo 4.5, Maptitude 3, WinGIS
3.2, IDRISI for Windows 2, IDL Image Processing System,
XV Image Viewer, Surfer 32, Pathfinder Office 2 (GPS
postprocessing software), CorelDRAW 8, SPSS.
For more information visit http://gis.binghamton.edu/.
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Department of Physics
There are many places for interested graduate and undergraduate
students to get hands-on experience with research. The
Physics Department has a wide range of equipment including:
The Magnetic Property Measurement System - This primary
research tool is used to study the magnetism of matter.
Underfill Flow Lab - Here they do research in the underfill
employed in direct-chip-attachment.
Interdiffusion and Thin-Films Lab - They study thin
film deposition and metal alloys.
Thermal Analysis Lab - The thermal properties of samples
can be studied in detail with the equipment offered
in this lab.
The Institute of Materials Research - This is a multi-disciplinary
organization that research is done in conjunction with.
The Integrated Electronics Engineering Center - This
is another multi-disciplinary organization that physics
research is done in conjunction with.
Opportunities in Theoretical Research - Several faculty
are involved in on-going theoretical research programs.
Some of these are described in faculty biographical
profiles.
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Decker School of Nursing
In its new home in the Academic Complex, The Decker
School of Nursing offers the following core facility:
a nursing lab
a student computer facility featuring state of the art
multimedia computers which utilize sophisticated software
programs via a local area network.
a multimedia center with an extensive audio and video
collection to assist with learning needs.
The new facility has some areas still in the development
stage such as a home assistance lab, an alternative
therapy suite and a center for nursing practice. Additional
resources include multiple hands-on learning models,
simulation resources and equipment. Students are brought
closer to actual health-care situations through interactive
videodisk workstations that focus on client care.
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Department of Psychology
All laboratories and offices in the Psychology Department
are Ethernet-linked to University computers, with access
to on-line library collections as well as the World
Wide Web. The building housing the Psychology Department,
Science IV, contains faculty and graduate student offices
as well as world-class cognitive laboratories, observation
rooms, animal vivaria, and a research and training psychological
clinic. The Psychology Department also maintains an
extensive collection of computer equipment in the in-house
Computer Room. The equipment includes PC and Macintosh
computers with extensive graphics, image editing, statistical
analysis and word processing software. The Computer
Room also houses laser printers, image scanners, and
facilities for editing video tapes and making slides.
The Psychology Department is in close physical proximity
to the Science Library (part of the University Library
system), which house more than 200,000 volumes and is
equipped with a number of on-line literature databases
accessible via the WWW.
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The IEEC - Research Instrumentation
and Manufacturing Infrastructure
The IEEC has three laboratories that are dedicated
to Electronics Packaging, and also owns other instruments
that are parts of different research labs that are spread
around the Binghamton University campus. The labs that
are dedicated to Packaging cover three main areas:
Electronics assembly and manufacturing
Electronics tear downs, cross sectioning and failure
analysis
Electronics reliability stress testing and diagnostics
The assembly and manufacturing lab. has typical assembly
equipment such as wire bonders, flip chip aligner/bonder,
convection reflow oven (Heller 1700W), an MPM stencil
printer, Cyber optics LSM2 laser profilometer and other
minor assembly stations, microscopes and rework stations.
The tear down facility has typical failure analysis
equipment such as a macroscope, Hi resolution digital
image capturing system, metallograph, cross sectioning
equipment, and precision video measuring system. The
reliability stress testing and diagnostics laboratory
includes four accelerated thermal cycling chambers,
capable of cycling between –55 to 150 C, and two
of which have controlled humidity, an air to air thermal
shock chamber (two temperature zones with an elevator
system), and a large chamber capable of testing a system
up to about 1 cubic meter in size. Various thermal aging
and curing ovens are available as well. The lab also
has a Wyco precision laser profilometer capable of measuring
surface topology to a few nano meters, a real time X-Ray
imaging system (Fein focus), and an acoustic microscope.
The micromechanics laboratory which is part of the reliability
lab has a Dage mechanical tester which is suitable for
measuring wire bond and solder ball shear strength.
The lab has also acquired an MTS system suitable for
,measuring long term creep and fatigue for different
packaging materials. The lab also has a variety of computers
and data acquisition systems and four graduate students
and a lab manager.
Instruments and equipment that belong to the IEEC and
that are located in other labs belonging to IEEC affiliated
faculty include an Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope,
an Atomic Force Microscope, Microprobe, FTIR, TEM, Moire
interferometry laboratory dedicated to measuring stress
and strain in electronics packages, Vibrations lab with
the capability of stress testing electronics packages
at elevated temperature and vibrations simultaneously.
The list also includes Vector network analyzers, Thermogravimetric
analyzer, Thermomechanical analyzer, time domain reflectometer,
event monitors, laser vibrometer, Instron, and MTS.
This is only a partial list and additional details may
be found at the IEEC web site at www.ieec.binghamton.edu/ieec/
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