The department enjoys excellent facilities for an undergraduate institution, with a major addition being completed in 1994. Two laboratories joined by a balance room serve General Chemistry. The new organic laboratory is regarded as state of the art. It has three separate instrument rooms associated with it. There are also separate laboratories for Analytical, Physical and Instrumental Chemistry.
Research also has a separate lab devoted to it.
Class sizes rarely exceed 60 and remain moderate at all levels. Multimedia equipped classrooms are used extensively and include video presenter, videocassette, and laserdisk, in addition to computer projection hookups. Calorimeter Many of these instruments are interfaced with computers for data acquisition and processing. Student use of computers is required in all courses. Internet access is widely available and required in all courses.