Photo Gallery

This gallery of photographs, used in a random sequence as the main image on our home page, provides an insight into the world of Chemistry at MSU. You may reload/refresh the home page to show another random image (over and over again, if you wish).

Click on the links, below each caption, to view the pictures in a variety of sizes (the number shown is the long dimension, in pixels).

 
Chemistry Building viewed from the WNW early in the afternoon in Spring. Chemistry Building viewed from the WNW early in the afternoon in Spring. (photo by Keki Mistry)
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Graduate student Marina Zhuravleva. Graduate student Marina Zhuravleva, working with Prof. Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, operating the department's Bruker SMART CCD X-ray diffractometer. (photo by Bruce Fox)
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A crystal mounted on the department's Bruker SMART CCD. A crystal mounted on the department's Bruker SMART CCD X-ray diffractometer, showing the cryogenic nitrogen gas cooling stream. (photo by Bruce Fox)
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Paul A. Reed, systems analyst, with the department's SGI supercomputer. Paul A. Reed, systems analyst, with the department's SGI supercomputer. (photo by Tom Atkinson)
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Graduate student Carl Iverson. Graduate student Carl Iverson (PhD 1999), working with Prof. Milton R. Smith, III, extracting a purified solvent from one of their group's stills. (photo by Bruce Fox)
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Just a pretty picture! Just a pretty picture! (photo by Bruce Fox)
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Graduate student Scott Goldie. Graduate student Scott Goldie (PhD 2001), working with Prof. Gary Blanchard, in their group's laser laboratory. (photo by Bruce Fox)
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John G. Funkhouser, Michael J. Kenney, Evelyn P. Jackson. John G. Funkhouser, Michael J. Kenney, and Evelyn P. Jackson holding three of the element cards from the "Living Periodic Table" card display presented at Spartan Stadium in 1993 as part of the ACS National Chemistry Week [C&EN, Dec. 6, 1993, pp 44-58. "... In terms of originality, it would be difficult to surpass the Michigan State University (MSU) Section's project to form a "Living Periodic Table" that marched onto Michigan State's football field during half-time in a game against Northwestern University. ..."]. (photo by Bruce Fox)
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Research associate Jennifer Cheek. Research associate Jennifer Cheek, working with Prof. Joan Broderick, at the anerobic Coy Chamber used for protein purification. (photo by Bill Draper)
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Weliky group laboratory. Professor David P. Weliky, and graduate students Paul Parkanzky, Jun Yang and Chris Canlas, tuning the probe for the solid state NMR. (photo by Harley Seeley)
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Dantus group laboratory. Professor Marcos Dantus aligning the laser system to produce 50 fs pulses in his colliding pulse femtosecond laser system. (photo by IMC staff)
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Dantus group laboratory. Professor Marcos Dantus and two-photon induced fluorescence from laser dyes excited with an infrared femtosecond laser. (photo by Brian McNea)
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Dantus group laboratory. Katherine Walowicz, an MSU Junior working with Prof. Marcos Dantus, adjusting the laser pulse shaper (for controlling chemical reactions) before taking data. (photo by Marcos Dantus)
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Broderick group laboratory. Professor Joan Broderick and graduate student Mbako Nnyepi. (photo by Bruce Fox)
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Bridge over Red Cedar River. Winter view of the bridge over the Red Cedar River, between the Administration Building and Wells Hall. (photo by Bruce Fox)
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Analytical graduate student Alayna Goetsch and Postdoctoral Fellow Maciej Mazur, working with Prof. Gary Blanchard, adjust two picosecond pulsed dye laser systems used in their research. (photo by Roger Boettcher)
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Graduate students Cathy Regan and Sarah Stevenson, working with Prof. Gary Blanchard, tuning up a picosecond dye laser. (photo by Roger Boettcher)
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Graduate student Deborah Davies, working with Prof. David J. Morrissey, prepares for an experiment at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. (photo by Roger Boettcher)
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Graduate students Bryan Tomlin (left) and Sean Liddick, working with Prof. Paul F. Mantica, construct a new detector at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, which is adjacent to the Chemistry building. (photo by Roger Boettcher)
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Professor Marcos Dantus and two-photon induced fluorescence from laser dyes excited with an infrared femtosecond laser. (photo by Roger Boettcher)
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Postdoctoral Fellow Rajendra Muthukumeran, working with Prof. John McCracken, adjusts a sample in the new 9 GHz cw EPR spectrometer. (photo by Roger Boettcher)
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Graduate student Anne Fischer, working with Prof. Greg Swain, prepares the aparatus to grow a diamond thin film in a chemical vapor deposition system. (photo by Roger Boettcher)
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