Research Facilities
Juniata has outstanding facilities for use in student-faculty collaborative research.
Ryan Hollister '08 discusses his thesis, which examines World War I from the vantage point of the individual soldier.
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Undergraduate students do research here, and they get to use high-tech equipment to do it. They have opportunities, working alongside professors, to learn how to use a range of tools from a scanning electron microscope to a virtual environment lab called a CAVE.
von Liebig Center for Science
- Transmission and scanning electron microscopes
- Light Microscopy core facility with wide field and scanning confocal fluorescence microscopes
- Automated DNA sequencer
- Cell Culture core facility
- Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer
- Three gas chromatograph-mass spectrometers
- Eight-Xeon processor Linux Cluster for Molecular Modeling
- Protein chip SELDI-TOF mass spectrometer
- Liquid-chromatograph-mass spectrometer
- LIBS
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Brumbaugh Academic Center
- Multichannel gas exchange system for metabolic measurements
- Vertebrate Museum
- Greenhouse
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Raystown Field Station
- 365-acre reserve providing students with access to 29,000 acres of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems including the 8,300-acre Raystown Lake, the largest lake in Pennsylvania
- Classroom, laboratory and dining hall space is located in Shuster Hall that features LEED certified green architecture.
- State of the art teaching technology, including wireless internet
- Other features include a series of ground water monitoring wells, terrestrial sampling grids, a private harbor, boat dock and a small fleet of boats including a Boston Whaler, a 26' pontoon float boat and a 36' houseboat designed for aquatic laboratory work.
- Houses course activities for several academic departments, sponsors numerous faculty and student research projects and internships, and provides community environmental education opportunities
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L.A. Beeghly Library
- Technological classroom, including wireless internet and a Smartboard
- Collaborative and individual research / study space, including wireless access and laptops available for use throughout the library
- 171,600 volumes in library collections and 15,090 journals, including electronic, print and microfilm
- 132 electronic research databases available within the library and remotely via Virtual Private Network connections
- Open 100 hours per week with extensive student use and reference librarians available over 67 of those hours
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