The Bush Science Center at Rollins College TheArchibald Granville Bush Science Center a t Rollins College was dedicated in February 1969. It i., named in memory of the late Mr. Bush, a business executive of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, and a philanthropist, whose gift of 5800,000 to the college made the building possible. The building is of Mediterranean architecture, so that i t is consistent with the other buildings on the campus. It has 91,519 square feet of floor space on three floors, a total of 235 rooms, and was built at a cost of 3.5 million dollars. I t houses the departments of biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics. On the first floor there is a 350-seat auditorium, a large conference room, s. 100-seat demonstration lecture room, and s faculty lounge for all college use. The major portion of the floor space on this floor is occupied by the physics department. A precision machine shop and an electronics shop for service to d l science denartments are also on this floor. is located an the second floor and The ~ u s h ~ ~ c i e Library nce is easily accessible to students and faculty. The blology department occupies the remaining floor space. The mathematics and chemistry departments are on the third floor, each department occupying one wing of the building. The chemistry department has the traditional laboratories for general, organic, analytical, and physical chemistry. The design of the first three of these laboratories is quite similar. Benches have very few superstructures, all common facilities and can serve, therefore, any course. The physical chemistry laboratory is equipped with movable tables. This permits arrangements to fit the needs of specific experimental set-ups. Instrument laboratories are adjacent to or a short distance away from the main laboratories to be served. For example, an instrument lab with a. preparative gas chromatograph, an automatic electronic polarimeter, and 8. recording osmometer is adjacent to the organic laboratory. An infrared laboratory is
across the hall and a nmr laboratory only a few steps down the hall. Adiacent to the rtndvticd laboratom is a balance room
titrators. From the physical chemistry laboratory one has access to a glass blowing room that has also an electronic bench with test equipment, and to an instrument laboratory with a differential thermal analyeer, calorimeters, oscillometer, du Guoy balance, conductance bridges, and digital universal meters. An X-ray laboratory for powder diffractometryand equipped with a quartercircle ganiometer and a Weissenberg camera, for single crystal analysis is close to the physical chemistry ares. The laboratory for radio- and inorganio chemistry is next to a room with counters for radiation detection, a single- and a multichannel analveer. These are used for radioassav and for activation analysis of samples activated by a neutron source available in the physics department. Two student research laboratories can rtccommodate up to 4 students each and work space is assigned to students in these laboratories for their junior and senior research. In addition, senior student work mace is also made available in the faculty research laboratories dhich are next to faculty offices. A large stock room is centrally located. Additional storage facilities are on this floor, otherj are in the basement of the building, such as a special room for isotope storage with deep storage wells and a specially ventilsted storage room for volatile solvents. The design of the chemistry department laboratories was recommended by the faculty. The functionality of the floor plan has been demonstrsted during the first year's occupation of the building. Students and faculty enjoy their work in these facilities.
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