Chemistry Core Instrumentation & Machine Shop (CSH-001)

Summary 🟡 ~

• Owner Unit: College of Science and Health
• Sub-unit: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
• Content Type: infrastructure
• Campus/Location: Lincoln Park
• Last Verified: May 30, 2026

Description & capabilities

Core analytical instrumentation on McGowan-South third floor (general instruments in shared core labs; specialized instruments in faculty research labs) plus a department machine shop for custom apparatus fabrication and repair. Free in-house consultation for the DePaul community.

Access status

• Level: yellow (Negotiated Access)
• Rationale: Chemistry instrumentation page states research students may use research-grade instruments, with general core labs and specialized equipment in faculty labs; no public self-service booking policy for all DePaul users.
• Access URL: csh.depaul.edu/academics/departments-schools/chemistry…
• Contact name: CSH front desk
• Contact email: CSHFrontDesk@depaul.edu
• Verification date: 2026-05-30
• Source URLs:
• csh.depaul.edu/academics/departments-schools/chemistry…
• csh.depaul.edu/academics/departments-schools/chemistry/facilities

Verification

• Status: likely (~)
• Confidence: 84/100
• Rationale: CSH chemistry/biology/physics department and facilities pages on csh.depaul.edu remain active with instrumentation and teaching-lab descriptions.
• Last verified: 2026-05-30
• Evidence:
• Official CSH facilities and instrumentation pages (May 2026)
• CSHFrontDesk@depaul.edu published on department pages
• McGowan complex referenced as active teaching/research space
• Core instrumentation inventory page lists active equipment classes

Equipment

Find this resource from the Equipment catalog or site search (e.g. “3D printers”, “laser cutter”, “NMR”).

Category	Specific equipment
Spectrometers	Varian AA240FS Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (McGowan-South 324); Varian SPECTR AA-200 Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (McGowan-South 324); Cary Eclipse fluorescence spectrometer (McGowan-South 324); Thermo Fisher NanoDrop 3300 (McGowan-South 310); ABB FT-IR FTLA 2000 (McGowan-South 324); ABB FT-IR MB 3000 (McGowan-South 328); ABB FT-IR MB 160D (McGowan-South 315); Bomem DA3.02 high-resolution FT-IR (McGowan-South 315); Varian Cary 50 UV-Vis Spectrometer (McGowan-South 220 and 311); Beckman Coulter DU 730 UV-Vis (McGowan-South 220); Thermo Fisher NanoDrop 1000 (McGowan-South 310); Thermo Fisher NanoDrop Lite (McGowan-South 220)
NMR	Bruker 300 MHz NMR spectrometer (McGowan-South 329); Nanalysis NMReady 60P benchtop NMR (McGowan-South 329)
Chromatography	Teledyne Isco CombiFlash Rf flash chromatography (McGowan-South 324); Agilent 7820A gas chromatograph (McGowan-South 324); Varian CP-3800 gas chromatograph (McGowan-South 324); Agilent 7820A / 5977E GC–mass spectrometer (McGowan-South 324); Agilent 6890 / 5975 GC–mass spectrometer (McGowan-South 324); Waters Acquity UPLC (McGowan-South 309B); Rainin Dynamax preparative HPLC (McGowan-South 309B)
Lab sample processing	Fisher 500 cell dismembrator (McGowan-South 324); Labconco Freezone 1 freeze dryer (McGowan-South 324); Fisher Scientific FS110 sonicator (McGowan-South 324)
Gloveboxes	MBraun gloveboxes (2) (McGowan-South 324)
Tissue culture and environmental chambers	New Brunswick Scientific Innova 44 incubator (McGowan-South 324); New Brunswick Scientific Innova E24 incubator (McGowan-South 324); Cold room, 4 °C (McGowan-South 318B); Warm room, 37 °C (McGowan-South 318A)
Materials mechanical testing	MTS Qtest FLS 210 mechanical tester (McGowan-South 324)
Sterilization	Harvey Sterilemax ST75925 sterilizer (McGowan-South 324)
Thin-film deposition	Spelco SC-7 sputterer (McGowan-South 324)
PCR and thermal cycling	Eppendorf Mastercycler Pro S (McGowan-South 324)
Lab ovens	Fisher Isotemp 675 oven (McGowan-South 324); Labline Model 3510 oven (McGowan-South 324)
Drill presses (machine shop)	Clausing Series 16VC drill press
Grinding and sanding (machine shop)	Baldor wheel grinder; Jet belt sander
Lathes (machine shop)	Clausing Colchester 15 engine lathe; Jet BD 920W bench lathe
Milling (machine shop)	Bridgeport vertical mill
Saws (machine shop)	DoAll DBW-15M vertical bandsaw; Wilton horizontal bandsaw

Source: CSH chemistry facilities — instrumentation and machine shop pages (May 2026). Last verified: May 28, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

• Website: Chemistry facilities
• Website: Core instrumentation
• Website: Chemistry machine shop
• Website: Chemistry & Biochemistry department
• Email: CSH front desk

Last verified: May 30, 2026.

People & contacts

Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.

• Caitlin E. Karver (Director) — ckarver@depaul.edu · Profile
• Carey Southern (Affiliated faculty) — CSOUTHE2@depaul.edu · Profile
• Justin J. Maresh (Affiliated faculty) — Profile
• Kyle A. Grice (Affiliated faculty) — kgrice1@depaul.edu · Profile
• Margaret Bell (Affiliated faculty) — margaret.bell@depaul.edu · Profile
• Mark J. Potosnak (Affiliated faculty) — mpotosnak@depaul.edu · Profile
• Richard F. Niedziela (Affiliated faculty) — rniedzie@depaul.edu · Profile

Source URL

Official links and email are listed under Contacts above.

Documented Relationships

Shared instrumentation utility for chemistry (CSH-002), physics, environmental science, and adjacent engineering workflows in the McGowan complex ([CSH-003](../CSH/CSH-003.md)).

Linked Relationship IDs

• CSH-002 - Chemistry Teaching Laboratories
• CSH-003 - Environmental Science & Chemistry Building (McGowan)
• CSH-008 - Chemistry Large-Format Printing (McGowan-South 303A)
• CSH-011 - Potosnak Lab
• CSH-012 - Bell Lab
• CSH-014 - Maresh Research Group
• CSH-016 - Grice Laboratory
• CSH-017 - Karver Laboratory
• CSH-018 - Southern Laboratory

Related courses (documented)

CHE 261

• Catalog course page: CUR-031
• Relationship: uses_facility
• Rationale: DePaul course catalog description references Core chemistry instrumentation.
• Source URLs:
• catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/che

CHE 300

• Catalog course page: CUR-199
• Relationship: uses_facility
• Rationale: DePaul course catalog description references Core chemistry instrumentation. Catalog text matches Core chemistry instrumentation.
• Source URLs:
• catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/che

CHE 302

• Catalog course page: CUR-200
• Relationship: uses_facility
• Rationale: DePaul course catalog description references Core chemistry instrumentation. Catalog text matches Core chemistry instrumentation.
• Source URLs:
• catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/che

CHE 303

• Catalog course page: CUR-201
• Relationship: uses_facility
• Rationale: DePaul course catalog description references Core chemistry instrumentation. Catalog text matches Core chemistry instrumentation.
• Source URLs:
• catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/che

CHE 305

• Catalog course page: CUR-203
• Relationship: uses_facility
• Rationale: DePaul course catalog description references Core chemistry instrumentation. Catalog text matches Core chemistry instrumentation.
• Source URLs:
• catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/che

CHE 318

• Catalog course page: CUR-206
• Relationship: uses_facility
• Rationale: DePaul course catalog description references Core chemistry instrumentation. Catalog text matches Core chemistry instrumentation.
• Source URLs:
• catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/che

CHE 378

• Catalog course page: CUR-207
• Relationship: uses_facility
• Rationale: DePaul course catalog description references Core chemistry instrumentation. Catalog text matches Core chemistry instrumentation.
• Source URLs:
• catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/che

CHE 474

• Catalog course page: CUR-209
• Relationship: uses_facility
• Rationale: DePaul course catalog description references Core chemistry instrumentation. Catalog text matches Core chemistry instrumentation.
• Source URLs:
• catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/che

CHE 480

• Catalog course page: CUR-210
• Relationship: uses_facility
• Rationale: DePaul course catalog description references Core chemistry instrumentation. Catalog text matches Core chemistry instrumentation.
• Source URLs:
• catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/che

CHE 488

• Catalog course page: CUR-211
• Relationship: uses_facility
• Rationale: DePaul course catalog description references Core chemistry instrumentation. Catalog text matches Core chemistry instrumentation.
• Source URLs:
• catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/che

PHY 350

• Catalog course page: CUR-433
• Relationship: uses_facility
• Rationale: DePaul course catalog description references Core chemistry instrumentation. Catalog text matches Core chemistry instrumentation.
• Source URLs:
• catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/phy

PHY 366

• Catalog course page: CUR-438
• Relationship: uses_facility
• Rationale: DePaul course catalog description references Core chemistry instrumentation. Catalog text matches Core chemistry instrumentation.
• Source URLs:
• catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/phy

Notes

Facility entry.