GRADUATE CATALOG • 2010-2011

Dorothy Rider Pool Science Center (SCI): The Pool Science Center is a modern classroom and laboratory building arranged around a central landscaped court. It houses all instructional and research facilities for biology, chemistry and physics, with laboratories for course-related and independent work in all fields.

The Biological Sciences department includes fully-equipped radiation and genetic engineering laboratories, darkroom and greenhouse. It has instruments for electrophoresis, electrophysiology, tissue culture, high-speed centrifugation, liquid scintillation counting, thin sectioning, photomicrography and phase, dark-field, scanning, fluorescent, and confocal microscopy.

Additional equipment includes a DNA sequencer and thermocyclers.
The Chemical and Physical Sciences department contains most modern instrumentation methods, including gas and liquid chromatography (both with and without mass spectroscopy), electrochemistry, UV-visible, infrared, atomic absorption and fluorescence spectrophotometry, polarized and fluorescent microscopy and computer techniques. The science center also is equipped with nuclear magnetic resonance instrumentation and a scanning electron microscope interfaced with x-ray fluorescence.

Harold and Miriam Oberkotter Center for Health and Wellness (OBC): The Oberkotter Center for Health and Wellness (OBC) features a forensics and biological science lab, a biochemistry lab, a 100-seat state-of-the-art multi-media classroom, faculty offices, and a student lounge.

Rodale Aquatic Center For Civic Health: The Rodale Aquatic Center offers swimming, fitness and wellness classes to the College and adds a major health resource to the Lehigh Valley community. The facility includes a 25’ x 40’ warm-water exercise pool, a 25-yard x 8-lane fitness/competitive pool, locker rooms, meeting spaces, and parking areas all accessible for physically disabled visitors.

Tompkins College Center (TCC): The Tompkins College Center’s floor-to-ceiling windows frame the magnificent park-like views of the Cedar Crest campus. This newly renovated building is a popular place for many campus activities and provides facilities for student organizations, meetings, lectures, cultural events, receptions, movies, banquets and social gatherings. It houses dining services, as well as the bookstore, post office, Samuels Theatre, information desk and art gallery. An activities lounge with electronic games, a pool table, wide-screen TV and kitchen facilities are on the ground floor.

Performing arts offices, including scene and costume shops, also are located in the Center. Meeting rooms are available for use by College organizations and outside groups. Senior art majors have the opportunity to exhibit their work in the art gallery, which also hosts exhibitions by artists with national and international exhibition records. Students are encouraged to become involved with gallery exhibitions and activities and are an important presence at gallery opening receptions.