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- Photos taken Intermittently by Edward Chikwana, Itai Chipinda and
Vikrant
- Captions Created by Edward and Professor Simoyi and Vikrant
- ‘Censorship’ by Professor Simoyi
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- Our work space consists of three labs –
- Lab 351, 357 and 309
- Lab 351 is what we call a “wet lab” in a sense you can get wet there…!
Both literally and metaphorically.
- Lab 309 is dedicated for Video
Imaging analysis supported by Media Cybernetics software
- Lab 357 is a “dry lab”. It has has a little canteen with a plethora of
international food.
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- Protective clothing is required beyond this point – in case things get
very wet!!!
- The warning on the door says it all
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- Our journey begins at the Hi-Tech Stopped Flow Spectrophotometer which
has been our workhorse for the last decade
- To your right is the setup of this unique machine
- Recently we bought a new stopped
flow from Kintek in the hope that it will support the older one
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- That’s Funke getting acquainted with the new Stopped-Flow
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- We also have our ‘veteran’ – UV/VIS from Perkin Elmer. Probably the most
versatile piece of equipment you can find around the lab
- And now its got a new friend next to it.. J. another Perkin Elmer to help him out and share
the load
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- We have great Undergraduate Research opportunities in our labs
- In the picture is Gus, one of our two undergrad research assistants,
looking at sulfinic acid crystals. Well they are supposed to be white…
looks yellow though … gotta do something about that
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- That’s our glove box unit where we do our anaerobic analysis
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- We have a very sophisticated and high tech lab for studying non-linear
dynamics from a different angle.
- The lab has two Video Imaging systems running on
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- The picture shows the Optimas
based Imaging equipment running on a powerful Pentium IV
- (2 GHz) PC with Windows XP
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- That’s Nike’s desk. Besides it as you can see is our small canteen, a
refrigerator (not shown in the picture) and a microwave oven. We have
variety of international foods available in here. The favorite one is
“spicy and ready to eat burritos”.
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- The picture that you just saw is our old SGI Indigo system
- After serving us for about 8 yrs it’s kind of tired now and has handed
over most of his duties to “The Newmonster” – (The new SGI Fuel system
which we bought in September 2002)
- Its still up, but had himself removed from the network and now relaxing
in Lab 309.
- Its now serving the crucial role of “hands on Unix experience” for our
group Members.
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- After getting a “green signal” from the older SGI “The Newmonster” has
taken over all the controls and has been serving us consistently. It’s a
very high performance SGI Fuel Server system sitting in Lab 357.
- The SGI s are known for performance when it comes to complex
multiplications or floating point calculations or other similar
workloads…Yes that’s what we work on
- Its running SGI IRIX 6.5 Operating System and currently hosting our
whole research website. http://sflow.chem.pdx.edu on Apache
- It also gives a crucial “Unix” hands on experience for the group members
through X -Win32.
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- That’s the GC –MS system which you can see below owned by the Chemistry
Department
- If you come here late at night you can see Itai doing wonders with
nitrosothiols
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- Another equipment provided by Portland State University which we also
have unlimited access to
- It’s a 90 MHz NMR Spectrometer, the 500Mhz one is for the Synthesis
gurus
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- We have quite a big network of 15 computers currently existing in our
“workgroup”, all of them online
- We always wanted something unique and that’s what we did by naming the
general lab computers by the names of animals such as “elephant”,
“cheetah”, “eagle”, “cobra”, ”buffalo”, “giraffe”,” kangaroo”, ”lion”
- Every group member has his/her own desk with a Pentium PC with windows
XP with all the required softwares like ChemOffice, Reference Manager,
Sigmaplot … etc. installed on it.
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- That’s “elefant” , the most important computer on our workgroup
- It’s the heart and soul of our group as it saves as backup for all the
computers on the network
- Used to host the group website at some point.
- Location : Lab 351
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- That’s “timmy”,named after “Dr.
Rotimi Olojo” under whose guidance the group network was created. Its
one of the fastest PC’s we have.
- After he left the group, Itai (in the picture) took over and decided to
retain the name in Dr Olojo’s honor
- Location: Lab 357
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- This is named after Nike, our synthesis specialist.
- Printing point for all the computers in lab 357
- Location: Lab 357
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- This PC sits on Olufunke’s desk.
- Location: Lab 351
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- Its one of the oldest and the slowest PCs which we have in our labs.
Pentium III 900 MHz
- Its mainly for the visitors like Fungai in the picture.
- Location: Lab 357
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- As you can guess that’s Edward’s PC on his desk.
- It’s a “Gateway” machine same as “Timmy” … really fast and its got a CD
burner on it.
- Printing point for lab 351
- Location: Lab 351
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- That’s “Cobra” our new friend, really necessary for seminars and group
presentations
- This thin, extremely light and great looking laptop has wireless
capabilities so you can be online everywhere in the building
- Next to it is our new Overhead projector
- Location: “everywhere”
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- This is him…The longer you live the more you learn.
- Dr. Reuben Simoyi - So encouraging to everyone. A great inspiration to
all the group members and a wonderful person…
- That’s Dr. Simoyi in his new office…!!
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- Our small but tightly integrated group
- Sitting (L – R) – Itai, Dr. Simoyi, Nike
- Standing (L – R) – Vikrant, Gus, Olufunke, Edward
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- Thank you for your time and attention and also for taking our “Lab Tour”
- For any comments or suggestions contact webmaster: vikrant@pdx.edu
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