Clapp
Laboratory
Clapp Laboratory provides
laboratory and classroom space for biological sciences; geology
and geography; mathematics and statistics; and computer science.
Students studying
biology have access to advanced microscopy facilities, including
scanning and transmission electron microscopes, a confocal scanning
laser microscope, complete video microscopy capabilities, and
electrophysiology.
For biochemistry and molecular biology students, facilities include
thermal cyclers, ultracentrifuges, DNA sequencing equipment, an
electrophoresis apparatus, and scintillation counters for measuring
radioactivity.
Students interested
in the ecological and environmental sciences use the facilities
of the solar greenhouse, environmentally controlled growth chambers,
and a 200-gallon marine aquarium to raise orchids, ferns, and
starfish.
Mount Holyoke's geoprocessing
laboratory is one of the largest geographic information systems
(GIS) and remote-sensing laboratories in New England. Equipment
includes a scanning electron microscope, an energy-dispersive
spectrometer, a cathodoluminoscope, an X-radiograph machine, and
an X-ray diffractometer. The department maintains a geology computer
and microscope laboratory, a petrographic thin-section laboratory,
and sedimentary geology and geochemistry laboratories. The department
also houses exceptionally rich fossil, rock, and mineral collections.
Built in 1934, Clapp
is named for a pioneering woman scientist, Cornelia Maria Clapp,
class of 1871 and professor of zoology from 1872 to 1916.
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