Additional laboratory and office space for the chemistry department is located in Weniger Hall. The nuclear and radiation chemistry division is housed in the Radiation Center at the western end of campus. Agricultural-related chemistry research offices and laboratories are in the new Agriculture & Life Sciences Building.

Connected by an aerial walkway to Gilbert Hall is the 44,000-square-foot Gilbert Addition (GbAd). This building houses general and organic chemistry teaching laboratories and facilities for students in the advanced, integrated laboratory courses. Issue rooms are located on each floor. Gilbert Addition also includes modular instrument rooms, a photography dark room, and a large electronics and computer-interfacing laboratory.

The department maintains well-equipped mechanical instrument, electronics and glass-blowing shops. These shops are staffed by developmental engineers who are available to help design and fabricate new and specialized apparatus as well as to repair existing equipment. Glassblowing services are available within the department. A separate machine shop is provided for graduate students who wish to do their own work under the tutelage of the lead mechanical specialist.

A full-time research technician, responsible for the NMR and mass spectrometers, instructs students in using these instruments, helps obtain spectra for occasional users, and maintains the facilities. The Bruker AM400 and DRX 600 instruments were substantially upgraded during the 1999/2000 academic year, making "pulse gradient" experiments possible. The impact of collecting 2-dimensional NMR data will be significant. The updated computers permit the separation of data collection from data processing, and the enhanced software will provide new tools for displaying and analyzing spectra. The total cost of the upgrades will top $400,000. More information on the NMR facility is available on the chemistry department website.

First is the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Collection donated to OSU in 1986 and now housed in the Valley Library. Included in this vast set of over 600,000 items are

• all of Pauling’s research notes, notebooks, and papers;
• Pauling’s two Nobel Prize medals, 1954 chemistry and 1963 peace;
• Pauling’s extensive correspondence, including letters from Albert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer, Bertrand Russell, and many others;
• notes and drafts for Pauling’s many books, which include The Nature of the Chemical Bond, Vitamin C and the Common Cold, and How to Live Longer and Feel Better;
• Pauling’s petition for nuclear disarmament, which was presented to the United Nations in 1963 signed by 11,000 scientists from around the world, and which led to the first nuclear treaty of the Cold War.

Also located at OSU is the Linus Pauling Institute, which is housed in Weniger Hall. Pauling founded the Institute in 1973 and its board of trustees decided to move it to OSU after Pauling’s death in 1994. The Institute is entirely supported by private donors, who now number over 30,000. Through its endowment and donations, the Institute conducts and sponsors research on the role of vitamins and other micronutrients in human health.

The OSU Chemistry Department honors Pauling every year by inviting an eminent chemist with broad interests to spend a week at OSU as the Linus Pauling Lecturer. The honoree interacts with faculty and students and delivers a set of lectures designed (in the spirit of Pauling) to be accessible to a broad audience. Every year OSU also sponsors the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Peace Lecture. Recent lecturers in this series have included Noam Chomsky, Arun Gandhi, and several Nobel Peace Prize recipients.

In the Information Commons of the Library, the Electronic Reference Center offers access to online catalogs, research databases, E-mail, and the Internet. Multimedia software and laptop computers are available to check out. Of special interest to new students is the Graduate Student Multimedia Technology Resource Center. This program provides equipment and support for graduate students to produce multimedia materials and presentations.