Laboratory Facilities
Selected Laboratory Facilities by Subject Area
Anthropology
Evolutionary Neuroanatomy Laboratory
Biology
Laboratories in Bell Hall house a cold room, animal care facilities, fully equipped molecular biology laboratories, a photographic dark room, a microscopy room with a state-of-the-art Leo Scanning Electron Microscopy, a common instrumentation room, a computer room with scanners and microcomputers, fossil preparation rooms, a DNA sequence facility with an automated capillary sequencer, and two greenhouses. Facilities available in the GW Institute for Biomedical Studies include a microchemistry core facility with an oligonucleotide synthesizer and a Transmission Electron Microscopy and confocal microscopy suite.
Business
The Capital Markets Trading Room is a virtual Wall Street laboratory.
Education
The Graduate School of Education and Development’s (GSEHD’s) Research Laboratory provides GSEHD faculty and students with technical assistance and support services related to conducting research. Services provided include statistical tutoring and a variety of research methods workshops and assistance.
Engineering
A partial list of School of Engineering and Applied Science laboratories includes:
Center for Biomimetics and Bioinspired Engineering
COBRE operates locomotion observation facilities such as the Insect Observation System.
Center for Intelligent Systems Research (CISR) operates four research laboratories:
- Traffic and Networks Research Laboratory
- Driving Simulation Laboratory
- Truck Driving Simulation Laboratory
- Virtual Reality Laboratory
Earthquake Simulator
Created with a grant from the National Science Foundation, the GW earthquake simulator—or “shake table” is the only one of its kind on the East Coast of the United States. Powered by hydraulics and with six degrees of freedom, it simulates motion in three translational and three rotational degrees.
Institute for Biomedical Engineering
IBE houses laboratories in advanced computer applications in medicine, biomedical engineering, flow simulation and analysis, and motion caption and analysis.
Institute for Massively Parallel Applications and Computing Technologies (IMPACT)
Institute for MEMS and VLSI Technology
National Crash Analysis Center
NSF Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC)
For the full list of SEAS labs visit SEAS’s centers and institutes page, which also lists its laboratories and facilities.
Forensic Science
The Department of Forensic Science houses a microscope lab, a forensic chemistry lab, and a forensic molecular biology lab. Included among the equipment in these labs are a scanning electron microscope and a DNA sequencer.
Geography
Spatial Analysis Laboratory is housed in the Geography department. The laboratory consists of 12 networked PCs, featuring the latest in GIS (ArcMap 9.1) & Remote Sensing (IMAGINE) software.
Medicine
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The GW Experience
Students
GW student entrepreneurs may apply for spots in entrepreneurship incubator.
A Home Away from HomeTwins study medicine and public health at George Washington.
Student Co-Produces New AlbumGeorge Washington student José Curbelo helped produce an album of northern Uruguayan music for Smithsonian Folkways.
A Call to ServiceGW students traveled to Guatemala, Honduras, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Puerto Rico as part of the fourth annual Alternative Winter Break program.
Faculty
GSPM professors teach practical skills to emerging politicians in Egypt.
South African Youth Perform at GWLatest collaboration between Professor of Theatre Leslie Jacobson and the Bokamoso Youth Centre premieres Friday.
A Life-Changing CourseToday’s reading by Aryeh Lev Stollman, author of “The Far Euphrates,” is the first of six from visiting artists in this spring’s Jewish Literature Live course.
Alumni
New scholarship program enables graduates to put a face and name to donations.
Fifteen alumni and one doctoral student will conduct research around the globe with 2011-12 Fulbrights.
Furry Friend Gets Kids Excited About LearningGeorge Washington alumna helped create a curriculum for elementary school students centered on the dog who used to serve as the postal service’s mascot.
