Trinity University

The Marrs McLean building houses the departments of physics and astronomy, geosciences, and mathematics. This facility supports research in the geosciences field with outstanding laboratory and computing facilities, including a 3-D projection system, and state-of-the-art field equipment, including surveying, GPS, and geophysical systems. Physics and astronomy facilities include an observatory with eight computer-guided telescopes, an astrophysics imaging laboratory, a gravitational-wave interferometry laboratory, a laser and soft-matter dynamics laboratory, one of the first undergraduate fiber optics/photonics laboratories in the country to be funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and a new laboratory for fabrication/analysis of nanomaterials with potential medial applications.

The Moody Engineering building is home to the departments of engineering science and chemistn/ as well as various laboratories. The chemistry department employs over $2 million in instrumentation in these labs, and the engineering science facilities include well-equipped machine and electronic shops; thermal/fluid, chemical engineering, control systems, and electronics laboratories; and a network of state-of-the-art computers and software.

Cowles Life Science Building facilitates the departments physics and biology. Here, students are given the opportunity to research utilizing state-of-the-art laboratories and instrumentation, including a greenhouse, animal research facilities, walk-in controlled environmental chambers, a genetic sequence analyzer, real-time PCR, and a high-resolution fluorescence microscopy with deconvolution and 3-D reconstruction.