Division of Pharmacology: Location and Facilities

The College of Pharmacy is located in the five stories of Parks Hall and on stories four, five, and six of the Riffe Building. These two buildings are located in the Life/Health Sciences complex of The Ohio State University. The College of Pharmacy community consists of approximately 45 faculty, 100 graduate students, 400 professional students, 100 undergraduate students, 20 postdoctoral trainees, and 30 full time staff.

Office: Each student, postdoctoral trainee, and technician, and faculty has desk space in an office outside of the laboratory. Faculty have individual offices, while other program members share office space.

Shared University Resources: In addition to our own lab facilities, several specialized laboratory resources are available on campus. These include molecular and transgenic animal facilities, electron microscopy, protein, NMR, flow cytometry, and others. Faculty and students have access to all of the equipment in the Campus Chemical Instrumentation Center, including 300, 500, 600, and 800 MHz NMR's and high resolution mass spectrometeres. Institutional animal housing facilities are conveniently located on the 5th floor of Parks Hall, adjacent to pharmacology labs.

Library: The College of Pharmacy and The College of Biological Sciences share a library in the new Riffe Building. The library has a seating capacity of 250 and holds over 145,000 volumes. In addition, the Health Sciences Library is only a few blocks away and provides a vast area of clinical reference material. The University's library system is the 16th largest library system in the United States, with a collection totaling more than 4 million print volumes and 2.7 million microforms. With the advent of electronic literature databases, the computer in one's office is becoming the library. Ohio State Unversity through a state-wide consortium called OhioLink has electronic access to a large number of scientific journals.

Computer The College of Pharmacy maintains an extensive computer enterprise, with more than 500 PCs located in offices, student academic laboratories, and in research laboratories. Email services are provided for all students. The College also houses networked computer systems, minicomputers, and two Silicon Graphics workstations for molecular modeling work. Currently, the College also has a subscription to the Celera database for the Human Genome Project.

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