Research Facilities

The primary College of Science and Technology research facilities on Main Campus are housed in 

• the Biology-Life Sciences Building for the Biology Department;
• Beury Hall for the Chemistry and Earth and Environmental Science departments; and
• the Science Education and Research Center (SERC), the College of Science and Technology's most advanced facility completed in 2014, for portions of the Biology and Chemistry departments, as well as the Computer and Information Sciences and Physics departments. 

The instrumentation housed in the Biology-Life Sciences Building, Beury Hall and SERC is available for use by undergraduate research students subject to proper training and supervision by faculty, graduate students or postdoctoral researchers. 

Undergraduate students of Temple’s College of Science and Technology also have the opportunity to perform research at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine under the direction of medical school faculty and thus have access to additional facilities and instrumentation.

Learn more about research in the College of Science and Technology.

Research Centers & Institutes

The Chemistry Department is involved with a variety of interdisciplinary research efforts across the university. Students and faculty perform research in the following centers and institutes.

• The interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Photonics Research includes eight faculty members actively collaborating from disciplines including physical, analytical and inorganic chemistry, and theoretical and experimental physics. Graduate and undergraduate students come from all areas of science to form research teams. Their efforts are forging new ways to diagnose disease, map cellular components and detect improvised explosive devices, among other outcomes.
• Temple Materials Institute houses collaborative interdisciplinary research on advanced materials ranging from complex functional solids and fluids to novel thin film superconductors and materials for strategic applications.
• The Center for Computational Design of Functional Layered Materials is one of 10 Energy Frontier Research Centers across the country founded by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2014. Researchers focus on the layered and two-dimensional materials that have potential for clean-energy technologies.
• The Institute for Computational Molecular Science plays a central role in high-performance computing for research across the university.

Learn more about research faculty and their specialties in the Chemistry Department.

Carnegie Classification

The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education lists Temple University as an R1 institution for “highest research activity,” placing it among the top 4% of all four-year institutions in the United States.