USD Magazine, Spring 2004

aking aspirin

used to be a

headache for

Tammy Dwyer.

The chemistry professor's

assignment to the students

shown here requires use of

a rotary evaporator, a rela–

tively simple device used to

separate the pure aspirin

from its original chemical

compound. But until the

science center opened, chat

i,,-::;;,.u.;:.n.coll:!plicated tool posed a

series of complications for

Dwyer and lier colleagues.

"We had no place to

leave the rncovaps set up,"

she says. ''After each class

we'd have to break chem

down, then reassemble chem the next tirn

an extraordinary waste of

time. It's nice to have that

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