Open fume hoods in labs across campus account for thousands of dollars in wasted energy each year. Luci Keazer, senior lab engineer in Physical Facilities, is working to save those dollars, one fume ...

When you’re a student working with toxic chemicals, jarring alarms are not exactly a desired part of your process. Likewise, when you’re a facilities director, an annual expense of $30,000 to run a ...

Fume hoods are a necessary piece of engineered equipment to protect users and occupants from possible chemical exposures. There are approximately 75 fume hoods on campus, located in Bill Hall, New ...

Walls lined with humming fume hoods are a defining feature of many chemistry laboratories. These safety devices, part of a lab’s overall ventilation system, suck hazardous airborne chemicals away from ...

Even state-of-the-art laboratory fume hoods can’t contain the youthful exuberance spilling out of Christine DiMeglio’s organic chemistry class these days. It’s gotten to the point where, one day ...