The department welcomes the addition of a state of the art pulse EPR (electron paramagnetic resonance) spectrometer, the Bruker ELEXSYS E580, to Miami University’s Ohio Advanced EPR Laboratory.  The National Science Foundation awarded Prof. Gary A. Lorigan partial funding for the $1.2 million instrument. The Ohio Advanced EPR Laboratory is a newly renovated laboratory space housed in the west wing of Hughes Laboratories along with the recently acquired departmental Bruker 850 MHz and 600 MHz NMR spectrometers. The new EPR spectrometer is capable of pulsed and continuous wave EPR measurements at both X- and Q-Bands (9 GHz and 34 GHz respectively), making it only the third commercial pulsed Q-Band instrument in operation within the United States.  The addition of pulse EPR capabilities complements the existing continuous wave instruments, one X-Band EMX system and a X- and Q-Band EMX system, making the Ohio Advanced EPR Laboratory a complete EPR facility working together with the department’s NMR and X-ray crystallography capabilities to provide services for many aspects of chemistry including structural biology.