Facilities

Hofstra University's Forensic Science Program is administered by the Chemistry Department. The Department is housed in a new (c.1999) building equipped with modern laboratory facilities and computer interfaced instrumentation, including high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), gas chromatography - mass spectrometry (GCMS), a liquid chromatograph interfaced with a mass spectrometry detector (LC-MSD), UV-visible and Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectrophotometers.

Hofstra University has various microscopy laboratories equipped with stereo- and polarizing-light microscopes, as well as two scanning electron microscopes (SEM). The building houses a small computer laboratory and there are several large computer facilities on campus available to all Hofstra students.