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Chemistry Department
Job title Laboratory Aide, Chemistry Department
Concise Job description
Assists with student laboratory preparations. Assists with instrumentation and in-lab support as directed. Analyzes student samples. Requires some chemistry and instrumentation background.
Sample tasks assigned to student workers
1) Filling vials for organic lab, supervised prep assistance, cleaning of labs, glassware cleaning and putting away. Glove and goggle safety, simple computer entries
2) Following prep books instructions with little assistance = reading schedules of labs correctly, reading the lab preps thoroughly, putting out and putting away prep materials, refilling solutions from existing stock
3) Making a dilution, making a solution, proper notebook entries, using concentrated solutions carefully and filling solvent bottles in hood
4) Titration, melting points for or lab, GC for org lab, IR for org lab, computerized inventory
analytic solution prep, higher independence and problem-solving
Physical Address:
Schmucker Scienc Center, room SSS119 , 450 S Church Street, West Chester Pa, 19383
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Community Service:
No
On/Off Campus:
On-Campus