CRUX REU Location Information

CRUXREU-Location

 

     Murfreesboro is located about 35 miles south of Nashville, TN with plenty of nearby urban and natural areas to explore. MTSU is the largest university in the mid-state region, serving 22,000 students.  Some of the features of the campus are the living areas, dining halls, recreation center.

     The location of the REU is the state-of-the-art (SCI, 2014) and renovated (DSB, 2016) buildings with labs and spaces, including a new (2017) Single Crystal X-ray Diffractometer a Powder X-ray Diffractometer, and also an X-ray Fluorescence spectrometer. The chemistry faculty regularly include undergraduate students in their research programs, and we recently hired an X-ray crystallographer to collect and help to interpret data. We look forward to working with you!