Milwaukee Section - American Chemical Society
Instrument Donation Program

Scope of the Program

The Milwaukee Section of the American Chemical Society has a program to facilitate the donation of equipment from industry and universities to small colleges and high schools in our southeast Wisconsin area. The nine counties that make up this area are Jefferson, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Walworth, Washington and Waukesha. This WEB page is to help facilitate the matching of donations and schools.

It appears the need is great, particularly with the private schools. Not only instruments, such as IRs, spectrophotometers, centrifuges, microscopes, and balances., but general laboratory equipment is also needed such as glass and plastic ware.

Survey Form - PDF file - Word RTF file

Donor Form - PDF file - Word RTF file

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Instruments Available for Adoption

Listed below are the current instruments that are available for adoption. It will be up to the recipient to arrange for the pick-up and/or shipping of the instrument. For a school to acquire one of these instruments, or for further information about the program, please contact Peter Petersen at PeterP901@juno.com

  • Nicolet FTIR (may need some repair)




Recent Adoptions

  • Mr. Roger Rummpe and Ft. Atkinson High School are in the process of receiving an FTIR from Epiresin Corporation in Ft. Atkinson. The instrument was actually removed a year ago and one of Epiresin employees, Mr. Sodemann, tuned and cleaned the instrument before contacting us. It took 2 days to find a home after we received news of its availability.

  • Aldrich Chemical Company has donated to Port Washington High School a constant temperature bath, two desicators, test tubes and pipettes.

    Pictured are Mary Doyle from Aldrich Chemical Company and Jeffrey Callies from Port Washington High School.
  • An extensive donation was made to Daniel Sem of Marquette University by David Stark of New York City. The donation was two low field NMR spectrometers, a light scattering device, two oscilliscopes, and some smaller items. Daniel Sem intends to make much of this equipment available as a resource in the Chemical Proteomics Facility, which is associated with the Marquette Chemistry Department.

  • A Gas Chromatograph has been donated to the Whitewater High School.


HTML by: Alan W. Thompson   -   athomp@uwm.edu   -   May 17, 2006