grounds where the first women's dormitory, Olevian Hall, stood from 1865 until 1931.
In the 1950s, alumnus Walter W. Marsteller used military surplus materials and aircraft scrap to build an observatory atop the building. However, it was dismantled in the late 1990s.
The labs are equipped with a 300-MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, Fourier-transform spectrometers, an isothermal calorimeter, gas chromatography/mass spectrometers, a voltammetric analyzer, UV visible absorbance spectrometers, high performance liquid chromatographs, an atomic absorption spectrometer, a capillary electrophoresis apparatus, a Mössbauer spectrometer, and a fluorescence spectrometer.
=== Beardwood-Paisley-Stauffer Hall ===
Beardwood-Paisley-Stauffer Hall was opened in 1957 and jointly named in honor of Hannah Beardwood and her husband Matthew, a former chemistry professor, Harry Paisley, former president of the Ursinus board of directors, and Rev. George A. Stauffer.
=== Thomas Hall ===
Opened in 1970 and renovated in …
