80,000-square-foot Biology and Chemistry building

Our 80,000-square-foot Biology and Chemistry building, Hays Hall, was dedicated on September 19-20, 2003. It provides flexible teaching spaces, research laboratories located directly across from faculty offices, and a number of small public gathering places designed to encourage students to work together in informal groups. The new building includes the following:

• 1,100 data outlets (wireless connections)
• State of the art teaching labs
• Instrument rooms
• Greenhouse
• Animal facility with cage washer
• Reading room overlooking the Fuller Arboretum
• Dedicated computer classrooms
• Student offices and research space
• Large complex of integrated molecular biology labs
• Controlled environment rooms (cold room and warm room, NRC license)

Major pieces of laboratory equipment include:

• Zeiss Oil Immersion and Phase-Contrast Microscopes
• Zeiss Epifluorescent Microscope
• Zeiss Universal Microscope with Nomarski Optics
• Nikon Compound Microscopes
• Nikon, Leica, and Wild Dissecting Scopes
• Electron Microscope (scanning & transmission) - teaching grade
• Video Microscopy - projection & time lapse with video printing
• Liquid Scintillation & Gamma Counters
• UV/visible specrophotometers
• Optima Max ultracentrifuge
• preparative centrifuges
• autoclaves
• ultra cold freezer
• laminar flow hoods
• automated X-Ray Developer
• scanning and digitizing computer hardware & software
• Thermocycler & BioRad CFX96 Real-Time System

Field Sites

• Allee Memorial Woods - 200 acre old-growth forest research and teaching site
• Pond - 5 acre pond and aquatic habitat site located 5 minutes from campus