80,000-square-foot Biology and Chemistry building

Our new 80,000-square-foot Biology and Chemistry building, dedicated on September 19-20, 2003, 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
• State of the art teaching labs
• Balance and instrument rooms
• Greenhouse
• Animal facility
• Reading room overlooking the Fuller Arboretum
• Dedicated computer classrooms
• Student offices and research space
• Large complex of integrated molecular biology labs
• Controlled environment rooms

Major pieces of laboratory equipment include:

• Zeiss Oil Immersion and Phase-Contrast Microscopes
• Zeiss Epifluorescent Microscopes
• Zeiss Universal Microscope with Nomarski Optics
• Nikon Compound Microscopes
• Nikon, Leica, and Wild Dissecting Scopes
• Electron Microscope (scanning & transmission)
• Video Microscopy - projection & time lapse with video printing
• Liquid Scintillation & Gamma Counters
• UV/visible specrophotometers
• ultracentrifuge
• preparative centrifuges
• autoclaves
• ultra cold freezer
• laminar flow hoods
• Polymerase Chain (PCR) Equipment (solid block and rapid air)
• automated X-Ray Developer
• scanning and digitizing computer hardware & software

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