Biology Facilities

The Biology Department is located on the first two floors of McCreary Hall and second floor of the new 86,000 square feet Science Center. Three laboratories for introductory biology courses, state-of-the-art environmental chambers, student/faculty research laboratories, and animal facilities are located on the ground level of McCreary Hall. In addition, there are laboratories with specialized facilities and equipment for Plant Studies (including an herbarium). Bowen Auditorium, seating 124, and Darrah Auditorium, seating 60, are multimedia classrooms. Close to the building are two greenhouses (one of which adjoins  the new Science Center) used for botany classes, as well as for student and faculty research. The main floor of McCreary houses the suite of departmental offices, faculty office/research suites, conference room, a multimedia classroom, a seminar-study room, and most upper-class laboratories (Animal Behavior, Vertebrate and Invertebrate Zoology, Limnology, Ecology, Microbiology, and Parasitology). An Electron Microscopy laboratory houses a Zeiss 109 transmission electron microscope, a JEOL 5200 scanning electron microscope (SEM) and related equipment for specimen preparation. The SEM is also equipped with a digital scanning generator with laser printer and data storage packages. In addition, a well-equipped darkroom, and a stockroom-preparation room with autoclave, media preparation facilities, cold room, and other facilities are also located on this floor,including a computer room!     

The third floor of McCreary houses the Psychology Department and includes an animal facility for mammals. The offices and research teaching laboratories for Biology faculty who are members of the Biochemistry/Molecular Biology program are located on the second floor of the new Science Center adjoining McCreary Hall. Teaching laboratories for the Cell Biology, Genetics, Molecular Genetics, and Animal Physiology courses are located in the new facilities. Various courses are taught in multimedia lecture rooms and seminar rooms in the Science Center. New media preparation room with autoclave, radiation room, walk-in environmental chamber, and a room for an epifluorescence microscope and digital imaging system exist for both teaching and student/faculty collaborative research. Laboratories are fully equipped to conduct contemporary research in molecular biology and biochemistry. A teaching laboratory and research room are available for the Neuroscience program.