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:
- 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 15 minutes from campus