Biology Department - Facilities

Buildings

The home of the Biology Department is in the Glaske Center for Engineering, Science, and Technology.

Our labs give students hands-on experience in labs including: molecular techniques, live animal studies, research projects with faculty and clinical observation. Our labs have 22 seats, so you will get personal instruction from you professor.

Our wet labs have eyewash and shower stations along with fume hoods, which re-circulate and trap hazards in filters rather than venting to the atmosphere. We also practice a strict hazardous wastes disposal protocol, which means we collect and destroy or recycle all wastes, rather than sending these to a waste water treatment plant with other sewerage.

We share a resource room in the Glaske Center that has computers and printers (perfect for printing off that last minute assignment or checking your e-mail before class). These computers also have software that will be very helpful in some of your science courses.

Classrooms

Are you ready for the classroom experience? The biology area in Glaske has:

• 3 biology labs: 2 multipurpose, anatomy and research
• 4 chemistry labs: 2 multipurpose organic and instruments
• 2 physics labs: General, Physics and Physics Prep
• 1 shared student/faculty research suite

Equipment

Can’t wait to use the latest biology technology? The biology area in Glaske has:

• Fourier transform infrared spectrometer
• Nuclear magnetic imaging spectrometer
• UV-VIS spectrophotometer
• Gas chromatographs33 Olympus binocular compound microscopes
• 1 Olympus CX41 binocular compound microscope with fluorescence optics
• 8 Olympus dissecting microscopes
• 6 Agarose and 6 polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis units
• 2 PCR programmable thermocyclers
• High-speed, refrigerated fixed-angle and swinging-bucket centrifuge
• 3 Eppendorf micro-centrifuges
• Minus-80 degree C freezer
• 2 UV Electrophoresis trans-illuminators and cameras
• Programmable High-Intensity Environment Plant Growth Chamber
• 4 computer-interfaced Bio-Pac life sciences data acquisition and analysis systems
• Articulated and disarticulated human skeletons and multiple skulls of real bone