Equipment
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The Biology Department has a range of up-to-date equipment
to complement our relatively new facility thanks to faculty obtained
NSF grants, a huge grant from the Murdock foundation for the
purchase of microscopes, private donations and support from our
Dean and Administration with annual equipment budgets.
Some of the high visibility equipment:
- Research grade compound microscopes for use in upper division
classes with bright field, phase, dark field, fluorescence, video,
and digital analysis capabilities
- Zeiss EM 900 electron microscope (pictured at left)
- Laminar flow biological safety hood
- Molecular biology related equipment
- Solomat digital meters and data loggers for field work
- Weatherpak radio telemetry weather station
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Facilities
The Biology Department is housed in a unique underground laboratory
facility completed in January of 1990. All laboratories and office
spaces have a bay window into the underground arboretum illuminated
by natural light through a number of skylights. The facility
is state of the art in all aspects including safety. We'll soon
have photos on-line of some of the research, specialized, and
general laboratory space, including the following:
- research labs adjoining faculty offices
- student research lab
- microbiology lab
- cellular, molecular, genetics, physiology lab
- ecology, field biology lab
- structural biology lab
- environmental lab
- walk-in cold room
- electron microscope lab complex including dark room
- roof-top greenhouse
- two larger general student labs
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