The Life Sciences Building
houses the biology and psychology departments, which were
formerly housed in facilities that had become inadequate for the
exploration of contemporary science. All teaching and research
spaces associated with these units are housed in the new
building.
In the Department of
Psychology, these spaces include animal and human research labs,
testing and observation centers, computer labs, and the Quin
Curtis Center, which provides outpatient mental health services
for the local community as well as a training facility for
students in clinical psychology. Each of these areas ill satisfy
a variety of different research and instructional needs for a
department recently ranked in the top five worldwide in
behavioral analysis and therapy research.
The Department of Biology's
space is composed of two research and teaching environments,
environmental biology and cellular and molecular biology.
Special support areas serving these programs range from a
roof-top greenhouse for environmental research, to an animal
facility fro cellular and molecular research. All teaching and
research labs will be supplied with the necessary utilities and
services required for contemporary biological research. These
facilities will provide essential support for a department in
which nearly all faculty members are conducting federally-funded
research.
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