Facilities
Rudman Hall is our Bioscience building. Built in 1995, Rudman boasts spacious labs and top-notch facilities.
Undergraduate and graduate level microbiology courses include extensive practical labs, allowing for hands-on learning. Microbiology has exclusive use of three lab classrooms on the ground floor, each accommodating 20 students at a time.
Between two and three hundred students attend these labs over the couse of a week in small groups, with maximum access to teaching staff, and materials and equipment.
Every seat has a microscope, and additional equipment is in sufficient numbers that students may work individually or in pairs, learning micro research techniques; from basic microscopy and selective bacterial cultures, to gel electrophoresis for the study of proteins and DNA, as well as many analytical tests used currently in industrial and health-care settings.
This unique teaching lab is equipped with 10 biohazard containment hoods, allowing up to 20 students per section to learn sterile tissue culture techniques, as well as safely study pathogens in virology, pathogenics and water pollution classes...
The research labs are located on the second floor of Rudman, along with the faculty offices. Bright modern labs allow graduate students and faculty to persue current research, much of which is supported by grants from prestigious organizations such as NIH, the EPA and the FDA as well as state sponsored programs.
Individual labs have their own extensive equipment, specific to their needs, as well as most comonly used... Other major items are owned by the department, such as this "Gel Doc" for reading and analysing electrophoresis gels, allowing everyone to benefit from the advanced technologies available. The resources of the entire department are available to all of the students involved in research as part of their degrees or post-docs.
