The Department The Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences is a small department, offering close contact and collaboration between students and faculty members. In addition to the usual teaching and research laboratories and instrumentation, the department has many specialized facilities, including a sophisticated microscope clean room and image processing laboratory, two greenhouses, walk-in growth chambers, herbarium, two animal rooms, and facilities for DNA sequencing and analysis. The Westside Nature Preserve provides a natural environment for ecological and environmental research. The Jane Goodall Center is affiliated with Western Connecticut State University, and provides opportunities for research in several areas. The university and the department are well equipped with modern computers.
All students have access to the campus mainframe for research, data analysis, internet, and e-mail.
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