The laboratory contains a major reference collection of anaerobes from the Pasteur Institute of Paris, France. An Anaerobic Bacteriology Laboratory Building, funded by the National Institutes of Health and state appropriations, was completed in 1970. Managed by Research Division. Research concentrates on the process by which the demands of ordinary citizens for public services get translated into action.
Emphasis is on economic aspects of polities.
Publishes Public Choice, a journal established elsewhere in 1966. Discontinued in 1970. Includes electron-microprobe and two electron microscopes. Gift provided for equipment and assistance in operational costs for 10 years. Management shifted from committee in Graduate School to Research Division in 1968.