The neuroscience faculty is housed in the same building on adjoining floors, providing for a congenial atmosphere of informal scientific exchange and collaborations between laboratories. The center, together with a technical staff, is available to members of the neuroscience program. The Lyman Maynard Stowe Library has an extensive collection of periodicals and monographs as well as subscriptions to journals of current interest in the field of neuroscience. Affiliated with the program are several neuroscience laboratories in neighboring institutions, including the University of Connecticut campus at Storrs, Trinity College, and Wesleyan University. No University housing is available.
Students often share rentals to lower costs.
The total number of master's and Ph.D. students at the Health Center is approximately 400, and there are about 125 medical and dental students per class. Location The Health Center is located in a bright, beautiful building on a 200-acre campus on a hilltop overlooking the Farmington valley. It is within easy driving distance of Hartford, New Haven, New York, and Boston. The University of Connecticut Health Center Farmington campus houses the Graduate School programs in the biomedical sciences and the Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine. The complex, completed in 1972, includes the John Dempsey Hospital, outpatient clinics, and the Center for Laboratory Animal Care.