The Valparaiso University Department of Biology is housed in the modern Neils Science Center on the Valparaiso University campus. Not only does the Neils Science Center support laboratory teaching and learning, but it also has many comfortable classrooms.
Smaller classrooms use mobile multimedia devices, when required.
Our departmental facilities include a greenhouse, herbarium, cell culture laboratory, and a well-equipped electron microscopy laboratory. All of our modern general purpose teaching laboratories have computer connections to the campus network and thus the world. In addition to teaching laboratories, we also have spaces dedicated to student investigations and faculty research. These light microscopes were purchased in 1999, and complement our fluorescence-equipped research grade Olympus microscope. Our department makes good use of this imaging equipment by offering many courses in which these instruments are used.