Hubbard Hall
The Department of Biological Sciences is housed in R. Dee Hubbard Hall on the main
campus of Wichita State University. The building houses many classrooms, all of which
have multimedia capabilities. The faculty occupy over 40,000 square feet of laboratory
and office space. A variety of modern laboratory equipment is available including
the following: a suite of microscopy equipment, a core laboratory in protein chemistry
that includes peptide synthesis and sequencing machines, a cell culture facility,
a host of analytical equipment such as gas chromatographs and high performance liquid
chromatographs, and molecular biology equipment for sequencing, electrophoresis, imaging,
and mutation analysis.
The department maintains large common facilities such as environmental growth chambers,
refrigerated rooms, a herbarium, and vertebrate study collection. A computer laboratory
is available for student use. The library contains more than 22,000 titles of books
and periodicals covering all areas of biology. A large animal care facility provides
resources to the Department and to other local researchers.
