Facilities & Resources for Biology
The Wheaton College Science Center is home to the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy, and Mathematics and Computer Science. The Science Center contains seminar and lecture classrooms, the newly renovated Hindle Auditorium, the astronomy observing deck, two greenhouses, teaching laboratories, faculty research laboratories, and student research laboratories.
The Wheaton College Greenhouses include an arid greenhouse with plants from deserts and coastal sand dunes, a humid greenhouse with plants from the tropics, and a light room with fluorescent lights for student and faculty research projects. Visit the Wheaton College Greenhouse Homepage.
The Kollett Academic Computing Center provides Macintosh and PC computer workstations and is home to the Wheaton server which links classrooms, teaching and research laboratories, and student dorm rooms to software and the internet.
The Wallace Library includes a large collection of scientific books and journals, searchable computer databases (Medline), and online journals.
Wheaton Woods - Campus woodland located adjacent to the Science Center provides study sites for student independent research projects, the vernal pool research team, and labs in ecology, botany, environmental science, and introductory biology.
Other resources
Wheaton Campus Trees - The arboretum-like quality of the Wheaton College campus is an important component of botany classes and a source of student-faculty projects.
Norton Reservoir - Nearby man-made body of water has served as a study site for student thesis research on biological and chemical indicators or water quality.
Nearby Academic Resources
City of Boston - Colleges and universities abound and are sources of research internships and academic libraries, New England Aquarium.
Brown University - Wheaton students may cross-register to take courses at nearby Brown University.
University of Massachusetts Cranberry Experiment Station - Site of annual field trips by the botany class. Wheaton students are frequently hired as summer research assistants.
Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. The MBL library has one of the world's most extensive collections of biological journals, and the MBL Marine Resource Center provides a wide variety of living marine organisms for research.
SACHEM is a consortium of schools in southeastern Massachusetts at which Wheaton students may take additional courses.
Content by Scott Shumway (mailto:sshumway@wheatonma.edu)
and Bob Morris (mailto:rmorris@wheatonma.edu)
Design assistance by Dave Dudek '01, Academic Computing
Last update: 2/2001
