The Biology Department has a newly-constructed, live-animal facility that has 23 live-animal rooms, a surgical suite (with recovery and preparatory rooms), and 9 research rooms including one for a newly acquired automated DNA sequencer. The "BRC" currently houses rats, mice, freshwater fish, sharks, fence lizards, freshwater shrimp, snakes, iguanas, toads, and tortoises.

An undergraduate student research assistant cleans one of the rat colonies.

Undergraduates Jon Lee and Mike Sponseller measuring clam shrimp in the "clam shrimp lab."

Graduate student Mike Burch getting an iguana out of the reptile room in the BRC.

Fieke Bryson, Hamid Daneshvar, and Gail Dunphy taking a lunch break in the BRC's lunch room.

Dr. Londraville's "fish room."