Courtyard view of the new science lab building

New Science Lab Building and renovated Wubben Hall recently completed now house Geology, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Environmental Restoration, Mathematics, and Computer Sciences. Laboratories are designed with modern technology, latest computer systems, and excellent safety equipment. Many classrooms and lecture halls are using computer systems for visual aids. Total cost for this science center was nearly $13 million.

Geology department is proud to be housed in the new science lab building along with excellent equipment for class and laboratory exercises and research projects. Such equipment includes:

	Nine new Pentium PCs along with digitizer tablets providing students with internet access. Classes are now using computers for exercises.  Software packages such as ArcView, Pathfinder, and Rockworks '99 provide needed tools for research.
	X-ray Defractometer, binocular microscopes, and petrographic microscopes are used in mineral and rock identifications.
	The weather station is placed on top of new science lab building. Students observe the changing temperature and wind velocity.
	Four Trimble GeoExplorer II GPS units and one Trimble Pro XR GPS unit allows students to learn about and excel in the  growing field of GIS and GPS.
	Rock cutting machines provide students and faculty members to trim specimens for thin sections.
	John M. Shoales mineral display. Minerals and rocks collected by John M. Shoales were donated to the MSC Geology Program. These excellent and beautiful specimens are exhibited in the halls.