Michigan Tech's Department of Biological Sciences is located in the new, $44 million Dow Environmental Sciences and Engineering building which it shares with the Departments of Geology and Civil and Environmental Engineering. This multi-disciplinary teaching and research center provides the focus for faculty, individual departments and multi-disciplinary groups searching for solutions to the environmental problems of the 21st century.

The Department of Biological Sciences consists of 16 full-time faculty members, 9 adjunct faculty members from other departments, 5 full-time staff, as well as a number of Research Scientists and Associates and Post-Doctoral research personnel.

The Department's 360 undergraduate and 30 graduate students pursue BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees in the Biological Sciences or Clinical Laboratory Sciences (MS in Clinical Laboratory Management) with teaching and research being conducted in the areas of Health and Physiology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Ecology and Botany.

These areas are supported by new Plant, Environmental and Microbial Biochemistry laboratories, Terrestrial and Aquatic Culture facilities, a spacious rooftop greenhouse, new Microbiology, Physiology, and Molecular Genetics laboratories together with state-of-the-art computing facilities, darkroom, instrumentation rooms and media preparation facilities.

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