BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES BUILDING

The "Biological Sciences Center", completed at a cost of $1,717,234, was opened for use in September of 1967. The four-story structure, containing over 65,000 square feet of floor space, was built by the Del Webb Construction Company. Upon its opening, the Department of Mathematics occupied the first floor, and the upper three floors housed general laboratories, laboratories dedicated to technical and experimental research, classrooms, offices, and stockrooms of the biology department. At the time, the building also housed the Deaver Herbarium, Insect Museum, Vertebrate Museum, and Invertebrate Zoology Museum as well as the university's new electron microscope.