Facilities
HMC facilities - The HMC Department of Biology is located in the F. W. Olin Science Center. In the biology department, each faculty member has an office and a spacious laboratory for student-faculty research. In addition, the department houses three teaching laboratories, two preparation rooms, darkrooms, a fresh-water animal room, a sea-water room, a walk-in cold room, a storeroom and offices for staff and the Biology Writing Fellow. The department is well equipped for molecular and cellular biology research and teaching, and has two compound fluorescent microscopes and a Zeiss 510 confocal microscope. Plant growth facilities include two Arabidopsis growth chambers, a plant tissue culture growth chamber, and a laminar flow hood for plant tissue culture.
JSD facilities - The W.M. Keck Science Center provides students with a spacious, modern facility for study and research in the sciences. The center includes classrooms, laboratories, and student-faculty research areas, as well as a computer laboratory and vivarium. The laboratories have been equipped with state-of-the-art instruments that are available to students. Adjoining the campus, the Bernard Biological Station provides an excellent locale for field studies. The Keck Science Center also partners with the Roberts Environmental Center (sited at Claremont McKenna College) where student teams do applied research on environmental problems. The Roberts Center also operates a field station near Mono Lake in the Eastern Sierra.
POM facilities - Pomona's biology research labs, advanced teaching labs, faculty offices, and some classrooms are housed in the 47,000 square-foot Richard C. Seaver Biology Building, which opened in January 2005. The Seaver Building provides state-of-the art research facilities in an energy-conserving, environmentally-conscious design. Biology books and journals for the Claremont Colleges are primarily located in the Seeley Mudd Science Library on the Pomona College campus. The Claremont College's 85-acre Bernard Field Station serves as an outdoor laboratory for Pomona courses and research projects. Adjacent to the Bernard Biological Field Station, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden has excellent facilities for research and education in systematic and evolutionary botany. DNA sequencing for Pomona biology classes and research projects is carried out on the Garden's ABI PRISM 377 Automated Fluorescent DNA Sequencer. The RSABG offers a graduate program in Botany in cooperation with The Claremont Graduate University, and Pomona students may take courses and carry out research projects at the Garden. The Herman Garner Biological Preserve located in Evey Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains, with a diversity of plants and wildlife, provides a nearby study area. Additionally, the Pitt Ranch, 320 acres in southeastern Monterey County, is utilized as a preserve for the study and enjoyment of the natural history of the region. A rustic two-bedroom house is available for on-site overnight stays.
Research at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden -
RSABG Research Department & CGU Graduate Program in Botany.
The research conducted at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden [RSABG] is
nationally and internationally renowned for contributing to the understanding of
systematic and evolutionary botany. Facilities include well-equipped laboratories
for the study of morphology (including scanning electron microscope), anatomy,
and molecular data (including DNA sequencing), as well as an herbarium of over 1 million specimens and a
comprehensive research library, containing over 48,000 volumes
and 750 current journals and periodicals.
The Claremont Graduate University [CGU] Botany Program resides at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. Students from the US and around the world come to RSABG to
pursue their studies. Both MS and PhD degrees are offered through our small, select, and distinctive program, which focuses on questions of systematic and evolutionary
botany, as well as the study of flora principally found in the Californian floristic province.