The Department of Biology occupies the entire second floor of the science building as well as parts of the lower level and penthouse. Facilities in the Department include student laboratories, classrooms, faculty/student research laboratories, preparation rooms, lounges for faculty and students, a seminar room and offices for faculty and staff. Specialized features include a cold room, a tissue culture lab, microbiology transfer rooms, warm- and cold-blooded animal rooms, and an audio-visual room. Also available are photographic darkrooms, a computer room, an incubator room, a roof-top ornithology area, a museum room, a large green-house and an electron microscope suite outfitted with a Hitachi transmission and scanning electron microscope. In addition to three general biology labs for students, specialized labs exist for physiology, anatomy, microbiology, genetics/behavior, botany/developmental biology, and environmental biology.

Adjacent to the campus is a one hundred acre nature area that includes a two and a half mile trail as well as study areas for a variety of habitats. This nature area is named after retired faculty members, George and Juanda Bick, whose work and dedication made it an integral part of the biology program.