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Research Facilities |
| Shepardson laboratories house a suite of well-equipped analytical laboratories, cold storage and growth cabinets and graduate student computer facilities. Equipment includes that required for sample extraction and analysis (centrifuges, microplate spectrophotometry, high performance liquid and gas/MS chromatography); controlled temperature freezers, growth chambers, microscopes, tissue culture (laminar flow transfer hoods, controlled environment incubators); and a Cancer Prevention Laboratory with capability for in vitro and in vivo research. The W. D. Holley Plant Environmental Research Center (PERC) is a departmental ten-acre teaching, research and demonstration complex. The facility includes greenhouses with computer-assisted monitoring and environmental control capabilities. Other outdoor research activities include enhancement of specialty crop production, turf and landscape plant adaptation and water conservation , conducted at the Horticulture Field Research Center, a 65-acre field research facility with satellite weather monitors, located six miles from the main campus. Production research on potatoes, grapes, fruit crops and vegetables is also conducted at three off-campus research centers: The Arkansas Valley Researach Center, the Western Colorado Research Center at Orchard Mesa, and the San Luis Valley Research Center, located in their respective commercial production regions. For sustainable design studies, there is ready access to regional and international project sites and community organizations. |
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