The Department of Biology occupies approximately 15,000 sq. ft. in Albertus Magnus, Sowa and Hickey Halls. The department maintains faculty offices, well equipped  faculty research laboratories, and six well equipped teaching laboratories with adjoining preparation rooms.

In addition, the department maintains and stocks a dark room suite for developing black and white film and photographs, a science library, two microcomputer facilities, a fossil preparation room equipped with rock saws, grinder/polisher, and petrographic microscopes, an animal facility, a clean room for tissue cultures and bacterial transfers, an image processing laboratory, equipped with the latest IBM and MacIntosh computer hardware and software for photographic, video and sound analysis, and a microscopy laboratory equipped with a Philips EM-300 Transmission Electron Microscope, an Amray-1000 Scanning Electron Microscope equipped with EDEX for elemental analysis and a digital imaging system, a Zeiss Axiophot equipped for bright field, dark field, DIC and fluorescence microscopy with a digital imaging system, two MT-2B ultramicrotomes, a knifemaker, a carbon evaporator, sputter coater and critical point dryer. 

The faculty of the Department of Biology is committed to developing and maintaining state of the art research and teaching laboratories, and making the use of this equipment part of the undergraduate experience at Providence College.