The EEB Plant Growth Facilities, an operating unit of the EEB Biodiversity Research Collections, support the educational and research goals of the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Connecticut. It serves these needs by:

• providing EEB faculty & affiliated researchers with professionally managed growing space to conduct world-class research,
• maintaining a diverse living reference collection to facilitate teaching in basic botany, plant morphology, systematics and related disciplines,
• growing a wide array of plant materials each semester for delivery to introductory & advanced level biology teaching laboratories,
• managing growing areas for graduate and advanced undergraduate student experiments,
• maintaining conservatory areas to augment the teaching of systematic and ecological concepts and demonstrating economically important plants to the UConn community as well as area elementary/secondary/post-secondary and alternative school groups. Conservatory areas are the primary location for public tours and offer publicly accessible display space for notable plants in the reference collection,
• providing facilities, materials & expertise for summer science camps, various special interest seminars and related public outreach programs,
• supporting the educational and research goals of institutions world-wide by contributing to the free exchange of plant material for research and educational purposes.

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