The College of Science maintains a diverse array of classrooms and laboratories on the Fairfax and Prince William campuses of George Mason University.

College of Science Fairfax Campus

Facilities on the Fairfax campus include extensive chemistry, astronomy, and physics labs located in Science & Technology 1, an HRPT satellite antenna, as well as the new George Mason Observatory.  The Research I building houses faculty, researchers and grad students from the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences, Computational and Data Sciences, and Geography and Geospatial Sciences Departments, along with the College and University Research Computing Center, and computer lab space for a number of research centers.  David King Hall is home to the Department of Environmental Science and Policy and the Undergraduate Biology Program.

Observatory

Located on the roof of Research 1, the new observatory, with a 60cm-class main telescope, will not only allow students to enjoy the night time sky from a better vantage point above the fourth story roof, but it will also give them an opportunity to see how a professional telescope facility is operated and maintained. The Department of Physics and Astronomy hopes to make telescope operation available to all students via the World Wide Web for use in their astronomy laboratory projects. While the main purpose of the observatory is to meet the educational needs ofGMU's students, it will also be a special place shared with our Washington, D.C. community. Evenings "under the stars" each month will be offered to the region's residents.

College of Science Prince William Campus

COS facilities on the Prince William campus include three research/teaching buildings and the National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases Biological Research Laboratory which is under construction. The campus is home to the Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine, with advanced laboratory equipment for proteomics research, and home to the Microbiome Analysis Center, with specialized equipment for genomic research. Facilities include molecular biology and biochemistry labs, computer labs, cold rooms, and instrument rooms, as well as faculty offices. Teaching facilities include computer classrooms equipped with workstations configured with advanced bioinformatics, visualization, and data-mining software, "wet" labs for teaching and training, supported by adjacent computer labs, lecture rooms, prep labs, and equipment labs.