Between the Science and Education Building and the Multipurpose
Building are the university’s two greenhouses. These buildings
help support different biology classes and different professors
as they perform their research.  The greenhouse located on the
northern side is the teaching greenhouse, housing all the plants
necessary to teach and support the biology classes, while the
greenhouse located on the south side is the research greenhouse,
dedicated to the work done by professors and graduate students.
Professor Marcelo Serpe, who has been teaching at Boise State
for the past 16 years, needs the research greenhouse to conduct
some of his studies.  “It’s quite essential for what I do,”
Serpe said. “A lot of the experiments I do require controlled
conditions.”  Serpe’s research deals with how environmental
factors effect plant growth and has been applied practically
within public land planning and development.  “Some of that
knowledge can have some practical applications, in terms of the
management, for inst