The Noble Research Center is a tremendous facility constructed in three phases over a decade during the 1980s and early 1990s. Construction of Phase III was completed by 1993. Departments and laboratories housed within the Noble Research Center include: Department of Animal Science; Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology;Plant Disease & Insect Diagnostic Lab; Stored Products Research & Education Center; Boone Pickens School of Geology & Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology.