The Beadle Center is a center for learning and a center for research. Its 140,000 square feet contains the latest in teaching technologies and state of the art research laboratories. Three multimedia classrooms and a 175 seat auditorium offer students an ideal environment for learning. Each provides comfortable, flexible space for students and instructors to interact with each other as well as peers in classrooms and lecture halls throughout Nebraska, the United States and the world via satellite and internet connections.

Teaching laboratories are available for hands-on learning experiences in biochemistry, molecular biology, molecular genetics, microbiology and other subjects related to the life sciences. State of the art greenhouses and controlled environment growth rooms provide students and faculty with ready access to a variety of plants for both teaching and research. Integral to the greenhouse facility is a botany teaching laboratory and a research laboratory for working with genetically engineered plants.