The Robert H. N. Ho Science Center was built in 2007. The building houses the physics, astronomy, environmental studies, geography, and geology departments. It contains a $4 million visualization lab, a geology museum, and more than 50 high-tech research and teaching labs. Students and professors from different departments work together here on high-level research projects that often result in co-authored academic papers. Science students also have the option to study off campus in Australia and Wales, and at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Colgate is the only institution with a program for undergraduates at NIH.