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Undergraduate Science
Building
Overview
The Undergraduate Science Building, situated in a central location in
the Palmer Drive Development, will provide an innovative, technology-rich
instructional facility for undergraduates. The building will be approximately
140,000 gross square feet on four floors. It will be situtated above the
Palmer Parking Structure and will be supported by a concrete deck on the
parking structure that will function as the foundation for the building.
Just over one half of the building will accommodate teaching laboratories
for the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and
interdisciplinary science instructional space and support. The remainder
will house the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), Women
in Science and Engineering (WISE), the Life Sciences, Values, and Society
Program, and undergraduate and graduate Neuroscience programs, as well
as support space. In addition, there will be public spaces to create a
welcoming environment for student and faculty interaction.
The exterior of the building harmonizes with the other two major buildings
in the Palmer Drive complex: the "loft style" LSI Building and
the Commons Building. The material palette will consist of a combination
of stone, including brownstone, sandstone, limestone and granite, and
painted metal panels, with painted aluminum frame windows.
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