Integrated Sciences Building
The 157,000 square foot Integrated Sciences Building, which opened in 2009 at a cost of $114.5 million, integrates life and chemical sciences with modern classrooms and laboratories for basic and advanced courses, flexible research laboratories for life sciences research teams. The high-performance design incorporates many environmentally friendly and energy-saving green-building techniques.
Features
- 85,000 square feet of classroom and laboratory space
- All undergraduate chemistry teaching labs (intro, organic, physical, and analytical)
- Upper-division life science labs (molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, physiology)
- Laboratory capacity for 4,640 students per semester
- Laboratory support facilities
- Teaching development lab
- 300-seat auditorium
- 85-seat classroom
- Seminar rooms
- Distance learning capability
- Student lounge, study areas, and socializing space
- Research lab space for eight to 10 principal investigators in Veterinary & Animal Science
- Faculty and staff office space
- Café and unique study spaces
Hours
- Monday-Thursday: 7:00 am-10:00 pm
- Friday: 7:00 am-7:00 pm
- Saturday: Noon-5:00 pm
- Sunday: 4:00 pm-10:00 pm
Lecture Room Technology
- 300-seat Auditorium
- 85-seat Classroom
- State-of-the-art scientific demonstration facilities and active-learning technology including:
- Dual projectors with capacity to split into multiple screens
- Camera at instructor's table projects experiment to entire room
- Individual power outlet and Internet hook-up for each seat
Teaching Labs
- Prep areas for each lab room
- Adjustable height tables
- Microscopy and advanced imaging laboratories
- Specialized microscopes
- Lasers
- Tissue culture
- NMR
- Future animal holding facility
- Shared instrumentation
Computer Resources Center
- Student room with 24 computers and small breakout rooms
- 48-seat stepped lecture hall with 24 computers
- 48-seat lecture hall with power outlet and Internet hookup
Interactive Molecular Playground
Craig Martin, Chemistry, and emeritus professors Allen Hanson, Computer Science, and Eric Martz, Microbiology, and Adam Williams, a graduate student in Computer Science, developed an Interactive Molecular Playground for the ISB lobby.
The exhibit features colorful 3-D models of familiar compounds such as the antigen that causes the allergic reaction to peanuts, hemoglobin, glucose, vitamin D, insulin, caffeine and a variety of drugs such as aspirin and ibuprofen, plus their binding sites in proteins in the brain, bloodstream and elsewhere.
Images, projected on a 6-by-9-foot wall and a shadow-sensing infrared camera, will detect an observer's hand motions, allowing "players" to push, rotate and resize the molecular image at will.
The exhibit was funded by a grant from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation and all the members of the College Advisory Committee of the former College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
Sustainable Building Design
- Cooling systems reuse rain water
- Efficient, state-of-the-art heat exchanges and ventilation systems
- Passive solar (south-facing solarium)
- Extensive use of eco-friendly materials like bamboo
