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Doherty Hall The Mellon Institute Wean Hall

Science classrooms, labs and research facilities can be found in:

Doherty Hall — home of Chemistry and the new Undergraduate Science Labs.
Mellon Institute — home of Biological Sciences and many chemistry and biology research facilities.
Wean Hall — home of Mathematical Science and Physics, as well as Computer Science.

Computing

Undergraduates have access to the extensive, world-class computing resources of Carnegie Mellon University, including wireless network access. In addition to the university-wide computer clusters, science students have access to clusters maintained by the Mellon College of Science and the individual departments.

Department of Mathematical Sciences computational facilities
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

The New Labs

A new eight-story addition to Doherty Hall, due to open for classes in Fall 2003, will provide state-of-the-art space for teaching laboratories, including a flexible interdisciplinary freshman lab and a lecture hall well equipped for demonstrations.

Undergraduate Science Laboratories

Instrumentation

Undergraduates in the Mellon College of Science begin hands-on work with scientific instruments as early as the freshman year and nearly all quickly have the opportunity to participate in leading-edge research shortly thereafter. Each department's web site provide more information about their facilities.

Chemistry facilities
Department of Mathematical Sciences computational facilities
Physics facilities