Opening of the Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Science Laboratories

Friday, October 4, 2002

Schedule of events

The reception was held in the nearly complete Analytical Laboratories West, while guests also toured the new laboratories and classrooms.

Russ Walker (Principal Lecturer and Associate Head, Department of Mathematical Sciences) and Eric Grotzinger (Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, MCS, and Principal Lecturer, Biological Sciences) in the new lecture hall.		Front row from left: MCS Dean Richard McCullough, President Jared Cohon, Provost Mark Kamlet, and Karen Stump, Principal Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies and Laboratories in Chemistry.
University Professor Guy Berry chats with Larry Friedman, Manager of University Relations at Bayer Corporation, and CIT Dean John Anderson.		Barry Luokkala, Director of Laboratories and Principal Lecturer in Physics, explains how the Physics Department is already using their new spaces on Level A.
Guests participated in varied hands-on activities in the Analytical Laboratories East during the open house.		Students made polymer "gummy worms" as one of the hands-on activities.
Biology students explain how to extract broccoli DNA.		Experimental Physics Laboratory with integrated computer cluster and classroom