Lab Spaces and Scheduling

CBDR maintains a variety of lab spaces on and off CMU's campus, including:

• Lab space at 300 S Craig Street Room 161
• The Social and Decision Sciences Lab in Porter Hall 217
• The Tepper Quad Behavioral Lab on the ground floor of the Tepper Quad

All lab spaces may be reserved and used by affiliates of the center. Please find the scheduling information, usage policies, and descriptions of the labs below.

Lab Scheduling

At this time, all CBDR labs are booked using shared Google Calendars. To gain access to the calendars, email the lab manager with your Google email address (Andrew email addresses unfortunately cannot be used to book on these calendars). Once you have access, please read any additional reservation policies that are posted as an appointment each week on Sunday.

CBDR lab spaces are shared spaces, so please only reserve times when you plan to physically be in the lab for preparation, running participants, and/or cleanup. Everyone with access to the calendar is able to create and delete events, and it is expected that researchers will only edit their own events. The Center and lab manager maintain the right to restrict scheduling if researchers are found monopolizing labs or editing others' reservations.

When you reserve lab space on a shared CBDR Google calendar, first, make sure you are viewing the correct calendar! For the event, please include:

1. In the event title, the name of the researcher and the name of the project/study (used on internal reporting)
2. In the event description, include the name, email address, and phone number of the researcher who may be contacted about the reservation 
3. The dates and hours during which you need the lab to be reserved for your use, including time to set up and clean up. (Please do not use "all-day" events.)

Storing Materials in the Labs

Researchers are permitted to store a limited amount of experimental supplies and documents in the labs, provided it is clearly labeled with the experimenter's name and contact information, as well as a date by which it will be removed from the lab. Without these labels, anything left in the lab may be disposed of at any time without notice.

When you are finished running your study, please remove all supplies, documents, and compensation from the labs. Please do not plan to leave anything (e.g., signed informed consent forms) in the lab spaces with explicit permission from the lab manager.