So exciting! You are literally getting one of the first looks of Stonehill's brand new Science Center! I had the opportunity to attend a 'behind the scenes' tour with a few other folks on campus to see how the new project was coming along.
Admissions Counselors Shamika Walters and Andrew Leahy showing off their hard hats.
View from the main entrance
Features of the new Science Center:
-Will house the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Neuroscience and Psychology
-Animal labs (including small mammals) for testing and observation
- Psychology observation rooms equiped with recording devices
-"Clabs" aka classrooms + labs in the same room.
-Atrium for events, speakers, student lounge area and cafe. Seats 500+ people
-Additional faculty offices, classrooms, labs and storage spaces for equipment
The "clabs" seem to be what the Science Faculty seem really excited about. This will enable a faculty member to lecture on a subject and immediately move the students over to their lab area to apply what they're learning to an experiment. In the current science center, students have class on one day and have to wait a few days to use this knowledge in a lab setting. Now there will be a direct connection between the two!
Below are two videos I took of the building project. The first video is a new Microbiology classroom as described by Professor Curtin who teaches Chemistry at Stonehill. The second video is a second story view of the atrium.
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Want to see more? Here's the renderings of how the building will look next fall. http://www.stonehill.edu/x13009.xml
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