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Life Science and Engineering Building
The Cummington streetscape changed dramatically last April when demolition
crews cleared away the defunct Nickelodeon Theatre (the second Nick, moved
from its original site when the Metcalf Science Center was built in 1983)
to make room for the new $84 million Life Science and Engineering Building.
Over the summer, crews began laying the foundations for the 10-story,
184,000-square-foot building, which will house faculty from the CAS departments
of biology and chemistry and ENG’s department of biomedical engineering
and its Bioinformatics Graduate Program. The building’s 41 laboratories,
45 offices, conference rooms, and 150-seat seminar room should be completed
by July 2005. “There’s been tremendous growth in faculty collaborations
over the past five years, and we expect this building to continue to facilitate
that,” says Charles DeLisi, Arthur G. B. Metcalf Professor of Science
and Engineering and senior associate provost for biosciences. “It
will make an enormous impact in terms of the ease with which faculty will
interact, and it will make a big difference for students who don’t
want to be scattered all over the place.” The building will also
house a new biomedical engineering center, occupying about two floors
of space, funded by the $14 million Whitaker Leadership Award received
by the University in 2001. Image courtesy of Cannon Designs
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August 2003
Boston University
Office of University Relations