Updating The Chemistry Building For a New Educational Model

New educational models with an emphasis on rigorous group projects, intensive student research and ubiquitous computing-call for new teaching/ learning environments. The 80-year-old Chemistry building has great potential for providing those environments.

Proposed main entrance  The hallway as it currently exists 
and hallway for the
renovated

It is in need of significant renovations to create a safer, more comfortable environment along with redefined and renovated spaces to support new methods of interactive, hands-on and digitally-supported learning. The planned renovations will encompass:

technologies, emulating those used at professional conferences and in professional workplaces, allowing ongoing dissemination of results and recognition of achievement.

• Providing the infrastructure that allows students and faculty to fully utilize the new tablet computer systems to seek data and information from around the world and from their lab experiments, bringing it into the classroom and laboratory for exchange, discussion and application.

 • Creating a more energy-efficient exterior and upgrading the infrastructure(plumbing, heating and cooling, the ventilation system, and electrical system)needed for comfortable, efficient occupancy by larger numbers of students and faculty members.

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