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Undergraduate Science Facilities: Innovative Approaches to Accomodate Changing Needs
Presenter(s): Sandra Bowden, Agnes Scott College; Richard M. Heinz, Research Facilities Design; Sean Towne, Research Facilities Design
Convener: Christopher Rousseau, Newcomb & Boyd

The undergraduate sciences are undergoing a revolution. The changes are resulting in new facility strategies and more innovative laboratory designs. The session leaders will present the latest trends in undergraduate sciences facilities, describe how changing pedagogies impact laboratory sizes and layouts, and how alternative building floor plates support various strategies for interdisciplinary interaction and collaborative learning. Critical benchmarking data for a variety of key area and cost ratios will be presented for recent undergraduate science facility projects throughout the United States.


This knowledge resource from SCUP is a concurrent session presented at the Society's thirty-eighth annual, international conference and Expo, SCUP–38, in Miami Beach, FL (USA), in July of 2003.

Audiocassettes and MP3's (on CD's) of these and other SCUP–38 sessions are available for purchase here.


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