Central to the initiative are strategic capital investments that will further advance Cornell's life sciences leadership.

Life Sciences Technology Building

This $140-million facility on the central campus will serve as the hub for life sciences and provide a boundary-less environment promoting interdisciplinary collaborations.

Construction is set to begin in early 2004 with a tentative completion date of 2007. This new building, along with the other life sciences facilities on campus, will be the largest life sciences research and educational complex in New York State.

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Other building features:

• innovative design by world-renowned architect and Cornellian Richard Meier B.Arch '57
• shared, nondepartmental space for research and teaching that brings together physical/engineering scientists, computer scientists, mathematicians, biologists, and others.
• state-of-the-art communication technology and distance learning capabilities
• business incubator to support the start-up of new biotechnology companies

Duffield Hall

Duffield Hall, Cornell’s cutting-edge facility for nanotechnology and advanced materials, opens this fall. When it does, it will be the best place in the world for doing and studying nanoscience. It is the first of three new facilities at the core of the university’s New Life Sciences Initiative.

Faculty and students from across Cornell will work together in Duffield’s shared labs to develop innovative tools and find new solutions to our most pressing global problems such as cancer, HIV, hunger, pollution, and biosafety.

Cornell Nanofabrication Facility

The Physical Sciences Project

This $100 million project will result in a 100,000 net square foot complex that will provide space to three departments: the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, the Department of Physics, and the School of Applied and Engineering Physics. The project encompasses:

• a new building contiguous to Clark Hall and Baker Laboratory
• an expansion of Baker Laboratory
• an extensive underground laboratory space that will extend and complement the nationally famous research space already in Clark Hall

Features include:

• improved and expanded teaching space
• state-of-the-art research space to accommodate new tools and techniques important to modern physical sciences research such as more low-vibration space and more fume hoods
• space for the development of new large-scale facilities such as a completely new type of synchrotron source for high-intensity x-rays
• larger labs and more research space to meet the needs of faculty and students who work in research groups.

Outcomes of project:

• draw together chemists, physicists, and applied physicists in a shared research environment that will facilitate research in important multidisciplinary areas such as nanoscience, chemical biology, and biological physics
• attract the best young chemists and physicists to Cornell