Meredith College : Science and Math Building Features

The new Science and Mathematics Building at Meredith College houses classrooms, laboratories, research areas, and community spaces that BJLAS Architecture, LLC custom designed according to faculty members' recommendations. The 80,000-square-foot building contains several technologically advanced pieces of equipment, including a computer controlled telescope platform, a scanning electron microscope, and a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer.

Additional features include –
• The Computer Science Bit Lab, located on the second floor, contains high-tech computer equipment and a small network to be built and maintained by Meredith students. The lab supports inquiry-based learning by providing students with opportunities to do the work themselves.

• The Molecular/Microbiology Lab is equipped with a scanning electron microscope and other advanced light microscopes, enabling students to analyze microorganisms.

• The Physics Lab, designed for physics and astronomy instruction, is equipped with furniture that may be easily moved to accommodate a variety of experiments. The design allows for large open spaces to support experiments involving motion. The computer-controlled telescope platform stands nearby.

• The Anatomy and Physiology Lab contains work areas designed for both lectures and labs. Typically, college instructors present lectures and labs on different teaching days. Now, Meredith faculty members will be able to present information and immediately support it by having students look through a microscope at a sample. Chemistry pic

• The Organic Chemistry Lab was designed with open workspaces and numerous fume hoods to allow students to work with volatile organic chemicals. Students also have access to a 300 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, which provides detailed information about the structure of complex molecules.

• The design on the atrium floor, used with the generous permission of the patent-holder, Sir Roger Penrose, is a portion of a tiling of the plane with non-repeating Penrose kites and darts. Katie Haas Ì03, and Anna Vernon Ì04, produced the atriumÌs Penrose tile design as part of an undergraduate research project supervised by Dr. Jo Guglielmi.

• The building also contains individual research labs for each full-time faculty member in the sciences, dedicated specifically for student-faculty research projects. Through interdisciplinary learning, all Meredith students may benefit from the building’s labs, equipment, museum and library space, seminar rooms, curriculum lab, student and reflection areas, and outdoor classrooms.