Restoration and construction of labs, classrooms & housing facilities (Fund #6318)

Already a magnet for intensive instruction and learning in biology, a new campus plan will serve as a vanguard laboratory for research at the interface of biology, the mathematical and physical sciences. 

Current laboratory, office and housing facilities are inadequate to retain all research currently working at Itasca, much less to attract new researchers.  Current facilities include 70 rustic buildings that have exceeded their life expectancies.  Reports document the wide range of deteriorating conditions.

Several important labs and classrooms are in immediate danger of being condemned.  Should this occur, important programs would have to be suspended.  The loss of even a single teaching or research building will seriously jeopardize our current programs and limit CBS’s efforts to provide the premiere undergraduate biology program in the country.  In addition, faculty looking to incubate new research ideas at Itasca may need to look elsewhere.

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