A $30 million commitment from David R. Atkinson ’60 and Patricia Atkinson has named this new multidisciplinary building, intended to foster innovative and collaborative research in priority areas of sustainability, public health, cancer biology, immunology and computational biology.

This building has been designed specifically to support each individual program while enabling interaction and collaboration among them—as well as with colleagues from across Cornell’s campuses and around the globe. Its wide range of space types and sizes include gathering and group work areas; a mix of both closed and open wet lab environments; and a variety of meeting spaces to accommodate groups of varying size and technology-enabled virtual interactions.

The meeting and event spaces will all be located around an open staircase, creating a “collaboration core” accessible to building occupants around the clock.  To read the full story, click here