Linfield University will soon be home to a transformative new science facility that will embody the liberal arts approach to scientific inquiry. This project is critical to our ability to foster new levels of student engagement and empower delivery of the cross-disciplinary, research-oriented STEM education our graduates need to become career scientists and medical professionals.
Once complete, there will be three buildings totaling 84,000 gross square feet dedicated to the sciences at Linfield. Several outcomes informed the overall design:
The Phase 1 Plan for this project constructs an entirely new 24,000 square foot building, to be known as the W.M. Keck Science Center, where Mac Hall now stands. The basement of this new building will consist of space for mechanical/electrical/plumbing and shelled space for future labs and teaching space. The rest of the building will feature eight new teaching labs, including one specifically for our relatively new wine studies program. Also included in the building will be the necessary support spaces for lap prep and storage.
Graf Hall (26,000 square feet, opened in 1965) will undergo extensive renovation and be expanded with a 10,000 square foot addition. The first floor of the expanded Graf will feature two new general-use classrooms, two additional classrooms/labs for physics, a lecture hall for 80-100 students, and a new multipurpose space that can be one large room or three smaller classrooms. A wine sensory classroom, incorporated into this multipurpose space, will support our wine studies program.
The second floor of the expanded Graf Hall provides offices for 20 faculty members, as well as offices for our lab coordinators. These offices will surround an open and inviting “science on display” area that will provide 4,300 square feet of space dedicated to faculty-student collaborative research. This is space that is not currently available to our students and faculty, and provides a significant opportunity to take that program to new heights.
Light renovation of roughly 4,200 square feet will also take place in Murdock Hall (opened in 1982). These updates will expand space for several key laboratory courses that are currently very limited in their capacity.
Phase 2 of the project will occur later, and will build out the shelled space in the
basement of the new W.M. Keck Science Center, and renovate the remainder of Murdock Hall.
Naming opportunities are still available for prominent parts of this project. For more information, please contact Joseph Hunter, vice president for university advancement, or Craig Haisch ’95, senior director of development.
Once complete, there will be three buildings totaling 84,000 gross square feet dedicated to the sciences at Linfield. Several outcomes informed the overall design:
The Phase 1 Plan for this project constructs an entirely new 24,000 sqare foot building, to be known as the W.M. Keck Science Center, where Mac Hall now stands. The basement of this new building will consist of space for mechanical/electrical/plumbing and shelled space for future labs and teaching space. The rest of the building will feature eight new teaching labs, including one specifically for our relatively new wine studies program. Also included in the building will be the necessary support spaces for lap prep and storage.
Graf Hall (26,000 square feet, opened in 1965) will undergo extensive renovation and be expanded with a 10,000 square foot addition. The first floor of the expanded Graf will feature two new general-use classrooms, two additional classrooms/labs for physics, a lecture hall for 80-100 students, and a new multipurpose space that can be one large room or three smaller classrooms. A wine sensory classroom, incorporated into this multipurpose space, will support our wine studies program.
The second floor of the expanded Graf Hall provides offices for 20 faculty members, as well as offices for our lab coordinators. These offices will surround an open and inviting “science on display” area that will provide 4,300 square feet of space dedicated to faculty-student collaborative research. This is space that is not currently available to our students and faculty, and provides a significant opportunity to take that program to new heights.
Light renovation of roughly 4,200 square feet will also take place in Murdock Hall (opened in 1982). These updates will expand space for several key laboratory courses that are currently very limited in their capacity.
Phase 2 of the project will occur later, and will build out the shelled space in the
basement of the new W.M. Keck Science Center, and renovate the remainder of Murdock Hall.
Naming opportunities are still available for prominent parts of this project. For more information, please contact Joseph Hunter, vice president for university advancement, or Craig Haisch ’95, senior director of development.
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