The latest addition to Texas A&M University’s west campus skyline is the state-of-the-art Instructional Laboratory & Innovative Learning Building. The five-story, 140,000-square-foot facility will open its door to students for the spring 2023 semester. The facility provides new hands-on learning spaces for chemists, artists, and creators of all kinds, offering over 36 new classroom and laboratory spaces to support STEM and interdisciplinary learning at the undergraduate level, and providing the much-needed space to properly prepare students for advanced learning in many academic disciplines The ground floor has assorted maker spaces, including a wood shop and a 3D-printing lab. The general chemistry laboratories on the lower floors are equipped to host entry- and lower-level undergraduate chemistry labs. The third floor houses more labs, along with group study spaces and a chemistry help desk offering additional assistance to students. The fourth and fifth floors have organic chemistry laboratories for upper-level lab courses, where each station boasts its own fume hood and tools for advanced lab work. at work
INSTRUCTIONAL LABORATORY & INNOVATIVE LEARNING BUILDING Funded with $20M from the Permanent University Fund
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