A Closer Look at the Millennium Building
August 1, 2011 at 4:21 pm Tina Hay 2 comments
As Lori Shontz mentioned the week before last, we recently had a first-hand look at the Millennium Science Complex, which should be finished sometime later this summer.
Project manager Dick Tennent from the Office of Physical Plant was nice enough to give some of the magazine staff a walk-through of the building. It’s Penn State’s largest building ever, and should be home to some pretty innovative research. It brings together together Penn State researchers in the life sciences and the materials sciences—two areas of science that have more in common than you might think.
(Research/Penn State did an excellent article a few years back that shows a good example of the intersection of the two areas: the effort to develop electrical-stimulation devices to implant into the brains of people with epilepsy, Parkinson’s, and other neurological disorders. You can read the article here.)
Jessie Knuth, our graphic designer, and I both took cameras along on the Millennium Science Complex tour, and we’ve posted a collection of photos to an album on our Facebook page. You can check it out here.
Tina Hay, editor
Entry filed under: College of Engineering, College of Medicine, Eberly College of Science, Faculty research, University Park campus. Tags: Dick Tennent, life sciences, materials research, Millennium Science Complex.
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1. Walt Mills | August 5, 2011 at 9:13 am
Tina,
I just received the latest update on the relative size of Penn State buildings. If you consider Pattee and Paterno libraries as one super building, then they definitely hold the record. The Millennium Science Complex is the largest research building at Penn State by far, and it should contribute to some remarkable science and engineering breakthroughs.
Penn State buildings by gross square feet:
Rec Hall – 310,760
Millennium Science Complex – 297,906
Paterno Library – 256,837
HUB-Robeson Cultural Ctr – 246,592
Pattee Library – 233,636
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Walt Mills
Materials Research Institute
2. Tina Hay | August 5, 2011 at 9:22 am
Walt, that’s really helpful information. Thanks! –Tina