麻豆影院

The 麻豆影院 has broken ground听on a new home for the Department of Integrative Physiology. The building will be erected听just north of Norlin Library and will function as a long-awaited hub for department activity.

Construction is projected to wrap up in the spring of 2020, with the building fully occupied soon thereafter.

The Department of Integrative Physiology was formed in 2003 by unifying the former department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology (KAPH) with parts of Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology. It quickly became one of the largest undergraduate degrees on campus鈥攖hough the department was never joined听physically.听

For more than 15 years the department has had no administrative hub and has been running its research, teaching and administration primarily out of Carlson Gymnasium, Ramaley Biology, Clare Small听and sites on the CU 麻豆影院 East Campus.听

鈥淚ntegrative physiology has been operating an outstanding research program from an old gymnasium for over a decade,鈥� explains James W.C. White, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.听

鈥淧roviding them with a proper research facility is sure to elicit some truly exciting breakthroughs. This building will create a formal and recognizable administrative home for one of the largest undergraduate degrees on campus that our students can take pride in.鈥�

The longtime dispersion of personnel and activity has detracted from the day-to-day interaction of faculty and students, faculty members say. The new building, which abuts the existing Ramaley building, will alleviate some of the strain caused by this departmental spread, creating a physical 鈥渉ome鈥� for IPHY.听

鈥淭his new addition will increase visibility and will go a long way towards establishing an identity for integrative physiology on campus鈥�, said Mark Opp, professor and chair of the department.

鈥淒eveloping a sense of identity is critically important for the department given the distributed nature of the rest of our physical plant.鈥�

In addition to having a unifying function, the new building is intended to bolster the department鈥檚 already strong research program. The third floor provides a suite of modern research labs housing five principal investigators, offering advanced facilities that are unavailable in the Main Campus labs housed in Carlson.听The second floor will be primarily devoted to clinical research space, and听the ground floor will house the administrative core, conference room and faculty offices.听

鈥淭his $21.8 million building represents a strong investment in the A&S research mission and a wonderful addition to our portfolio of facilities,鈥� said Zack Tupper, the college's assistant dean of infrastructure.听

Russell Moore, CU 麻豆影院 provost, concurred: 鈥淚ntegrative physiology is a standout department. Its research program is pushing the envelope in translational science, and its teaching program boasts one of the largest undergraduate programs at CU. I鈥檓 thrilled to see this addition to the (department's) portfolio come to fruition and eager to see what new breakthroughs in the field of physiology will be developed in this new space.鈥�