Undergraduate Lab Opens with Tube-Shattering Ceremony
The department completed its multi-stage move into the Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building late last fall with the transition of the undergraduate laboratories from the Engineering Center to JSCBB.
To inaugurate the newÌýChevron Teaching Lab, Chevron and ChBE members froze tubing using liquid nitrogen and shattered it in a proverbial ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Junior Lab classes are being conducted in the Chevron Teaching Lab this semester, while Controls Lab is being held in theÌýBroida Family Bioengineering Teaching Lab. The adjacent 30-seat lab classroom is also being used extensively.
In addition to the undergraduate laboratories, two JSCBB auditoriums were completed in the fall and are in use. With these new 68- and 126-seat spaces augmenting the previously-completed 200-person auditorium, all ChBE classes except Computing and Chemistry for Engineers are now being held in JSCBB.
Pictured: Cynthia Murphy and Mike Wirth of Chevron use liquid nitrogen to freeze tubing.