Alumni, faculty, and students celebrated the dedication of the new science building with a festival of teaching and learning
Walk through this building day or night and you will find a group of students working together on a lab report or homework assignment. Sometimes there is a professor present, sometimes not. Sometimes the students are from the same class, sometimes they are from the same living unit. Sometimes the work is intense, with chalk flying and focused interchange, sometimes the learning is relaxed and leisurely. And never is there a closed door!
"These places are special for what they do and what they say about us as a College.
"And these are not the only community spaces integral to the building. Wide halls leading to clusters of research labs are designed to invite students to spill out of the laboratory and create local commons areas. These will support interactions in the Haenisch Reading Room on the second floor and the Hearson Reading Room on the first floor.
"Before I returned to work at Wabash, I learned that the College was planning this building. I called the lead architect and asked if he could persuade me that Wabash was getting a building that would work. He talked about community spaces, important adjacencies, and the cascading stairway. He promised that the building would be alive with student activity.
"As I walked through the new structure last night, I was persuaded that the building is delivering on that promise!"