Linus Pauling Science Center



OSU Launches Construction on September 25, 2009

The centerpiece initiative of The Campaign for OSU took center stage September 25 as more than 200 members of the OSU community gathered to celebrate the launch of construction on the Linus Pauling Science Center. The $62.5 million, 105,000-square-foot facility is the university's largest-ever academic building project. It will house the Linus Pauling Institute and chemists from the College of Science, and contain classroom and laboratory space for students and researchers studying chemistry, biology, and life sciences.

"The center will bring together, for the first time, all of the faculty, students, and staff of the Linus Pauling Institute under a single roof," noted LPI director Balz Frei in his opening remarks. "It will embody Linus Pauling's innovative spirit and life-long commitment to chemistry, molecular biology, and orthomolecular medicine, and to improving the human condition."

Sherman Bloomer, dean of the College of Science, noted that the building will not "belong" to just one unit, such as chemistry. Rather, it will provide an opportunity, he said, "for thousands of students from nearly every major at OSU to learn critical parts of their curriculum in state-of-the art learning facilities, shoulder to shoulder with some of the nation's most talented scientists." 

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