Since opening a decade ago, the KPF-designed Advanced Science Research Center has nurtured CUNY graduate students, professors, and executives throughout their academic careers.
The ASRC building is arranged thematically focusing on five areas of research including Nanoscience, Photonics, Structural Biology, Neuroscience, and Environmental Science, across which scientists collaborate, discover, and create. “Together as the CUNY ASRC family, we promise to continue this path with distinction, as we are committed to positioning the ASRC as a leading source of expertise in these critical areas for CUNY, with CUNY, and with prominent or emerging members of the New York City and State academic and applied research ecosystems,” says ASRC Executive Director Mark Hauber. “To achieve this, we will embark on an even more intensive and focused journey of interdisciplinary exploration, nurturing innovative collaborations and forging strategic partnerships along the way.”
The complex is designed to accommodate this wide range of research initiatives in many varied disciplines, using a modular utility “infrastructure” that supports varied research requirements. For example, the buildings share below-grade services including a vivarium, a receiving area, building support activities, and core facilities such as imaging modalities, behavioral studies, and cryo-physics.
Read more from CUNY ASRC students and leaders here.