New UI facility takes unified approach
By Greg Kline
Sunday March 25, 2007
Robin Scholz
The expansive, open laboratories at the new Institute for Genomic Biology are intended to put researchers with varied expertise in close proximity with each other, with no walls between, to tackle interdisciplinary problems.
A central idea behind the new Institute for Genomic Biology was to break down walls between disciplines and get University of Illinois researchers from various fields working together on big questions facing science and society.
So the people who designed the building, which will be formally opened in a ceremony on Thursday, decided to knock down some walls, literally – or rather, not to build them in the first place.
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