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The renovation and expansion of the Hamilton College science facilities will provide the campus with an integrated science center that will include the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Physics, and Psychology, and the faculty with specialties in Archaeology. The complex will have:
The planning for the construction project began in 1996, and initial meetings of science department chairs with Bobby Fong (the Dean of the Faculty) led to a draft of a mission statement for the sciences. Over the next year, two teams of faculty and administrators attended Project Kaleidoscope workshops on science facilities. In 1997, Dean Fong selected a faculty coordinator for the project, and the faculty presented a case statement stating the needs for new facilities. During the same year, a Trustee Subcommittee on Science Facilities and an on-campus committee of faculty members and administrators began deliberations. Programming was accomplished during this time with Dober, Lidsky, Craig and Associates as consultants. Groups of faculty, administrators, and trustees visited over 15 campuses with new or renovated science buildings. During the 1999-2000 academic year, a committee consisting of trustees, administrators, faculty, and students selected Einhorn Yaffee Prescott as the architectural firm for the project. Conceptual design work began during the 2000-2001 academic year, and the timeline for the construction will lead to the completion of the first phase of the project for the 2004-2005 academic year and completion of the entire complex for the Fall Semester, 2005.
If you have any questions or comments about the Science Facilities Project, please contact Douglas Weldon.
