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An artist’s rendering of Atkinson Hall, to be built on the north side of Tower Road overlooking the Cornell Botanic Gardens. The multidisciplinary building will house the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, the new Master of Public Health Program, and lab and office space for other disciplines.
Atkinsons’ $30M gift to name multidisciplinary building
March 8, 2021
A $30 million commitment from David R. Atkinson ’60 and Patricia Atkinson will name a new multidisciplinary building on campus, intended to foster innovative and collaborative research in priority areas of sustainability, public health, cancer biology, immunology and computational biology.
Atkinson Hall, to be built on Tower Road adjacent to Rice and Bruckner halls, will be a four-story building (approximately 90,000 gross square feet) and include space for faculty and staff of the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and the new Master of Public Health program. It will also house laboratory and office space for faculty and staff of Cornell’s new Center for Immunology and new Friedman Center for Nutrition and Inflammation, planned Center for Cancer Biology, and the Department of Computational Biology.