Two new faculty members will join the Penn State Department of Chemical Engineering. Gina Noh and Ezra Clark will start in their new roles on Jan. 1, 2022.
The aging building, now reaching nearly 60 years old, permanently closed last year to prepare the site for the new School of Biomedical Engineering Building (SBME), which is a partnership between the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Applied Science.
The new flagship replacement building currently carries an estimated construction cost of $136 million, complete with a 250-seat lecture theatre, classrooms, laboratories, office space, and meeting, informal learning, and student community spaces.
Preliminary conceptual artistic rendering of the UBC School of Biomedical Engineering Building. (UBC)
A preliminary artistic rendering suggests this will be a four-storey building, with its interior spaces configured around a central atrium. Extensive wood materials will be used, and the university has noted this will be a LEED Gold green building.