Reactions to the Science Center
Selection of Quotes from Science Dedication Attendees
"The new Hamilton Science Center is not only beautiful, but will be a
great venue for conducting top notch teaching and research. Both
students and faculty should benefit enormously from this remarkable
facility."
- Martin Hirsch '60, professor of medicine, Harvard
Medical School; professor of immunology and infectious diseases,
Harvard School of Public Health; and director of clinical AIDS
research, Massachusetts General Hospital
"We are indeed honored to have played some small role in helping you
realize your dream of this magnificent Science Center, a unique place
for exceptional students to innovate ... to explore ... to pursue
unproven ideas. And along the way to collaborate and to build skills of
initiative, resourcefulness and confidence."
"It is our fervent wish that this Science Center becomes a place where
-- ... -- the men and women of today will be inspired to ask new
questions and test new hypotheses ... to passionately pursue their
interests and to achieve unprecedented breakthroughs."
-
Donald J.
Hayden Jr., Executive Vice President, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
[William McLaren Bristol and John Ripley Myers, the men who founded
Clinton Pharmaceuticals, which later became Bristol-Myers Company,
graduated from Hamilton in 1882 and 1887, respectively]
"I was quite impressed by the new building, which is the most impressive
science facility I have ever encountered in a liberal arts college.
However, I was even more impressed with the posters describing the
research projects of the students. The students are clearly receiving
outstanding mentorship which is obvious from their detailed and
sophisticated research projects. The combination of the facilities and
your faculty provide an outstanding opportunity for all the students in
the sciences."
-
Gavril W. Pasternak, MD, PhD, Anne Burnett
Tandy Chair of Neurology, Member and Attending Neurologist, and Head of
the Laboratory of Molecular Neuropharmacology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center; and Professor of Neurology & Neuroscience,
Pharmacology and Psychiatry, Weill College of Medicine of Cornell
University
"I am pleased and proud to be part of the science celebration ... the new building is vitally important to the sciences."
- Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond
"With the dedication of this building, Hamilton College is
making a very tangible commitment to the study of science that will
benefit this college, our community and indeed the entire nation."
"...if you bring creative professors together with dedicated
students in a first-class facility, as you can now do, the potential is
infinite."
"...Hamilton College can show the nation how to have an effective
undergraduate research and education program in the sciences."
- Rep. Sherwood L. Boehlert, Chairman of the House Science Committee
"The new Science Center is impressive in both size and design and
indicates Hamilton's strong commitment to science at a time when
science is needed more than ever yet increasingly coming under siege."
- Richard Houghton '65, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center
"Hamilton now has a science facility that matches the immense talents of the faculty and students who will work in it."
- Joan Hinde Stewart, President, Hamilton College
"This building allows us to do and teach science better. So much
of science happens outside the classroom. It happens when we
discuss results and brainstorm about the next question or experiment to
pursue. This building not only gives us the critical laboratory space
for these activities, but provides casual space for faculty and
students to interact outside of the classroom and lab. I can't imagine
a finer facility."
- Timothy E. Elgren, Past President of the Council
on Undergraduate Research and Associate Professor of Chemistry at
Hamilton College.
"I had a chance to tour the new 'green' facility, and was
impressed by the openness and beauty of the well-designed labs, and by the
light captured in the labs and hallways through the large and well-placed
windows. I can imagine that the layout of the building will encourage
interactions between students and faculty, and will form the backdrop to
memories of scientific enquiries that will last a lifetime."
-
Susan Bryant, P'08, dean, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine
