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| Science Facilities Project Related Pages Center Dedication |
Reactions to the Science CenterSelection 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 |
About the Science Center
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complete faculty involvement in laboratory and classroom design