The Our Lady of the Lake Health Interdisciplinary Science Building at Louisiana State University (LSU) is a significant development aimed at enhancing STEM education and research on the Baton Rouge campus. Construction commenced in March 2024, with the facility expected to open in late fall 2025.
Key Features:
- Size and Structure: The building will be a nearly 200,000-square-foot, four-story facility designed to accommodate up to 1,150 students, faculty, and researchers simultaneously.
- Academic Focus: It will support five primary disciplines: biological sciences, chemistry, geology and geophysics, mathematics, and physics and astronomy.
- Facilities: The building will include 18 biology, geology, and chemistry labs with a capacity for 432 students, four technology-rich active-learning and data-visualization classrooms accommodating 260 students, a 250-seat lecture theater, and research labs supporting 16 faculty, 16 postdoctoral researchers, and 96 graduate students.
