Photos By Jim Block

 

September 28 festivities, including a rousing performance by the Cal Marching Band, sounded the official opening for the new Stanley Hall, home to UC Berkeley’s California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) and the Department of Bioengineering. In addition to classrooms, the 11-story building houses state-of-the-art wet laboratories and eight computational suites for 650 researchers and staff. Under construction since 2003, the facility is engineered to encourage “serendipitous collisions” among faculty, students and postdocs from multiple disciplines and facilitate a new era of interdisciplinary bioscience research. For more, go to www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/09/26_stanley.shtml.