See the Science Center
Take a virtual tour of the new Carl J. Shapiro Science Center.Research Facilities
In January 2009, Brandeis opened its new $154 million science complex designed to further enhance the university’s leadership in the natural sciences and emerging areas of interdisciplinary research [architectural rendering above].
The facility houses 175,000 square feet of laboratory and instructional space as well as a science commons, seminar rooms, conference space and a café.
Brandeis faculty have also secured external funding for an impressive array of other research facilities. These include:
- An 800 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer
- An electron microscopy (EM) facility, including a 300kV field emission cryo EM
- A Fourier transform mass spectrometry facility, equipped for both electrospray and MALDI ionization
- X-ray crystallography facilities
- Microfluidics fabrication facility
- The Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Laboratory
- The Mandel Center for the Humanities
- The Irving Schneider and Family Building
- CLEM-Facility for Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy
