This is an article from the fall 2018 issue of LSA Magazine. Read more stories from the magazine.

One major aim of the new Biological Sciences Building (BSB) on campus is to inspire and promote creative collaboration among researchers. The BSB also has been designed so public visitors to the U-M Museum of Natural History—which will reopen next spring, located right in the middle of the BSB alongside research labs—can stroll past areas of the building where researchers work. It’s an environment where science is on display, and opportunities for science outreach lie just outside the lab doors.

Click through the images in the gallery below to learn how researchers hope the BSB’s design will encourage connections and cross-pollination among scientists.

Image Gallery

Scientists at work in a laboratory. One man looks into a microscope on a table that has shelves of scientific equipment. A woman stands at the end of the table weighing something on a digital scale
A photograph of a room taken from the hallway that shows a long bank of windows that reflect the light coming through windows to the outside.
A photograph taken far below two dinosaur skeletons that are suspended from the ceiling in a stairwell several stories high.
A drawing of the BSB toward central campus
A photograph taken from across the atrium in the BSB of nine windows looking in on research.
A laboratory table with fossil specimens arranged across it and a few samples of rocks. There is a large window and a person sitting at a desk in front in front of it.
Darwin's Café
A photograph of a laboratory where two scientists work. One is looking at a slide through a microscope; the other is looking at the green liquid inside a beaker.
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Photographs by Bob Foran