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N ew Teaching Laboratories

for Undergraduate Students

As we celebrate 100 years of the Dyson Perrins Laboratory and
the Part II, we look forward to the next hundred years - with
new undergraduate teaching laboratories designed for 21st
century chemistry.

Pictures courtesy of architects Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp

Work on our new undergraduate teaching laboratories Consolidating the three teaching laboratories into one
began in spring and continues apace. Situated between single state-of-the-art facility will enable us to overhaul
Mansfield and St Cross roads and designed by architects the curriculum for undergraduates and to offer a fully-
Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp, the new laboratories will integrated practical course by October 2018. Skills courses
form an addition to the stepped structure of the existing delivered at the start of the first and second year will equip
Tinbergen Building, overlooking the University Club’s
playing fields. They will bring together practical teaching in
organic, inorganic and physical chemistry for the first time,
enabling cutting-edge new interdisciplinary experiments
that mirror the collaborative nature of our research
programmes.

The new laboratories will accommodate 200 students
over two floors and will include synthetic labs with a full
complement of fume hoods (including height adjustable
workstations for students with disabilities), a state-of-
the-art analytical instrumentation suite, write-up areas,
prep rooms, and a student social hub. The social hub will
provide students with their own dedicated space within
the department, and together with the new write-up areas
we hope to encourage students to stay and write up their
experiments within the department rather than returning
to their colleges.

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