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The new CCIS quarters offer a million-dollar view of the Boston skyline down Huntington Avenue.
A
s the new CCIS building takes
shape on West Campus, the ben-
efits of the vertically integrated
layout are becoming obvious.
"One of the primary thrusts of the
design was to encourage serendipitous
meetings," says Dean Larry Finkelstein.
"Right now, faculty are housed in
Cullinane and Egan. This makes
chance meetings infrequent."
CCIS has been outgrowing its
home in Cullinane Hall for twenty
years. Few undergraduates have classes
in Cullinane, so they only go there when
they have a lab class or a formal meeting
for academic or co-op advising. Faculty
often find themselves racing from offices
in the new Egan Center to classrooms in
Cullinane to labs in both buildings.
The new building will feature a co-
op and academic advising suite, faculty
offices surrounded by graduate student
labs, and an ample supply of seminar
rooms and classrooms, including two
seventy-five seat rooms, an eighty-seat
Unix lab, and a forty-seat PC lab. Labs
will be available for classes and indepen-
dent study. The entire facility will have
wireless Internet access.
Taking Shape:
New CCIS Home is on Track to Open in Fall 2004
Future office and lab space on the third floor looks out on the Museum of Fine Arts.
When school starts in fall 2004, CCIS will
occupy the first four floors of the new building.
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