Bloomington, Ind.
Indiana University’s Simon Hall received “High Honors” in the 2008 R&D Magazine Lab of the Year competition. The new multidisciplinary science building is located on the Bloomington campus and was designed by Flad Architects. The six-story, 140,000-sf project is sited at the intersection of the departments of chemistry, biology, and biochemistry and houses flexible laboratories, technical support areas, and analytical instrument facilities. The $55.7 million building is designed to foster collaborative research in bioinformatics, proteomics, and genomics. The facility was dedicated in October of 2007.