Marshak Science Building (J)

The Marshak Science Building, a modern and fully-equipped thirteen-story tower, houses the science programs. It is also known as the "J Building". It was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and built in 1971. The cost of the building amounted to 30 million dollars. The facilities include a number of computer labs, laser labs, electron microscopes, nuclear magnetic and electron spin resonance systems, medical laboratories, and more than two hundred teaching and research laboratories. The Division of Science offers students the best of two worlds: faculty and laboratories at the cutting edge of modern scientific research and a faculty deeply committed to undergraduate education.

The Science Building is right in the middle of the campus, just across from the NAC-Building.

 

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CCNY has the largest undergraduate research program in the metropolitan area, enabling students to work with world-renowned faculty mentors. The Science Building is the site of leading-edge research in laser optics, molecular modeling, AIDS and a host of other fields.
Also found in the Marshak Building are the Nat Holman Gymnasium and the Jeremiah Mahoney Pool. The Holman Gym seats approximately 2,500 spectators and serves as a large, modern multi-purpose facility, home to many of the College's varsity athletic teams.

What else is in the
Science Building?

• Division of Science
• Planetarium
• Auditoriums
• Weather Station
• Science Library
• Aquarium
• Mahoney Swimming Pool
• Six out-door tennis courts
• The New York State Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) in Ultrafast Photonics, which conducts research in optical materials, lasers, optical communications, optical computing, medical and manufacturing diagnostics and related areas. The Center is pioneering new and less invasive laser based technologies to detect breast and other cancers. The CAT also builds partnerships with business and industry, ranging from small and creative high-tech companies to major corporations.
• The Center for Analysis of Structures and Interfaces (CASI), established in 1988, a leading center for understanding and using interfacial properties of absorbed species and new materials, and for enhancing the involvement of minority students in the sciences and engineering.
• The Center for the Study of the Cellular and Molecular Basis of Development, which has received major funding from the National Institutes of Health, and focuses on biological structure and function, gene expression and regulation, and cell and organism function.