About the Project

Video Tour

Marshall Duke hosts a video tour about the psychology department's transformation
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Emory psychologist Marshall Duke talks about the importance of the new psychology building in this short film. "If you wonder how long I’ve been waiting for this building, it’s 32 years," says Professor Duke.

Groundbreaking Ceremony

A special event celebrated the new building groundbreaking on September 28, 2007.

Groundbreaking Ceremony Program (PDF)

Construction for the new psychology building began in fall 2007 and is scheduled to be completed in 2009. The five-story building (119,000 square feet) will offer modern classrooms, labs and offices and will be adjacent to Atwood Hall (chemistry) and a stone's throw from the Mathematics and Science Center. To make room for the building, Gilbert and Thomson Halls have been demolished and Dickey Drive has been realigned with North Oxford Road.

The building takes advantage of the latest approaches to teaching and research with technology seamlessly integrated into learning spaces, laboratories designed to fit faculty research needs, and informal spaces designed for interaction among faculty and students. Construction standards will follow LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) specifications. Already, Emory has more LEED-certified buildings than any other university campus in the U.S.

Science Commons

As part of the College's strategic plan, we plan to focus on building special strengths in Psychology and Chemistry, two of the strongest building blocks for scientific research, training and teaching in the College.

Both departments address some of the most serious problems of the twenty-first century: HIV/AIDS, Parkinson's, drug addiction, schizophrenia and depression. By placing these departments in close proximity to each other and other science disciplines—computational sciences, bio-chemistry, mathematics, physics—the College intends to foster a "science commons" that brings scholars and students closer together.

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