About the Davidson Building

A 21st Century Environment for Learning and Research

The Davidson Mathematics and Science Center provides an integrated and centralized 21st century environment for learning and research.  This 100,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility has the following features:

• The 464-seat Nell. J. Redfield Foundation Auditorium with a "walk-up, walk-out" stage that encourages lecturers to step down and interact with the audience; the stage area features three screens and two mobile podiums
• 27 modern laboratories, each with the capacity for 20 to 24 students, and four large classrooms, each with the capacity for 75 students
• Wireless internet access throughout the facility
• Enhanced environmental controls and space for culture preparation in eight biological science laboratories
• Increased glass hood space for improved observation and greater control over experiments in the seven general chemistry laboratories
• Public meeting areas with whiteboards to foster student and instructor interactions outside classrooms and laboratories
• Electronic interfaces, information technology platforms, projectors, modern audio visual and presentation equipment, whiteboards and pull-down screens in every laboratory and classroom
• A 50-seat computational classroom (the largest on campus) to teach students the use of software for data analysis and visualization
• Space for the Dean's Office, College of Science,  and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the administrative wing of the facility