The second floor houses shared services such as glassware washing, media preparation, electronics and machine shops and supply stores. Floors three through six house the research laboratories of the faculty members who belong to the Center, four per floor. Students from different groups are lumped together in offices and labs around the periphery of each floor, and common equipment and other facilities occupy the central region, where people naturally interact as they work. Faculty offices are located in the laboratory areas, so that faculty are always accessible and in touch with what is going on. This model was adopted by Cal Tech in its recent, much-admired Beckman Institute, but it has been in practice at the Rosenstiel Center for a quarter of a century.
All instrumentation is freely available to all members.
The old saying that there is strength in numbers is borne out by the remarkable record of productivity of this Center. Faculty are grouped on each floor according to broad research interests. The result is a multidisciplinary environment unlike any other. One can find, as close as the next office, a person to answer questions on unfamiliar fields, to teach one's students a new technique, or to collaborate in a broadly-based research endeavor. Back to the Rosenstiel Page.