Fuller Chemistry Complex: New Labs for a New Curriculum

WPI’s first-year chemistry laboratory experience has been completely transformed to enable students to learn chemistry through a real-world, project-enriched curriculum that will teach students how to analytically approach problem solving and scientific discovery. The curriculum change was made possible by a $3 million renovation to the suite of freshman chemistry laboratories in Goddard Hall and a full upgrade in equipment and instrumentation.

The changes were officially unveiled in February to honor the gifts and grants that accounted for nearly half of the cost of the renovation, including a $1 million gift from the George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation; the laboratories are known as the Fuller Chemistry Complex. Other contributors include the Pfizer Foundation, Pfizer Global Research and Development, the WPI Class of 1954, numerous alumni and friends, and WPI Trustee John L. LaMattina, president of Pfizer Global R & D, and his wife, Mary.

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