UMD’s newest building, Heikkila Chemistry & Advanced Materials Science (HCAMS), provides students and researchers with essential and cutting-edge lab space and is home to the Advanced Materials Center. The building has many features (like a solar panel array on the roof) that help make it more energy efficient and sustainable. Students across a variety disciplines take advantage of the spacewhich is designed to encourage collaboration and mentoring with its glass walls and multiple meeting rooms.
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The Heikkila Chemistry and Advanced Materials Science Building houses the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and the new Advanced Materials Center.
- 12 research labs
- One advanced materials lab
- Five instructional labs
- One research instrumentation lab
- Five graduate student workrooms
- Five study areas
- Four collaboration areas
- One instructional storeroom and prep
- 22 faculty offices