IU School of Informatics finds permanent space on Bloomington, Indianapolis campuses

IU Bloomington

IUPUI

At IUPUI, groundbreaking and construction began Oct. 16 for the new Informatics Complex and Communications Technology Complex. The facility will be the gateway for the campus and the second addition to the new “super block” that will welcome visitors to IUPUI and the IU School of Medicine. The Informatics Complex will house informatics and new media faculty and staff offices, the Informatics Research Institute, laboratories, media development facilities, teaching classrooms and a digital media gallery. The schools of Journalism and Music at IUPUI also will share the Informatics Complex. The Communications Technology Complex will house the Indianapolis Pervasive Technology Labs and the global network operations center of Internet2. Designed by the New York firm of Robert A.M. Stern, the buildings will create an environment for collaboration between its academic units, information technology research initiatives and related telecommunications interests. With an 18- to 24-month completion timetable, occupancy is anticipated by the fall of 2003 or spring 2004.

IU Bloomington

In Bloomington, renovations are under way on the former AOPi house. The Informatics Building will become the school’s central home. The four-floor structure will house computing labs, a lecture/presentation hall, and offices for faculty and administration. Computing facilities will be pre-eminent and include two teaching labs, a human-computer interaction lab, collaboratories for student and faculty research, and facilities for the Informatics Research Institute. The building gives the School of Informatics an ideal Bloomington campus presence on 10th Street, facing the Indiana Memorial Union building near the Geology, Psychology and Kelley School of Business buildings. The school will move to the building in August 2002.

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