Harvard New Research Building Inner Courtyard

The New Research Building (or NRB for short) is the largest building ever built by

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

, and was dedicated on September 24, 2003 by the then president of Harvard University,

Lawrence H. Summers Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist who served as the 71st United States secretary of the treasury from 1999 to 2001 and as director of the National Economic Council from 2009 to 2010. He also served as pres ...

and the dean of the Harvard Medical School, Joseph Martin. It is an integrated biomedical research facility, located at 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur,

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, at the

Longwood Medical Area The Longwood Medical and Academic Area (also known as Longwood Medical Area, LMA, or simply Longwood) is a medical campus in Boston, Massachusetts. Flanking Longwood Avenue, LMA is adjacent to the Fenway–Kenmore, Audubon Circle, and Mission H ...

and has of space. It cost $260 million to build, and houses more than 800 researchers, and many more graduate students, lab assistants, and staff workers. The building sits across the street from the Boston Latin School on the former site of Boston English High School. It constitutes the largest expansion of Harvard Medical school witnessed in the last 100 years. It houses the Department of Genetics of the Harvard Medical School, among many other centers and institutes it houses. It is also home to many meetings, and has a 500-seat auditorium. The architects were

Architectural Resources Cambridge, Inc. Founded in 1969, ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, Inc. is a national architectural design firm, located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, that specializes in Science/R&D, biotechnology, educational, athletic and corporate facilities ...

(ARC) who are active in the Boston/Cambridge area and have built other educational and research facilities.

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